SUMA Net Impact

09/06/2024

SUMA-Net Impact is all set to start the semester with amazing projects and events!

If you’re looking to champion sustainability goals through pro-bono consulting projects and gain valuable experience in leadership, communications, innovation, community, and evolving technologies, this is the organization for you!

📆 Deadline to apply: Sept 13th, 2024 at 10.00 PM.

📌Application form link:
https://tinyurl.com/SUMANIFall2024

or scan the QR code on the second slide of this post.

We will also have a webinar for more information about the projects. Further details will come out soon!

11/25/2021

Join SUMANI's biannual panel as we welcome four seasoned experts in the circular economy field to discuss how organizations are working with external partners to implement circular economy principles.
Registration is now open for December 2nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/circular-collaboration-panel-tickets-216083831557

01/22/2021

Hi all! Friendly reminder that the SUMANI team applications are due tonight at midnight. Links for more information and the application below:
Recruitment video: https://sumanetimpact.com/sumani-spring-2021-recruitment-event-video/
Client Flipbook: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJtXC-BnSEA/
Team Application: https://forms.gle/cWK8qNJMLPg2fDW56

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01/06/2021

Happy New Year SUMA! And welcome to the incoming students 🎊😄

We are very excited to share our six clients for SUMA Net Impact Spring 2021!

The application for project managers and team members is available here: https://forms.gle/gA7tyE6YUs312t26A
DM us with any questions.

12/15/2020

The SUMANI Board would like to offer immense gratitude to our online community for an amazing, challenging, and passion-filled semester of making impacts! 🦋
Thank you for enthusiastically attending our events, sending kind words of encouragement, and/or participating in one of our 6 incredibly special projects this Fall. 💐
We hope to see you all in the future, whether that be on another project team, within a professional chapter, as a future board member, while volunteering and supporting activists, or as a new friend🌼

Thank you for making this the biggest SUMA Net Impact community we’ve ever had. You each inspire us more than you’ll ever know! Until 2021, ❤️❤️❤️
-The SUMANI Board

12/09/2020

Check out this blog post, written by SUMA Net Impact's President and Vice President :)

This blog post was written by Nicole Lim and Rose Turner , President and Vice President of Columbia University Earth Institute’s SUMA Net Impact . In November, Young Professionals in Energy New York City (YPE NYC) partnered with SUMA Net Impact (SUMANI) , the graduate chap

11/19/2020

Exciting news! ✨✨✨✨
SUMANI is looking for 2 bold and hardworking people to join our board for the Spring 2021 semester as the Vice President/Communications Director and the Director of Operations. See details for each position below:

Vice President Duties:
-Support president in client recruitment and strategy development
-In charge of recruiting new members (including board positions) and lead organizing events (including moderating panels and finding volunteer opportunities)
-Responsible for SUMANI’s online presence: Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter/Eventbrite
-Creates marketing materials using SUMANI's pro graphic design software, Canva
-Sends regular newsletters and communications to members using mailchimp

Who we are looking for:
-Someone with interest in becoming the president of Net Impact for Fall 2021
-STRONG communication skills and a good artistic eye
-extreme team player always willing to lend a hand
-Kind and Collaborative, yet Opinionated and Bold

Director of Operations Duties:
-Responsible for maintaining SUMANI's affiliations with SPS and the EI
-Creates, maintains, and delegates SUMANI’s budget (must be comfortable with creating budget sheets)
-In charge of all logistics: booking locations for meetings and events, catering, Zoom conferences, etc.
-Keep up to date with school-based, partnership, and corporate funding opportunities
-In charge of procuring merchandise/thank-you gifts for members/guests

Who we are looking for:
-eagle-eye attention to detail
-comfort with budgets and excel
- confidence with Zoom functioning and other typical 2020-2021 tech challenges
-extreme team player always willing to lend a hand

11/16/2020

Don’t miss this incredible networking opportunity with NYC Net Impact professionals.🌼🌱

We will be having trivia and small group conversations, this Wednesday at noon! ✨✨✨

Register at the link in bio

11/10/2020

Our final Panel Speaker Spotlight goes to an incredible SUMA alum! 🌿🌸💐

Sara Miltenberger has made a name for herself in the sustainability world of consumer-packaged goods for the past five years. A Forbes 30 Under 30 Scholar and natural entrepreneur, she owns RSTR Media & Strategy LLC, a sustainability consulting business that offers a full suite of business services such as material assessments, report writing, life cycle analysis, and green certification applications. Sara has also worked for Tesla’s EHS team and managed new initiatives for environmental safety programs and built a software platform to capture OSHA records for company compliance. Prior to Tesla, she founded and ran global sustainability initiatives at Delos Living LLC and worked mainly on AI product development, supply chain and strategy. She graduated from Columbia University in May 2019 with a M.S. in Sustainability Management and was awarded the Scholar Practitioner Award by Columbia University in 2018.

11/09/2020

The SUMANI team is excited to share a bit about our next panelist, Keith Kinch🌱

BlocPower is a Brooklyn-based energy technology startup rapidly greening American cities. Since its founding in 2012, the company has completed energy projects in nearly 1,000 buildings and delivers results ahead of schedule and under budget. BlocPower utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects and its customers are saving 20-40% on their energy bills each year. 
 
Keith Kinch serves as co-founder and General Manager at BlocPower.  Keith received his undergraduate degree at John Jay College and his graduate degree at American International University. He spent eight years as a community organizer, and two years as Deputy Field Director in New York State for the Democratic National Committee under President Obama’s grassroots arm Organizing for America. He helped advance key pieces of legislation such as the Affordable Healthcare Act. In the summer of 2016 Keith led the Solarize Brownsville campaign where more than 200 homes were outfitted with solar panels. Solarize Brownsville brought together community partners, local residents, and the selected solar installer to successfully demonstrate that solar power can make an impact in low-to moderate-income communities. It still stands as one of the largest solar projects in New York State history. In 2017 Keith led the partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and Department of Housing Preservation and Development on Community Retrofit NYC program to produce over 500 retrofits for 5-50 unit multi-family buildings in Con Edison’s Brooklyn Queens Demand Management zone. The project has won a national award, and was completed one year ahead of schedule. Keith currently resides with his wife and two children in Brooklyn.

11/06/2020

Mark your calendars, people! SUMANI is hosting some awesome panelists at our biannual Sustainability Consulting Panel🌊🌳🌼

This years theme is, “Consulting for People & Planet: Environmental Justice for All”✨✨✨

Today, we are featuring Marvin Church: Comrie Enterprises, LLC offers business consulting services in real estate, energy, transportation, and health care. Their approach is "social entrepreneurial" meaning that their services provide social, environmental, and cultural solutions. Mr. Church has managed more than a $66M annual budget for mostly residential development as Regional Director of the agency formerly known as the New York State Division and Community Renewal, now Housing and Community Renewal in New York City, Westchester, Suffolk, Nassau and Rockland Counties. In addition, he also managed the Weatherization Programs in these counties.❄️

10/08/2020

One of our Fall 2020 project teams needs your help! Please fill out this survey if YOU enjoy fashion 🦋🧵🧵👠

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9dYqJIUeh2S98cjhE5dQf1BKc-UgJ3yhKPjrtL0SrsnbD1g/viewform