Utah Campus Compact Updates and Events

Learn and Serve America 2009 Higher Education Competition

Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, provides support to schools, higher education institutions, and community-based organizations that engage students, educators, and others in service-learning. Through our higher education grant competitions, Learn and Serve America aims to expand participation in community service and service-learning programs in colleges and universities that serve as civic institutions to meet the human, educational, environmental or public safety needs of their local communities. The 2009 Higher Education grant competition is currently open. We anticipate awarding approximately $9.27 million to selected institutions of higher education, consortia of universities or colleges, or partnerships between higher education institutions and state or non-profit entities. For more information or to apply, please visit our website at www.learnandserve.gov.

Single Mom Foundation

Since its inception in 1998, the Single Mom Foundation (SMF) is committed to improving the lives of single moms and their families by helping them develop long-term self-reliance through education. Based on research conducted in 2007 to determine the best practices to assist single moms; SMF started a bold new education initiative and launched an innovative website focused on helping single moms successfully plan for their education and future whether it is obtaining a GED, additional training or a degree program. To become an education partner, or to request posters and brochures, contact SMF. We’d be glad to provide more information and suggestions about how to assist single mom students. Contact Pam Denicke (801-977-7764, pam@singlemomfoundation.org).

National Campus Compact Announces Partnership with Change.org

Campus Compact is partnering with Change.org on a new resource to help people find social change careers. Change.org is Hiring Social Change Career Guides Are you passionate about helping people find a career that makes a difference? Change.org is hiring a team of part-time career guides to provide daily advice to our more than one million monthly visitors about finding a career in social change. Each career guide will write their own blog on Change.org and provide advice on topics ranging from job searches and career paths to resume writing and interview tactics. This is a great opportunity to establish your voice online and build your personal brand as an expert in the social change sector. Guides will focus on providing either general nonprofit career advice or guidance on specific field, including green, government, social enterprise, international development, or social services jobs. Pay is competitive, hours are flexible (expect 10 hours per week), and you can be located anywhere. Change.org's team of career guides will work directly with Change.org's managing editor and join its growing network of 20 cause-based bloggers working every day to build the leading online hub for information about social issues and ways to take action. To apply, send your resume (or a link to your Linkedin profile) and an introductory email to Ben at jobs@change.org. Include in your email whether you are interested in providing general nonprofit career advice or to focus on a specific niche (e.g. green jobs, international development jobs, etc).

President’s Volunteer Service Awards (PVSAs) are now available for 2009 service hours!

We are excited to announce that President Obama has signed a letter of recognition for those qualifying for a presidential service award. As a result, we are now fulfilling award requests for 2009 service hours. Thank you for your patience as we have managed through this time of transition. We look forward to fulfilling your requests with the updated award package. The PVSA awards program recognizes volunteers for a sustained commitment to service (please see www.presidentialserviceawards.gov for details about becoming a certifying organization and honoring your volunteers). Awardees receive a pin, a letter from President Obama, and a letter from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. Since inception in 2003, more than 28,000 organizations have distributed more than 1,477,000 awards to individuals, families, and groups.

2009 Lieutenant Governor's Youth Leadership Summit – IMPORTANT UPDATE

The 2009 Lieutenant Governor’s Youth Leadership Summit has been canceled but will resume in 2010. We apologize for the inconvenience but find it necessary due to the current economic challenges and difficulty teams have been facing in raising funds to attend. The new framework for the Summit is exciting and will strengthen you and your team’s ability to successfully complete your projects while engaging your school and community in service learning. We are eager to move forward and hope you can join us next summer for this great service leadership experience.

Liberty Day College Effort

My name is Jimmy Sengenberger, and I'm a student at Regis University in Denver, Colorado heading up a national effort by the nonpartisan organization Liberty Day to recruit, train, and mobilize college and university students across the country to visit 5th grade classes to teach them about the contents of the U.S. Constitution. For more information visit www.libertyday.org or contact Jimmy Sengenberger (jsengenbergerjr@yahoo.com, 866.718.3434).

Service Initiative: June 22 – Sept 11, 2009

This is an extraordinary moment in time. As Americans, we have a unique opportunity to come together and solve our nation’s most vexing problems. In this spirit, President Obama is announcing a nationwide service initiative, the beginning of a sustained, collaborative, and focused effort to meet community needs and make service a way of life for all Americans. The Service initiative – spanning 81 days, or just under 12 weeks – will officially kick off June 22 at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. The White House will make a public announcement in early June, allowing adequate lead time for organizations to post opportunities and prepare to absorb new volunteers. The Service initiative will culminate with a National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11, 2009. The culmination will provide an opportunity to recognize the summer’s accomplishments, honor those who died on September 11, 2001 by serving in their memory, and encourage Americans to make an ongoing commitment to service. For more information email ServiceInitiative@cns.gov.

The annual Dialogue on Democracy

The annual Dialogue on Democracy is set for Thursday, September 10, 2009 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the Capitol Rotunda. Sponsors are the Coalition and Hinckley Institute of Politics. Former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating will be our keynote speaker. His bio is attached for your information, and pasted in at the end of the email. Governor Keating won national acclaim in 1995 for his compassionate and professional handling of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. In the aftermath of the tragedy, he raised more than six million dollars to fund scholarships for the nearly 200 children left with only one or no parents.