SIFE working with students in Laredo, Texas

SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) is a global non-profit organization active on over 1800 college and university campuses in over 40 countries and territories. SIFE is funded by financial contributions from corporations, entrepreneurs, foundations, government agencies and individuals. Working in partnership with business and higher education, SIFE establishes student teams on university campuses. These teams are led by faculty advisors and they are challenged to develop community outreach projects that reach SIFE's five educational topics:

• Market Economics
• Success Skills
• Entrepreneurship
• Financial Literacy
• Business Ethics

SIFE Team members leverage their personal educational experiences, the expertise of their faculty advisors, the support of their local business advisory boards and the resources of their institutions to implement programs that create real economic opportunities for members of their communities.

The effectiveness of their programs are judged at competition. Each national SIFE organization conducts a national competition, which is judged by leaders from its business community. At competition, SIFE Teams present the results of their educational outreach projects and compete to determine which team was most successful at creating economic opportunity for others. SIFE National Champion Teams advance to the top level of competition, the SIFE World Cup.

Drury SIFE was founded in 1997 and has been named SIFE USA National Champions three times (2001, 2003, & 2005) and World Cup Champions twice (2001 & 2003). Our work has been featured on CNNfn, NBC'S Today Show, and USA Today as well as Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes cereal boxes.