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Community Engagement Fellowship
Past Projects
Each year the Center funds three new Community Engagement projects and may provide continuation funding to projects from previous years. Following are descriptions of the new projects that the Center funded in the year listed. Additional projects from preceding years may be receiving continuation funding.
2011-2012
- Leaders against Systemic Injustice, a chapter of Campaign against the Death Penalty, at CCNY in 2010. The club raises awareness of problems in the criminal justice system and advocates for prisoner rights. Partnering with In Arms Reach and the Harlem Youth Law and Justice Center, group members mentor children of incarcerated parents and bring speakers to the City College campus to address criminal justice issues.
- Peer Health Exchange, a national organization that trains undergraduates to provide health education in under-resourced schools. The project recruits and trains 40 CCNY students initially to provide health education workshops in neighborhood schools without comprehensive physical education and heath classes.
- The American Field Service encourages local high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy to apply for study abroad opportunities. Through the project, Faces of America, CCNY students who have studied abroad volunteer at Frederick Douglas Academy. Their goals will be to talk with students about their experiences abroad, help interested students fill out applications and apply for scholarships, and assist students once they apply with research about their destination.
2010-2011
- The Community Kitchen Project focuses on raising awareness about issues of homelessness, hunger, and poverty; building the kitchen's volunteer base among CCNY students, and raising funds for the organization.
- The "Green" Housing Operations Consulting Project, will in partnership with established organizations, focus on training low-income residents about how best to use "green" resources available to them. A training manual and workshops will come out the project, along with stipends for high school students, and recruitment of CCNY volunteers.
- The "We are New York" Project. This project, done in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Adult Education, assists New York City residents in learning English and discussing topics of civic engagement, using a television show as a starting point, and discussion to deepen the conversation.
2009-2010
- An affordable and feasible urban agriculture model for low-income families through a pilot project to grow food on the roof of the CCNY Engineering Building.
- A CCNY student-run organization affiliated with Charity:Water, a New York-nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe, clean drinking water to communities in developing countries by funding and implementing well projects.
- Students for Students, a CCNY student club dedicated to enabling low-income Indian youth to attend secondary school and formed in partnership with a local NGO in Kerala, India.
2008-2009
- A Hunger-Relief Initiative of the CCNY student organization SHOUT (Students Helping Out), the initiative provides hunger relief through food drives and volunteer organization efforts, and it raises awareness of hunger issues through a speaker series.
- Operation Smile, a CCNY chapter of the nonprofit group that organizes international medical missions to correct facial deformities.
- Students for an Alternative Source of Energy, a CCNY student group dedicated to furthering the use of sustainable energy sources in developing nations as well as in the U.S.
2007-2008
- CCNY Fight Against Human Trafficking, a student activist group allied with the Emancipation Network, a nonprofit organization that fights human trafficking. The CCNY group brings awareness of the issue of human trafficking and modern-day slavery to CCNY.
- The Harlem 50 College Advisement Association,a CC student association that assists trouble-plagued and often transient young men in and around Harlem who have dropped out of high school. The program aims to enable these young men to earn their GE and transition successfully into college.
- The Gulf Coast Relief Society, an expansion of a City College student club dedicated to organizing student-led and student-funded trips to rebuild New Orleans, and to the recruiting and training of CC student volunteers to assist national and international disaster-relief efforts.
2006-2007
- A CC Chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a non-partisan organization that promotes global awareness on more than 500 university campuses around the United States and in more than 10 countries worldwide. The student-led chapter helps to drive AID'S mandate through campus-based educational forums and panel discussions.
- The Academic and Professional Coordination Program (AC), a college-guidance curriculum aimed at disadvantaged youth that will be implemented in several New York City high-schools. The curriculum includes methods and materials for helping at-risk youth to navigate the college application process, to identify post-college career goals and to build professional networking skills.
- The Jews of SOS-A Visceral History on the Human Diaspora,A youth-led and youth-directed film-making project that partners CC students with Youth–Bridge New York, a leadership and community service program overseen by the Jewish Community Relations Council.
2005-2006
- A CC chapter of Engineers Without Borders, a non-profit international organization that operates through student and professional chapters to provide infrastructure support to developing countries.
- CITY, a campus-based mentoring program that works in partnership with the High School for Math Science and Engineering situated on the CC campus.
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Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service
The City College of New York
160 Convent Avenue
Shepard Hall, Room 550
New York, NY 10031 |
Tel: (212) 650-8551
Fax: (212 650-8535
cpowellctr@ccny.cuny.edu |
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