Truckee Meadows Community College issued the following announcement on June 4.
Dr. Kofi Poku, who is the faculty advisor for the Business and Entrepreneurship Club, was named Faculty Advisor of the Year.
In Spring 2021, TMCC’s Business and Entrepreneurship Club (BE Club) under the direction of Marketing Instructor Dr. Kofi Poku completed a community service project in collaboration with the Reno Burritos Project (RBP). RBP is a local non-profit organization that creates volunteer opportunities for students to make and distribute handmade burritos to homeless individuals in Reno on Sundays.
“This organization offers warm meals and compassion that those in the homeless community often do not receive,” Poku said. “Many BE members took time off from their busy schedules as students to volunteer to fulfill these noble acts.”
In addition to the hands-on work of making burritos, the BE Club raised $5,000 to purchase carts, rice cookers and bags of rice for the Reno Burritos Project. The BE Club will continue this fundraising effort by maintaining a GoFundMe page.
This is Poku’s second semester advising the BE Club, a role in which he is showing students how entrepreneurs can also be positive leaders in the community. In response, TMCC students awarded Poku with the Faculty Advisor of the Year Award for the 2020-2021 academic year.
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