Student Consultants offer Link Day on February 22nd

LINK DAY

Hosted by the Public and Nonprofit Management Club, Link Day is a student-run consulting event that matches Boston-area nonprofit organizations with teams of Boston University MBA students and faculty to solve a specific organizational challenge. Link Day 2008 will take place on February 22^nd, 2008, with the goal of working with ten nonprofit organizations. A consulting team comprised of 4-5 current MBA students and a faculty advisor works with representatives from the participating organization. Since its founding in 2001, Link Day has served over thirty nonprofit organizations, with over 100 MBA students gaining real-world experience while giving back to the local community.

This year’s Link Day Committee is increasing the number of nonprofit agencies to ten. Expanding Link Day will allow B.U. to have an even more significant impact on the community while also giving more students the opportunity to gain hands-on consulting experience. The committee is looking for individuals or companies that would consider sponsoring a Link Day team at a cost of $500 per team. Link Day affords its sponsors the opportunity to directly impact the local nonprofit community, as well as a day of free advertising and networking at the event itself.

Participating Organizations Are:

AFC Mentoring
Child Care Resource Center
PinkRose Foundation
New Hope, Inc.
Cape Verdean Association of Brockton
La Alianza Hispana
Cambridge Cares About AIDS
Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH)
Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research (CSCR)
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America – New England Chapter

Professor McCormack and Dean Lataif will give remarks and Elizabeth Smith (Executive Director, Hyams Foundation and GSM '79) will be the keynote speaker.

To learn more about becoming a Link Day sponsor, please contact event co-chairs Meghan Blute-Nelson (mbnelson@bu.edu ) and Taline Lorensian (talineL@bu.edu).

Massnonprofit.org recently featured a story about the upcoming Link Day: Nonprofits Invited to Apply for One-Day, Free Consulting