North Carolina Campus Compact Digest December 2013

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Fall 2013 issue of AAC&U's Diversity & Democracy

Published in partnership with NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, this issue features best practices for working across organizational divides to make civic learning an institutional priority.

Research Brief: The Relationship between Service Learning and Deep Learning By Tom Hahn and Julie Hatcher

The IUPUI Center for Service and Learning recently released this brief using institutional data from the 2012 National Survey of Student Engagement.

The 2012-2013 Campus Compact Annual Report includes highlights of key accomplishments from the year.

Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit

The Research Universities Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) recently released the fourth edition of this toolkit.

The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs

This report released by the Democracy Collaborative, seeks to provide the basis for a methodology for universities to measure their impact on surrounding communities in the form of a broad set of goals for communities and indicators of progress toward those goals.

Social Metrics Primer

This primer guides readers through the process of measuring social outputs and valuing social outcomes in both qualitative and quantitative ways. The primer is accompanied by an Excel spreadsheet that can be used to complete the exercises.

Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity, and Environment

Written by engaged scholars and practitioners at Vanderbilt University, this book focuses on U.S. cities and advocates campus-city partnerships as an "instrument for action" in solving the various problems facing urban populations.

Tamara: Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry

This journal recently published a special theme issue on Community-Engaged Scholarship.

Gateways: International Journal for Community Research and Engagement

This evidence-based

journal recently published its sixth volume.

NC's Volunteer Rate Ranked 33rd Amongst the States

According to Volunteering and Civic Life in America 2013, released Decenber 16th through NCoC's partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service, 1 in 4 Americans volunteered in 2012, totaling 7.9 billion hours. Altogether, that time has an estimated value of $175 billion.

Last year North Carolina, which ranked 38th amongst the states, moved up to 33rd with a volunteer rate of 25.8%. See NC trends and highlights here.

Ignite NC Organizing Fellows Deadline: December 31st

Ignite NC is seeking organizing fellows (age 18-30) to build the movement for grassroots people's power in NC.
For young people who are currently working with a campus or community organization, or have an exciting organizing initiative they want to bring to reality, this fellowship provides organizing training, mentorship, and a stipend to enable them to spend more dedicated time to organize.

The Duke Endowment 2014-16 Fellowship Deadline: January 6, 2014

The Fellowship is a two-year, full-time position for those who recently have completed undergraduate or graduate degrees and aspire to be leaders in the philanthropic or nonprofit sector.

The Endowment is looking for applicants who have demonstrated an interest in the nonprofit sector and exhibited leadership potential in their civic and/or professional life.

Applicants must be a:

*Past or current resident of North Carolina or South Carolina OR

*Recent graduate of a college or university in North Carolina or South Carolina

Echoing Green's Global Fellowship
Deadline: January 6th

The Global Fellowship supports young leaders who are deeply connected to the needs and potential solutions that may work best for their communities.

Echoing Green's Climate Fellowship
Deadline: January 6th

The Climate Fellowship is for next-generation social entrepreneurs committed to working on innovations in mitigation and adaptation to climate change

Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program
Deadline: January 13th

Fellows are placed for five months with urban and rural community organizations involved in fighting hunger at the local level, such as grassroots organizing groups, food banks, advocacy organizations, economic development agencies, and local government offices. They then move to Washington, D.C. to complete the year with five months of work at advocacy and public policy organizations involved in anti-hunger and anti-poverty work at the national level.

Apply to Host the 2014 Alternative Break Citizenship Schools
Deadline: January 13th

Break Away is now accepting applications from campuses to host The Alternative Break Citizenship Schools (ABCs). The ABCs combine workshops, service projects, community interaction, speaker panels, team building, and reflection to help staff and students synthesize knowledge and skills necessary to coordinate high-quality alternative break programs at their campuses all across the country. If you're interested in hosting the 2014 ABCs, complete the Host Site Proposal form

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) Has a New Home

The National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) will assume responsibility from CNCS for further development of the Clearinghouse website and three e-mail lists.

The University of Nebraska-Omaha's Criss Library has become the new home for the NSLC library collection, renamed the Barbara A. Holland Collection of Service Learning and Community Engagement. The physical items will be cataloged, integrated, and discoverable through the University's online catalog.