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