Service | Academic Work | Education & Training | Capacity Building | Deliberative Democracy
Sub-categories in this issue
- Affordable Housing
- Day Care
- Foster Care
- Employment services
- Job Training
- Mental Health
- Health Insurance
- Foreclosures/ Legal Aid
- Emergency Assistance
- Food shelf/ Hunger
- Welfare to Work Programs
- Food justice/access
Types of Service short-term | ongoing school year | summer
Short-term Service Projects
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service at St. Stephens
- Hunger and Homelessness Week
- A Day in the Life- Homeless Simulation
- Awareness Rallies; Signing the Streets- Simpson Housing
- Foodless Food Drive
- Habitat for Humanity Trips; New Orleans Alternative Spring Break
- Turkey Paloosa/ Thanksgiving Food Drive
- Letter writing campaigns
- A Day at the Capital
- Go Away Here-Alternative Spring Break in the City: Homelessness
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Ongoing School Year
- Campus Kitchen Program
- Community Garden and Nutrition Education for local youth groups
- Community Supported Agriculture Shares and Farmers Market
- Courses with on-going advocacy components and direct service requirements
- First-year Augsburg Seminars work directly through Campus Kitchens
- Weekly deliveries of food to homeless shelters near campus by students
Summer
- Education and Nutritional Outreach Internship
- Campus Kitchen Program
- Farmers Market
Academic Work courses | service-learning | CBR and policy research | departments and institutes
Courses/ CBR and policy research
- Nursing professor, Ruth Enestvdt, also Augsburg's Batalden Scholar in Applied Ethics has developed and is currently teaching a graduate course: Making Room at the Table: Applying Ethics to Ending Hunger and Sharing Food. This is an interdisciplinary class that focuses on initiating conversations on campus and in wider communities around ethics and hunger.
- The Integrated Term for first-year Augsburg Students that takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackling large societal issues from four different fields (English, History, Religion, Sociology). The class works together to bring positive change to local communities. This year the focus of fall 2009 i-term is FATE of the Earth 101.
Departments of Study
- Economics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Social Work
- History
Education & Training forums | workshops | reflection activities
- Hunger 101 simulations
- Homelessness simulations
- "The Land of 10,000 Homeless" Documentary
- Hunger and Homelessness week
- Site Visits
- Partner Organization Education and Activism Events
Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building training | fundraising | resource development
- Hunger 101
- Simulations ("A Day in the Life", Sleepouts, Hunger Banquet)
- Speakers from community partner organizations
- Documentary Nights with discussion
- Campus Kitchen deliveries
Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy evaluations | policy research | issue forums | advocacy
Policy Research/ Issue Forums
- Nursing professor, Ruth Enestvdt, also Augsburg's Batalden Scholar in Applied Ethics has developed and is currently teaching a graduate course: Making Room at the Table: Applying Ethics to Ending Hunger and Sharing Food. This is an interdisciplinary class that focuses on initiating conversations on campus and in wider communities around ethics and hunger.
- Project Homelessness Connect provides a biannual day long event at the Minneapolis convention center that works at not only advocating for policy change but providing health, legal and many other services in one place. At the last event almost 1800 people were served by over 1600 volunteers, 160 agencies with 500 service providers. These services are are done in effort to help remove some of the barriers keeping people from finding permanent housing.
- PolicyOptions Issue Brief- Under Construction This Spring at Augsburg
Contacts staff | faculty | students | community partners (local, regional, national)
Staff
Faculty
Students
Local Community Partners
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