Program launched to encourage green business
by Alana Abramson
Editorial Assistant
News | 1/20/09
Posted online at 3:53 PM EST on 1/21/09
Nine Brandeis students have launched the pilot program for the Green, Opportunity, Action and Leadership Network, an organization the students created to fuel youth interest in the green business sector by providing them with an internship in a green business.
The GOAL Network's pilot program is in a partnership with the Boston Latin School, a public high school in Boston. The pilot program, which is also known as the Inaugural Fellows Program, enables six rising juniors and seniors from the school to shadow an entrepreneur in the green business sector with which GOAL is in partnership for a summer. Sarah Levy '11, the GOAL director of business partnerships, said it is currently partnered with Zapotec Energy, a renewable energy firm, and Boston Green Buildings, a green building contracting company.
Paul Lyons, the president of Boston Green Buildings, which currently supplies 40 homes and small businesses throughout Boston with a solar electric system, said that the student will serve as an administrative assistant. "The student will shadow me and pitch in with general tasks, like taking notes for me at meetings and running errands."
Stephanie Sofer '09, Justin Kang '09, Faith Brigham '10, Becky Fisher '10, Sarah Levy '11, Graham Miller '09, Anwar Wahab '11, Jake Yarmus '10 and Benjamin Kramer '09 were the students who began the program. The program officially started at Brandeis on Jan. 5.
Kramer said that the program consists of two aspects: the "mentorship," in which the student from the Boston Latin School is paired up with a green business and shadows the head of the business; and career support for the fellows to help them advance in the green business sector. The advisory board, which consists of people experienced in environmental activism, such as Brandeis Profs. Carmen Sirianni (SOC) and Laura Goldin (AMST), will provide the bulk of this support. Prof. Goldin said that she intended to offer career support to the students in the mentorship by helping them find internships tailored to their interests.
The GOAL Network's pilot program is in a partnership with the Boston Latin School, a public high school in Boston. The pilot program, which is also known as the Inaugural Fellows Program, enables six rising juniors and seniors from the school to shadow an entrepreneur in the green business sector with which GOAL is in partnership for a summer. Sarah Levy '11, the GOAL director of business partnerships, said it is currently partnered with Zapotec Energy, a renewable energy firm, and Boston Green Buildings, a green building contracting company.
Paul Lyons, the president of Boston Green Buildings, which currently supplies 40 homes and small businesses throughout Boston with a solar electric system, said that the student will serve as an administrative assistant. "The student will shadow me and pitch in with general tasks, like taking notes for me at meetings and running errands."
Stephanie Sofer '09, Justin Kang '09, Faith Brigham '10, Becky Fisher '10, Sarah Levy '11, Graham Miller '09, Anwar Wahab '11, Jake Yarmus '10 and Benjamin Kramer '09 were the students who began the program. The program officially started at Brandeis on Jan. 5.
Kramer said that the program consists of two aspects: the "mentorship," in which the student from the Boston Latin School is paired up with a green business and shadows the head of the business; and career support for the fellows to help them advance in the green business sector. The advisory board, which consists of people experienced in environmental activism, such as Brandeis Profs. Carmen Sirianni (SOC) and Laura Goldin (AMST), will provide the bulk of this support. Prof. Goldin said that she intended to offer career support to the students in the mentorship by helping them find internships tailored to their interests.
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