Hey Everyone!
National Volunteer Week is April 18th through the 24th. On this week, individuals receive honor and appreciation for volunteering. Here are two opportunities where you can volunteer locally !
Abigail, one of our student staff members, talks about Food Not Bombs and Eco-Cycle. Volunteering with Food Not Bombs,we pick up food donations, cook what we can, serve it at a park and give away the groceries. We do this every Wed. and Sat. The people that come to the park are homeless, broke, of all ages, and hungry. We serve anyone and anyone can volunteer. There is no paperwork or term of service, just come by and help. denverfnb@gmail.com
Another place to volunteer is at Eco Cycle. They are a recycling center and have drop off stations that need volunteers to sort. It is fun and I have several friends that work there.
At our Center, we have a binder that lists volunteer opportunities. If anyone has any suggestions or questions about volunteering please come into Tivoli 243. We would love to help you find places to volunteer in Denver!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Sustainability Fair on April 15th
Come out and support sustainability at our very own Auraria Campus. The Spring Sustainability Fair and enjoy live entertainment including student artwork, local vendors, bands and campus music groups. We'll be providing onsite education on sustainable living and the fair will include green jobs and demonstrations, an electric car, PRIZES, and a myriad of students and organizations who are passionate about sustainability in Denver!
This event is from 10 to 4 and will be a lot of fun! Our very own Auraria Composting and Auraria Garden Club will have a booth there so don't forget to stop by and say hi to them!
This event will bring an awareness to our campus! Check out all of the goodies and information that Auraria campus has to offer and help to make Auraria a green environment!
Save A Tree, Help Our Environment
Even though phone books are recycled in many communities, more than 660,000 tons still end up in the trash every year. This waste could be stemmed by first eliminating the delivery of unsolicited or unwanted phone books. Call the numbers below to remove your address from phone book delivery lists: DEX: 1-877-243-8339 Yellow Book: 1-800-929-3556 -- renew every two years Verizon: 1-888-266-5765. To become more aware about this please visit: https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/member/home.action
SAME Cafe
This is a core article for todays economic times and a business who is doing great things. SAME Cafe was founded by Libby and Brad Birky to help anyone who walks into their doors and to provide a "healthy community by providing a basic need of food".They use all organic food and the meals you receive at SAME Cafe are priced by what patrons think its worth.The philosophy of SAME Cafe is to treat all individuals with respect and make sure everyone has access to a healthy, organic meal. If someone does not have the funds to give a donation, they are asked to exchange an hour of their time to help at SAME Cafe. Please check out this article
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http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14727507?source=sb-facebook
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http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14727507?source=sb-facebook
Monday, March 22, 2010
Summer Service Grant Program
Are you involved in a student project?
Would you like to get 500 dollars of support for your community project in the summer?
If this interests you, please apply for the Center for Urban Connections Summer Service Grant Program! In our first year, we are giving out four grants to be completed by August 15th, 2010. All you have to do is fill out an application that is very similar to a professional-level grant application.It is well worth your time! This is great experience for individuals wanting to write a grant. Our Center would love to help you write this grant. If you have any questions or want to schedule an appointment with us please contact Alex Basse at abasse@mscd.edu as soon as possible! Applications are due on April 15th by 5pm!
We look forward to reading your application!
Another event that we are having in April, is our First Annual Center for Urban Connections Awards Ceremony. Stay tuned for more details!
Have a great spring break!
Would you like to get 500 dollars of support for your community project in the summer?
If this interests you, please apply for the Center for Urban Connections Summer Service Grant Program! In our first year, we are giving out four grants to be completed by August 15th, 2010. All you have to do is fill out an application that is very similar to a professional-level grant application.It is well worth your time! This is great experience for individuals wanting to write a grant. Our Center would love to help you write this grant. If you have any questions or want to schedule an appointment with us please contact Alex Basse at abasse@mscd.edu as soon as possible! Applications are due on April 15th by 5pm!
We look forward to reading your application!
Another event that we are having in April, is our First Annual Center for Urban Connections Awards Ceremony. Stay tuned for more details!
Have a great spring break!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Purify and recycling water
Please welcome this post from our visiting high school student blogger, Destiny. She will be blogging with us for this week. We are very happy to have her writing for the Center for Urban Connections.
Over $659 million of water-purification and a recyling systems but will be completed before schedule and almost $100 million under budget. Water projects are a high tech; they purify water with 14 ultra-violent reactors and they are 15% more powerful than any of those other ones.
With the final tab to be closer to being $659 million dollars worth by the end of the year, $50 million gallons of water a day are being cleaned by the water-purification facility. The facility was really going to increase the water supply for our residents for the bad years.
Over $659 million of water-purification and a recyling systems but will be completed before schedule and almost $100 million under budget. Water projects are a high tech; they purify water with 14 ultra-violent reactors and they are 15% more powerful than any of those other ones.
With the final tab to be closer to being $659 million dollars worth by the end of the year, $50 million gallons of water a day are being cleaned by the water-purification facility. The facility was really going to increase the water supply for our residents for the bad years.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Make Books Avaliable to Everyone!
Hey all!
Please read this article and let us know if you think this would work at Metro! All comments and feedback can go to mscd.urbanconnect@gmail.com or come into Tivoli 243 and let us know! Have a great weekend!
http://www.denverpost.com/perspective/ci_14429859
Please read this article and let us know if you think this would work at Metro! All comments and feedback can go to mscd.urbanconnect@gmail.com or come into Tivoli 243 and let us know! Have a great weekend!
http://www.denverpost.com/perspective/ci_14429859
Does Service Learning Really Help? Article
Please read this awesome article reguarding what we do @ the Urban Center! Its very informative and interesting!
This article talks about service learning and how college students can become activists and help our world. Stephanie Strom talks about how Obama strongly emphasizes volunteering and engaging in your community for higher education. Its also suggests that "matchmaking" or having individuals in between non-profits and universities help this function better. Here at the Center for Urban Connections, that is what we do and we want to to come in or ask any questions you have about volunteering! It is self-empowering. We are in Tivoli 243, so please stop by!
Please follow the link, listed below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03service-t.html
This article talks about service learning and how college students can become activists and help our world. Stephanie Strom talks about how Obama strongly emphasizes volunteering and engaging in your community for higher education. Its also suggests that "matchmaking" or having individuals in between non-profits and universities help this function better. Here at the Center for Urban Connections, that is what we do and we want to to come in or ask any questions you have about volunteering! It is self-empowering. We are in Tivoli 243, so please stop by!
Please follow the link, listed below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03service-t.html
The Factory Article
Hey
Please read this article! Its great!
Follow the link below:
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2004/the_factory
In this New Yorker article, they are talking about urban city kids. It shows through poetry and every day dialouge what these kids go through and how hard it can become to be in that enviorment. Although life is extremely hard for these individuals, they can overcome their battles with hope for themselves and a supportive enviorment.
Please read this article! Its great!
Follow the link below:
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2004/the_factory
In this New Yorker article, they are talking about urban city kids. It shows through poetry and every day dialouge what these kids go through and how hard it can become to be in that enviorment. Although life is extremely hard for these individuals, they can overcome their battles with hope for themselves and a supportive enviorment.
Building A Better Education
Please read this awesome article about new methods of teaching and how one professor learned and changed his perspective about how to teach.
Access the link below by clicking below-
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2004/the_factory
To sum this article up,there are a lot of teachers who have begun to become critical about teachers and how they teach. He believes that teachers should teach not how they want to, but geared towards students needs. If all learning methods are taught, then teachers will be able to communicate with students a lot better.
Access the link below by clicking below-
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2004/the_factory
To sum this article up,there are a lot of teachers who have begun to become critical about teachers and how they teach. He believes that teachers should teach not how they want to, but geared towards students needs. If all learning methods are taught, then teachers will be able to communicate with students a lot better.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Weekly Update from the Urban Center
Hi All-
Hope that your midterms are going well! The semester is going by fast, but there are still many opportunities to volunteer at a non-profit!
Here at the Urban Center, we have created a binder dedicated to volunteer opportunities for students and staff at Metro. This binder provides a brief description of the organization, the type of commitment, contact information, and additional information. If you are interested in a specific interest, we can help you become more resourceful by looking at the binder in our office or looking at non-profits in Denver with great contacts. If you have any questions please come to Tivoli 243 and ask for our organizational binder!
Other upcoming news:
Center for Urban Connections is showing Blood Diamonds, on March 17th in the Multi-Cultural Lounge. We are showing the film from 6:30 until 9:30 pm. If this interests you, please come! Its free and a very interesting movie.
Very recent news:
Since it is women's history month, Metro State's very own Women's Studies department puts on many events throughout the month focusing on the empowerment of women as well as the history. One of the events, happened today which was the Bridge Speaker. This year the speaker was Sapphire, who wrote the book Push. Push became the powerful movie Precious, which portrays a young girl, Precious, an illiterate teenager whose father impregnated her with two children is faced with a lot of ugly truth in her life. This movie is about life's hardships, the truth and how one must appreciate what they are given and empower themselves to always be precious with life. Sapphire gave an amazing speech on her experiences and read from her 1996 book, Push. Sapphire talked of her experiences with meeting young African-American women who had encountered experiences involving sexual abuse between a young women and their mother or father. Later in the talk, Sapphire read a heated scene where Precious talks to her mother in the halfway house.She cannot remember any happy feelings where she encountered her mother. She cannot help but ask of her father/abuser to Precious. A very "inconvenient truth", spoken by Sapphire, she recalls that the sexual abuse for a African American woman is quite different than any other woman of color because of the history of slavery. I found it very moving and engaging. Sapphire emphasized the meaning of education and women. If women are educated they become powerful individuals. All in all, this was a great speaker who let us into a part of her activist writing & form of art.
Hope you have a great week & Happy Volunteering!
Hope that your midterms are going well! The semester is going by fast, but there are still many opportunities to volunteer at a non-profit!
Here at the Urban Center, we have created a binder dedicated to volunteer opportunities for students and staff at Metro. This binder provides a brief description of the organization, the type of commitment, contact information, and additional information. If you are interested in a specific interest, we can help you become more resourceful by looking at the binder in our office or looking at non-profits in Denver with great contacts. If you have any questions please come to Tivoli 243 and ask for our organizational binder!
Other upcoming news:
Center for Urban Connections is showing Blood Diamonds, on March 17th in the Multi-Cultural Lounge. We are showing the film from 6:30 until 9:30 pm. If this interests you, please come! Its free and a very interesting movie.
Very recent news:
Since it is women's history month, Metro State's very own Women's Studies department puts on many events throughout the month focusing on the empowerment of women as well as the history. One of the events, happened today which was the Bridge Speaker. This year the speaker was Sapphire, who wrote the book Push. Push became the powerful movie Precious, which portrays a young girl, Precious, an illiterate teenager whose father impregnated her with two children is faced with a lot of ugly truth in her life. This movie is about life's hardships, the truth and how one must appreciate what they are given and empower themselves to always be precious with life. Sapphire gave an amazing speech on her experiences and read from her 1996 book, Push. Sapphire talked of her experiences with meeting young African-American women who had encountered experiences involving sexual abuse between a young women and their mother or father. Later in the talk, Sapphire read a heated scene where Precious talks to her mother in the halfway house.She cannot remember any happy feelings where she encountered her mother. She cannot help but ask of her father/abuser to Precious. A very "inconvenient truth", spoken by Sapphire, she recalls that the sexual abuse for a African American woman is quite different than any other woman of color because of the history of slavery. I found it very moving and engaging. Sapphire emphasized the meaning of education and women. If women are educated they become powerful individuals. All in all, this was a great speaker who let us into a part of her activist writing & form of art.
Hope you have a great week & Happy Volunteering!
Friday, March 5, 2010
Updates from the Center for Urban Connections
Hey All-
This is our weekly update of whats going on in Tivoli 243, or better known as the Center for Urban Connections. This week, our topic is all about composting. If you aren't aware of what composting entails, lets begin with a brief history. Composting is the decomposition of plant remains and other once-living materials to make an earthy, dark, crumbly substance that is excellent for adding to houseplants or enriching garden soil. It is the way to recycle your yard and kitchen wastes, and is a critical step in reducing the volume of garbage needlessly sent to landfills for disposal. Many states in the U.S. are coming up with legislation to reduce the amount of waste streams in landfills.
Here on campus, there are a couple of ways to get involved. There is a new group called Auraria Composting. This group is informing students about composting by showing movies and providing great information and discussion.
Composting at Auraria club met on February 24, and will meet on March 10th to watch the movie Fresh. The club will also hand out seed bombs and talk about information relevant to composting and gardening.
Be sure to stop by!
This is our weekly update of whats going on in Tivoli 243, or better known as the Center for Urban Connections. This week, our topic is all about composting. If you aren't aware of what composting entails, lets begin with a brief history. Composting is the decomposition of plant remains and other once-living materials to make an earthy, dark, crumbly substance that is excellent for adding to houseplants or enriching garden soil. It is the way to recycle your yard and kitchen wastes, and is a critical step in reducing the volume of garbage needlessly sent to landfills for disposal. Many states in the U.S. are coming up with legislation to reduce the amount of waste streams in landfills.
Here on campus, there are a couple of ways to get involved. There is a new group called Auraria Composting. This group is informing students about composting by showing movies and providing great information and discussion.
Composting at Auraria club met on February 24, and will meet on March 10th to watch the movie Fresh. The club will also hand out seed bombs and talk about information relevant to composting and gardening.
Be sure to stop by!
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