January Member Feature: Columbus State Community College Delaware Campus Connect2Complete
Connect2Complete student at Columbus State Community College Delaware campus assists with a suicide prevention video for Helpline Columbus State Community College’s Delaware campus is very intimate, serving around 1800 students. We are constantly asking ourselves how we can best meet the needs of our students. There are a couple of service-learning classes where students are able to serve the community and apply that experience to enhance the classroom learning. We also provide opportunities for students to engage in service outside of the classroom with our large Day of Service and with smaller service events throughout the year. Columbus State Delaware supports Day…
November Member Feature: Abby Honaker Schroeder, Director of the Regula Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement at the University of Mount Union
An interview with Abby Honaker Schroeder, Director of the Regula Center for public Service and Civic Engagement at the University of Mount Union At the heart of Ohio Campus Compact’s AmeriCorps VISTA programs are the people that dedicated a year of service to our campuses. For some of our VISTA members, that year stretched into years as service led to employment. We recently reached out to our VISTA alumnus Abby Honaker Schroeder to discuss the impact of her VISTA service with OCC in her current role. OCC: Abby, can you start us off by giving an introduction to yourself and…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
Learn more about this annual day of service, and find local opportunities to serve! https://www.nationalservice.gov/mlkday
Public Discourse Resources for Campuses
Brought to you by Campus Compact for Southern New England. Public Discourse is an ongoing public conversation that can take many forms, ranging from in-person discussions, to journalism, to online and off-line activism, to community projects, and beyond. The purpose of public discourse is usually to promote understanding of complex issues among people who disagree, in order to find common ground and take action. Learn more.
A Fearless VISTA Leader Gives Back
Ava Carvour (bottom right) at a Pack the Mac event at Otterbein University In a year, more than 8,000 Americans commit to national service with AmeriCorps VISTA. Every one of them has a different experience, shaped by the organization with which they serve. I spent three years with the VISTA program, two of them with Ohio Campus Compact as VISTA Leader for the Connect2Complete (C2C) program. Our goal was to help Pell-eligible and first-generation college students achieve success through peer advocacy and community service and the program took on a life of it’s own on each individual campus: building upon…
September Guest Blog: Nonprofit Leadership at Youngstown State University
Our most recent Pay It Forward Award Ceremony in May 2017 with the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. This photo includes United Way staff, YSU students, myself, and also representatives from the Kool Boiz Foundation, who serve as mentors in the Promising Men Mentorship Program. Greetings from Youngstown State University! I consider this a great honor to serve as a guest blogger for Ohio Campus Compact (OCC), and share some of our great work in the Center for Nonprofit Leadership at YSU. An even greater honor was receiving the 2017 David Hoch Memorial Award for Excellence in…
A New Generation of Philanthropists
Students donate their time during Locks of Love event During the 2016-17 academic year Ohio Campus Compact sponsored ten courses in Licking County at Central Ohio Technical College and The Ohio State University at Newark and Denison University through generous funding from the Licking County Foundation and The John and Mary Alford Foundation, and two courses at Mount Saint Joseph University with funding from the Elizabeth Ricci Family Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation. Each participating course received up to $2,000 to award up to four local nonprofits as chosen by each class. Ohio Campus Compact’s Pay it Forward (PIF) initiative is developing…
Nonprofit Professional Certification
The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance offers an online program to earn recognition as a Certified Nonprofit Professional. Details about costs and coursework are available online. AmeriCorps members can use their Segal Education Award towards the cost of the program. For more information, please contact Kaitlyn Hudgins, Director of Strategic Partnerships, kaitlyn.hudgins {at} nonprofitleadershipalliance(.)org.
Service-Learning, Student Philanthropy & Critical Pedagogy
An interview with Denison University faculty member Emily Nemeth On the surface, “Critical Pedagogy” and the “study of philanthropy” might seem to be disparate topics–certainly not something you would cover in your average Education course. Yet, these seemingly disconnected concepts were a great fit for Pay it Forward, the Ohio Campus Compact service-learning program* that infuses the study of philanthropy and course-related community service hours into a variety of different curricula across disciplines and provides $2,500 for the class to award to local nonprofits. Ohio Campus Compact recently sat down with Emily Nemeth, Visiting Instructor in the Department of Education…
