2004
Scholars in
Service to Pennsylvania
Student Leadership Development Institute
June 17-18, 2004
Penn State University – Great Valley Campus
30 E. Swedesford Road, Malvern, PA
Attention all Community Service and Service-Learning
Administrators
and Faculty!
- Do you want to communicate effectively with
students?
- Do you need new ideas to help students reflect on
their service and advocacy?
- Do you wish you had a “Training Toolkit” to help
you develop student leadership?
- Do you have training scenarios and workshops you’d
like to share?
- Do you want to reward students who commit
significant hours of service
to their communities?
Then come to the Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania Student Leadership
Development Institute!
The Scholars in Service Student Leadership Development
Institute will
bring together community service and service-learning professionals
from
across the state. The Institute is designed to focus on building
skills and techniques for volunteer training, group facilitation, and
student
development.
Additionally, PennSERVE, PA Campus Compact, and PHENND
were just awarded
an AmeriCorps Education Award Only program, “Scholars in Service to
Pennsylvania.”
This means that we will be distributing 250 AmeriCorps Education awards
across the state. These awards (valued at over $2300) are for
students
who serve 900 hours over the course of two years. Come to this
Institute
to find out how your campus can participate in this program.
Cost of attendance is $50 which covers all materials
and four meals.
Click here
to download registration form.
Please fill out and return to Hillary Aisenstein, Director, PHENND,
3451
Walnut Street, Suite P-117, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6205, or fax to
215-573-1134
by June 1, 2004.
Atlantic Region Service-Learning Conference: Call for
Submissions
(May 15)
We are pleased to announce a call for proposal for the
Atlantic Regional
Service-Learning Conference, scheduled for October 28-29, 2004 at The
Wyndham
Franklin Plaza in Philadelphia, PA. This year’s conference theme
is “Service-Learning as a Vehicle for Community Change.” This exciting
event is co-sponsored by the New York State Department of Education
Service
Learning Program, the New Jersey Learn and Serve America Program, the
Pennsylvania
Service Learning Alliance, the Pennsylvania State Department of
Education,
the Institute for Global Education and Service Learning, the
Philadelphia
Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development-PHENND and
PennSERVE:
The Governor's Office of Citizen Service. Registration materials and
more
information about the conference will be sent out in March, 2004.
Many of the co-sponsors of this conference are
non-profit, grass roots
organizations that promote and support community/school-based service
learning,
civic engagement and volunteerism. We are dedicated to helping
youth
learn about themselves and their connection to others through community
service, civic engagement, and leadership development. It is our
goal to bring together youth, educators, and community partners to
share
exemplary programs, confront critical issues, explore new ideas, and
network
with others committed to service.
The conference theme expresses our belief that service
learning is a
vital tool that can be used as a vehicle for community change. We
are seeking proposals for dynamic presentations that will directly
connect
service and civic education. Topics may include, but are not
limited
to: creative linkages with the curriculum; unique and successful
collaborations
with community partners; effective methods of reflection; diversity and
civic education; leadership training through service; student initiated
programs; and other critical issues in service learning, civic
leadership,
and community development.
Please note, PHENND is sponsoring a "Higher Ed" track
at this conference.
Proposals that address service-learning and other K-16 collaborations
are
highly encouraged. For more information about this track, please
contact Hillary Aisenstein at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu.
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2004 (please note, this
is an extension
over the previously listed deadline).
For more information and to download the submission
form, visit: http://igesl.org/Atlantic_SLConference.htm
or download it from the PHENND Website at:
http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/events/atlconf/callforpresenters.doc
End of the Season Celebration (Apr 29)
Come celebrate the end of the tax season with PHENND
and our Delaware
County partners!
The PHENND Financial Outreach Initiative and the
Delaware County Asset
Development Group (DelCoAD) cordially invites you to our End of the
Season
celebration for volunteers and community partners. All our
volunteers
and partner organizations will be recognized for all their hard
work.
In addition, the event will feature a slide show that details the work
of the coalition.
DATE: Thursday, April 29, 2004
TIME: 4 PM
LOCATION: Chester City Hall, 1 Fourth Street, Chester, PA
The event will also feature a Silent Auction so come
prepared to show
your support! (If you have any items or services you'd like to
donate
to the auction, please let us know.)
Please RSVP to Howard Walters at hwalters@critpath.org
or 215-573-2379.
To read more about our Financial Outreach Initiative,
visit http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/initiatives/finoutreach.html
Financial Literacy Train-the-Trainers (Mar 25 and
Mar 26)
The program will consist of a Train-the-Trainers of
the MoneyWise Curriculum.
The session is 8 hours long and will be offered twice:
Thursday, March 25, 9 AM - 5 PM
or
Friday, March 26, 8 AM - 4 PM
MoneyWise
A joint financial education project of Consumer Action and Capital
One
MoneyWise Financial Education Program focuses on 6 key
personal finance
topics on a training CD:
* Building and Keeping Good Credit
* Rebuilding Good Credit
* Manage your Money Wisely
* Banking Basics
* Personal Bankruptcy
* Talking to Teens About Money
For each topic has printed pamphlet for distribution
to clients and
the public. They are available in in Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish,
and Vietnamese
A printed Leaders Guide to provide background for
staff and trainers.
A teaching package for a two part seminar that
includes suggested approaches
to class presentations as well as activities.
PowerPoint classroom and train the trainer slides.
The MoneyWise program is intend to be use by
community-based or non-profit
education purposes, however Commercial entities can seek permission to
use it from Consumer Action.
To read more about MoneyWise, visit their website at http://www.consumer-action.org/English/library/moneywise/index.php
Financial Literacy Training (Feb 26)
There will be a financial literacy training at the
Montgomery County
CareerLink Office located at 1855 New Hope St. Norristown, PA
19401.
The session will cover Banking Skills (checking and
savings), Chex Systems,
the difference between banks and credit unions, balancing a check
register,
using a debit card, understanding interest (compund and simple), and
many
other related topics.
The session will be held on February 26th from
1-2PM.
To reserve a spot please call the Career Link at
610-270-3429. This
program is sponsored by the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for
Neighborhood
Development, the Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union, and the CareerLink
of Montgomery County.
Quarterly PHENND Meeting focusing on Community Arts
Partnerships
(Feb 25)
Wednesday, Febraury 25, 2004
9 AM - 11:30 AM
Arcadia University
Conference Room, Grey Towers Castle
Glenside, PA
The Quarterly PHENND Meeting is a chance for the
entire PHENND Network
to get together to share ideas, events, difficulties, etc. It is
also a time to hear from the PHENND Staff about our activities and
opportunities
for partnership. We have been quite busy so I do hope you will
make
the meeting.
The theme for this meeting will be community arts
partnerships and and
we will be joined by Carolyn Chernoff, Director of the Community Arts
Partnership
(CAP) program at the University of Pennsylvania and Karen Malandra, of
the Community Arts and Literacy Network. CAP works with Penn
students,
community artists, local schools and community-based arts
organizations.
CAP also supports a few arts-based service-learning courses at
Penn.
The Community Arts and Literacy Network is a new partnership of of
Tyler
School of Art's Community Arts Program, Temple University's New City
Writing
Program, Asian Arts Initiative, The Art Sanctuary, Wanamaker Middle
School
and Dunbar Elementary School. This meeting will be a great
opportunity
to learn more about these exiting programs and think about ways to
bring
the arts into your school and community partnerships.
You can RSVP to this event by emailing Hillary at
hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu.
Directions to Arcadia can be found at: http://www.beaver.edu/default.asp?t=10&pmid=10&m=1057:1129&pid=577
Campus Leadership and Community Change: A Student
Workshop (Feb 21)
Attention students! Are you interested in making a
difference on your
campus and in your community? Do you want to build connections to
students
on other campuses as well as community-based activists and leaders? Do
you wonder how your actions on your college campus can have a broader
impact
in the community and the world?
Then come to the PHENND Spring Student Workshop:
Campus Leadership and
Community Change!
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2004
Location: Community College of Philadelphia, Center for Business and
Industry
18th & Callowhill, Room C2-5
Time: 10:30 AM - 5 PM
This event is co-sponsored by PHENND and Fellowship
Farm, a human relations
training center. This event is made possible by a grant from
Pennsylvania
Campus Compact as part of the Raise Your Voice Campaign. To read more
about
Raise Your Voice, visit http://www.actionforchange.org/.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM: This event is co-sponsored
by PHENND and Fellowship
Farm, a human relations training center. The event is free to
students
and is made possible by a grant from Pennsylvania Campus Compact as
part
of the Raise Your Voice Campaign. Due to funding considerations,
as well as the workshop format, registration will be capped at 25
participants.
The ideal candidate for this event is a student deeply
committed to
the civic ideals of democratic participation and public service.
Ideal candidates will have some experience in community
service/activism
and/or student government. The content of the workshop is based
on
the “Citizens of Change” program, which is based on the Leadership
Development
for Social Change Model, pioneered at UCLA. We are looking for
students
who will take back the lessons learned from this training to their own
campus in order to strengthen its community
service/service-learning/community
partnership and student government programs.
ABOUT REGISTRAION: Registration will be open
until 5 PM on Friday,
February 13, 2004. Please fill out this application and submit it
electronically to PHENND Director Hillary Aisenstein at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu.
Applications will mostly be selected on a first-come, first-served
basis;
however final decisions will be made based on the desire to have a
broad
cross-section that represents the regions’ ethnic, gender, and
geographic
diversity. All are encouraged to apply.
To download a registration form, click here.
For more information about the event, contact Hillary
Aisenstein at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu
or 215-573-2379.
Learning
Lessons from Social
Movements Mini-Summit (Jan 23)
Special PHENND Gathering: (COOL and Idealist) Learning
the Lessons from
Social Movements Mini-Summit
January 23-24, 2003
Do you think about past social change and movement
building and what's
going on today? Do you draw information from historical lessons,
leaders,
or stories about social movements? Do you wish you had a place today to
re-energize with others that share your passion for making social
change
and a desire to do so effectively and strategically, utilizing lessons
from the past? Do you see your own work as part of a movement?
Attend the January 23-24, 2004 special Learning the
Lessons from Social
Movements Mini-Summit, an event co-sponsored by PHENND, COOL,
Idealist.org,
other national partners, and students involved in planning the March
12-14,
2004 20th annual COOL Idealist National Conference, which will include
a Movement Summit track within it.
About the January event: You can come just for Friday,
January 24 and
parti! cipate in workshops, plenary sessions, and other participatory
activities
focused on drawing out relevant themes and lessons from social
movements.
We will feature local activists, faculty, students, and others who
share
their stories, ideas, and inspiration - taking place similarly to
PHENND's
annual conference.
Or come for both January 23 and 24 and join a smaller
group (20-30),
including planners of the COOL Idealist National Conference, for a
smaller
retreat-like gathering on Friday night and Saturday (January 24) also.
For more information, contact Hillary Aisenstein and Ariane Hoy
(ariane@idealist.org).
This smaller group will also include staff from the national Campus
Compact,
Oxfam America, and other organizations partnering with COOL and
Idealist
on the Movement Summit track at the National Conference.
About the March event: You don't have to commit now,
but you may be
interested in saving the date for the 20th annual COOL Idealist
National
! Conference, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) on! March
1 2-14, 2004. Roughly 1,500 or more college students, campus staff, and
nonprofit professionals will convene for three days including hundreds
of workshops (among them 20-30 addressing Movement Summit themes). For
more details and to register or submit a workshop proposal, click here
or visit http://www.cool2serve.org for the full announcement.
2003
Forum on Socially
Responsible Investing
(Oct 29)
What: An informational panel presentation about
"Socially Responsible
Investing" or SRI.
Who: Intended primarly for college and university
professional staff,
but others are certainly welcome.
Why: Many of us in the PHENND Network are college and
university professional
staff, who value social change and positive community
development.
By virtue of our employment, we are also likely to have some type of
retirement
account (usually a 403b) which is invested. However, most of us
don't
know much about how our values can impact that investment. This
forum
is meant to be a first step toward making those connections.
Join us as we hear from seasoned activists about how
you can "do well
by doing good." Panelists will cover topics: socially reponsible
investing basics, shareholder activism, and community development.
Judy Wicks, West Philadelphia entrepreneur and social
activist, will
be the opening speaker.
Date/Time: October 29, 2003, 6-8 PM
Location Steinberg Hall-Deitrich Hall, Room 351, University of
Pennsylvania
To RSVP, contact Hillary Aisenstein at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu
or 215-573-2379.
Be a Kids Vote Volunteer (Nov 4)
Make a difference in the lives of kids and
communities!
The Urban Voter Campaign is seeking energetic
volunteers to help run
Mock Elections at selected Philadelphia public schools on Election Day
in the hopes of:
-instilling a sense of civic pride among young people
-increasing voter turnout among public school parents
As a Kids Vote Volunteer, you'll be partnered with
another volunteer
and trained to run an Election identical to the "real election" at a
local
school.
For more information and to sign up, please contact
Hillary Aisenstein
at PHENND at 215-573-2379.
PHENND is a proud co-sponsor of the Urban Voters
Campaign. Read
more about the campaign at http://www.urbanvoters.org/
or http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/initiatives/uvc.html
Quarterly PHENND Meeting/Community Service Directors Meeting
Focus on Volunteer
Training and Student
Leadership (Nov 5)
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
9 AM - 11:30 AM
Van Rensalaer Hall, 1st floor
Drexel University
(Powelton between 33rd and 34th)
The Quarterly PHENND Meeting is a chance for the
entire PHENND Network
to get together to share ideas, events, difficulties, etc. It is
also a time to hear from the PHENND Staff about our activities and
opportunities
for partnership. We have been quite busy so I do hope you will
make
the meeting.
The theme for this meeting will be Volunteer Training
and Student Leadership
and we will be joined by Ariane Hoy, Co-Director of Action Withour
Borders/COOL.
The COOL Conference will be held on Penn's campus this year, so this
meeting
will be a great opportunity to learn more about the conference and how
your students or organization can participate in - and help shape - the
conference.
For information about COOL and the COOL Conference,
visit http://www.cool2serve.org/.
You can RSVP to this event through Idealist.org
or by emailing Hillary at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu.
Current
Trends in Campaigns with Project Vote Smart (Oct 14)
Tuesday, October 14, 4:30-6 PM
Location: United Way Building, 7 Ben Franklin Pkwy, Room 2
Project Vote Smart President and Co-Founder, Richard Kimball will
give a talk on current political campaign trends and strategies and
their effect on our democracy. The talk will feature a short video on
the most outrages campaign commercials from around the country; and
outline reliable resources used to cut through the rhetoric and "Get
the Facts" about candidates.
Sponsored by the Urban Voters Campaign, a coalition of: League of
Women Voters of Philadelphia * Institute for the Study of Civic Values
* Campus Philly * Philadelphia Cares * Philadelphia Citizens for
Children & Youth * Philadelphia Higher Education Network for
Neighborhood Development (PHENND) * NAACP * School District of
Philadelphia
RSVP to PHENND; 215-573-2379 or hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu
For more information about this program, please contact Hillary
Aisenstein at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu
Kids Vote Volunteer Training (Oct 14)
Tuesday, October 14, 6:00-7:30 PM
Location: United Way Building (7 Ben Franklin Pkwy,
near 17th)
This
workshop
will get you ready to get the kids of Philadelphia Public
Schools excited about civics. We’ll give you the skills and the
materials you need to head run a mock election on November 4th.
!
WHYY is slated to cover
the results of our Kids Vote on election night!
Please RSVP to PHENND: 215-573-1279 or hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu
Hope to see you there!
Urban Voter Campaign Constitution
Day Kick-Off (Sep 17) JOIN THE URBAN VOTERS CAMPAIGN AT OUR
RECEPTION
What: National Constitution Day Kick-Off Reception to announce the
Urban Voters Campaign. (http://www.urbanvoters.org)
Who: League of Women Voters of
Philadelphia * Institute for the
Study of Civic Values * Campus
Philly * Philadelphia Cares
* Philadelphia
Citizens for Children & Youth * Philadelphia Higher
Education
Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND) * NAACP * School District
of Philadelphia
When: Wednesday September 17th, 5:30 - 7PM
Where: City Hall, Conversation Hall - 2nd floor
Why: To launch the Urban Voters Campaign and to announce the
resolution passed in City Council on Sept. 11th declaring September as
Voter Registration/Voter Education Month and honoring the League of
Women Voters. Come hear about individual efforts as well as a new joint
effort - the Kids Vote Mock Election - aimed at increasing voter
participation in Philadelphia. There is no better way to strengthen
American democracy - and America itself - than to increase the number
of people who vote and are educated about elections.
***Light refreshments will be provided***