Making My Mark on the World

Hey y'all so I decided to do something a little different today for the blog. Hope you like it!

My Staff Bio!
http://www.carolinacrossconnection.org/meganemerson

Peace and Blessings y'all!
Megan

Mission Work in the Corporate World

As graduation comes closer and closer, I have been trying to decide what I want to do with my Public Relations degree. I worked on a nonprofit concentration and have worked with different nonprofits over the last four years.

As I look through different organizations and other PR jobs, I have found that I keep gravitating to Community Affair centered jobs especially in sports. Did you know that the NFL is considered as a nonprofit organization? Crazy, right! Other professional sports teams, like the MLB, NBA, NASCAR and the NHL, are not considered to be nonprofit but many do have in-house foundations.

This lead me to think, how easy is it for a large corporation to be involved with the local community. Major League Baseball has a community website MLB Community that connects fans to different club initiatives as well as MLB initiatives.

At the April 7, 2014 Oakland-Minnesota game, both teams and the fans "Stood Up to Cancer" in support of the Minnesota Twins General Manager Terry Ryan and others affected by cancer. The video above shows one partnership between the MLB and Stand Up to Cancer. The MLB Community website also provides fans and teams other opportunities to get involved with charities such as local Habitat for Humanity organizations as well as national charities such as Make-A-Wish and Baseball Tomorrow Fund.

For more information on Stand Up to Cancer please go to standup2cancer.org.

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Corporate Social Responsibility is becoming such a large part of corporate day-to-day operation and as a fan of nonprofit organizations, I cannot wait to see how partnerships are formed across the world.