IMPACT
Your Portal to Academic Community Engagement
IMPACT informs the Tulane University community about academic engagement options that fulfill the public service graduation requirement. This forum will provide an overview of programs offered through the Center for Public Service, announce information sessions, application requirements and deadlines, and post ongoing internship opportunities. It will also highlight student interns, community partner agencies, study-abroad programs, and service-learning courses. Read on and engage! |
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APPLY NOW for a Spring 2014 Internship!
 Planning to do an internship this Spring?
Submit your online application by this Friday, December 6th.
Go to cpsis.tulane.edu and log in by using your Tulane credentials.
If you have any questions about the internship application process, please contact cpsinternships@tulane.edu.
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TODAY at 2pm!!
Last Information Session of the Semester
 Find a Public Service Internship for Spring or Summer 2014!
Public service internships are a great way to:
- fulfill the 2nd tier of their graduation requirement
- earn credit hours
- gain professional experience
- get involved in your community
Students interested in doing a public service internship in the Spring semester of 2014 are invited to attend this information session and learn about unique opportunities, application process, and deadlines. Students will also hear about International Service Programs offered in Summer 2014.
Tuesday, December 3rd from 2-3pm
Alcee Fortier Conference Room
Click here to RSVP
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Choose from over 100 Spring and Summer 2014 Internships!
 Following up from the Public Service Internship Fair, here is a list of over 100 available internship positions for Spring and Summer 2014.
Click here to access that list. It is an invaluable resource for students seeking internships!
If you have any questions about the internship application process, please contact cpsinternships@tulane.edu.
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Passionate About Engagement
by Emily Costello
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Allyson Scheppler,
Public Service Fellow |
For some, service learning is a graduation requirement needing to be fulfilled, similar to lab sciences and humanities courses. But for those students who become especially interested in the community partner they assist during their semester of service learning, it becomes more than just a requirement. Allyson Scheppler is one of these students, and a participant in the Public Service Fellows Program here at Tulane.
This program is designed for students who wish to help foster relationships between their community partner and faculty members on campus, while also obtaining professional development and leadership experience in public service.
Allyson serves as a liaison between service-learning classes and the Orleans Public Defenders' Office (OPD), a community partner with the Center for Public Service. She specifically assists Dr. Stephen Ostertag in his Criminology course by organizing students as they conduct interviews during defendants' first appearances in court in New Orleans. During these interviews, students get valuable information such as family phone numbers, which is critical for defendants to be able to post bail and receive emotional support from their families. Essentially, Allyson "works to find ways to encourage students to expand on their reflections of their service learning, as well as effectively communicating with OPD in order to make their experience with Tulane Service Learning a mutually beneficial relationship." Her work not only benefits OPD by providing much needed assistance to the heavy workloads of public defenders, but also allows Tulane students to gain a sobering perspective of the intersectionality of race and class in the New Orleans legal system.
Overall, Allyson's work helps facilitate an important service: proper legal representation to indigent defendants citywide, especially in a city with the most per capita arrests in the world. Allyson is currently a junior at Tulane, studying Psychology. In addition to her efforts with the Public Service Fellows Program, Allyson is also a member of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity on campus. During her free time, Allyson enjoys exploring all the musical and cultural experiences New Orleans has to offer.
Emily Costello is a senior majoring in Political Science and minoring in Sociology. She works at CPS, where she provides great support to the Public Service Internship Team. |
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The Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana, Inc.
Mission
LFCL facilitates urban agriculture in order to improve Latino access to food, to create sustainable economic change in the Latino Community, to increase food security for everyone living in the Greater New Orleans area, and to support the environment.
Description
Founded in 2008, the LFCL is a demand driven, grassroots nonprofit that strives to organize an integrated community food system in which food becomes a vehicle to better the social and economic life of the Latino Community in the Greater New Orleans area, to enrich the environment, and to improve human welfare.
To accomplish its mission, LFCL provides access to land, trainings, education, and support to those interested in participating in urban agriculture. By facilitating urban agriculture, LFCL allows residents to grow healthy food and develop entrepreneurial skills, while simultaneously addressing the socioeconomic issues of the community in the Greater New Orleans area and creating sustainable change.
LFCL has several internship positions available for Spring 2014:
Networking Intern
Job Description:
The Networking Intern is responsible for communicating with the public and with program participants about current and upcoming organizational events and fundraising information. The intern will be asked to create or update brochures, take pictures, organize media, and update social and fundraising media sites such as Facebook, Idealist.org, Twitter and Causes.org. There is also a direct service component to this internship.
Responsibilities:
- Update relevant information concerning events and fundraising efforts online at OpNOLA.org, lfcl.org
- Connect with participants, donors and the community through social media outlets
- Maintain community partners database
Case Management Assistant Intern
Job Description:
The Case Management intern is responsible for assisting the Case Manager with data entry and walk-in requests. The intern will input physical data into electronic databases, assist any clients walking in without appointments, translate documents for clients and help maintain the Social Services schedule.
Responsibilities:
- Converting physical data to electronic databases
- Assisting walk-in requests with reading and translating social services letters they receive
- Scheduling appointments for clients with LFCL's Case Manager
Fundraising Intern
Job Description:
The Fundraising Intern is responsible for organizing and assisting implement a fundraising campaign. This position is responsible for gathering information on possible fundraising initiatives, creating the relevant materials required to successfully carry out a fundraising campaign (pamphlets, brochures, fliers, donation letters, etc.), responding to donors who make contributions to the organization, keeping track of meetings with donors, and recording all donations made.
Responsibilities:
- Research other fundraising initiatives or potential sources of funds
- Creates relevant materials to be used for solicitation of donations
- Maintaining good relationships with donors and tracking incoming donations
- Writing thank you notes to donors and supporters
For more information and to apply, please contact Tom Zolot, zolotT@lfcl.org
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Teach NOLA
 TeachNOLA is a cooperative partnership between New Schools for New Orleans, the Recovery School District and The New Teacher Project to bolster the strength of the teaching force in New Orleans. The Teaching Fellows program is a highly-selective alternate route to teaching program that recruits, selects and trains committed individuals to teach in New Orleans public schools.
The Communications and Operations Internship is a part-time internship, with some tasks falling outside of regular business hours. The Spring internship will take place between February 2014 and April 2014 and will require an average of 15 hours per week. The Summer internship will take place between May 2014 and July 2014 and will require an average of 25 hours per week. The position is based in New Orleans, at the teachNOLA office.The intern will report to Liana Johnson, Program Operations Manager, teachNOLA.
The responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:
* Enter and track confidential data using our electronic database
* Help troubleshoot concerns from Fellows and other program partners as needed
* Participate in regular staff meetings and communicate ongoing progress and challenges to the leadership team
* Coordinate workshop logistics and assist in securing workshop presenters, as needed
* Implement relevant portions of the Pre-Service Training operations and communications plan
* Assist with event preparation and facilitation, including Opening and Closing Ceremonies for Pre-Service Training and Fellow connectivity events throughout Institute
* Assist with preparation and facilitation of hiring fairs and other events
* Assist with licensing and program completion preparation
* Oversee drafting and distribution of accurate and effective programmatic information and messages via newsletters, mailings, emails, etc.
* Return candidate inquiries via phone and email
For more information about this position please contact Liana Johnson at liana.johnson@tntp.org. |
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Documentary Theater Class
There is a new upper level service learning course called THEA 4910 Staging New  Orleans: Documentary Theatre. The purpose of this course is to examine the nature of documentary or "verbatim" theatre while focusing on the city of New Orleans. Students will investigate the following issues: What is documentary material? What is the basis for selection? What is the organizing principle? What is the theatrical idiom? Who is the intended audience or community? What is the social or political purpose of documentary drama?
Later in the semester, students will explore a topic or theme relevant to the New Orleans community. With assistance from our community partners, the class will gather source material (archival research, interviews, oral histories, etc.) and generate an original script, which will be used to create a final project - staged reading. This performance will be open to the public.
THEA 4910 Staging New Orleans: Documentary Theatre
Spring 2014
Fridays, 2-5pm
McWilliams Hall
Professors Dmitry Troyanovsky and Jeffrey Gunshol
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email Dmitry Troyanvsky at dtroyano@tulane.edu or Jeffrey Gunshol at jgunshol@tulane.edu.
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The 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.
Be in that number!
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Tulane University Center for Public Service
Alcee Fortier Hall
6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-862-8060
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