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FIRST FIDELITY INTEGRATED BUSINESS CORE
SCORES BIG IN PHILANTHROPY
The First Fidelity Integrated Business Core Program reports a high total of giving for the fall semester. According to Program Director Shelly Grunsted, The IBC students have once again far surpassed our expectations of hard work and dedication to the Norman community and to Price College. If you step back and reflect on what 78 students did in 16 short weeks, it is truly unfathomable.
More than $41,000 was donated in December to charities including, Ally's House, Middle Earth Child Development Center, Make-A-Wish Foundation and Camp Cavett. More than 2,700 hours of community service were distributed among various schools in the Norman Public School District, Second Chance Animal Sanctuary and Moore Youth and Family Services. This brings IBC's total giving amounts over the past 12 years of the program's history to more than $820,000 and 36,000 hours of community service.
This innovative program at OU allows students to form a company and gain business insight as well as learn management styles, effective leadership skills and the legal issues associated with running a business. Loan presentations, annual reports and inventory- control processes are some other operational competencies students learn through the First Fidelity Bank Integrated Business Core program.
These students have impacted so many people's lives with their sweat equity and monetary donations, Grunsted states. I believe in return, these students have truly been taught not only classroom lessons but life lessons on being a good corporate citizen, a role model for children and, most of all, that every single person can make a difference.