University Faculty Members Gain an Education in Volunteering
By Boubacar Vilane October 11, 2017
In addition, Harvesters, which is a certified member of the national network Feeding America (and the group’s “Food Bank of the Year” in 2011), offers education programs to increase community awareness of hunger and teach about good nutrition.
As part of our University’s Grantham Gives Back philanthropic and community volunteer program, seven members of the Academics department volunteered recently at Harvesters, and spent half the day visiting the organization’s main facility in Kansas City, Mo. They became hunger advocates, sorting and packaging foods, and helping plan healthy meals.
We caught up with these faculty members to ask them why they chose to volunteer at Harvesters. Here’s what they had to say …
About Dr. Boubacar Vilane
Dr. Boubacar Vilane spent more than a decade in the financial, banking and real estate industries working for Edward Jones, State Street Bank, KeyBank Real Estate Capital and J.P Morgan. He holds a series 7. 6 and 63 FINRA/SEC licenses. Vilane earned a Master of Business Administration from Emporia State University and a Master in Economics from Cheikh Anta Diop University. He then went on to earn a Doctorate in Business Administration at Columbia Southern University.
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