Net Impact members believe in the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. What about you? Join the movement, and make your impact.
Net Impact will introduce you to great people—like corporate responsibility and sustainability professionals, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit managers, international development experts, and students—who are exploring and using innovative ideas to change the world.
Through membership with Net Impact and opportunities through nearly 250 local chapters worldwide, you’ll uncover opportunities to learn, network and build your career. Find out about membership options for professionals, graduate students, and undergrads.
Thousands of Net Impact members are making businesses more responsible, starting social or environmental ventures, and strengthening nonprofits and public agencies.
Membership with Net Impact, and involvement with one of more than 50 professional chapters in cities around the globe, will help you:
Grow your professional network of like-minded individuals with expertise spanning sectors and industries. Connect through our chapter network and through our global membership directory.
Stay in-the-know on the latest trends on the intersection of business, society, and the environment. Access our Issues in Depth calls, visit the learning center, and attend local chapter events.
Further your career through Net Impact’s career resources, including a job board with hundreds of full-time positions.
Make a positive difference in your workplace through our Impact at Work program, which will connect you with social intrapreneurs making change from the ground up in companies and organizations.
Give back to your community by getting involved in programs like Board Fellows, which places members as non-voting members on nonprofit boards, and Service Corps, which provide pro-bono consulting support to local nonprofits.
Save money on our annual conference and other products and services with our exclusive members-only discounts.
Net Impact is the perfect fit for MBA and other graduate students who want to apply their education towards making the world more socially and environmentally sustainable through their career.
Membership with Net Impact Central, and involvement with one of 160 MBA and other graduate school chapters, will help you:
Get more out of your education, by learning about issues at the intersection of business, society, and the environment. Access Issues in Depth calls, visit the Learning Center, and attend local chapter events.
Strengthen your resume by gaining hands-on experience applying business principles to help solve social and environmental issues.
Make a difference on your campus and in the community through programs like Campus Greening, Curriculum Change, Service Corps, and Board Fellows.
Build a lifelong professional network that includes leading experts using business to improve the world. Take advantage of more than 1,700 events per year and our global members-only directory and LinkedIn group.
Launch a career for good through utilizing Net Impact’s career resources, including job board with hundreds of full-time positions and exclusive internships for Net Impact members.
Save money on our annual conference and other products and services with our exclusive members-only discounts.
Just two years ago, Net Impact brought the movement to change the world through business to undergraduate campuses. Today, with 40 undergrad chapters, our undergrad members are gaining the knowledge, leadership skills, and connections they need to become tomorrow’s responsible business leaders, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit managers, and more.
By becoming a part of this growing movement of undergraduate students, Net Impact can help you:
Enrich your educational experience by learning more about issues at the intersection of business, society, and the environment, while making friends with students who share similar interests.
Begin creating your professional network that includes leading experts who are using business to improve the world.
Gain leadership experience and boost your resume by getting involved in your chapter in a leadership position or by helping out with chapter events.
Identify a career for good by learning about jobs in fields such as corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability and through utilizing Net Impact’s career resources, including a job board with full-time positions and internships.
Make a difference on your campus and in the community through programs like Campus Greening.
Save money on our annual conference and other products and services with our exclusive members-only discounts.
Bachelor of Business Administration
University of Michigan
“The relationships I have established through Net Impact have been invaluable”
Toral Gandhi says that if you’d asked her two years ago about her career goals, she probably would have told you she’d be working on Wall Street. Now she’s set on a career with social impact.
“Net Impact has enhanced my leadership skills, educated me on issues that affect our communities today, and guided me to the plethora of career opportunities that exist for students like me,” said Toral.
Having recently completed her Bachelor’s degree, Toral is pursuing a career in international development consulting and ultimately wants to start her own business working with organic farmers in India.
James Balch
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Ohio State University
“Net Impact has given me the confidence and skill set needed to help transform business through sustainability”
Since founding Ohio State’s Undergrad chapter in August 2008, James Balch says Net Impact has become his forum for connecting with “a group of passionate people who share his belief that business is at the forefront of innovation to transform society.”
Through Net Impact, James says he has been able to interact with nonprofit and business leaders who believe responsible business practices are essential to good business. He was especially excited to land a Global Supply Chain internship with The Dow Chemical Company, where he had the opportunity to meet with the Chief Financial Officer and learn how the company is incorporating sustainable practices across the organization.
After graduation, James plans to find a job that unites his passion for sustainability with his knowledge of business.
Alexis Suskin-Sperry
Business Economics and Public Policy Major
Indiana University
“Being one of the thousands of Net Impact members motivates me and encourages me to make change happen, even when it seems impossible!”
Alexis Suskin-Sperry says her Net Impact membership has been an important way for her to connect with and learn from students and professionals around the world with similar beliefs and values. “Hearing about all the different corporate ventures and projects has inspired me and demonstrated that there is potential for each of us to make an impact in the world,” she says.
This past summer, Alexis traveled to Uganda with a team of four other students and a faculty advisor to work on sustainable community development with a nonprofit organization for women with disabilities. She plans to build on this experience after she graduates, and someday hopes to start her own nonprofit focused on sustainable community development.
Trish Kenlon
MBA Candidate
New York University’s Stern School of Business
“Everything I read led me to believe that Net Impact was a critical part of any socially minded student’s MBA experience…I was pleased to learn I was right”
As the leader of Stern’s Campus Greening Initiative, Trish works with a team of dedicated students, faculty, and staff to help her school operate more sustainably. She has led projects that include installing high-speed hand dryers in the bathrooms and a green roof on top of the business building. To support her efforts, Trish participates in Net Impact Central-led calls with Campus Greening leaders on other campuses, which she says is a great resource for sharing ideas and working though issues.
Trish also found a summer internship exclusively open to members on the Net Impact Job Board. She spent the summer of 2009 as a Climate Corps Fellow at TXU Energy, where she helped develop a strategy to increase energy efficiency at their corporate headquarters, and gained hands-on experience to help pave her way toward a successful career that combines business and the environment.
Andres Villalobos
MBA Candidate,
ESADE Business School (Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas)
“Net Impact inspires people around the world by giving tools and sharing experiences”
Andres Villalobos firmly believes that business has the greatest power to transform the world, and joined Net Impact to support the movement. He says he can understand, looking around at the state of the world, how it’s easy to be discouraged. But then, Andres says, “you join Net Impact and talk to students, entrepreneurs, and employees from companies doing fantastic initiatives, and you gain hope.”
Originally from Costa Rica, Andres spent the past summer interning as a Strategy Consultant at Nestlé in Switzerland and India, and he will be attending an exchange program at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Andres is particularly interested in sustainable agribusiness and food industries and, after completing his MBA, plans to start his own company in Latin America.
Calgary Brown
Marketing Strategy and Events Consultant,
Self-Employed and Aspiring Social Entrepreneur
“The interaction that I've been able to have with changemakers via local chapter events, teleconferences, and our national conferences have been crucial to getting me fired up to make change”
Calgary Brown recently left her job in financial services to re-focus her career and identify what it is she is truly passionate about, noting “Net Impact played a huge role in turning that light bulb on for me!” After listening to an Issues in Depth Call called “Adventure Dream Jobs,” Calgary had a "wow" moment, and vowed to start thinking more creatively about her career and how she can have a positive impact. “Net Impact helped me to be more comfortable about the concept of becoming an entrepreneur, where as before I would have never thought about this as an option for me professionally,” said Calgary.
As co-President of the New York Professional Chapter, she finds herself constantly surrounded by members who have launched successful company initiatives internally or their own businesses and organizations. Inspired to make her own positive social and environmental impact, she is currently building towards launching a business in the eco and sustainable tourism industry.
Emily Ellis
Manager, Corporate Responsibility
The Walt Disney Company
“I see Net Impact as an incubator of things and ideas that will truly change the world ”
Emily works as part of Disney’s corporate responsibility strategy team, which focuses on enterprise-wide strategy, reporting, business integration, and stakeholder and employee engagement.
She credits her Net Impact membership for getting her in the door at Disney, after she was selected for an internship from a large group of overall applicants primarily due to her active relationship with Net Impact. The internship helped her build connections in the company that eventually led to her current full-time position as a Manager for Corporate Responsibility.
After landing her dream job, Net Impact has remained a place for Emily to find inspiration and connect to like-minded individuals. “Everyone I’ve ever met through Net Impact—as a student or professional—is passionate and committed. They’re not afraid to challenge the status quo, and that inspires me every day.”
