Many people, particularly Westerners, travel to the developing world each year to volunteer with NGOs and assist communities in need. However, critics of “voluntourism” warn that the self-satisfaction, thrill, and social media attention gained through service may come at the cost of real progress and make a spectacle of poverty. Others defend the good intentions…
Job & Volunteer Opportunities
Join the ENGAGE Team as a Communications Assistant
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…
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. …
The John Lewis Fellowship
A new opportunity from Humanity in Action: When: July 5 – August 1, 2015 Where: The Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia Who’s eligible: Students and recent graduates from universities in the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Poland. The John Lewis Fellowship is a new…
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…
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…
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…
Info Session for Tutoring Programs – Spring 2015
Tutoring kids in the community is a great way to make a difference in someone’s life while also forming new friendships and brushing up on your pre-algebra skills. There are seven student-run tutoring programs in Wesleyan’s Office of Community Service — including two *new* programs recently awarded generous grants — and a few other groups on campus are also…