Handel Choir of Baltimore is seeking a part-time Development Associate.

Remember that the PNC Scholars/Fellows Program application is due Monday!!

The purpose of the PNC Scholars/Fellows Program is to provide awards up to $3,000 to outstanding UMBC students interested in becoming an entrepreneur.  This award is associated with UMBC’s Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship.  The scholarship will be awarded for the 2015-2016 academic year. 

The awards will be used as academic scholarships (up to $1,000), or as “seed funding” (up to $3,000) to launch new ventures or community based social entrepreneurship projects.

Criteria:

Students interested in applying for this award should:

• Submit a 1-2 page personal statement about their interest in entrepreneurship.  The statement should:
• Describe the impact an academic scholarship will have on their future as an entrepreneur or social innovator or
• Describe how the award money will be used as “seed funding” to launch a new venture, or “seed funding” to launch a community based social entrepreneurship project.  Submit a preliminary budget outlining anticipated expenses.
• Submit an updated resume
• Have a minimum GPA of 3.0

How to apply:

Send the completed form (below), a personal statement, and resume via e-mail by MONDAY, NOV 2, 2015  to:

Vivian Armor, Director of the UMBC Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship

Email: armor@umbc.edu

Office: PUP 115

The next Workshop will be held one week from today! Be sure to stop by (it’s gonna be a good one).

Come join us for a discussion with Jamie McDonald on how crowdfunding has become a dynamic way to raise money for innovative new products and  entrepreneurial ideas of all kinds. A successful crowdfunding campaign requires careful planning. Learn the basics of crowdfunding, how to select the right crowdfunding platform, and the steps to follow to increase the likelihood of success.

This workshop will be held on November 4 at 12:00 pm in entreSpace, located in Academic Services, room 139.

About Jamie:

Jamie McDonald is the Chief Giving Officer of Network for Good, the nation’s largest online charitable giving platform. She joined Network for Good after the acquisition of GiveCorps, which she founded and launched in 2011. 

GiveCorps is online software connecting non-profits and educational institutions to digital givers.

Jamie's professional mission is to spur people to give, act and innovate on behalf of communities and causes. She writes and speaks about online engagement and giving, next generation philanthropy, and the rise of the millennial generation as a force for changing communities. In 2013, she led BMore Gives More, the movement that raised $5.7 million in a day on Giving Tuesday and earned Baltimore the #MostGenerousCity in America honor by The 92nd St Y and the UN Foundation.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Jamie was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, where she enjoyed a 16-year career, and led several groups within investment banking, including the Private Equity Coverage Group, managing relationships with Alex. Brown’s venture capital and leveraged buyout firm clients. 

Jamie places a high priority on civic engagement. She led the $8MM capital campaign and has been a longtime Board member of the Center for Urban Families. She has previously served on the boards of The Leadership, the Family Tree, Live! Baltimore, and The Fund for Educational Excellence, among others. She was the founding President of the Board of Directors of the Police Athletic League (PAL) of Baltimore City. She is a past co-chair of the Tocqueville Campaign ($10,000 gifts) for the United Way of Central Maryland and sat on the national board of the Keewaydin Foundation. 

Other local volunteer activities include serving as a member of then-Mayor Martin O’Malley’s Economic Development Transition Committee. 

Jamie was named an Innovator of the Year in 2012. She is a graduate of the 1997 class of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Leadership program. She was named one of Baltimore Business Journal’s “40 under 40.” 

Jamie McDonald attended Cornell University for graduate school, focusing on International Development in a joint program between the College of Human Ecology and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Philadelphia University. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, Tom, and their children, Ben, Cameron and Paige.

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA)

Light City - Project Coordinators

Job Description

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts seeks several Project Coordinators for Light City,

Alyson Beaton, creative director and founder of the Lille Huset, spoke to the UMBC community about her successes and failures in launching her business.

If you missed this informative and exciting Speaker Series be sure to listen to the unedited audio of the Speaker Series available below. Also below is the slide deck Alyson used in her presentation.

Alyson started off the talk introducing herself and her background. She is trained as an architect and a designer. She started her company Lille Huset, after creating a slotted dollhouse for her daughter’s 6th birthday. Seeing how much fun her daughter had with the dollhouse, she decided to build a collection, to teach kids about architecture, design and the love of home.

Alyson then went into how this Speaker Series will revolve around the successes and failures she has experiences while establishing Lille Huset.

“If you are willing to try and fail, and as a result work even harder, you are going to succeed in all that you do.”

She explained how you get through the failures by loving what you do. You want to find your inspiration first, then decide if it’s a worthy business opportunity. She went on to say that “experimentation is a way to find your passion.”

Her experimentation in dollhouse making involved making many different shaped dollhouses, out of many different materials to find what worked best. She landed on a simple design that was made out of a combination of wood and paper. She then held a small exhibit in her house displaying the different dollhouses to her friends, family, and neighbors. When the event was a hit she decided to pursue the business idea.

Alyson started going to farmers markets in order to learn more about her audience and to find a way to market her product. She also used this time to test out displays along with new designs. After solidifying some ideas she launched a Kickstarter to get her product out there. After a successful Kickstart campaign, Alyson decided to take her product to tradeshows. Tradeshows allowed her to sell her product in bulk to toy companies and other stores.

After struggling through the design and launch of her product, Alyson learned her first lesson, which involved letting go. She visited one of the dollhouse displays at one of the toy stores and found that the paper was warping, the wood was out of place, and the overall look of the display wasn’t up to her standards. Even though she felt defeated, Alyson learned to let go and decided to recreate! She went back to the idea of having an all paper product and redesigned the packaging to portray a different message.

In the face of this failure, Alyson decided to take ownership and fix what was broken. After fixing these issues she was happier with her product and customers responded.

“Sticking with it brings opportunities you never would have imagined”

The final lesson Alyson had for the audience was that sometimes your perception of failure sends you off track. Is what you’re doing a true failure or is it just not up to your standards? It’s important to distinguish between the two and know when you’re being too hard on yourself.

The exhibit is called “Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the birth of American Television” and it’s a first of its kind. It’s truly a riveting exploration of how television in its formative years adopted modernism as a source of inspiration.  

Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County  Maurice Berger curated this eye-opening event.

“This exhibition is really about the early years of television and how young producers, writers, and network executives were in search of inspiration. I mean the medium had no models,” Berger told Miami CBS4’s Lisa Petrillo.

• a UMBC student (undergrad or grad)?
• able to come to the Library for 30 minutes between 8am and 4pm?

UPDATE: Sorry everyone, we are now fully booked!

The Walters Art Museum has an immediate need in its retail operation for a part time Sales Assistant to provide a high level of customer service to the Museum Store visitors.

Duties: