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= Regional and Economical Development Efforts =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c476-1868-88eb-861b95649127">[http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/new-blum-center-uc-merced-focus-valley-prosperity <span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/new-blum-center-uc-merced-focus-valley-prosperity</span>]</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c476-1868-88eb-861b95649127"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Blum Center at UC Merced is an extension of the original Blum Center from Berkeley, only recently founded from a seed grant. There are also centers at UC Davis, and UCLA. The Blum Center will have a specific focus on the Central Valley’s future prosperity. By utilizing interdisciplinary expertise from students with all different backgrounds, the Blum Center will be able to exercise a wide variety of projects in both Engineering Service Learning and Capstone projects. The Blum Center provides a unique perspective because of its location and high concentration of first generation college students.</span></span>
=== Engineers for a Suistainable World - KivaGreen ===
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c477-cf95-f449-9fc133ae2c12"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The KivaGreen project falls under the class titled ‘Engineers for a Sustainable World’ and is partnered with the nonprofit organization, Kiva. This project falls under Engineering Service Learning. This project has two primary goals: to function as a student trustee group for a subsidiary of Kiva, KivaZip, and to develop an environmental assessment tool for Kiva, a “Green Badge.” The student trustees endorse borrowers to be profiled on Kiva’s website where they can obtain crowd-sourced zero-interest microloans. The Green Badge is being adapted to include U.S. and global environmental standards, whose ultimate goal is to be used ubiquitously from all trustees to contribute to Kiva’s existing badge system. The badges are meant to highlight certain aspects of businesses that may sway otherwise reluctant lenders</span></span>
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