tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16692711.post-1131085733917064582005-11-03T23:28:00.000-07:002005-11-03T23:28:53.916-07:00<p>Although the MBA program is heavily corporate focused, there are opportunities within the Marriott School to pursue non-profit work.<br /></p><p>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 (<a href="http://www.netimpact.org/">http://www.NetImpact.org</a>). One professor in particular, Warner Woodworth (<a href="http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/employee.cfm?emp=wpw">http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/employee.cfm?emp=wpw</a>) is a huge non-profit, development guru and has started many organizations such as Unitus (<a href="http://www.unitus.com/">http://www.unitus.com</a>) 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 (<a href="http://marriottschool.byu.edu/selfreliance/">http://marriottschool.byu.edu/selfreliance/</a>) and hosts a conference every year (<a href="https://marriottschool.byu.edu/conferences/selfreliance/">https://marriottschool.byu.edu/conferences/selfreliance/</a>). BYU recently put together a documentary called Small Fortunes (<a href="http://kbyutv.org/smallfortunes/">http://kbyutv.org/smallfortunes/</a>) 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.</p>Corey Wridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16800021038407424143noreply@blogger.com