IN THIS ISSUE:
*Events
*Volunteer Opportunities
*Internships, Jobs, and Beyond...
*In the Spotlight: Making Your Job Become Your Job
*Photo Courtesy of ssa.uchicago.edu
EVENTS
Fighting Displacement from South Africa to Chicago: A Visit from Ashraf Cassiem
Wednesday, November 11
7:30pm
Harper 140
Hear reflections from Ashraf Cassiem (lead organizer of South Africa’s Anti-Eviction Campaign) on the situation confronting South Africa's poor, the resistance they have organized, and lessons to be learned by groups struggling for the right to housing in a U.S. housing market plagued by foreclosure, evictions and destruction of public housing. Presented by Southside Solidarity Network & Students for a Democratic Society.
Summer Links Information Session
Wednesday, November 11
6:00pm – 7:00pm
5710 S. Woodlawn Community Lounge
Learn about the Summer Links program, an intensive 10-week internships to 30 returning College and graduate students committed to public service, community building, and social change. Interns receive a $4 000 stipend and the option of subsidized on-campus housing, and participate in weekly day-long and evening trainings about Chicago and social justice issues. For more information, contact Trudi Langendorf at trudi@uchicago.edu or (773) 834-2699.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Tutors in all subjects are needed at Hyde Park High School and John Hope HS. Please contact John MacDougall at 312-853-3932 or jmacdoug@roosevelt.edu
G.E.D. Tutors needed who can commit 2-3 hours Monday thru Friday for one-on-one tutoring or need to complete student teaching or internship requirements. For more information call Allison – 773-675-4610.
Hyde Park-Kenwood Interfaith Council is seeking ushers, greeters, and collection counters for the annual Thanksgiving Day Worship Service – Rockefeller memorial Chapel, starting at 11:00am. For more information, contact Allan Lindrup via email to either uusj@sbcglobal.net or hpkifc@hotmail.com, or by phone to 773-642-8061.
Math tutors are needed for a class of boys at Madison Elementary School (74th Dorchester). For more details please contact Susan Peters Susan.Peters@uchospitals.edu or 773-702-5037.
Volunteer for the Chicago Academic Games League (CAGL), a math competition for middle school youth on the University of Chicago campus once a month. Teach the students once a week for 1-2 hours and be there to support them at the tournaments. For more information contact Boryana at boryanalevterova@gmail.com
Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival is the second oldest film festival of its kind in the US and prides itself on showcasing the best LGBT films and videos each and every year. Reeling 2009 is presenting nearly over 50 programs over 11 days from November 5-15. There are many volunteer opportunities for box office people, ushers, drivers, event coordinators, and volunteers for schedule distribution. If you're interested in volunteering, email chicagolgff@chicagofilmmakers.org or call (773) 293-1447.
INTERNSHIPS, JOBS, AND BEYOND...
Become a part of campusCATALYST - a student-driven, pro-bono consulting service for nonprofits - and earn the opportunity to learn from your peers in a unique educational experience. You can apply online at http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/campuscatalyst.org/viewform?formkey=dENJV01BMGp4bjhrY1I4Z0ZHYVA0clE6MA. The deadline for applications is November 7th at midnight.
Due: November 12, 2009
The Program for the Global Environment and the Environmental Studies program will sponsor an undergraduate run conference this year. The program will provide funding, staffing, and advising for this project and invite interested undergraduates in any major or concentration to submit preliminary proposals. (Preference will be given to well structured proposals that address interdisciplinary approaches to environmental topics. Group submissions are encouraged.) If you are interested in participating, please send a one to two page proposal to maddie@uchicago.edu by November 12, 2009.
Applications for Teaching Artists through the Teaching Lab Collaborations (or TLC for short), have just gone live on-line here. For more information regarding job requirements and details, contact Jessica Hutchinson at jesshutchinson@uchicago.edu
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Making Your Job Become Your Job
Anne Groggel, Staff Writer
The daunting question of what life holds after graduation lurks through most students’ minds. Unemployment seems terrifying but, to some, what is worse is the fear of working in a passionless job. How are students to attain meaningful jobs where they feel they make a difference and not simply become a suit sitting inside a fluorescent lit cubicle?
This week we explore initiatives that address these questions for both graduate and undergraduate students.
The School of Social Service Administration (SSA) is hosting "Nonprofits and Social Innovation Workshop" a series of four sessions to help graduate students of all programs and divisions build leadership skills necessary to pursue employment in nonprofit organizations. These lunchtime workshops target students committed to working within the field of nonprofit human services. Taught by ROI Ventures, LLC (a strategy firm that works with business, philanthropy and social entrepreneurship clients and SSA faculty) these workshops cover the topics of Money and Meaning, Social Entrepreneurship Intelligence Quotient, Case Study of Social Enterprise, and Knowledge Transfer.
Filing into the classroom while picking out their sandwich from the assorted prepackaged lunch boxes, students hoped that the first workshop held on October 20, would speak to the tools needed to having a career and invoking social change. One participant, Julie Garfield, a second year student at SSA hoped, "to gain exposure to organizations and programs that have made a significant impact, organizations that change the way we think about delivering effective services to individuals and communities."
The workshop led by Rachel Newton Bellow and Suzanne Muchin with ROI Ventures, explored “the intersection of money and meaning.” Muchin, founder of ROI Ventures, also serves on the Visiting Committee for the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and is a frequent guest lecturer for the Booth School of Business. Muchin explains, "We are sharing concepts that we wish someone had shared with us when we were at the front end of our career paths working in organizations and businesses that were seeking to achieve both social and financial success. In the best case scenario, students will have an entirely new framework, or lens, for the work they are pursuing. We would like them to see the world differently, and to question some of the traditional paradigms that exist in the non-profit sector in particular."
At SSA, Associate Professor Scott Allard helped organized the workshop series. He sees the program as functioning to "connect University of Chicago graduate students from different professional programs on campus, who share an interest in working with or within nonprofit organizations to develop solutions for the most pressing problems facing society. Part of the training offered through the Workshop relates to skill and leadership development, but bringing students into direct contact with some of the most prominent leaders and entrepreneurs in the local nonprofit sector is another critical piece."
For undergraduate (and graduate) students alike, Career Advising and Planning Services (CAPS) and the University Community Service Center partner to provide Public and Social Service programming (PASS). Historically an annual one-day event, PASS is now a series of year-long programs introducing students interested in public service, social service and non-profit careers to alumni and organization representatives working in these fields. In partnership with CAPS, students receive support in these career fields through exploration, job search skill training, resume writing assistance and networking events.
After a successful kick-off event held on October 28th, Dillan Siegler an Assistant Director of Employer Relations and Development is optimistic of the benefits to students through this new delivery of PASS programming. The next in the series of events is “A Look Inside the Federal Government”, this Monday, November 9, from 5:30pm – 7:00pm in Ida Noyes’ West Lounge. Sponsored by the Annenberg Speakers Bureau through the Partnership for Public Service, this event features Bernard G. Deazley IV, MPA, FACHE, Health Systems Specialist at Portland Oregon’s Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
More information on these and other public and social service events can be found at:
School of Social Service Administration
http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/
Career Advising and Planning Services
http://caps.uchicago.edu
University Community Service Center
http://ucsc.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Public Interest Program
http://ucpip.uchicago.edu
The University Community Service Center (UCSC) fosters the development of civic-minded students by providing substantive community service opportunities through community partnerships based on mutual trust and respect. If you have questions - how to get involved as a student or how to connect to students as a community organization - please contact us.
University Community Service Center
5525 S. Ellis Ave., Suite 160
Chicago IL, 60637
Tel: 773.753.4483
Fax: 773.834.1160
ucsc.uchicago.edu
