Things are starting to really pick-up. We have our community partner groups established. One group is finding donors and writing a donation request letter. Another is locating, researching, and writing a grant proposal. A third group is writing an intership handbook. And, our final group is creating and implementing an internet marketing strategy.
We have also established our symposium groups. Students will be researching the unique qualities related to elderly, youth, rural, urban, developed nation, and developing nation hunger. There findings will include roadblocks and solutions to hunger in these communities and will be presented to the Boulder community in December.
Finally, we are finishing writing our narrative essays on previous experience with hunger as well as writing the fall newsletter for our community partner Conscious Alliance. This email newletter will give the students their first shot at publication!
Overall, students seem excited about the work and haven't become burnt out by all the due dates. I feel that I have a number of students who really love to help others, sometimes at their own expense. Thus, my main goal for now is to ensure that they take care of themselves while also caring for others. A bit parental, but I think it is important for someone to look out for this. I would hate for a semester of service to give students a bad taste for community involvement.
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