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ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024

United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT DESMOND PICCICUTO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.

Bentley University | Massachusetts, United States | Advancing SDG 12, SDG 11, SDG 17, SDG 8 & UNAI 4, UNAI 6

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" "Passion through collaboration is why I do what I do. My drive for a better world keeps me going, however, when I get to work with people who are just as passionate as I am about an issue, I feel their energy and feel even more motivated to make a difference in my community." "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Business for a Better Waltham

The students at Bentley University, supported by the Bentley Service-Learning
and Civic Engagement Center, learn that business can drive positive change.
Through this project, we aim to accelerate this process in our home city of
Waltham, Massachusetts.
Through this project, we will conduct research and engage with community
leaders to create a number of resource guides. We will create a guide to equip
Waltham businesses to advance social good (including, but not necessarily
limited to: effective community partnerships, ethical supply chain practices, and
sustainability) through their business practices. We will make a guide for
Waltham consumers that highlights businesses advancing social good, with
categories and indications of the social good that the organizations are
advancing. We will create a document that details business opportunities for
organizations advancing progress toward Sustainable Development Goals.
Lastly, working with civic leaders and business leaders in the city, and drawing
from accessible data, we will develop a resource that will serve as an overview
of community needs in Waltham.

About the Millennium Fellow

Desmond Piccicuto is an Undergraduate Accounting and Finance student at Bentley University. Desmond’s passion for bridging the opportunity disparity gap due to income inequality was developed through Bentley’s Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center. Growing up in Vermont, Desmond saw the limited access of income opportunity in his hometown and in lots of different parts of the state and wants to take this opportunity to help people who want more opportunity but cannot escape generational poverty. Desmond hopes to use his professional goals to help nonprofits that contribute to reducing the issue of opportunity disparity.

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