September 2024 Newsletter
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Nonprofit Board Fellowship Recruiting
Are you a graduate student interested in learning what it takes to run a nonprofit from the boardroom? Do you want to contribute to high-level strategic projects for an impactful nonprofit organization? Business+Impact’s Nonprofit Board Fellowship Program develops cross-sector leadership skills by placing graduate students like you as non-voting members on boards at Southeast Michigan nonprofits, which provides you with project management experience and develops your executive skills.
Interested students should attend one of the following information sessions to learn more about the Board Fellowship and receive application information. Applications will be due Friday, Sep. 6th at noon.
You must attend our info session below today to participate in the program for 2024-25:
Virtual Information Session
Sep. 3rd, 5-6pm, Zoom
B+I Showcase Will Highlight Impact Centers & Clubs Across Campus for All U-M Students
Thurs, Sept. 5 @ 11 am – 1 pm
Ross School of Business
Sixth Floor, Tauber Colloquium
Welcome new and returning students! We hope your summer was empowering and invigorating because we have a lot of opportunities coming up for you. As part of our mission to make students aware of impact opportunities across campus, we welcome students to our 7th annual Business+Impact Showcase at Ross. Students will have a chance to meet with over 30 organizations and map out their U-M impact journeys. The event will also feature a “Mission & Mocktails Room,” and other fun, engaging activities.
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Impact Studio Incubator and Fellowship Applications Open
Apply by
Fri, Sept. 6 @ Noon ET
Calling all current U-M students! Do you have a strong entrepreneurial spirit? Enthusiasm for interdisciplinary collaboration? A commitment to impact? If so, we want you! Come join our vibrant collaborative community and help take ideas from concept to prototype to scale!
This year, we will be launching an exciting new partnership with Boston Consulting Group, where students who are part of the Founders and Fellows programs will be able to visit their Detroit office and receive feedback and mentorship from consultants.
The Impact Studio Founders Program helps impact-driven creators and innovators bring impactful ideas to life that build a sustainable and just world for all! Using business knowledge, design tools, and research expertise, our experienced and interdisciplinary coaches and fellows roll up their sleeves and work alongside founders to accomplish great things.
Applebaum Impact Design Fellows are part of an interdisciplinary cohort working to support the Impact Studio Founders Program & prototype studio concepts.
Impact Tabling Events Where You Can Meet Us!
Business+Impact will be taking part in a number of tabling events during the next month where you can meet us and find out more about our programs and our mission:
- Taubman College Welcome Picnic – Wed, Sept 4, 6:30-8 @ The Taubman Patio
- B+I Showcase – Thurs, Sept 5 11-1 @ Ross’ Tauber Colloquium
- UMSI Cross-School Resource Fair – Tues, Sept. 10, 10:30 am – 1 pm
- Social Work Resource Fair – Wed, Sept 11, Noon – 2 pm
- U-M Entrepreneurship & Innovation Resource Fair – Fri, Sep. 13, 3-5 pm @ CCCB
- Earthfest – Thurs, Sept 26 10am – 2 pm @ The Diag
MBA2 Gordon Impact Scholarship Application Due Soon
Application due:
Mon, Sept. 30 @ 11:59 pm
Are you an MBA2 committed to addressing complex social challenges? This year the Skip and Carrie Gordon Scholarship Fund will award four $7,500 scholarships to MBA2s who demonstrate a dedication to impact. Applications are open now, and winners will be announced in October.
Robin F. Baker (MBA ’24), Jill Dannis (MBA/MS ’24, Erb), and Elijah Forrester (MBA/MS ’24, Erb) were each chosen to receive Gordon Scholarships in 2023-24.
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“Workshop: New Opportunities for Creating Equitable Business in Detroit”
Mon, Sept. 23 @ 2-6 pm
UM Detroit Center
3663 Woodward Ave. #150, Detroit
Aspiring and current Detroit-based entrepreneurs and service providers are invited to this event hosted by DNEP and the Ross Impact Studio. The event will begin with a hands-on design exercise to introduce the key steps to launching a business including researching customer needs, defining opportunities, brainstorming solutions, prototyping a business model, and testing its feasibility. Expert overviews of new business opportunities in Detroit will be provided, followed by a resource fair featuring no-cost providers at U-M and beyond to help with the startup process. The event will also have catered food and drink.
Map Your U-M Journey: A Platform for Impact Across Campus
The Business+Impact Map Your U-M Journey (rossimpact.com) provides you with a single location for all things impact at Ross and across campus. Here you’ll find all of the activities, people, and key partners working to use their learning to make a real impact in the world.
At the University:
IMPACT INVESTING GROUP
Partner with Students to Expand Your Business
Are you a business seeking financial support and consulting to drive growth and positive impact? Please complete this form to start the selection process and take your business to the next level. For more information on the Impact Investing Group, please visit our website.
CENTER FOR SOCIALLY ENGAGED DESIGN
Get Info on SEED Capstones
The Socially Engaged Engineering & Design (SEED) Capstone is an elective course giving the opportunity, the tools, the people, the room to help face the world’s biggest challenges head-on. This hybrid, pass-fail course will be held in the 2024 Winter semester. Complete the form to indicate your interest and to hear more! For more information, you can also visit our website!
WALLENBERG LEGACY MEDAL & LECTURE
Nnimmo Bassey: Wallenberg Lecture
Tues, Sept. 10 @ 4:30 pm
Robertson Auditorium, Ross School of Business
Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation and a global environmental activist, will receive the 2024 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan. Nnimmo Bassey is an architect, director of the Nigeria-based ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International, a network resisting the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the Global South. The Wallenberg Medal and Lecture ceremony is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Please direct any inquiries about the event and requests for event accommodations to wallenberglecture@umich.edu or 734-936-3973.
CEW+
Fall Open House
Mon, Sept. 19 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
CEW+, 330 East Liberty, Ann Arbor
The CEW+ Open House is your chance to meet our staff, tour the Center, enjoy a light lunch, and find out how CEW+ supports women+ and underserved communities at U-M through counseling, funding, events, and initiatives. Come and go as your schedule allows. We look forward to welcoming you to our space and celebrating campus partnerships – old and new!
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Social Work Events
Where does Power Live? Tools for Civic Engagement and Electoral Wellness – Sept. 22 @ 2 – 5 pm
State of DEI – Sept. 25 @ Noon – 1 pm
Community Action and Social Change Info Session – Oct. 8 @ Noon – 1 pm
We invite all UM students to attend events and meet our people at the School of Social Work. We’re excited for you to experience the thinking of the School of Social Work
FORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Election 2024 and U.S. Climate Policy
Thurs, Sept. 19 @ 5 pm
Weill Hall
Climate policy is one of the key issues being discussed in the 2024 election cycle. This event will examine the larger issues and the specific effects of climate policy on the state of Michigan, as well as look the issue through the lens of climate justice.
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CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY
Earthfest
Thurs, Sept 26 @ 10 am – 2 pm (rain or shine)
The UM Diag
Earthfest celebrates sustainability initiatives across U-M and the surrounding communities while providing an inclusive platform to educate and engage the campus community on opportunities to support sustainability and environmental justice on campus and in our daily lives. Come learn about sustainability on campus and participate in fun engagement opportunities.
POVERTY SOLUTIONS
Fall 2024 Speaker Series
“Inheritance: 11 years in the life of one boy in the opioid epidemic” – Sept. 27
“A Fair Work Week: Raising the Floor on Precarious Scheduling” – Oct. 4
“All Means All: Schools Where Everyone is Somebody” – Oct. 11
“Leveraging the Power of Empathy to Build Equitable Health Care Systems” – Oct. 18
“Living on the Edge: How economic insecurity harms children and families” – Oct. 25
“Empowering Communities to Reduce Violence and Improve Economic Mobility” – Nov. 1
“From Surviving to Thriving: The Importance of Engaging People with Lived Expertise” – Nov. 8
This series is free and open to the public, but is also a one-credit course available for U-M students during the Fall 2024 semester. Students can enroll in SWK 503 001 or U-M class 26997 on Canvas.
RACKHAM GRADUATE SCHOOL
Rackham Events
Thriving in Community: Sustainable Productivity for First-Gen BIPOC Students – Wed, Sept. 25
We’re Biased, So Now What? Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias – Thurs, Oct. 10
Rackham Graduate School offers a variety of events including those including a social impact or sustainability focus.
Full Listing of Rackham Events
CENTER FOR SOCIALLY ENGAGED ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
FUSED Program
Join us in the FUSED Program and be part of a community dedicated to making a meaningful impact through engineering. Move your team forward, develop your socially engaged engineering and design skills, and access a new level of support and resources! The program kick-off on Sat, Oct. 19 from 11am – 3pm is an essential component of the experience — please make your calendars and inform your team members to do so as well.
In the Impact Community:
Detroit Month of Design
The 14th Annual Detroit Month of Design Festival is a citywide celebration of creativity that gathers designers and the greater community to celebrate Detroit’s role as a national and global design capital. Check out 175+ creatives, 80+ events, and meet 50,000 attendees in various Detroit neighborhoods throughout the month.
It’s Up to Us Competition
The Up to Us Campus Competition is a nationwide leadership development and civic engagement initiative that mobilizes young people to build public awareness campaigns that educate their peers about the long-term national debt. The application is now live – apply today! (US-based student opportunity only.) There is a $10,000 grand prize, in-person and funded leadership training in Washington, DC.
Apply to Be a Champion for Change
Apply between now and
Mon, Sept. 9 @ 9 am
In vibrant communities, all people are welcomed, included, valued and nurtured. Together, we can find new ways to disrupt the many forms of racism. Throughout Champions for Change, we nurture and support Leaders of Color and White Leaders in their efforts for social change. We cultivate dialogic skills, engage in critical self-reflection, and empower each other to leverage our influence to create racially equitable communities.
RECESS24
Sept. 9-11
Huntington Place, Detroit
Walker-Miller Energy Services is excited to present the second annual Resilience and Equity in the Clean Energy Sector Summit (RECESS). “RECESS24” will help advance equity for Black and Brown people by creating an on ramp into the rapidly transitioning clean energy economy, showcasing experts, ideas, technologies, and connections to help drive the benefits of participation to those who have been historically excluded.
Bamboo Start-up Pitch Night
Apply to Pitch on
Sept 12 @ Detroit
Are you a founder or creator with a product, idea, or technology company? At each pitch night, we welcome 3-5 founders from the Michigan startup community to present for 5 minutes and take questions from the audience. Applications close 2 weeks before each pitch night date for review and selection. All Michigan-based companies are eligible to apply to any of the pitch nights– you don’t have to be located in the city of the event!
Ele’s Place Healing Hearts 5K
Sun, Sept 15 @ 11 am
6300 Interfirst Dr., Ann Arbor
Help raise awareness of and support for grieving children, teens, and their families who are grieving in Ann Arbor, and the surrounding southeast Michigan area. Ele’s Place Ann Arbor families and the community are invited to participate in this family-friendly event to honor, celebrate and remember a special person who has died. This event is an opportunity to put “one foot in front of the other” to help fund our peer grief support programs and ensure they remain FREE OF CHARGE to all who are in need of our services today, tomorrow and always. So, grab your walking/running shoes AND join us for the Ele’s Place Ann Arbor Healing Hearts Family 5K Walk/Run
Home for Good
Wed, Sept. 18 @ 6-9 pm
Ann Arbor City Club
1830 Washtenaw Ave.
Home for Good is Avalon Housing’s annual fundraising event. Join us on Wednesday, September 18th at the Ann Arbor City Club! When you sponsor Home for Good or buy a ticket, your gift helps Avalon provide care and support to help people stay in their homes—for good. Join us in building healthy, safe and inclusive supportive housing communities as a long-term solution to homelessness.
2024 Symposium on Public Policy for Nonprofits
Fri, Sept. 20 @ 1-4 pm ET
Virtual
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Independent Sector, and Nonprofit Policy Forum invite you to this symposium. This year’s symposium will focus on surfacing promising public policy recommendations to strengthen the nonprofit sector and philanthropy.
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Climate Week NYC
Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Climate Week NYC is hosted by Climate Group, an international non-profit whose purpose is to drive climate action, fast.
Wege Prize Competition
Apply between now and
Sun, Oct. 6
Wege Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work. Participants contend for $65,000 (USD) in total cash prizes, all while learning — and helping to show the world — what the future of problem solving looks like.