Community Outreach
After Graduation
Local, National, & International Service Opportunities
Below are resources for student seeking service opportunities in the public sector careers or community service options after graduation.
City Year Greater Philadelphia
This experience unites young adults ages 17-24 from diverse backgrounds for a challenging year of full-time service and leadership development. Corps members serve on teams, providing direct service to youth of Philadelphia and working to solve pressing social issues in the communities they serve. The early deadline for applications is October 31st. Contact: Nora Moran - 267-386-7032 or nmoran@cityyear.org, for more information: www.whyiserve.com
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a network of local, state, and national service programs that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet our country's critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment.
City Year
An Action Tank for national service, City Year seeks to demonstrate, improve and promote the concept of national service as a means for building a stronger democracy. An 'action tank' is both a program and a 'think tank' - constantly combining theory and practice to advance new policy ideas, make programmatic breakthroughs, and bring about major changes in society.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Jesuit Volunteers commit themselves to working with people who are marginalized by society and to living in apostolic community with other JVs.
JVC is more than just a job. Social justice, simple living, community and spirituality: these values provide the cornerstone for living out a commitment to faith and justice.
Peace Corps
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps to promote world peace and friendship.
Three simple goals comprise the Peace Corps mission:
- Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women.
- Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.
- Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of all Americans.
Teach for America
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools, and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting some of our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.
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Career Resources
UConn Career Services
Career Services empower individuals to develop skills for life-long career satisfaction. To accomplish this we will:
- Offer quality one-on-one career counseling.
- Educate first year through graduate students and alumni about the career development process.
- Design and deliver exceptional career development programs and services.
- Provide learning opportunities that enhance the academic experience.
- Develop and maintain effective partnerships both on and off campus.
Careers in the Common Good
Careers in the Common Good connects liberal education with a lifetime of socially responsible work. Careers in the Common Good supports students and alumni as they seek work that connects personal values and professional problem solving in the non-profit, private and government sectors. This site is sponsored by the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University.
Opportunity Knocks
With the generous support of the Packard Foundation, the OpportunityKnocks.org website was launched by The Management Center in 1998 to put the national power and scope of the Internet to work for nonprofit job seekers and employers. We are the Web's leading source of nonprofit job listings for administrative, staff and professional positions, with an estimated seven million hits per month.
Opportunity NOCs New England
Opportunity NOCs New England is committed to helping nonprofit organizations in New England meet their staffing needs by providing affordable recruitment
advertising that targets the audience they are trying to reach. Published by the Executive Service Corps of New England, the Opportunity NOCs web site receives 25,000 visitors per month and is delivered biweekly via our free e-mail newsletter to over 7,500 job seekers and nonprofit organizations - a list that continues to grow.
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Fellowships & Scholarships
Coro
The Coro Foundation is in the process of recruiting its Fellows Program in Public Affairs class that begins September and ends the following June. The Fellows Program is a nine-month, full-time, graduate level program designed to provide participants with intensive experience-based training in public affairs. Fellows work in a series of field assignments with government agencies, corporations, community organizations, labor unions and political campaigns, as well as individual and team public service projects. Weekly seminars strengthen Fellows' analytical, communications, interviewing and problem solving skills. Coro Northern California participants do not pay a fee to participate in the program and receive stipend awards.
Do Something Brick Award
brick@dosomething.org
Do Something launched the annual BRICK Award in 1996 as a way to honor and financially support the best young leaders in America. Since the program¹s inception, Do Something has awarded more than $500,000 in grants to 30 young leaders who have measurably strengthened their communities.
The Do Something BRICK Award winners are selected based on a series of essays, interviews and a weekend of creative group activities before a panel of nine veteran community leaders in New York City. The judges evaluate the applicants¹ leadership and organizational skills, long-term vision for their community and the measurable results of their efforts have created lasting, positive change.
Shue said he hopes that by honoring and funding outstanding young leaders, the 1998 Do Something BRICK Award sponsored by MSN will inspire others to get involved and take action to improve America.
Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Awards
The Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award honors five students annually for their outstanding community and public service, and supports their continued efforts to address societal needs.
Each year, awards of $1,500 each are given to five undergraduate students at Campus Compact member institutions. The award money supports service programs designed or chosen by the recipients.
Each Campus Compact member president may nominate one student for the award. Candidates must demonstrate:
- Evidence of outstanding public service during the preceding twelve-month period. The award recognizes a spectrum of efforts, from individual commitment and service in the community, to the ability to create a viable organization and involve others.
- Development of an innovative approach to a social, educational, environmental, health, economic, or legal issue within a community. The application should demonstrate the student's initiative and ability to translate ideas into practical results. Although any student with a record of outstanding service is eligible, Campus Compact is especially interested in students who have:
- Connected service wi ht academic study
- Developed systems to ensure long-term support for the project
- Linked service with its larger social context through policy work and awareness raising.
Award recipients will be notified in May. Finalists must be available to attend the awards ceremony to qualify. Travel expenses to the award ceremony will be covered by Campus Compact. Finally, award recipients will be asked to submit a brief follow-up report approximately six months after receiving the award.
Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
Samuel Huntington Public Service Award: Graduating seniors may apply directly for these awards for $10,000 for a proposal that encompasses any activity that furthers the public good. The activity can be undertaken by the student alone or working through established charitable, religious, education, governmental, or other public service organizations. One to two awards are given nationally. Approximately 120 applications are received each year, and about 20 finalists are selected for an interview. Application deadline is February 15 of each year and applications are available by contacting:
Samuel Huntington Fund
25 Research Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
Phone: (508) 389-2125
Echoing Green
The global nonprofit organization Echoing Green has opened its search for social change entrepreneurs with powerful new ideas for creating innovative nonprofit organizations and social–mission businesses. Through the prestigious two–year Echoing Green Fellowship, emerging visionaries receive up to $90,000 in seed funding, obtain health insurance and gain in Echoing Green a mentor that will help them build organizations that address the root causes of society’s seemingly intractable problems.
Echoing Green identifies, funds and supports some of the world's most extraordinary social change entrepreneurs and their organizations. Through its fellowship program, Echoing Green helps these leaders develop new solutions to society’s deepest problems in diverse areas including education, health, housing, civil and human rights, the environment, economic development and the arts.
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