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CSR and Change Management Workshop for Professionals Save over $2,000 on a workshop facilitated by the world-renowned experts in change management and get the tools you need to change your company from the inside out. This November 13-14 in Philadelphia PA, Net Impact will offer our professional members the chance to participate in a two-day CSR and Change Management Workshop designed by experts from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Spaces are very limited so apply soon to secure your spot. Course Fee: Regularly offered for $2,495 per attendee, Net Impact is subsidizing this cost and offering our members the ability to attend both the CSR and Change Management Workshop and the majority of the 2008 Net Impact North America Conference (over a $300 value) for only $500. Scholarships will be available the select participants who would otherwise be unable to attend. What's Included: The workshop fee includes course materials and participation, as well as beverages and lunch for both days of the training. This fee does not include hotel and travel costs or breakfast. Participants in the course will also be able to attend the evening events at the 2008 Net Impact North America Conference on Thursday and Friday, as well as the full conference offerings on Saturday. When: November 13 – 14 from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: The Hub Cira Center at 2929 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA (approximately 1.2 miles from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) Participants: 30 paid Net Impact professional members seeking to increase their leadership and change management skills and drive CSR initiatives in their company After completing the course, participants will: Understand the leadership competencies and qualities that integrate CSR into and across a company Analyze their current level of capability as a CSR leader and establish a plan to support leadership development Strategically assess their organization's degree of readiness for change Gain practice in applying a straightforward model for organizational change Anticipate potential obstacles to change and better understand how to appropriately and effectively initiate action >> Apply for the Net Impact Professional Course

Key Announcements New keynote speakers announced: John Wood, Founder & CEO of Room to Read and Kate Roberts, Founder & Director of YouthAIDS The 2008 Net Impact North America Conference is on Facebook!  See who else is coming, fuel the pre-conference discussion, and get a head start networking Register by October 3 to save $50 with the early registration discount  Member-led sessions deadline extended to September 19 Submit your resume to Career Expo Exhibitors Exhibit at the Career Expo Donate in-kind to promote your brand  Download the application to apply for a conference scholarship

In This Issue Get Involved in the Conference  Learn More About Conference Themes and Curriculum Plan Your Job Search with Career Expo Resources Meet this Month's Featured Volunteers  Things to See and Do in Philadelphia Meet Our 2008-2009 Sponsors Get Involved in the Conference Deadline Extended for Member-Led Sessions The deadline for Member-Led Sessions has been extended to Friday, September 19. Please submit your application today to host a lunchtime panel or workshop. >> Learn more or download the application Meet Chapter Members and Conference Attendees Net Impact will be holding networking events throughout the month of September. These events are designed to connect you with your local chapter and welcome new members to student and professional Net Impact chapters around the world.  Host cities include Ann Arbor, Babson Park, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Durham, Evanston, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Portland, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.  >> RSVP for an event in your area Conference Themes and Curriculum Spotlight on Speakers: Collaborative Impact and World of Good Priya Haji of WorldofGood.com and Amy Skeeters-Behrens of eBay will speak on Collaborative Impact, explaining how World of Good joined forces with eBay to magnify its impact. World of Good was created in 2004 as part of the MBA incubator at Haas School of Business. Since its debut, the company has impacted over 25,000 individuals in more than 70 countries around the world. In 2008, the company joined forces to launch the ecommerce marketplace, WorldofGood.com by eBay, which offers products that have a positive impact on people and the planet. Products, producers and sellers are verified by trust providers. As Co-Founder and CEO, Priya Haji is the award-winning leader of World of Good, a company dedicated to building ethical shopping experiences with mainstream retail partners, including Whole Foods and eBay. Most recently, Priya received a Social Innovation Award from the Social Venture Network for her vision to change the way the world does business, and was featured as a panelist to speak on the value of hybrid business models at the 2008 Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, England. In her twenties Priya Haji was co-founder and Executive Director of Free at Last in East Palo Alto, a national model program to address substance abuse related issues.  With $10 million in special investments and a team of 60, the organization grew to span services reaching 3,000 people per year.  For her work with Free at Last, Priya was recognized by the DoSomething Foundation, MTV and Mademoiselle Magazine as one of "America’s Ten Most Outstanding Young Leaders".  Amy Skeeters-Behrens is the Senior Manager for Marketplace Operations for WorldofGood.com.  Before her current role, Amy was the manager of half.com by eBay, a specialty site for books, movies, music and video games.  Amy received her BA in Economics from the University of Oklahoma and her MBA from Stanford University. >> Learn more about World of Good and eBay Track Spotlight: International Development Both Priya and Amy will be featured speakers in the International Development Track of the conference. Net Impact Conference content is designed to cover many of the topics in social and environmental impact, including energy and environment, international development, social entrepreneurship and social welfare, corporate leadership, and social and environmental impact finance. The depth and breadth of these topics allow conference participants to focus their experience or pick and choose from a wide variety of different topic areas. >> Learn more about the International Development track  Special Opportunity with the Draper Richards Foundation Have the next big idea, but need to find a funder? Working on starting a non-profit after you graduate? Don't miss this opportunity with the Draper Richards Foundation. The Draper Richards Foundation funds early-stage nonprofits that intend to grow. And it is always looking for the next great people to fund. Draper Richards provide 3 years of funding ($100K per year), as well as technical support and counsel. Draper Richards has funded a number of Net Impact alum during the early stages of their growth, including Tim Prestero of Design that Matters (Sloan School of Management), Chuck Slaughter of Living Goods (Yale School of Management), John Wood of Room to Read (Kellogg School of Management), and Andew Youn of One Acre Fund (Kellogg School of Management). Anne Marie Burgoyne, DRF’s Portfolio Director, will be at the Net Impact conference and is interested in having social entrepreneurs “pitch her” on their organizations. She has four available slots and will award them to the people who appear to be the furthest along in thinking about their work and the most committed to pursuing their work upon graduation. If you are interested in talking to Anne Marie while you are at the conference, please email conference@netimpact.org. Career Expo Recruiter Success Story from the 2007 Career Expo Making connections is the key to the Career Expo.  Read what this recruiter has to say about Net Impact Conference attendees – and her success in connecting with the right candidate. "We recruited at the Net Impact annual conference for the first time in 2007.  As a nonprofit finance institution, we found many conference attendees to have the right balance of financial acumen and mission-orientation we seek in prospective employees.  We interviewed several candidates and, in the end, found one that fit our Professional Development Program (PDP) perfectly.  All students we met were professional, articulate, and well-prepared.  We look forward to recruiting at the conference for many years to come." Kim Dempsey Vice-President NCB Capital Impact 2008 Net Impact North America Conference Career Expo Socially and environmentally responsible companies and organizations know that the Net Impact North America Conference is the best place to connect with top students and professionals who share their values. There are officially 42 confirmed organizations that will be exhibiting at the Career Expo!  Look below to check out the most recent additions (in bold) to our list of attending exhibitors.  Keep checking back to watch this list grow. >> Get more details on the career expo Who's Exhibiting? Accenture Acciona Energy America's Credit Unions Apple Ashoka Autodesk Calvert CDS International, Inc. Coca-Cola Commongood Careers Credit Suisse Doctors Without Borders Education Pioneers EF Education Environmental Defense Fund FedEx FINCA International General Electric Honest Tea                                        Johnson & Johnson Kaplan Higher Education         MBAs Without Borders MetaVu, Inc. Microsoft National Park Service/Student Conservation Association NCB Capital Impact New Leaders for New Schools Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management Population Services International Salesforce.com Foundation SEIU Sodexo Sun Microsystems Teach For America The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems The Development Executive Group The Mind Trust The New Teacher Project Uncommon Schools, Inc. Visiting Nurse Service of New York Wal-Mart and more... Research and Review Exhibitors by Visiting the Virtual Career Expo! The Virtual Career Expo is a website featuring links and information about all of the companies and organizations that will be exhibiting at the 2008 Net Impact North America Career Expo.  Visit the Virtual Career Expo now to start learning about the exhibiting organizations, including available job opportunities, interview tips, corporate missions and core values, and annual/citizenship reports. >> Visit the Virtual Career Expo RSVP for a Networking Lunch Several companies and organizations will be hosting special networking lunches, providing attendees with a more intimate setting for valuable interactions with recruiters.  Space is limited, so you will want to RSVP. Please visit the Career Expo page and look at each company's posted profile. If the organization is hosting a networking lunch, details to sign-up will be provided.  RSVP now for one of the following unique lunch-time networking opportunities: • America’s Credit Unions • Autodesk • Salesforce.com Foundation • Teach For America • The New Teacher Project Submit your resume for the 2008 North America Resume Book This year’s resume book will be an alphabetically-organized searchable PDF with a special keyword section at the bottom of each one-page resume.  Our new format is easier for recruiters to search, which will allow recruiters from great companies and organizations, like Apple, Calvert, Sun Microsystems, GE, NCB Capital Impact, and more to see your resume.  Once you are finished editing the template, please save it as a PDF* with your name as the title:  your last name, then your first name, then your middle initial/name.  For example, “SMITHMARKJACOB”  Attach the PDF to an email and send it to resumes@netimpact.org with the same title as the subject line by October 15, 2008.  You will receive a confirmation email once we have received it. This opportunity is for registered attendees only. Sign up today and submit your resume! Notes: You may choose to exclude certain sections, but please leave the formatting as close as possible to the original to create consistency within the book. If you vary the format too drastically (by changing fonts, organization, etc.), your resume cannot be included in the book Your resume may only be one page long – anything beyond the first page will not be included. Please choose no more than 5 keywords/phrases Please be sure to follow the file naming convention noted above. If you do not follow this convention, your resume cannot be included in the book *If you don’t have a PDF creator, download a free one from the web.  Try Primo PDF or CutePDF. >> Please download the resume template (Word document). Recruiters: Connect with socially and environmentally conscious candidates The 2008 Net Impact North America Conference Career Expo is the best way to reach out to socially- and environmentally-minded students and professionals who leverage their business skills to make a positive impact on the world.  We expect close to 2,000 attendees this year. What are the benefits of exhibiting? Pre-conference exposure to our 10,000+ members in weekly newsletters including the Conference Chronicle Presence on the Virtual Career Expo Two free job postings on the Net Impact Job Board and promotion of those jobs Recognition in the Conference Guidebook Net Impact resume book & targeted Wharton resume books Opportunity to host a networking lunch Interview rooms And more! >> Learn more about being an exhibitor >> Contact Sitar Mody at smody@netimpact.org or +1 415 495 4230 x318 to sign up  Volunteer Appreciation Meet this Month's Featured Volunteers Net Impact conferences are put together by a team of talented and dedicated volunteers who, in addition to helping develop the curriculum, market the conference, recruit career expo exhibitors and plan all  conference logistics and social events, are enrolled in a rigorous graduate program. This year’s team is from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. >> Read more about our Design Team The Design Team is assisted by a team of volunteers. This month, Net Impact and the Design Team would like to thank Elizabeth Curran and Zlatin Ivanov for their work on the conference. Zlatin Ivanov, Catering Lead A native of Haskovo, Bulgaria, Zlatin is a Computer Science graduate of the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He spent seven years in the new media space in New York, thriving during the most brutal post-dot-com bubble years at… a dot-com(!) and partaking in New York magazine’s Web 2.0 success. Zlatin is a Finance and Strategy major at Wharton. This summer, he worked on several sell-side deals and a merchant banking project at Raiffeisen Investment, the leading M&A advisory in Central and Eastern Europe. Zlatin is passionate about human rights and equal access. He has been a loyal supporter of Save the Children and the Human Rights Campaign, and serves as a Diversity Representative and an LGBT Admissions Outreach person at Wharton. Though with two left feet, Zlatin danced Hip Hop and Salsa on stage in front of several hundred MBA classmates this spring. He is doing it again soon. Elizabeth Sullivan Windram, Panel Manager Elizabeth Sullivan Windram is pursuing an MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Marketing and Operations Management. She graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, Magna Cum Laude.  Previously, Elizabeth worked as an investment banker at Citigroup in New York and in business development at Terra Firma Capital Partners, a London-based private equity firm.  Escaping the world of finance, Elizabeth spent a fantastic summer at Brown-Forman Corp. in Louisville, KY on the brand management team for Finlandia Vodka. Elizabeth is a visiting board member of the Parent-Infant Center in Philadelphia.  She is a trained crisis hotline listening volunteer for the Samaritans UK and also volunteers with FeelingBlue.org, a Pennsylvania-focused suicide awareness and prevention group.  Elizabeth’s great loves are children’s theater, good coffee and her husband, writer Anthony Windram. Katie Mullen, Curriculum Chair, says of Elizabeth: "We would like to congratulate Elizabeth Sullivan for her outstanding work putting together conference panels over the summer. Not only did Elizabeth continue to develop the panels she had originally agreed to develop while working over the summer, she also was willing to step up and develop additional panels. We salute Elizabeth for her commitment to using business practices and principles and her willingness to devote so much of herself to making sure others can be similarly inspired."   Local Spotlight Things to See and Do in Philadelphia Bundle up and take a walking tour. Download one for free at gophila.com View more than 300 years of American architecture Visit the wildlife at Philadelphia's brand new Adventure Aquarium and the Philadelphia Zoo, the oldest zoo in the U.S. Hotels Net Impact has secured four centrally located hotels at discounted rates for conference participants. These rooms are filling up fast so please book today to guarantee accomodations. >> Visit the conference website to learn more about accommodations options Sponsorship Providing an unparalleled range of services for more than 10,000 responsible leaders takes visionary support from partners who share Net Impact's commitment to business doing well and doing good. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our 2008-2009 sponsors.   The announcements / promotions in this newsletter may include views or recommendations of third parties, which do not necessarily reflect the views of Net Impact. 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