A Thrilling, Therrific, Thantastic Thursday

We spent most of today updating the database for the beta version of our Youth Canada website. It was hard work, but, by the end of the day, we had produced fine results. Many of the program descriptions had to be edited, and the logos altered to fit exact dimensions. This sounds tedious – and it was – but it was satisfying to see how our website had grown in only a few days. It is even more exciting to think of what it will become over the next few months.

Meanwhile, Wendy and Will went to Playland for a Shad reunion. It was raining in the morning, but it cleared up by the afternoon, and Wendy says she even got a tan.

Also, we looked forward to going out with the virtual interns on Friday at Shabusen.

Impact’s Latest Challenge – The Microcredit Competition

Dear readers,

We are Impact Entrepreneurship Group, Canada’s largest student and volunteer-run entrepreneurship organization. Our purpose is to further the creative spirit of entrepreneurship among Canadian youth. We’d like to tell you about one of our current initiatives, the Microcredit Competition.

In this competition, we give Canadian high school students the chance to be entrepreneurs while raising money for charity. We want to foster creativity, the courage to take risks, and a collective responsibility to help those in need. Students sign up in teams (200 across the country) with one team per school. On October 20th, we give each team one hundred dollars. They then have one week to multiply this initial capital into as much money as possible. Afterwards, we donate the proceeds to charity and microfinance organizations. Outstanding teams will win prizes in six categories: sustainability, profitability, innovation, positive social impact, community engagement, and best overall.

As you can see, we’ve created a win-win situation. Students benefit, and so do needy people around the world. As interns, we’re excited to be involved with a project that makes a difference, that changes the world and that has an impact (pun intended).

And we’d love it if you’d join us. Here’s how:

Students:

Are you in secondary school or a CEGEP? Are you bold? Are you savvy? Are you an entrepreneur? Yeah, we thought so. What are you waiting for? Gather a team and sign up at http://microcredit.impact.org.

Sponsors:

We need your help in this endeavour, since we are looking for prizes to award outstanding teams. There are many benefits to becoming one of our sponsors. Besides the fact that to support our initiative (which is completely non-profit and volunteer-run) is to support Canadian youth development and charity, more than 200,000 people will be exposed to our competition. With two hundred teams composed of five participants, hundreds of students will be reached in every participating school, and will generate a significant amount of media coverage. We’d be sure to give our sponsors lots of publicity, especially on our website and in our promotional materials. By partnering with us, your organization stands to gain a more positive image of charity and community involvement.

Any sort of help is welcome. We’re looking for prizes to award to our winners, as we’ve already mentioned, preferably in sets of five so that each team member can get one. However, any prize and publicity that you can give us would be greatly appreciated. If you’re interested, please contact Wendy at wendy. ming @ impact.org.

Cheers,

The Impact Interns

The Third Post

Hi everyone,

Today was our second full day at Bootuplabs. We had two speakers today, Jordan and Michael. Jordan, who works here at Bootuplabs, spoke to us about social media marketing (an innovative way of spreading the word about your business through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other forms of online media).  Michael, a physics student at Princeton, described what life is like at an Ivy League.

Both speakers were excellent, and we’ll hopefully upload our video of them by tomorrow. We also had the pleasure of meeting our virtual interns at Impact.

Last, huge congratulations to William for passing his driving test!