i n m u l A r e t t e l s New Spring 2013
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lon Volunteers! and Habitat for Humanity are celebrating our 25th Anniversary next year! We would love to see alumni come back and visit the office or attend an event during Homecoming Weekend. More details about the weekend will be shared in the coming months. We hope to see you here and to continue impacting the world through service for another 25 years.
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ur student team is hard at work tabulating thousands of student service hours! Each year we look for ways to increase student service. This year we’ve collaborated with the Love School of Business to increase their student participation. Our PACE students have worked to increase student service campus wide through outreach programs.
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he Service Learning Community has been growing and expanding this year. We have 18 first-year students and 3 upper-class Service Learning Leaders who have spent the year getting to know the service opportunities in Alamance County. We hope to have a bigger group next year and we will soon be moving to the new Global Neighborhood!
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lon Volunteers! Awareness organizations offer students opportunities to learn about both local and global human rights and social justice issues. As a council, Invisible Children, Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Sierra Club are planning a collaborative event this spring that will incorporate issues that each group addresses.
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ampus Kitchen has made significant progress over the last year. We are one of ten CKP’s nationally to receive a sub-grant through AARP to focus on senior nutrition. We have collaborated with Alamance County Community Services Agency, providing take home meals to older adults participating in a subsidized meal program. We have more than doubled the number of meals produced for our community partners, averaging around 180 meals each week. Our partnership with the Environmental Studies program has strengthened with the expansion of Loy Farm, and our involvement with the Elon Community garden remains strong. he Downtown Center for Community Engagement located on E. Davis street in downtown Burlington, opened March 8 and serves as an outreach office for the KCSLCE and office for The Village Project, a program through the School of Education. The building provides office space and conference space for campus members and local non-profits, government and volunteer groups. This location will support the expansion of community programs and partnerships.
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