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Location: About 25 miles outside Philadelphia. 

Enrollment: 1,589

Other interesting tidbits:  Ursinus College claims to hold the record for the college with the highest percentage of students who end up marrying each other! 

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: UCARE (Ursinus Center for Advocacy, Responsibility, and Engagement):  Fall Semester 2009 will be the Grand Opening for our new community service center!

Relevant website: The website for our virtual community service center is now up and running!  Please check out the link to our UCARE center here:  http://www.ursinus.edu/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=2175.

Type of Program:  Bonner Leader Program

Year Began:  2006

Bonner Program website: (Ursinus' Bonner Blog) http://bonnerursinus.wordpress.com

 

Number of Bonner Leaders:  21

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 1   

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:  

Active in Learn & Serve CBR:  

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: John Strassburger

Bonner Director: Christian Rice  crice1@ursinus.edu

Bonner Senior Intern(s):  Amanda Finch and Lindsay Budnick

Bonner Congress Representatives:  TBD

Bonner Leaders:  Bridget Daly-Barnes, Kristin Daly-Barnes, Amanda Finch, Gregory Little, Laura Prahlad, Jessica DeVaul, Geovanni Velez, Lindsay Budnick, Melissa Rutkowski, Krishna Patel, Gerald Glover, Zannah Pierce, Julie Zdonek, Arielle Ross, Dana Schirk, Maire Moriarty, Valentina Alonso Gough, Liam Marston, Madeline McEvily, and Sahith Vallaru

 

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

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We have returned from our Bonner Spring Break trip to Biloxi, MS, where we worked with Habitat for Humanity.  We had an amazing time!  Check out our video on Youtube:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT-hKRk-FE

 

Bonner Leader Geovanni Velez organized a Campus Wide Spring Service Day.  Check out his wiki page at http://uccommunityday.pbwiki.com/Ursinus-College-Community-Day

 

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

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The Bonner Leader Program at Ursinus in 2008-2009 worked with nine community partners.  At these sites, the Bonner Leaders coordinated a variety of programs and service projects, including high school mentoring, after-school programs for Hispanic children in the community, meal preparation for needy families, and participating the America Reads program.  

 

Our most successful community partner relationship has been with ACLAMO, a local Latino advocacy group.  We have been able to send Bonners and other UC students to an after-school program four days a week to help students who are falling behind in school, often due to language difficulties.  We also have an ACLAMO Summer Program.  This summer, 2 Bonners and 2 non-Bonners are staying at Ursinus for five weeks to work with students in this program.   

 

Given that elementary education has been a major part of Bonner projects at UC, our campus profile also focused on this.

http://bonnernetwork.pbworks.com/Education+%3E+Elementary+-+Ursinus+College

 

The Bonner Leaders have made a major impact on the campus.  Last year, approximately 80 non-Bonner students volunteered for service programs coordinated by our Bonner Leaders.  The Bonners coordinated a successful UC Community Day(s) on the first weekend of May!   UC students signed up to do service at six different locations in the Collegeville area.

 

This upcoming year, Ursinus Bonner Leaders will continue their relationships with community partners.  We will also be adding several new community partners.  Bonners will be serving as campus leaders, playing a critical role in the unfolding of our new UC Community Service Center.

 

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Click here to read the rest of Annual Report.   

 

Student Leadership Planning:

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Bonner Congress Leadership Plans:  Ursinus Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Christian Rice  crice1@ursinus.edu 
• Student Point Person for project:  Geovanni Velez  gevelez@ursinus.edu
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• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal: No
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created--http://uccommunityday.pbwiki.com/Ursinus-College-Community-Day
• Participating in Bonner Video Project: Yes
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): YES
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

 

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0:  Yes
• Need for additional training: It would be great if a program associate could come and show my Bonner intern and me how to use all of the features.
• 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: Christian Rice crice1@ursinus.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.
• 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)? 
  • We still need to talk about this. 
• 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

 

 

Photos

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These are photos of some of the ACLAMO kids that we recently took bowling!  Bridget Daly-Barnes is the Bonner Leader who coordinated this!  These are photos from our Spring Break Trip '09.  We worked with Habitat and had a great time!