Have a great idea for service, but need some funding? You're in luck! Several departments at Lawrence provide funding for service projects - check out these opportunities here. In addition, as a part of the Summer Experiential Learning Grant the Volunteer Center funds a grant called the Summer Volunteer Opportunity Grant (SVOG) for students who would like to engage in volunteer projects over the summer.
The Summer Volunteer Opportunity Grant, established in 1991 through the Helen Daniels Bader Fund for Student Charitable Work, aims to support students financially so they can carry out and learn from summer service projects. The VCSC realizes the financial demands of a Lawrence education, so SVOG helps students with the practical expenses and opportunity costs of a summer spent engaged in service. As part of the mission of SVOG and the VCSC is to foster learning through service, SVOG recipients are also encouraged to link their service work with academic inquiry and engage themselves and the campus community in a consideration of the social, legal, political, and other issues surrounding their service project.
2013 Recipients
Kelsi Bruun-Bryant
Kelsi will be a World Teach Ecuador volunteer. She will be responsible for leading English classes, tailored for various age groups, for which she will construct creative, engaging curricula. She will collaborate with directors and other staff of the school to establish lesson plans that meet their needs.
Chelsea Gans
Chelsea will work as a Sustainable Roots English Teacher in Ecuador. She will organize the summer language program for future volunteers as well as act as a temporary volunteer to support other initiatives for sustainability. Other responsibilities will include composting, building community gardens, and running the community radio station.
Rose Broll
Rose will be completing art projects with participants of the Mental Health Court of Outagamie County to gain knowledge of psychopathologies and mental illnesses present in prison populations. She will write a research paper on mental illness in the court systems while working with a professor at Ripon College who works with inmates at Green Lake Mental Institute/Prison. She will also be completing two documentaries for community awareness and applying for grants.
Helen Noble
Helen will work as a master CPR instructor under the Rural Effective Affordable Comprehensive Healthcare (REACH) program. Hospital workers taught by her will show villagers and other community members how to use CPR. Helen will also conduct a survey about hospital visitors’ concept of health and wellbeing and analyze responses using ATLASTI.
Past recipients
Please click here to learn about previous Summer Volunteer Opportunity Grant recipients.
