Presentation: Using business techniques to accomplish social goals of a target population, social entrepreneurship is emerging as a prominent part of society and as a field of research. It is deeply embedded in the nonprofit sector and some nonprofit organizations use social entrepreneurship as a form of revenue. The understanding, development, and implementation of social entrepreneurship are important not only for the continued success of the nonprofit sector, but also because it creates innovative and positive changes in a community. 


Evaluator: Dudley

Presentation: What are PEO’s and HRO’s? Why are American businesses seeking these services?  What is the future of traditional Human Resource functions and the professionals that manage them? The future of American Business will be discussed.

Evaluator: Nance

Presentation: Mental Illness affects everyone; chances are you either know someone with mental illness or will experience it personally sometime in your life. Easy to overlook because of the lack of physical symptoms, mental illness is a devastating disease that often destroys the emotional well being of individuals. An in-depth look at the causes, the surprising statistics, and the stigma surrounding the disease will be presented.

Evaluator: Leak-Speas

Presentation: Women are CHAMPIONS of the day and night.  How are they continuing to get the job done, while balancing successful careers and home life?  Come share a few moments with me and learn more about challenges women face in attaining unlimited success in "Corporate America" and how they effectively overcome them.

Evaluator: Jordan

Presentation: Employees are more productive when they are given the opportunity to be motivated in various ways. In addition to receiving a salary, employees work more effectively when different rewards are available. Employees also perform at a higher quality when the relationship between co-workers and managers is healthy. Also, in this presentation, several motivation theories will be discussed and their impact on techniques used by employers.


Evaluator: Nance

Presentation: An intimate look at the life, sacrifice and calling to God of Trappist monks of the past and present is the focus of this presentation. Participants will review how this life relates to today’s modern, fast paced world. What has changed within monastic orders to keep pace with the outside world and what hasn’t will be discussed. What brings a man to this ancient lifestyle will be presented.


Evaluator: Martin

Presentation: Studies have been completed regarding women and domestic violence, but women are not the only victims. What happens to children of these relationships? Children often suffer emotional and sometimes physical abuse, experience a considerable amount of distress, and run the risk of being in an abusive relationship themselves later in their life. How to prevent domestic violence and its affect on children will be presented with a particular emphasis on cultural prevention methods.

Evaluator: Ayers

Presentation: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) promotes a vision of accountability to a wide range of stakeholders in the global marketplace. But is it all a sham? Do corporations really do what they say they will do? Concerns include the well-being of employees, the community and environmental sustainability. The current state of CSR and why it matters will be discussed.

Evaluator: Crotty

Presentation: What is Autism? How does Autism effect our youth today and how can we educate children with Autism in the same classroom setting with children that appear to be normal?


Evaluator: Jones

Presentation: This presentation will examine the North Carolina Department of Social Services and their practices regarding child neglect. How professionals at Child Protective Services tend to minimize child neglect cases and focus more on child abuse cases will be discussed. Considerations for Child Protective Services professionals which could lead to better case load management to favor child neglect issues will also be presented.

Evaluator: Hultgren

Presentation: This presentation reveals various barriers to communication within the family. These barriers as well as their associated effects on the family will be presented. Options are explored which can begin the breakdown of the communication barriers that will enable  clearer communication channels and resulting in more positive family relations. Discussion areas will include spousal, parent/child, and elder/adult child family relations.

Evaluator: McGrath

Presentation: For years people have been discussing gender differences within the workplace that cause the problems that managers deal with today.  Managers have been trying to resolve these issues by implementing effective policies within their businesses. This presentation will discuss the most common gender differences such as sexual harassment, drug and alcohol abuse, and discrimination. By researching and studying these issues, one could implement policies in the workplace to minimize future problems.


Evaluator: Carter

Presentation: Personalities mold several group behavior processes.  Three personality models will be used to aid in the explanation of five different factors of group behavior.  The group factors that will be presented are conflict, negotiation, communication, attitude and atmosphere, and group members.  If your group is not successful, this presentation will shed light on new ways to improve your group processes.


Evaluator: Jordan

Presentation: Technology has impacted the work environment in a powerful way. It has caused change and revolutionized the idea of a regular 9-5 work day. A question to be asked however is whether technology and the internet have changed the work environment in a positive or negative way. This presentation will explore the question about technology in the workplace as a help or hindrance?

Evaluator: Ayers

Presentation: Children today encounter danger from unlimited multifacted sources. These sources may be in their home or in their pocket with an open door to the world wide web. The world web has developed into one of the largest resources for child predators. Participants will learn how to protect their children from these predators and how difficult this can be as the internet continues its growth.

Evaluator: Martin

Presentation: This presentation will utlize group dynamics theories and common 21st century workplace practices to explore manager approaches to creating and maintaining work teams.  This interactive session will be filled with good information that is supported by secondary research.

Evaluator: Samuels

Presentation: An examination of the major cultural differences that effect international public relations practices in an increasingly globalized world.  Topics will include highlights of the major cultural dimensions of a society and how each dimension has an impact on the public relations practices within the country.  This presentation will focus primarily on the differences between Western culture and Eastern cultures.  Examples of major public relations errors that have occurred due to the lack of knowledge of cultural differences will be discussed.


Evaluator: Hultgren

Presentation: With health insurance costs increasingly escalating, employers are taking on most of the financial burden in order to attract the very best employees.  In order to reduce the cost of high insurance costs, employers are implementing employee wellness programs to improve the health and productivity of their employees.  Some may argue that employees should take personal responsibility for making healthy lifestyle choices on their own.  This presentation demonstrates the advantages of employee wellness programs to both employers and employees.

Evaluator: Leak-Speas

Presentation: Advertisements exert an immense amount of influence on society perception of the product being advertised especially in advertising of sports and products related to sports.  Most of the previous research conducted on this topic has centered on competitive sports at high school, college, and the professional levels.  Much of this research argues that sports and the advertising involved serve as a social control that promote and protect gender stereotypes and gender inequalities that have existed for decades.  Adventure sports such as scuba diving are no exception when it comes to advertising exhibiting evidence of gender inequalities and the fostering of gender stereotypes.  By looking at product advertisements in scuba diving magazines and coding each for evidence of gender stereotypes and gender inequalities it shows how a leisure sport is not immune from using society’s perception of gender to its advantage in marketing and advertising in order to sell a product.

Evaluator: Samuels

Presentation: Transplants of human organs are becoming routine.  However, bone marrow and blood stem cell transplants with unrelated donors are relatively new.  Is medical science playing God with transplants? What are the ethical concerns surrounding transplants. What issues face the donor and the recipient? These issues will be presented and discussed.

Evaluator: Jordan

Presentation: Everywhere we go we interact with other humans.  The majority of how we communicate and "read others" is through nonverbal communication or body language.  This presentation will deliver an overview of what constitutes nonverbal behavior, explain how important it is as a social skill, and give an awareness of how body language impacts  interpersonal relationships in regards to creating win-win situations in human relations.  

Evaluator: Nance

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This presentation will provide an in-depth look at an individual's handwriting and what it reveals about their personality. The audience will be asked to participate in an interactive self-assessment of their own handwriting samples.

Evaluator: McGrath

Presentation: People take part in volunteering on a daily basis in America. How is volunteering defined? Who takes part in these acts of kindness? Who engages in these activities and what benefits do they reap from them? What role does religion play into this? How do we as America shape up to the volunteering efforts of other countries? All of these questions and more will be addressed when we take an indepth look at why we volunteer.

Evaluator: Stanley-Stroud

Presentation: This presentation will examine the research on the factors that impact children and their achievement in school. These factors play a major role in a child's life and include environment, role of parents and their parenting styles, roles of teachers, attitudes, testing in schools, and their perception on school.  Discussions will focus on the problems for the underachievement of students, especially African-American students.


Evaluator: Jones

Presentation: This presentation will demonstrate how public relations teams effectively and strategically deal with crisis management. Examples of contemporary issues in high profile cases will be discussed.  Effective and ineffective examples will be introduced to highlight exemplary crisis management.


Evaluator: Crotty

Presentation: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is often viewed by American society in a confusing manner. This presentation will address societal and familial understanding's of the educational and therapeutic challenges affecting children in the 21st Century  

Evaluator: Ayers

Presentation: Do you find yourself wondering where you put your keys?  Over time, the brain experiences normal age-related memory loss.  This happens for many reasons.   An understanding of the differences between Alzheimer's and Dementia, as well as the signs, symptoms, and who could be at risk will be presented.

Evaluator: Jones

Presentation: In today’s society, an increasing number of mental illnesses are becoming more frequent due to the generational gap and economic hardships.  Depression is a prevailing illness that is slowly and quietly taking over corporate America.  It is essential to evaluate its effects and outcomes through numerous perspectives to fully understand its effect on the work environment.   The causes and consequences of this illness within the professional work environment will be discussed.


Evaluator: Carter

Presentation: Work and family stress can have an adverse effect on relationships in the workplace. If handled correctly, it can also lead to better relationships.  It can be impacted by the type of job you have, your gender, and your family structure. Stress that is left unchecked leads to problems with relationships that crossover from work to home and vice versa, but organizations are working to fix the problems.


Evaluator: McGrath

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Evaluator: McGrath

Presentation: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has numerous effects on company performance and organizational reputation. This presentation will address the history of CSR as well as recent growth and development in today's environment. Discussion will include several different strategies to measure CSR activity. CSR is a valuable aspect of business today and allows managers to perform better financially, create a positive organizational reputation, and enhance the trust of consumers and shareholders.


Evaluator: Nance

Presentation: This presentation will present Oppositional Cultural Theory as a possible explanation for the existence of an educational gap between races and why efforts to close the gap are falling short of the mark.

Evaluator: Carter

Presentation: Is diversity affecting your workplace?  Want to learn how? This presentation will explain what workplace diversity is, the benefits of diversity, and its challenges. Cultural differences, individual training, leadership, and the outlook for the future will be discussed.


Evaluator: Stanley-Stroud

Presentation: A discussion of Anger and effective ways to manage anger without violence will be presented.  The factors involved in anger and the treatment options available will lead the presentation followed by the styles, causes and processes of anger.  Warning signs and the risk for violence due to anger will be addressed.  The concern for counseling and the benefits of counseling will conclude the discussion in addition to overcoming the issue of anger and violence. 

Evaluator: Jordan

Presentation: The focus of this presentation is to convey to leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations the need to recognize and develop specific plans to recruit and retain older volunteers within their organizations.  Specifically, the Baby Boomers represent the largest generation in our country’s history and can provide many benefits to nonprofit organizations.  Nonprofit organizations need to take advantage of this unprecedented resource to expand their volunteer capacity to better serve the future needs of their communities.

Evaluator: Stanley-Stroud

Presentation: This presentation will explore race as a social construct and what has created and perpetuates "race." Additionally, the "browning of America" and multiracial identity as it pertains to the future of race will be discussed.

Evaluator: Stanley-Stroud

Presentation: This study draws on secondary data collected on juveniles between the ages of six and fifteen by the High Point Police Department between 1998 and 2008. The focus of my analysis is on juveniles who obtained two or more physical assault charges which include: simple assault; simple assault and battery; assaults on government officials; assaults inflicting serious injury; and assault with a deadly weapon. Relying on Freud’s psychodynamic theory I offer an explanation for why some groups of juveniles are more likely than others to engage in acts of physical violence. I conclude my presentation with a discussion of two programs: the public health approach as well as the comprehensive approach and their potential for controlling the violent tendencies of some juveniles.


Evaluator: Dudley

Presentation: Effective public relations is shown through teamwork, reaching the organizations goals, and creating feedback among employees. When effective public relations is utilized then the organization can be a success.  In this presentation, how to accomplish effective public relations will be demonstrated including a historical perspective on the field.


Evaluator: Jones