Corporate Engagement — Innovate and Collaborate

INNOVATE AND COLLABORATE

Two men wearing headphones sit at a table in a recording studio with microphones. Behind them, a screen displays the text Georgia on your Mind, highlighting Grady Corporate Engagement Collaboration. The room has soundproofing panels on the walls.

Take advantage of several opportunities to create an innovative learning experience benefiting students as well as our industry partners. Companies and organizations learn directly from students about sentiments and ways of communicating that effectively reach young adult consumers. Opportunities for national, small business or non-profit businesses are available through the College’s award-winning student-run agencies, including advertising, PR, social media, AI labs and video production.

Digital Natives

Digital Natives brings UGA journalism students with digital news expertise into newsrooms for one week to help local journalists accomplish specific digital goals. This innovative program, through the Cox Institute’s Journalism Innovation Lab, connects students and local news organizations benefiting both. Digital natives connect digitally savvy journalism majors to assist with a variety of digital tasks like optimizing social media, creating digital content on various platforms, and experimenting with new technologies, as well as audience engagement, and helps with disinformation. Students benefit from learning from these organizations by spending a week in a working newsroom environment. News organizations of any type can apply — newspaper, TV, radio, or digital — and will be chosen through an application process.

New Media Institute

Engage with the next generation of digital leaders by partnering with the New Media Institute (NMI). As a partner, your organization will work with talented, cross-disciplinary student teams to develop digital solutions designed for real-world industry applications. Through hands-on collaboration, organizations will work with students to apply new media technologies to create fully-realized prototypes. This is a unique opportunity to explore emerging technology and support a learning environment that inspires students to innovate and shape the future of new media.

Four people in business attire stand smiling beside a large sign thanking agency sponsors, including Luckie, BBDO, and Amazon Music, showcasing Grady Corporate Engagement Collaboration at an indoor event with a brick wall backdrop.

Talking Dog Agency

Talking Dog Agency is a student-led advertising and public relations agency that fosters innovation for both clients and members through next-generation perspectives. As a digital-first, insight-driven agency, Talking Dog provides next-generation solutions to clients and brands that need them most. Contact us to explore client collaboration opportunities and sponsorship.

TEDxUGA

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global platform dedicated to ideas worth spreading. TEDxUGA brings ideas from the University of Georgia and surrounding communities to a global audience every day. With over 11 years and 138 TEDxUGA talks, the program has 13 presenters featured on TED’s global platform with over 6.5 million views. Opportunities to sponsor and support the program’s growth and reach are available.

A group of people stand indoors, smiling and holding a large ceremonial check for $6,000 made out to Crisis Insights and Analytics Lab for a top research proposal, highlighting the Grady Corporate Engagement Collaboration on April 22, 2024.

The Hedge Fund

The Hedge Fund: Venture Between the Hedges is a “Shark Tank” style pitch competition with industry experts serving as the judges and investors for the winning team. Graduate students enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Crisis, Risk, and Disaster Communication (CRDC), compete on an industry challenge created by a team of senior level executives. The winning team’s proposal is supported by investor funding that contributes to industry research.