The Wesleyan Sustainability Office is launching the new Eco Facilitators program in Fall 2014. Eco Facilitators (EFs) are peer-to-peer sustainability educators who promote sustainable lifestyle habits on campus. EFs will enroll in a semester-long seminar course designed to equip them with the tools to collaborate with first-year students to encourage these behavior changes. Working as…
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Volunteer with Minds in Motion!
Minds in Motion is looking for some student volunteers to help with their event on March 8th! Minds in Motion is Connecticut’s Association for the Gifted’s signature student enrichment program, featuring hands-on, interactive, fast-paced, high-interest workshops for gifted and high-ability children in Kindergarten through 8th Grade. MIM is so popular children return session after session, year…
February First Friday: Teaching, Tutoring, and Mentoring the Young
Reblog: Making Mosaics and Building Community – The Greening Green Street Mosaic Project
We’re spreading the word for the Green Street Arts Center and PIMMS: The Greening Green Street Mosaic Project started last year as a collaboration between the Green Street Arts Center AfterSchool Program, teaching artist and nationally known mosaicist Debora Aldo, and members of the Middletown community. Watch the project video from last semester. The goal is…
WesGilead Information Session
From Siri Carr ’15 and Lauren Seo ’14: Wesleyan Gilead Alliance Information Session Sunday, December 8th Judd 113 2:00p The WGA is a student run organization (under the OCS umbrella) that works with Gilead Community Services to pair Wes students up with a member of the Middletown community who has a mental illness and is…
Stuff the Nets Gift Drive!
WEServe Week of Service (1/19-1/25; register a project now)
Dear students, parents, alumni, colleagues, and friends, We are excited to support the second annual WEServe Week of Service, and we hope you will join us. WEServe seeks members of the Wesleyan community around the world to organize service projects during MLK Week (January 19-25, 2014) and submit them here. Wesleyan will publicize the list…
Volunteer to Assemble Thanksgiving Baskets!
The Middletown Community Thanksgiving Project was established three years ago to ensure that all Middletown families who couldn’t afford to purchase a Thanksgiving meal could still enjoy a feast on Thanksgiving. Made up of volunteers from nonprofit organizations, businesses, faith communities, and civic groups and funded in large part by the Middletown Rotary, the Middletown…
Energize CT Looking for Students
Energize CT, a new energy assistance program sponsored by Middletown is looking for students! Energize CT sends pairs of people into homes in the North End to replace light bulbs and conduct an energy needs survey. This project will take place on selective Fridays and Saturdays in November and early December. Students have the option to…
Volunteer with the Friends of the Wesleyan Library
Homecoming and Family Weekend is right around the corner, and with it comes the incredible Friends of the Wesleyan Library Sale! But those discount Song of Ice and Fire novels and cookbooks don’t just organize and sell themselves. The Friends of the Wesleyan Library needs volunteers on Friday, November 1 from 5p-8p and on Saturday…