Clubs & Associations

Impact Week
Impact Week is a weeklong series of events that bring together thought leaders and founders of mission-driven businesses across a variety of industries to explore solutions to our world’s biggest challenges, share best practices and inspire social change. The events include powerful and informative workshops, panels, screenings, network mixers and more. Learn about Impact Week here.

Net Impact National Conference
The Net Impact National Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. Join us at our next conference to fast-track your own path to impact and join a movement of others passionate about changing the world.

Days-on-the-Job (DOJs)
The Days-on-the-Job program offers Anderson students the chance to experience impact organizations first-hand with a guided tour and Q&A by company leads. Previous DOJs have included visits to the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), Reformation, Align Impact, Swell Investing, IDEO, Kiva, TOMS, New School Venture Fund, REDF, Revolution Foods, Bridgespan and Patagonia.

Net Impact Consulting Challenge (NICC)
The NICC case competition pairs teams of students with local nonprofit organizations to tackle strategic challenges in marketing, operations, finance and leadership. In addition to having the opportunity to learn about real-world challenges, work outside of the classroom and present recommendations to nonprofit clients, student teams also compete for prize money.

Social Impact Consulting Corps (SICC)
SICC is a three-month pro bono consulting engagement that matches groups of Anderson students with socially driven organizations in the Los Angeles area to solve real business problems. Throughout the program, students have opportunities to gain real-life consulting experience in the impact space while earning course credits.

High-Impact Tea Speaker Series
Together with the Center for Impact, Net Impact hosts prominent leaders, faculty and alumni to share their research and experiences in social impact through panels. Past speakers have included Tara Russell, Jessica Blotter, Blair Taylor (’90), Hugh Chang (’90) and Nike Irvin (’89).

Impact Career Pods
Net Impact's career pods gives Anderson students coaching and peer support to a pursue roles that are impact-related. Impact career pods enable students to develop skills and receive guidance to source roles, prep for interviews, and build career opportunities and connections.

Board Fellows
The Board Fellows program places first-year students on boards of directors of local partner nonprofit organizations as non-voting members for one calendar year (January through December). Through the program, students have the opportunity to sit on a local board and learn about nonprofit board governance, support a nonprofit’s strategy and develop relationships with impact-minded classmates, alumni and leading business professionals across the Los Angeles.

Dinners for Eight (D48s)
The Dinner for Eight (D48) program allows Anderson students to spend time together over a shared meal and build stronger connections as a like-minded community. D48 hosts volunteer their time simply as an opportunity for networking and constructive dialogue. Participating in dinners is a great way to establish long-lasting relationships.

Socials
Cook-outs, lunches, happy hours, volunteering events and mixers with fellow Net Impact members, other groups and alumni are all fantastic ways to get to know your community and brainstorm ideas for how to change the world.

Haskamp Fellowship
The Haskamp Fellowship was created in honor of Heiko Haskamp, an Anderson MBA student who was also an accomplished athlete, skilled electrical engineer and successful businessman. After Haskamp passed away in 1987, the fellowship was created to support students interested in using their valuable MBA skills in nonprofits or socially or environmentally focused internships. Recipients are selected from the first-year class through an application, essay and interview process overseen by the Center for Impact and the Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The Haskamp Fellowship makes it possible for UCLA Anderson MBA students to work with nonprofit/public organizations, while those nonprofit/public organizations benefit from expertise they may not otherwise be able to afford.