ProConnect Program at UT Dallas

In the spirit of North Texas Giving Day, I would like to ask if you would consider giving in any amount to the Jim Friedberg ProConnect Opportunity Fund. We just received a $1000 donation from a partner of our program and we only need $1200 more to get endowed! Would you consider a donation of $10 or $20 or more if you were impacted by ProConnect? We have completed over 224 projects and 1,000 students have worked with ProConnect.

Giving Page - Jim Friedberg ProConnect Opportunity Fund - The University of Texas at Dallas Pictured is Jim Friedberg receiving the Jindal School “Selfless Heart” Owlie Award in 2015 from Dean Hasan Pirkul. He fully exemplifies the meaning of the Owlie – Outstanding, Worthy Leaders, Involved Exceptionally.

Great news from Tiger House Hat Shop!

We are coming up on 1 Year This Month. It has been a great year. Because of your support we will be moving into a bigger shop Ste. #300- Store Front
Sept.1st, with street access for your convenience. As well as bringing on more hat companies and Sports Gear. The Customer Appreciation Will be scheduled. Saturday
Sept 14. In our New Location.
Thank you very much for your support
Tiger House Hat Shop

ProConnect (which is part of my ACCT 6388 - Accounting Communications course) offers students an opportunity to be a consultant and do some of the functions of a new accountant (research / performing work all the way up to partner (client engagement letter, client relationship building, and closing meetings). I have seen such transformations in students from this course. This can be in the way of increased confidence, ability to handle nebulous situations better, or researching challenges a client has.

Everyone can benefit from a mentor. I try to be that mentor to students in this class. Why? Because I have had excellent mentors in my life. One of those was Jim Friedberg. Not only was he a mentor to me, he helped many UTD students challenge themselves in the hard parts of soft skills development. Before Jim would work with a student one on one, he would ask them "Will you do everything I ask you to do even if it is hard?" If the student didn't do what he asked him to do, he knew he could not be successful with them.

The Jim Friedberg ProConnect Opportunity Fund, which is my passion for today for Giving Day 2019 strives to raise money to support the initiative. We have had over 995 students do 224 different projects since we started in Summer 2015. Today I would like to ask you to spread the word about this great program to people who may want to support this vision. I have this all over Twitter, Facebook and Linked In if you want to like, share, post about your experience in ProConnect, or more! If nothing else, help me get 100 donors so you can see me give another $100!

Here is the link: https://bit.ly/2HPQJZP

Help us "Build the Future, One Project at a Time".

Thank you for helping me pass the word.....
Sincerely,
Mary Beth Goodrich