How Duke’s Fuqua Volunteer Corps Helps Nonprofits Navigate the COVID-19 Crisis Many students who graduated in May fell victim to an environment of increased unemployment and scarce job opportunities. Due to COVID-19, hiring effectively stopped —and the job market remains challenging. JEREMY PETRANKA, ASSISTANT DEAN, MQM PROGRAM “For a lot of students, it’s easy in a pandemic to just feel lost. It was important for us that they feel supported by Fuqua and by DataCamp. Being able to say early on that DataCamp was behind them made them feel really valued. And they were doing something that was important because nonprofits are definitely struggling.”The Fuqua Volunteer Corps (FVC) is a volunteer network of Duke’s business school students and recent graduates that supports nonprofits

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