Ole Miss Big Event

Name

Ole Miss Big Event

Legal name

The Ole Miss Big Event

Website

https://bigevent.olemiss.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Service Programs

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (81331)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Fundraisers & Charity Events (Gala/Walks excluded) (MPAGAEAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Road Running Events (Marathons, Half Marathons, 10K/5K) (MPAKAIAA)

Keywords

• Community service programs
• Volunteer coordination
• Student service initiatives
• University community engagement
• Campus outreach programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Oxford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Community Service Program: The Ole Miss Big Event is a free community service program run by University of Mississippi students. There is no revenue generated as this is a volunteer service initiative. Funding for operations likely comes from university support or fundraising activities such as percentage days at local restaurants.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Ole Miss Big Event is a free, university-affiliated community service program that organizes a flagship annual one-day volunteer event in which University of Mississippi students complete landscaping, painting, cleaning, and other property-improvement projects for residents and organizations in the Oxford and Lafayette County area. Beyond the annual Big Event, the program runs year-round service and fundraising activities such as the Cupid Run, Fall Day of Service, and percentage days at local restaurants to sustain engagement and funding.

Product overview

The Ole Miss Big Event is a single, unified community service program run by the University of Mississippi's Office of the Dean of Students. It consists of two main offerings: (1) The Big Event — the flagship one-day annual service event launched in 2010, where students volunteer for community improvement projects in the Lafayette-Oxford-University area; and (2) Year-Round Service Initiatives — ongoing fundraising and service activities including the Cupid Run, Fall Day of Service, and percentage days at local restaurants. The program is not a software product or technology platform; it is a student volunteer coordination service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Big Event (One-Day Community Service) The flagship annual one-day community service event in which University of Mississippi students volunteer to assist local Lafayette-Oxford-University community members with projects including yard work, landscaping, painting, and cleaning. Volunteers register through the ForUM platform; community members request projects through a Qualtrics form or email.
• Year-Round Service Initiatives (Cupid Run, Fall Day of Service, Percentage Days) Ongoing service and fundraising activities including the Cupid Run race, Fall Day of Service, and percentage days at local restaurants that raise awareness and funds for the Big Event and encourage student volunteering throughout the year.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,000+ student volunteers completing 300+ community projects in a single day (2012)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Texas A&M UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexas A&M University served as the inspiration and model for the Ole Miss Big Event. Student leaders and staff visited Texas A&M to learn about their day of service model, which led to the creation of the Big Event at Ole Miss in 2010. This was an initial informational partnership rather than an ongoing collaborative relationship.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• UT Austin The Big Event: Another university in the Big Event network that runs an annual one-day, university-wide community service event with student volunteers completing projects for local residents. Directly comparable in structure, scale ambitions, and student-led operating model to Ole Miss Big Event.
• University of Oklahoma Big Event: OU Big Event runs the same model — one-day, university-wide service mobilization — as Ole Miss Big Event, drawing on the Texas A&M-originated concept. Comparable in mission, volunteer profile, and community-based project scope.
• LSU Day of Service: LSU's annual student-led community service mobilization targeting the Baton Rouge community. Operates the same template as Ole Miss Big Event, with students completing home and community improvement projects in a single day.
• University of Alabama Big Event: The University of Alabama's adaptation of the Big Event model, organizing thousands of student volunteers to complete community service projects in Tuscaloosa in a single day. Directly comparable structure and target audience to Ole Miss Big Event.
• Texas A&M The Big Event: The original university day-of-service program that directly inspired Ole Miss Big Event; student leaders and staff from Ole Miss visited Texas A&M to learn the model before launching in 2010. Operates the same one-day, campus-wide community service concept at significantly larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• Habitat for Humanity: A large national nonprofit that mobilizes volunteers to complete home repair, construction, and community improvement projects — a category of work that overlaps substantially with the yard work, painting, and cleaning tasks Ole Miss Big Event students perform for community members.
• Points of Light: A national volunteer mobilization and civic engagement organization that aggregates and supports volunteer-driven service initiatives across the U.S. Comparable in the underlying mission of converting volunteer energy into community impact, though operating at vastly greater scale and geographic breadth.
• VolunteerMatch: A large-scale national online platform that connects volunteers with nonprofit and community service opportunities. Comparable in the volunteer-coordination and community-engagement function that Ole Miss Big Event performs locally and in-person.

Regional players

• HandsOn Nashville: A regional volunteer center that mobilizes volunteers for community service projects in the Nashville area. Comparable in the volunteer-coordination-for-community-improvement model that Ole Miss Big Event performs, but serving a different (and larger) metropolitan geography than Oxford, MS.

Emerging players

• Idealist: An online platform for connecting people to volunteer opportunities and social-impact roles, with overlapping volunteer-matching functionality to Ole Miss Big Event's community project request flow, though operating in a digital-only format rather than in-person one-day events.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/olemissbigevent
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-ole-miss-big-event

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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