Job description: Nursing volunteers to take patient vitals, check medications and take brief patient histories. Volunteer nurses typically volunteer for one 3-4 hour shift per week, but this schedule is very flexible. Nurses holding current license preferred. Interested in this opportunity? email amclaughlin@chcconline.org Interested in learning more? Call Mike Romagnoli, Operations Manager, at 309.888.5531
1. Front Desk: The Front Desk Volunteers help patients find their way around the Community Cancer Center during their first visit. Volunteers will greet newly diagnosed cancer patients and family members, provide a brief orientation to the Community Cancer Center and serve as an escort to physician offices and staff locations. Our Front Desk Volunteers Read more about Community Cancer Center[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Lexia Swope, a Psychology and Sociology double major from Springfield, IL, participated in the Action Research Seminar in the fall of 2013. In this class, she created a health and wellness program for girls at the Bloomington-Normal Boys and Girls Club. The goal of the program was to promote and teach the girls to live Read more about Track Your Life[…]
As her project for the Fall Action Research Seminar, Psychology major Natalie Weimer (’16) partnered with the West Bloomington Revitalization Project to create a manual for hosting the Walk In Bike Out event that Rick Heiser currently hosts. “In an attempt to combine my passion for bikes with the revitalization efforts targeted at the Westside, Read more about Walk In Bike Out Event Manual[…]
Alex Kim (2013, Environmental Studies) designed the first Veggie Bike. The goal of the Veggie Bike is to have a sustainable, enjoyable, and practical way of transporting vegetables for the IWU Peace Garden. The IWU Peace Garden is organic and only uses human power to support the garden. Volunteers use a push mower and produce is Read more about Alex Kim ’13: Veggie Bike[…]
2013 Weir Fellows, Dave McGrath and Nettie Rauch worked with West Bloomington Revitalization Project to start an annual Westside 5K. Dave ’14, a risk management major from Wheaton, IL, and Nettie ’14, a Hispanic Studies and Sociology major from Shoreview, Minnesota, are both members of the cross country team and mobilized their teammates in many Read more about 2013 Weir Fellows: Nettie Rauch and Dave McGrath[…]
State Farm: I worked in DC5 within the In-Language team, mostly with the Enterprise Translation Center of Excellence (ETCoE). My main project involved consolidating the thousands of previously-used Spanish translations into a single terms database to be used for all future ICP publications. I worked one-on-one with a translator to ensure linguistic quality of the Read more about Nathan Douglas: CPP Program ’13[…]
State Farm: At Next Door, my first project was to explore the upcoming reforms in healthcare both at a national and a local level. This material was then used by our team to understand what conversations we may encounter with our community members and to prepare for these discussions in the coming months of change. Read more about Blair Wright: CPP Program ’13[…]
Dani, a Hispanic Studies and Sociology from Darien, IL was an intern in the 2012 CPP Program. She worked in the Multicultural Business Development Group at State Farm and the Red Cross. At State Farm, Dani focused on cultural acumen training, specifically working to improve current videos and training materials associated with the Hispanic market. At the Red Cross, Dani Read more about CPP Program ’12: Dani Jauregui[…]
Zoe Gross graduated from IWU with a degree in Political Science. She is now in law school at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Zoe worked for ARC in the summer of 2012 as an Assistant Coordinator. She helped to support the work of the Community Partnership Program interns. She also worked on the Veggie Read more about Zoe Gross ’13[…]