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Students and community partners to benefit from new S-L Website

Fresno, CA - A new Service-Learning website launched in August of 2007 offers undergraduate students at the Craig School of Business and its community partners several significant benefits beginning with the Fall ’07 semester.
     Perhaps the most important is the database of Community-Based Oganizations (CBOs), which will number more than 100 initially and further expand to more than 200 within a year. Historically, students had less than 50 to choose from or had to seek out a CBO on their own to work for on their Service-Learning project. The new list is not only more than twice as large, but provides a profile of each organization with key contacts, its mission statement, the services it provides, who it reaches out to, and a brief history of Service-Learning projects it may have engaged in previously (when provided by CBOs), and informative links.
     Experience has demonstrated that students make a greater commitment and a stronger effort working for organizations whose mission is consistent with their own personal interests. By offering students significantly more CBO options from which they can choose to work, the overall product is significantly better and the experience more positive and productive for both the students and the CBOs.
     For CBOs, the most obvious benefit will be the ability to request Service-Learning students for marketing-related projects each semester online. By using the link provided, CBOs will able to bring up the Service-Learning Marketing-Related Project Proposal, spend just a few minutes filling it out, and submit it to the Service-Learning Coordinator for approval and inclusion in the CBO’s one-page Profile.
     It should be noted that inclusion in the database and having a Profile does not guarantee a CBO that a student or students will necessarily chose that organization for his or her Service-Learning project. Marketing and Logistics Dept. faculty did suggest, however, that the more interesting a project is, the more likely students will choose a specific CBO.

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