Skills based volunteering is tasked with finding, facilitating and promoting volunteer opportunities that allow students to utilize those business skills that they have already developed and those that they are currently developing while at Fuqua.   

The Skills-based volunteering position was newly created this year and we are excited to expand the programs we currently offer in order to offer a wide variety of volunteer opportunities to Duke MBA students allowing for both long-term involvement and for one time participation. Several programs are currently being explored and will be announced when completed. See below for a description of the programs currently offered:

The goals and objectives are to:

• Generate increased student and community awareness of STEP, and successfully coordinate the volunteer process (which involves the Duke volunteers, the partner high schools, and the local media)
• Establish collaborative relationships with other MBA clubs to capitalize on the skills possessed by those clubs and to source new skills-based volunteer opportunities for students to get involved with
• Offer a wide variety of volunteer opportunities to Duke students that allow for both long term involvement and for one time participation.

Current Programs:

STEP- Students Teaching Entrepreneurship Program

Launched in 1991, the Student Teaching Entrepreneurship Program is a partnership between Duke's Fuqua School of Business and local high schools to enrich the business learning experience for at-risk students. The goal of the program is to provide meaningful hands-on business learning experiences and increase awareness of entrepreneurial career options. The program partners Duke MBA students with high school juniors and seniors, who must formulate business plans and “pitch” them to panels of judges. Volunteers must be committed to spend one hour per week over the course of two terms.

For recent media coverage of the local STEP program, click here. Please contact Jodi Smith or Holly Maddox if you would to get involved.

Junior Achievement

Do you have two hours available per week for six to eight weeks to make difference in the lives of Durham youth? Are you interested in impacting today's youth by teaching them about business, economics, and free enterprise? Fuqua’s Junior Achievement team needs volunteers who are passionate about helping bring the real world to elementary and middle school students, opening their minds to their potential. Junior Achievement uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life.

We are currently looking for a Fuqua volunteer to lead this program in the spring. Please contact Holly Maddox for more information.