MERRILL LYNCH, PEPSICO, GOLDMAN SACHS and GOOGLE RECRUITING UC BERKELEY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

 

~Lime event hosted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008~

 

NEW YORK, NY – Oct. 4, 2008 – Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo, Goldman Sachs and Google are recruiting UC Berkeley undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students with disabilities for a broad range of 2009 summer internships and full time positions. Hosted by New York-based not for profit Lime Connect (Lime) for their corporate partners, the events will be held on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 in International House's Chevron Auditorium located at 2299 Piedmont Avenue (at Bancroft Way) from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.  (Registration begins at 5:30 pm.)   For more details, and to register/RSVP, see www.limeconnect.com/upcoming-events.html.

 

Nationally, more than one in ten students on campus has a disability, and the majority of disabilities are "invisible."   With the understanding that students with disabilities represent an untapped source of intellectual capital, Lime's partners fully value the talent that they bring to the corporate work force, and are seeking to hire. For them, partnering with Lime is all about "being smart," not about "being nice."

 

"Lime is not your 'typical disability group,'" founder Rich Donovan said.   "We represent a fresh approach in the disability/business space, and we're here to introduce students with disabilities to opportunities for great careers at best-in-class companies.  And we do it all with a bit of an edge…"

 

Lime was founded in 2006 by Donovan, a Columbia MBA and former proprietary trader for Merrill Lynch in New York who happens to have cerebral palsy, to directly connect talented people with disabilities and global corporations for employment opportunities.  Longer term,

the organization and its partners are developing a global corporate standard to effectively and efficiently source, recruit, develop and market to people with disabilities.  For more information on Lime, visit www.limeconnect.com.

 

Lime's recruitment event for students with disabilities is co-hosted by University of California, Berkeley Career Services, Disabled Students' Program and the ASUC.

 

Contact:  Susan Lang

Lime Connect, Inc.

212.521.4469

813.758.0407 cell

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Cal Rotaract is also working with YES Reading to schedule a one-day event -- stay tuned for more information and updates!

 

 

ABOUT YES READING (taken from YESreading.com)

YES Reading is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering students through literacy and investing community members in underserved public schools. YES Reading recruits and trains community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring for elementary and middle school students reading below grade level. We partner with historically underresourced public schools and work closely with classroom teachers to provide a curriculum-based, results-oriented intervention for low-performing readers.

 

AVAILABLE READING CENTERS

• BERKLEY MAYNARD ACADEMY, Oakland
• SANCHEZ ELEMENTARY, San Francisco
  
• COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY, San Mateo
• SELBY LANE SCHOOL, Atherton
  
• BELLE HAVEN SCHOOL , East Menlo Park
  
• EAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL, East Palo Alto
• LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CHARTER, Oakland
• MARIANO CASTRO ELEMENTARY, Mountain View
• HORACE MANN ELEMENTARY, San Jose
• MONTAGUE ELEMENTARY, Santa Clara

 

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