Senior

Marketing Major

Junior

Accounting Major

Freshman

Marketing Major

Junior

Finance Major

Junior

Marketing Major

Senior

Marketing Major

Lander University Greenwood County

One of Highest Unemployment rates

One of Highest Unemployment states

Saving Jobs

At risk workforces

Retail

Manufacturing

Restaurant Wars Need: local

restaurants/high risks industry

Fall teams competed, planned, and executed weekend sales promotion

Increased profits over 60%.

Restaurant Crawl

Need: New businesses to continue the revitalization of uptown

Facilitated brainstorming sessions

B2B Challenge to Help at Risk Manufacturing Jobs

Need: local manufacturing plants trying to keep employees during tough times

Competing teams formed to plan and execute trial campaign using CRM (Customer Relation Management) tools.

Business Strategist

MarketingStrategist

TechnologySpecialist

Business Strategist

MarketingStrategist

TechnologySpecialist

Competing Teams

B2B Challenge Results!!!More business in the

pipeline and potential jobs being saved

Students who did particularly well became Leadership Consultants

Creating Jobs DECA

Be Your Own Boss Competition

Student Run Ad Agency

Mirrors project

DECA Need: 150 Eager high

school students

Engaging entrepreneurial leadership workshops

7 out of 10 informative

8 out of 10 fun

Be Your Own Boss Competition Need: Entrepreneurial

college students

Business Plan Pitch contest

From ‘No Participants’ to ‘More Participants’ than other SC schools

One participant finished second out of 60

Mirrors Entrepreneurial scientist

Developing Business plan/ NASA client

Possible sales of $300,000

2 – 3 Jobs

Science innovation

source: www.nasa.gov

Women Empowerment of Greenwood Passing it Forward

Round Table DiscussionsSuccessful Woman Entrepreneurs Mentoring New Women Entrepreneurs at strategically

placed moments of new businesses

Life Skills WorkshopsNew Women Entrepreneurs

Help other Women Out of Poverty with Financial Literacy and Workshops

$2500 already won; Wal-Mart Women Empowerment Grant…Thank You Wal-Mart!

Poised for Intermediate& Strategic Success

New Leadership Innovation & Business Support Office to be Built

We are in the process of applying for an Economic Grant from a state Government Agency for $99K Grant to provide Scholarship & Support. The grant is awarded by a point scoring system. Based on

our conversations with the grant providing agency, we would have enough points last year and hence are expecting to win this grant for next year to further our SIFE efforts.

POS Restaurant Support

Center of Excellence

New Media Advertising

Business

Environmental Sustainability

Business

Student Run Businesses/ New Business Incubation

NASA Science Business

CRM Manufacturing Support

Center of Excellence

Seminars Workshops Student Projects

$99 K Grant Expected to Win to provide Scholarship & Support

Poised for Intermediate& Strategic Success

Helping Others in the World

Helping green businesses

Campus be greener

Helping others through financial literacy

Green and Fair Trade Creating a second life for

agriculture parts

Helping to create an online export portal

Potentially tons of reduced landfill waste

Green and Fair Trade Continued Environmental

Sustainability

Creative young minds

Greener by MayReducing Electricity

Helping the world and widows

Competition to reduce electrical cost

Proceeds projected

to be 10%; helping approximately 6 widows

Greener by MayTrash Audit

Helping the world and campus

Trash audits to reduce waste

Helping administration to develop 20 year milestones and a 5 year strategy

Sustainability Initiative

Financial Literacy First generation college students

Led several financial literacy workshops

Credit Cards 53% below national average 84%

Freshmen with Credits card began at 40% now 25%

Knowledge transfer from 79% to 95%

Students opening savings accounts rose from a 2 to 7

Students can create budget rose from 40% to 83%

Other Financial Literacy Workshops Pregnant women and at-

risk high school students

Teaching budgeting life skills

Assistance with life

Freshmen Leadership Program Experiential Learning

Revitalized Leadership Program

Great set-up

Over 30 participants this year

Keeping It Going Charter

Executive Board

Advisory Board

Executive Briefs

Budget Great results

Businesses

Grants

Student Affairs