The editorial team seeks submissions from undergraduates for the new Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research. Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research is a refereed, multi-disciplinary, online undergraduate journal open to all undergraduate students in the U.S. and across the globe. The journal is dedicated to publishing  intellectual and reflective work by undergraduates on service learning, community-based research, and all related curriculum- and/or research-based public community engagement activities that advances knowledge in these areas. The editorial team of Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research encourages undergraduates to pursue their own intellectual projects and to join the academic conversation.   All manuscripts will go through a review process.

Submissions for Volume 1 will be accepted from now through June 30, 2012.
We invite submissions in five categories:
·        Reflective Essays
·        Analytical Essays
·        Research done in partnership with a community organization in the form given to that organization, accompanied by a short, reflective essay
·        Research Articles
·        Open Category

For detailed information about the journal’s content and submission guidelines, please see our website at http://www.bk.psu.edu/Academics/journal.htm.
Please circulate widely. Thank you!

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Dr. Laurie Grobman
Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Coordinator, Center for Service Learning and Community-Based Research
Editor, Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research
Penn State Berks
Tulpehocken, Rd. P.O. Box 7009
Reading, PA 19610-6009
610-396-6141
leg8@psu.edu
http://www.berks.psu.edu/FacultyStaff/lGrobman.htm

WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING APPLICATIONS FOR THE AMERICORPS VISTA POSITION AT KSC (HOSTED THROUGH CAMPUS COMPACT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE)

The VISTA will work with the Coordinator of Community Service to support programs that serve marginalized populations in an after-school capacity and assist with college awareness with these youth.  The VISTA will work with the Coordinator of Experiential Education on service-learning initiatives, including assessing community needs for service agencies and faculty, creating professional development programs for community partners, and organizing host site orientations for all KSC participants.  He/she will create pre and post assessment tools for community partners, faculty members and mentoring and tutoring initiatives, in addition to maintaining the College’s Community Engagement website.  The VISTA will develop a training program for the America Reads tutors and identify resources for mentors, alongside the Coordinator of Community Service.  A successful applicant will be selected in June 2012 with a start date in August 2012.  Please send any inquiries to Becca Berkey (rberkey@keene.edu) or Jen Ferrell (jferrell1@keene.edu).

Find out more information, including where to apply at: http://www.compactnh.org/americorps/

May 14-17, First Book—a nonprofit that provides books to programs that serve children from low-income families, will be partnering with The Vermont Food Bank to distribute 350,000 books for kids in need across the nation.  They are looking for some volunteers to help sort through the book donations, organize them, ship them out and load them into the cars of people coming to pick them up.  The work is mostly inventory and lifting heavy boxes (it is not the sorting of individual books.)  First Book hosts these Book Distributions throughout the country, and this is the first time they are making it to VT/NH area.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact:

Julianne Appleton | Coordinator, National Engagement
jappleton@firstbook.org | 202.639.0143

All Summer, Fast Friends Greyhound is looking for volunteers to help out with their Reading Program. They are looking for people who have some experience with greyhounds (however that is not mandatory). The orientation for the Reading Program is both Sunday May 20th and Sunday June 10th at 11:00am.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact:

Cathy Sims | Fundraiser
csims2011@live.com | 603.355.1556

Let’s talk about
WATER
A resource for drinking, recreation, wildlife, business, and tourism
in New Hampshire.

What needs to be done to have enough clean water for future generations?  Join the statewide conversation about the future of our water.  NH residents, we would like to hear from you!  

Please join us on  

MAY 8, 2012 

6:00 – 9:00pm refreshments provided

Register here

(registration required) 

or call (603) 862-0692

Berlin – White Mountain  

Community College

Greenland – The Gregg Center at  

Great Bay Discovery Center

Manchester – Manchester Water Works

  New London – Tracy Memorial Library 

Keene – Keene State College  

 The Governor ‘s Water Sustainability Commission is partnering with NH Listens to convene public conversations about the future of our state’s water.  Our goal is to gather ideas, experiences and recommendations from a wide range of New Hampshire residents.   

Water sustainability and water issue professionals:  Do you represent an organization, agency or interest group working on issues of water sustainability?  If so, the Governor’s Water Sustainability Commission wants to hear from you.  Please join us for a stakeholder session on June 19, 2012 for you.  For details go to:  www.nh.gov/water-sustainability

New Hampshire has abundant water with its many rivers, streams, lakes, ocean and estuarine coastline, wetlands and groundwater.  New Hampshire residents and visitors rely on these water resources for a high quality of life as do our wildlife and forests.  Many factors impact the future of water resources such as increasing demand, changing landscape, aging infrastructure and the affordability of needed improvements.  The Governor’s Commission on Water Sustainability is working to identify strategies and management measures for ensuring that the quality and quantity of New Hampshire’s water in 25 years is as good as or better than they are now.

All sites are handicapped accessible.

Thank you again to those of you who attended the 2nd Annual Community Partnership Celebration!

Please click our link here, for more pictures from the 2nd Annual Community Partnership Celebration! We can’t wait to see you all next year

Just a reminder that the Keene Vernal Pool Project <http://www.aveo.org/citizen-science/vernal-pools/>  volunteer trainings will take place this Thursday (4/19) from 7 – 9 pm in Science 102, and next Saturday (4/21) from 10 am – noon at a local vernal pool complex.  The trainings are free, but space is limited, so we are asking interested volunteers to pre-register with Brett Thelen (thelen@harriscenter.org; 358-2065).  See below for a full description, and feel free to contact her with any questions.

Keene Vernal Pool Project volunteer training.  Thursday, April 19 from 7 – 9 pm in the Keene State College Science Center (Room 102) and Saturday, April 21 from 10 am – noon.
Vernal pools are small, temporary ponds that serve as critical breeding habitat for amphibians, insects, and even tiny clams and crustaceans. In efforts to protect this vital (yet often overlooked) wildlife habitat, Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory is again training volunteers to ground-truth and document potential vernal pools located on public and conserved lands throughout the City of Keene. We will cover the building blocks of vernal pool ecology in an indoor training session on Thursday, April 19 from 7 – 9 pm at KSC, then venture outside for hands-on instruction in vernal pool identification and documentation on Saturday, April 21 from 10 am – noon.  Volunteers must attend both the indoor and outdoor training sessions to participate in the Keene Vernal Pool Project.

Co-sponsored with the Keene State College School of Sciences.

The organization formally known as “Granite State Monarchs” is in the transition phase of changing their name to “Monadnock Area Peer Support Agency (MPS). If you are interested in submitting a design for their new logo the deadline is this Friday, April 20th, 2012. Any students can contact Damien dlicata@gsmonarchs.org with further questions for more detail.

The basic guidelines are as follows:

·         Must use the butterfly on our current logo
·         Must utilize a tagline. New tagline has yet to be determined. (Current tagline is   “Recovery—Wellness—Empowerment”)
·         Must convey professionalism
·         Must convey warmth without sacrificing professionalism
·         Must be text-based versus picture-based
·         Must be easily seen in black and white
·         Must be able to be used on exterior sign on property, letterhead, website, business cards, etc.

Requests have been made by the following Community Partners for help at their Organization:

Monadnock United Way

Seeking a student  who could help with marketing, social media and campaign work

Contact Kathy Harrington at kathy@muw.org

Monadnock Developmental Services

Seeking a student who would be interested in helping someone learn more about using an iPad.

Contact Lynn Yeiter lynny@mds-nh.org

Hello Community Partner,

We at Keene State College appreciate all you do for our campus, students, and the community.  Over the past year, we have taken your suggestions from our inaugural Community Partnership Celebration to create ‘Community Engagement at KSC’- to house our curricular and co-curricular efforts in one place (which you can access at http://sites.keene.edu/kscce).  It is our hope that you will join us again this year to celebrate our partnerships and to continue to dialogue about how we can best work together.  Most of all, we want to say THANK YOU for all you do!

The invitation and information about the event is below, please note as well the deadline to RSVP for the dinner.  Once we have our list of attendees, we will send more specific details regarding logistics (i.e. Parking) for the event.  We look forward to seeing you on April 3rd!

If you have any questions, contact: Becca Berkey, Coordinator of Experiential Education (rberkey@keene.edu) or Alyssa Day, AmeriCorps VISTA (aday@keene.edu)

Again, please RSVP by March 20^th to Alyssa Day at aday@keene.edu.

Thank you!!

Sincerely,

Becca Berkey and Alyssa Day

Dear Community Member/Faculty/Staff/Students,

The Monadnock Community Market Co-op continues to organize and move closer to its plans to open a 13,000 sq. ft. full service food store in downtown Keene, in late 2012 early 2013.  However, our Co-op will be more than a food store, providing a year round market for local products, a community gathering place, a source of information and education around healthy living. Everyone in the community has been incredibly supportive of our project, volunteering, proving loans, joining as member-owners and we need your help again.  We are conducting a survey to collect information about your shopping preferences which will help us to better plan for our new store in Keene.

In order to help, please click on the link to get started taking the survey.  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MCM-Co-op

Looking to do more? Please share this link with other groups and networks that you belong to.

Thanks again for you help and please be in touch if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Michael Faber
General Manager
Monadnock Community Market Co-op
25 Roxbury Street, Suite C
P.O. Box 38
Keene, NH 03431
Phone: (603) 355 – 8008
Email: MonadnockCommunityMarket@gmail.com
Website: http://MonadnockCommunityMarket.com