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Business Students Take Steps to Unite China and U.S. A sophomore at Miami University has recently started his own business organization: the China-America Business Organization (CABO). |
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Two Pepperdine students recently traveled to Argentina where they spent time living in impoverished communities. Realizing how hard it was for lower-income families to secure loans and maintain businesses, the students decided to begin selling Mate, the national drink of Argentina, in the U.S. to raise money to create micro-loans for underprivileged Argentineans. |
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Three students at the University of Florida are starting a company called Gator Grocers, an online grocery store that will deliver to students. |
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Iowa State students organize Political Action Week Students at Iowa State University have organized their second annual Political Action Week – a week devoted to speeches, debates and opportunities to take action on campus. It being caucus season in Iowa, at least two presidential candidates are scheduled to appear. |
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A group of students from the Community Service Center and the Golden Key Chapter at Boston University have joined together with other organizations to collect donated books, resell them, and donate the money to send books to impoverished African areas. |
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A student at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is working with the nonprofit organization Threads of Hope, selling bracelets made by a family in the Philippines and sending the money to the family. |
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Fraternities and sororities across the country were busy all week with philanthropic events. |
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A group of students at the University of Wisconsin Madison organized a concert and fundraiser that will feature music as well as a lecture by an HIV/AIDS activist. |
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Student to Participate in Journey of Hope A student at the University of Delaware will spend his summer pedaling on the Journey of Hope, a cross-country bicycle trip that raises funds and awareness for people with disabilities. |
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Volunteerism Gets By With a Little Help from Its Friends A group of students at Brigham Young University were inspired to form Giving Back: Students in Philanthropy after listening to a presentation by the United Way. Two students at the University of Minnesota started a group that helps students raise the funds to travel abroad to volunteer. |
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Trinity Students Win $10,000 Award Three freshmen at Trinity College won a Davis Projects for Peace Award for their "Community Approach to Solar Lighting" project. |
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Philanthropy and Entrepreneurship Alive and Well Stories from Northwestern, the University of Washington, and Duke demonstrated that student philanthropy and entrepreneurship is alive and well. |
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James Madison University's SafeRides program is finally back in action after four years of legal struggles over insurance. SafeRides is a nonprofit student-run organization that provides rides to students on Friday and Saturday nights. |
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Students Broker Fair Trade Deal Students from Smith, Hampshire, UMass, and South Dakota State University helped broker a fair-trade deal between a U.S. organic coffee buyer and Oro Verde, a Peruvian coffee-growing cooperative. |
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Students Encourage Others to FACE AIDS Student members of Arizona State University's chapter of FACE AIDS are raising money to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa by selling beaded pins handmade by Africans afflicted with the disease. |
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Aid for Africa, From African Students Students hailing from Africa are engaged in philanthropic efforts to help people in their home nations. |
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The International Club of Bates College turned their annual dinner into a fundraiser this year, raising money for two charities started and run by other Bates College students. |
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An Undergraduate Council effort to provide students with cheaper textbooks suffered a setback this week, when Harvard Coop officials asked the council’s representatives to leave off collecting textbook ISBNs for their website Crimson Reading. |
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Six graduate students at Arizona State University have created a machine that takes water from the air and purifies it to make fresh drinking water. |
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Dormswap, a student-developed online database where students can exchange belongings they no long want, is forbidden to promote itself on campus because of an exclusivity agreement between Trinity and Barnes & Noble. |
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Students to Sell Inexpensive Stoves in India Students at the University of Oregon presented plans to sell inexpensive stoves in India and other developing countries at the annual Engineers in Technical Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) Conference. |
