Campus Community Connections
Keeping Community Partners Connected!
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Nonprofit Toolkit Workshop: Marketing and Branding Your Organization
Date: Tues., Oct. 15th
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM
Location: American Red Cross, 2640 Canal St., New Orleans, LA
This workshop helps nonprofits better learn and understand how they can market and brand their organization in a relatively cheap and easy manner. Our main presenter will be Blake Haney, principal of The Canary Collective, a versatile media publishing agency. He is also the managing editor at HumidBeings.com and is the creative director at Dirty Coast. Food and refreshments will be provided.
For more information, please contact Teddy Nathan at tnathan@tulane.edu.
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Corporate Responsibility and Philanthropy: Integral to Business
Date: Mon., Oct. 7
Time: 5:00 PM-6:00PM
Location: Tulane University, LBC, Stibbs Conference Room
   Please join CPS in welcoming Lois Backon, Executive Director of the Global Philanthropy Division at JP Morgan Chase, and John Kallenborn, President of the Louisiana Market for JP Morgan Chase as speakers for our Corporate Responsibility and Philanthropy talk. Our speakers will discuss the role of corporations in the field of philanthropy. For more information, please contact Nick Tringali at
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Public Service Internship Fair
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Date: Wed., Nov. 13
Time: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Location: Tulane University, LBC, Qatar Ballroom
The internship fair is an opportunity for students to learn about community and governmental organizations that seek interns for Spring 2014. If your organization is interested in hosting public service interns this Spring Semester, we encourage your attendance. For more information, please contact Myriam Huet at mhuet@tulane.edu.
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Cowen Service Challenge!
This challenge aims to encourage students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Tulane to celebrate President Cowen's legacy of supporting healthy and vibrant communities through direct community service. By May 2, 2014, we will complete 750,000 hours of service in New Orleans and around the world.
We encourage community partners to get involved. Please contact Teddy Nathan for more information at tnathan@tulane.edu.
BE IN THAT NUMBER
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On Our
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Community Resource Fair following Keynote Speaker: Michelle Alexander, author of 'The New Jim Crow'
Date: Wed., Oct. 2, 2013
Time: 6 PM-8 PM
Location: Dixon Hall
Michelle Alexander will give a keynote lecture about her bestseller, 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' this year's Tulane Reading Project book. Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar who has directed Civil Rights Clinics. Her work and writings challenge community members to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.A book-signing, and reception and community resource fair will follow the lecture.
Reserve an outreach table by Sept. 30 here.
Sustainability and Globalization Lecture Series: Featuring Ira Goldstein
Date: Tues., Oct. 15, 2013
Time: 6 PM-8:30 PM
Location: Richardson Memorial, Room 201
Ira Goldstein, Ph.D., is the President of Policy Solutions at The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a results-oriented, socially responsible community investment group. Dr. Goldstein has conducted detailed spatial and statistical analyses of housing markets in many cities ranging from Philadelphia to Detroit to San Antonio to New Orleans.
Free and open to the public! Tickets not required.
RSVP here.
For more information, please contact Alexandra Stroud at astroud1@tulane.edu.
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In Our Community...
New Orleans Film Festival
Date: Oct. 10-17, 2013
Location: Citywide
Held annually in October under the auspices of the New Orleans Film Society, the New Orleans Film Festival once again provides an opportunity for new and established filmmakers to premiere their latest works. These works most commonly included are full-length features, shorts and animation, as well as music videos. This year's films will be shown at various venues throughout the city, including the Theaters at Canal Place, the Civic Theater, the Prytania Theater, the Contemporary Arts Center, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Zeitgeist Theater and the Ashe Cultural Center. There are admissions charges to the various productions and the public is invited.
Click here for the festival line up.
All-Access Passes are on sale ($125 for NOFS members / $150 for non-members) and grant pass holder admission to ALL screenings and events at NOFF. General admission for all other NOFF screenings (including Closing Night) will go on sale September 30 for Film Society members and October 7 for non-members. Please visit neworleansfilmsociety.org for tickets.
Boo at the Zoo!
Date: Oct. 18, 19, 25, 26
Time: 5 PM-9PM
Location: Audubon Zoo
Bring your little ghosts and goblins to Boo at the Zoo! This annual Audubon Zoo extravaganza is a safe, fun-filled Halloween event for children up to age 12, featuring trick-or-treat houses with candy, Ghost Train, a haunted house (scary and non-scary), games with prizes, entertainment and more. All games and treats, except concessions, are free with admission.
Tickets: $17, under 12 months are free
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Community Bulletin Board
The Funding Seed Presents: Grant Writing for Beginners!
Date: Sept. 26, 2013
Time: 5:15-7:30 PM
Location: Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 O.C. Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA
Are you involved with a nonprofit? Does your job require you to raise funds for your department or position? Do you want to add a valuable skill to your resume? Consider grantwriting! Grantwriting for Beginners is an engaging workshop that gives you the tools you need to start writing grants. Tickets are $35 but there are discounts for students, AmeriCorps, and organizations registering 2 or more people. Visit thefundingseed.com for more information and to register online. Email info@thefundingseed.com for information about discounts or to reserve your space and pay at the door. Click here to register now! Participants will receive a certification of participation for completing the course.
The Bulldog and LA/SPCA's New Orleans On Tap Beer Festival & Fundraiser
Date: Sept. 28, 2013
Time: 1-7 PM
Location: New Orleans City Park Festival Grounds New Orleans on Tap, our annual beer tasting & fundraiser, has quickly become one of the most recognized beer festivals in Greater New Orleans. We hope you'll join us this year to enjoy live music by Billy Iuso & Restless Natives, New Orleans Nightcrawlers and Royal Teeth, plus 200+ national & local beers as we raise money for the animals in our care. Volunteers are needed for the event! For more information on volunteering and to sign up, please click here. Please email Heather Short at short@la-spca.org. For more information, please visit The Bulldog's official festival page here. Wild Things!Date: Oct. 12, 2013 Time: 10 AM-5 PM Location: Bayou Lacombe Centre, Lacombe, LA This annual, action-packed, family event is hosted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and The Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges, Inc. There will be over 40 vendors and if you would be to a vendor, please fill out this form. Kids line up to build birdhouses, learn how to canoe, spin-cast for prizes at the casting pond, learn to shoot a bow and arrow, and take part in dozens of hands-on learning experiences at the many booths and displays throughout the grounds. For adults, Youth Wildlife Art viewing of over 300 pieces of art from throughout the region and relaxing and enjoying live music will be some of your favorites. The best part is, it's free! Local food will be available for purchase.
Navigating Complex Challenges with Insight and Skill: An Introduction to Spiral Dynamics Integral Presenter Dr. Don E. Beck
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013
Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Tulane School of Social Work, Room 103
Dr. Don Beck will present how New Orleans can navigate the challenges of recovery, rebuilding, and regenerating the City of New Orleans by applying Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi) framework. This SDi framework offers a fresh, powerful approach to problem-solving, social change and large scale systemic transformation. It is one the most researched psychological frameworks of the 21st century in traditional academic research within systems theory, evolutionary psychology, as well as mind-brain explorations. For more information, visit www.shiftneworleans.org and click on Spiral Dynamics
For info on this event, contact:
If you have any announcements that you would like posted here, please email Teddy Nathan at tnathan@tulane.edu.
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Have you Updated your CPS Online Profile?
Tulane's Center for Public Service has an online database, the CPS Online, which we use to help connect partners, students and faculty. We also use the database to learn more about you, our partner organizations and to keep you updated about upcoming events and program information that relates to your mission and needs. To create, check or edit your organization's profile please click HERE.
To request username and log-in information for your organization, please email Teddy Nathan at tnathan@tulane.edu
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Checked the Tulane Calendar?
Tulane has a daily published calendar with all of the different events that the university is hosting throughout the year. These events include lectures, concerts,special events,and different student programs.Many of these events are free and open to the public. To see the Tulane calendar please click here:
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