The St. Ambrose University Enactus Team annual report summarizes their activities from 2014-2015. It describes their mission to empower their community through entrepreneurial action to improve livelihoods in a sustainable way. In their first year, the team had 17 active members and completed 4 projects totaling 300 hours that addressed local business marketing, recycling programs, educational center renovations, and environmental sustainability collaboration. Their efforts helped increase social media engagement for a local business, establish a recycling program in 5 city parks, renovate special needs classrooms, and catalog area environmental groups.

1. 2014-2015 Annual Report
518 W. Locust Street, Davenport, Iowa 52803
As the St. Ambrose University Enactus Team, our mission
is to empower our Quad Cities community through
entrepreneurial action in order to improve the
livelihoods of those around us in an economically,
socially, and environmentally sustainable way.Team Information
Established 2014: In first year
gained formal University approval
Active Members: 17
Sustainable Projects: 4
Project Hours: 300 and counting
Funding:
$1,000 City of Bettendorf
$150 Sherwin-Williams
$1,300 SAU College of Business
Expenses:
$1,000 Recycle barrels
$150 Renovation supplies
$1,300 Travel
Our Mission
“Individual responsibility, inclusiveness,
and accountability for one another”

2. 2
Fresh Deli
Seeing Opportunity: A small business selling local, organic
food in the Quad Cities community needed help forming a
low-cost solution to market their organization.
Taking Action: SAU Enactus formed an unpaid internship
working with the St. Ambrose University Career Center.
Enabling Progress: Consulting with the ownership has
increased engagement with 20 social media updates per
month, more than double that for all of last summer.
Sustainable Parks
Seeing Opportunity: A local City Parks District without an existing
recycling program needed a solution to implement a program fitting the
budget and educating park users.
Taking Action: Lobbied for a small grant to purchase ten recycling bins
and strategically place throughout the various parks in Bettendorf.
Enabling Progress: Collected 266 recyclable bottles/cans from 5 parks in
just one month of use. Developing scaled up plan for future bins and to
present a recycling plan to other nearby Parks Districts.
Design to Learn
Seeing Opportunity: An area Special Education Center for children with
severe ADHD and Autism needed assistance creating a more welcoming
environment to their special needs students.
Taking Action: Received a donation for renovation supplies from a local
Sherwin-Williams and refurbished 2 cool-down rooms to help students
focus and control their emotions.
Enabling Progress: Received positive feedback from school’s principal
of the rooms having an encouraging effect on students; we hope to
scale this up by presenting a similar plan to
other area institutions.
Sustainable Mississippi
Seeing Opportunity: Observing a local environmentally protected area that
needed new ways to reach out in the community and create awareness and
collaboration on their goals of sustainability.
Taking Action: Working with the local Nahant Marsh to survey other local
environmental groups to increase public awareness in the area and develop
partnerships on ways to make the Mississippi River more sustainable.
Enabling Progress: Gathering 30 surveys and developing a catalog to publish
online for local groups to use in planning.
2014-2015 Enactus Projects