主要研究 今天

经常, 那些寻求大范围改变公司对待员工方式的人, 社会, 还有环境, 作为抗议者这样做过吗. 这种抗议活动在引起人们对重要问题的关注方面很有价值, 但是接下来要做的是创造改变?

在澳门葡京网赌游戏, tomorrow’s workers are learning that “changemaking” 可以 have a big impact when pursued within an organization. 这个教学和经验运动的字面“中心”是 换零钱机协作该中心的前身是社会创新与企业中心.  

成立于2015年，是 保罗经济与商业学院 和 卡西公共政策学院, 变革者合作将学生聚集在一起, 教师, 工作人员, 企业, non-profits and government agencies committed to advancing positive change for the good of all. 协作组支持下一代技术人员, 勇敢自信的领导者, 通过现实世界的经验和公共政策和商业工具, 同时帮助社区合作伙伴推进可持续发展计划. 

2019年6月, the 换零钱机协作 brought in the 主要研究 可持续发展研究所 as a third partner and now serves more than 1,每年有1000名学生和校友，其中许多来自保罗学院. 

菲奥娜•威尔逊, Director of the 主要研究 可持续发展研究所 and affiliate clinical associate professor at the Paul College, 也是换零钱机协作的联合创始人和指路明灯, said the program was founded as “a moral obligation” to help students understand that “while there are very real challenges in the world, 也有非常令人兴奋的潜在解决方案, 企业, 因为他们的规模和创新能力, 可以, 而且应该, 成为这些解决方案的主要来源.”  

These “very real challenges” comprise the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals 和y are integral to the 换零钱机协作’s own mission. 被广泛认为是人类的蓝图, 现在被商界领袖广泛接受, 世界各地的政府和非政府组织, 其中包括消除贫困和饥饿, 消除不平等, 改善人类健康, addressing climate change and tackling a host of other goals falling under the umbrella of a sustainable 社会.  

必要体验式教育 

就像所有的体验式学习机会一样, 换零钱机协作 programs allow students to use their education in community-settings, 通过基于项目的学习，他们可以发展解决问题的能力, communication and leadership skills even the most interactive of classroom formats 可以 never quite replicate.  

签名程序包括:  

• B-Impact诊所该项目将学生团队与寻找人才的企业配对 b公司认证. (参见“成为改变”.”) 

• NH社会创业创新挑战赛为学生举办的可持续、创新和以解决方案为基础的创意比赛;  

• 社会创新实习, a summer internship with partner organizations as nearby as Durham and as far away as Tanzania for paid impact-focused projects; 

• 城市学期, a 16-credit rigorous 30+ hour per week semester-long fellowship with a leading social change organization (nonprofit, 业务, or public sector) in Boston; and 

• 改革者奖学金, a robust set of high-impact and community-based experiences to build a life and a career at the intersection of doing well and doing good. 

22岁的内特·理查德(Nate Richard)来自宾夕法尼亚州多伊尔斯敦，主修金融和可持续发展双学位., recently spent a semester in Boston as a 城市学期 fellow at the nonprofit 波士顿家庭援助 (工厂), which works directly with families to provide affordable housing to those without a place to live. Richard’s project involved financial and operational analysis aimed at reducing the cost of utilities in the FAB properties. 

“实习让我对团队建设有了全新的认识，”理查德说. “一开始我想我会去那里，专注于金融. 我很快意识到，一个项目要想成功, 你必须把所有的贡献者聚集在一起——在我的情况下, 住房的员工, 个案工作者和项目团队.”  

Richard is currently eyeing a career in sustainability consulting for the energy industry. 而他计划专注于盈利, 他很感激他在家庭援助的经历, 在那里，他帮助亚马逊获得了500万美元的资助.  

“I had a relatively small part to play, but it’s not bad for a college sophomore,” Richard said. 

Experiences like Richard’s enable students to exp和ir range and depth of competencies, 但它们也及时地增强了人们的信心.  

“I came to 主要研究 undeclared and had this wild idea that I wanted to double major in anthropology and 业务. 我的想法是，我既能帮助别人，又能把事情做好,保罗学院18岁的校友瑞秋·瓦兹说, an international 业务 and economics major who was raised in Brazil and moved to Lebanon, N.H. “我放弃了我的两个愿望，直到我参与了合作, 然后我的生活开始步入正轨. 我对社会创新和社会正义的热情找到了归宿!”  

通过协作会的社会部门特许经营倡议, 瓦兹花了大四的一部分时间研究民生基础, 公司., a social 业务 focused on helping farmers in developing countries based in Tanzania. 然后, 毕业后的那个夏天, she used a 社会创新实习 to work at the Ameri可以 lifestyle accessories brand and retailer, Cole Haan. She helped implement software to manage compliance programs for working conditions in Cole Haan’s worldwide network of factories.  

实习帮助瓦兹以新的眼光看待自己. 

“I’d always seen myself as an ‘outsider’ who protested against corporate interests,” she said. “这是第一次, I became an ‘insider’ who saw how a for-profit company could leverage its resources to improve the lives of thousands of people.” 

实习结束后, Cole Haan聘请Vaz在其日益壮大的合规部门全职工作. 

Wilson said that as 社会 puts more pressure on the corporate sector to consider all stakeholders, 不仅仅是股东, and as more companies continue to invest their resources in transforming their 业务 models to allow them to focus on profit and purpose, a complete 业务 education must equip students with the knowledge and know-how to lead them. 

威尔逊说:“可持续的商业方法不再是‘知道就好’。. “这是‘需要知道’.’ At Paul College we’ve been ahead of the curve in understanding it’s not 业务 or 社会. 它可以，也应该两者兼而有之.”