Hi Dwight Hall!
What an exciting week it has already been! It is simultaneously National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Haiti Week and Rosie Revisited Week for Work and Women!
LAST DAY TO SIGN UP for the YHHAP Fast for Haition February 26th, part of a Dwight Hall-sponsored campaign for Haiti. Your donated meal swipes will help the recovery efforts in Haiti as well as organizations that combat homeless in New Haven. Again, Thursday is your last day to sign-up!
Log in to http://www.yale.edu/sis/ and click on Dining System, then on the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project to donate your swipe!
Also, we have plenty of APPLICATIONS for awesome fellowships and positions this week:
1. Apply to be a Dwight Hall Summer Fellow: http://www.dwighthall.org/5013/Apply_to_be_a_Dwight_Hall_Summer_Fellow
2. Apply to be a Dwight Hall Technology Fellow:
Establish and sustain a strong virtual presence for a dynamic organization that engages 3,500 Yale students each year in service and justice activities! This is an exciting opportunity to enhance the functionality of Dwight Halls website and integrate social media elements for an organization that is recognized as the largest student-run, campus-based nonprofit organization committed to service and justice in the nation!
If interested e-mail
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for an application!
3. Application for the Campus and Community Fund for DH member groups:
Due on February 27th, and if the group treasurer didn't receive an application, they should contact:
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4. NEW Application for Student Board Member on the Dwight Hall Board of Directors:
If you are involved in any one of Dwight Hall's 85+ member groups and institutional programs, you are qualified to apply to the position. You do not have to have led a group at Dwight Hall. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the non-profit management aspect of public service, social justice, and advocacy!
There will be an information session Wednesday, March 3 in the Dwight Hall SJN Room from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM.
E-mail
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for an application or with any questions you have.
5. Have an idea for a short-term service project? Make your project a Dwight Hall Short Term Project! This semester, for the first time, Dwight Hall is opening up applications to individuals who would like to organize and execute a short-term service project. These projects should reflect Dwight Halls mission of fostering civic-minded student leaders who promote activism in New Haven and around the world. At the same time, short-term projects should be designed to accomplish their mission over the course of a semester or a year. For more information and/or request an application, please email Erica Schild (
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), Dwight Halls New Membership Coordinator.
As always, if you are looking for the latest news on Yale's Relief Efforts for Haiti please look here: http://opa.yale.edu/haiti/
Hope all is well,
Joe