Camp Sunshine's Pumpkin Fest

Join Circle K and other USM students at Camp Sunshine's Pumpkin Fest on Saturday, October 27th. Students will be volunteering from 3-9pm. Feel free to attend the event or come and volunteer with the group. This is a big fundraiser for Camp Sunshine, so spread the word and see you there!

 

For more information check out their website: http://www.campsunshine.org/pumpkinfestival/portland_home.html

 

If you have any further questions about the event, contact mdecleene@usm.maine.edu.

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

Molly De Cleene

Office of Community Service Learning

University of Southern Maine

Programs Coordinator- AmeriCorps VISTA

 

Phone: 207.780.4537

Fax: 207.228.8403

Eliot Cutler on Service TONIGHT

In case you missed this, a reminder about tonight's Muskie School lecture, which is free and open to the public.  -ATM

 

 

Eliot Cutler - "Public Service Opportunities and Obligations"
October 17, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Lee Community Hall (Rm 133), Wishcamper Center

Eliot Cutler - founding chair of One Maine, Muskie School advisory board member, entrepreneur, and public servant - will talk about the challenges and opportunities that public servants and state and local governments will confront during the next two decades in Maine. We need to change Maine's equations. How do we make Maine younger, wealthier, more efficient, and more diverse?

Eliot Cutler has forged a 40-year career marked by success in government service, law, and business. As an aide to Senator Edmund Muskie, he helped craft the Clean Air Act, the Water Pollution Control Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. From 1977 to 1980, he served as Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and was President Carter's principal aide in the environmental, natural resources, and energy areas. A graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University Law Center, Cutler is Emeritus Trustee of the Thornburg Investment Trust, a family of publicly traded mutual funds. Cutler also was the first American member of the board of directors of the worldwide construction company Skanska AB and a director of the International Law Institute.

 

 

 

Andrea Thompson McCall, Director

-Community Service Learning

-Religious and Spiritual Life

University of Southern Maine

P.O. Box 9300

Portland, ME 04104-9300

 

Phone 207-228-8284

FAX 207-228-8403

One America Reads Position remains!

If you care about kids and community, and have a Federal Work Study Award, you may be eligible to fill the last remaining America Reads position.  The successful candidate will spent 6-10 hours/week of work-study payable time serving as a reading role model for kindergarten and first grade students at Ocean Avenue Elementary School.  Training and support/supervision is provided.  For more information or to apply, contact Diana Katz McDermott at diana.b.katz@maine.edu.  ONLY STUDENTS WITH WORK STUDY AWARDS SHOULD APPLY!

 

 

 

Andrea Thompson McCall, Director

-Community Service Learning

-Religious and Spiritual Life

University of Southern Maine

P.O. Box 9300

Portland, ME 04104-9300

 

Phone 207-228-8284

FAX 207-228-8403

College Experience Day

College Experience Day is coming up and we need your help!

 On Wednesday October 24th, students from local high schools will be coming to USM for the day to get a taste of college. These students are from all over the world, and our goal is to give them a valuable experience by allowing them to go to college classes, have a campus tour, and talk with current USM students and the admissions staff.

 We are looking for USM students to act as hosts and escort the high school students to classroom visits and join them for lunch in the Woodbury Campus Center. Please let us now if you are interested in helping us on this very special day.

Thank you!

Amanda Maddalone

AmeriCorps VISTA
Program Coordinator
Office of Community Service Learning
University of Southern Maine
(207)780-4679

Have you volunteered at Preble Street? Will you help a sociology student?

If you are now or have been a volunteer at Preble Street, you can be of considerable help to a sociology student.  If you're willing to give a half hour interview about your volunteer experience at Preble Street, please e-mail me here: atmmccall@usm.maine.edu.  Consider how grateful you'd be, if it were your assignment, and please do it!  -ATM

 

 

Andrea Thompson McCall, Director

-Community Service Learning

-Religious and Spiritual Life

University of Southern Maine

P.O. Box 9300

Portland, ME 04104-9300

 

Phone 207-228-8284

FAX 207-228-8403

Give Service, Get Lunch!

The service project for Commuter Week 2012 is:

 

Partners for World Health - a nonprofit organization that collects and distributes discarded medical supplies to third world countries and educates people about global health.

 

Friday, October 5th from 10am-1pm

• Receive an introduction to the Partners for World Health organization
• Give back to the community
• Meet USM students with similar interests
• Share a meal with us over some discussion

To join us for the event simple reply to this message and meet us at the Woodbury Campus Center on Friday at 10am. Spread the word and see you there!

 

 

 

 

Molly De Cleene

Office of Community Service Learning

University of Southern Maine

Programs Coordinator- AmeriCorps VISTA

 

Phone: 207.780.4537

Fax: 207.228.8403

Civic Matters 2012

Announcing the 4^th Annual Civic Matters Symposium being held November 16, 2012.

Civic Matters is a USM symposium put on by the Office of Community Service Learning. The event celebrates community-engaged work across USM disciplines that enriches student learning and addresses community-identified needs. Through this type of work students gain greater engagement, academic success, and civic learning. Collaborative works are showcased through:

·         Poster sessions

·         Oral presentations

·         Engaging community conversation on service learning 
 

We encourage USM students, faculty, staff and community partners to present their work.  Projects from a previous semester, from a course you are teaching or enrolled in this fall, and on-going research are all eligible.  Please visit the Civic Matters Submission Guidelines before submitting a proposal to present. To submit your project, view our application online: Civic Matters Submission Form. 

**Please submit project proposals for the event by Friday, October 12^th, 2012.** 

For more information contact Alicia Ethridge at asampson@usm.maine.edu or (207) 228-8092.

 

 

 

 

 

Molly De Cleene

Office of Community Service Learning

Programs Coordinator- AmeriCorps VISTA

 

Phone: 207.780.4537

Fax: 207.228.8403