Virtual: Social Enterprise Fundraising
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presentations finance communication business planning researchOur organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 2 students or teams.
The primary focus for the student will be:
- Strategy - Develop a strategy for applying to multiple funding opportunities, their timing, and their expected outcome on revenue generation.
- Funding Acquisition - Develop thorough funding proposals utilizing core content provided by the CEO and building upon it.
- Finance - Determine project eligible/ineligible costs and identify gaps in funding and areas needing attention to assist the organization in ensuring it can maintain profitability while pursuing research and development tracks simultaneously with regular indoor farming operations.
Our goal at the end of this experience is:
- For the student(s) to help us generate content for funding applications, and improve our business plan by leveraging the new content generated for applying to the most appropriate funding opportunities for our various organizational strategies.
Other duties the student may complete could include:
- Conduct research and data analysis.
- Generate summary reports of research results.
- Create presentation decks and assist with presentations to key stakeholders.
We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools:
- Telephone
- Conference Calls
Student's primary contact: Benjamin Feagin Jr., MSc, CEO
Benjamin has taught independent studies, led capstone projects, and fulfilled internships/co-ops for mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, computer scientists, and architects. He has fulfilled such obligations with positive results for more than fifty students ranging in practice from research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to industry experience.
About the company
AgriTech North is an Indigenous- (Métis), disabled-, and LGBTQ-owned social enterprise corporation with a mission to grow nutritious food for Northern Ontario, focusing on Far North indigenous communities, that is of a consistently high quality, available year-round, and provided at a competitive price. The facility will be located in Dryden, Ontario, Canada to harness the waste heat, energy, and carbon from the Domtar Mill, establishing a Biohub with carbon negative operations. Dryden is ideal because of favorable transportation capabilities throughout the region and workforce access. The revenue from the food sold will ensure it is self-sustaining long-term as a research center. After proving the success of novel methods, AgriTech North will expand successful research projects throughout Canada to tackle a wider variety of food security issues throughout the country, made possible in part via several academic and indigenous partnerships.