My experience with the RedEye Coffee internship has been fantastic thus far. It is a real privilege to be able to learn from a business that is focused on having a positive social impact. After learning what a social enterprise is from several social entrepreneurship classes I have taken, I can see that this is the type of business that the contemporary world needs. Through social entrepreneurship classes, as well as this internship, I have learned about the importance of the triple bottom line that successful social businesses implement in their practice: People, Planet, and Profits.
This internship provides us with several skills that are beneficial to our future and our future social businesses. Through the mentoring of Mark McNees, founder of RedEye Coffee, We learn how to properly communicate with each other and come up with our own plans to run the coffee truck and make a profit. Mark taught us how to properly make a pro-forma for the events of our choosing, which allows us to estimate profits before we go out and do business. I have had the pleasure to help run the coffee truck at a 5k run located at the Young Actors Theatre last weekend, which was a great and fun opportunity to learn how to work at the coffee truck in a busy environment.
I look forward to continue working with Mark McNees and my team to make the best out of our experience with the RedEye internship. We will continue to learn how to create our own business plans and figure out how to make them feasible.
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