From Elisa Greenberg of the Nonprofit Residency Board course: Gilead Community Services Two 2018 Summer Student Internships (June – August) JOB DESCRIPTIONS REPORT TO: Dan Osborne, Gilead CEO; Laura Patey, Assoc. Dean of Student Academic Resources, Wesleyan University LOCATION: Middletown, CT OVERVIEW: Gilead Community Services is a mental health nonprofit which…
Jewett Center for Community Partnerships
Dr. Clifton Watson to become JCCP Director
Clifton Watson will become Wesleyan’s next director of the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships, starting February 5, 2018. Watson succeeds Cathy Lechowicz, who became Middletown’s director of Recreation and Community Services in October 2017. He comes to us with a strong background in community organizations and leadership development. He started his career working for LEAP,…
Summer Arts Education Opportunities at Oddfellows Playhouse
From Kristen Palmer of Oddfellows Playhouse: The 30th Children’s Circus of Middletown, a collaboration between Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater and the City of Middletown is seeking staff for 2018. This is a long-running community day camp for ages 5 – 15 where kids learn circus skills, collaboration and constructive creativity. Ideal candidates have experience and…
Center for Prison Education Spring 2018 Textbook Drive
The Wesleyan Center for Prison Education just launched their textbook drive! The books on the list feature titles such as Flush, The Qur’an: A Biography, and Existensialism is a Humanism, and range in price from $6.55 to $28.64. Here is a brief history of the Center for Prison Education: In the fall of 2009, the…
Be a Creative Collaborator in Circus-Theater
From Dic Wheeler ’81: Creative collaborators needed for Circophony’s As You Wish!, a new circus-theater response to The Princess Bride. Circophony is a youth circus program run collaboratively by ARTFARM and Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater. Auditions are December 12 & 19, and the production is open to anyone ages 12 to 19. Rehearsals begin January…
Films on Foss – Summer 2017
The Mayoral Youth Cabinet, in partnership with the City of Middletown and Wesleyan University, are bringing back the wildly successful movie series, Films on Foss. These events are FREE & open to the public, and allow multiple generations to come together and build community. The films are show on campus at Foss Hill, just off Wyllys Ave…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: Report #1 from Appalachian Scholar Project
Appalachian Scholar Project has had an eventful first few months of the program. Since winning the grant, Dennis (Founder and Director) has recruited a fellow veteran, Gabe Hurlock, to assist in teaching the curriculum. Appalachian Scholar Project has also implemented a system for volunteer tutors from Wesleyan to work remotely with students in West Virginia as…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: Report #1 from Move & Connect
This past semester, since its inauguration in January, our Move & Connect team has met so many amazing people, and advanced in our vision and execution. We cannot wait for the first workshop we are organizing this June at University of Tokyo. As Move & Connect makes itself known in greater Tokyo communities, particularly those…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: Report #1 from Dream Chasers
It has been a very eventful few months since Dream Chasers was awarded one of the Patricelli Center Seed Grants. As an organization, we had been going through a transformation and rebirth all year with the guidance of mentors and new team members through the Patricelli Center Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship. Through the fellowship, Dream…
12th annual High School Career Expo
On Thursday, April 27, Wesleyan’s Jewett Center for Community Partnerships hosted the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce’s 12th annual High School Career Expo. Along with sponsors like Eversource and Pratt & Whitney, Wesleyan and the Chamber welcomed nearly 1200 high school sophomores from 6 different area high schools to the Freeman Athletic Center where they visited tables…