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:
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/
Join the Saybrook Community Service Committee
as it hosts a
Dwight Hall-YHHAP Moment of Service
Come play educational games with kids at
New Haven Reads
Friday, February 26th 4:45-6:00
The event is open to all students,
but priority will be given to Saybrugians
as space is limited
RSVP at ...
Want to change the world? Organize!
The Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOI) builds a vibrant, pluralistic community of Jewish young adults who learn grassroots community organizing, explore their Jewish identity together, and become leaders in the pursuit of social justice.
Our year-long paid community organizing fellowship in Boston is a ...
Harkness Auditorium in the Sterling School of Medicine
Come see the Yale Belly Dance Troupe shimmy, twirl and undulate with dance styles from all over the Middle East at our third annual Hips Against Hunger performance! Hips Against Hunger is a charity benefit for the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, an organization which provides hot meals for New Haven's ...
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 ...
YOGA at Dwight Hall
What: YOGA When: Every Thursday from 6:30 to 7:45PM Where: Dwight Hall Chapel
Yes, yoga free of charge (donate what you can or pay it forward)!
Come practice yoga with us at Dwight Hall Chapel every Thursday from 6:30 to 7:45PM. This practice ...
Gregory Luke Larkin, MD, MS, MSPH, MA, FACEP
Yale School of Medicine Professor
Vice Chair for Academic Development and Global Health
Gregory Luke Larkin, MD, MS, MSPH, MA, FACEP, is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Section Chief for International Emergency Medicine & Global Health for the Department of Emergency Medicine ...
Are you interested in improving educational inequality? Do you want to help New Haven juniors with SAT prep and college applications? If so, join College Acceptance! This semester, we are scheduled to go to New Haven Academy (within walking distance on Orange St.) to help with SAT preparation in their ...
Racing to the Top: Education Reform in New Haven and ConnecticutDo you care deeply about public education? Are you concerned about the achievement gap between low-income students and their affluent peers? Are you sure that we need better schools, but uncertain how you can help?
Please join the Yale College ...
Splatter! volunteers conduct creative writing and drawing workshops in schools throughout New Haven. At the end of each semester a magazine is published of the student's work that is distributed throughout Yale and within the participating schools. Workshops are conducted in pairs and only an hour commitment a week. If ...
Essay Contest: Health Care Challenges in 2015***
KaiserEDU.org announces its Fourth Annual Student Essay Contest. Submit an original essay on the topic below for a chance to win $1,000.
Deadline for submission is March 8, 2010.
ESSAY TOPIC: It is January 2015. What do you ...
Starting today, February 1st, through March 15th, Students Serve is accepting applications for spring and summer service projects. Students Serve gives money to college and graduate students so they can make a difference in their communities. In our previous application cycle in the fall, we awarded 7 grants, and you ...
Interested in human rights? Activism? International Affairs?
Kennedy is a prominent human rights activist. She focuses on issues ranging from women's rights to judicial independence and has lead over 40 human rights delegations into more than 30 countries. In addition to her numerous leadership positions in organizations that ...
Due February 27th, 2010. I'm writing to let you know about an opportunity to work with the Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund. With the fund you'll manage a portion of the Dwight Hall endowment to generate an environmental, social, and financial return. We are looking for students with a ...
Join PHC for a special talk with Robert Heimer, Professor in Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Dr. Heimer has made scientific investigations of the morality and morbidity associated with injection drug use (syringe exchange programs, HIV survival in syringes, hepatitis B vaccination, hepatitis C transmission risks, overdose prevention ...
Interested in helping shape the long term vision and programming of the largest student-run organization in the country, a major non-profit operating in New Haven and around the world, the center for social justice and public service at Yale? Apply to be a Student Board Member on the Dwight ...
Get to know your city! Do community service, try food from local restaurants, bike to the beach, get to know other Yale students & New Haven city leaders. Cost is $50 (includes 15 meals). For more information, contact Callista Isabelle, Associate University Chaplain:
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Sponsored by the Yale ...
Bob Lamothe Blue Band will also be playing swing! And in between the sets, come enjoy the sounds of konpa, merengue, salsa, reggae, bachata, calypso and soka, expertly mixed by a DJ.
The Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University, 211 Park Street, New Haven
LOOKING FOR LIFE
[Chercher La Vie] (In Creole and French with English
subtitles)
Director: Coulanges, Claudette
Cast:
Year: 1999
Running Time (in minutes): 60
Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way ...
Three male high school students need male mentors as part of the Green Jobs Program. Common Ground High School is a charter high school focused on environmental studies (www.nhep.com). Common Ground is partnering with the Yale Urban Resources Initiative, Solar Youth, CitySeed, and The Consultation Center to create the Green Job Corps ...
Still looking for that meaningful summer job?
Work this summer with New Haven High School students in this exciting on campus program!
What: The Yale summer SCHOLAR program brings 50-60 students from Hill Regional Career High School (Career HS) to live and study science for three weeks on Yale's campus. SCHOLAR provides ...
Join the Yale Healthcare Society in its kickoff event of the semester, a roundtable discussion in which we will be exploring the rising cost of health care, what influences increased spending and the creation of a sustainable system. We will briefly investigate the different players in both domestic and international ...
The Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen needs a new webmaster.
www.downtowneveningsoupkitchen.com
Friday night DESK meals are entirely run by Yale students through Hunger Heroes, a project of YHHAP (Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project).
The Get Organized and Lead (GOAL) Summer Internship Program is actively seeking applicants in the All Stars Project of New York, New Jersey, and the San Francisco Bay Area! The program supports a grassroots citywide organizing and fundraising campaign to expand innovative inner-city youth development programs
Energetic and socially committed students are encouraged to apply to work with the All Stars' leading "out-of-the-box" youth development programs, which for ...
Are you in New Haven for the summer? Would you like to engage in a dynamic service activity that is close to campus at that can fit in with your other summer commitments? Would you like to gain or build upon your leadership experience?
If your answer to these questions is "yes," consider applying for the Coordinator position of the Wednesday Lunchtime Summer Soup Kitchen. The WLSSK was established in the summer of 2008 to distribute bag lunches to the homeless on Wednesday afternoons, and brings together a group of student volunteers and other community members.
If you are interested or curious about this opportunity and think that there is a good chance you will be in New Haven for the summer, please contact
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