{"id":3826,"date":"2022-04-07T15:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2025-02-11T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:20:31","slug":"business-analytics-intern-helps-urban-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/07\/business-analytics-intern-helps-urban-nonprofit\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Analytics Intern Helps Urban Nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column3826_6d2279-fe dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p>Jada Brinkley, a Wilmington University senior majoring in Business Analytics, is an intern at the Wilmington Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and inclusion, promoting the collective good, and community-based interventions to halt violence in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a win-win-win relationship. Brinkley is helping staffers at the Alliance to more fully understand the data collection and reporting capabilities of Apricot 360, a software platform extensively utilized by nonprofits. In addition, her work will help Alliance leaders make strategic recommendations on using data to impact their investments in community initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, Brinkley is gaining hands-on experience she can harness in developing her career. Second, the Alliance is benefiting from her knowledge. And third, WilmU is helping to better the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInternship programs are an essential part of our program,\u201d says Dr. Kathy Ratajack-Kennedy, dean of the College of Business.&nbsp;\u201cStudents gain on-the-job opportunities that help them apply the theoretical concepts from the classroom to a real-world experience.&nbsp;We are proud of the relationships that we have with industry leaders and for their willingness to provide our students with the opportunity for career exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jada Brinkley, a Wilmington University senior majoring in Business Analytics, is an intern at the Wilmington Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-business"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}],"post_tag":[{"value":71,"label":"College of Business"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AcademicDigest_Image_Business_04-22-480x480.jpg",480,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel Marchione","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/rachel\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","slug":"academic-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":559,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":460,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":460,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","category_nicename":"academic-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":71,"name":"College of Business","slug":"college-of-business","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":628,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":92,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16042,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/16042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}