Interest in partnering with a team of UF student consultants

We're excited that you are interested in working with a UF Student Consulting Team.
It's truly a win-win! Students gain valuable real-world experience and you receive much needed help.

Please complete this quick form and we'll do our best to match you with team of approx. 3-5 enthusiastic UF Student Consultants when your needs align with the timing of our academic offerings.

Keep in mind that most of our consulting engagements are approx. 6 weeks long (as our courses follow a "module" schedule). From time to time we can offer the help of a student team for a full 4 month semester, but that's exceptional. Most teams work for approx. 6 week sprints.

Note that some of the questions below are optional. We'd love you to answer all of them, AND we understand your time is limited, so you may choose to leave the optional questions blank.

*If you're most interested in help completing the B Impact Assessment to become a Certified B Corporation, please don't complete the form below, instead, please complete the form linked here: http://go.ufl.edu/businessforgoodlab

Questions? Contact Dr. Kristin Joys at socialimpact@warrington.ufl.edu ☺️

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* 1. Please list your name as well as the best email address & phone number to use when contacting you. We'd also love your mailing address where we might send mail via USPS.

Name:

Name of your venture (business, nonprofit organization, program, or project):

Email Address:

Phone Number:

Physical Location/Address at which you accept mail:

What email address would you like for us to use when inviting you to our shared folders in Google Drive?

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* 2. Which pronouns do you prefer?

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* 3. Please provide a link to your website or business Facebook page, if you have one.

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* 4. Please provide your Linkedin link, if you have one.

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* 5. Please share with us about your venture-- what's your mission? (even if you don't have a formal mission statement, what is it you aim to do; feel free to paste from your website or other source).

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* 6. Please share with us about your venture-- when was your venture founded? How is your venture structured: is it setup as a for-profit business, a non-profit organization, a program, project, or something else?

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* 7. Please share with us about your venture-- what products/services/offerings do you provide and who is your target audience / target market (feel free to paste from your website or other source)?

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* 8. Do any of the following apply to you and/or your venture? Please select all that apply.

We are working with the Partnership for Reimagining Gainesville team (https://cfncf.org/prg)

We are being Incubated at the Center for Innovation and Economic Development (CIED) or the Gainesville Technology Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC)

We are members of Starter Space, LaunchPad, CoAccelerator, or Collaborative & Co (https://starterspace.com)

We have participated in the programming offered by UF Innovate's Collaboratory for Inclusive Entrepreneurship (https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/collaboratory-2)

We have received funding from the Community Foundation of North Central Florida

We were referred here by the Awesome Foundation Gainesville (http://www.awesomegainesville.org)

We have partnered with Dr. Joys's student consulting teams in the past (either with her courses mentioned here http://go.ufl.edu/gatorsforgood and/or the student orgs she advises like Enactus & Rem on Campus)?

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* 9. Which of the following do you currently have (please check as many boxes as applicable):

a website

a logo / branding / signage

social media accounts for your business (like on Facebook or Instagram)

business cards and/or flyers

a network of family, friends, neighbors, community members cheering you on

employees

an office / storefront

a bank account used exclusively for your business

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* 10. Which of the following would be most helpful for you to receive help from a team of UF Student Consultants?
Please rank your choices with #1 (at the top) being MOST important and #10 (at the bottom) being LEAST important, at this time.

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* 11. Please elaborate on your response above by telling us more about what you'd like the student consulting team to do for & with you. Please Keep in mind that most of our consulting engagements are approx. 5-7 weeks long, they are sprints rather than marathons.

The more clear you are in stating what you'd like from the team, the better they can help & the stronger work they will produce.

If you'd like their help with items not on the list above, please be sure to mention those things here. Examples of additional deliverables include: help with operations & record-keeping, help creating an online store, help choosing which app/program/software would be the best fit for your needs, help with grant applications, help developing a strategic communications plan, and help with planning events and/or fundraisers.

Please remember this is a team endeavor-- the students should be working together as a team towards a common set of deliverables to achieve the goals you mentioned in the questions above. It's fine for students to take lead on different tasks that best fit their interests & skills, but the team of approx. 3-6 students working with you should not each have their own “project.” This helps them to learn the value of teamwork & collaboration.

My hope is that students to experience what I learned from my mentor, Rebecca Brown, paraphrased here:
There is something really magical that happens when we come together with others with the intention of making a positive impact in the world. What we end up creating is far greater than the sum of our individual efforts— it’s exponentially bigger & more powerful than what we could have ever imagined creating on our own.

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* 12. When would you most like to work with a student team?

Please rank the following options. #1 (at the top) is the best timing for you, #10 (at the bottom) is least desirable for your situation.

If the semesters are in the past, please rate them at the bottom of your list (we use this form year after year).

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* 13. Do you have a strong preference for working with a student team from Intro to Social Entrepreneurship, a student team from Rem on Campus, or a student team from Enactus?

A bit about the differences & similarities was mentioned in the email you received with the link to this form.

If you have a strong preference, please explain below. If you do not have a strong preference, please leave this question blank.

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* 14. Preferences around Process & Progress

My preference is for the Team of UF Student Consultants to work as independently as possible; I’d like to share my goals & expectations for the final deliverables and trust the students to do their best to figure things out.

My preference is for the Team of UF Student Consultants to work incrementally & iteratively— -breaking the final deliverables down into steps and checkin in with me when milestones have been met; I aim to provide helpful feedback on their drafts so the Team revises & improves their work based on my review, input, and requests.

If neither option A or option B accurately represents your situation, you can make up your own response & share it as option C, here:

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* 15. Preferences around Engagement

I’m super busy and prefer as little interaction as possible with a Student Team.

I understand that the more engaged I am (and the more available I am to answer students’ questions, the more likely the students are to create deliverables with which I’m pleased), I can commit to meeting once a week (or at least once every other week) for 30-90 min during the approx. 4-8 weeks the projects will run.

If neither option A or option B accurately represents your situation, you can make up your own response & share it as option C, here:

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* 16. Preferences around Interaction

I’d love to work with a Team of UF Student Consultants in-person; I welcome the opportunity to meet up with them in-person at a mutually convenient location (my office, a co-working space or coffee shop, etc.).

I prefer working with a Team of UF Student Consultants remotely; I prefer connecting with them synchronously via Zoom, Google Meet, Facetime, Phone, etc. and communicating asynchronously via email, Slack, shared google docs, etc.), I’ll be sure to share my preferred methods of communication at our first meeting so the students know how best to connect with me.

If neither option A or option B accurately represents your situation, you can make up your own response & share it as option C, here:

Interest in partnering with a team of UF student consultants

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* 1. Please list your name as well as the best email address & phone number to use when contacting you. We'd also love your mailing address where we might send mail via USPS.

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* 2. Which pronouns do you prefer?

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* 3. Please provide a link to your website or business Facebook page, if you have one.

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* 4. Please provide your Linkedin link, if you have one.

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* 5. Please share with us about your venture-- what's your mission? (even if you don't have a formal mission statement, what is it you aim to do; feel free to paste from your website or other source).

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* 6. Please share with us about your venture-- when was your venture founded? How is your venture structured: is it setup as a for-profit business, a non-profit organization, a program, project, or something else?

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* 7. Please share with us about your venture-- what products/services/offerings do you provide and who is your target audience / target market (feel free to paste from your website or other source)?

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* 8. Do any of the following apply to you and/or your venture? Please select all that apply.

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* 9. Which of the following do you currently have (please check as many boxes as applicable):

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* 10. Which of the following would be most helpful for you to receive help from a team of UF Student Consultants? Please rank your choices with #1 (at the top) being MOST important and #10 (at the bottom) being LEAST important, at this time.

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* 14. Preferences around Process & Progress

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* 15. Preferences around Engagement

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* 16. Preferences around Interaction

* 10. Which of the following would be most helpful for you to receive help from a team of UF Student Consultants?
Please rank your choices with #1 (at the top) being MOST important and #10 (at the bottom) being LEAST important, at this time.