EMC Internship Program
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Alpine Community Center
(ACC, http://www.alpinecommunitycenter.com) is a private non-profit corporation, established in 1950, which offers services to the community of Alpine and its surrounding backcountry in East San Diego County. ACC has a childcare center with an enrollment of more than 150, serves lunches to 60-70 seniors daily, and rents its ballroom facility to the public. Some of ACC's programs are funded by grants or contracts with local, state, or federal government agencies. To each of these agencies, ACC Is required to submit cost data showing that the funds received are spent appropriately. ACC employed an intern to design a cost accounting system to distinguish costs by program, contract or grant. -
Founded in 1986 by Robert Beyster, CEO of SAIC, the Beyster Institute
(formerly Foundation for Enterprise Development, http://www.beysterinstitute.org)
is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the use of entrepreneurial employee
ownership nationally and internationally, in both the public and private sectors, as a way to build
high performing enterprises and improve corporate performance. With offices in La Jolla and
Washington, DC., the organization offers one-on-one consulting, workshops, and conferences that help
companies and executives learn how to use equity compensation to meet their goals.
The Beyster Institute hired three interns in 2002:
- an intern employed analysis tools and development knowledge to create a fundraising strategy that identified strategic partners, potential donors and methods for building and managing an endowment
- an intern designed a program for SDSU MBA students to assist the Institute's equity compensation consulting services
- an intern worked with the Public Relations Director to increase coverage of the organization in trade publications and journals.
- The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE, http://www.fwe.org) is an organization for women building and leading high-growth technology and life sciences companies. FWE's mission is to accelerate women's opportunities to start, build, manage and invest in market-leading companies. FWE offers a variety of programs and events that are designed to provide members with the knowledge, interaction and access they need to build successful companies. Programs include the Progressive Venture Dinner (which features regional entrepreneurs interacting with venture capitalists) and the eSeries Entrepreneur Training (designed to assist early stage life sciences venture development). An intern worked with the organization's Co-President on a number of strategic initiatives relating to business and program development, including corporate sponsor outreach, development of a partner database, performing research to identify additional partners, and program development for ongoing FWE educational series.
- Since 1975, Harmonium, Inc. (http://www.harmonium-inc.org) has built strength within families and diverse communities throughout San Diego and is a leading provider of counseling, childcare and community programs. Specific programs include Klassic Kids Childcare Centers (serving 700 families yearly), 6-to-6 Extended Day Programs (serving 7,000 children daily), enrichment classes, San Diego regional teen "Epicentre" (serving 15,000 teens yearly), counseling (working with 4,650 families), and Si Se Puede Latino leadership program. The organization has undergone a transition from a small grassroots organization to a comprehensive service delivery system, and needs to build capacity. Harmonium hired an SDSU MBA intern to develop a marketing plan that supports the organization's strategic development efforts, including performing market research on potential strategic relationships and developing recommendations for effective outreach mechanisms.
- Heart to Heart International (http://www.hearttoheart.org) is a global humanitarian organization that provides much-needed medicines, supplies, food and medical training in third world countries and delivers volunteer service and basic hygiene supplies to local agencies serving the homeless, neglected and abused. The organization has delivered more than $230 Million (U.S. wholesale) in medicines and supplies since its founding in 1992. It consistently uses less than 2% of its overall budget for overhead expenses. Heart to Heart International employed an intern to expand its development plan, by analyzing its process for identifying and evaluating sources of funding. The intern also evaluated existing grant templates for future proposal and submission, helped create a database of target funding sources and recommended effective use of the organization's resources.
- Home Start (http://www.home-start.org) is a non-profit child and family agency that prevents child abuse, neglect, and other adverse outcomes for San Diego's most needy and vulnerable children. Using state-of-the-art home visiting strategies, Home Start promotes the safety and nurturing of children, develops their resiliency, strengthens their families, and works with numerous partners to create helpful communities. Home Start works with over 5,000 low-income families a year providing comprehensive, customized, and family-centered services that stabilize families in crisis; prevent and treat child abuse, neglect, family violence, and other serious family issues; and increase family self-sufficiency. The organization has operated a victims of crime treatment program called Safe Futures since 1995, which struggles to cover costs associated with the direct service and administrative staff. Home Start employed an intern to develop a business plan (including marketing and outreach strategies for reaching targeted high need areas) for Safe Futures to bring the program to profitability.
- Since 1990, the Poway Center for the Performing Arts Foundation (http://www.powayarts.org) has been enhancing the cultural life of the Poway community. The organization has a specific focus on providing community-wide access to arts enrichment for people of all ages that inspires a life-long involvement with the performing arts. The Center for the Performing Arts promotes events such as plays (Shakespeare), musical theatre (My Fair Lady), international dance/performing troupes (Chinese Circus), and singing phenomenon (Harlem Girls Choir), and also provides its facility for non-Foundation sponsored events. An MBA intern performed primary and secondary research on the Center's target market, including identifying geographic, demographic and psychographic information.
- The City Heights Educational Pilot (http://cityheights.sdsu.edu/), begun in 1998, is a unique six-year partnership between SDSU, the San Diego Unified School District, the San Diego Education Association and Price Charities. The primary goals of the Pilot are to positively impact the academic achievement of students in three City Heights schools - Rosa Parks Elementary, Monroe Clark Middle and Hoover High - and to improve upon the way educational professionals working in the inner-city are trained and supported. An intern created a business plan for a CHEP-sponsored non-profit children's bookstore, including an industry analysis, marketing plan and financials.
- The San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition (SDCBC) (http://www.breastfeeding.org) provides breastfeeding education, advocacy and outreach to healthcare professionals, families and the public to improve access to, and quality of, support for breastfeeding in the San Diego community. SDCBC provides support and education through the Breastfeeding Resource Guide, quarterly newsletters, website, conferences, MD office lactation services, childcare provider trainings, and media/public information events. Membership consists of physicians, dieticians, nurses, lactation professionals, public health professionals, and other community members. An SDSU MBA intern expanded the organization's existing strategic plan to a business plan, focusing primarily on the organization's marketing strategy.
- San Diego Social Venture Partners (http://www.sdsvp.org) seeks to develop philanthropy and volunteerism to achieve positive social change in the San Diego region. Using the venture capital approach as a model, SVP is committed to giving time, money and expertise to create partnerships with non-profit organizations. As a new organization, SDSVP seeks an intern who wants to part of adapting and establishing the successful SVP venture philanthropy model in the San Diego community. The internship focused primarily on helping solidify the infrastructure of the organization, assisting with the establishment of board governance guidelines and assisting with the non-profit's launch event.
- San Pasqual Academy (http://www.sanpasqualacademy.org) is a unique residential educational campus that serves abused and/or severely neglected adolescents ages 14-18. The campus provides a home where teens can learn the necessary social, vocational, and life skills they need to become happy, successful and productive adults. Situated on a 50-acre working orange grove in North County, the site includes several classroom buildings, residence halls, an assembly hall, cafeteria, gymnasium, swimming pool, playing fields, administrative offices, industrial arts building, and campus library. San Pasqual Academy employed an intern to conduct a feasibility plan, including market research and an industry analysis, for its new high tech center.
- Launched with a grant from Hewlett Packard, The Southern California Tribal Chairman's Association (SCTCA) Tribal Digital Village in San Diego County is focused on wireless access and cultural preservation using Internet-based services. The vision of the Tribal Digital Village is to connect reservations in San Diego County to a high-speed Internet backbone and use the Internet to build communities of interest among tribal members in ways that resemble family and community networks. The Tribal Digital Village will create a distributed digital community that mirrors and amplifies the community and kinship networks that have historically sustained these tribal communities. Central to the plan is building high-speed, broadband connections between the 18 reservations and to the Internet by leveraging an existing project to form the technological backbone for a digitally enabled distributed tribal community - the HPWREN (High-Performance Wireless Research and Education Network) project, funded by the National Science Foundation. In partnership with Hewlett Packard, SCTCA worked with an intern who performed a cost and feasibility analysis for leveraging existing technology installed for the Digital Village project into a tribally owned and operated Internet Service Provider (ISP).
