Ubuntu is a community of students and organizations working together to inspire thriving communities, locally and globally.

Promoting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) career integration, Ubuntu will connect employers to well rounded student leaders that understand how to apply their unique values and experiences to a successful business while strengthening inclusive communities.

Employment trends recognize that in order to maintain a growing and successful economy, the BIPOC community will play a critical role in fulfilling future jobs.

Ubuntu enables employers to easily increase their access to a pool of qualified and exceptional BIPOC students seeking employment. With the support of Ubuntu, these students are empowered to embrace their individuality and channel their tangible and intangible collaborative strengths which will prove valuable to the success of any organization. Ubuntu is creating a reciprocal community where everyone benefits from being strong economic contributors while experiencing the benefit and beauty of diversity.

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| Ubuntu Students

Ubuntu’s online certificate program provides practical tools to gain well rounded team building skills that employers look for instead of relying solely on a GPA. Our interactive workshops teach students how to lead with confidence and how their values and life experiences are a strength in the workplace, not a weakness. Students also have the opportunity to practice networking to connect with employers and build career networks.

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| CORE PURPOSE

To inspire thriving communities, locally and globally.

| CORE VALUES

Authentic
Be yourself

We
Achieving goals together

Inclusion
Creating bonds between individuals, groups and organizations

Determination
We need to do better

| The Ubuntu Story

An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others’ hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run together when one person could have had all the fruits for himself, they said: “Ubuntu! How can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?” (The original source has not been found) ‘Ubuntu’ in the Xhosa language means: “i am because we are”. The Ubuntu logo is inspired by an African mandala. It depicts a sun as the outer circle, rendered in an Indigenous haida art style representing life giving abundance/environment/world, encompassing a circle of people (prong shapes) standing in conjoined solidarity, with a common heart at the center.

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