Director’s Remarks

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Director’s Remarks 2 Our Mission 3 Educate 4 Engage 7 Empower 12 Our Team 16 Our Community 19

Dear Friends, Partners & Social Value Creation Leaders, Over the past two years, I have had the honor of leading the Center for Social Value Creation. I am privileged to call CSVC and Smith my home, and am eager to share with you the accomplishments we have achieved together this past year. We are on a great trajectory for growth, and there is much more to come! Even while being faced with the brutal realities of being in a pandemic, times of social unrest, and many other crises; CSVC has been able to start many new exciting new adventures and accomplishments. This is all in part by your amazing support. We started this past year with the concept of an Impact Consulting Fellowship - and over the past year it has conducted 44 impact driven projects, through the work of 350 students and 28 alumni coaches. This Fellowship has had the honor of being chosen at the MBA Roundtable’s Fast Track Innovation Award winner, being spotlighted at the AshokaU Exchange, and featured in the Sustainable Development Solutions Network guide on “Accelerating Education for the SDGs in Universities”. Our center doubled the amount of Case Competitions we have hosted for our students, not only reaching greater students. This has resulted in greater support for our community, a larger understanding of the importance of ESG and the SDGs in corporate decision making. Our Undergraduate students won the international Milgard Invitational Case Competition on Social Responsibility for the first time ever and our MBA students placed 4th place in the Net Impact Case Competition. But we are not finished yet with our growth. We are excited to have launched the first iteration of our Research Impact Fellowship this past summer. The upcoming school year will also have many new opportunities as we return to campus, from the Global Goals Jam coming to College Park to creating our Faculty ESG committees and starting additional research and original content from our CSVC community. We are not finished growing yet!.The door is always open virtually and now in person, so please reach out in any ways you would love to engage with our family. — Nima Farshchi ‘14, MBA ‘20