Pepperdine SIFE Goes the Extra Mile

(PRWEB) April 13, 2005

Students in Free Enterprise, or SIFE, is a non-profit, philanthropic organization compiled of collegiate students from all different majors throughout Pepperdine University. This business club is designed to give students an introduction to real-world market situations, and allow them to receive hands-on training and experience in varying fields. In the past three months alone this group has completed more than seven different major business and service projects, where students dedicated numerous hours to the completion of these tasks.

These business projects included a consulting project for the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clara Valley, helping a start-up clothing company called Angel Ragz, organizing and holding a Business Ethics Debate, helping a struggling local band called The Sindicate, as well as continuing a 10-week entrepreneurship class at Parkman Middle School in Woodland Hills. For the consulting project for the Boys and Girls Club team members compiled a 40 page, in-depth, Resource Development Plan and, from this plan, established a productive, up-to-date website and a functioning internship program. When working with The Sindicate, SIFE focused primarily on doing promotions for the band, through creating a website, improved their Press Kit, and helped to spread their name around the area, all of which enabled them to book future “gigs” and position themselves for success within the music industry.

In addition, SIFE also completed two major service projects called Junior Achievement and an alternative Spring Break trip down to Buenos Aires, Argentina called Project Serve. For the Junior Achievement project 21 members of the organization traveled to an elementary school in Oxnard, where the majority of students come from low-income, predominately Spanish-speaking homes, and helped to teach the students communication skills through activities geared toward entrepreneurship, financial skills, and political involvement. In Project Serve, the team members paid for their own expenses on the trip, as well as raised almost $ 1000 for the project. While in Buenos Aires, SIFE students distributed food and medicine, served as mentors to young children, as well as met with non-profit professionals to discuss and provide input for their programs and services.

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Pepperdine SIFE Goes the Extra Mile