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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Community and CU-Boulder Student Leaders to Convene to Identify Opportunities to Advance Global Women Rights
...the challenges of poverty. Founded in 1990, Teach For America recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding college graduates and professionals to make an initial two year commitment to...
Public Achievement Students Raise Awareness about Social Issues through Yearlong Service Learning Projects
...abuse, bullying, Colorado flood relief, global warming, human trafficking, poverty, teen depression and suicide, teen substance abuse, and youth homelessness. In addition to sharing outcomes from their respective projects, students...
Casey Students to Host “Positive Decisions Party” Event Seeks to Build Community, Counter Teen Substance Abuse
...awareness and/or address a range of salient and student-identified issues, including animal abuse, bullying, flood relief, gun violence, global warming, human trafficking, poverty, and teen depression and suicide. ...
World View: Reflections on the Roots of Engineers Without Borders-USA 10 Years Later
...taken by a small village called San Pablo. “In that village, I was struck by poverty. I was struck by the girls carrying water from the river to the...
CU-Boulder Students Introduce Green Energy Curriculum in Haiti
...in the poverty-stricken, earthquake-damaged nation. “Haiti is a proud country that lacks the infrastructure needed to support the opportunities we enjoy in the states,” said Joanna Gordon, a graduate student...
Opportunity Knocks: CU to Help Build Sustainable Demo Homes at Pine Ridge Reservation
...for its high rates of unemployment and has been called one of the poorest regions in the United States with nearly half the population living below the federal poverty line. ...
CU-Boulder Students, Faculty, and Staff Participate in A Day of Service
...that emphasized the environment, community gardening/farming, youth, creativity, cross cultural connections, and poverty recovery. Taking place in the Denver/Boulder area and surrounding mountain counties, projects included the CU 5K fundraiser,...
Dozens of CU Students to Display Service Learning Projects on April 25
...education, the elderly, poverty and hunger while gaining practical experience in grant writing and document design. They also work with an array of organizations: schools and afterschool programs, community gardens,...
Third Annual Buffalo Can Challenge
...residents living in poverty and hunger is a real part of their lives. A campus-wide food drive to fight hunger in Boulder County, the event featured can sculptures built by...
CU Students to Spend Spring Break Helping Others During Service-Learning Trips
...Mississippi. There also is availability on two trips to Atlanta to work on disability awareness or poverty issues. Before leaving, the Alternative Breaks groups will take part in pre-trip training...