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Location: About 1 hour East of Roanoke, Virginia

Enrollment: 2,300

Other interesting tidbits: Lynchburg College is the second oldest college in Virginia to be founded as coeducational

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: Center for Community Development & Social Justice

Relevant website: http://www.lynchburg.edu/ccdsj.xml

 

Type of Program: Bonner Leaders

Year Began: 2004

Bonner Program website: http://www.lynchburg.edu/bonner.xml

 

Number of Bonner Leaders: 29-31

Number in Bonner AmeriCorps Education Award Program: 25 Bonners will be working toward their 2-year 900 hour AmeriCorps awards in 2009-10. The remaining students will be returning for their 3rd year of the Bonner program (and will have completed their awards).

Type of AmeriCorps Ed Awards: 2-year 900-hour awards

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  Yes; Lynchburg College created a Minor in Civic Engagement in 2007.   

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: Kenneth Garren

Bonner Director: Lisa Whitaker

Bonner Coordinator: Bev Pfluger

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Kristin Bell and Laura Davis

Bonner Congress Representatives: Hannah Sizemore, Angela Massino

 

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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

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2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

   

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Student Leadership Planning:

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 Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Lynchburg Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project: Bev Pfluger, 434/544-8158
• Student Point Person for project:  Dianna Borow, borow_d@students.lynchburg.edu
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created - lynchburgserves.pbwiki.com
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) (Anel Coss, coss_a@students.lynchburg.edu, and Hannah Sizemore, sizemore_h@students.lynchburg.edu; will post it on Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): YES, please (we bought one on our own but it has malfunctioned)
  • See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

 

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: yes; transition has been ok, the new students seem to like it
• Need for additional training:  no
• 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: Bev Pfluger: pfluger@lynchburg.edu, Senior Interns; Kristen Bell, bell_k@students.lynchburg.edu, Laura Davis, Davis_l@students.lynchburg.edu
  • 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. Scheduled for Wednesday at 1:30pm.
• Will not take new students this semester. They did have 40 people at the prospective meeting for incoming Bonners for the Fall.

 

Issue-Based Research

• What issue(s) working group will your campus focus on (in preparation for SLI 2009)? 
  • Environment, Health Care, and Homelessness/Hunger
• Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):  
  • Health Care
  • Juvenile Delinquent Re-Entry
• Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
  • Lisa Whitaker, 434/544-8156; whitaker@lynchburg.edu
  • Tyler Curtis, curtis_t@students.lynchburg.edu
  • Point people in charge of each team (3). Research local, state, national, work with policy options to do brief
• See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

 

Campus Support

New Senior Intern

New policy focused student groups in the works

Will look for support for these issue-based teams. The conference calls will help.

Working on some serve.20 resources to update personal wiki

 

LC Bonners

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Bonner Congress 2008 - Service at Lynchburg Grows urban farm 

 

PHOTOS

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Feel free to upload photos, especially of events like Orientation, First Year Trip, Second Year Exchange, Congress Representatives and Senior Interns, Campus-Wide projects, or the Bonner community.  Provide brief captions if you can.

 

 

Bonner IV, V and newest VI's gather for the first meet and greet!

 

Bonners III and IV's after presenting at a Bonner Program Information Session

 

 

Bonner LaToya Scott and Bonner Abe Garang from the Sudan coaching YMCA youth soccer

 

 

Bonner 5s Brett Schwartz and Shannon Lynch slashing overgrown plants at Lynchburg Grows

 

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