Tuck GIVES

In 1996, two Tuck students created a fund to support summer internships with nonprofit or public sector organizations. The goal is to supplement the compensation the organizations are able to give, to incent Tuck students to take positions that would otherwise offer significantly less compensation than what is typically paid for MBA internships. Each year, the Tuck community gathers to raise funds, with a silent and a live auction as the main events.

The 9th annual auction, a fun and festive event, raised $50,000 in April 2009. During summer 2009, grant recipients worked for Global Impact, Center for Resource Solutions, Nature Conservancy, Nature Conservancy, New Sector, SEGF (Maine), Education Pioneers, Ashoka Brazil, Accion Emprendadora/Chile, Globalgiving, Citizens Schools, IFC and HUD.

Tuck GIVES is student-organized with support from the Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship. To read descriptions of recent internships, please visit the Allwin website.

"By compiling local prices paid to farmers for vegetables and estimating typical growing and harvesting costs, I was able to validate my hypothesis that growing vegetables is far more profitable than the more commonly grown maize and sugar cane. Working with the stakeholders, I developed an implementation strategy that involves (1) expanding the network of existing wholesalers to link farmers to markets, (2) helping farming associations plan what and when to plant, (3) converting unprofitable sugarcane fields to vegetables, and (4) establishing a centralized market place." - Rob Pascal, T'09, intern at TechnoServe