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Doing Well by Doing Good

Social Entrepreneurship: March 5, 2012, 12-1, UC 310

Location

On Campus : UC 310

Date & Time

March 5, 2012, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship Presents:

The Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. Entrepreneurship Lecture

Social Entrepreneurship: Doing Well by Doing Good

Presenter:
Jamie McDonald
Co-Founder and CEO, GiveCorps


Jamie McDonald is the Co-Founder and CEO of GiveCorps.com, a social enterprise founded in 2010. GiveCorps is an internet platform connecting non-profits and educational institutions to young givers. It helps donors address their desire to:

  • Identify giving opportunities in their areas of interest
  • Give quickly and easily to organizations with tangible projects
  • Get recognized and rewarded for giving
  • Manage their giving, including budgeting and tax receipts, on a
    single platform

GiveCorps also offers an entirely new direct marketing service for Nonprofits: a mailhouse for the new millennium. They provide an interested audience, marketing and promotion services, and social media assistance - with a risk sharing model that dramatically reduces cost and risk.

Come listen to Jamie talk about her journey from the corporate world to Co-Founder and CEO of a social enterprise. A strong believer in civic engagement, she will discuss both the challenges and rewards of learning how to do well by doing good.

March 5, 2012
12 – 1:00p.m. • UC Room 310

Contact Vivian Armor at armor@umbc.edu for more information
or visit us at www.umbc.edu/entrepreneurship/speakers.

Speaker Series

The Entrepreneurship Speaker Series provides a monthly platform for
successful entrepreneurs to candidly share their experiences and insights
with UMBC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the Baltimore business
community. The series highlights experiences, lessons learned, and
unique issues and challenges faced by entrepreneurs in the creation of
a new enterprise.