1. National opportunities at American Red Cross: helping people in emergencies, providing half the nation’s blood supply, teaching first aid and CPR courses, delivering emergency messages to members of the military, organizing programs for the elderly and for youth. 2. Local opportunities (at Heartland): office support, working with youth initiatives, disaster and blood services. Interested Read more about American Red Cross[…]
If anyone is looking for a volunteer opportunity, here’s your chance! This Saturday morning there is a vast need for volunteers to help run a 5K in honor of an IWU Alum who was the first American to sacrifice himself during the Operation Iraqi Freedom. We need to get 60 volunteers and YOU can help! Read more about Volunteer Opportunity: Saturday 10/18![…]
The goal of this project was to connect two communities in an effort to make them one. Building a relationship between Downtown Bloomington and Illinois Wesleyan University would benefit individuals living and working downtown, Illinois Wesleyan University students, and the community in general. To begin cultivating a relationship between Downtown Bloomington and Wesleyan, we created Read more about Karin Unruh and Ara Holiday: Fall Seminar ’09[…]
Prairie State Legal Services Project: Brittany Morrison worked with Prairie State Legal Services to conduct a presentation to community stakeholders on “Foreclosures in Today’s Legal and Economic Environment. Prairie State Legal Services is an organization who provides legal services to low-income residents. Brittany’s presentation focused on national, state, and local foreclosure rates as well as Read more about Brittany Morrison: Spring Internship ’09[…]
Colleges and universities desire to help mold well-rounded students who are academically motivated and are active participants in the world around them. Although the time spent in the classroom is crucial to a student’s development, the participation in extracurricular activities is just as imperative. It has been found in countless studies that participating in extracurricular Read more about Sara Baldocchi: Assessment Curriculum for IWU Student Involvement ’08[…]
Heartland Head Start Projects: I interned this spring with Heartland Head Start and although I primarily worked with one bilingual preschool class, I also partnered with one of the Family Resource Advisors (FRAs – essentially social case workers) in meeting families’ needs. Therefore, the mixture of social service agency, educative facility, and one-on-one interactions with Read more about Hayley Strege: Spring Internship ’08[…]
State Farm Projects: At State Farm, I worked in Public Affairs on the Green Team Initiative. I worked on a large variety of projects, but the majority were focused on internal and external communication of the Green Initiative. Basically, State Farm is pretty green and has been working on it for a while, but nobody Read more about Heidi Adams: CPP Internship ’08[…]
State Farm Projects: I worked in the Property and Casualty Actuarial at State Farm. In the Actuarial department I worked on a countrywide pricing project, where I updated and analyzed data on off-road vehicles that is used to determine whether the department should propose a rate change for 2009. I also worked with the competition Read more about Allison Hartford: CPP Internship ’08[…]
State Farm Projects: I worked in Property and Casualty Claims at State Farm. At State Farm, I worked on daily tasks in my department, including editing memos, reviewing claims procedures, and working on the Military Affinity group newsletter. I also organized an event for my department called Showcase Your Talents as part of State Farm’s diversity Read more about Julie Regenbogen: CPP Internship ’08[…]
I designed a survey to distribute to 4-H members past and present between the ages 12-14. Research by 4-H shows that if children remain club members through the age of 12-14, there is a sginificant chance they will remain involved throughout life. However, more youth than ever are dropping out in this age range and Read more about Jennifer Schnupp: ARC Internship ’07[…]
In recent years, colleges and universities across the country have recognized the value of community service in the academic curriculum. Illinois Wesleyan University is an institution solidly grounded in the liberal arts. However, until recently, the benefits of participatory action research and academically-based service learning have been ignored. Community involvement has been classified as an Read more about ’05: ARC’s Creation![…]
Julie Krause worked with the Development Office to compile interviews from various students and alumni for the “Student Profile Program.” She later interned with the Great Plains LIFE Foundation, a non-profit organization that is committed to charitable causes, community-service projects, and most importantly, education. One of the main projects she had was to help organize Read more about Julie Krause: Great Plains LIFE Foundation Internship ’07[…]
Over the summer of 2007, as UNITY Center was preparing for future expansion, summer camps, fall programs, marketing and funding, Emily was able to complete a number of tasks and projects. She assisted the Program Director with writing and researching grants for UNITY programs and general operations, completed expense reports for an accounting system, and Read more about Emily Meade: Summer Internship ’07[…]
Robert Guise, Erin Lohrstofer, and Tyler Miller (’06 / ’08) -as interns and Weir Fellows Program students- monitored and tested the quality of water found in Kickapoo Creek. A side project of their monitoring was to determine whether or not salting from roadways, specifically Route 51, caused a negative impact on Kickapoo Creek and, in turn, Read more about Weir Fellows Program: Kickapoo Creek ’06[…]
Kyle Charles, Pat Kleszynski, Amy Rohalla, Mary Roth, and Carmen Simkins -the Facilitators of this project- wanted to address the relationship issues between sororities on the IWU campus and procure a way in which to resolve said issues. There was much tension between individual sorority houses and their members, and IWU faculty and staff. Their Read more about ’05 Inter-Sorority PR Event Planning at IWU[…]