Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater is a local nonprofit community-based, multicultural theater program designed to include children from all backgrounds. Oddfellows is currently looking for volunteers and work-study students to fill several positions both during Winter Break and the Spring semester. From Dic Wheeler ’81: Pre-Semester volunteers needed to work with kids at Oddfellows: Oddfellows Playhouse Youth…
“Stewards of the Earth” is a grant funded after school program for middle school students in Middletown focusing on environment and sustainability. These are the goals of the program: Engage students in project-based experiential learning opportunities Develop student awareness and understanding of sustainability issues including water quality, soil quality, food consumption, ecosystems, human impact on…
From professor Anna Shusterman: WANTED: Literacy Ambassadors! The Middletown Public Schools PreK community is looking for dedicated volunteers to support our efforts in spreading the word and helping families utilize our new digital, FREE comprehensive literacy program. These apps are one way to better prepare 3 & 4 year old children for Kindergarten and…
Jewett Center for Community Partnerships Student Political Engagement Fund The Jewett Center for Community Partnerships wants to support your political campaign work over Fall Break! We will be awarding grants to students (up to $500 each) helping political campaigns locally or in their home communities between October 19th and October 24th. The Jewett Center has…
Are you a student on campus this summer and looking for things to do? It can often be challenging to find out what is going on in Middletown, and how to get involved in community service or political action around here. So the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships (JCCP) is teaming up with the Bennet…
Hiring: Van Drivers (Fall 2018) For the Office of Community Service —Non-Work Study Eligible— The Office of Community Service coordinates student volunteer opportunities with many partner organizations and projects. Student van drivers are responsible for transporting students to and from volunteer and service-learning opportunities. The driver will need to: Drive a seven or eight passenger vehicle…
Do you care about social justice? Are you interested in radical education and working with children? Do you want to help ensure the continuation of an important campus organization? Help run Julia’s Star next year! Julia’s Star is a group of students who use a children’s book written by a (now deceased) Wes alumna to teach…
From the Sustainability Coordinators: Are you interested in collecting STUFF? And sorting and storing said stuff? Want to be part of a great team and help carry on one of Wesleyan’s greatest traditions? WANT TO STAY FOR SENIOR WEEK????? Then apply to work for Waste Not! Waste Not is Wesleyan’s student-run tag sale that happens…
From the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington DC: Small Business and Entrepreneurship Fellow: DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2018 https://cbcfinc.academicworks.com/opportunities/503 Transportation Equity Research Fellow: DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2018 https://cbcfinc.academicworks.com/opportunities/509 Water Infrastructure and Workforce Fellowship: DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2018 https://cbcfinc.academicworks.com/opportunities/506
From Luke Lezhanskyy: My name is Luke Lezhanskyy and I’m a sophomore here at Wes. I’m writing to you on behalf of “Not For Sale,” a student organization dedicated to providing educational resources to orphans in the Connecticut foster care system. We are embarking on an exciting journey during the upcoming fall semester, and were…
