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KNOWLEDGE IN THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY SUMMER 2011
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On June 6 Richard and Cindy Brodhead hosted the 2011 Duke-Durham Campaign finale, where campaign staff, volunteers and donors celebrated funds raised since January. |
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Doing Good in the Neighborhood
Non-Profit nomination process open for Duke employees
Are you a Duke University or Duke University Health System employee who has donated to the Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign? Do you volunteer with an area non-profit organization? If you answered YES to both of these questions, your organization may be eligible to receive funding through the Community Care Fund grant program of Doing Good in the Neighborhood.
For more information and eligibility requirements, visit the campaign's website.
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 Upcoming Events & Ways to Volunteer 1032
TUES, AUG 23
Durham Health Innovations Community Meeting
6:00 - 7:30
Durham Health Innovations, a unique partnership between Duke Medicine and Durham County, aims to reduce death or disability from targeted diseases or disorders prevalent in our community. Three community meetings (with dinner provided) will help identify health concerns that area residents have for themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods. Location and contact:
Lyon Park Community Center Contact Debbie Royster: 919-667-4181 Click here to learn more about Durham Health Innovations. Youth Prophecy Poetry Project & Contest The Pauli Murray Project is seeking original poems from youth in Durham who have been inspired by the legacy of Pauli Murray. The Project is accepting submissions until September 15 from youth in 3 age groups: 12 & under, 13-15, and 16-19. Poems can be submitted in written form, via audio or video recording, or in a live performance. Writers may submit up to two poems. Poems from writers ages 13 to 19 will be judged by local writers, activists, and educators. Two cash prizes will be awarded in each format category for each age group. Poems from writers 12 and under will be considered for publication on the Pauli Murray Project website. |
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Dear Friend,
Duke's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs has had a busy summer. Staff and community partners implemented three kindergarten readiness programs, one Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools program, two camps for Latino youth, professional development for Durham teachers, science and history programs for middle schoolers, a technology program in Walltown, and a competitive grants program through the Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign, which kicks off again this September.
Please read on to learn more about those programs and others stemming from Duke's rich partnerships with the Durham community. As always, e-mail us the stories and photos you'd like to see featured here.
Sincerely,
Phail Wynn Jr.Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs
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Duke Freedom School program provides 60 local students a summer of reading and enrichment
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 The Office of Durham and Regional Affairs formed its Education Architecture to help meet the challenges of low student achievement and high teacher turnover in Durham public schools. The Duke Summer Reading Academy is one of the research-based programs in the continuum. Other programs and support services are featured here each issue. BY KIERRA MOORE, COMMUNICATIONS INTERN Every morning for six weeks this summer, chants and cheers from the voices of 60 energized 2nd and 3rd graders filled Room 116 of the Old Chemistry Building on Duke's West Campus as the participants of the Duke Summer Reading Academy, a Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools program, kicked off their day. During the morning assembly, called Harambee, the children and staff progressed through motivational songs, cheers and chants, classmate recognitions, and community read-aloud guests that included local authors, members of Duke's senior leadership, and Durham Mayor William Bell. The Children's Defense Fund, a national non-profit organization, developed the Freedom Schools model to prevent summer learning loss. The model has a literacy focus, and it is designed to build participants' love of learning and community service. More than 140 Freedom Schools sites across the country serve almost 10,000 children every summer. This past summer was the first for Duke University's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs to bring the program to Durham. The students who participated in the program had spent the previous school year in the office's Afterschool Reading Academy program at E.K. Powe and Lakewood Elementary Schools. For Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs Phail Wynn Jr., the Freedom Schools model provided a natural next step for those students. "The overarching goal of our afterschool and summer reading programs is to build a solid literacy foundation, which is crucial in ensuring our students' future academic success," Wynn said. "The Duke Summer Reading Academy reinforced the gains made during the school year by preventing summer learning loss and helping children develop a love of reading." Read the rest of the story. Watch a video of the program in action. Click here and here for more photos. |
Digital Connectors program builds technology skills and community service ideals in Walltown youth
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BY KIERRA MOORE, COMMUNICATIONS INTERN
In this day and age knowledge of technology is a necessity to succeed in school and the career world.
That's why the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, acting on valuable input from Durham's Walltown Advisory Committee and with support from Cisco Corporation, first introduced the Digital Connectors program to the neighborhood in 2009. The afterschool program, developed by the non-profit One Economy, taught Walltown youth technology and leadership skills.
This year, with support from a federal grant and the City of Durham, Digital Connectors provided its first summer program for Walltown students.
Organized by Walltown Neighborhood Ministries and led by Alvin Black, a recent graduate of N.C. A&T State University who grew up in the Walltown neighborhood, the 2011 Walltown Digital Connectors program served 15 students ages 14 to 18.
Monday through Thursday of each week, students gathered in the computer lab of the Walltown Recreation Center to learn and to discuss how technology can be used for campus tours and for applying to colleges and universities, job shadowing experiences, and career opportunities.
"Children are 100 percent of the future," Black said. "I'm trying to empower them, to make them feel like they can do anything."
Read the rest of the story.
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Doing Good in the Neighborhood awards summer grants, prepares to kick off 2011-2012 campaign
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Doing Good in the Neighborhood -- the Duke University and Duke University Health System employee giving campaign based in the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs -- kicks off the week of September 12.
Every year, Doing Good in the Neighborhood gives employees across the university and health system an easy way to make a difference through community-based philanthropy. Donors choose between giving to United Way of the Greater Triangle, Duke Community Giving, or both. Whatever the choice, and however large the size, gifts to Doing Good in the Neighborhood provide crucial support to local non-profits, schools and neighborhoods. Visit http://doinggood.duke.edu to see exactly how employee gifts make a difference, and to learn about the newly launched Duke-Durham Leadership Giving Society. And if you're a past Doing Good donor who volunteers with an area non-profit, click here to learn how that organization could be eligible for up to $4,000 awarded through the campaign's Community Care Fund. |
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Announcements from Durham and Regional Affairs
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- The staff and programs of the Duke Community Service Center joined Duke University's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs this summer, in a move that will strengthen the mission of both offices as they work to implement Duke University's strategic plan, "Making a Difference."
- Duke's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs thanks Merck, Inc. for its generous donation of $15,000 to the Duke-Durham Campaign. The funds will support the efforts of the Durham Economic Resource Center, an initiative of End Poverty Durham that seeks to eliminate poverty through job training programs and the availability in its distribution center of basic needs items.
- This summer saw another successful iteration of the Duke-NCCU Unity Fellows program, through which Duke University provides support for a team of Duke and N.C. Central students to act as teachers for the programming of Student U. Congratulations to this year's Fellows for a successful summer!
- With support from Duke and the Pauli Murray Project, Self-Help is offering a term certificate in support of efforts to preserve the childhood home of civil and women's right leader Pauli Murray. The "Pauli Murray/Fitzgerald House Certificate" has an interest rate 1% below others at Self-Help, with the difference going toward the restoration of Murray's childhood home in the Lyon Park neighborhood. For more information, e-mail Self-Help's Member Service Team or call (800) 966-7353.
- Nineteen Duke students served as DukeEngage Durham interns this summer, taking part in immersive, structured service experiences in support of the following organizations: El Centro Hispano, Habitat for Humanity of Durham, Caring House, Environmental Protection Agency, Threshold, Camp Calvary, Shodor, Big Brother Big Sister of the Triangle, YMCA, Duke Homecare & Hospice, and Urban Ministries of Durham.
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Multimedia from the Office and Our Partners
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Enlaces Summer Camps
MAY 2011
Elementary and middle school students who will participate in the 2011-2012 Enlaces program -- which builds Latino students' protective factors against gangs, dropping out of school and other risky behaviors -- got to know each other and Enlaces staff during 3-day camps this May.
Click here for more photos from the middle school camp.
Stepping Stones at Y.E. Smith Elementary
JUNE 2011
The Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, in partnership with the East Durham Children's Initiative, expanded its Stepping Stones kindergarten readiness program to Y.E. Smith Elementary School this summer, serving 30 incoming kindergarten students with little or no pre-K experience. Click here for more photos from the Stepping Stones orientation at Y.E. Smith.
John Hope Franklin Scholars
JULY 2011
The John Hope Franklin Scholars program, designed and led by Senior Education Partnership Coordinator David Stein, gives local middle school students a chance to conduct original humanities research during the summer. Click here for more photos from that program, and click here to see photos from the BOOST summer programming, also led by Stein.
Hill Center Summer Program
JUNE 2011
Duke's Community Service Center, now part of the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, provided fully funded Duke student tutors to staff a five-week summer program at Y.E. Smith Elementary School that utilized the Hill Center literacy intervention model. Click here for more photos from the program, which was part of the East Durham Children's Initiative.
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Duke Community Engagement in the News
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Follow the links below to see how the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs and its partners in Duke community engagement have made headlines. "Aspiring nurse wants to lend a 'helping hand'"The Herald-Sun, 8/16/2011 Congratulations to Asia Johnson of City of Medicine Academy for being honored as Duke University's Durham Student of the Week! "Nonprofit collects school supplies"The News & Observer, 8/13/2011 Crayons2Calculators, a local nonprofit that distributes much-needed school supplies to Durham teachers, asks for donations as the new school year approaches. Crayons2Calculators is supported in part by the Doing Good in the Neighborhood Community Care Fund. "A source of inspiration for others"The Herald-Sun, 8/9/2011 Congratulations to Robert Cox III of J.D. Clement Early College High School for being honored as Duke University's Durham Student of the Week! "Scrubbing in for class"The Herald-Sun, 8/5/2011 The City of Medicine Academy, a partnership between Durham Public Schools, Duke Medicine and Durham Tech -- opened its new doors next to Durham Regional Hospital in time for the first day of classes. The City of Medicine Academy benefits from the Doing Good in the Neighborhood employee giving campaign, which kicks off this September. "A little encouragement goes a long way" The Herald-Sun, 8/2/2011 Congratulations to Whitley Batcho of Hillside High School for being honored as Duke University's Durham Student of the Week! "Duke offers free pass to ride public transit" Duke Today, 7/28/2011 Duke is offering GoPass, a local and regional bus pass, to allow eligible Duke staff and students unlimited rides on DATA, Triangle Transit, Capital Area Transit and C-Tran at no charge. "Student U" The Herald-Sun, 7/20/11 This profile celebrates the fifth anniversary of Student U, a local non-profit that provides school-year and summer enrichment and support for middle and high school students. Student U is supported in part through the Doing Good in the Neighborhood employee giving campaign. "Summer program's about loving reading" The Herald-Sun, 7/6/2011 This profile of the Duke Summer Reading Academy, a Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools program, describes Mayor William Bell's visit to the site in July. "Durham student makes National Spelling Bee" The Durham News, 6/1/2011 Jesus Ayala Lara, Chewning Middle School student and winner of the Duke Regional Spelling Bee, competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. with support from Duke's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs. |
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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 works to broaden the university's role as an advocate and partner for economic and community development. Durham and Regional Affairs oversees the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, formed in 1996 as the university's flagship outreach program promoting quality of life and educational achievement in the 12 neighborhoods closest to campus. The office also oversees the Duke Community Service Center, which for more than two decades has served as a clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities for students and employees.
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
DURHAM AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS
Phail Wynn Jr., Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs
Lou Rollins, Executive Assistant and Director of Special Projects
Channa Pickett, Senior Program Coordinator
Jennifer Carolina, Senior Program Coordinator
Lindsey Naylor, Program Coordinator
Donna Hubert, Executive Assistant
Arlene Melchiorre, Staff Assistant
Alexandra McKnight, A.J. Fletcher Community Engagement Fellow
Kiah Pape, Robert K. Steel Community Engagement Fellow
DUKE-DURHAM NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP
Sam Miglarese, Director of Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
Mayme Webb-Bledsoe, Senior Neighborhood Partnership Coordinator
David Stein, Senior Education Partnership Coordinator
Denice Johnson, Advocate, East Durham Children's Initiative
Diann Walker, Staff Assistant
Jesse Huddleston, Senior Community Engagement Fellow
COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER
Elaine Madison, Director of Community Service Center and Associate Director for Programs, DukeEngage
Domonique Redmond, Assistant Director for Programs
Pat Nobles, Office Coordinator
Nicole Hampsten, School Service-Learning Coordinator, America Reads & Counts
Summer Puente, Literacy Programs Specialist, 2011-2012 SCALE AmeriCorps Member
Neil Hoefs, Student Outreach Coordinator, 2011-2012 AmeriCorps*VISTA |
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