Alumni Newsletter Spring 2013
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E lon Volunteers! and Habitat for Humanity are
celebrating our 25th Anniversary next year! We
would love to see alumni come back and visit the
office or attend an event during Homecoming Weekend.
More details about the weekend will be shared in the
coming months. We hope to see you here and to continue
impacting the world through service for another 25 years.
AlumniAlumni NewsletterNewsletter Spring 2013
O ur student team is hard at
work tabulating thousands of
student service hours! Each
year we look for ways to increase
student service. This year we’ve
collaborated with the Love School of
Business to increase their student
participation. Our PACE students have
worked to increase student service
campus wide through outreach
programs.
E lon Volunteers! Awareness
organizations offer students
opportunities to learn about both local
and global human rights and social justice issues.
As a council, Invisible Children, Amnesty
International, Oxfam, and Sierra Club are planning
a collaborative event this spring that will
incorporate issues that each group addresses.
T he Service Learning Community has
been growing and expanding this year.
We have 18 first-year students and 3
upper-class Service Learning Leaders who have
spent the year getting to know the service
opportunities in Alamance County. We hope to
have a bigger group next year and we will soon be
moving to the new Global Neighborhood!
C ampus Kitchen has made significant progress over the last year. We are one of ten CKP’s
nationally to receive a sub-grant through AARP to focus on senior nutrition. We have
collaborated with Alamance County Community Services Agency, providing take home meals
to older adults participating in a subsidized meal program. We have more than doubled the number of
meals produced for our community partners, averaging around 180 meals each week. Our partnership
with the Environmental Studies program has strengthened with the expansion of Loy Farm, and our
involvement with the Elon Community garden remains strong.
T he Downtown Center for
Community Engagement
located on E. Davis street in
downtown Burlington, opened March 8
and serves as an outreach office for the
KCSLCE and office for The Village Project,
a program through the School of
Education. The building provides office
space and conference space for campus
members and local non-profits,
government and volunteer groups. This
location will support the expansion of
community programs and partnerships.
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