2005

Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania 
Student Leadership Development Institute
June 15-16, 2005
Harrisburg University of Technology and Science
215 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101

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.  

In addition, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about the Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania, an AmeriCorps program that rewards college students for significant service commitments.  Participating campuses support groups of students, each of whom perform 450 hours of community service in a calendar year, earning them a $1250 AmeriCorps Education Award.

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End of the Season Celebration (Apr 25)

Come celebrate the end of the tax season with PHENND and our Delaware and Montgomery 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. Special guests include Karen Kaskey, Director of PennSERVE: The Governor's Office of Citizen Service and Jim Turner of the Chester Economic Development Authority. In addition, the event will feature a slide show that details the work of the coalition.

DATE: Monday, April 25, 2005
TIME: 12 PM
LOCATION: Chester City Hall, One Fourth Street, Chester, PA

Please RSVP to Sharon Fluellen-Flynn at sharonf@critpath.org or 215-573-2379.

To read more about our Financial Outreach Initiative, visit http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/initiatives/finoutreach.html

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2005 Annual PHENND Conference
February 24-25, 2005
Widener University
University Center

Over the past few years, there has been increasing emphasis on the civic development of young people.  Campus Compact has moved towards a pilosophy of the "engaged campus" reflecting a larger national trend for service and service-learning organizations to focus increasingly on civic engagement in order to bring attention to what many see as the deeper purpose of experiential education and community partnership.

For the 2005 Annual PHENND Conference, we too will ask the questions: What is the relationship between service-learning and the development of long-term civic engagement?  What is civic engagement?  Volunteering?  Voting?  Or much more?

We invite you to join us as we ask and answer these questions and many more. 

For more details, including registration and workshop proposal instructions, visit http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/events/2005conf.html


2004

Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania
Second Round Applications
Due: November 30, 2004

Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania is an AmeriCorps Education Award Only program (Ed Award).  This means that participating students enroll as AmeriCorps members on a part-time basis and receive a partial Education Award at the end of their term.  Students who complete 450 hours of service in 1 year earn an award of $1,250.00.  The award can be used to pay for any legitimate educational expense at their current undergraduate institution or to pay for future educational expenses.

Campuses across Pennsylvania are encourged to apply to host a Scholars in Service to PA Program.  Please note, with this round of applications, there is a special emphasis on post-secondary readiness and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.  Applications and all pertinent information is available at http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/initiatives/sispa.html

Applications are due Tuesday, November 30, 2004.

Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania is a program of PennSERVE: the Governor's Office of Citizen Service and is jointly administered by PHENND and PA Campus Compact.

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Homeland Security and Service-Learning RFP Deadline Extension
November 24, 2004
The Institute for Global Education and Service Learning (IGESL) is please to announce a Learn and Serve Homeland Security Grant (YODA, Youth Organized for Disaster Action) for New Jersey and Pennsylvania Schools.  Based on previous involvement in the Learn and Serve America Program or as a Service Learning Leader School or as a Federal Character Education grantee, you are eligible to apply for this grant. Applications are due on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 by 4:00pm.

The purpose of this program is to address homeland security and disaster response and preparedness concerns by engaging students in service-learning activities in their schools and communities. It is the goal of IGESL and it's partners, PennSERVE and the NJ Commission on National and Community Service, to provide students with a structured learning experience that allows them to enhance academic achievement, develop workplace readiness skills, demonstrate active citizenship, and give back to their communities through service-learning while planning for and responding to health, safety, and security concerns in their schools or communities, including natural disasters, school violence, medical emergencies, or terrorist acts.

Grant information can be accessed by visiting our website at http://www.igesl.org and clicking on Homeland Security.

Please note, Technical Assistance is available for this grant.  If you would like Technical Assistance, please call:

Kristen Kugelman
YODA Program Manager
Institute for Global Education and Service-Learning
2222 Trenton Road
Lower Left Suite
Levittown, PA 19056
(215) 943-2718
kkugelman@igesl.org

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Financial Literacy Train-the-Trainers
November 19th in English and Novmember 20th in Spanish
Co-sponsored by Centro de Apoyo Comunitario
Mercy Wellness Center, 6800 Market Street, Upper Darby, PA 19082
610/-734-7425 / centroapoyocomunitario@yahoo.com

The program will consist of a Train-the-Trainers of the MoneyWise Curriculum. The session is 8 hours long and will be offered twice:

Friday, November 19, 8 AM - 4 PM (in English)
or
Satruday, November 20, 8 AM - 4 PM (in Spanish)

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.

Continental breakfast and lunch provided.

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

This event is for:Nonprofit staff, advocacates, and volunteers who are interested in doing financial education with community members.

Directions:

Mercy Wellness is close to the 69th Street Station of the Market-Frankford El.

To RSVP for the English version, click here:
http://www.idealist.org/en/events/99527:294/87424:314

For Spanish, see below.

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Taller de Capacitación Financiera - Entrenamiento de los Entrenadores
Noviembre 19 en inglés y Noviembre 20 en español
Auspiciado por Centro de Apoyo Comunitario
Mercy Wellness Center, 6800 Market Street, Upper Darby, PA 19082
Telefono: 610/-734-7425 / centroapoyocomunitario@yahoo.com

El programa del Pensum de MoneyWise de Entrenamiento de los Entrenadores. La duración de la sesión es de 8 horas y se ofrecerá en dos sesiones:

Viernes, 19 de noviembre de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m, en inglés
O
Sábado, 20 de noviembre de 8 a.m a 4 p.m., en español

MoneyWise
Es un proyecto educacional presentado por Consumer Action (Acción Pro Consumidor) y Capital One conjuntamente.

El Programa Educacional de MoneyWise esta enfocado en 6 temas de finanzas personales, los cuales están contenidos en un CD de entrenamiento:
• Construya y Mantenga Buen Crédito
• Reconstruyendo Buen Crédito
• Maneje su Dinero Prudentemente
• Información Básica Sobre Bancos
• Declaración de Bancarrota Personal
• Hablándole a los Adolescentes sobre el Dinero

Cada uno de los temas tiene un folleto para ser distribuidos a los clientes y al público en general. Los folletos están publicados en chino, inglés, coreano, español y vietnamés.

Una Guía para los Presentadores para proporcionar información de fondo al personal y a los entrenadores.

Un paquete de enseñanza para un seminario de dos partes que incluye sugerencias sobre como dirigir la presentación de la clase, así también como actividades.

Presentación en PowerPoint y diapositivas de Entrenamiento del Entrenador.

El programa de MoneyWise está diseñado para ser usado por instituciones de ayuda a la comunidad y organizaciones sin fines de lucro con finalidades educativas. Sin embargo, entidades comerciales pueden solicitar permiso a Consumer Action para su utilización.

Para más información sobre MoneyWise, visite su página en:
http://www.consumer-action.org/English/library/moneywise/index.php RSVP:
http://www.idealist.org/en/events/99527:294/87435:281

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Atlantic Regional Service-Learning Conference (Oct 28)

We are pleased to announce 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.

The registration form to attend the Atlantic Region Service-Learning Conference in Philadelphia, PA is now available on the web. You can find this information at http://www.igesl.org/Atlantic_SLConference.htm. Conference highlights include a share fair, on-site service projects, Administrators’ and Higher Education Forums, and more than eighty dynamic workshops. Don’t miss this opportunity!

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Quarterly PHENND Meeting: Engineering and Community Problem-Solving (Oct 1)
Drexel University, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
University Crossings
15 N. 32nd OR 3175 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
(building on corner, entrances on both sides)

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 engineering and community problem-solving.  Engineers approach problems in particular ways, yet many of us in the nonprofit and educational communities know little about these methods.  We will hear from a panel of community organizations representing different issues facing our city, as well as engineering faculty representing different disciplines, in the hopes of finding common ground between the two worlds.  The eventual outcome will hopefully be partneships between engineering programs and community based organizations.

To RSVP, email Hillary Aisenstein at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu.  Special thanks to Dr. Anthony Lowman, PHENND Co-Chair and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, College of Engineering at Drexel University for helping to conceive this meeting as well as for hosting it!

For directions and a campus map, visit: http://www.drexel.edu/univrel/news_information/