YSU Enactus donates computers

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Enactus, a student entrepreneurship group at Youngstown State University, used proceeds from a $1,500 grant to donate four laptop computers to the Beatitude House.

Enactus, based in the YSU Williamson College of Business Administration, meets on campus biweekly and offers the opportunity for students to develop entrepreneurial skills and to serve the community.

Beatitude House is a nonprofit nondenominational corporation of the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown that addresses the needs of disadvantaged women and children.

Donna Walsh, Enactus faculty adviser, and Corey J. Patrick, president, applied for and received the $1,500 grant through the Enactus/Walmart Women’s Economic Empowerment Project.

Enactus won the grant for its volunteer efforts in offering financial empowerment training sessions to the women served by the Beatitude House. Topics covered in the training sessions were understanding financial abuse, learning financial fundamentals, mastering credit basics, building financial foundations and creative budgeting strategies.

The computers will help women served by the Beatitude House to explore and apply for jobs, complete their General Educational Development certificate and pursue further educational opportunities. The computers were purchased from the Walmart Store in Hermitage, Pa., which donated product-care plans for each computer.

Enactus students involved in the project are Patrick, Gianna Centofanti, Jacob Powell, Margie Lateef, Carissa Sechrist, Mirna Tatic, Julian Rosales, Evan Richards, Jenna Loader, Nicole Pilolli and Madeline Grimes.