Partnership with Boston College

Through the Consulting for Social Impact (CSI) club at Boston College, students have the

opportunity to utilize various personal talents, ranging from the artistic to the quantitative, in the pursuit of Element Hope’s mission to protect our planet’s oceans and their inhabitants.

Whether developing educational programming for grade school students, or creating a budget of projected expenditures, club members are able to gain actionable work experience in a socially conscious environment through their collaboration with EH.

The CSI club operates by breaking members into a variety of “pods” based on interest,

and each pod works with an individual nonprofit organization over the course of the semester. EH was lucky enough to be selected as a partner nonprofit, allowing students to help it develop and grow, while shaping it through their own personal interests as well. In turn, the students gained insight into how a nonprofit operates and how they can use their skills to affect real change.

Club members work with EH out of a genuine interest in and passion for marine conservation, allowing the organization to source both work and ideas from students. The results of this collaboration are plain to see; from back-end operations such as budget planning, to the website that you are reading this post on, Boston College students had a hand in shaping many foundational elements of the organization.

While pods in CSI normally wrap their work with a given nonprofit at the end of the

semester, some students with EH have chosen to stay on and continue collaborating and working throughout the summer and into Fall 2019.

"When I transferred to BC, I was fairly focused on a traditional finance career, despite a

strong personal interest in conservation. In my experience, environmental work and 'business' had always been portrayed as incompatible. I’m grateful to Element Hope for showing me otherwise, and I’m really excited to continue working with them in the Fall."

-Eddie Bryan, rising senior at Boston College