Corporate Champions is a coursework-integrated, corporate partner supported, applied learning experience for first year MBAs. Student teams are mentored by a corporate partner through an applied organizational behavior (OB) project which contains components of OB, leadership and communications team deliverables.
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Buffalo Public Schools, Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities
Over the past eight months the Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (CLOE) has been working with Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) to assist with implementation of a health and wellness mandated policy that involves creating health and wellness teams in the district’s 58 schools (30,000 students) to initiate comprehensive health and wellness assessments in each school and start initiatives to address a range of health and wellness factors (nutrition, physical exercise, mental health services, STD and pregnancy prevention, etc.). So far, CLOE has provided over $50,000 in consulting and leadership, team, and organizational development assistance, working with the BPS leaders in charge of the initiative to set up a health and wellness organizational infrastructure, and design and implement a leadership and team development program to set up functioning health and wellness teams in all BPS schools.
Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession Program (COAP)
One-week enrichment program for minority high school juniors with sessions allowing them to interact with accounting professionals and field visits to business organizations, along with professional development sessions on business communication and interviewing skills. The program is run in partnership with the NYS Society of CPAs to raise minority students’ awareness of the opportunities provided by an accounting degree.
MoneySKILL® High School Financial Literacy
MoneySKILL® is a free, interactive, online personal finance curriculum designed to provide high school students with fundamental money management skills. It was developed by former School of Management professor, Dr. Lewis Mandell, in collaboration with the American Financial Services Association Education Foundation (AFSA), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington. AFSA owns the program. The School of Management, University at Buffalo, has partnered with M&T Bank to promote MoneySKILL®. This partnership involves reaching out to area high schools to let them know about this curriculum developed specifically for high school students, and to train teachers how to use it effectively. Additional locations: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming counties
Universtywide School Supply Drive
The School Supply Drive is a two-month universitywide charitable drive for school supplies to benefit pre-K through eighth grade students at schools situated around our three campuses: Futures Academy, Bilingual Center, Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute, Highgate Heights Elementary and Westminster Community Charter School. UB employees drop off items in the designated collection boxes throughout the North, South and Downtown campuses that include paper, pencils, rulers, planners, markers, folders, and more. The 2013 program doubled in size from the previous year–with an unprecedented amount of supplies donated and distributed.
Economic Opportunity Panel (EOP) report
The first recommendation in the report, “Opening Economic Opportunity Around UB’s Growing Downtown Presence: Report of the University at Buffalo and St. John Baptist Church Economic Opportunity Panel,” (EOP report), requested that pathways to economic opportunity among UB and its partners be “illuminated.” In response, the Office of Educational Collaboration & Engagement (ECE) created a network of EOP partner agencies and individuals offering employment, education and/or training relevant to workforce opportunities in the downtown medical corridor. Working together with EOP partners, ECE hosted a workshop on the Downtown Campus where leaders from the health care sector, joined by one of the principal architects of the Buffalo Billion initiative, shared information specific to growth plans and employment needs for the region. A follow-up health careers forum provided opportunities for community members to talk with employers who had job openings. As a result of these efforts, a broader workforce plan was initiated that would bring a city-wide workforce strategy that emphasized the involvement of anchor institutions.
Universitywide Adopt-a-Family
Coordinated by the Office of Community Relations, UB’s Universitywide Adopt-a-Family helps make the holidays a little warmer and brighter for a number of local families in need. The Office of Community Relations collaborates with local nonprofits to identify needy families; those families are matched with participating UB departments to provide items from their wish lists. Since 2008, the program continues to grow, averaging over 20 participating departments and matched families each year. Additional location: Downtown Campus