Current Happenings

Announcements

  • Surdna Foundation grants $50,000 to Civic Engagement Office to support Year Three of our ongoing project:  Preparing Bryn Mawr Students for Leadership in Public Life.
  • Professor Judy Porter co-authored an article, Service-Learning with a Food Stamp Enrollment Campaign:  Community and Student Benefits, which will be published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. This article “analyzes a multi-campus collaboration in a Food Stamp Enrollment Campaign to demonstrate that a well-managed public benefits campaign, associated with broader, advocacy-based community partnerships, can result in positive outcomes for the community” and “enhance student learning and engagement on issues related to the study of poverty, policy, and social justice.”
  • The Praxis Program Community Partner Advisory Committee has been formed and met for the first time on March 5. The new Advisory Board Members are:  Banny Ackerman (Radnor Middle School), Sharon Byers (Fortniter’s Club), Lorraine Cavitt (Roberts Elementary School), Dawn Holland (Center for Positive Aging in Lower Merion), David Ginsburg (Belmont Charter School), Pat Horton (Talent Search), Kathleen McCladdie (Overbrook Elementary School), Ellen Polsky (Nationalities Services Center).

Important Dates

  • Campus Philly Online Internship Fair
    February 23-March 7, to be held at www.campusphilly.org/careers
  • Not-For-Profit Career Fair
    Have an opportunity to connect and speak with a variety of organizations at Not for Profit Career Fair.   http://cdoapps.haverford.edu/resources/events/index.php?gid=1
    Friday, March 28, 1:00 - 4:00 pm, HC, Founders Great Hall
  • Summer of Service Application Deadline: Friday, March 7
  • Praxis III drop-in hours:
    Wednesday, April 2 / 4-7 pm and Tuesday, April 8 / 2-5 pm
  • Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair is at Saint Joseph’s University on Thursday, April 10 from 10am – 2pm.  For more information, and to register, please go to http://www.idealist.org and click “Philadelphia” in the list of Nonprofit Career Fairs on the right side.
  • Walk Against Hunger --Saturday, April 12 at 9 am
    Join the Civic Engagement Office in the Walk Against Hunger to raise funds for Norristown-area food cupboards.
  • Overbrook / Bryn Mawr Sports Day
    On Saturday, April 26 the CEO and the Student Athletic Association will be hosting Overbrook Elementary students for a day of sports instruction. The day will include mini-clinics in swimming, basketball, field hockey, and soccer. Time TBD.