While filling out my registration for the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development's 2008 Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, I was asked to indicate the type of Company/Organization that I work for.
Most people in my situation would find this easy. They'd scroll down to "Non-profit/Trade Association" and move on with their registration. For me, however, this brought up a question about how Nourish International identifies itself. Keep reading...
This year's Chapter Founders Selection Process is complete! When the dust settled on April 11th, 67 students from 25 colleges and universities had applied to start Nourish Chapters on their campus. After a rigorous review process, we selected 31 of them from 19 different universities to found Chapters on their campus.
These students will receive $500 in seed money, professional training at the Summer Institute and support throughout the year as they found an organization on their campus capable of investing thousands of dollars a year in sustainable, anti-poverty projects.
We couldn't be more excited to work with these students -- even our team was impressed by their individual talents, enthusiasm and passion for supporting local poverty solutions. Check out the full list of Founders by institution after the jump and keep an eye out for those names this year -- we expect great things!
Note: If you're interested in supporting a team of energetic and talented students at one of the campuses below, please send an email to info@nourishinternaitonal.org.
Bright and early this morning, the National Office welcomed two new members to it's team: our summer interns, Purnima Venkat and Carlyn Cowen. As full-time members of our staff this summer, they'll be focusing on updating our website, planning the summer institute, building our future project database and maybe even a little blogging, if we're lucky.
Check out their bios - we couldn't be more excited to have them as a part of our team!
Funding and implementing a sustainable development project is no easy task. Motivating your peers on a college campus to do it can be even harder. Last year, we held a Leadership Development Conference to better prepare our Chapter Leaders for the challenges that lay ahead of them. It was fun, so this year we decided to do it again -- but not before we made some changes.
This years Summer Institute, which will run August 8-12, will be a souped up version of last year's LDC. With more time to work with, we'll be going into even more detail about how to run a chapter and the history of global development - not to mention, more inspirational speakers and more time to network.
To get more information about the Summer Institute go to http://www.nourishinternational.org/institute. For more information about how you help make the institute a success, send an email to info@nourishinternational.org.
Hey Everyone-
We just set up blogs for the five projects that we have for this summer! This past spring has been an amazing one for Nourish and we are thrilled to continue the trend with these summer projects. 2008 brings a wide mix of themes and locations, from clean water in Peru to education in Uganda to food security in Honduras. All of these projects are the result of collaboration between Nourish students and a non-profit partner organization already working in the destination community.
Though the projects haven't started yet, some of the teams have begun writing on their blogs. It makes for an incredibly interesting read that has just begun to unfold. Go ahead and take a look at what we have so far--and don't forget to keep reading throughout the summer!
Oh, and and one last thing: if you have any questions and comments for the students on these projects, or just really like hearing about their experiences, I encourage you to create an account and leave a comment on their blogs. Really, they would love to hear from you!
