About
For almost two decades, the Community Service Initiative at the John Molson School of Business has been at the heart of experiential learning at Concordia.
By encouraging and promoting experiential learning through community service, the Initiative builds impactful relationships between John Molson and the community at large.
The three pillars
1. Community-engaged teaching and learning
Courses and educational initiatives provided to students and the community.
2. Community-engaged research
- Collaborating with faculty researching, writing and co-authoring cases on the non-profit sector through the John Molson Case Publications Initiative
- Working with faculty conducting case writing workshops
- Conducting research in partnership with community organizations
3. Community-engaged service
- Community roundtable
- Technical assistance and training programs
- Skilled volunteer placements
How it works
- Take the Community Service elective courses for credit and gain valuable experience with a partner organization
- Write case studies
- Conduct workshops for high school students in the Young CEO Program
- Host students in the Community Service Elective
- Host skilled volunteers
- Host action research initiatives
- Supervising projects and grading final reports in the Community Service Elective
- Conduct action research
- Develop case studies
- Skilled volunteer placements
- Attend Meet and Greets and other CSI events
CSI by the numbers
- More than 21 faculty members have supervised 320 students and the completion of 162 projects as a part of the Community Service Elective courses.
- 40 market studies conducted for Trade Facilitation Office (TFO) in 12 countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, Uganda.
- 27 not-for-profit executive directors and managers have participated in the Community Service Initiative Roundtable.
