PNP Alumni Networking Event Feb 27th at Foundation Lounge

You are invited!

PNP alums are invited to join current students, faculty, and other alums on Wednesday, February 27 from 6-8 p.m. at The Foundation Lounge for an evening of socializing, food, and fun! This will be an opportunity for alums to catch up with former classmates and MBA students to ask alums about jobs and internships. No charge, cash bar, and free appetizers!

Please RSVP by February 22nd to Helen Wong '09 at wongh@bu.edu.

We hope to see you there!

Foundation Lounge:
500 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 859-9900

Fall Lunch and Learn Series Welcomes Alums

The PNP Program hosted many alums and other talented professionals this fall to share their career experiences with current MBA students. Guests included:

Successful Nonprofit Leadership with Bob Giannino-Racine, Executive Director, ACCESS
Oct. 2, 11:00-12:30 p.m.

Careers in Nonprofit Finance & Operations with Mitzi Fennel '92, Nonprofit Financial Consultant
Oct. 16, 11:00-12:30 p.m.

Careers in Global Social Impact: Microfinance with Chandni Ohri, Regional Coordinator for South Asia, The Grameen Foundation
November 13, 11:00-12:30 p.m.

Careers in the Public Sector: Can you really make a difference?
Peter Rowe '84, Deputy Superintendent for A & F, Brookline Public Schools
Lexi Dew '04, Analyst, Government Accountability Office
November 27, 11:00-12:30 p.m.

When and how does corporate social responsibility (CSR) enhance company performance?

A CSR roundtable with Daniel Korschun, SMG doctoral candidate

Tuesday December 4th, 11 AM - 12:15PM.

Chandni Ohri of the Grameen Foundation speaks to PNP students.

Chandni Ohri speaks with Taline Lorensian '09

Daniel Korschun speaks to students after his discussion about CSR.

PNP Alumni Updates

Please send us your alumni updates! We like to know where you are and so do your classmates. Below you will find updates, submitted by former PNP students, about their current lives.

Ralph Kidder ('86) graduated with a doctorate in education from the Higher Education Administration Program at University of Massachusetts Boston in 2006. He has taken a new job as Vice President for Financial Affairs and Treasurer of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.

Jennifer ('02) and Jeffrey ('03) Meyers-Light welcomed a baby boy, Asher Fillmore, in December. Mom and baby are doing well! Jennifer is currently the Worcester Center Director for Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and Jeff is Assistant Vice President of Financial Reporting at JP Morgan.



Erinn R. King ('03) - Recently got engaged to Frank Massabni. Congratulations, Erinn! Erinn is currently a Client Service Analyst for Wellington Management Company in Boston.

Josh Bagnato ('04) - Josh works at UPC Wind out of the Newton headquarters. He is planning a move to Vermont in the Spring.

Robert LaVallee ('97) - Robert is a Senior Program Associate for The Finance Project in Washington, DC. He is writing, presenting and training on financial sustainability for charter schools and afterschool systems. His first publication on setting up fiscal management systems for small youth-serving non-profits should be out in February. Congratulations, Robert!

Jan Stephenson Kelly ('04) and Amy Appleyard ('04) - Co-founders of Spark Craft Studios which opened in January 2005 and is located near Porter Square in Cambridge now offer workshops on how to start your own successful craft studio.
http://www.sparkcrafts.com/

Marinell Rousmaniere ('03) - Marinell was recently appointed interim CEO of Boston After School & Beyond, effective January 1, 2008.
http://bostonbeyond.org/

PNP Program Applicants Reach Record High!

The Public and Nonprofit Program is entertaining one of its strongest applicant pools in history. As of mid-January the program had over 90 applicants and 30 full time admitted students. We expect many more applications and hopefully more admitted students throughout the upcoming spring cycle. Currently there are 75 full and part time students enrolled in the PNP program.

An admitted student reception was held on Friday, January 18th attended by 12 admitted PNP students from around the country. In addition to sitting in on sample classes, touring the building and listening to current students, the prospective attendees sat down to lunch with PNP Club President, Karine McClosky. Thank you to all the alums from around the country who have taken the time to meet or speak with potential PNP students!

PNP Program Awarded $15,000 Grant for Philanthropy Class

PNP Faculty Director Kristen McCormack and undergraduate student John Hammer were featured in the Boston Globe's December 14th issue in "Fidelity program encourages good will: BU among 5 colleges given $15,000 to seed philanthropy," by Sacha Pfeiffer.

Prof. K. McCormack & student J. Hammer tell Boston Globe how Fidelity grant boosts PNP program

BU Today also featured a story on January 24th about the $15,000 Fidelity fund in, "Student Philanthropists Get Real Cash."

PNP Students Available for Summer Internships!

On January 22, the Graduate Programs Office, PNP Program, and Feld Career Center hosted a Summer Internship Information Session attended by 25 PNP first year students who have begun their summer internship search in earnest.

Kristen McCormack, Director of the PNP Program and Erin Scott from the GPO provided an overview of the requirements of the summer internship, 2nd year students were on hand to discuss thier search experience and Susan Tull and Jody Demty from the Feld Career Center provided advice on how to locate opportunities, conduct a successful interview, and make the most out of your experience.

This year's students are interested in the following opportunities: nonprofit finance; government; corporate philanthropy; corporate social responsibility; cause marketing; affordable housing; children and youth; microfinance; education; arts management; and international development.

If your organization has summer internship opportunities you think would be a fit for PNP students, please contact Kristen McCormack at kmac@bu.edu.

Net Impact Case Competition April 7th

Plans are underway for the 13^th Annual Net Impact Case Competition, a unique event that challenges teams of MBA students to tackle current issues in corporate social responsibility. This year’s event will be held at SMG on MONDAY, APRIL 7 from 3:30-9:00 PM and will include dinner and a keynote address. Cash prizes are awarded to the top three teams – last year students competed for $2,200 in cash prizes! Opportunities for alumni involvement include serving as a judge in Round One or Round Two of the competition and/or supporting this effort with a modest corporate sponsoroship. Please contact Kristina Munger '09 at kmunger@bu.edu if you can be involved.

PNP Student Sarah Stuart '09 Profiled in BU's Builders and Leaders Magazine

Sarah Stuart, PNP MBA '09, was profiled in the Fall 2007 issue of Builders and Leaders, the BU School of Management magazine.

Stuart has a master's degree in music for harp performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music as well as undergraduate degrees in harp performance from the Oberlin Conservatory and English literature from Oberlin College.

To download a copy of the magazine and read the full article about Stuart, please click on Builders and Leaders Fall 2007 and scroll to page 10.

Further information about Stuart is also available at http://www.sarahmanning.com/

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

Introducing the Class of '09

There are currently 75 full and part time students in the PNP program. Below, meet two of them, Meghan Blute-Nelson '09 and Lonn Drucker '09.

Meghan Blute-Nelson
Meghan is a graduate of Georgetown University where she received a B.A. in English. After completing her degree Meghan held various operations and
finance management positions with Envision EMI, LLC, an education, management and marketing company. For the last two years Meghan worked as the founding Director of Development for the Boston Preparatory Charter Public School (http://www.bostonprep.org/), and she plans to use the business management skills acquired through her BU MS.MBA experience to improve educational opportunities for underserved students. She hopes to get a job working in Finance and Administration for a school or educational nonprofit organization serving low-income urban students.


Lonn Drucker
Lonn graduated from Brandeis in 2003 with a degree in Economics and History. He is currently a first year student at Boston University's School of Management where he is concentrating on Public and Nonprofit Management. Prior to matriculating at business school, Lonn worked for two years at Abt Associates, Inc, in Cambridge, MA, where he did public policy research and analysis on a variety of projects in their Social and Economic Policy Division. Subsequent to this position, Lonn accepted a role at The National Center on Family Homelessness, in Newton, MA, where he played an integral role on a small research team.

At BU, Lonn's vision aligns with that of the program – to bring traditional business practices and structure to the nonprofit and public sectors. This summer, Lonn plans to intern in an organization in the clean energy industry.

PNP Club Update Includes Upcoming Lunch and Learns, Panel at Symposium on Feb. 9th

ADOPT-A-FAMILY

The Public and Nonprofit Management Club continued the annual tradition of sponsoring a school-wide Adopt-A-Family initiative for the Salvation Army this holiday season. With the support of many clubs, departments and individuals, BU sponsored 22 families (a new record). The PNP Club raised $1000 for its own family through bake sales, a potluck dinner, and raffle.

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 committed to increasing the number of nonprofit agencies that may attend. 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.

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).

LUNCH & LEARNS

The Public and Nonprofit Management Club is looking forward to hosting monthly Lunch & Learns during the Spring Semester to help continue to connect alumni and students. Please email Karine at karinemc@bu.edu for more information. This semester's Lunch and Learn dates are February 5th, March 18th and April 1st.

February 5 -
Nonprofit Consulting, Karen Horwitz '06, Common Impact

March 18 -
Corporate Philanthrophy, Speaker TBD

April 1 -
Clean Energy, Speaker TBD

SYMPOSIUM

The 8^th Annual MBA Symposium will take place on Saturday, February 9^th, 2008. This year’s theme is Managing Change in a Dynamic World. Keynote speakers are Jon L. Luther, Chairman and CEO of Dunkin’ Brands and Anne Finucane, Chief Marketing Officer and Northeast President of Bank of America. The Public and Nonprofit Management Club is organizing a panel on International Development. Please visit http://www.bumbasymposium.com/ for more information and to purchase tickets.

Social Enterprise Alliance Summit in Boston

The Social Enterprise Alliance will hold their 9^th Annual Summit this year in Boston from March 9-11^th. PNP students Rob Hoyt '08 and others will volunteer at the conference in exchange for registration scholarships.

Professor Paul McManus will offer an advanced track workshp at the conference on new business development models in Social Enterprise. Students in Professor Kristen McCormack's Social Entrepreneurship course will also attend the conference to reinforce their field based and classroom lessons.

The Social Enterprise Alliance is a unique membership association of over 600 nonprofits, for-benefit companies, consultants, grant makers and technical assistance providers with one thing in common – a fundamental belief that business strategies can be applied to advance a social mission while enhancing organizational sustainability. The Social Enterprise Alliance provides resources and community to promote the application of market-based strategies for generating social benefit. This annual conference has become the largest and most comprehensive training and networking event of its kind in North America. The 9th Social Enterprise Summit is scheduled to convene March 9-11, 2008 at the Boston Park Plaza in Boston, MA.

Idealist Nonprofit Career Fair at BU February 5th

The Boston University Community Service Center is hosting the Idealist Nonprofit Career Fair:

Tuesday, February 5th from 12pm – 4pm
775 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215

This free career fair, for which 110 organizations have already signed up, is a great opportunity to learn about a wide variety of jobs, internships, volunteer positions, and fellowships in the
nonprofit sector.

People from every experience level, including undergraduate and grad-school students, experienced professionals (both from within the nonprofit sector and those transitioning from business and government), as well as other members of the community are welcome to
attend.

For more information, and to register (it's free, but we need to know how many people to expect), please go to:

http://www.idealist.org/fairs

Adelisa Gonzalez '97 Returns to Puerto Rico; Shares Work Experience

Adelisa González, PNP MBA ‘97, moved back to her home island of Puerto Rico in April 2007 to work as Senior Director of Marketing & Development at Sapientis, a San Juan-based non-profit organization. Adelisa plays a key role in helping Sapientis work toward its main goal: making the improvement of the quality of public education a Top 3 priority in Puerto Rico by 2010.

“People need to realize that our entire quality of life -- economic development, our health care system, our crime statistics, our social problems – depend on a high-quality public education system. We cannot rest until we connect every sector to this effort,” says Adelisa, who prior to joining Sapientis oversaw $2 million annually in charitable giving for Mellon Financial Corp. in Boston.

Her work at Mellon garnered her numerous honors, including the “Mellon Premier Achievement Award” in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, she was one of only 30 of the company’s 16,000 employees worldwide to win the prestigious “Mellon Star Award.”

Building bridges between community, parents, businesses and public schools has been one of her key challenges, and accomplishments, at Sapientis. In her short time she has built and strengthened relationships with key partners such as Bacardi Corp., Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. She also is looking to extend the Sapientis network into the United States.

“Our children deserve an education that will allow them to compete at a global level,” Adelisa says. “I need the BU family to join me in this effort and donate to our cause.”

Adelisa can be reached at agonzalez@sapientis.org., or 787-977-3230, ext. 225. The organization’s Web site is www.sapientis.org.

Harvard Business School to Host Social Enterprise Conference on March 2nd

Harvard Business School is hosting the Social Enterprise Conference 2008:

Sunday, March 2, 2008 7:30 am to 5:00 pm
Spangler Center on the Harvard Business School campus

Keynote speakers include Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop Per Child. The Social Enterprise Conference provides a forum for exploring the synergies between for-profit, non-profit, and public sector approaches to addressing critical social issues. This goal lies at the heart of the Harvard Business School mission "to educate leaders who make a difference in the world" and the Kennedy School of Government mission "to prepare leaders for service to democratic societies." The Conference is entirely run by students from these two schools.

The Social Enterprise Conference hosts speakers and panelists with a wealth of knowledge and experience in innovative, cross-sectoral approaches to addressing social issues. Throughout the Conference, participants have opportunities to learn from experts, network, and explore a wide variety of career opportunities.

This year's conference will feature:

• 1,000 conference participants including students, alumni and professionals


• More than 50 panelists and speakers


• 17 panels on the latest topics in social enterprise


• Small group lunches and workshops with leaders in the public, private and nonprofit fields


• Social Enterprise Career Fair


• Pitch for Change Business Plan Competition

The cost to attend is $40 for non-Harvard students and $90 for professionals.

More information can be found online at http://www.socialenterpriseclub.com/conference/index.html