In July 2020, the Rustandy Center announced the launch of Booth Community Volunteers, a short-term, project-based volunteer program connecting organizations dedicated to anti-racism with full- and part-time Booth students. The students raised their hands to dedicate 10–15 hours a week to these organizations over six weeks, contributing to areas including fundraising, strategy, project management, and marketing, all while still juggling an internship, job, or classes.
The program was designed as an offshoot of the spring’s Booth COVID-19 Volunteers program, which matched nearly 60 MBA students with 38 nonprofits, in order to assist local organizations adversely impacted by the pandemic. “In June, as a national reckoning on racial equity and justice swept through our country, students were eager to find ways to leverage their Booth MBA toolkit,” said Caroline Grossman, ’03, executive director of the Rustandy Center and adjunct assistant professor of strategy at Booth. “We decided to extend the spring program into the summer and specifically work with organizations and projects that promote anti-racism.”
