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News spired by the Holy Spirit, Star- bucks or last night’s pizza. I don’t know which,” he said. Small business owners at the workshop frequently nodded their heads in agreement as they identified with Ramsey’s stories, mistakes and strate- gies. Laura Zande, owner of the small business Proactive Energy Systems in Raleigh, came to look for help in stabi- lizing her business and getting through the rough times in her business. “It was extremely helpful and I can apply some of what he taught to the business and also to my personal life,” she said. Brooke Baker, a senior in business administration with an entrepreneurship concen- tration, said she learned much she could put into practice. “I liked that he said profit was not a dirty word,” she said. “Capitalism exists for a reason and it’s great for wealth to be spread, but you can do it in a caring way and a way that is going to employ people.” Baker was also encouraged that Ramsey said now is per- haps the best time to start a business. He said competition thins in a down econ- omy because “all the doo- fuses have gotten out of the way.” “All you hear right now is that, ‘Oh, it’s a horrible time to graduate and try to get a job or open a business,’” Baker said, “but Dave puts a more positive spin on that and actually a more real- istic approach.” Baker, who wants to start her own business after graduating, said she appreciated the advice. With many students gradu- ating with debt, Ramsey sug- gested that students take their dreams slowly. “You [might need] to take a full-time position at another company while doing your start-up business part-time on the side,” he said in an email to the Technician. “Not only will this ease your stress and give you money to pay your bills, but it will also help you make sure that your start-up will, in fact, be profitable.” But Entre- Leadership applies to all disciplines, start up or not, he said. Students have great resources to learn about leadership. “Take the time to really learn how successful leaders lead,” he said. “I also suggest finding a mentor that you can trust and will help you grow your skills.” CARE at N.C. State recruits new students to assist with community outreach events. Will Brooks Correspondent Students are acting in the local and global community through Cooperative for As- sistance and Relief Everywhere, a group focused on helping misfortunate citizens of the Triangle and the world. The University chapter of CARE is a branch of a larger non-profit organization based in Atlanta. CARE Interna- tional is devoted to improving the health and well being of people around the world and fights prob- lems such as AIDS, hunger and general poverty. At the Uni- versity, CARE places a larger focus on the local com- munity and gives a large portion of funds raised to CARE In- ternational. Carly Ful- ton, co-president of CARE, explained this year the group will put its largest emphasis on underprivileged mothers as well as fair-trade products. The first event CARE will hold is the Fair-Trade Fair Monday, Oct. 17. “We’ll have a bunch of Fair- Trade businesses come to the Brickyard, promote their prod- ucts, and explain what Fair- Trade is,” Fulton said. The CARE event next spring will be a unique kind of baby shower for underprivileged mothers, providing them with different forms of help, accord- ing to Fulton. “We have all kinds of dona- tions of baby supplies,” Fulton said, “Speakers will come and speak about relevant topics such as SIDS and how to pre- vent it, the importance of com- munal care—things like that.” Fulton explained at the baby shower, mothers will also be paired with a doula, a person who helps a wom- an before and during child- birth. Last year the baby shower was a great success, according to Fulton. Among other events, CARE will send out CARE pack- ages to less fortunate people throughout the world during December. Jessica Green, co-president of CARE, explained the organi- zation is currently making an effort to recruit new members. Both Green and Fulton encour- age all students who are inter- ested in service to join CARE. “We’re focused on recruit- ing people, focused on letting people know we’re active,” Green said Green also explained that CARE is working with the organization Kiva to give mi- crofinances to those who need them. “A microfinance is basically where you get money and put it in an account and lend it to people who don’t have the fi- nances to do that,” Green said. Nick Murphy, sophomore in chemical engineering, ex- pressed his support for the or- ganization’s goals. “It’s a good thing,” Murphy said. “There are some people who are worried about how big their sandwich is going to be.” Murphy explained the prob- lems we have in college are of- ten trivial compared to those of people in poverty. He believes what students are doing now could have a big impact on the future. “It’s great that students are going at it without any profit, I think that other students could see that and be inspired,” Mur- phy said. The Facebook group for CARE currently has 157 mem- bers, a representation of how many students feel strongly about their causes. Only eight members were present at Tues- day’s meeting. The students of CARE at the University have a genuine de- sire to make a difference in the community. With big plans for the upcoming semester, CARE members believe they can make a true difference in the com- munity. “If we can pull off what we’re trying to pull off this semester I’ll feel we’ve done something,” Green said. CARE meets every other Tuesday at 7:30 in Caldwell Hall. They welcome all stu- dents to their group and en- courage students to become active in the local and global community. TECHNICIAN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 • PAGE 3 Spiritual Programs Directory : If you would like more information on this advertising opportunity contact [email protected] • 919-515-2411 The Spiritual Program Directory is a cheap and unique way to gain exposure for service, event, and meeting times. Technician will publish a religious organizations directory every Wednesday, August through April. away from home? United Methodist? Join us at Raleigh Wesley United Methodist Campus Ministry Wed: Dinner @ 6 Program @ 7 2503 Clark Ave 919-833-1861 www.raleighwesley.org Your Ad Could be Here Your Ad Could be Here 4WWSQVO NWZ I ¹NIQ\P PWUMº I_Ia NZWU PWUM' (informal worship, guest musicians every Sunday) fairmontumc.org 2501 Clark Ave 919.832.3316 0RUQLQJ :RUVKLS 6XQGD\ OXQFK 6XQGD\ 1LJKW /,9( &+85&+ 81,7(' BRETT MORRIS/TECHNICIAN Presidents Carly Fulton, Jessica Green and Sara Busaileh lead the Care NCSU discussion group in Caldwell lounge Tuesday night. The student organization involves itself in local projects and works in conjunction with Care International, a humanitarian organization formed with the purpose of fighting global poverty. “We’re focusing this year on mothers,” Fulton said. “We want to give pre-natal care to those that don’t have access to it.” Students fight poverty and show how they CARE RAMSEY continued from page 1 “If we can pull off what we’re trying to pull off this semester I’ll feel we’ve done something.” Jessica Green, co-president of CARE “It was extremely helpful and I can apply some of what he taught to the business and also to my personal life.” Laura Zande, owner of Proactive Energy Systems Technician was there. You can be too. The Technician staff is always looking for new members to write, design or take photos. Visit www. ncsu.edu/sma for more information. online at wknc.org listen live on 88.1 FM
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spired by the Holy Spirit, Star-bucks or last night’s pizza. I don’t know which,” he said.
Small business owners at the workshop frequently nodded their heads in agreement as they identified with Ramsey’s stories, mistakes and strate-gies. Laura Zande, owner of the small business Proactive Energy Systems in Raleigh, came to look for help in stabi-lizing her business and getting through the rough times in her business.
“It was extremely helpful and I can apply some of what he taught to the business and also to my personal life,” she said.
Brooke Baker, a senior in business administration with an entrepreneurship concen-tration, said she learned much she could put into practice.
“I liked that he said profit was not a dirty word,” she said. “Capitalism exists for a reason and it’s great for wealth to be
spread, but you can do it in a caring way and a way that is going to employ people.”
Baker was also encouraged that Ramsey said now is per-haps the best time to start a business. He said competition t h ins in a down econ-omy because “all the doo-f uses have gotten out of the way.”
“A l l y ou he a r r ig ht now is that, ‘Oh, it ’s a horrible time to graduate and try to get a job or open a business,’” Baker said, “ but Dave puts a more positive spin on that and actually a more real-istic approach.”
Baker, who wants to start her own business after graduating, said she appreciated the advice.
With many students gradu-ating with debt, Ramsey sug-gested that students take their
dreams slowly.“You [might need] to take a
full-time position at another company while doing your start-up business part-time on the side,” he said in an email to the Technician. “Not only
will this ease your st ress and give you money to pay you r bi l l s , but it w i l l also help you ma ke su re t h a t y o u r start-up will, in fact, be profitable.”
But Entre-Leadership applies to all disciplines, start up or not, he said.
Students have great resources to learn about leadership.
“Take the time to really learn how successful leaders lead,” he said. “I also suggest finding a mentor that you can trust and will help you grow your skills.”
CARE at N.C. State recruits new students to assist with community outreach events.
Will BrooksCorrespondent
Students are acting in the local and global community through Cooperative for As-sistance and Relief Everywhere, a group focused on helping misfortunate citizens of the Triangle and the world.
The University chapter of CARE is a branch of a larger non-profit organization based in Atlanta. CARE Interna-tional is devoted to improving the health and well being of people around the world and f ights prob-lems such as AIDS, hunger and general poverty.
At the Uni-versity, CARE places a larger focus on the loc a l com-munity and gives a large por t ion of funds raised to CARE In-ternational.
Carly Ful-ton, co-president of CARE, explained this year the group will put its largest emphasis on underprivileged mothers as well as fair-trade products.
The first event CARE will
hold is the Fair-Trade Fair Monday, Oct. 17.
“We’ll have a bunch of Fair-Trade businesses come to the Brickyard, promote their prod-ucts, and explain what Fair-Trade is,” Fulton said.
The CARE event next spring will be a unique kind of baby shower for underprivileged mothers, providing them with different forms of help, accord-ing to Fulton.
“We have all kinds of dona-tions of baby supplies,” Fulton said, “Speakers will come and speak about relevant topics such as SIDS and how to pre-vent it, the importance of com-munal care—things like that.”
Fulton explained at the baby shower, mothers will also be
paired with a doula, a person who helps a wom-an before and during child-bir th. Last year the baby shower was a great success, according to Fulton.
Among other events, CAR E w i l l s e n d o u t CARE pack-
ages to less fortunate people throughout the world during December.
Jessica Green, co-president of CARE, explained the organi-zation is currently making an
effort to recruit new members. Both Green and Fulton encour-age all students who are inter-ested in service to join CARE.
“We’re focused on recruit-ing people, focused on letting people know we’re active,” Green said
Green also explained that CARE is working with the organization Kiva to give mi-crofinances to those who need them.
“A microfinance is basically where you get money and put it in an account and lend it to people who don’t have the fi-
nances to do that,” Green said.Nick Murphy, sophomore
in chemical engineering, ex-pressed his support for the or-ganization’s goals.
“It’s a good thing,” Murphy said. “There are some people who are worried about how big their sandwich is going to be.”
Murphy explained the prob-lems we have in college are of-ten trivial compared to those of people in poverty. He believes what students are doing now could have a big impact on the future.
“It’s great that students are
going at it without any profit, I think that other students could see that and be inspired,” Mur-phy said.
The Facebook group for CARE currently has 157 mem-bers, a representation of how many students feel strongly about their causes. Only eight members were present at Tues-day’s meeting.
The students of CARE at the University have a genuine de-sire to make a difference in the community. With big plans for the upcoming semester, CARE members believe they can make
a true difference in the com-munity.
“If we can pull off what we’re trying to pull off this semester I’ll feel we’ve done something,” Green said.
CARE meets every other Tuesday at 7:30 in Caldwell Hall. They welcome all stu-dents to their group and en-courage students to become active in the local and global community.
TechNiciaN wednesday, september 28, 2011 • page 3
Spiritual Programs Directory
:
If you would like more information on this advertising opportunity contact
[email protected] • 919-515-2411
The Spiritual Program Directoryis a cheap and unique way to gain exposure for
service, event, and meeting times.
Technician will publish a religious organizations directory
every Wednesday, August through April. away from home?
United Methodist?Join us at
Raleigh Wesley
United Methodist Campus MinistryWed: Dinner @ 6 Program @ 7 2503 Clark Ave 919-833-1861
www.raleighwesley.org
Your Ad Could beHere
Your Ad Could beHere
(informal worship, guest musicians every
Sunday)
fairmontumc.org
2501 Clark Ave919.832.3316
brett morris/technicianPresidents Carly Fulton, Jessica Green and Sara Busaileh lead the Care NCSU discussion group in Caldwell lounge Tuesday night. The student organization involves itself in local projects and works in conjunction with Care International, a humanitarian organization formed with the purpose of fighting global poverty. “We’re focusing this year on mothers,” Fulton said. “We want to give pre-natal care to those that don’t have access to it.”
Students fight poverty and show how they CARE
ramseycontinued from page 1
“If we can pull
off what we’re
trying to pull off
this semester I’ll
feel we’ve done
something.”Jessica Green,
co-president of CARE
“It was extremely
helpful and I can
apply some of
what he taught
to the business
and also to my
personal life.”Laura Zande, owner of
Proactive Energy Systems
Technician was there. You can be too.
the Technician staff is always looking for
new members to write, design or take
photos. Visit www.ncsu.edu/sma for
more information.
online atwknc.org
listen live on88.1 FM
