Welcome to your guide to the Dwight Hall-YCC Week of Service! Below is the calender and event descriptions for a full week of events designed for you to explore service and social justice from many points of view. Give back to our community by taking part in one of the Days of Service or learn about everything from responsible investing to sex trafficking by attending one of the many discussions and movie screenings hosted by the Dwight Hall networks.
Whether you are an avid Dwight Hall volunteer or have never done anything community service or social justice-related before, we encourage you to take part in the events we have this week! Enjoy!
As the kickoff event for the Dwight Hall-YCC Week of Service, FCC & FOCUS are sponsor-ing a class-wide day of community service to help get 2013 involved and connected with the needs of the New Haven community! Here's a convenient opportunity for everyone who has been meaning to get involved with community service.
Volunteer sites will include:
Catholic Worker House, Columbus House, Eli Whitney Museum, Life Haven, New Haven Reads Book Bank, East Rock Park and many more!
Perspectives on Sustainable and Responsible Investing
SRI, or Socially Responsible Investment, an increasingly important issue on Yales campus and within the investment and activist community as a whole, has turned sustainability and responsi-bility into a viable investment strategies, and turned capital into an effective tool for social and environmental change. Join us for a conversation with two experts in the field of sustainable and responsible investing.
Cary Krosinsky, Vice President of TruCost, the worlds most comprehensive provider of re-search on corporate environmental impact, Cary is a member of the 70 person Expert Group that created the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which has been commit-ted to by over US$15 Trillion worth of asset managers and owners. He also co-edited and wrote the book Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance' with Nick Robins of HSBC, which features contributions from other leading practitioners.
Graham Sinclair, visiting us from Cape Town, South Africa, is a sustainable investment strate-gist, ESG investment architect and global project leader. His research and advisory engagements model investment architecture integrating environmental, social and governance factors in emerging and frontier markets, especially Africa. Since 2006 Sinclair & Company has delivered design and strategy for the IFC, UN, WBCSD, trillion-dollar investment managers, and interna-tional organizations.
Join the Education Network of Dwight Hall and the Black Student Alliance at Yale for a screen-ing of The Marva Collins Story, an inspirational movie that moves beyond the typical teacher-as-savior education movie. Instead, this film tells the true story of how a Chicago educator took on students the system called unteachable and helped them learn how to bring out the best in themselves.
Write to Senators asking for an extension of unemployment benefits for jobless Americans. This action is based on materials from The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a national civil and human rights advocacy and research organization.
Join the Social Justice Network in watching Trade, inspired by Peter Landesman's chilling NY Times Magazine story on the U.S. sex trade and sex trafficking.
In 1998, New Haven became home to the first inner-city Shaw's Supermarket in the country after substantial collaboration amongst local institutions, organizations, and residents. On March 31st, however, Shaw's will close its doors for good, and the area will once again lack a full-service grocery store. Shaw's exit not only severely restricts local food access, but it also eliminates more than one hundred community jobs and leaves a major commercial property to blight. In the face of a widely recognized need for a replacement supermarket, a broad spectrum of stakeholders has once again mobilized to address these problems. Join us to hear from a panel of community leaders and activists about how civic engagement can serve as a powerful means of combating a community crisis- and learn what you can do to help bring a full-service grocer back to New Haven. Sponsored by the Dwight Hall Urban Fellows Program.
The Yale Day of Service is an opportunity for students to get out for a few hours of community service in New Haven. Opportunities will include cleaning up a park, teaching computer skills to low-income adults, and organizing educational activities for young kids.
Interested in teaching after college? Currently working with New Haven students?
Join the Education Network of Dwight Hall for a lunch discussion about the benefits and chal-lenges of teaching in an urban context. We will discuss the instructional, curricular, professional, and financial realities in which teachers operate and more. Come with ideas, thoughts, and ques-tions! The discussion will be led by Professor Jonathon Gillette, the Director of Yales Teacher Preparation and Education Studies Program. Wed love to have you join us! Lunch will be served.
What are the connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color? Join the Public Health Coalition to explore whether medical care cures us but to see why we get sick in the first place, and why patterns of health and illness reflect underlying patterns of class and racial inequities.
Professor Elisabeth Wood on Wartime Sexual Violence: Leveraging Variation toward Change
The frequency of rape of civilians and other forms of sexual violence varies dramatically across conflicts, armed groups within conflict, and units within armed groups. The literature generally neglects these contrasts, focusing on cases of widespread rape. Yet rape is not inevitable during war. Many armed groups, including some state militaries, insurgent groups, and ethnic groups, do not engage in widespread rape despite frequent interaction with civilians. Some armed groups engage in ethnic cleansing the classic setting for widespread rape without engaging in sexual violence. After developing a theoretical framework emphasizing the strategic choices on the part of armed group leadership, the norms of combatants, dynamics within small units, and the effectiveness of military discipline, the discussion will focus on how policy-makers might leverage such variation towards more effective policies against wartime sexual violence.
In the last decade, New Haven lost $30 million simply due to the Census undercount in 2000, and this year the New Haven community has been working hard to make sure that this under-count does not happen again. Specifically, each person who isn't counted in New Haven costs the City around $10,000 in funding for services people desperately need. Certain populations in New Haven such as undocumented immigrants, homeless people, and low income people who don't trust the government are hard to count, and we rely on many New Haven non-profits to reach out to those populations. Youll have the opportunity to go out to various non-profits around the New Haven community throughout the afternoon to distribute Census goods and make sure that each non-profit is equipped to pass on Census information to the populations they help serve.
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