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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Non-profit opportunities

Although the MBA program is heavily corporate focused, there are opportunities within the Marriott School to pursue non-profit work.

Non-profit stuff is huge at BYU in general – largely due to the Mormon missionary effect. Since many of us have served and lived in the third-world countries, people are seemingly always looking for ways to give back. Just last month I hosted a French national who is running an Orphanage in Nepal using the resources of our NetImpact club (http://www.NetImpact.org). One professor in particular, Warner Woodworth (http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/employee.cfm?emp=wpw) is a huge non-profit, development guru and has started many organizations such as Unitus (http://www.unitus.com) which is devoted to non-profit work. I heard Warner speak at a conference at Columbia last year and happen to know he’s quite active at helping other Universities get more involved in the effort. Our business school has a self-reliance center here on self-reliance (http://marriottschool.byu.edu/selfreliance/) and hosts a conference every year (https://marriottschool.byu.edu/conferences/selfreliance/). BYU recently put together a documentary called Small Fortunes (http://kbyutv.org/smallfortunes/) that talks about a very popular approach to development called micro-credit and Muhammad Yunus who founded the movement comes to Provo every year or two.


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