Work for Wesleyan’s Center for Community Partnerships and support the various parts of CCP — WESU, Center for Prison Education, Green Street Teaching and Learning Center and OCS — by developing content pieces (e.g. blog posts featuring programs or students, Q&A’s with community partners, newsletters), flyers for events, social media and other promotional materials, and by researching how…
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Working for Social Change: Corps Round-Up (Updated 2/10)
The school year has only just begun, but graduating students are already feeling the pressure to plan for the future. Although some organizations won’t start to pick from our fine stock of seniors until the spring or summer, it can be tough to shake off that gray cloud of post-grad uncertainty in the meantime. On…
An invitation to get involved with SowHope: Sharing Opportunities with Women
A Wesleyan neighbor, Renata Bertotti, volunteers for a non-profit called SowHope (“Sharing Opportunities with Women”). Renata wrote to ENGAGE to ask us to share this information and invite students to learn about SowHope and support their mission. We live in a world where roughly half the population, about 2.8 billion people, live on less than $2 a day. …
College of the Environment Summer Internship
Wesleyan’s College of the Environment offers internships for students to undertake research under the guidance of a Wesleyan faculty or other mentor during the Summer or Fall of 2015. The projects must relate to any of the broad themes covered by Environmental Studies. These internships are available to students across the entire University regardless of major…
Middletown Potluck Presents: Human Connection
From our friends at Middletown Potluck: (Make sure to invite your friends!)
Home At Last? Film Screening, Personal Accounts, and Discussion
Did you know that, according to the American Institutes for Research, children make up 40% of the homeless population in the United States? Learn more about the realities of homelessness in the local Middletown community through a screening of the short PBS documentary Home at Last? and recollections from members of L.E.A.D — a group…
Volunteer Opportunity: Minds in Motion at Snow School
We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to help us orchestrate the seventh annual Minds in Motion Middletown program on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at Wilbert Snow Elementary School in Middletown from 12:00-4:00 pm. Minds in Motion (MIM) is an afternoon of fun, fast-paced, hands-on workshops for 200 curious and motivated students from kindergarten through grade…
2015 PCSE Seed Grant Finalists Announced (public pitches 2/27 at noon)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2015 PCSE Seed Grant Competition. These $5,000 awards are intended to fund the launch or early stage growth of a Wesleyan-connected social enterprise, project, program, or venture. The 2013 and 2014 grantees used this seed funding to launch a free CSA in Middletown,…
Fundraising Bootcamp: Grant Writing 101 (2/17 at 6 p.m.)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents FUNDRAISING BOOTCAMP: GRANTWRITING 101 A dinner, talk, and workshop with Sonya Behnke ’03, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Mass General Hospital, (previously Manager of Institutional Giving for the Greater Boston Food Bank) Tuesday, February 17 6-7:30 p.m. Allbritton 311 Dinner will be provided for those who…
Volunteer Opportunity: Manes & Motion Therapeutic Riding Center
If you love horses and want others to experience the joys of riding as well, contact the Manes & Motion Therapeutic Riding Center about volunteering with their programs. This Middletown-based not-for-profit aims to enhance the well-being of individuals living with physical, emotional and/or cognitive special needs through the benefits of equine-assisted activities. Volunteers are needed to…