Students in SUNY Brockport’s School of Business Administration and Management successfully organized a charity fundraising event to support the university’s food pantry on November 29. The students completed the work as part of a class project in their Project Management class and were able to raise more than $1,500 in funds and goods for The Pantry at SUNY Brockport, a new initiative that offers food and other basic needs items to people in need.
To successfully organize this event, the students formed a temporary project management organization, defined its mission and objectives, and created a work breakdown structure which consists of all identifiable work activities. The students were able to get a taste of some of the technical and socio-cultural dimensions of the project management process in a semester long course. Zuylem Matos and Dakotah Kaiser, who were the students who acted as the project managers, describe this as a true learning environment.
Course instructor Dr. Mustafa Canbolat sees the service-learning projects of this type as a tool to increase the University’s visibility among community and to support Brockport’s efforts to engage students in campus activities.
The class partnered with a number of organizations as part of the effort, including the Village of Brockport, School of Business Administration and Management, Recreational Services, BASC, University Police, Facilities & Planning, and Parking & Transportation Services.
The event was sponsored by: Wegmans Food Markets, Palmers Food Services, Bill Grays, 58 Main, Jimmy Z’s, Subway, Reign Storm, Cusimano’s Pizzeria, Joe Klein, and Chris Leverett of RBC Capital.
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