The
U360 Business Sustainability Internship Program at
Manomet is designed to increase students’ knowledge of the “triple-bottom line” of business sustainability (environmental, social, and governance), environmental and conservation issues, and business management through workshops and direct interactions with small business owners. The two-semester internship is an average of 10 hours per week; is entirely virtual (and always has been), so students participate via live video conference; and up to 40 students are enrolled from different colleges across the U.S. every year. The U360 curriculum incorporates applied science, business, and sustainability workshops, career skills training, sustainability assessments of small businesses, and a Capstone project.
Specifically, students spend the majority of the program interviewing up to 20 small business owners about their day-to-day operations, which includes administering Manomet’s
Root360 assessment survey of their triple-bottom line. At the end of the program, U360 students complete a culminating project: each student selects one of the businesses they interviewed, creates a Sustainability Action Plan (SAP) for that company, and presents their SAP to judges from the business and sustainability fields in a Capstone competition.
U360 is an entirely student-centered program that is both a comprehensive educational experience (more like a class) and an unpaid internship; the curriculum is focused on helping students develop the
NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) competencies that employers are seeking. Students can often earn college credit for participation (depending on each school’s policies, major requirements, etc.), while also including it on their resume as internship experience. (More info about the program can be found here:
https://www.manomet.org/project/u360/)
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