Recruiting at UBC Sauder

MM Community Business Project

The Community Business Project gives not-for-profit organizations and social enterprises access to free consulting projects from teams of bright, creative, and highly motivated Master of Management students.

Organizations get the chance to tackle a key challenge, while giving Master of Management students the opportunity to hone their business skills and gain real-world business experience.

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Project details

Typical projects include:

Business feasibility studies
Fundraising and development plans
Recruitment and retention strategies
Corporate partnership strategies
Marketing plans

Who is eligible to participate?

Non-profits
Corporations with CSR initiatives or affiliations to social ventures
Charities
Environmentally-focused businesses
Social enterprises
Start-ups with community initiatives/impacts

Past partners include:

BC-SPCA
Mosaic
Embers
Gordon Neighbourhood House
Cheakamus Centre
Nada

Pedal Society OCB
Sky Harvest
Spinal Cord Injury BC
UBC Farm
United Way Lower Mainland
Motivate Canada

Applications for the next round of Community Business Projects is now open.

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Projects must have a specific objective with a clear social benefit and directly contribute to the students' skill development in areas such as strategy, finance, marketing or human resources.
Complete an application form online by October 31st, 2019.
While all proposals are greatly appreciated, not all can be selected. Projects are evaluated on a number of criteria: the required project components (including primary & secondary research), relevance to students' skill development and commitment to community enhancement.

Key dates:

Oct, 2019: CBP application opens

Nov 7, 2019: Deadline to apply

Nov 1st - 15th, 2019: Application evaluation period

Nov 18th, 2019: Applicants notified if they are selected for the shortlist. Further evaluations and telephone discussion to take place in order to finalize the list of approved applicants/scope of work documents.

Dec 15th, 2019: Final approved applicants to be notified along with approved scope-of-work.

Jan 24th, 2020: Mandatory initial kick-off meeting and reception with students, faculty, and other organizational representatives at UBC Sauder (Vancouver Point Grey campus). The client supervisor for all accepted projects must conduct a full project briefing with their assigned student team on Jan 24th, 2020 at UBC campus (Vancouver Point Grey).

Jan - April, 2020: CBP project period

April 24th, 2020: End of CBP project, final deliverables handed to clients.