10th Annual Pack A Purse™ Drive goal is to collect 1,000 purses and fill with personal hygiene items for teen girls in foster homes, group homes, and homeless shelters. If you are traveling for Thanksgiving please consider donating your unopened hotel toiletries to Pack A Purse™ Drive. If you are a Black Friday shopper […]
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SAVE THE DATE! Bring your donations of new/gently used purses and personal hygiene items to our annual Purse Packing Party. Saturday, December 10, 2016 1:00pm-3:00pm Laurel Boys and Girls Club 701 Montgomery St., Laurel, MD Our 10th Annual Pack A Purse™ Drive goal is
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November is National Adoption Month which was created to raise awareness for children and youth in foster care who are waiting for permanent families. In 2014, more than 22,000 young people — whom states failed to reunite with their families or place in permanent homes — aged out of foster care, simply because they
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Join Ms. Biz to shop, network and donate to the 10th Annual Pack A Purse™ Drive. Donations of new and gently used purses and new personal care items for teen girls in foster care and group homes will be collected at the benefit. Ms. Biz 2nd Annual Pack a Purse™ Benefit November 29, 2016
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Unpaid internships devalue students (opinion piece) You want employment experience prior to graduation, and an internship seems like a logical course of action, but is it worth it, if you have to pay for it and possibly pay for it more than once? Unfortunately, this is often the case when it comes
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New York District Court Decision Provides New Guidance on the Second Circuit’s Intern-Employee Test Executive Summary: A recent Southern District of New York opinion brings clarity to the Second Circuit’s new intern-employee “primary beneficiary” test. The court in Wang v. Hearst Corporation (Aug. 24, 2016), held that unpaid interns working at magazines owned by
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Editorial: Reassessing Unpaid Internships As the job market becomes more competitive, students must find new ways to differentiate themselves from their peers. Unpaid internships have long been a way for college students to gain exposure to the types of work they would like to do in the future without a financial commitment on the
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Giving Internships A Facelift: More Compensation, More Equity By Aarthi Venkat To allow prospective applicants from all backgrounds to pursue internships, and to adequately compensate them for their labor, companies must make greater efforts to offer aid, pay, or – at the very least – college credit. Internships are designed to be
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The Rise of Virtual Internships: Universities, Students, and Companies Can Benefit From This New Form of Engagement Teleconferencing, chat messaging and emails transformed the way we do business a long time ago, in recent years, technology has also changed the way we learn with massive open online courses or MOOCs. It’s only natural for internships
By Alex Mooradian Successful engineering internship programs have one thing in common: they simply ignore the word “intern.” From the recruiting process, entrusted workload to valued feedback loops, companies that invest in their interns as if they’re long-term hires believe they have better results. As Jade Rubick, engineering manager at New Relic says
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