Graduate Student Organizations
Graduate student organizations provide networking and co-curriculur opportunities.
Get involved and add to your learning experience through these incredible student run organizations focused on addressing social impact, business and climate change, impact investing, DEI, and more. CESR provides support for many student clubs whose work aligns with ours. We encourage all students to get involved:
Net Impact - an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize a new generation to use their careers to drive transformational change in their workplaces and the world.
Board Fellows - a for MBAs to sit on metro area nonprofit boards. Each MBA brings a wealth of business knowledge to the organization and executes a capacity building project for the growth and stability of the organization.
Leeds Social Impact Consultants - a student run Impact Consulting Firm. Each year Leeds MBA’s source, select, scope, and deliver projects for impact organizations, both nonprofit and for profit.
Organics & Naturals Club - a club that enhances MBA students’ involvement with the Organics and Naturals community through networking, learning and research opportunities.
Women in Business - this club works to build an inclusive community that supports and enables women by fostering a network and furthering gender equality.
Leeds Outdoor Industry Club - a club that connects students with the outdoor industry
This Club empowers and enhances MBA students’ involvement with the natural and organic community through networking, learning and research opportunities. Programs include:
- Naturally Boulder memberships, community LOHAS events
- Speaker and panel events, mentorship tours, participation in ExpoWest
- Student developed consulting projects (including both curriculum based and community initiated requests)
- Career Connections projects
CESR sponsors the University of Colorado Net Impact Graduate Chapter, providing funding, faculty and public partnership resources. Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Leeds Net Impact Chapter is recognized as a GOLD Chapter, which is achieved by only 10% of 3000+ chapters worldwide.
Net Impact Initiatives
- a student run Impact Consulting Firm. Each year Leeds MBA’s source, select, scope, and deliver projects for impact organizations, both nonprofit and for profit.
Past Clients: Intercambio, Colorado Grey Water, Pixan, Mi Casa Resource Center, The Social Entrepreneurship in Equitable Development and Sustainability (SEEDS), Naya Skincare, Museum of Natural History, Women’s Wilderness Institute, ReWork, Vertile Foundation
- a for MBAs to sit on metro area nonprofit boards. Each MBA brings a wealth of business knowledge to the organization and executes a capacity building project for the growth and stability of the organization
Nonprofits: The Women’s Wilderness Institute, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Boulder Farmers Market, I Have a Dream Foundation, Boulder History Museum, Voices for Children CASA, Acorn, Community Resource Center, Women’s Education Foundation, Thorne Ecological Institute, YWCA of Boulder County