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Location: Atlanta, GA

Enrollment: 2063 Students

Other interesting tidbits:

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: The Bonner Office of Community Service and Student Development

Relevant website: http://www.spelman.edu/students/current/community/aboutus.shtml

 

Type of Program: Bonner Scholars

Year Began: 1992

Bonner Program website: same as above

 

Number of Bonner Scholars:  79

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 21

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: 3

Active in Learn & Serve CBR:

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: Beverly Daniel Tatum

Bonner Scholars Program Coordinator: Sheryl G. Belizaire

Bonner Director: Jennifer W. China

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Shafiqah Faust, Leanna Pearson

Bonner Congress Representatives: Shafiqah Faust, Gaybrielle Gant

Other: Nakeita Stewart, Arienne Jones

 

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

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Our Partners:

 

Economic Development

Atlanta Community Tool Bank House Poud Program

Community Housing Initatives Corporation

Neighborhood Planning Unit-T Zone NPUT

The Center For Children & Families

 

Education

Brown Middle School

Fickett Elementary School

Friendship Baptist Church

Herndon Elementary

Jean Childs Young Institute

KIPP Strive Academy

M. Agnus Jones Elementary School

The Study Hall

Raising Expectations

 

Health & Wellness

 

Center for Black Women Wellness

City of Refuge

 

Environmental Sustainability

West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA)

Friends of Washington Park

 

Trips 

 

Service Trip for Class of 2012 to Birmingham Alabama 

Theme: SANKOFA; Returning, Reclaiming and Renewing 

 

 The Bonner Scholars freshmen class of 2012 partnered with Urban Ministries United Methdist Church and the Joe Rush Urban Center located in Birmingham Alabama.  The Joe Rush Center for Urban Mission seeks to strengthen and support the faith of youth and adults through Bible study, prayer, worship, and hands-on service.  They build Christian unity through active participation in a culturally diverse urban setting. Christian unity through active participation in a culturally diverse urban setting.

 

Impact:  National Student Conference on Service Advocacy and Social Action: University of Maryland

 

Bonner Congress representatives Shafiquah Faust and Gabrielle Gant attended the conference and presented  a workshop on service and leadership.

Bonner Summer Leadership Institute Training in Deland Florida at Stetson University

 

Five (5) Bonner scholars attended Bonner Summer Leadership Institute Training in DeLand, Florida. Bonner program Assistant Kerry Dean Nugent also attended the conference. 

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 Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Spelman Congress Action Planning

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

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

 

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project: Jennifer China - Jchina@spelman.edu
• Student Point Person for project:  Gaybrielle Gant - gaybrielle@gmail.com, scheduled meeting on 1/29
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  looking into it, but just received information on 1/23
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  TBA under construction, will update wiki with link
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Gabrielle, gabrielle@gmail.com,  Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? We have a flip cam
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP
  • • • • • • BWBRS

              • Using BWBRS 3.0: yes
              • Need for additional training:  Yes. Would like to have all staff familiar with training for usage th April 27 one hour training was not sufficient.  J. China and K. Nugent will attend New Director training in Princeton July 2009 and will schedule additional trainings upon our return.  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: Sheryl Belizaire,sbelizai@spelman.edu,  Kerry-Dean Nugent, knugent@spelman.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: February 10 at 3pm (Sheryl and Kerry)
              • 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)? 
                • Education, Economic Development, Environmental Sustainability, and Health & Wellness.
              • Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help in defining):  
                • Education > Early Childhood - Spelman College
                • Education > Elementary - Spelman College
                • Education > Middle and High School - Spelman College
                • Health and Mental Health - Spelman College
                • Environment - Spelman College
              • Lead contact people (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
                • Sheryl has selected a group of Bonners to work at the NPU-T (Neighborhood Planning Units for the T-zone); work in the Public relations office on important issues to the community dealing with economic development.
                • Names, titles, phone numbers, emails
              • See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

               

              General Support:

              Still working on getting things in place. Getting people identified to act as leads and teams for these projects and be involved in these areas.

               

              Want a training on Twitter, Google, Map, Wiki. Sheryl does not feel familiar with these technologies.

               

              Visit-start thinking about dates that would be important for a Foundation presence, etc.