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Location: 30 minutes west of the state capital of Harrisburg

Enrollment: 2,342

Other interesting tidbits:

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: Office of Religious Life & Community Service

Relevant website: http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/commserv/index.html

 

Type of Program: Bonner Leaders

Year Began: 2003

Bonner Program wiki: http://dickinsonserves.pbworks.com/

 

Number of Bonner Leaders:30

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award:0

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: No 

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: Dr. William Durden

Center Director: Mira Hewlett

Bonner Director: Leonard Brown Jr.

Bonner Senior Intern/Leadership Team: William Schaffenburg '10, Samantha Nicasto '11, Katherine Walters '12, Michael Blair '12, Mary Skehan '12, Kirsten Lynd '12.

Bonner Congress Representatives: Anabel Martinez '10, Gerard Mattei '12

Other:

 

MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)

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Accomplishments this year

 

*Recruited the largest class of Bonners so far for Dickinson totaling 18 students.

 

*Great orientation for new students including work with Dog Paws Sanctuary. http://dickinsonserves.pbworks.com/Bonner-Orientation-Service-Fall-2008

 

*Improved participation in and training on BWBRS, CLA’s, and evaluations.

 

*Great discussion involving faculty and several community partners on the impact of the economy on non-profits.

 

*First week long first year service trip to New Orleans.

 

*Utilized a variety of high quality campus programs to enhance the Bonner Training and Enrichment.

 

*Received a high number of great evaluations from our community partners.

 

*Sophomores participated in the Impact Conference as the 2nd year exchange.

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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Click here to complete wiki-based portion of Annual Report.  

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

 

Student Leadership Planning:

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Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Dickinson Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Leonard Brown, brownl@dickinson.edu
• Student Point Person for project:  Samantha Nicastro, nicastros@dickinson.edu
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created - dickinsonserves@pbwiki.com
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes, Katherine Walters 
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): no, do have connection to a personal one
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

 

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: yes
• Need for additional training:  not at this point, will check with Megan
• See useful links:  BWBRS 3.0 Help Guide

 

Bonner AmeriCorps

• Please list the contact information of the staff and student interns who manage your AmeriCorps Paperwork: Leonard Brown, brownl@dickinson.edu, possible administrative assistant to join on in February
  • Note:  due to the audit and the transition to BWBRS 3, all current AmeriCorps Managers will be scheduled for an AmeriCorps Management Training for 2009 within the first few weeks of the semester. Please schedule this phone call with your Foundation Program Associate as soon as possible: February 11 at 11am
• Spring Enrollments 2009:  Please complete this survey right away: AmeriCorps Survey
• Please note: This survey is for the Spring semester slots only. It does not matter if your campus had previously requested slots and have "left overs." Please fill out this survey to specify how many members your campus will enroll this semester. If you do not want slots, they should fill it in with zeroes. We will be sending out a Summer and Fall request as well, so this is only for this semester. 

 

Issue-Based Research

• What issue(s) working group will your campus focus on (in preparation for SLI 2009)? 
  • Homelessness, Hunger, Environment, Education
• Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):  
  • specific issue brief topic (define by February)
• Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
  • names, titles, phone numbers, emails
• See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

 

General Support:

 

Sent Bobby an outline for goals/activities for this spring. Leonard met with admissions, work-study and Professor Staub (Academic Affairs) to start thinking about next year, recruiting earlier, etc.

Had a retreat that went well.

 

PHOTOS

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