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.
Since the auction began in 2001, the Tuck community has raised over $590,000 and supported 130 internships around the world.
Tuck GIVES is student-organized with support from the Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship and the Career Development Office. To see a video and read descriptions about 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