Dear Net Impact Club Members,

We apologize for the delay in getting the newsletter out these last two weeks, but we now have a new Master of the Newsletter, Ms. Maya Lloyd, who has been gracious enough to help us out in our time of need.  Thank you Maya! 

This is our first newsletter under the new SY cabinet, and one of our goals in the next year is to improve all of our communications for the club. We welcome feedback on how we can create a more useful newsletter experience for you.  Please send suggestions to Brinda and Jessie.

We would like to call your attention to two events happening THIS WEEK, the FLIP-IT Event with the Carrboro YMCA and Conversation with RBC Socially Responsible Wealth Manager Thomas Van Dyck -- as well as our final two efforts to break last year's record for the Summer Internship Fund: Stache Bash and Give-a-Day.

More details for each of upcoming events are in the newsletter below.

When: Friday April 16, 12:45pm - 1:30pm
Where: Seminar Room B

Bring your lunch and meet Thomas Van Dyck, Senior Vice President at RBC.  Thomas has been a leader in the field of socially-responsible investing since starting at Dean Witter in 1983. In 1987, he founded Progressive Asset Management (PAM), a firm dedicated to socially responsible investing.  Joining Piper Jaffray in 1997, he developed an investment management consulting team, now called the SRI Wealth Management Group, which moved to RBC Wealth Management in 2006. Thomas graduated from Duke University in 1980.  The conversation will take place on Friday, April 16th from 12:45pm to 1:30pm at Fuqua in Seminar Room B.  Please contact Laura Vogel at laura.vogel@duke.edu with any questions.

When: Thursday, April 22, 12:45pm - 1:30pm
Where: Seminar Room A

Bring your lunch and meet Christine Bader, who is currently an advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for business and human rights. She is formerly a manager for policy development with a focus on corporate responsibility and human rights at BP. You can read her full bio by clicking here.The conversation will take place on Thursday, April 22 from 12:45-1:30pm at Fuqua in Seminar Room A. Please contact Laura Vogel at laura.vogel@duke.edu with any questions.

When: Monday, April 19, 2010, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Where: McClendon Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

If you plan to attend this event, please RSVP here.

Free and open to the public

Matt Kistler is the senior vice president of sustainability for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Walmart). He is responsible for Walmart’s global sustainability strategy and the integration of sustainability into Walmart’s business strategies, encouraging the company's 100,000 suppliers to innovate, collaborate and support Walmart’s key sustainability goals and to integrate sustainability into the brand and culture of the company by engaging the more than 2.1 million Walmart associates globally.
Matt has held marketing, strategy and sales management positions with Walmart and Sam’s Club, Kraft Foods, Oscar Mayer and General Foods. He has a B.A. in Marketing from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

When: Thursday, April 15, 6:00-8:00pm
Where:Old Trinity Room, East Campus, Duke University (West Campus Union Building -
http://map.duke.edu/?x=483.11&y=-331&z=3&w=1263&h=600&new.x=288&new.y=398)

The Duke Microfinance Leadership Initiative is proud to partner with The Carrboro YMCA for another exciting Flip It event! Students will work together in consultation with the YMCA's management to form ideas for sustainable business development. This time, we have a specific goal in mind: to improve the efficiency of the Y's fleet of buses. Interested in consulting, environmental issues, or just want to help out a local business? Come join us for an evening of team problem solving. Bring your laptops! Food will be provided. Please RSVP here: http://anyvite.com/events/home/k459fptpcm

Contact amar.srinivasan@fuqua.duke.edu for more details.

Currently, Google is looking to hire Green Business and Operations Strategy Associates to join the BizOps team. Ideal candidates come from Management Consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Booz Allen, etc.), or from corporate strategy teams within a range of companies and organizations. This position is based in Google's global headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Please email resumes to Nabil Khatib (nabilk@google.com).

Eduventures, Inc. is hiring consultants and analysts.Contact Hallie Boger ( hboger@eduventures.com) have any interest and she can pass your resume along to their HR Director:   .

The Project Manager for Community Relations works closely with the Manager of Community Relations delivering business returns to Capital One including CRA value for qualified associate engagement, corporate reputation, and community impact. The Project Manager is accountable for implementing local associate engagement opportunities that align with both national and regional community relations strategies. Further, the Project Manager is accountable for supporting the Manager of Community Relations in identifying, developing, and sustaining “devastatingly local” neighborhood-based partnerships that are focused on raising the economic vitality of the residents and businesses in a neighborhood. The Project Manager is also responsible for supporting regional and market-level communications needs related to community relations. 

Learn more here

Check out this once in a lifetime opportunity for EcoEntrepreneurs:
http://www.slideshare.net/GreenNurture/smartview-eco-entrepreneurship-challenge
Spread the word through Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

When: Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

The Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes more than 2,200 students and professionals from 55 countries who are interested in global health and international development, public health, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.

200 speakers, including keynote addresses by Seth Godin, Jacqueline Novogratz, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, Doctors Without Borders, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.  The conference schedule is now online.

Click here for more information

When: Friday, May 28, 2010- Saturday, May 29, 2010
Where:HEC Paris campus in Jouy-en-Josas

“The Challenge: Change, Measure, Sustain”

The 2010 HEC Social and Sustainable Business Conference will be held on the HEC Paris campus in Jouy-en-Josas on May 28-29. The conference will feature two days of keynote speeches and engaging panels with experts and practitioners from around the world. This year’s discussions will evolve around three key themes - change, measurement and sustainability--and their impact on both current and future business practices. Organized by HEC Paris in conjunction with Net Impact, the conference attracts students, academics, national and international government representatives and professionals. Keynote speakers include Clara Gaymard, President, GE France and GE International Government Initiatives leader; Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, Oxford; and Scott Beale, Founder of Atlas Service Corps.

For more information and to register, please visit www.hec-ssbc.org and also watch the conference video.

Kosh is a social venture of a Fuqua Team that has been selected to compete in the semi-finals for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. Out of 700 international entries, it was selected in the top 50 as part the judges selection. The next stage involves submission of a full length business plan. Team Kosh has requested your support and your vote in the Dell Social Innovation competition, which also has a social media component. 

Kosh,is an online knowledge repository that will aggregate and create engaging educational content in all formats. This virtual library will make educational media accessible at a nominal price and in regional Indian languages, to over 200,000 educators and school administrators, and through them to young students in rural India.

Please check out the idea and vote for "Kosh" if you feel the idea merits consideration.

http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com/ideaView?id=08780000000PERPAA4 

Incase you have trouble, these are the steps to vote for us: 

1. You will have to create a username and password (just takes a few seconds) at http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com

2. Once you are logged in, you will find a tab called “Semifinalists”. Scroll down or search for “Kosh”

3. The result will show the business idea for “Kosh”. There will be a button saying “Promote” on the left. Click that to submit your vote.