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- Changing the world, one extraordinary place at a time.
What is SIFE?
Students In Free Enterprise - SIFE
What is SIFE?
- SIFE is a nonprofit organization that gives students the tools to learn the free enterprise system in a real working situation.
- SIFE challenges students on more than 800 college campuses nationwide to take what they're learning in the classroom and use their knowledge to better their communities, impacting 4,000,000 people in 2004.
- Guided by faculty advisors who are named Sam M. Walton Fellows, SIFE Teams establish a variety of community outreach programs that teach others about free enterprise.
- For example, they teach concepts such as budgeting, accounting and supply and demand. They help budding entrepreneurs get their plans off the ground and mentor at-risk students, inspiring them to reach for their dreams.
How do SIFE teams typically accomplish goals?
- Teams meet regularly to brainstorm, organize, design, perfect and implement these projects. The select what they want to do for the year as a team and decide how to accomplish those ideas.
- They utilize the help of their Sam M. Walton Fellow and their Business Advisory Board. This is a group of members of the local community that serve as advisors, critics, sources of inspiration and guidance.
Where is SIFE?
- National - 875 teams (42% of all U.S. 4-yr. schools)
- International - 788 teams (40+ countries)
Did you know?
75 percent of all Gusties participate in intramural and club sports.
New Director of Community Service and Service Learning Joins Gustavus
Gustavus Adolphus College welcomes Jeffrey Rathlef as its new Director of Community Service and Service Learning. Rathlef began his new duties Tuesday, July 1.
