The MNC works with a broad range of nonprofits to create paid summer jobs that make use of MBA skills. These Summer Associate positions address a variety of issues (e.g., philanthropy, social services, media) in locations across the nation. See examples below of recent Summer Associate placements. The MNC's Summer Jobs Program also includes Farber internships and the Packard Environment Fellows program.
Amy Lin (Wharton)
Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a nonprofit venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty, combining small amounts of philanthropic capital with large doses of business acumen to build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Amy researched opportunities for social investing in Kenya. In this picture, she and a potential Acumen Fund investee discuss establishing an affordable health service provider in a low-income area on the outskirts of Nairobi. Learn more about Acumen Fund, or view previous placements with Acumen Fund. (Summer 2008)
Stephanie Artman (McCombs)
The Ball Foundation
The Ball Foundation is a family-funded operating foundation dedicated to discovering and developing human potential. Through one of its major programs, Education Initiatives, the foundation supports the development of high-performing schools in partnership with urban school districts. Stephanie spent the summer conducting a broad industry study of the philanthropic sector, exploring various business models and making recommendations for possible future scenarios for the Education Initiatives program. Learn more about the Ball Foundation. (Summer 2008)
Marcy Guttman (Fuqua)
Benetech
Benetech develops innovative technology solutions to meet the needs of underserved communities. Benetech's Bookshare program offers a variety of literacy-related services, including connecting technology hardware companies that have excess inventory with schools in need of donated equipment. Marcy managed a corporate philanthropy initiative to engage companies looking to derive both business and philanthropic value from charitable donations to Bookshare. She developed a corporate outreach strategy, worked with internal teams to identify program uses for donated technology, and launched several successful projects. Learn more about Benetech and Bookshare, or view previous placements with Benetech. (Summer 2010)
Inbok Chang (Fuqua)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) facilitates the development of high-quality non-commercial programming and telecommunications services. Inbok worked with CPB's Radio Department, analyzing the landscape of diversity initiatives in the public broadcasting system and recommending strategies for reaching out to underserved audiences. She is shown here (far right) with members of the Radio Department staff at a CPB reception for summer interns. Learn more about CPB, or view previous placements with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Summer 2008)
Meredith Tierney (Kellogg)
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a global leader in the fight against pediatric HIV and AIDS, working in 17 countries to implement prevention, care, and treatment; to further advance innovative research; and to execute strategic and targeted global advocacy activities to bring dramatic change to the lives of millions of women, children, and families worldwide. Meredith spent her summer building models to calculate cost-per-beneficiary metrics across the foundation’s program areas in each country and for the foundation as a whole. Learn more about the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. (Summer 2010)
John Paul Jewell (Yale)
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund's Corporate Partnerships program works with U.S. companies to reduce the lifecycle environmental impacts of the products and services they sell. John Paul (JP) spent the summer developing a partnership to rapidly scale up adoption rates of energy efficiency technology in office buildings. Learn more about the Environmental Defense Fund, or view previous placements with the Environmental Defense Fund. (Summer 2008)
Melissa Iagulli (MIT Sloan)
The Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
The Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund is a private family foundation that seeks to promote equal rights and opportunities for immigrants and gays and lesbians, improve the lives of low-income families and children through education, and invest in the leadership of the fund’s nonprofit partners. Melissa (L), working with a team at Haas, Jr., including Linda Wood (R), led a grants management process review project, and developed a recommendation to streamline the process by implementing a new software solution. Her recommendation could help to significantly increase the efficiency of the grantmaking process, which would allow the fund to devote more time to supporting its grantees. Learn more about The Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. (Summer 2009)
Natalia Todorov (Kellogg)
Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties
Goodwill is an autonomous social enterprise with a mission of creating solutions to poverty through workforce development, social action and environmental stewardship. Natalia worked on a facilities consolidation project, including submittal of a $900K Community Block Development grant, and helped develop a Real Estate Facilities and Management Plan. Learn more about Goodwill, or view previous placements with Goodwill. (Summer 2009)
Rong Zheng (Kellogg)
Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties
Goodwill is an autonomous social enterprise with a mission of creating solutions to poverty through workforce development, social action and environmental stewardship. Rong worked with the marketing team on an analysis of Goodwill’s marketing channels and how best to optimize them. Learn more about Goodwill, or view previous placements with Goodwill. (Summer 2009)
Min Ki Kim (Fuqua)
International Youth Foundation
International Youth Foundation (IYF) programs are catalysts of change that help young people obtain a quality education, gain employability skills, make healthy choices, and improve their communities. IYF's YouthActionNet program cultivates young social enterpreneurs, giving them access to training, networks, and resources. Min Ki led a business planning project to expand this program to 17 more countries over the next five years, with the goal of supporting over 15,000 young social entrepreneurs. Learn more about IYF and YouthActionNet. (Summer 2009)
Joe Silver (Columbia)
Living Cities
Founded in 1991, Living Cities is an innovative philanthropic collaborative of 22 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions. Living Cities aggregates and deploys resources through loans, grants, equity, and other financial mechanisms in order to help steer market forces to transform the lives of low-income people and the communities in which they live. Joe worked on the lending team and helped evaluate the existing loan portfolio as well as potential new transactions. He also did research on transit-oriented development and fresh food access. Joe (center) with colleagues in Living Cities' New York office. Learn more about Living Cities, or view previous placements with Living Cities. (Summer 2010)
Nirosha Wickremasinghe (Haas)
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health)
PATH is an international nonprofit dedicated to improving global health by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors. Through its Health Innovations Portfolio (HIP), PATH explores and screens novel technologies to build a pipeline of new solutions. Nirosha is working on a HIP project to assess the technical landscape and economic feasibility of fuel cells, which may one day provide energy to low-resource health settings, especially in developing countries. Learn more about PATH. (Summer 2009)
Harold Matskevich (Yale)
PBS Distribution
PBS Distribution (PBSd), a joint venture between PBS and WGBH-Boston, is the leading distributor of public television programming, both domestically and internationally. This social enterprise's mission is to generate revenue to support its parent organizations as well as public television stations and independent producers. Harold developed a growth strategy for PBSd's educational distribution business, including research on market segmentation and recommendations for product development and pricing strategy. Learn more about the PBS and PBSd. (Summer 2010)
Tyler Baier (Johnson)
Positive Coaching Alliance
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1998 to create a movement to “transform youth sports so sports can transform youth.” PCA provides training to coaches, parents, youth sports organization leaders, and student-athletes on how to use the youth sports experience to teach young athletes positive character traits and life lessons. Tyler worked on marketing and development projects, as well as a program development proposal to accelerate adoption of PCA's "triple-impact" competitor model. Learn more about Positive Coaching Alliance, or view previous placements with Positive Coaching Alliance.(Summer 2009)
Roxanne Miller (Haas)
Suma Reddy (Wharton)
Unitus
Unitus provides microfinance institutions with business strategies, technology, and access to capital, empowering them to serve hardworking micro-entrepreneurs in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and the Philippines. Roxanne and Suma worked within the Expansion, Strategy & Network and Advisory divisions of Unitus, exploring social metrics, geographic expansion, and the development of advisory capabilities to partner microfinance institutions. Learn more about Unitus. (Summer 2008)