Are you a student leader or someone with a business, side hustle, or business dreams? UB Blackstone LaunchPad is running a fellowship this semester where students will learn the skills necessary to run and build their own businesses successfully. The fellowship will prepare you to make your business dreams a reality and train you on promoting equity in your community through your business ventures.
*No experience is needed for this. Open to both undergrad and graduate students from all majors.
Program Benefits:
· Food/snacks will be provided for events
· Looks great on your resume
· Get to build your business connections and connect with potential investors in your business
· Learn the skills necessary to build your own business
· Promote your business/yourself through Blackstone LaunchPad’s
· Potential to win prize money in Pitch for Tomorrow competition
· Explore the city of Buffalo and learn more about the community
43North is an accelerator program that invests $5 million per year to attract and retain high-growth startups in Buffalo, NY.
Portfolio & Selection
The Portfolio Application Intern will play a key role in supporting 43North’s application process leading up to their annual startup competition. This individual will have a hand in recruiting applicants, assisting companies with questions during the application process, and screening applicants for quality and fit.
Marketing
The Marketing Intern will play a key role in supporting 43North’s marketing team leading up to our annual startup competition in the fall. This individual will support all marketing team members, including assisting with content creation, gathering art assets and images for the creative team, organizing, and serving as an on-the-ground resource for in-person events.
Events
The events intern assists with the planning and execution of events for our current portfolio companies leading up to 43North Finals week. Events include weekly Bagel Tuesdays, quarterly community education events, cultural tours around Buffalo, press events, career fairs, and more.
Do you have a business idea or have already started a business?
No matter how big or successful your business or business idea is, you can help contribute to a more equitable future. The Equity in Entrepreneurship fellowship will not only teach you the skills to create an equitable business, but it will provide you with a well-rounded set of skills to make your business vision a reality.
Apply now to the Equity in Entrepreneurship Fellowship!
Deadline to Apply: February 19 at 11:59 PM
Overview:
The Equity in Entrepreneurship Fellowship supports University at Buffalo students who seek to be the next generation of business leaders and progress equity in the world around them.
The program fulfills this mission by providing Equity in Entrepreneurship (EIE) fellows with professional development opportunities, resources to help facilitate their entrepreneurial growth and projects to advance equity in their business.
The Equity in Entrepreneurship Fellowship is a 10-week program open to all University at Buffalo students with a passion for entrepreneurship and equity that prepares students to make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality while building skills to promote equity in their communities through their ventures.
Program Details
Workshops with distinguished professionals and entrepreneurs from underrepresented ethnic minorities.
Visits of several businesses, all on different scales, to give fellows exposure to various business environments and learn about how such businesses contribute to equity.
Networking events for fellows to build their social capital with professionals and community leaders.
Fellows will be highlighted at UB’s biggest pitch competition, Henry A. Panasci Business Plan Competition.
Pitch for Tomorrow competition where fellows will work on building out their vision for their business to contribute to a more equitable future.
Program Expectations:
Commit 3-5 hours a week to taking part in fellowship events and business project
Attend fellowship sessions, unless you have a need to attend conflict
Be mindful of others’ experiences. As a student, your behavior in this learning environment affects others. We encourage you to arrive on time, pay attention to the speakers and focus on program materials during sessions.
The University at Buffalo (UB) School of Dental Medicine’s (SDM) Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is pleased to announce the 2023 application cycle for Destination Dental School (DDS) is open! Please share this announcement with your students, advisees and colleagues.
DDS is an eight-week summer pathway program for individuals interested in a career in dentistry. This program prepares students who have been historically underrepresented in the profession to successfully apply and be accepted to dental school. DDS Fellows participate in seven weeks of virtual Saturday meetings, and then visit the UB SDM for a one-week, in-person, intensive training program.
DDS fellows receive Dental Admissions Test (DAT) study resources, reimbursement for one DAT, a waived application fee to UB SDM, and a stipend to cover the costs of travel and lodging for the in-person component.
Eligibility requirements:
U.S. citizens, permanent residents or DACA recipients. Canadian citizens may be considered.
Enrolled undergraduate students or post-baccalaureate.
Minimum overall college GPA of 2.5.
Meets eligibility requirements as underrepresented in the field.
The Digital Legal Research Lab is a collaborative and interdisciplinary team of scholars at the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s Department of History and Center for Digital Research in the Humanities working to bring marginalized people’s legal histories to a broader audience using digital tools and critical methodologies.
We offer UCARE opportunities in the summer and academic year to UNL undergraduates and a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) to students outside of UNL.
PROGRAM DURATION June 1, 2023 – August 4, 2023
COMPETITIVE STIPEND $6,000 RELATED FIELDS History, Sociology, Political Science
Our application for the Summer 2023 REU cohort is now open and we are happy to meet via zoom with you and your students to offer more information, or talk individually with interested applicants.
Here are our top picks to help you throughout the semester.
Career Communities. We know figuring out what you want to do with your life can be overwhelming. So we’ve created a less stressful way to design what’s next for you. Check out Career Communities.
In Career Design Studio, you’ll find inspiration, resources and tools all together to help you design your life after college. It doesn’t matter where you are in the design process, there’s likely a collection that’s right for you.
See Who’s Hiring. Use the filters in Bullseye powered by Handshake to search for internships, on-campus, part-time and full-time jobs. 80% of students who complete their profiles get messaged by employers that want to hire them.
Virtual Vic. – Vic is your virtual assistant who can guide and answer your questions 24/7 about designing your career and life.
24/7 instant resume + LinkedIn profile review.With VMock, get personalized feedback on your resume and LinkedIn profile using algorithms to help maximize your resume and profile in 15-seconds or less.
Talk to a Career Expert. Start where you are. Searching for your major, a job/internship, skills to build or trying to imagine your life after college? You Talk. We Listen. Book Online.
Do you find yourself identifying problems on a daily basis that need to be solved? We’re looking for students with innovative ideas for a 3-day Startup Boot Camp. You’ll learn how to take any idea from concept to creation within two days! The best part? It’s free!
This boot camp is designed to put your innovative spirit to test with like-minded students and Buffalo entrepreneurs. Over these 3 days, you will learn from industry professionals, team up with inspiring and hardworking students, and compete and receive feedback from our expert judges.
September 16th – 18th | Open to all Undergraduate & Graduate students from all academic programs, no business experience required and transportation will be provided.
The NCAA postgraduate internship program represents one of the most rewarding and transformational opportunities for individuals seeking to launch their careers within the athletics industry. NCAA leadership development seeks your assistance in ensuring the 2023-24 internship class is composed of talented individuals poised to serve as future leaders within college sports.
The application for the 2023-24 PGIP is now available on NCAA Program Hub and will remain open until Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
With a focus on ethnic minorities, women and former student-athletes, this yearlong program gives insight to the inner workings of college sports from the national perspective. Interns over the past 30 years have gone on to serve as key decision-makers across college athletics at the institutional and conference level.
Positions are available across all functional areas at the NCAA including administrative services, championships and alliances, communications, executive affairs, governance, inclusion, education and community engagement and regulatory affairs.
Key Dates
Application deadline: Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 5 p.m. Eastern time.
2023-24 PGIP start date: Tuesday, June 20, 2023.
Important Links
For more information including job descriptions for each position offered, go here.
To access the application via NCAA Program Hub, go here.
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