Bright New Ideas has opened a part-time Director of fund raising position for 2008.  The title of this position will be “Bright New Ideas Contributions Development Director” Please view our entire Craigslist Post for more info or to apply.

Bright New Ideas has been featured in the summer 2007 issue of “Legacy” the magazine for University of Minnesota Donors and Friends. Bright New Ideas was featured prominently on the back cover, using a photo taken by Bright New Ideas Officer Trisha Qualy. The article, published by the University of Minnesota Foundation and which can be viewed in full below, mentions Carlson School of Management student Trisha Qualy’s work on the Bright New Ideas business plan.

Summer 2007 Issue of UMN Legacy – Bright New Ideas

Throughout 2006 and 2007 as a part of its awareness-building and fund raising efforts, Bright New Ideas participated in the 2007 International Mondialogo Engineering Award Competition sponsored by DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO. An engineering and business team composed of students and an adviser from the University of Minnesota partnered with an engineering team composed of students from the National Engineering University, Nicaragua worked together to achieve this prestigious award. An image of the certification letter can be seen below.

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Bright New Ideas has become a finalist in the Third Global Knowledge Summit, to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 11th-13th. 

 Links to other finalists can be found here.  Our application is shown under the catagory, “Latin America.”

Bright New Ideas is proud to announce it has that effective July 19th, 2006 (approximately one year prior) achieved classification as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.  Contributions to our organization of any size are now tax deductible.  Previously, donations to our organization had been tax-deductible by virtue of the fact that our organization has had yearly contribution receipts totaling less than $5000.

From this date forward we will be better able to fulfill our current mission of bringing light to those in need in Nicaragua.

Bright New Ideas was covered in the Minnesota Daily this month for its work done in Nicaragua.

You can view the article here at the Minnesota Daily Article about Bright New Ideas Online.

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Bright New Ideas was covered today in WCCO 4 News in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.  A writeup of the article as well as the video can be seen here.

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This month, Bright New Ideas has worked toward sourcing solar lighting which will be used as a test case in Nicaragua.  Bright New Ideas members from Minnesota hope to travel to Nicaragua in August to meet members in Nicaragua, as well as learn about lifestyles of those in rural areas without electricity.

Bright New Ideas co-founder Patrick Delaney has won first place in the IEEE Student Paper contest for his paper, “ESMAP Standardized Solar Lanterns.”  This award included a $400 prize which will go toward the purchase of solar lighting for people in Nicaragua.

Bright New Ideas founder Patrick Delaney was covered in the St. Paul Pioneer Press this week. The article describes some of the work accomplished thus far by the Bright New Ideas team.

• Pioneer Press Part I
• Pioneer Press Part II