Consistent with the Jesuit professional tradition of the College of Business Administration, the college has made a commitment to provide opportunities for students to get involved in service projects in the business community.  

One opportunity the college provides is a program in which students may earn credit toward their degree while at the same time making a professional contribution to a non-profit organization. Reverend Thomas Brennan, S.J., our college chaplain teaches the class (BUEX 189 - Business and the Non-Profit Sector). 

In the past, students have worked on the following projects: 

•  Setting up computer systems for Shelters for the Homeless
• Designing billboards for Help the Homeless Organizations
• Assisting parolees in seeking jobs
• Writing grant proposals, developing marketing brochures and developing a web site for the Children’s Theatre School
• Conducting a marketing surveying and analyzing the data of membership information for Nature Centers
• Designing a Promotional Video for Alternatives School
• Designing Marketing Surveys for supermarkets in poor neighborhoods
• Aiding churches to market their non-religious, and non-sacramental services
• Marketing local neighborhood organizations and alliances

• The Open Gate
• Midtown Neighborhood Association
• Parents’ Anonymous
• Sojourner Truth House
• Children’s Theatre School
• Milwaukee Career Cooperative
• L.A.N.D. Corporation
• American Youth Hostels
• Nova Academy
• Salvation Army
• Marquette High School and the Merrill Park Neighborhood
• Sherman Park Neighborhood Association
• Wells Street Merchants’ Association
• Riveredge Nature Center
• Hunger Task Force
• Irish Cultural Society

The benefits to our students are many: 

• Application of business skills in an organized and mentored environment; business faculty are available for consultation.
• Personal responsibility for the overall planning and integration of a business plan.
• Developing team and organization skills while interacting in a business setting.
• Providing community service to help improve the community and assisting those in need.
• Learning flexibility by scheduling project time.

• Each professional business student organization has a service requirement component
• Christmas Teddy Bear Tree for homeless shelter and for the school of Developmentally Disabled Children
• Involved in the university’s  National Hunger Clean-up program