Leadership Scholars Seeking Mentors

Leadership Scholars Mentoring Program What better way is there to improve your own leadership skills than teaching young leaders how to improve their leadership skills and interacting with numerous other professional leaders throughout Greater Cincinnati? Leadership Scholars, a leadership development and mentoring program for inner-city youth, is seeking Adult Leaders to work with our High School Scholar Mentees.  The Mentees are currently high school freshmen and sophomores, and they have already undergone two years of leadership training (more than 400 hours).   As a Mentor, you will play a crucial role in helping the students continue to progress as leaders in high school, graduate from high school, and successfully enroll in college.  Moreover, you will aid the students in honing their goal-setting, communication, and participation skills.  Our Leadership Mentoring Program has a curriculum, but you are also able to plan additional activities with your Mentee.    Requirements of Mentors: 1 Year Commitment Weekly Communication (email, text, voice, facebook, etc.) with Mentee 2 Hours In-Person Interaction with Mentee (each month) We hope that you are interested in this opportunity and will apply to be a Mentor via the link posted below:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LeadershipMentors

Volunteers Needed for Poverty Simulation Exercise - Mar 11th!

Poverty Simulation Exercise – Volunteers Needed 

Friday, March 11, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Pizza dinner included

The St. Vincent de Paul Ozanam Center for Service Learning has developed a Poverty Simulation exercise, which is a creative and interactive way for people to get a glimpse into the reality of living in poverty here in Cincinnati.  We need volunteers to help us run the exercise, and that is where you come in! 

 

Please help us help a group of people learn more about the complexity of navigating the system when living in poverty, and take something away, yourself!  Training will be provided prior to running the exercise with the group, which will include a pizza dinner. 

Snapshots from RAPPORT Winter Community Service

RAPPORT students spent Saturday, May 5th, volunteering with Over the Rhine Community Housing - "a non-profit organization that works to build and sustain a diverse neighborhood that values and benefits low-income residents" in Cincinnati.

Seven volunteers met downtown for a fun morning of cleaning an apartment & basement and getting to know the neighborhood.  Several stuck around for lunch at Findlay Market.  Saturday was a first visit to Over the Rhine for a couple of the volunteers and the neighborhood seem to win them over.

Daniel (XXV) tries to win us over on the cleaner he found in a basement. "The Must for Rust!"

Nicole (XXIV) and Chika (XXIV) hard at work!

Current RAPPer Matt W joined us for the morning of service!

Our group at our first assignment.  L-R Chris, Matt (XXVI), Kinsey (XXIII), Nicole (XXIV), Daniel (XXV), Chika (XXIV), Rebecca (XXII)

Many thanks to our Public Ally Kinsey and Clare at the Center for Community Engagement for organizing our service event!

UC Sustainability March Newsletter

UC Sustainability's March newsletter is full of good news and great events:

HEADLINES

UC wins 2011 Green Business Award for sustainable transportation policies

UC receives Honorable Mention in inaugural round of Bicycle Friendly University recognitions

After fifth week, UC still ranked #4 in national RecycleMania with over 331,000 lbs. recycled

EVENTS

03.07.11   12pm   PACES sustainability committee meeting @ TUC 425 (open to all)

03.07.11   6pm   Student Sustainability Coalition meeting @ Catskeller (open to all)

03.07.11   7pm   film series: Dirt!: a story with heart and soil @ MainStreet Cinema (free and open to the public)

03.11.11   8am-12pm   Sustainable Hamilton County follow-up workshop @ Cintas Center (free and open to the public)

03.11.11   11am   lecture series: sustainable urban environments @ ERC 427 (free and open to the public)

03.11.11   4pm   Bearcat Recycling at baseball @ Marge Schott Stadium please sign up to volunteer by emailing green@uc.edu

03.12.11   11am   UC Garden student planning meeting @ UC Garden (3310 Ruther Avenue)

03.12.11   12pm-3pm   UC Garden dig day @ UC Garden (3310 Ruther Avenue) please sign up to volunteer by emailing green@uc.edu

03.12.11   4pm   Bearcat Recycling at baseball @ Marge Schott Stadium please sign up to volunteer by emailing green@uc.edu

03.13.11   1pm   Bearcat Recycling at baseball @ Marge Schott Stadium please sign up to volunteer by emailing green@uc.edu

03.27.11   7pm   lecture series: Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods @ Cintas Center (free and open to the public)

"Striving for Justice: Searching for Common Ground" Naomi Tutu - Mar 10th!

Woman’s City Club of Greater Cincinnati

proudly presents

Naomi Tutu

International Scholar, Human Rights Activist,

and Daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

 “Striving for Justice: Searching for Common Ground”

Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p.m.

Millennium Hotel, 150 West Fifth Street, Downtown Cincinnati

Naomi Tutu, international scholar and passionate human rights advocate, is the third child of Archbishop Desmond and

Nomalizo Leah Tutu. Born in

Krugersdorp, South Africa, she was educated in Swaziland, the US and England, and has divided her adult life between South Africa and the US.

Growing up as the daughter of Archbishop Tutu has offered her many opportunities and challenges in her life. Most important of these has been the challenge to find her own place in the world. She has taken up the challenge and channeled the opportunities that she has been given to raise her voice as a champion for human dignity. 

Determined to make a difference in her home country, she founded and chaired the Tutu Foundation for Development and Relief in Southern Africa, which provides scholarships and support to South African refugees in African countries. Naomi Tutu has traveled the world as a teacher, consultant and guest lecturer, and has received countless

awards for her selfless commitment to improving the human condition.

Tutu has served as a development consultant in West Africa and a program coordinator for programs on Race and Gender and Gender-Based Violence in Education at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. She is associate director of the Office of International Programs at Tennessee State University and has taught at the Universities of Hartford and Connecticut and Brevard College. She has led Truth and Reconciliation Workshops for groups dealing with different types of conflict.

Tutu is author of two books: Words of Desmond Tutu and I Don’t Think of You as Black: Honest Conversations on Race. Having endured the ravages of remaining silent about race and racism in Apartheid South Africa, she encourages open and frank dialogue on race and racism. “I don't talk about a color-blind society,” she says. “I talk about a society that celebrates our differences and uses our differences as a gift. So for me, the aim is not a place where we don't see difference. It's a place where we see the         gift that difference is in our communities.”       

Tickets $25  -- Call 513-751-0100 or visit www.womanscityclub.org.

$125 for the lecture and private reception afterwards.

Conservation Begins Here

The Student Conservation Association invites you to come and hear stories from SCA alumnus J.R. Gilness, as well as learn how to get involved!

The Information Session will be Monday, March 7 @ 5pm in 417 TUC. You can also visit the information table from 11am - 2pm in TUC.

SCA offers over 2500 expense-paid internships, and all majors are welcome! Through SCA you can serve in National Parks, Historic Sites and other public lands in all 50 states.

For your service you will receive an AmeriCorps education award as well as a weekly living allowance!!

Working in Neighborhoods' Annual 5K - Apr 2nd!

Please join Working in Neighborhoods on Saturday, April 2^nd, 2011 for our 10k run, 5k run, 5k fitness walk.  

The registration is $25 in advance or $30 on race day and includes a short-sleeved t-shirt, continental breakfast, and the warm glowy feeling of supporting Working In Neighborhoods' housing counseling and foreclosure prevention work.  

You can register by visiting WIN's website www.wincincy.org.