Community Service Opportunities

Junior Achievement

Are you looking for an outstanding opportunity to make a difference in your community? If so, you should consider volunteering for Junior Achievement!

Junior Achievement is a program that “seeks to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives.” You will have the opportunity to teach an elementary class how they can impact the world around them. Even more, Junior Achievement is a worldwide program recognized by many Fortune 500 and other important companies!

It is a great way to be a role model for children that look up to college students like you and it doesn’t require a large time commitment either. To volunteer, come sign up in the Business Honors office, 242 Wehner. In addition, if you would like to learn more about Junior Achievement and its purpose, visit www.ja.org.

Prison Entrepreneurship Program

The Prison Entrepreneurship Program was designed “to stimulate positive life transformation for executives and inmates, uniting them through entrepreneurial passion, education and mentoring.” Before they are released, inmates are given the opportunity to take their existing inclination for self-employment and entrepreneurial skills and use them to develop lawful and genuine business opportunities. PEP is a non-profit faith-based organization that constructively redirects inmates’ talents by equipping them with value-based entrepreneurial training, thereby enabling them to productively re-enter society.

Currently MBA students from Harvard, Stanford, Texas A&M, and other major universities work with the program. Business Honors students are the first group of undergraduates to get involved with PEP.

How can Business Honors students get involved in PEP?
Business Honors juniors and seniors have the opportunity to serve as PEP advisors, mentoring an inmate in the creation of his business plan. PEP advisors assist their PEP participant by spending an hour a week conducting market research and reviewing the inmate’s business documents and classroom assignments. Students have said that being an advisor was one of their most rewarding college experiences.

Business Honors students also have the opportunity to get involved in PEP fundraising efforts. The Business Honors PEP Fundraising Committee is devoted to the planning of fund raising events, such as PEP Awareness Week and an upcoming PEP Benefit Dinner. PEP Awareness Week will be held February 11- February 15 in Mays Business School to raise awareness and funds for the Prison Entrepreneurship Program. There will be a clothing drive and a bake sale as part of Awareness Week.

To find out how you can get more involved in this program, please email us at honors@mays.tamu.edu

To learn more about PEP and to view informative news clips, please visit http://prisonentrepreneurship.org.