Congratulations to all of the SIFE Cards Across Culture Contest winners!!!!!!!!! Grand Prize Winner – Sephali Pokharel 2nd Place Winner – Kim Boom 3rd Place Winner – Magali Beleng These three winners, along with our other Cards Across Culture Contest entrants, contributed almost $400 to the team’s grand total of over $1,500!!! Way to go team! Be sure to congratulate each of these dedicated...

SMSU Let’s Can Hunger Club Competition Results and Updates Two clubs participated in this event organized by SIFE and the Student Association. The Black Student Union (BSU), Wellness and Human Performance club(WHP)  and the Radio/TV club/National Broadcasting Society (NBS) collected non-perishable items during the month of February. Together they collected 350 pounds for the Marshall Food Shelf! The...

18 members went door – to – door in 6 neighborhoods to make sales pitches about the Cards Across Cultures cards. We described that the cards were created by kids in Senegal and Nepal and then noted that the money will go directly to the students who made the cards. After making the sales pitch about the cards, we also told them about our Let’s Can Hunger Project where we are donating over 5,000...

Cards Across Cultures is one of our most successful legacy projects. To continue to sell as many cards as possible, we have organized a competition to rouse some excitement among our team members. The Cards Across Cultures card selling contest began on February 3rd of this year and will end on February 24th. It is designed in weekly increments so that each week, one winner will be announced....

As you all know, Cards Across Cultures (CAC) is one of our most successful legacy projects. Over the past few years we have been able to make a large impact on over 9 different countries! This year, we have sent the CAC kits to Brazil, Denmark and Germany. We hope to continue sending kits to new countries throughout the remainder of the year. Currently, we have sold $710 worth of cards! We have come...

After our great success in November and December our dedicated members are working hard on keeping the momentum going! We are standing at 18% of our goal. THANK YOU to Hy-Vee and County Fair for allowing us to put donation boxes into their stores. To enlarge our impact we found a great partner in the Porter Lutheran Church who is collecting for the Canby Food Shelf. During the last few weeks, our Project...

Project Turnabout is a new project this year where our SIFE members are sharing our entrepreneurial and professional skills to help better our local community members. Patients of Project Turnabout have been great students as we have presented to them on two topics: Finance and Personal Success Skills. The first session, Budgeting and Finance, was a great success. With 14 patients and 3 presenters...

In the Summer of 2010, SMSU SIFE’s bookstore, The Village, closed but not without the hope of new possibilities. This closure left SIFE with over 5,000 generously donated books that were just waiting for a good home; soon one was found. MECLA, Marshal East Campus Learning Alternatives, is an alternative school that helps students receive lost credits and graduate from high school. This local school...

           Did you know that due to under inflated tires, Americans lose over 4 million gallons of gas each day? Did you know that proper inflation of your tires extends the life of your tire and saves fuel? This message, along with many other facts, is what we wanted to share with our local community. To do so we implemented a project called Pump ‘em Up where we created awareness and taught...

            Campbell’s Soup Company and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) are paring up for a hunger challenge. The challenge: to stop hunger in both longer term and short term ways. The Let’s Can Hunger challenge is being completed by over 250 SIFE teams worldwide, one being our SMSU SIFE Team.             SMSU SIFE has been working on this project since September of 2010...