Intensives

Few skills are so vital in nonprofit life as grant writing.

What does it take to move an idea into action? To write a plan so effective a funder is willing to support it? For many nonprofit organizations, the answers to these questions are the keys to successful fundraising.

In this intensive, we discuss the methods used to conduct a needs assessment to define a set of community needs accurately. Using data collected regarding college access programs, we generate potential solutions to a set of community problems, generate the results we hope to achieve, and create an action plan to achieve those results. We review the steps in preparing a sound budget and practice research techniques that will enable us to identify appropriate funders for our work.

Facilitators

Past facilitators for this intensive intensive include:

• Margie DuBrow, Ph.D., Creative Management Strategies, Inc.
• Andrea Taylor, Ph.D., Taylor Consulting

Application

Not being offered in Spring 2023

Questions

Contact Katie Turek at kturek@brynmawr.edu

Are you interested in:

• working in or potentially starting your entrepreneurial ventures?
• joining an entrepreneurial start-up?
• taking on a strategic or innovation role in a corporation?
• joining a venture capital fund?

If you answered yes to these questions, consider joining us for the upcoming Entrepreneurship Intensive. This new intensive combines entrepreneurship's technocratic and practical skills with the leadership, interpersonal, and negotiation skills it takes to lead successfully over time.

In this intensive, you will be exposed to various formats—lectures with short assigned readings, case studies, and action/experiential learning. By combining these formats, you will be supported to conceptualize critical lessons as well as apply them to a proprietary framework where you will develop and learn to test your ideas.

Key concepts and lessons will include industry analysis, competitive analysis, customer research, discovery-driven planning, and revenue model, including developing the business's economic model, strategy, pricing analysis, and term sheets and valuations. You will be exposed to key concepts in each area, and you will have the opportunity to apply them.

Learn how your liberal arts education—the ability to read and synthesize data across various fields—is the first and most important aspect of working in or developing an entrepreneurial venture. This intensive builds on those core skills and creates an avenue for their confident application.

Registration

Register in Handshake.

Questions?

Contact Katie Turek at kturek@brynmawr.edu

Finance Career Trek Intensive

This three-day intensive training program helps prepare students for their next steps after college. Boot Camp combines workshop-based instruction with hands-on activities to build skills and increase confidence. Students will learn to identify and articulate their strengths; communicate through resumes, cover letters, networking, and interviewing; evaluate jobs and graduate programs; and mange their personal finances. Participants will visit Philadelphia area graduate programs and employers, build connections at a professional networking event, and attend dinner with a business etiquette expert.

Facilitators

This intensive is facilitated by

• Dayna Levy, Ed.D., Career and Professional Development, Bryn Mawr College
• Alexis Bradford, Assistant Director, Career Counseling, Career and Professional Development, Bryn Mawr College 

Registration

Register in Handshake.

Questions

Contact Dayna Levy at dlevy@brynmawr.edu.

Registration through Handshake is required for this and all offerings. 

The Boot Camp is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Leadership Essentials Intensive

Leadership Learning Laboratory Intensive

LITS: Critical Making in the Makerspace Intensive

LITS: Data Visualization Intensive

LITS: Digital Storytelling Intensive

Learn more about the LSAT Prep · Management Consulting Intensive on Handshake. 

Do you want to understand the complex information and skills that successful managers in any sector need to master to promote positive outcomes for their organizations, teams, and communities?

Do you want to understand how to motivate people to achieve their goals, communicate better, and complete necessary tasks?
Are you interested in developing your leadership skills, self-awareness, and self-confidence in organizational and professional settings (including your work on campus)?

The Bryn Mawr College Management Intensive is a five-day course to immerse students in management, strategic analysis, interviewing, and self-presentation in professional contexts.  Students will be exposed to inspiring alumnae, supportive peers, and diverse, attainable careers in management positions across sectors (for-profit, non-profit, government, etc.) and in management consulting.

The curriculum includes:

• Management fundamentals, SWOT analysis, strategic planning, interpersonal assessment, self-awareness exercises
• Facilitation and analysis of case studies led by Wharton School faculty
• Skill-building in communication, coaching, giving feedback, networking, public speaking, and interviewing
• Compelling stories and interviews from alumnae of various ages and work experiences about how they leveraged their Bryn Mawr educations to excel in the professional world and their lives more broadly

You will leave this course with skills to help you as a manager and leader in any group context, greater confidence in your ability to tackle complex organizational challenges, more finely tuned public speaking, networking, and interviewing skills, and a stronger sense of connection to various communities within Bryn Mawr and beyond.

Join us for the Management Intensive and be inspired to carve out a successful path in any organization.

Past Facilitator

• Meredith Myers, Ph.D.

Registration

Register through Handshake. 

Questions?

Contact Katie Turek at kturek@brynmawr.edu

Nonprofit Financial Analysis Intensive

Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) Seminars Intensive

Explore how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are used in various non-research careers. We will explore many of how science and art influence each other through science journalism, exploration of the creative process, performance-based communication skills, and visual data-driven art. Be prepared for an interactive week full of creativity, a trip to Philadelphia, and more.

The week will be built around learning from professionals. Experience how STEM and the arts use the same processes and inspirations from alums and faculty, create works that showcase your science communication skills, explore career paths, and have opportunities to network in a relaxed atmosphere. You can expect to gain a better sense of your career opportunities beyond Bryn Mawr and how your Bryn Mawr education is preparing you for a diversity of pathways.  

Questions?

Contact Katie Turek at kturek@brynmawr.edu

Storytelling Intensive