Georgia Southern Students in Free Enterprise
Georgia Southern SIFE team is about helping students and the local community become more efficient with resources and financially stable. Georgia Southern SIFE accomplishes our mission by implementing projects that abide by seven criteria. The criteria include: market economics; entrepreneurship; environmental sustainability; financial literacy; success skills; business ethics; and, team sustainability. Through the years, Georgia Southern SIFE has helped people open businesses, helped people get back on their feet, helped people out with ethical problems and helped people with their financial problems. For example, our Peer Financial Counseling project is one of the best in the state of Georgia. For two years, we have been leading in the number of seminars given. We have helped women at a shelter get jobs and open bank accounts. We have kept projects going through the years. We have worked with Langston Chapel Elementary and taught economics for the past three years and we have built a great relationship with teachers and students. Also, with a grant from the Marcus Foundation, we have helped the Bulloch County Performance Learning Center open a school store in April of 2008. We have many projects in the planning stage that will hit the environmental and team sustainability criteria.
Now, we are getting ready for competition, where we present our work to established businesses like Wal-Mart, KPMG and 3M. Our goal this year is to proceed through the regional finals in Atlanta on 30th March and compete at the national finals. Ultimately we would like to compete in the World Cup. We are practicing our presentation and writing our annual report. We are moving forward and becoming a more diverse team. With our expansion, we have aspirations to have a business of our own and be reaching out to other communities. All thanks to our Sam Walton Fellow and our Business Advisory Board.
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