Andrews University

The Philanthropy and Fundraising Student Associate plays a role in supporting the Development department's efforts to cultivate relationships with donors, secure funding, and advance Andrews University's philanthropic goals. As a student associate, my responsibilities are as follows:

Administrative Support:
- Contribute ideas and suggestions for process improvement within the Development department.
- Assist with year-end activities, including preparing donor reports and acknowledging gifts.
- Manage mailers, email campaigns, and social media platforms to promote the Development department's initiatives.
- Engage in phone calls to cultivate relationships with potential donors and update donor information.
- Contribute to the 150-Year Celebration and collaborate with departments to facilitate Giving Days and Phonathons.

Donor Management:
- Maintain regular communication with donors through phone calls and email.
- Ensure donor information is accurate and up-to-date in the Banner system.
- Generate donor reports and provide insights into donor engagement trends.

Philanthropy Ambassadorship:
- Utilize personal social media platforms to promote the Development department's strategic initiatives.
- Collaborate with ENACTUS on philanthropic and fundraising initiatives, exploring opportunities to re-envision a Student Philanthropy Club/Council at Andrews University.
- Serve as a visible and engaged representative of the Development department, building relationships with donors and fostering a culture of philanthropy within the Andrews University community.

Philanthropy and Fundraising Student Associate

Andrews University Enactus

As VP of Projects my responsibilities goes as follow:
- Strategic Oversight: Have overall strategic oversight of all projects within the organization, ensuring that they align with the club's long-term vision and goals.

- Resource Allocation: Be responsible for allocating resources, both financial and human, to various projects based on their strategic importance and needs.

- Project Performance: Oversee project performance, monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensuring that projects are on track to meet their objectives.

- Leadership Team Management: As the highest-ranking executive for projects, manage and coordinate the leadership team, ensuring clear communication and collaboration among the Vice Presidents and other project leads.

- Communication with large parties: Additionally to team management, conduct communication with larger stakeholders and partners such as donors, event planners, possible large "clients", and any other high-level third-party member.

VP of Projects 

- Conducted in-depth comparisons of Accelerate Online with other leadership development and educational technology programs, focusing on the benefits for school leaders.
- Collected, organized, analyzed, and visualized data relevant to PD programs and their impact.
- Develop a strategic list of target states for expanding Accelerate Online, prioritizing based on research findings to maximize national impact.

Strategic Consulting Extern

Andrews University HelpDesk

At Andrews University, the ITS HelpDesk is the center of IT customer service. Handling emails, IDs, hardware, and assigning tasks to the departments that overview IT in the university, ITS HelpDesk workers are essential to the process as they link the two. As an ITS Desktop Technician, I am responsible for responding to all requests regarding software and hardware on the Andrews campus, recognizing what tasks go to what department and how to answer the ones that fall under my responsibility.  I am in charge of ensuring that all requests and tickets that come through our department are attended to or assigned. Supporting other team members and departments by ensuring that everything on my end is completed well is also crucial to the job.

ITS Desktop Technician 

Adventist Information Ministry (AIM)

Patience, organization, communication, and a will to help another are all skills required to perform well at Adventist Information Ministry (AIM). As an entity that represents over 40 others and handles all its customer service, being an individual that can learn and know how to describe each one of these in their regards is essential. 

Highlights: 

- Supported over 40+ Christian ministry channels attending to their callers and subscribers and fulfilling their orders, complaints, and requests. 

- Offered prayer and guidance to callers who were in need. 

- Processed over 150+ tickets to fulfill orders and file customer service issues. 

Numbers are hard to disclose in detail when it comes to working such a job, but one thing about it is I definitely learned a lot in my time there.

Customer Service Representative

Maxwell Adventist Academy

As Dean’s Assitant, it was my duty to lead the dormitory. As such, I was in charge of coordinating dormitory processes ranging from implementing rules to conflict resolution and improving the environment for the residents. I managed a team of 4 Resident Assistants (RAs), organizing them and splitting tasks between them to ensure a safe and comfortable atmosphere in the dormitory. I frequently reported back to my supervisors (the deans) and consulted them when faced with challenges that the RAs and I could not solve on our own. 

Highlights 🖋

🖇 Oversaw and organized dormitory activities such as worship sessions and school outings.

🖇 Established new study systems and dormitory cleaning processes while also providing one-to-one peer guidance and mentoring - this saw a significant reduction of incidences of bad behaviour and a +170% increase in our dormitory's students appearing on the Honor & High Honor List.

🖇 Drafted a plan to improve the dormitory community, designed to elevate the social, intellectual, physical, and spiritual life through a new set of guidelines and goals. The plan ran successfully in a dorm of 47 students. 

🖇 Redesigned the dormitory porch and lobby, also setting up its first library.

Dean's Assistant

Hi there, I'm Kato Golooba-Mutebi.

I like simplicity, so I'll make it easy for you.

I plan to buy wonderful businesses and make them remarkable.

I love:
→ Meeting interesting people.
→ Reading new books.
→ Learning about great businesses.
→ Studying problem-solvers.
→ Vanilla milkshakes.

Here's how I can help you:
→ Are you looking to sell a wonderful business? I'll buy it or point you in the right direction.
→ Are you looking for "the guy that knows a guy"? That's me.
→ Not sure how we can provide value? Let's talk and find out together.

Here's who I'm looking for:
→ Interesting people (reach out or send them my way).
→ Business owners (I would love to get to know you).
→ Buyers (I may know a business you'd like to buy, or you may have one for me).
→ Sellers (I will buy your business, or send you to a buyer who would!)
→ Investors (I want your knowledge...and then your money, possibly).

Let's connect, exchange ideas, and explore how we can create remarkable value together. Reach out anytime – I'm always eager to learn, share, and grow alongside incredible people like you.

I'm honored to have won two awards-- Businessman of the Year and Emerging Leader--at tonight's Awards Banquet by the Andrews University School of Business Administration. 

3 concepts helped me get here: 

1. "Pressure is privilege." 

I first heard this from a close friend and mentor last year. Ever since I have been able to maintain high levels of stress tolerance. Pressure excites me.

2. "Business is problems dressed in work clothes."

In business, I always try to ask these 3 questions: 
1. What problem are you solving? 
2. How many people benefit from the solution?
3. How often (and for how long) do they need it solved? 

3. "Don't tell a man how to build a boat, teach him to love the sea."

Leadership is not about instruction but empowerment. How can you show someone how to do something and inspire them to do it themselves and for others? 

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What are some concepts that help you in business and leadership? 

Kato  Golooba-Mutebi

Building CCG | Finance at Andrews | Chronically curious

A few interesting things happened over the weekend: 

1. On Friday, I had the chance to be invited to the President's Council to share my experience at Andrews. Great things will come out of that group in the future. 

2. Our university's magazine, the Focus, reached out to write an article on how my decision to attend Andrews was purely based on one thing: a pastor by whom I was determined to get baptized. 

3. I was highlighted for one of my recent experiences. It was one I enjoyed greatly (especially due to our PM). If you want to learn how to think (and struggle), get an intern/externship in consulting. 

4. I'm on our new marketing flyer with a lot of great friends, a professor, and our dean! 

All this is happening as a result of reading Paul Graham's "How to Do Great Work." 

I read Jeff Bezos' Amazon Shareholder Letters from 1997-2021. Needless to say, it was a transformative experience. So much can be learned from it.

I didn't just read it. I learned and studied it.

Now, I'm sharing it with you.

This is what 24 years of building one of the best companies out there can teach you.

What stood out to you?

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Robert K. Greenleaf is well-known for being an example of servant leadership.

Do you know who else is a great example of servant leadership?

Danny Meyer.

During Covid-19, Meyer's company, Union Square Hospitality Group, was forced to close 19 restaurants and lay off 2,000 people. At that time, he received an email from an employee who was pregnant and told him that her due date fell on the same day as her termination.

To deal with this, Meyer created an employee relief fund for Union Square Group members. As CEO, Meyer signed off on it and contributed 100% of his salary and gift card sales to it.

Yes, 100% of his salary.

They ended up raising $1.5 million which went to former employees.

If that isn't a great example of servant leadership, I don't know what it is.

What is your experience with servant leadership?

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Good morning. Today is another opportunity to do great work. Let's get to it.

Investor | Capital Raising & Firm Management | Chronically curious.

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I read Jeff Bezos' 1997 Amazon Shareholder Letter.  
 
Here are my biggest takeaways:  
 
1. Vision & Long-term Thinking: Jeff Bezos has a vision and goal for Amazon. To reach it, he decided to focus on long-term thinking. He states it early in his letter: Amazon focuses more on next year than next month.  
 
2. Customer-Centric Approach: He says it plainly "We will continue to focus relentlessly on our customers." This would become the Amazon mindset for many years to come. It still is the case today. 
 
3. Shareholder-Fit: He laid out Amazon's fundamental management and decision-making approach to make sure shareholders knew what they were getting into. He had no desire to have investors whose philosophy clashed with Amazon's.  
 
4. High-Standard Hiring: Bezos makes it a point to set high standards when it comes to hiring. He understands that it is incumbent on him to hire A-grade individuals.  
 
What are your biggest takeaways? 

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I'm always amazed at the quality of Jeff Bezos' analogies. Take a look at how he compares short-term and long-term thinking from the 2003 letter:

Good morning. Today is another opportunity to do great work. Let's get to it. 

The event was great. Next year this will be bigger, bolder, and better. Count on it.

This past Friday was a big day for our university! The 2024 Pitch Competition went underway and was a big success!!! We are so proud of our students who pitched their projects and business this year! We are so happy to see that Entrepreneurship is growing at Andrews University! 

And a warm thank you to our judges! 

Congratulations to the winners here’s the final rankings from the Judges ⬇️
1st Place: Zahra |Sofiia Ialysheva 
2nd Place: FreshNest | Edd Joseph
3rd Place: Breaking The Mold Ministry | Devonte Gilchrist
4th Place: MicroGreens | Parker Muhlenbeck
5th Place: The Treehouse Initiative | Michael Owusu
6th Place: Prehtis | Julison de Souza Mendonca 
7th Place: Follower | Ilka Ruiz 

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5 Smartest things I've heard this week: 
 
1. “Life and business is a repeat game.” - Patrick OShaughnessy 
 
2. "Your frequency is what you frequently see." - Dan Martell 
 
3. "The minimum level of diversification you need is the level that allows you to "zoom out."" - John Huber 
 
4. "If you can be accountable to how you respond to the situation, then that at least gives you agency." - Dan Martell 
 
5. “To distinguish what’s a good problem and what’s a problem that no one’s going to care about the answer to anyway—that’s taste. And I think I have good taste.” - Jim Simmons

A fascinating article on long-term growth: 


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