Location: About 5 minutes south of Downtown Minneapolis, MN

Enrollment: More than 4,000 students from 40 countries attend Augsburg. Our diverse community includes 21.7% students of color, 1% international students and 39% of our students are Lutherans. Our student body comes from 42 U.S States and 40 different Countries.

Augsburg Auggies come from all over the country and the world to live and learn in the city. Augsburg has a lively assortment of cultures, races, identities, religions, and ways of thinking. Though we are from different backgrounds and traditions, our experiences are shaped by our faith and values. We explore our own beliefs while learning about the faith traditions of others.

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: SABO Center for Citizenship and Learning    

Relevant websites:

Augsburg Bonner Leaders Campus Profile 

                              Augsburg Campus Kitchen Program

                              Augsburg's Campus Issue Profile: Hunger and Homelessness

Type of Program: Bonner Leader

Year Began: 2008

Bonner Program website: http://www.augsburg.edu/bonner/

Number of Bonner Leaders: 40 Bonner Leader students active in the program.

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: Yes

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: No

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: No

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: No

KEY CONTACTS

President: Dr. Paul Pribbenow

Sabo Center Director: Elaine Eschenbacher 612-330-1492

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

Augsburg College benefits from its position in the middle of one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Minneapolis. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is comprised of the largest Somali community in Minnesota, a large student population, many different businesses and two major institutions: the University of Minnesota and the Fairview Hospital.

Augsburg reaches out to many of the neighborhoods that surround it. Although many of our partners are across the street and down the block, we also work in the Seward neighborhood, and expand further along Franklin Avenue to the Phillips neighborhood.

List of Partners:

                                                       All Community Partners - Map

     Augsburg's Campus Kitchen

     AVID

     Banyan Community

     Bedlam Theatre

     Bethany Lutheran Church

     Brian Coyle Center

     Centro Guadalupano

     Centro, INC

     Commonbond Communities

     Dowling Elementary

     Hope Academy

     HOPE Community

     Jane Addams School for Democracy (JAS)

     Kaleidoscope Place

     Leonardo's Basement 

     Mental Health Resources, Inc.-Seward CSP

     Minnesota Council of Churches--Refugee Services

     Minnesota Literacy Council

     Minnesota Internship Center

     Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG)

     NAVIGATE

     Project for Pride and Living

     Redeemer Center for Life

     Restorative Justice

     Seward Montessori School

     St. Stephens Human Services

     The East African Women's Center

     Trinity Lutheran Congregation

     Urban Ventures

     Volunteers of America-Minnesota

     Waite House

     Youth Farm and Market Project

The Augsburg Bonner Community Leaders Program is viewed on campus as a successful model to build on the college’s culture of community and civic engagement and bring together existing community service programs to take us to the next level of deepening knowledge, reflection, and authenticity of civic engagement in the community.

Highlights of the 2011-2012 Augsburg Bonner Leaders Program:

• Core Program Activity ­­– 30 students (14 new), 20 community partners (10 new) 

• Extended Participation – 6 students who fulfilled their two year commitment to the Bonner program have elected to continue leadership with the program into their junior year. 

• Student Development and Leadership – More than 6 of the new placement options have been focused on creating site-based or issue-based teams.  This year 20 Bonner students worked in collaboration with other Bonners within their community organization. 

• Issue Focus and Advocacy - Bonner students continued to focus on the issue of homelessness and hunger in Minneapolis. Student meetings included education on homelessness as a regional issue and they linked that to food justice, the community garden, and the Campus Kitchens Program. Bonner students visited and completed service with a homeless shelter, participated in a city-wide poverty simulation called “A Day in the Life”, and participated in several policy advocacy events 

• New Opportunities and Growth – 6 Bonner students are participating in a new summer community partnership program this year. Two of the students are working in newly created positions designed collaboratively with two of the colleges’ signature partnerships, Faith in the City and the Center for Democracy and Citizenship. 

• Sharing and Promoting the Program

• a Moodle site and Facebook page were set-up to increase the availability of information to students and increase the possibility of Bonner student on-line collaboration
• Two new videos were created to promote the program to students and parents, and has been posted on Augsburg's website and below on this wiki.
  
• Growing Campus Connections
• A group of Bonners re-commissioned the student organization Community LINK which connects campus with the community surrounding the college and provides all Augsburg students a way to become civically engaged.
• Increaced BLP collaborations and deeper connections with the Admissions Office, TRiO Summer Bridge Program, the Social Work Office, Campus Activities and Orientation, and the Financial Aid Office.

• Off-Campus Service and Collaboration
• 10 first-year Bonner students participated in the 1st Year Service trip to the Gulf Coast through collaboration between the Bonner Program, the Sabo Center, and Campus Ministry.
• 6 Bonner students participated in the 2nd Year Service Exchange to St. Cloud, Minnesota with two other Bonner schools: Macalester College and the College of St. Bendicts.
• Best practice collaborations with Ripon College and Edgewood College. 

2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

• Augsburg Year at a Glance

PLAN FOR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

• Augsburg 2008-2009 Annual Report

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:
• Student Point Person for project: 
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created - http://augsburgbonnerwiki.pbwiki.com/
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes
• Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
• Need a Flip Cam? : yes
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: yes
• 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:
• 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 

• 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

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.

AUGSBURG BONNER VIDEO PROJECT