Opportunities in Community Service, Civic Engagement and Civic Leadership...Leading to a life of Engaged Citizenship.

CIVIC LEADERSHIP Meet the 2010-2011 CCESL Civic Leadership Team! Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competition

ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP Aaron Williams—Convocation Speaker Sept. 1st @ 5 p.m.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Religious Education Volunteer teachers needed

America Reads/Counts tutors needed National Conference on Citizenship Announces

2010 Civic Health Index “Defend the Gulf ” Video Series

COMMUNITY SERVICE National Volunteer Statistics

Finger Lakes Family Fun Run 9/11 Special Olympics Volunteers needed—10/2

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk—10/3

COMMUNITY SERVICE

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day is on September 25th—Honor her spirit

by volunteering at the NYS Games in Seneca Falls on Oct. 2nd!

You walk for a reason Your involvement with the Making Strides Against Breast

Cancer event is as unique and special as the story that motivates you. Each step you take is personal. And each

step is helping to save lives. More than a walk, the Ameri-can Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event describes the progress we’re making together to

save lives and create a world with less breast cancer and more birthdays.

Thanks to you, and the many others who participate and

donate to the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event, we are getting closer to a world where breast cancer

never steals another year from anyone’s life.

Whether this is your first Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event or your 15th, we hope you'll lend your sup-

port to the American Cancer Society.

Sign up for transportation by emailing serve@hws.edu

Register as part of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Team by clicking here:

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Applications to tutor elementary school aged children enrolled in the America Reads Program and middle school children enrolled in the America Counts Program will be ac-cepted on a rolling basis until Sept. 10th. Tutor training starts the week of the 13th and sessions begin the week of the 20th. To apply and for the America Reads schedule go to

the CCESL web site (America Counts sessions are listed on application)

Applications can be returned via email to serve@hws.edu or dropped off in CCESL (Trinity 203) by Friday. Sept. 10th

Religious Education Teachers/Substitutes needed for

Our Lady of Peace Religious Education

Where: Catholic school building—Elmwood Ave.

Time: 9am—10:10am Sunday mornings K-5 gr. level

programs

Dates: Sept. 12, 19, 26; Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

Nov. 7, 14, 21, Dec. 6; Winter Break

Jan. 9, 16, 30; Feb. 6, 13, 27 March 6, 13, 20

Children’s Liturgy of the Word leaders for K-5

needed at St. Stephen’s Church

When: During Homily of 10:30am mass (15mins)

Contact: Bev Guerrie

Faith Formation Director

Religious Education

30 High Street, Geneva

315-781-2624 if interested

National Conference on Citizenship Announces

2010 Civic Health Index Partnerships The National Conference on Citizenship an-

nounced their 2010 Civic Health Index Partner-ships, the team who will compile the Civic

Health Index. This report measures the civic health of the United States, individual states,

and communities while educating and motivat-ing citizens, business and nonprofit leaders, and

policymakers to strengthen it.

With the help of nonprofits, universities, foun-

dations and businesses, 15 locations across the country are taking a critical step in educating

and motivating citizens and institutions to de-velop policy, programs, and initiatives that ad-

dress pressing social problems. The 13 states and two cities producing 2010 Civic Health In-

dex reports are: Arizona, California, Chicago, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New York,

North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,

Seattle, Texas, and Virginia. For more informa-tion, visit: www.ncoc.net

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf

Coast of the United States, devastating the land and people.

Five years later, many areas remain in need of rebuilding and

adequate safeguards. The BP oil spill has only added to the

woes of the region and again highlights the needs of the Gulf

Coast.

Join us at 7 pm on Sunday, August 29th

for a screening of the

"Defend the Gulf" video series in The Seneca Room (next to

the Centennial Leadership Center) to learn more about

what's happening in the Gulf and what we can do to help,

hosted by the Center for Community Engagement and Ser-

vice-Learning. At the conclusion of the film, we'll have a dis-

cussion led by former CCESL Director Ave Bauder '81 and

there will be opportunities to take action. Students, faculty,

and staff of HWS have made 11 trips to New Orleans on Hur-

ricane Katrina relief efforts. Please come join us to help build

the movement to restore the Gulf, make affected communities

whole, and ensure this never happens again.

W. Averell H. Bauder, Executive Director

Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension

(315) 539-9251 -bauder@cornell.edu

Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competition

(Deadline: Ongoing Through September)

The Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competi-

tion will search until September for eight out-

standing youth changemakers; leaders of so-cial ventures aged 12 to 24 who make a dif-

ference in the world. Youths can either nomi-

nate themselves or be nominated by someone

inspired by their actions.

At the end of the competition, the winners or

representatives from winning teams will fly to

Washington, D.C. for the November 13th

TEDxYSE conference -a TED style conference

run by Youth Venture on social entrepreneur-ship. There, they'll present their stories and

achievements as well as receive $500 prize

money. One of the eight teams will win the

Staples grand prize for $5,000. Winners will

be chosen on a rolling basis through Septem-

ber, so don't wait. www.genv.net/staples-yse

CIVIC LEADERSHIP

Hobart and William Smith Colleges will open its 2010-2011 academic year by celebrating the power of an idea. Aaron S. Williams, the eighteenth Director of the Peace Corps, will be this year's Convocation speaker. The Peace Corps, celebrating its 50th anniversary, traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then-Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From that one idea grew a federal government agency devoted to world peace. Convocation will take place Wednesday, September 1, at 5 p.m. on the Stern Lawn.

"During my tenure as Director of the Peace Corps, I was struck by the power of the idea for the agency: send Americans in peace and friendship to needy countries around the world," says Hobart and William Smith President Mark D. Gearan, who served as Director of the Peace Corps from 1995-1999. "From that fairly simple concept evolved some of the very best spirit and international development work of our country."