YSU students exchange marketing ideas with Pittsburgh Cultural Trust students

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University students visited a city about an hour from Youngstown, to appreciate its culture and gather new marketing ideas.

YSU’s Nonprofit Leadership group took the $800 trip to Pittsburgh, funded by the Student Government Association, in December to challenge students participating in a Regional Case Study Exercise at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

The exercise gave students the chance to brainstorm ideas about marketing and use for a space within in the Trust Arts Education Center – where they were housed for the day.

Laura Dewberry, YSU’s Nonprofit Leadership director, most enjoyed seeing her students interact with “seasoned nonprofit professionals.”

“I really think [the students] helped and made these other professionals think,” she said. “I hope they gave each other ideas they maybe haven’t thought of. It is truly a team effort.”

Tabitha Richmond, Nonprofit Leadership group president, of Austintown, agreed: The volume of ideas circulating in the room she worked in for the day gave her fuel to bring back to her internship in Youngstown with Junior Achievement.

Read more about the event in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.