Ridebuzz and UMASS collaboration
Professor Doron Goldman is integrating Ridebuzz into his Personal Sales and Marketing Class curriculum to provide students with real-world learning experiences that incorporate social, environmental, and economic responsibility. Students will apply their learning to help promote and expand Ridebuzz, which will directly provide benefits to the community in the form of accessible and sustainable transportation options that save the community vast amounts of money. Sharing rides and leaving the other cars parked cuts the emissions and the economic expenditure in half. Americans spend roughly a quarter of every dollar on passenger transportation, which emits nearly 25% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Ridebuzz
Ridebuzz.org is a non-profit committed to helping people share rides and provides the community with a free online ridesharing resource:www.Ridebuzz.org that helps connect people. Ridebuzz has enabled ridesharing for organizations such as the Food Bank Farm of Western Mass, and is launching Ridesharing Networks for the Town of Amherst Employees and the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, as well as has Networks available to the 5 colleges.
Press Release
The official unveiling of the new Ridebuzz Coffee - launched in collaboration with Deans Beans: The Press is cordially invited as 400 eager students bear witness to this special event that will take place at the UMASS Isenberg School of Management. Ridebuzz.org Founder, Jeffrey D. Brown and Dean’s Beans Founder, Dean Cycon (author of Java Trekker) will unveil the new Community Supporting Ridebuzz Coffee to the world - followed by a presentation by Dean Cycon about his company’s beneficial people-centered development work in the coffee-lands. Dean’s Beans is donating all of their profits from the sale of Ridebuzz Coffee to support Ridebuzz’s innovative non-profit rideshare initiative, which provides free online services to the community (www.ridebuzz.org).
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“Drinking Coffee has never been so good for the world (Jeffrey D. Brown).”
The students attending this event will be working with Ridebuzz during the semester to take action with experiential learning projects that will make a real-world of difference by helping get the Community Supporting Ridebuzz Coffee to Market - enhancing Ridebuzz’s positive mission to provide low-cost and sustainable transportation options that help increase access to under-served communities. This next generation will be the business leaders of tomorrow, and they will witness first hand as two responsible organizations team up to address environmental, social, and economic challenges.
