Duke University's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs
KNOWLEDGE IN THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY                                                           MAY 24, 2010
IN THIS ISSUE
DUKE-DURHAM CAMPAIGN
 
DDC 2010
 
The Duke-Durham Campaign allows Durham and Triangle- area businesses to support the valuable work of the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership. The 2010 campaign wrapped up May 6.  Donations are accepted all year.

Visit the campaign's website to learn more and to make a donation.
EMPLOYEE GIVING CAMPAIGN
 
Doing Good in the Neighborhood

Doing Good in the Neighborhood is the campaign that makes it easy for Duke employees to give to local agencies supported by the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership and by Duke University Health System, or to the United Way of the Greater Triangle.

Visit the campaign's website to learn more and to make a donation!
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EVENTSVOLUNTEEREVENTS &
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Mark your calendar, and join Durham and Regional Affairs staff at the events below!

SATURDAY, MAY 29
Volunteers needed for DOUGHMAN Banquet
4 pm - midnight
The DOUGHMAN is looking for volunteers to help at the DOUGHMAN hEArTs Durham Banquet at the Durham Athletics Park, which features local restaurants, breweries and entertainment.  All proceeds from the event benefit SeeSaw Studio and the DIG program at SEEDS. Volunteers will set up, take tickets and check IDs at the door, direct traffic, and manage attendees. Volunteer shifts are two hours each, and about 80 volunteers are needed. Each volunteer will receive a free DOUGHMAN t-shirt!  For more information and to register as a volunteer, follow this link or send an e-mail to volunteer@
doughman.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 5
Burch Avenue Playground Build
8 am - 2:30 pm
In just one day, Burch Avenue residents and local volunteers will build a new playground that will provide a fun, active, attractive gathering space in the heart of the neighborhood. Help is needed to erect playground equipment, clear underbrush, spread mulch, mix concrete and more! Registration starts at 8 am, and local officials will be on hand to help out and to recognize volunteers. Lunch will be provided! The build is sponsored and supported by KaBOOM!, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, Durham Parks and Recreation, Duke University, and Burch Avenue Neighborhood Association.

JUNE 17-19 and 24-26
Volunteers Needed for 2010 Campamento Enlaces
El Centro Hispano is looking for enthusiastic, energetic counselors for the 2010 Campamento Enlaces. Volunteers must be 17 years or older, and those with reliable transportation and bilingual skills are preferred. Volunteers with previous experience working with El Centro Latino's summer camp will have priority. Volunteers must want to have fun and make camp great for the kids!  The elementary school camp will take place June 17 - 19, and the middle school camp will take place June 24-26.  Each will have about 40 kids participating.  Contact Carmen Soto for more information, at csoto@elcentronc.org or 919-687-4635 ext. 47

For more volunteer opportunities, and to join our University-wide effort to log volunteer hours, visit our website!
Dear Friend,

We had the pleasure these past few weeks of seeing two valuable community projects, both of which were funded by Duke's Doing Good in the Neighborhood employee-giving campaign, come to fruition: Ms. Betty's Reading Corner, in Crest Street, and TROSA Grocery, in East Durham. Those stories and the others below are shining examples of what is possible when the Duke and Durham communities work together in pursuit of common goals.

Scroll down for more about those events and other community endeavors. This e-newsletter will be sent out monthly during the summer months, but as always, please continue to send us the events and stories you'd like to see posted here.

Sincerely,
Phail Wynn Jr.
Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs
FEATURED PARTNERSTORYONE
CREST STREET TUTORIAL PROJECT
Ms. Betty's Reading Corner opens with Duke support
E.K. Powe Elementary

Students, parents, residents and leaders of the Crest Street neighborhood squeezed into one room of the W.I. Patterson Community Center last Wednesday, surrounded by books and underneath a colorful sign that labeled it all "Ms. Betty's Reading Corner."
 
The neighbors had come to celebrate the grand opening of that room, where local children will have access to new books and to a space set aside solely for reading.
 
Betty Johnson, known affectionately as "Ms. Betty," is the creator of the Crest Street Tutorial Project, a Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership organization that provides afterschool and summer programming for neighborhood students. Ms. Betty was able to realize her vision for a reading room by applying for funds from Doing Good in the Neighborhood, Duke University's employee giving campaign.
 
Read the rest of the story.
Click here for more photos from the grand opening.
SUPPORTING OUR YOUTHSTORYTWO
DUKE MED ELEMENTARY
Duke Medical School students reach out to local schools
Duke Med Elementary

Durham Public Schools elementary students got a taste of medical school this year through Duke Med Elementary, a program created by two Duke medical students as part their Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.

Through the program, busy first-year medical students make time during their lunch break and on weekends to host third and fourth graders on campus, teaching them about cardiovascular anatomy, health, nutrition and exercise.

In addition to funding through the Fellowship, the program is supported by Duke University's employee-giving campaign, Doing Good in the Neighborhood.

Click here for a video of the program in action, shot by David Stein, Duke's Educational Partnership Coordinator.
Walltown youth participate in national empowerment tour
I Am Empowered Youth Tour

This piece is by Laura Parewski, AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader and coordinator of the Walltown Digital Connectors program.

A couple Thursdays ago, things looked a little different in the computer lab where the Walltown Digital Connectors usually meet: The room was full of balloons, pins, t-shirts and copies of an empowerment pledge, all placed there by representatives of the I Am Empowered Youth Tour.

The tour, sponsored by One Economy and the National Urban League in celebration of the league's 100th anniversary, made stops at 11 Digital Connectors sites across the country.  One of those sites was here in Walltown, where the Digital Connectors were joined by their peers from Walltown Aspiring Youth.

To kick off the tour visit, each Digital Connector presented a PowerPoint slide about what empowerment means to them. It was inspiring to listen to the youth talk about empowerment. Above is one of the slides, created by 17-year-old Digital Connector Kenya Hill.

The Walltown youth and I Am Empowered representatives, led by emcee Mo Stegall, explored issues of fear, empowerment and community in a series of interactive activities.  Before the tour ended with pizza and cake, everyone signed the National Urban League I Am Empowered Pledge. And Stegall left the group with one piece of advice: You can only accomplish what you decide to try.

Hopefully the youth will take this message to heart, and through their self-empowerment, go on to empower others in their community.
PHOTOSTHE PICTURE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Multimedia from the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs
See what the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs has been up to lately, and follow the links for photos or video.

ENLACES FINAL CELEBRATIONS
MAY 17, 2010
Durham School of the Arts students who have taken part for the last year in Enlaces, a Latino youth outreach program of El Centro Hispano and Duke's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, gathered with teachers and parents last Monday to celebrate their efforts and progress. Click here for more photos from the celebration.

2010 Duke-Durham Campaign Finale

TROSA GROCERY GRAND OPENING
MAY 13, 2010
Durham residents and leaders gathered at the corner of Angier and Driver, in East Durham, to celebrate the grand opening of the TROSA Grocery Store. The Office of Durham and Regional Affairs was happy to help, in the form of a Doing Good in the Neighborhood grant that helped purchase food inventory. Click here for more photos from the event.

TROSA Grocery Grand Opening
HeadlinesHOT OFF THE PRESS:
Duke Community Engagement in the News
Follow the links below to see how the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs and its partners in Duke community engagement have made headlines.

"Duke University Senior Stories 2010"
Duke News
Explore these stories and videos for just a few examples of how Duke's undergraduate class of 2010 made a difference in Durham and beyond.

"Book drive for Durham Public Schools"
Duke Today, 5-18-10
Duke's Offices of Community Affairs and Durham and Regional Affairs, along with Duke Medicine's Office of Community Relations, organized a book drive to support the Durham Public Schools BookMark project.

"Student honored for building bridges to NCCU, Durham"
Duke News, 5-12-10
Jesse Huddleston, Duke 2010 graduate and our Office of Community Affairs spring intern, is featured for his work in the community, including Project RECON, an initiative he founded to build deeper ties between Duke and N.C. Central.

"TROSA Grocery opens"
The Herald-Sun, 5-12-10
The TROSA Grocery opened in East Durham May 13 to much fanfare from local residents and officials. The grocery received support from Duke's Doing Good in the Neighborhood employee-giving campaign.

"Duke-Durham raises $190K"
The Herald-Sun, 5-11-10
This year's Duke-Durham Campaign saw nearly $200,000 in donations from local people and businesses, all of which will directly support community programs.
ABOUT ABOUT THE OFFICE

The Office of Durham and Regional Affairs administers Duke's relations with Durham and the Research Triangle region, including but not limited to local government, the Research Triangle Park, Durham public schools, and area colleges and universities.  The Office oversees the activities of the Office of Community Affairs and its Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership.  In addition to supporting the activities of these offices, the staff works to strengthen partnerships with Durham to accelerate the economic renewal in downtown areas close to campus such as West Main Street, Brightleaf Square and the Ninth Street district.  They also work to develop regional partnerships in support of Duke's strategic goals and to help ensure future innovation and growth in the region.

For more about the Office's ongoing goals and strategies, visit our website.

Office of Durham and Regional Affairs
700 W. Main Street
Box 104352
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-3676

Phail Wynn Jr., Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs
Lou Rollins, Director of Special Projects
Christa Twyford Gibson, Director of Communications and Planning
Channa Pickett, Senior Program Coordinator for Community Outreach, Engagement and Evaluation
Donna Hubert, Executive Assistant
Arlene Melchiorre, Staff Assistant
Lindsey Naylor, Communications and Community Engagement Intern

Office of Community Affairs
110 Swift Avenue
Box 90433
Durham, NC 27708
919-668-6300

Michael Palmer, Assistant Vice President for Community Affairs
Sam Miglarese, Director of Community Engagement
Mayme Webb-Bledsoe, Senior Neighborhood Partnership Coordinator
David Stein, Senior Education Partnership Coordinator
Barbara Jentleson, Director DDNP Academic Enrichment Assessment and Education faculty member
Liz Henderson, Service Learning Program Coordinator
Naomi Kraut, Program Coordinator, Durham Programs
Denice Johnson, Liaison Coordinator, Afterschool Programs
Stacey Craig, Community Engagement Program Assistant
Diann Walker, Staff Assistant
Betsy Wagner, Staff Assistant
Laura Parewski, AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteer
Betty May, YO:Durham Intern