Celebrating Success
Olivia Hendricks recognized for her work with Appleton Youth
Olivia Hendricks '12 was awarded the Herb Kohl Helping Hand Award by the Wisconsin Community Action Program Association for her work with the SAY (self-agency in youth) program at the Appleton Boys & Girls club. Congratulations Olivia!
2012-2013 was a standout year for community-engaged learning at Lawrence!
Lawrence students, faculty, and staff have been working with community partners all year, and as we look back we see so many exciting things we'd like to share with you. We hope you've been keeping us with us on our Facebook page and reading about us whenever we turn up in Lawrence Today. Here are a few highlights of the year:
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With a grant from Wisconsin Campus Compact, AmeriCorps*VISTA Olivia Hendricks '12 recruited a lively and talented group of Lawrence students to help her launch the SAY program at the Downtown Appleton Teen Center of the Boys and Girls Club of the Fox Cities. Lawrence students have been working with local teens to create leadership development programs focused on college access and readiness. We received a third year of grant funding and look forward to working with our partners at the Boys and Girls Club to help this program grow!
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Lawrence's partnerships with Riverview Gardens, a community development project located just across the river from the Lawrence campus, continue to thrive. Lawrentians are contributing to Riverview as volunteers and researchers, creators of new outreach programs, and more. Next year promises to be another amazing step forward for this partnership devoted to improving the wellbeng of the Appleton community through access to fresh local food, job training, and ecological restoration.
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Lawrence students continue to do community-based research, internships, and volunteering with nonprofit partners include Harbor House, Housing Partnership of the Fox Cities, Heckrodt Wetlands Reserve, Emergency Shelter of the Fox Cities, the Trout Museum of Art, and the History Museum at the Castle. Lawrence students have also been active with organizations that work to assist communities overseas in Rwanda, Haiti, and Sierra Leone, to name just a few.
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Lawrence's pilot student documentary program, the Civic Life Project, launched its first set of filmmakers under the direction of documentary filmmakers Catherine Tatge '72 and Dominique Lasseur. Films focused on homelessness among veterans, undocumented immigrant youth, Hmong culture in the Fox Cities, and the bullying that local LGBT youth must confront. The Civic Life Project will run for a second year in the fall term at Lawrence, so watch for another set of films.
The Corporation for National and Community Service recognized Lawrence yet again for our dedication to the common good by naming us to the President's Community Service Honor Roll. We are grateful for all the people in the Fox Cities and beyond who have worked with us to achieve common goals, including the generous support of the Suzanne and Dick Pieper Family Foundation, the MIelke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the many individual donors who have provided support to students pursuing careers in education.
