This document summarizes the activities of a student group involved in creating jobs and economic opportunities. It describes various challenges and competitions run by the group to support local businesses and at-risk industries. It also outlines the group's initiatives to promote sustainability, empower women entrepreneurs, and provide financial literacy education to different groups. The document concludes by discussing plans to formalize the group's structure and continue its work going forward.

2. Senior
Marketing Major

3. Junior
Accounting Major

4. Freshman
Marketing Major

5. Junior
Finance Major

6. Junior
Marketing Major

7. Senior
Marketing Major

8. Lander University
 Greenwood County
 One of Highest Unemployment rates
 One of Highest Unemployment states

9. Saving Jobs
 At risk workforces
 Retail
 Manufacturing

10. Restaurant Wars
 Need: local
restaurants/high risks
industry
 Fall teams competed,
planned, and executed
weekend sales
promotion
 Increased profits over
60%.

11. Restaurant Crawl
 Need: New businesses to
continue the
revitalization of uptown
 Facilitated
brainstorming sessions

12. B2B Challenge to Help at Risk
Manufacturing Jobs
 Need: local
manufacturing plants
trying to keep employees
during tough times
 Competing teams
formed to plan and
execute trial campaign
using CRM (Customer
Relation Management)
tools.

13. Competing Teams
Business Business
Strategist Strategist
Marketing Technology Marketing Technology
Strategist Specialist Strategist Specialist

14. B2B Challenge Results!!!
More business in the
pipeline and potential
jobs being saved
Students who did
particularly well became
Leadership Consultants

15. Creating Jobs
 DECA
 Be Your Own Boss Competition
 Student Run Ad Agency
 Mirrors project

16. DECA
 Need: 150 Eager high
school students
 Engaging
entrepreneurial
leadership workshops
 7 out of 10 informative
 8 out of 10 fun

17. Be Your Own Boss Competition
 Need: Entrepreneurial
college students
 Business Plan Pitch
contest
 From ‘No Participants’ to
‘More Participants’ than
other SC schools
 One participant finished
second out of 60

18. Mirrors
 Entrepreneurial scientist
 Developing Business
plan/ NASA client
 Possible sales of
$300,000
 2 – 3 Jobs
 Science innovation
source: www.nasa.gov

19. Poised for Intermediate
& Strategic Success
Women Empowerment of Greenwood Passing it Forward
Round Table Discussions Life Skills Workshops
Successful Woman Entrepreneurs Mentoring New Women Entrepreneurs
New Women Entrepreneurs at strategically Help other Women Out of Poverty with
placed moments of new businesses Financial Literacy and Workshops
$2500 already won; Wal-Mart Women Empowerment
Grant…Thank You Wal-Mart!

20. Poised for Intermediate
& Strategic Success
New Leadership Innovation & Business Support Office to be Built
$99 K Grant Expected to Win to provide Scholarship & Support
Student Run Businesses/ New Business Incubation
POS Restaurant CRM Manufacturing New Media Environmental
Support Support Advertising Sustainability
Center of Excellence Center of Excellence Business Business
NASA Science Business
Seminars Workshops Student Projects
We are in the process of applying for an Economic Grant from a state Government Agency for $99K
Grant to provide Scholarship & Support. The grant is awarded by a point scoring system. Based on
our conversations with the grant providing agency, we would have enough points last year and
hence are expecting to win this grant for next year to further our SIFE efforts.

21. Helping Others in the World
 Helping green businesses
 Campus be greener
 Helping others through financial literacy

22. Green and Fair Trade
 Creating a second life for
agriculture parts
 Helping to create an
online export portal
 Potentially tons of
reduced landfill waste

23. Green and Fair Trade Continued
 Environmental
Sustainability
 Creative young minds

24. Greener by May
Reducing Electricity
 Helping the world and
widows
 Competition to reduce
electrical cost
 Proceeds projected
to be 10%; helping
approximately 6 widows

25. Greener by May
Trash Audit
 Helping the world and
campus
 Trash audits to reduce
waste
 Helping administration
to develop 20 year
milestones and a 5 year
strategy
 Sustainability Initiative

26. Financial Literacy
 First generation college students
 Led several financial literacy workshops
 Credit Cards 53% below national average 84%
 Freshmen with Credits card began at 40% now 25%
 Knowledge transfer from 79% to 95%
 Students opening savings accounts rose from a 2 to 7
 Students can create budget rose from 40% to 83%

27. Other Financial Literacy Workshops
 Pregnant women and at-
risk high school students
 Teaching budgeting life
skills
 Assistance with life

28. Freshmen Leadership Program
 Experiential Learning
 Revitalized Leadership
Program
 Great set-up
 Over 30 participants this
year

29. Keeping It Going
 Charter
 Executive Board
 Advisory Board
 Executive Briefs

30. Budget
 Great results
 Businesses
 Grants
 Student Affairs