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Emerging Leaders Expansion Year Ends with DC and NYC Celebrations In This Issue: 1 - 2 Spotlight: Rainah Berlowitz ’97 1 & 3 Emerging Leaders Celebrate 4 A Fellow’s Experience 5 Listening to Our Partner Organizations 6-7 Regional Updates Volume 16, Number 1 Winter 2013 Emerging Leaders is Now Accepting Applications! (continued on page 3) In January, members of the nonprofit community gathered in Washington, DC and New York City to congratulate the newly graduated Emerging Leaders Class of 2013. AlumniCorps Board and staff members, participants, employers, mentors, family members, and other supporters helped to celebrate the success of the program. The receptions on January 11th and 17th culminated the second year of the program in Washington, DC and the first year in New York. Beginning in June 2012, participants gathered for monthly sessions featuring skill development activities, peer and facilitator coaching, and discussions with nonprofit executives who shared their expertise and insights. Emerging Leaders participants implemented their learned skills and leadership competencies through stretch projects designed in collaboration with their employers. The program’s goal is to build the capacity of the nonprofit sector to address complex public issues by equipping talented young managers with training, experiences, and relationships that will launch them into leadership roles. Addressing the attendees of both the New York and DC celebrations, Princeton AlumniCorps President Kathy Miller ’77 detailed the goals of the program. “We help very talented young nonprofit managers grow into confident, skillful, and resilient leaders with more support, tools and practical knowledge than is available on the job, and with access to insights and connections they couldn’t easily reach.” She noted that the program’s emphasis on collaboration and networking within each cohort generates connections and partnerships that continue to serve participants and prevent isolation after they leave the program. In discussing what she gained from (continued on page 2) Aspen Institute Honors Rainah Berlowitz ’97 for Arts Education Work Rainah Berlowitz ’97 has been working with Education Through Music (ETM) since his Project 55 fellowship placement in 1997. He now serves as the Director of Operations and last year he was awarded a prestigious Fellowship for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders from the Aspen Institute. We recently talked to him about his work, AlumniCorps, and the Aspen Institute fellowship. You have been working with ETM for more than 15 years, beginning as a PP55 fellow. What has motivated you to continue you work for social change through ETM? I believe that education - which to me includes music and arts education - is critical to helping all people reach their full potential. I was fortunate to have music class in elementary school, but it was always presented as “extra- curricular.” It didn’t bother me so much at the time, but in high school my questions about how the world worked were less about what and how and more about why. Then music and art became much more important. I began studying them more or less independently, because in high school they were deemed even less “curricular” than in elementary school. After a while, I stopped seeing music and art as being divided from other subjects. Seeing connections helped me learn things more quickly and made everything I learned more useful and meaningful. At the heart of ETM’s mission is the idea that learning in music supports learning in general, and that it provides the most transferable benefits when taught as a core discipline. It was the right fit. I continue my nonprofit work in part because I believe our vision is achievable, that all children in the US can have access to a high-quality music education, and I want to see it through to the best of my ability. It’s challenging work that I enjoy. And to be honest, I also continue here because of the leadership of our Executive Director Katherine Damkohler, who has been here since I started; the support of our
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Page 1: Shared Effort Winter 2013

Emerging Leaders Expansion Year Ends with DC and NYC Celebrations

In This Issue:

1 - 2 Spotlight: Rainah Berlowitz ’97

1 & 3 Emerging Leaders Celebrate

4 A Fellow’s Experience

5 Listening to Our Partner Organizations

6-7 Regional Updates

Volume 16, Number 1 Winter 2013

Emerging Leaders

is Now Accepting

Applications!

(continued on page 3)

In January, members of the nonprofit

community gathered in Washington, DC and

New York City to congratulate the newly

graduated Emerging Leaders Class of 2013.

AlumniCorps Board and staff members,

participants, employers, mentors, family

members, and other supporters helped to

celebrate the success of the program.

The receptions on January 11th and 17th

culminated the second year of the program in

Washington, DC and the first year in New

York. Beginning in June 2012, participants

gathered for monthly sessions featuring skill

development activities, peer and facilitator

coaching, and discussions with nonprofit

executives who shared their expertise and

insights. Emerging Leaders participants

implemented their learned skills and

leadership competencies through stretch

projects designed in collaboration with their

employers. The program’s goal is to build the

capacity of the nonprofit sector to address

complex public issues by equipping talented

young managers with training, experiences,

and relationships that will launch them into

leadership roles.

Addressing the attendees of both the New

York and DC celebrations, Princeton

AlumniCorps President Kathy Miller ’77

detailed the goals of the program. “We help

very talented young nonprofit managers grow

into confident, skillful, and resilient leaders

with more support, tools and practical

knowledge than is available on the job, and

with access to insights and connections they

couldn’t easily reach.” She noted that the

program’s emphasis on collaboration and

networking within each cohort generates

connections and partnerships that continue to

serve participants and prevent isolation after

they leave the program.

In discussing what she gained from

(continued on page 2)

Aspen Institute Honors Rainah Berlowitz ’97 for Arts Education Work

Rainah Berlowitz ’97 has been working with Education Through Music (ETM)

since his Project 55 fellowship placement in 1997. He now serves as the Director of Operations and last year he

was awarded a prestigious Fellowship for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders from the Aspen Institute. We recently talked to

him about his work, AlumniCorps, and the Aspen Institute fellowship.

You have been working with ETM for

more than 15 years, beginning as a

PP55 fellow. What has motivated you

to continue you work for social change

through ETM?

I believe that education - which to me includes music and arts education - is

critical to helping all people reach their full potential. I was fortunate to have

music class in elementary school, but it was always presented as “extra-

curricular.” It didn’t bother me so much at the time, but in high school my questions about how the world worked

were less about what and how and more about why. Then music and art became much more important. I began studying

them more or less independently, because in high school they were deemed even less “curricular” than in

elementary school. After a while, I stopped seeing music and art as being

divided from other subjects. Seeing connections helped me learn things more quickly and made everything I learned

more useful and meaningful. At the heart of ETM’s mission is the idea that learning in music supports learning in

general, and that it provides the most transferable benefits when taught as a

core discipline. It was the right fit. I continue my nonprofit work in part

because I believe our vision is achievable, that all children in the US

can have access to a high-quality music education, and I want to see it through to the best of my ability. It’s challenging

work that I enjoy. And to be honest, I also continue here because of the leadership of our Executive Director

Katherine Damkohler, who has been here since I started; the support of our

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Spotlight: Rainah Berlowitz ’97

board; and the sense of shared effort and achievement I felt with my co-workers,

including those who have come and gone over the past 15 years. I’ve had a somewhat rare opportunity to build the

rungs on my career ladder, to be entrepreneurial in my work right out of college. That experience gives me a

sense of ownership and belonging that I’d say have been their own rewards. I also would be remiss if I didn’t say

something about Giving Opportunities to Others, (GOTO). In 2001, my

AlumniCorps mentee Cameron Snaith ‘00 founded GOTO to engage young professional volunteers in raising money

for summer arts camp scholarships for kids who otherwise wouldn’t be able to go. My volunteer work with GOTO

provided me with innumerable opportunities to develop leadership skills

and further reinforced the strong feeling I had about the virtue and importance of the sector. Over ten years later, I’m still

an active GOTO volunteer, currently serving as board chair.

Can you speak about your experience

in helping grow ETM? What have

been some milestones of your work?

Helping to grow ETM has been an

adventure. Getting major funding, getting rejected for major funding, going through growing pains, and especially

seeing teammates come and go formed the basis for many emotional ups and downs. There have more than a few

times that I’ve felt like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, only to have it

yanked away. I think the best part has been working on developing a team that can do what we set out to accomplish

most of the time. One of the milestones in ETM’s growth was an $800,000+ US

Department of Education award we received from 2005 to 2008 to evaluate,

define, and disseminate our music education model. It was a unique accomplishment because it was

incredibly selective. An enormous amount of work went into that proposal, but we pursued it despite the likelihood

of rejection. Credit for that also needs to be shared with AlumniCorps Project 55

fellows Katherine Canning ’97 and Amy Muehlbauer ‘05. The other big milestone was the start

of our Licensed Affiliate organizations in other parts of the US, starting in Los Angeles with ETM-LA in 2006, led by

Victoria Lanier ’99. Our second affiliate in San Francisco, ETM-Bay Area, was founded in 2008 and is currently led by

Dylan Tatz ‘06. Trying to replicate or scale any program or business model is a

challenge, and it’s one I believe we’re going to meet, benefiting thousands more children than we could on our own.

Having worked with Princeton

AlumniCorps in multiple capacities -

mentor, community partner, fellow -

why do you continue to work with the

organization, and what originally appealed you?

In addition to gratitude for the opportunity to experience an enlightening and meaningful fellowship

that turned into an enlightening and meaningful career, it was the group’s focus on creating systemic change and

on developing leadership among the fellows. I was inspired by the friendship

and example of AlumniCorps greats like Chet Safian ’55, Sam Suratt ’55 and Judy Suratt, Pete Milano ’55, John Fish

’55, Margaret Crotty ’94, and many others. I enjoyed the opportunities to learn more about the social sector. Those

events made a career in nonprofits seem more viable at a time when my frame of

reference was very limited. The opportunity to connect with the Project 55 fellows is always rewarding,

and the opportunity to make use of their skills and passion as staff members is a privilege. Though AlumniCorps has

become an ever more popular choice for

Princeton seniors, I still think it attracts the most capable and wise members of the undergraduate community.

Recently, you participated in a

fellowship for Emerging Nonprofit

Leaders with the Aspen Institute.

What excited you about the

fellowship? What did you gain from

the experience?

What excited me most was the chance to engage other people at similar points in their careers, but in very diverse fields

of nonprofit work, in answering the deeper questions about what we are

doing and why we are doing it. What is the “good society”? Are people basically good or evil? Is the role of the leader to

command or to empower? Is it wiser to work for change from outside the system or from within it? Where do human

rights come from? Who or what determines what they are? But more than

our collective answers to those questions, it was the process of responding to them that was the greatest

benefit. I had to dust off my close reading skills as we invited Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Arthur Okun,

Harriet Taylor Mill, Martin Luther King, Confucius, and many other great

thinkers to lend their voices to the discussion. The facilitators made it difficult to get by with anything less than

a complete understanding of each point of a writer’s argument, and I’m grateful to them for that.

(continued from page 1)

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(continued from page 1)

Emerging Leaders, Ayana Woods ’98, Director

of Education at the National Hemophilia

Foundation, stated “I have a better

understanding of my own path. I know what

sustains and drains me. I know what I need to do to make a difference in the nonprofit field. I leave the last session with heightened self

awareness, a wealth of knowledge, great skills, and great new set friends.” Employers expressed their gratitude for the

impact of the program on the work of their organizations. Rachael Swanson, Director of

Volunteer and Community Partnerships for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, supervises New York Emerging Leader Taruna Devi Sadhoo.

In commenting on how Sadhoo’s participation yielded immediate results for the rest of her staff, Swanson said that “Our whole team has

read articles, taken reflection to a new level and has begun to take professional

development even more seriously than before. Taruna has also been able to use the skills and resources gained at Emerging

Leaders with her student leaders. I think the U.S. Fund for UNICEF has benefited

tremendously from the program.”

AlumniCorps will offer a third year of Emerging Leaders in DC and New York

beginning in June 2013. Applications are due

on March 15th and are open to:

Graduates of any college or university

With 2-8 years of full-time work, including

at least one year in the nonprofit sector

Who are currently employed in the nonprofit sector and have some degree of

management responsibilities.

Winter 2013 Page 3

Emerging Leaders Celebrate, Look Toward 2013-14

Emerging Leaders is Now Accepting

Applications at www.AlumniCorps.org!

Left: NYC

Emerging

Leaders Class of 2013

Below: Emerging

Leader Chimere

Stephens and his son Cayden with

AlumniCorps

President Kathy

Miller ’77

Left: DC

Emerging Leaders

Class of 2013

Right: Jennifer

Lockwood-Shabat

and

Emerging

Leader Lauren

Stillwell

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A Fellow’s Experience: David Jean-Baptiste ’12

David Jean-Baptiste ’12 currently serves as a Project 55 fellow at the Better Boys

Foundation in Chicago. Princeton AlumniCorps asked him to write about his work, his mentorship experience, and

the regular seminars he attends

organized by the Chicago committee.

“Listen, tell me what we can do for

you. Think about it.” That’s what I often hear from my two mentors, Candace Jackson ‘00 and Emile Karafiol ‘55,

each time they take me out to dinner. My normal response is to just stare back with

a demure smile, half confused and half uneasy about the enormity of their request. Do I ask for general career

advice? Advice about law school? Maybe I should go big and outright ask for a job? No, that’s crazy. “I’ll get back

to you on that one,” I reply, effectively guaranteeing another awkward moment

at our next dinner date. This simple exchange captures the value of the Chicago Project 55

mentorship program. More than a means of getting a job or securing a free dinner (though I must confess, dinner is a nice

perk), the mentorship program offers a way of navigating safely and

comfortably the sometimes challenging transition between the Orange Bubble a n d t h e “ r e a l w o r l d . ”

And, oh, how real the world away from the Orange Bubble has gotten. Immaculately manicured lawns have

given way to unattended lots, gothic-style buildings have been replaced by

barely standing row houses, and an overwhelming sense of safety has been replaced by a heightened sense of

vigilance. On the West Side of Chicago—unlike the downtown loop, lakefront, and parks—there are no

majestic skyscrapers gracing the airspace, no wide-eyed tourists walking the streets, and barely any greenery to

break the grayness of the landscape. The lost potential demands your attention.

The “corner kids,” the boarded-up storefronts, and the jerky movements of the disheveled addict weary from drug

use all announce that what could have been or what could be has been muted by the weight of what is. This is North

Lawndale, a part of Chicago that never makes its way into travel brochures.

As a tutor at the Better Boys Foundation (BBF), an afterschool organization that offers creative

apprenticeships and tutoring to students between the ages of five and eighteen, I’ve witnessed firsthand the effects that

growing up in such an environment can have on young people. Far from being unaware of the implications of what they

see around them, the youth of North Lawndale keenly understand that the

odds are stacked against them, that most people have written them off, that societal benefits reach them last and its

ills reach them first. It’s the kind of awareness that makes young people here deeply skeptical, not just of their own

abilities, but also of the people and institutions that inhabit their community.

Through my daily interactions with my students, one thing has become abundantly clear: Despite the

circumstances of their physical environment, my students remain hopeful—hopeful that one day they’ll

leave North Lawndale, attend college, and secure for themselves lives better

than distant onlookers think are possible. This and other insights come together during our weekly seminars, which we

share with Public Interest Program fellows from Northwestern and the University of Chicago. We come from

our respective universities bearing our

school pride, interests, worldviews, and insights. Some fellows are particularly

concerned about LGBT issues, some about the quality of inner city schools, and others, still, about inequality in the

workplace. At the center of our seminars is usually a local speaker—the head of a nonprofit organization or a public

official—who endures the heat of our interrogation. It all makes for a robust and sometimes colorful conversation, a

precious commodity when adjusting to life without lectures and precepts.

Together, we’ve gone toe to toe with Bill Ayers about the legitimacy of the recent Chicago Teachers Union strike, explored

Chicago’s dire fiscal challenges with State Senator Heather Steans ‘85, and delved into the intricacies of the Federal

court system with Assistant US Attorney Sharon Fairley ‘82 as our guide.

What has emerged for us fellows—out of this combination of on-the-ground experiences, seminars, mentors, and

friendships—is not any grand epiphany, or a simple solution to Chicago’s or our nation’s many challenges, but instead a

mature sense of our limitations both as individuals and as a group. No, we haven’t abandoned our ideals, goals, and

aspirations, but, rather, we’ve learned that if we are to affect real change, then

we must become more intimate with our various causes. Don’t spread yourself too thin and too broadly. Start at the

local level, and focus narrowly, intensely, and passionately on those causes. As a result of what we’re

learning in our fellowships, we’re growing up fast, and with our hopes

bruised but intact.

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Listening to Our Partner Organizations:

Please consider supporting AlumniCorps and help us meet our goal before June 30th. Here are two ways to give:

Make a secure credit card donation online at www.alumnicorps.org.

Mail your donation to: Princeton AlumniCorps, 12 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540

For more information, contact Sandy Fernandez, Development Director at 609-921-8808 Ext. 7 or

[email protected]. On behalf of all our program participants and organizational partners, thank you

for your support of our work in the public interest!

Jim Farrin ’58, Executive Director of the Princeton-based

Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program, shares his

thoughts on how a partnership with Princeton

AlumniCorps has contributed to his organization.

Community Volunteers recently recruited two graduates—

Haley White ’12 and Beverly Thomison-Sadia ’85—to

develop a national expansion plan for the Petey Greene

prison education program.

The Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program takes

Princeton University students and community members to

nearby prisons to help incarcerated students improve their

reading, writing, and math skills. We are currently

operating in two prisons in Bordentown, New Jersey:

Albert C. Wagner and Garden State Youth Correctional

Facility, which are adjacent to each other about thirty five

miles away from campus. The program is five years old

and has expanded to four additional colleges in New

Jersey. Our student leadership group has just set up a club

on campus called SPEAR (Students for Prison Education

and Reform). Our vision is to take our program national,

and we needed to have a business plan developed to act as

a roadmap for our expansion.

Princeton AlumniCorps recruited two Princeton alumni:

Haley White ’12, who volunteered with Petey Greene as an

undergraduate, and Beverly Thomison-Sadia ’85, a former

health care project executive. We three intergenerational

Princeton graduates are working to complete an expansion

plan by April to present to the Petey Greene board. There is

no way that this would be possible without Haley and

Beverly. I am very grateful for their participation at this

crucial stage of our growth!

For information about other Community Volunteers

projects, visit www.AlumniCorps.org.

Raised as of

January 31: $268,850 from

186 donors

We need your help

to reach 500 donors!

At the end of January, Princeton AlumniCorps had raised $268,850 from 186 donors. We are very grateful to those who

have already given, and thank you for your support! We still have work to do to meet our June 30th fiscal year-end goal of $422,500 and 500 donors. We can only reach these goals with

your help. All of our programs build civic leadership and our collective capacity to address public issues. Day by day, we are

engaging a greater number of alumni at all stages of their civic lives. From the moment they walk through Fitzrandolph Gate as Project 55 Fellows through the crucial early stages of

their careers as change agents to later on when they may be looking for new ways to put their experience and talent to

work in the public interest, alumni find community,

mentorship, learning, and meaningful opportunities to contribute to social change through AlumniCorps.

The support of our donors is essential to the vitality of the organization and the high-quality programs we continue to offer. We cannot do this alone but only with your involvement

and financial contributions. There are many different ways to think about your giving to AlumniCorps. You can make a gift to a particular program, geographic location, or a fellow or

Emerging Leader. In-kind donations such as space, refreshments for events, airline miles, and video and photography equipment are also appreciated. By joining the

Keystone Society with a planned gift, you ensure our work will continue for decades to come.

Left to raise by June 30:

$153,650 from 314 donors

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John Fish ’55 Given Social Change Award

The Boston PP55 program had an

exciting fall. In November, members

o f t he Bo s to n Alum niCo rp s

community visited Cradles to Crayons,

an organization that aims to provide

children in the Boston area with

essent ia l i tems that may be

inaccessible. As volunteers, we sorted

through clothing and arranged outfits

for children from 0-7 years old.

Alongside all the adorableness, it was

a great opportunity for fellows to see

how a nonprofit successfully mobilizes

a large volunteer base to meet its goals.

In early January we held a post-holiday

dinner event with Harvard CPIC

fellows at Park, a restaurant in Harvard

Square! Finally, on January 24th we

visited the Environmental Defense

Fund, which works to develop

solutions to environmental problems,

often through partnerships with large

corporations such as Wal-Mart. We

discussed everything from natural gas

fracking to deforestation and beef

production to the development of the

Starbucks sleeve!

Since October the Chicago PP55

fellows have met for weekly seminars

with their Public Interest Program

counterparts from Northwestern and

the University of Chicago. Topics

focused on in these seminars included

the charter school movement, the

turnaround plans for the most troubled

Chicago public schools, the legal

services available for poor and

disadvantaged Chicagoans, the pro

bono legal efforts at one of Chicago’s

largest law firms, the work of

prosecutors and public defenders in the

federal court system, and the mission

and programs of

one of the most

act ive LGB T

c o m m u n i t y

centers in the

c o u n t r y . O n

November 15, a

total of 56

f e l l o w s — 2 0

Princeton, 20 UC,

a n d 1 6

Northwestern—

attended a session

with Eboo Patel, noted author and ED

of Interfaith Youth Corps. A well-

attended holiday party for all

P r inceton, Northwestern, and

University of Chicago fellows took

place in December, hosted by some of

the fellows. AlumniCorps Executive

Director Andrew Nurkin and Project

55 Program Manager Paul Nehring

’10 visited Chicago in October.

The Connecticut PP55 Program has

two fellows placed at The Housing

Development Fund (HDF). PP55

Fellow Sabrina Szeto ’12 actively

supported the stakeholder engagement

process for HDF, co-wrote the report

together with the committee chairs and

was given the opportunity to present

the recommendations at state-level

technical meetings and conferences.

This work built directly on the efforts

of Tiffany Lee ’11, the outgoing PP55

fellow, who played a crucial role in

organizing a strategic simulation on

residential energy efficiency in March

2012. HDF is launching new and

innovative loan programs in Q1 2013

that will enable first-time homebuyers

to become landlord entrepreneurs

living in rehabilitated 2-4 multifamily

units. They will also have access to

financing to weatherize their homes

and lower their monthly energy bills

via the Cozy Home Loan. PP55 Fellow

Mary Thierry ’12 makes this possible

through her work in development and

communications at HDF.

Chicago

Princeton AlumniCorps Regional Updates Boston

Connecticut

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AlumniCorps Chairman John Fish ’55 will be given the Livesay Award for Social

Change by the Colorado College Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP) for his role

in inspiring the program at Colorado College, a program modeled after the PP55

Fellowship Program. At the April 30th award ceremony the 36 new fellows (22 year

long, 14 summer interns) will be recognized.

After this inaugural year the Livesay Award will be given to the Colorado College

PIFP gradate who has most significantly engaged in social change activities.

John has a long history with Colorado Colleges. In the early seventies he taught at the

Colorado College summer school. In addition over 200 CC students have participated

in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Urban Studies Program where John taught

for over 25 years.

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Washington, DC

New York

Philadelphia

San Francisco Bay Area

Princeton

The November 14th seminar was a

lively debate and discussion on the

criminal justice system featuring Peter

Kougasian '76, Special Assistant in

the Office of the Special Narcotics

Prosecutors, and Robin Steinberg,

Founder and Executive Director of the

Bronx Defenders. In December, Chet

Safian '55 and his wife Jenny Safian

hosted our annual holiday party at their

home. Former and current fellows,

Board members, NYC area committee

representatives and AlumniCorps staff

were in attendance. The January

seminar included a tour of the Hispanic

Society of America led by Marcus

Burke '69, Senior Curator at the

Hispanic Society of America. February

w i l l f e a t u r e t w o e x c i t i n g

fellowship events. The first will be the

Career and Networking night hosted

by Arthur '64 and Laurie Malman,

parents of Dana Warren ‘03. On

February 27th, we'll be having one of

our most exciting seminars yet with

sp ec i a l gues t s A n n e Ma r ie

Slaughter '80, Professor of Politics

and International Affairs at Princeton

University and Andrew Romano '04, a

senior writer at Newsweek. The

seminar will be at the Princeton Club

of New York and the discussion will

be centered around Professor

Slaughter's article "Why Women Still

Can't Have It All."

The NYC Emerging Leaders closing

reception was held on January 17th at

Locus Analytics.

The Philadelphia area is currently

organizing groups of Princeton Alumni

to make and serve dinners at the

Ronald McDonald Houses in the city.

We have one coming up on Sunday,

March 10th. If you are in the

Philadelphia area and interested in

volunteering at this or other

opportunities, contact Katie Thaeder at

[email protected].

Community Volunteers recently

placed two volunteers with the Petey

Greene Prisoner Assistance Program.

Haley White ’12 and Beverly

Thomison-Sadia ’85 are working with

Jim Farrin ’58 on an expansion plan

to present to the Petey Greene board.

The Bay Area is home to two Project

55 fellows this year, Tiffany Lee ’11,

working at NewSchools Venture Fund

and Nilan Schnure ’12, at the UCSF

Breast Cancer Center. In October, the

Project 55 fellows were a part of a

Graduate School Networking Mixer.

The fellows had an opportunity to meet

alumni in other fields and receive

advice on career paths and applying to

graduate school.

The Bay Area also received a

welcomed visit from Paul Nehring ’10,

Project 55 Program Manager. He met

with several current and potential

partner agencies as well as gathering

with fellows for dinner. Pictured are

Nilan Schnure ’12, Tifany Lee ’11,

Paul Nehring ’10, and Julie

Rubinger ’09 coordinating the strong

and growing Bay Area committee.

In November, sixteen Project 55 and

Alumni Network fellows attended a

seminar entitled "Managing Workplace

Relationships," led by Lisa Lazarus

'02 and Charity Fesler '01. This

in-depth, hands-on seminar employed

concepts and strategies from Sustained

Dialogue to help fellows develop skills

for managing up and building

productive, meaningful professional

relationships.

In early December, a number of

Project 55 fellows, fellowship alumni,

and a former AlumniCorps Board

president gathered to celebrate the

holidays with a delicious potluck

dinner. Pictured below are Rachel

Sverdlove '11, Bill Leahy '66, Carol

Dreibelbis '11, Jenna Skowronski

'11, and Alan Reynolds '11.

In mid-January, over a dozen Project

55 and Alumni Network fellows came

together for a seminar entitled

"Planning Your Next Move," which

focused on learning how to chart

career paths and develop a strong

resume. Project 55 was very lucky to

again have as a guest speaker Katie

McNerney, the founder of LeaderFit,

an executive search firm targeting

p lacement s i n soci al impac t

organizations. Katie focused her

discussion on how to harness the

power of one's personal passions and

professional connections to secure

challenging and satisfying job

placements, using her own inspiring

career path as a case study. Also

presenting was Ari Altman '97, the

chair of the DC area committee, who

led the fellows in a hands-on resume-

writing workshop, culminating in all

the fellows drafting a resume entry for

their current fellowship positions.

The DC Emerging Leaders closing

reception was held on January 11th at

the Pew Charitable Trusts.

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PRINCETON ALUMNICORPS

12 Stockton Street

Princeton, NJ 08540-6813

“You will be saying that shared effort to solve our problems is not a hopeless venture” — John Gardner

Princeton AlumniCorps Board of Directors

John Fish ’55, Chairman

Kathryn Miller ’77, President

Jessica D. Johnson ’98, Secretary

Charles F. Mapes, Jr. ’55, Treasurer

Thomas D. Allison ’66

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