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- 2010-2011 Project Leader Applications and Interviews
Each year, a new group of Carnegie Mellon students serve as Project Leaders of a SIFE project. Your major and...More
- CMU SIFE 2010 Annual Report
2009-10 has been an amazing year for the Carnegie Mellon University SIFE team. From being nominated as 3 topic competition...More
About YWCA Enterprising Women Project
Our YWCA project provided support to low-income women to help them create and implement their business plans. Students act as teaching assistants for an entrepreneurship course offered by the YWCA Center in downtown Pittsburgh
The main feature of this project was the Micro-enterprise Symposium that encouraged the women to pursue micro-financing options. 61 women attended, as the project held 9 different interactive workshops. Topics included guerrilla marketing, branding, and advertising.
According to our survey, 100% of the women said they would return to the symposium and would recommend the event to others. The symposium was featured in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette among other publications, generating nearly to 31 million gross impressions.