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A Volume of Community Engagement, Community Service, and

Service Learning

December 2010

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Community Engagement, Community Service, and Service Learning Activities

Table of Contents

Introduction i Table of Participants and Service Hours Community Service

Page Advent Giving Tree ................................................................................................................................... 1 Annual Athletic Department Community Service Program ...................................................................... 2 Annual Student Move-Out Donation Project ............................................................................................. 3 Balloon Day ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Best Buddies .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Bigs & Littles and New Directions ............................................................................................................ 6 Bone Marrow Donor Program ................................................................................................................... 7 College Weekend ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Community Outreach of Villanova (COV) ................................................................................................ 9 Delta Gamma ........................................................................................................................................... 10 Gear Up Summer Program ....................................................................................................................... 11 Goizueta Foundation Fund for Student Enrichment ................................................................................ 12 Greekend .................................................................................................................................................. 13 Habitat for Humanity ............................................................................................................................... 14 Hoops 4 ALS............................................................................................................................................ 15 International Year of Astronomy ............................................................................................................. 16 Invisible Children Book Drive ................................................................................................................. 17 Lamda Pi Eta ............................................................................................................................................ 18 Laurel House – UNIT Project .................................................................................................................. 19 Mission Service Break Experience .......................................................................................................... 20 NOVAL (North Light/Villanova Alliance) ............................................................................................. 21 Packages to Soldiers in Iraq – UNIT Project ........................................................................................... 22 PIVOTS: Villanova Science and Theatre Magic Program ...................................................................... 23 President’s Climate Commitment (PCC) ................................................................................................. 24 Rays of Sunshine...................................................................................................................................... 25 RUIBAL Challenge (“Reaching Urban Individuals by Action and Love”) ............................................ 26 Share Food Volunteering ......................................................................................................................... 27 Special Olympics Fall Festival ................................................................................................................ 28 St. Thomas of Villanova Celebration Day of Service .............................................................................. 29 Undergraduate Nursing Senate ................................................................................................................ 30 Villanova Dance Ensemble ...................................................................................................................... 31 Villanova Singers ..................................................................................................................................... 32 Villanova Social Entrepreneurship Competition ..................................................................................... 33 Villanovans for Life ................................................................................................................................. 34

Service Learning Best Robotics Program ............................................................................................................................ 35 Blood: Water Mission Villanova Chapter ................................................................................................ 36 Campaign for Working Families/Philly Free Taxes ................................................................................ 37 CARES: Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services ................................................................. 38 CEE 4606 – Senior Design Project .......................................................................................................... 39 Chester County “Street Law” Education Advocacy ................................................................................ 40 Child Advocacy Law Association ........................................................................................................... 41 Engineers Without Borders ...................................................................................................................... 42 Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic .................................................................................................................. 43 Federal Tax Clinic.................................................................................................................................... 44 Homeless Advocacy Project – Adopt-A-Shelter ..................................................................................... 45 Hydroelectricity Project in Waslala, Nicaragua ....................................................................................... 46 Law School Externships: Public Interest ................................................................................................. 47 Lawyering Together ................................................................................................................................. 48 Learners Connect! Learning Partners ...................................................................................................... 49 Sophomore Service Learning Community ............................................................................................... 50 Unity Clinic .............................................................................................................................................. 51 VESTED .................................................................................................................................................. 52 Villanova Civil Justice Clinic .................................................................................................................. 53 Villanova – Julia de Burgos Collaboration .............................................................................................. 54 Villanova Law Pro Bono Society ............................................................................................................ 55 Villanova Undergraduate Program at SCI-Graterford ............................................................................. 56 Villanova University/Catholic Relief Services Partnership ..................................................................... 57 Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership ................................................................................................ 58 Walter Lucas Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP) ....................................................................... 59 Water for Waslala .................................................................................................................................... 60

Engagement of the Villanova Community Academic Year 2009/2010

Involvement in the Villanova community and the community at large embodies who we are as a University. This report provides a profile of the various programs and activities in which Villanova students, faculty, staff, alumni participate. These projects are separated into, Community Service and Service Learning projects. This report both updates and expands upon a report written two years ago in response to Villanova’s application to the Community Engagement Elective Classification of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As in 2008, OPIR constructed a Project Profile form and used survey software to collect information from leaders and contact persons throughout the University. Of particular interest was obtaining an estimate of a new variable, total person hours committed to these activities. It should be noted that persons may participate in more than one program or activity during the academic year. Summarizing the individual participation across all programs can inflate counts. Conversely, the summary of hours served is not duplicative. The table below shows the number of persons participating by type of program. Student experiences exceed all other groups participating. Community Service has the largest number of participants. The total number of person experiences was 14,890.

*Individuals may participate in more than one activity in a given year.

Participants (Duplicated Count*)

Community Service

Service Learning

TOTAL

Students 8,801 1,442 10,243Faculty 249 98 347Administrators/Staff 869 37 906Alumni 1,356 114 1,470Others 1,836 88 1,924Total 13,111 1,779 14,890

Community Service61%

Service Learning39%

Estimated Total Number of Person‐HoursAcademic Year 2009/2010

For academic year 2009/2010, it was estimated that participants spent 220,433 hours engaged in community involvement. The majority of the estimated hours (61%) was spent in some form of Community Service; more than one-third (39%) were spent in Service Learning.

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PROJECT Students Faculty Admin/ Alumni Others Total EstimatedStaff person hours

COMMUNITY SERVICEAdvent Giving Tree 12 0 2 0 0 14 40Annual Athletic Department Community Service Program 518 0 30 0 0 548 1,252Annual Student Move‐Out Donation Project 5 5 40 0 0 50 50Balloon Day 200 10 0 0 0 210 490Best Buddies 30 1 0 0 30 61 1,500Bigs & Littles and New Directions 70 0 1 0 0 71 3,360Bone Marrow Testing Program 800 0 12 0 0 812 400College Weekend 15 0 5 0 0 20 1,300Community Outreach of Villanova (COV) 150 1 2 1 0 154 3,444Delta Gamma 130 0 3 0 0 133 800Gear Up Summer Program 65 6 2 0 0 73 960Goizueta Foundation Fund for Student Enrichment 12 0 0 0 0 12 610Greekend 100 0 2 0 0 102 400Habitat for Humanity 350 1 10 3 3 367 14,680Hoops 4 ALS 15 2 0 5 0 22 300International Year of Astronomy 20 2 1 0 0 23 480Invisible Children Book Drive 180 1 0 2 0 183 375Lambda Pi Eta 45 1 15 0 0 61 700Laurel House ‐ UNIT Project 0 0 8 0 0 8 120Mission Service Break Experience 395 6 21 3 2 427 21,250NOVAL (North Light/Villanova Alliance) 10 8 8 4 0 30 710Packages to Soldiers in Iraq ‐ UNIT Project 0 0 50 0 0 50 12PIVOTS: Villanova Science and Theatre Magic Program 20 5 4 2 1 32 85President's Climate Commitment (PCC) 10 14 33 1 0 58 550Rays of Sunshine 249 0 1 0 0 250 6,500RUIBAL Challenge ("Reaching Urban Individuals by Action and Love") 200 0 1 0 0 201 11,700Share Food Volunteering 30 0 0 0 0 30 80Special Olympics Fall Festival 2,000 50 300 100 1,500 3,950 38,065St. Thomas of Villanova Celebration Day of Service 3,000 100 300 1,000 100 4,500 22,500Undergraduate Nursing Senate 15 9 1 5 0 30 400Villanova Dance Ensemble 40 1 1 0 0 42 200Villanova Singers 60 1 1 200 0 262 240Villanova Social Entrepreneurship Competition 5 10 10 20 0 45 1,100Villanovans for Life 50 15 5 10 200 280 60TOTALS 8,801 249 869 1,356 1,836 13,111 134,713

PROJECT Students Faculty Admin/ Alumni Others Total EstimatedStaff person hours

SERVICE LEARNING ACTIVITIES BEST Robotics Program 30 0 2 0 0 32 376Blood: Water Mission Villanova Chapter 15 1 0 0 0 16 100Campaign for Working Families/Philly Free Taxes 16 0 0 0 0 16 279CARES: Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services 12 2 1 3 0 18 8,250CEE 4606 ‐ Senior Design Project 25 2 0 0 0 27 600Chester County "Street Law" Education Advocacy 20 0 2 0 0 22 60Child Advocacy Law Association 90 1 0 0 0 91 80Engineers Without Borders 150 10 1 5 0 166 700Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic 61 3 1 13 43 121 14,180Federal Tax Clinic 30 2 1 0 0 33 8,300Homeless Advocacy Project ‐ Adopt‐A‐Shelter 24 0 1 0 0 25 160Hydroelectricity Project in Waslala, Nicaragua 3 1 0 0 0 4 250Law School Externships: Public Interest 147 0 0 0 0 147 32,760Lawyering Together 90 1 3 40 134 300Learners Connect! Learning Partners 10 0 2 0 0 12 1,500Sophomore Service Learning Community 42 0 1 0 0 43 2,520Unity Clinic 100 15 0 4 0 119 1,000VESTED 50 0 2 5 28 85 1,280Villanova ‐ Julia de Burgos Collaboration 24 2 2 0 0 28 240Villanova Civil Justice Clinic 33 3 1 0 0 37 5,835Villanova Law Pro Bono Society 70 2 4 4 0 80 3,000Villanova Undergraduate Program at Graterford 0 2 1 0 0 3 400Villanova University/Catholic Relief Services Partnership 305 16 1 0 16 338 unspecified*Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership 15 4 0 0 0 19 250Walter Lucas Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP) 50 25 10 30 0 115 1,000Water for Waslala 30 6 1 10 1 48 2,300TOTALS 1,442 98 37 114 88 1,779 85,720

* difficult to determine this number 220,433

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROFILES

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Name of Project

Advent Giving Tree

Year Begun 1987 Sponsoring Villanova Entity/ Individual

Campus Ministry Joan Hawley - [email protected] - 610-519-7990

Description of Activity Five inner city parish centers provide a list of children and elderly that are in need of warm clothing. Angel ornaments are displayed on trees in the back of St. Thomas of Villanova church during the Sundays of Advent. Each ornament that is purchased represents a gift of warm clothing. Gifts are purchased, wrapped and delivered to these five centers. This is a project in coordination with the parish of St. Thomas of Villanova.

Location of Delivery Service There are Five Different Locations Listed Below: 1 - St. Elizabeth's Parish/Project H.O.M.E., 184 North 23rd St., Philadelphia, PA 2 - Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Parish, 345 North 63rd St., Philadelphia, PA 3 - St. Martin dePorres Center, 2340 W. Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 4 - Southwest Community Enrichment Center, 1341 S 46th St., Philadelphia, PA 5 - Holy Family Home, 5300 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Number & Type of Villanova Volunteers Students Faculty Admin/Staff Alumni Other Total

12 0 2 0 0 14 Total Persons Served 400 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

These are the children and elderly at each of the five centers that are in need of warm clothing.

Total Number of Person Hours of Service Provided at Service Delivery Site (6/1/09-5/31/10)

40

Activities Related to Planning for and Assessing This Project

Design, print, cut out and tie ribbons to the paper angels for hanging on the tree. The Reading Day in December, 4 students and two staff members spend the morning picking up the presents at the parish office and delivering these to two different centers. Once at the center, we meet with the staff and help to stack the presents in their proper location.

Description of funding /fundraising Advertisements are put on Campus Currents, Wildcat Newswire, Parish and Student Sunday Bulletins about the availability of the angels during the Advent Season. They are available in the church and in the Campus Ministry Office.

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Name of Project

Annual Athletic Department Community Service Program


Athletics Vince Nicastro - [email protected] - 94110

Description of Activity Student-athletes participate in service opportunities with their teams throughout the course of the year. Staff also hold their own service project during Fall break.

Location of Delivery Service Various Brief Description of Project Activities

Over the years, work has been done at St. Rita's Church, Old St. Augustine's Church, a soup kitchen, a Habitat for Humanity site, etc. Most of the work is "clean up/fix up" work that can be completed in 2 full days by our team.


518 0 30 0 0 548 Other Pertinent Information About Villanova Volunteers

Our group is primarily comprised of administrators, staff, and coaches from Athletics. We do include other university staff/faculty who are interested.

Total Persons Served Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

In 2009-10, the project was hosted at St. Rita's Church. Our group cleaned out a number of rooms on the site (that were being renovated).


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Since this is an annual event, the ADs office (usually the intern), along with Fr. Rob Hagan, coordinates the dates, sites, transportation, meals, etc. We have collaborated with campus ministry, as well.

Description of funding / fundraising

This project is funded by Athletics. We receive product support from dining services, facilities, etc.


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Name of Project

Annual Student Move-Out Donation Project


Grounds Ric Laudenslager - [email protected] - 94466

Description of Activity This project provides the opportunity for students moving out for the year to donate all unwanted items to charity. The goal is to divert the majority of this potential waste to be used for a good cause instead of being thrown away.

Location of Delivery Service various organizations Brief Description of Project Activities

Students place all unwanted items in donation boxes placed in all resident halls. The items are then picked up and sorted by volunteer staff and faculty members. Once the items are sorted they are then picked up by many different local charities.



No actual record is kept on the volunteers. Many faculty and staff members contribute time in sorting through donation materials during the 3 week time period in May.

Total Persons Served Ultimately hundreds of needy individuals benefit. Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

The groups that benefit from the project are the Bernardine Center, St. Vincent De Paul, Siloam, Camp Hill Kimberton Village, and other various small groups connected a faculty member, staff member, student or alumni member.


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The move-out program is organized and run by the recycling department with cooperation and support from Campus Ministry, Custodial Services, Student Life and Residence Life. The main activities for the event are advertising the project, placing the the donation bins, collecting the donation bins, sorting the donation items, scheduling the volunteers, and facilitating the charity pick ups.

Description of funding /fundraising All funding for the project is through the Grounds/Recycling Department as part of regular operations.

Is there an expanded relationship? Yes, most of the organizations already have a relationship with the university.


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Name of Project

Balloon Day


Campus Ministry Joyce Zavarich – [email protected] - 94484

Description of Activity Day of activities, games, food, entertainment Location of Delivery Service Oreo Brief Description of Project Activities

Raised funds for scholarship program at Our Mother of Sorrows



Students from Our Mother of Sorrows, La Salle Academy, Divine Providence, and Don Guanella Schools


490

Description of funding /fundraising $3,000 raised Comments There is a relationship through COV and RUIBAL Programs


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Name of Project

Best Buddies

Year Begun Unknown Sponsoring Villanova Entity/ Individual

Student Development Lori Blake - [email protected] - 610-519-4214

Description of Activity Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization that facilitates friendships between college students and adults with intellectual disabilities. We extend our Villanova community by inviting our buddies on campus to participate in group events. Buddies also form one-on-one friendships and grow in understanding and support of each other. Finally, Best Buddies initiates awareness-raising activities on campus.

Location of Delivery Service Best Buddies PA, 132 S 17th Street, 4th floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19103 Brief Description of Project Activities

Activities include service projects, arts and crafts, and sports games.



Volunteers commit to a four-year friendship that extends beyond once a month activities. They contact their buddies once a week and maintain a real friendship. It is more than volunteering. Our members engage in a meaningful community relationship.

Total Persons Served 30 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Buddies are adults with intellectual disabilities that live in the Villanova area. Buddies are active members in the organization


1,500


An executive board works with Best Buddies PA, Villanova, and the group home coordinators and parents of our buddies to plan membership, activities, and other events.

Description of funding /fundraising Annual funding from Villanova as well as small on-campus fundraisers to supplement this income and raise awareness about the organization.


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Name of Project

Bigs & Littles and New Directions

Year Begun Sponsoring Villanova Entity/ Individual

Campus Ministry Joseph Mostardi, O.S.A. - [email protected], - 94082

Description of Activity Mentoring children who are in need of role models Location of Delivery Service 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085 Brief Description of Project Activities

Mentoring Children and teens who are in need of role models

Number & Type of Villanova Volunteers Students Faculty Admin/Staff Alumni Others Total


Children between the ages of 6 and 15 from St. Charles Parish in South Philadelphia whose parents or guardians sign them up for this project


3,360


Outings and various activities that are age appropriate --usually 3 outings a semester. Several meetings to organize and fundraise during the year

Description of funding /fundraising Letters to family and friends seeking donations, cookie dough sale, Tee shirt sale and various other small-scale projects to raise funds.

Is there an expanded relationship? Yes


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Name of Project

Bone Marrow Testing Program


Department of Athletics Andy Talley - [email protected] - 94105

Description of Activity The "Get in the Game and Save a Life" initiative is implemented every spring around the football teams spring practice. Each player is asked to sign up people in the campus community to register as a bone marrow doner. The testing in the spring of 2010 at Villanova included 715 people. Twenty-eight other football teams around the country along with Villanova , tested 8800 people, an all time record for the Be the Match Foundation. Coach Talley organizes and directs all 29 teams. Yale, Penn, Temple, Bowling Green, San Jose State are just a few of the teams involved. Over the last three years the group has tested almost 19,000 people. Many lives are being saved as more doners are being added to the bone marrow registry. Again in 2011, our goal is to test 8,000 people

Location of Delivery Service Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania19085

Brief Description of Project Activities

Under the leadership of the football program 700 Villanova students are tested annually and eligible candidates are added to the bone marrow donor list. (The test is a simple cheek swab.)



The football team used the student body as the primary source of volunteers. During the year, one of the football players and two students donated their marrow to save a life. It is unknown how many more have been called.


Individuals requiring bone marrow transplants


400


Many emails and phone calls must be made to secure funding, facilities, and manpower.

Description of funding /fundraising The match foundation provides the funding for each test. The cost of each test is one hundred dollars.

Comments The program has saved many lives throughout the years and increased the chances of getting a bone marrow transplant because we have put so many healthy young people on the registry. In addition, there has been more donor awareness.


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Name of Project

College Weekend


Center for Multicultural Affairs Charisma Presley - [email protected] - 97316

Description of Activity College Weekend is a rare opportunity given to underrepresented students to gain full exposure to the college experience. This interactive program is for three days and two nights. During this weekend high school juniors (spring) and seniors (fall) will reside with current students while partaking in the academic side of college which includes SAT prep classes, essay writing classes, and financial aid/admissions presentations and the social side which includes a cultural program on campus such as Diwali, Heritage, or Multicultural Student League Night. Students wanting to participate complete and submit the application along with the School endorsement form by the deadline. Attendees are limited to four (4) students per school.

Location of Delivery Service Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085 Brief Description of Project Activities

Students are treated to a weekend without charge at Villanova University including all meals and a cultural event, SAT workshop, College Essay Project with members of the writing center working with each student. All participants leave with an edited college essay, SAT Math Preparation Workshop, Financial Aid Workshop, Talkback session with current Villanova students.



This is a college exposure program that allows students without ready access to college campuses a chance o be a part of an authentic college experience.


1,300


Students’ applications must first be solicited from urban high schools around the Northeastern and Mid Atlantic areas. Then the applications are reviewed, candidates contacted, permission forms sent out and returned, campus volunteers recruited, workshop leaders retained, rooms booked and activities planned. A survey is given to all students who participate in the weekend. The information is then evaluated by the staff as planning begins for the next visit.

Description of funding /fundraising None Comments Yes, more schools want to come each year.


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Name of Project

Community Outreach of Villanova (COV)

Year Begun 2009-2010 Sponsoring Villanova Entity/ Individual

Campus Ministry Jenna Cucco - [email protected] - 610-519-5178

Description of Activity COV, or Community Outreach of Villanova is a weekly outreach program that works with several different organizations in the Philadelphia area by bringing Villanova students to volunteer at various sites. The program is unique not only because of its spirituality and educational components, but the fact that it is open to anyone at anytime. Volunteers can sign up trip by trip.

Location of Delivery Service Numerous and varied, Philadelphia, PA, Brief Description of Project Activities

Opportunities range from soup kitchens and nursing homes, to after school programs and community centers, to urban environmental projects.



Because COV takes volunteers on a trip by trip basis weekly participation will vary from 60 to 90 volunteers on a given week. This usually is impacted by times of more intense academic workload. The estimate of 150 is a projection of the number of different individuals to go through the program over the course of the year.

Total Persons Served Difficult to estimate Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Again, this is a very general estimate. While after-school programs and nursing homes may have a set number of people, soup kitchens, community centers and entire neighborhoods are difficult to accurately represent (especially given the range of direct or indirect involvement)


3,444


Planning involves communication with site partners, training of leaders and weekly meetings, volunteer recruitment (info sessions, postings, etc.), budget & maintenance of vans, scheduling/sharing vans within department and other departments as needed, coordination of weekly soup kitchen desserts, coordination of random/frequent donations, coordination of special collections/drives (food, clothing, unbrellas, etc.) Coordination of special events (i.e. Halloween on campus or Fright Night, Basketball tickets, Balloon Day visits, etc.)

Description of funding /fundraising Vans are paid for by the Campus Ministry operational budget. No budget is allocated for COV. Fundraising is done by students, as well as financial donations and the occasional grant award.

Comments COV works with various campus groups (e.g. sorority and fraternity life, Rays of Sunshine, Business Without Borders, Villanova Environmental Group, Athletics, Residence Life, etc.) in providing opportunities for group trips. All COV leaders are required to be members of the Campus Ministry Service Council which is a Service-Social Justice-Spirituality Leadership Formation program open to all students. The Service Council also acts a a coalition of students from various organizations (VEG, COV, RUIBAL, Habitat, Rays of Sunshine, Service Learning, Villanovans for Life, etc.) that can support each others' particular organizations at varying times. The majority of partnerships have gotten stronger over time. Two new partnerships were added this year. Relationships can be diminished by turnover of students and site staff.


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Name of Project

Delta Gamma


Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life Phil O'Neill - [email protected] - 97282

Description of Activity Delta Gamma's national philanthropy, Aid to the Blind, is supported by the Villanova Chapter through fundraising and service opportunities. Women volunteer their time with numerous organizations, including Blind Sports Organization (BSO) and Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. We participate in everything from Goalball tournaments to fundraising initiatives like the annual Golf Outing.

Location of Delivery Service Various locations Brief Description of Project Activities

Assist visually impaired in modified sports and offer services to other fundraising or awareness events.



Visually impaired people in the Greater Philadelphia Area


800


Extensive meeting and organization prompted by the Chapter Management Team, consisting of 9 officers and 21 directors.

Description of funding /fundraising Two Jean Sales per year and a fundraiser, 'AnchorToss' on campus Comments While the Villanova chapter makes significant efforts to better the lives of those in

need, the national Fraternity Foundation turns over $8 million and volunteers about 96,000 annually.


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Name of Project

Gear Up Summer Program


Center for Multicultural Affairs Linda Coleman - [email protected] - 94074 College of Engineering Stephen Jones, [email protected] - 95439

Description of Activity This is an intensive college exposure program designed to give low-income students an authentic college experience.

Location of Delivery Service Overbrook High School, Philadelphia, PA Brief Description of Project Activities

Students from three Philadelphia, PA neighborhood feeder middle schools attended Overbrook High School for a three-week summer program, held Monday through Thursdays. The overall goal of GEAR UP is to significantly increase the number of low income students prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. Specifically, the summer program was designed to strengthen their math skills and encourage their interest in math and science.



Volunteers were from Center for Multicultural Affairs or College of Engineering


Students learned about math, robots and photography


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Mrs. Coleman and Dr. Jones and the Philadelphia Youth network were responsible for the pre & post tests

Description of funding /fundraising Funding provided by the PA State Gear Up grant administered through the Philadelphia Youth Network and the Villanova College of Engineering



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Name of Project

Goizueta Foundation Fund for Student Enrichment


Center for Multicultural Affairs Hazel Carrera – [email protected] – 93894 Joan Prendergast – [email protected] - 94075

Description of Activity The Goizueta Foundation Fund for Student Enrichment provide qualified Villanovans the opportunity to work in internships, buy necessary educational items, engage in research and/or perform community service. The Goizueta Foundation Fund for Educational Student Enrichment allows students to engage their passions and work toward becoming civic and moral citizens of the world.

Location of Delivery Service varies Brief Description of Project Activities

The service, research and internships can take place anywhere in the world and range from building homes in South Carolina to working in a mission in the Guatamala. In 2010, Villanova students completed internships, conducted research and studied in Italy, Spain, Chile, Guatamala, Mexico, Denmark, Japan, Switzerland, South Carolina, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.



The service done by the Goizueta Fund recipients is immeasurable. Students have taught English in Latin American villages, visited orphanages in the U.S. and have built houses throughout the United States.


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The above service hours are from four of the Goizueta students who performed various service around the Globe. One student went to a mission in Puebla, Mexico, another went to Guatamala to teach English to children, and two students are working for immigrant rights within the Latino community, one in Pennsylvania and the other in Arizona

Description of funding /fundraising This project is generously funded by the Goizueta Foundation.



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Name of Project

Greekend


Office of Fraternity And Sorority Life Phil O'Neill - [email protected] - 97282

Description of Activity To raise money for a local area student injured in a car accident, while simultaneously providing a service for the local community. Greekend is a carnival held at Villanova on one Sunday each year between the hours of 11 AM and 2 PM. Greek organizations set up booths with fun activities for kids. There is also food and inflatable entertainment (moon bounces and obstacle courses). Donations are collected and proceeds go towards charitable ends.

Location of Delivery Service Butler Annex Brief Description of Project Activities

Booths set up by Greek organizations with various activties for kids. / Raffle. / Moon Bounce/Obstacle Course.



Volunteers include Greeks, Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhel members, and Greek Life Administrators.


Children of Villanova Faculty and Staff and Bigs and Littles.


400

Description of funding /fundraising Funded by Office of Student Life budget.

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Name of Project

Habitat for Humanity


Campus Ministry Joanna Bowen - [email protected], - 96285

Description of Activity Campus Ministry’s Service Break Program provides opportunities for Villanova’s students, faculty, staff and alumni to practice their faith through service to the poor around the world for 1-2 weeks during the University’s breaks. There are two types of service break experiences: Habitat for Humanity and Mission Service Experiences. (See Page 20) Our Habitat for Humanity experiences work with Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization whose mission is to build homes for God’s people in need of adequate housing. In addition, Villanova University’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity seeks to promote awareness of poverty and homelessness not only within the Villanova community but in Philadelphia and throughout the country. Through our annual fundraising and education events as well as weekly build trips to the chapter’s affiliate, Montgomery County Habitat for Humanity, and week-long trips to other Habitat affiliates around the country.


1.Students build for 4 1/2 to 5 days. Villanova students, site supervisors, community members and homeowners work side-by-side to build/repair homes. 2. 15 to 20 Villanovans per group (students/faculty/staff/alumni). 3. Each group has one to two adult advisors and two student leaders. 4. 20 groups per year travel throughout the US and the world. 5. This program is a main part of a larger Service Break program which also includes “Mission” Service Break Experiences. Villanova's Habitat for Humanity Chapter works with local affiliates to do the following: Villanova University Habitat for Humanity plans to: Complete our third home sponsorship, with a price tag of $90,000 by spring of 2011. Publicize our efforts to the Villanova community and to educate students, faculty and staff about the need for affordable housing in Montgomery County. Advocate the need for affordable housing to our legislators through letter-writing campaigns. Educate local high-school, middle-school and elementary-school students about the work of Habitat for Humanity.



Habitat for Humanity homes benefit individuals who live in inadequate housing and are unable to afford a traditional home loan..


14,680


Week Long: As noted, each trip is led by one/two advisors (usually a VU alum/faculty/staff member) and two student leaders. The student leaders participate in an 11 week leadership program (once per week 1.5 hour meeting) under the guidance of Campus Ministry’s Associate Director for Service Break Experiences. Local: A Council of Twelve students plan/implement the local trips under the guidance of Campus Ministry’s Associate Director for Weekly Service

Description of funding /fundraising 1. All groups participate in all sorts of fund raising activities, most modest scale. Week long participants raise significant dollars to offset transportation costs/per diem costs, 2. Father Ray Jackson’s Grant, 3. Villanova Habitat Chapter fundraises on its own and has partnered with other donors in the area to fully fund two Habitat homes in Montgomery County. They are currently fundraising for their third home.


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Name of Project

Hoops 4 ALS


ALS Awareness Club, Student Development Sarah Pattison - [email protected] - 631-839-0197

Description of Activity The goal of Hoops 4 ALS was to hold an event (3 on 3 basketball tournament) for the benefit of funds and awareness for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. More than 150 Villanova students signed up for the event in early October and $3,500 was raised for this awful disease. The money was given to the ALS Hope Foundation, which is a small grass-roots non-profit organization and ALS clinic. Their research is on the front-line and the Villanova donation certainly aided their search for a cure.

Location of Delivery Service Villanova University Brief Description of Project Activities

The ALS Awareness club works all year to raise funds and spread awareness about ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease.



The number of people benefitting from the funds and awareness raised on Villanova's campus is really countless. The ALS Hope Foundation, Philadelphia, serves numerous patients every week in their on-site clinic at Drexel University College of Medicine and the money from our fundraisers directly impacts the quality of life of those patients.


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Name of Project

International Year of Astronomy


Astronomy and Astrophysics Larry Dewarf - [email protected] - 94824

Description of Activity The Villanova Astronomical Society (VAS) was one of many Astronomical Societies around the world who sought to expose the world and wonders of astronomy to the general public. VAS hosted dark sky events, and performed outreach projects. VAS went into downtown philly with a few telescopes and showed celestial objects, such as Jupiter and the Moon to people passing by. The motivating factor of this project was that the members of VAS wanted to communicate its love for astronomy and share the wonders of the universe with people who may not have time in their daily schedule to admire the night sky and reflect on our place in the universe. For more information on the International Year of Astronomy see: http://astronomy2009.us/

Location of Delivery Service Philadelphia, Villanova Community Brief Description of Project Activities

Hosted Viewing Events at Villanova: Opened up public observatory for extended hours during Fall 2009, and during special celestial events. / Performed Outreach in Philadelphia: Brought telescopes to Center City, Philadelphia and showed public celestial objects and educated them on said objects.



Members of the Organization, and the Astronomy Department


Villanova Community, Citizens and Vistors of Philadelphia


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Meetings amongst members to brainstorm on how to communicate astronomy to the public. / Meetings with faculty members on past experiences. / Project Leader Kyle Conroy, Villanova 2011, attended conferences hosted by NASA on ideas for and the merits of the worldwide project, and the scope of the United States' involvement.

Description of funding /fundraising Project Leader Kyle Conroy was chosen by NASA to receive a grant for this project, representing the state of Pennsylvania.

Comments The International Year of Astronomy is over, but it would be nice to be able to continue the work and continue to service the surrounding communities. Therefore, VAS is attempting to become more involved in outreach projects.


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Name of Project

Invisible Children Book Drive


Philosophy Department Gabriel Rockhill - [email protected] - 93067 Chris Horne, [email protected], (617)645-7261

Description of Activity Goal: collect, scan, and ship 10,000 books to Better World Books, where they can be sold to support schools in Uganda. Purpose: war has been ravaging Ugandan communities for over a quarter century, and as Africa's longest running war, hundreds of thousands have been displaced from their homes and caught in guerrilla warfare. The rebel Lord's Resistance Army has kidnapped thousands of children to fight as child soldiers, but even those who remain with their families are deprived of many opportunities. School building, then, is an initiative that will lead to children having more security and increased opportunities. This part of rebuilding in Uganda is supported by Invisible Children, and our chapter wants to be an influential and powerful part of the process. Outcomes: Last year - with an enormous rally by Villanovans and people from outside communities as well (notably Hanover, PA), we quickly surpassed our goal of 10,000 books. In fact, the project finished at 5th place in the nation with 25, 388! Next year - the Villanova Invisible Children Chapter wants to be in the top 3!! The organizations which find their way into these acclaimed spots send a representative to Uganda to check out where the money is going for themselves!

Location of Delivery Service Uganda Brief Description of Project Activities

A huge book drive during the fall, in addition to an annual dodge-ball tournament in the spring, and fund-raising and information awareness throughout the year. There are weekly meetings, and throughout the year the group screens movies that Invisible Children produces.


180 1 0 2 0 183 Total Persons Served 10,000 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

All of the books are sold for the benefit of the Schools for Schools program, which builds and staffs schools for children in Uganda.


375


Organization of club into President/Vice President/Treasurer/ Movie Screener/ Book Drive Coordinator. Dividing and conquering is crucial. Activities included: contact locations to put our book collection boxes, contact Villanova staff for a place to put thousands of books, and find a way to transport them to Better World Books.

Description of funding /fundraising Student donations primarily for book collecting, as well as outside school networks. For club fundraising, a dodge-ball tournament of Villanova students was held

Comments The amount of planning hours that go into this project is enormous. There is a need for a storage area since Garey Hall (our prior storage area) is now occupied. The Villanova - Invisible Children connection began as a result of this club.


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Name of Project

Lambda Pi Eta


Communication Stacey Wieland - [email protected] - 94895

Description of Activity Lambda Pi Eta is the National Communication Association's (NCA) honor society for communication students in colleges nationwide. There are currently more than 400 chapters across the country, and Villanova established the 41st chapter, Alpha Rho, in 1993. The purpose of Lambda Pi Eta (LPH) is to recognize communication students who have excelled in their studies. It is also meant to increase interest in the field of communication and encourage professional development among communication majors. At Villanova, students who are academically eligible to join LPH must complete 6 hours of community service, which goes along with Villanova's commitment to service. We also have events throughout the year for communication students, such as graduate school info panels, career days with communication alumni, and trips to local businesses such as WHYY, as well as others.

Location of Delivery Service Primarily needy Philadelphia families Brief Description of Project Activities

Give at least 6 hours of service to LPH-sponsored events, such as a WHYY College Telefund day and donation booths for Philabundance and victims of the Haiti earthquake.



We hold donation booths each year on campus to raise money for a local cause. For the past few years, we have held a Philabundance donation booth before Thanksgiving to raise funds for Philadelphia families in need of food.


700


A leadership board of 15-16 people plans every event. Our service oriented events also involve student volunteers as each eligible student needs to complete 6 hours of service to the Communication department through LPH's events (on and off campus) in order to be inducted.

Description of funding /fundraising We receive money from Student Development and raise money throughout the year by selling Communication Nation t-shirts and water bottles among the Communication students, staff, faculty and alumni.

Comments Lambda Pi Eta unites the Communication department and gets us involved as a group on campus, such as at Balloon Day and Special Olympics


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Name of Project

Laurel House - UNITProject


University Information Technologies Marybeth Avioli - [email protected] – 95327

Description of Activity UNIT staff host a monthly birthday party for the residents of the Laurel house - a home for abused women and children.

Location of Delivery Service Norristown, PA Brief Description of Project Activities

UNIT staff donate items for party bags for women and children, and bake cookies and cupcakes for the party. UNIT staff organize crafts for the children to complete during the party and run games during the party for the moms and kids.



The number varies each month pending how many families are housed at the Laurel House that Saturday. It could be as little as 8 and as many as 20.


120


Collecting the items for the goodie bags, shopping for them, filling the bags, baking cupcakes, shopping for crafts and games.

Description of funding /fundraising None - everything is donated by staff Comments UNIT staff have collected clothing and home goods to donate to the families.


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Name of Project

Mission Service Break Experience


Campus Ministry Joanna Bowen - [email protected] - 96285

Description of Activity Campus Ministry’s Service Break Program provides opportunities for Villanova’s students, faculty, staff and alumni to practice their faith through service to the poor around the world for 1-2 weeks during the University’s breaks.Our Mission work with site affiliates meet the needs of the communities they serve. The work may include tutoring, visiting the elderly, teaching English, working at AIDS hospices, repairing homes and interacting with the community. Through service and reflections, volunteers are transformed by identifying their connection with our global community as they experience another culture, spirituality, and socio-economic situation. We challenge our participants to become global citizens - not just citizens of the United States - as they use their education to change the lives of the poor. This experience helps the volunteer to develop a personal commitment to making the world a better place by calling attention to the injustices of racism, poverty, sexism, etc.

Location of Delivery Service Various locations in the USA and Abroad Brief Description of Project Activities

1. The service work provided by our students is primarily determined by each service site and the requests/desires needed by each service site. Typical projects include construction, tutoring, health promotion, orphanage outreach, HIV/AIDS work, etc. 2. 10 to 20 Villanovans per group (students/faculty/staff/alumni). 3. Each group has one to two adult advisors and two student leaders. 4. 30 groups per year travel throughout the US and the world. 5. Groups go on Mission experiences four times per year during University breaks. 6. This program is a main part of a larger Service Break program which also includes “Habitat” Service Break Experiences. (See Page 14)



Mission experiences provide an opportunity to serve with an organization whose roots are in the communities they serve. The agency or mission is set up to meet the needs of the people in a variety of ways. The type of work varies


21,250


1. Each trip is led by one/two advisors (usually a VU alum/faculty/staff member) and two student leaders. The student leaders participate in an 11 week leadership program (once per week 1.5 hour meeting) under the guidance of Campus Ministry’s Associate Director for Service Break Experiences. 2. OPIR Campus Ministry Survey is administered to all participants and then reviewed by the Associate Director of Campus Ministry for Service Break Experiences

Description of funding /fundraising 1. All groups participate in all sorts of fund raising activities, most modest scale. Week long participants raise significant dollars to offset transportation costs/per diem costs. 2. The Father Ray Jackson Grant is a one time grant that students can apply for which can subsidize up to half of a student's service break experience. Students must write an essay when they return about their experience away.

Comments Villanova has been able to build on relationships with each organization as we continue to send students, faculty, and staff to serve in various locations


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Name of Project

NOVAL (North Light Villanova Alliance)


UNIT Marybeth Avioli – [email protected] – 95327 Campus Ministry Jenna Cucco – [email protected] - 95178

Description of Activity Partnership between Villanova University and North Light Community Center Location of Delivery Service North Light Community Center, 175 Greeen Lane, Philadelphia, PA, Brief Description of Project Activities

NOVAL - the North Light Villanova Alliance - is a formal partnership wherein Villanova assists North Light with a spectrum of activities-from our students doing tutoring to our graphic artists and printing colleagues helping with PR to our nurses and athletes offering clinics to the Greeks doing fund raising. North Light conversely offers learning experienecs for our students as well as faculty/staff. Two planning meetings are held each year where North Light articulates need and we try to help them.



Children, youth, parents, community residents. However one of the best services is that Villanova can help with projects that the staff simply cannot do and would be very costly -- e.g., re-writing HR manual by an HRD alum, designing outdoor lighting plan by a Facilities engineer, etc.


710


Planning - two planning meetings are held with the VU NOVAL Committee consisting of almost 20 Villanova faculty and staff as well as North Light Administrators. Typically September meeting at VU and January meeting at North Light. Time at these meetings is devoted to planning and assessment.

Description of funding /fundraising No funding for NOVAL but student groups (e.g., Greeks) have conducted funding drives that are very much appreciated.

Comments This partnership is quite unique especially Villanova assisting with key functions that are not direct service to individuals but are direct service to the organization's physical plant, administrative functions (e.g., PR, printing, etc.)



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Name of Project

Packages to Soldiers in Iraq - UNIT Project.


UNIT Marybeth Avioli - [email protected] - 95327

Description of Activity University Information Technology Staff donate items to be sent to our soldiers in Iraq. Snacks, games, toiletries, books, magazines, t-shirts and even soccer balls have been sent to soldiers, often someone in UNIT knows in Iraq or Afghanistan. Purpose: To Support our soldiers in the war, by contributing what we can to their efforts. Outcome: 4-5 boxes are sent every other month.

Location of Delivery Service Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, , , , Number & Type of Villanova Volunteers

Students Faculty Admin/Staff Alumni Other Total 0 0 50 0 0 50


Service men or women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan


12


Box is provided in TSB lobby where staff put donated items to be sent. Items are boxed and brought to the post office. Department picks up the mailing expense

Description of funding /fundraising None


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Name of Project

PIVOTS: Villanova Science and Theatre Magic Program


Computing Sciences Mary-Angela Papalaskari - [email protected] - 97333

Description of Activity PIVOTS programs aim to encourage more children to explore science, computing, mathematics, and engineering. Central to this mission has been the Science & Theatre Magic Program, a three-week summer camp for teenagers, affectionately referred to as the “Magic School” program, because, based on what they learn in science and theatre workshops, program participants create a performance of a magic school that they subsequently present to younger children. PIVOTS events and programs have created a community of young scholars who are committed to sharing their enthusiasm for the sciences and reaching out to younger children.

Location of Delivery Service Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085 Brief Description of Project Activities

The Villanova University PIVOTS initiative, now in its fifth year, hosted outreach summer activities for children from Philadelphia on July 10, 2009. Teenagers involved with our programs since 2005 (one of whom is now a Chemical Engineering student at Villanova!) participated in this day of outreach to the Philadelphia community. Nine of these students attended the program on July 10th, and together they led educational activities for a group of forty-five children from the Papa Playground Recreation Camp in West Philadelphia.



Elvira Stewart, City of Philadelphia


Teenagers and children from Philadelphia department of Recreation summer programs.


85


The project was organized by faculty and staff with the help of students and through coordination with the Philadelphia Department of Recreation. Computer labs and another classroom were set up and materials were assembled for hands-on activities.

Description of funding /fundraising The summer 2009 events were sponsored by the Philadelphia Department of Recreation, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering. Villanova Conference services provided space and made arrangements with Dining Services for the community lunch. Dining Services has worked with us since 2005 to provide meals that help cement the spirit of friendship and collaboration forged through our outreach programs. .


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Name of Project

President's Climate Commitment (PCC)


Biology John Olson - [email protected] - 94837

Description of Activity In January 2009, the University submitted a Climate Action Plan (associated with the PCC). In that Plan, Villanova committed to reduce its emissions by 24% relative to 2009 levels by the year 2025, and to achieve "climate neutrality" by 2050. In addition to reducing its carbon footprint and improving operations, Villanova is also committed to continue to develop academic programs and opportunities for students in the environmental area.

Location of Delivery Service President's Environmental Sustainability Committee 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085


This committee oversees the PCC and many other sustainability initiatives on campus. In addition to the members of the core committee above, the numbers below include additional volunteers who serve on subcommittees of the main committee, each with particular charges, including Operations/Energy Use, Physical Environment (Grounds), Transportation, Earth Day, Waste Minimization and Recycling, Academics and Student Life, and Communications.


10 14 33 1 58 Total Persons Served 9,000 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

This project collectively touches the lives of everyone at the university, in that tpromotes sustainable practices on campus. This includes many aspects of university operations, including energy and use, dining services, recycling and waste minimization


550


Planning and assessment is ongoing. The core committee is always assessing progress and outcomes. Part of the responsibility of the committtee is to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and we are currently involved in that inventory.

Description of funding /fundraising There is no concerted fundraising for this project. However, portions of the project are supported by income from the Demand Management program through PECO.

Is there an expanded relationship? Yes


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Name of Project

Rays of Sunshine


Student Life Devon Jackson - [email protected] - 97829

Description of Activity The Goal of Rays of Sunshine is to connect the Villanova community to the greater Philadelphia community through service by providing support by way of visiting, tutoring and mentoring.

Location of Delivery Service Philadelphia Private and Public Schools all over the City, Philadelphia, PA Brief Description of Project Activities

Life Choice Hospice- Volunteers visit Broomall Presbyterian Village and visit the elderly who are part of the Life Choice Hospice program. St. Phils and Universal are elementary schools in Philadelphia that offer after-school programs to their children. Our volunteers attend and help these children with their homework. Mt. Zion is also an afterschool homework help center for all ages, but this occurs in the basement of a church. Hickman is also a program which allows our volunteers to help children learn while bonding with them and playing. On top of these trips, "Once and Done" which occur around the Philadelphia community. These are made up of one time volunteer events. Some of the ones done in the past include soup kitchens, volunteering at a school dance and volunteering at the Philadelphia Zoo.



A visit to hospitals and hospice centers as well as to support children and seniors that are sick and shut in.


The majority of the people served are the students from each school that we attend who receive tutoring, mentorship, and classroom help during the school day and at the after-school programs. Each volunteer serves 2-3 students each throughout the day or after school in the various programs.


6,500


E-board meetings to plan schedules and other fundraisers Monday through Friday; Office hours to field phone calls of cancellations; General Body planning meetings;

Description of funding /fundraising Bake sales, donations from Villanova community and Dining Services. Comments Each year we serve at the same schools.


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Name of Project

RUIBAL Challenge ("Reaching Urban Individuals by Action and Love")


Campus Ministry Jenna Cucco - [email protected] - 95178

Description of Activity The RUIBAL Challenge (Reaching Urban Individuals By Action and Love) is a Freshman service certificate program that allows a group of first-year Villanova students the opportunity to share their unique God given gifts and talents by volunteering one day a week (3-6p.m.) for a semester to serve and support children in inner-city Philadelphia schools and community centers.

Location of Delivery Service 3 Grade Schools (Our Mother of Sorrows, St. Ignatius, LaSalle Academy; and 1 community center, North Light, Philadelphia, PA,


RUIBAL allows a group of first-year Villanova students the opportunity to share their unique God given gifts and talents by volunteering one day a week (3-6 p.m.) for a semester to serve and support children in inner-city Philadelphia schools and community centers. The primary sites Monday-Friday are Our Mother of Sorrows School and St. Ignatius School; they are both run by one administration.



The 3 grade schools (OMS, St.I, LSA) are in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, and the children range in age from 5-14. North Light Community Center also serves an economically challenged neighborhood and the children range in age from 5-11 years old (there is a separate teen program).


11,700


Communication with site partners, recuiting volunteers (email, online application, information sessions) and maintenance of group database, training and meeting with leaders regularly, coordination of van scheduling, coordinating supplies, managing endowment budget ($5000), working with RUIBAL Chairs on site projects ($4000 for play-yard murals to campus visits to African American children's bookfair), and Social Justice Forums education/speaker ($1000 for honoraria), working with Dining Services & Connelly for end of the year recognition banquet, coordination of special events (i.e. Fright Night, Balloon Day, etc.), communication with the University Advancement Office, Annual Report with testimonials, meeting with Mr. & Mrs. Ruibal on their yearly visit. Assessments are done (like COV) with OPIR surveys and additional essay response forms, as well as site partner feedback forms.

Description of funding /fundraising RUIBAL Challenge is supported by an endowment give by Mr. & Mrs. Ruibal. The Campus Ministry operation budget covers most of the transportation costs.

Comments RUIBAL has consistently grown every semester, and thus we are able to serve our partners to a greater capacity. We continue to need more sites. In 2009-10, a partnership was agreed upon with the Sophomore Service Learning Community which allows for their Sophomore's, who were former RUIBAL volunteers, to return as leaders in order to fulfill their SLC requirements. RUIBAL is at capacity with CM vans, as well as 4 partner sites. Essentially 10% of the Freshmen class participate in RUIBAL voluntarily. One of the major goals is to create a healthy social environment for first-year students to adjust to college life while being mentored by Sophomore leaders, simultaneously being inculturated in Villanova's culture of service.


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Name of Project

Share Food Volunteering


Center for Peace and Justice Education Carol Anthony - [email protected] - 94608

Description of Activity A group of students travel to the Share Food Program in Philadelphia to pack Thanksgiving food boxes. This project is done as part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 2009.

Location of Delivery Service Philadelphia Number & Type of Villanova Volunteers



Lower income families who received Thankgiving food boxes for a discounted price through the Share Food Program


80


Contacting the Share Food Program to find out when they needed assistance. Recruiting and organizing students to participate. Arranging transportation for volunteers.

Description of funding /fundraising No funding was necessary. All we donated was time. Comments This is at least the second year Bread for Life has packed food at Thanksgiving at

Share.


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Name of Project

Special Olympics Fall Festival


Student Development Lori Blake - [email protected] - 94214

Description of Activity The purpose of Special Olympics Fall Festival at Villanova is to provide a competition venue and planning committee for the Special Olympics athletes of Pennsylvania. The desired outcome for our student committee is growth and development of leadership skills including but not limited to: time management, ethical decision making, event planning, and cooperation.


Tournament style competition in 6 Special Olympics sports including: volleyball (team and individual skills), soccer (11v11, 7v7, 5v5, and individual skills), powerlifting, rollerskating (and roller hockey), bocce, and long distance running/walking. The student committee arranges all logistics including committee selection and training, athlete registration, housing, volunteers, VIP, signage, transportation, security, medical, special events, and committee leadership events.


2,000 50 300 100 1,500 3,950 Other Pertinent Information About Villanova Volunteers

We have 85 student committee members. 85-100 Freshman 'local program host' volunteers, and alumni committee that work year round. Additionally there are over 2000 event-day volunteers. University support is extensive in particular from Student Life, Facilities, Dining Services, and Athletics and Friends of Villanova (community)

Total Persons Served 1,500 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Special Olympics Pa offers training and competition to children and adults over the age of 8 who have developmental disabilities


38,065


Weekly meetings, trainings, summer hours, fall break hours, student voice evaluations, interview evaluations, peer evaluations, committee retreat.

Description of funding /fundraising Strides 5K run/walk, dress down day, corporate sponsors, Special Olympics committee alumni events, bake sales, movie night, Columbia jacket sale, various concerts

Comments Special Olympics Pa has selected Tom Mogan for their Board of Directors. SOPA has also held Nat'l Training events, etc. on campus.


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Name of Project

St. Thomas of Villanova Celebration Day of Service


Office of the President Chrissy Quisenberry - [email protected] - 610-519-8882

Description of Activity As part of our annual St. Thomas of Villanova Celebration, the Day of Service provides an opportunity for the Villanova commmunity to come together to share our gifts and talents with others in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Location of Delivery Service Various throughout SE Pennsylvania, New Jersey Brief Description of Project Activities

We provide different types of service throughout the area. There are almost 200 places that we serve and do various types of actvities such as painting, gardening, planting trees, cleaning, etc.


3,000 100 300 1,000 100 4,500 Total Persons Served Difficult to estimate Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Various agencies...homeless shelters, churches, community organizations, environmental groups, etc.


22,500


A Central Planning Committee meets year round. Paper surveys and now online surveys were used to assess the work accomplished by volunteers, the team leaders, and the sites we visit.

Description of funding /fundraising The Day of Service is supported by the University and through a number of sponsorships.

Comments We visit these sites year after year now! It would be interesting to see if there are any other Universities that have a day of service as large as ours!


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Name of Project

Undergraduate Nursing Senate


College of Nursing, Rose M. O'Driscoll, Associate Dean - [email protected] - 94904

Description of Activity 1. For the Blood Drives, the UNS (Undergraduate Nursing Senate) recruit students to donate blood which benefits the American Red Cross, and thus, society as a whole. Outcome is that people in need receive blood. 2. The second set of events are 2 fundraisers that are held annually. The Board of the UNS take orders for a variety of items but usually sweat shirts and/or pants with the proceeds benefiting a charity. Students select the charity each year. Some of these have included the Children's Hospital family waiting area, providing new coats to needy school children in the Philadelphia Schools, Children of Chernobyl and Catholic Relief Services for Haiti. Outcome is to donate to worthy causes in need.


2 Blood Drives for College, 2 Fundraising Events and a Career Day for College. All of these are annual projects that have occurred for over the last 20 -25 years.



Primarily a student group but some faculty and alumni do assist.

Total Persons Served 1000 Total Number of Person Hours of Service Provided at Service Delivery Site (6/1/09-5/31/10)

400


The planning of each project differs. 1. Blood Drives - Students plan with American Red Cross Rep. Assessment is made with Red Cross. The UNS has always made its goal. 2. Fundraisers - Students plan with the Associate Dean and then class reps describe projects and solicit students to purchase fundraising items. Students help to collate and process orders and then disseminate items when they arrive. The assessment is how successful the fund raisers are. The amounts donated to different charities has been from $100 to $500

Description of funding /fundraising The American Red Cross brings volunteers for the Blood Drives. UNS does its own fundraising for the fundraising projects. The Career Development Office does have recruiters pay to attend the Career Day but must have a budget, too..

Comments Villanova is known for its volunteerism.


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Name of Project

Villanova Dance Ensemble


The Office of Music Activities Laura Cross – [email protected] - 97214

Description of Activity The desired outcome of the Villanova Dance Ensemble is to create a group which any student who wishes to learn how to or continue their passion for dance can participate in.

Location of Delivery Service Villanova Dance Ensemble, 800 Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA, 19085 Brief Description of Project Activities

Villanova Dance Ensemble dances at retirement and nursing homes.


40 1 1 0 0 42 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

It depends on the year. Music activities will send the group to different places depending on where they would like the group to perform. Most recently Villanova Dance Ensemble danced for retirement homes.


200

Description of funding /fundraising Funds are raised mostly though the Fall and Spring Showcase that the Villanova Dance Ensemble and Dance Company put on at the end of each semester.


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Name of Project

Villanova Singers


Music Activities Brian Meneely - [email protected] - 97214

Description of Activity To share the gift of song with the Villanova Community and beyond Location of Delivery Service Music Activities, 800 Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA, 19085 Brief Description of Project Activities

2 concerts a year, multiple service trips to sing at various retirement and other assisted living establishments. 2 annual tours.


60 1 1 200+ 0 262+ Total Persons Served 250 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Most people served are elderly living in assisted living homes


240


Contacting local establishments and setting up concert dates for the inhabitants

Description of funding /fundraising Trips are usually local and require transportation from Upper Classmen


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Name of Project

Villanova Social Entrepreneurship Competition


None Jordan Ermilio - [email protected] - 96859

Description of Activity The goal of this project is to have groups of students develop and subsequently implement projects and/or plans that help improve the quality of life for those below the poverty line. The idea must be self sustainable in two ways: the idea must show that it can be profitable for those who are using it as a means of traditional business, and the idea must be affordable to those for whom it is intended for. In this way, the idea is sustainable and dignity on behalf of the poor and marginalized is preserved.

Location of Delivery Service Varies Brief Description of Project Activities

The VSEC group organizes and fund-raises for the main competition, which is held annually in April. This group works with an alumni group (VUAEE) to coordinate various aspects of the competition.



The alumni are part of a group called "VUAEE", which is run through VSB.


Approximately 300 people in Waslala, Nicaragua are being afforded electricity by a unique type of microturbine designed by the Power to Empower group (the grand prize winner of the competition). These people pay a minimal fee in return for enough electricity to power equipment in homes, on farms and in office buildings. This will expand business opportunities in addition to providing the necessary light required by students for studying at night. Additionally, the majority of the money that is collected as a fee for electric services is put back into building new microhydro systems in communities close to running water throughout Nicaragua.


1,100


Weekly meetings with the committee, weekly meetings with VUAEE and bi-monthly meetings with financial contributors.

Description of funding /fundraising Funding: $14,000 was raised between: The Office of Mission Effectiveness ($6,000), The ICE Center ($4,500), Engineering ($2,500) and VSB ($1,000)


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Name of Project

Villanovans for Life


Center for Peace & Justice Education, Dr. Kathryn Getek - [email protected] – 610.798.7797 or 94498

Description of Activity Villanovans for Life is a student-led group committed to protecting and promoting the sanctity of human life from conception until natural death. The group was formed in 1973 after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion through all 9 months of pregnancy; therefore our main focus is abortion but we also hold activism and awareness events about other life issues such as the death penalty and euthanasia. The desired outcome is to change hearts and minds, not just laws, about abortion and the dignity of all human lives, especially those of unborn children and pregnant mothers.

Location of Delivery Service Villanovans for Life c/o Center for Peace & Justice, 800 Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA, 19085


Our involvement with A Baby’s Breath (ABB), a crisis pregnancy center, is our only concrete, categorized “service”. March for Life, hosting speakers on campus (from VU professors to nationally known pro-life leaders), screening pro-life movies (dealing with issues including abortion and slavery/human trafficking), vigils (both on-campus and at abortion clinics in Philadelphia), and campus-wide activism events, such as Cemetery of the Innocents or handing out flyers with information about the pro-life movement. VFL also participated in Advocacy Week at the Oreo in the Spring 2010 semester. VFL holds Respect Life Week every October; it generally includes the events listed above on each day of the week. Every spring we hold a Respect Life Awards Dinner at which we recognize a pro-life activist in the Philadelphia area for his/her outstanding work, and listen to a pro-life speaker. Attendance at this dinner is usually between 80-100 students, faculty, family, alumni, and local pro-life groups.


15-50 15 5 10 200 230-280 Other Pertinent Information About Villanova Volunteers

The numbers above are somewhat sketchy. We have about 15 active students who regularly come to meetings and can be counted on for scheduled events. For the past couple years we have taken about 50 students to the March for Life. Our weekly email list is students on email list who aren't very actively involved

Total Persons Served Unknown Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Clients at A Baby’s Breath (ABB), participants in ABB’s Johnny’s Run for Life


60


Some members of the group trained to volunteer and be advocates at ABB; VFL members were also involved in planning ABB’s RFL

Description of funding /fundraising All our funding is from CPJE and the university. Our annual dinner raises money for a different organization each year (most recently, A Baby’s Breath and Helper’s of God’s Precious Infants)

Comments We have worked a lot in the past three years on finding out what the students and faculty expect from us, whether our goals are in line with those expectations, and how to work with and for the students and administration to achieve our goals and promote greater awareness of our true cause. Villanovans for Life also work with Generation Life and Helpers of God’s Precious Infants throughout the year.


SERVICE LEARNING

PROFILES

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Name of Project

BEST Robotics Program


Engineering Stephen Jones - [email protected] - 610-519-5439

Description of Activity The purpose for this program is to provide School District of philadelphia students with a robotics competition. The goal is to interest students in careers involving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The desired outcome is that students will go to college and select a STEM major

Location of Delivery Service Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 19085 Brief Description of Project Activities

To kick off the project, Villanova hosted a day of preparation & competition to inform the students and teachers about the new robot and playing field.



The persons served were middle school and high school students.


376


The playing field for the robots was designed during the summer. The plan was to construct it on the Friday prior to the kick off day.

Description of funding /fundraising The deans budget provided support for this event


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Name of Project

Blood:Water Mission Villanova Chapter


Peace and Justice Carol Anthony - [email protected], - 94608

Description of Activity We hope to raise awareness on campus about the issues that affect the African continent as well as help support the national Blood:Water Mission organization through monetary donations. The national Blood:Water Mission was started by award winning band Jars of Clay. It works through local partnerships to combat the spread of HIV and provide sustainable access to clean water for hundreds of thousands of African people.

Location of Delivery Service Blood:Water Mission, P.O. Box 60381, Nashville, TN, 37206 Brief Description of Project Activities

This is the address of the national Blood:Water Mission. They work with dozens of villages throughout sub-Saharan Africa, building water catchment systems, clean water wells and health clinics while putting a special focus on partnerships with the local Africans. These partnerships have ensured that Blood:Water Mission's projects have been successful and sustainable.



We have close to 200 students on our e-mail list, but 15 students is a more accurate description of our continuously involved students. We partner with many other groups/ faculty on campus for various projects throughout the year. If these groups/faculty were included the numbers would be much higher for both categories.

Total Persons Served See below Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Blood:Water Mission national has served over 570,000 people throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. It is difficult to calculate BWM Villanova's contribution to that number served, but the organization that we support has had that amount of success since 2001.


100


We held two fundraisers throughout the year which ran for a week each. We also co-sponsored an event in which the Chief of Staff of the UN Secretary General's Special envoy for malaria came to speak at Villanova. We also had a photo display and speaker (Dr. Maghan Keita from the Africana Studies department) that brought awareness to the Villanova student body about the complicated issues surrounding the existence and spread of malaria.

Description of funding /fundraising We have a budget of $300 from the Center for Peace and Justice. We use that money to fund all of our projects. Any money that is raised through fundraisers is donated directly to the national Blood:Water Mission.

Comments Blood:Water Mission is one of the few organizations that we have found that dedicates a large amount of time and money to building partnerships and relationships with the people they are serving. They do not do any of the work FOR the communities with whom they work. They simply SUPPORT them. All of the wells, water catchment systems, clinics and other buildings that have been put in place will be maintained by the local people, which better ensures that they will be sustainable for many years to come. We as an organization truly believe that Blood:Water Mission is not merely a drop in the bucket, but rather a tremendously encouraging organization that makes a better future much more possible. However, we are still not that well known on campus, and the University as a whole has yet to develop a relationship with national Blood:Water Mission.


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Name of Project

Campaign for Working Families/Philly Free Taxes


Villanova Financial Management Association (FMA) Matt Parente - [email protected] - 609-356-3634

Description of Activity To provide income tax preparation and public benefits application services for lower-income families in Philadelphia (visit http://www.phillyfreetaxes.org/ for more info)

Location of Delivery Service Campaign for Working Families, 1207 Chestnut St, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19143


Students helped lower-income families and individuals prepare tax returns and apply for public benefits and complete FAFSAs as either Tax Preparers (tax prep only) or Resource Builders (tax prep, benefits, and FAFSAs)


16 0 0 0 0 16 Total Persons Served Difficult to Estimate Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Lower-income families and individuals throughout Philadelphia


279

Description of funding /fundraising None. However, something to possibly keep in mind if fundraising is done is that either Villanova or the FMA could sponsor a bus, van, or train in order to help students who don't have cars get to and from the tax sites in Philadelphia

Comments The project as a whole completed well over 11,000 tax returns resulting in total tax refunds of over $22 million. The CWF and FMA wish to continue this project next year.


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Name of Project

CARES Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services


Villanova School of Law Michele Pistone - [email protected] - 95286

Description of Activity CARES is an international human rights and immigration clinic.Students represent refugees who have fled human rights abuses in their home countries and seek religious or political asylum in the United States. Working in pairs, CARES students are assigned to represent from beginning to end one or more refugees, who are fleeing human rights abuses, in a court proceeding before an Immigration Judge. Every semester the work of CARES students results in restoring the lives of their clients and reuniting their clients with family members. In the past, CARES has represented and won asylum for refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Liberia, Mauritania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, The Ivory Coast, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Global conditions, among other factors, will determine where CARES concentrates its resources. Students are exposed to the practice of law, enabling them to reflect on the interaction between practice and theory and on the role of the lawyer in our society. Each clinic includes classroom sessions, tutorial meetings with the faculty member, and classroom work on assigned cases. Students work in various legal settings, allowing the students to apply what they have learned in the classroom and to experience the satisfaction of functioning as a professional. In furtherance of the statement by St Thomas of Villanova, " the Lord hears the cry of the poor," the clinic's mission is to help law students become reflective, ethical, creative, zealous, and justifiably confident advocates who value pro bono and public interest work, through service and scholarship, the Law School's commitment to serve the poor and disenfranchised members of the community through promoting social justice and the common good.

Location of Delivery Service Villanova School of Law Brief Description of Project Activities

The clinical experience offers students the opportunity to represent real clients with real legal issues. Students are exposed to the practice of law, enabling them to reflect on the interaction between practice and theory and on the role of the lawyer in our society. Each clinic includes classroom sessions, tutorial meetings with the faculty member, and classroom work on assigned cases. Clinics offer second and third year students the opportunity to earn credit for experiential learning.



Undergraduate language students provide interpretation and translation services. On occasion, faculty members in political science department have provided expertise, interpreters, experts


Asylum seekers fleeing persecution and their families are helped by our project. Through our work, they are granted asylum protection in the US and do not have to return to their home countries where they potentially face persecution, torture, or death.

Total No. of Person Hrs of Service Provided at Service Site (6/1/09-5/31/10)

8,250


Planning and assessment are ongoing throughout the academic year, and during the summer. Among the activities are student education about CARES, student applications, reviewing applications, selecting applicants, client intake, coordination with local service providers, client surveys, student surveys.

Description of funding /fundraising

The Project is funded by the Law School.


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Name of Project

CEE 4606 - Senior Design Project


Civil and Environmental Engineering, David W. Dinehart - [email protected] - 94962

Description of Activity The 2009 - 2010 academic year marked the 10th year of the partnership between the Civil Engineering Department and Amigos de Jesus, a home for boys in Honduras. The objective of the project is to provide the complete structural designs of elements of the orphanage's infrastructure and provide guidance in construction. The structure for this year was a girls' dormitory.

Location of Delivery Service Honduras Brief Description of Project Activities

The objective of this year’s course is to develop the complete design of a one story masonry building that will serve as a dormitory at a boys’ orphanage in Honduras. The class will be divided into project groups, and each group will develop the foundation, wall, roof, and ground slab designs as necessary for the building. The design will include use of appropriate building codes to size the structural elements, reinforcing steel, walls, slabs, and foundations. Final construction / drawings of the design will be prepared in English and Spanish and included in the final submittal. A one week mission trip was conducted by two faculty members and 13 students to survey the site and layout the building. 25 students worked on the design.



Students included sophomores, juniors, and seniors.


Amigos de Jesús de Jesús, or Friends of Jesus, is a home for the impoverished children of Honduras. For them, Amigos de Jesús is a safe haven. It is their school, playground, bedroom, chapel, family. They provide food, clothing, shelter, education, and love to over 60 children living at Amigos de Jesús. Big-eyed preschoolers, young boys, adolescents, and young adults who used to eat out of garbage cans now eat in our dining hall, sleep in our dorms, pray in the chapel (designed by Villanova students), work in our woodshop, and learn life skills in the school (designed by Villanova students). Amigos de Jesús also supports hundreds of impoverished children living in local Honduran villages and overcrowded shelters.


600


The two faculty advisors co-teach the course, coordinate throughout the year with the site, coordinate all aspects of travel, ensure compliance with campus ministry requirements for a service trip, conduct fund raising, and conduct rigorous assessment of technical and non-technical objectives. A paper on the assessment is available upon request.

Description of funding /fundraising The faculty advisors do most of the fund raising through personal contacts. The students do fundraising efforts similar to most service trip groups (bake sales, letter writing to family, friends, employers, BBQs, etc.)

Comments The structural engineering need has been met after 10 years. The relationship transitioned to Water/Environmental needs in 2009-2010, with another Senior Design Project and service trip. Contact: Dr. Bridget Wadzuk


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Name of Project

Chester County “Street Law” Advocacy Education


Villanova School of Law Elizabeth Dunn - [email protected] - 97228

Description of Activity Approximately ten law students travel to the Chester County Middle and High School to conduct a Stop and Search training and talk to students about their experiences in college and law school.

Location of Delivery Service Downingtown, PA Number & Type of Villanova Volunteers



Inner city high school and middle school students.


60


Students choose a topic such as stop and search and then thoroughly research the topic and prepare a presentation for the appropriate aged audience.

Description of funding /fundraising Funding is provided through pro bono society.


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Name of Project

Child Advocacy Law Association


Student Bar Association Katie Colgan - [email protected] - 97057

Description of Activity CALA's mission is to raise awareness of children's legal interests and advocate on children's behalf, from seeking justice for child abuse and neglect victims, to representing children in the criminal justice system, to providing representation of minor children's interests in domestic, custodial, probate and other civil matters. CALA plans to use volunteer and lobbying avenues to give a powerful voice to children.


CALA also holds a Holiday toy drive for Support Center for Child Advocates, panel discussion on Careers in Family Law and Child Advocacy(co-sponsored with Family Law Society)


90 1 0 0 0 91 Total Persons Served Difficult to estimate Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Philadelphia children involved with Support Center for Child Advocates; students who attended Career Panel


80


Planning general meetings and board meetings, advertising and making arrangements for toy drive, delivering toys to Philadelphia, finding Career Panel speakers, arranging logistics of Career Panel

Description of funding /fundraising Funded through Student Bar Association


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Name of Project

Engineers Without Borders


College of Engineering/Office of Student Development Bridget Wadzuk - [email protected] - 95365

Description of Activity Volunteer organization dedicated to helping those in need improve their quality of life, usually with the use of engineering within the projects.


Varies, started with a playground installation in New Orleans, also completed a gravity fed water system with filtration system in Northern Thailand, local service mostly painting and some fixing up at a local Boys and Girls type organization, local outreach to high school and middle school students



Depends on the project, we have worked with the Engineering Alumni Society with one of the local volunteer opportunities. Different faculty members work with the group depending on their expertise.

Total of Persons Served 100 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Many people served have been children and families either in the US or international. Some of the work has been for the Special Olympics


700


Design, organization of logistics, financial needs for project, funding

Description of funding /fundraising College of Engineering and Student Development are consistent sources of funding, have also received personal donations and donations from industry contacts


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Name of Project

Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic


Villanova School of Law Beth Lyon - [email protected] - 97126

Description of Activity To provide an intensive experiential learning opportunity for Villanova Law students through a live client clinic in which the students provide excellent free legal services to indigent immigrant workers in nonmetropolitan areas. Working in teams of two, the students learn lawyering skills and values through the 3 hour weekly classroom component and direct representation. The mission of Villanova's clinical program is: "To help law students become reflective, ethical, creative, zealous, and justifiably confident advocates who value pro bono and public interest work. To express publicly, through service and scholarship, the Law School's commitment to serve the poor and disenfranchised members of the community through promoting social justice and the common good. 'The Lord hears the cry of the poor.' - St. Thomas of Villanova"

Location of Delivery Service Various, in non-metropolitan areas in the Delaware Valley, especially Chester & Adams Counties


The Farmworker Clinic provides free legal services to immigrant workers in nonmetropolitan areas. Most of our clients are in Chester and Adams Counties, but our caseload typically covers 8-10 different counties at any one time. Our case types vary as well, but concentrate in wage and hour, immigration defense, workers' compensation (medicals-only), employment discrimination, and family law. Each fall the clinic students also accompany farmworker advocates to Adams County farm labor camps to assist in providing Know Your Rights presentations to migrant apple pickers. In spring 2010, with support from the Athletics Department, the clinic carried out a brief advice and referral trip to western North Carolina that served approximately 700 people. Note that this clinic was co-created with the Modern Languages Interpreter Internship program and provides 75% of the Spanish interpretation and translation services for our students and staff.



The numbers provided above cover all three projects: Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic, Interpreter Internship Program, and Western North Carolina Mountain Outreach. Note that there were two faculty members in undergradcommunity volunteers associated with Villanova, other community volunteers, students from other universities


On a per-semester basis: 50 - individual legal representation, 350 - fall Adams county know-your-rights presentations Note that in spring 2010 there were an additional 700 - spring break service trip - 680 attendees at Know Your Rights presentations,


14,180


1. Farmworker Clinic - student evaluations, client feedback forms, consultations with referral sources; 2. Interpreter Internship - student evaluations, client feedback forms; 3. North Carolina Spring Break outreach - was first held in spring 2010 - extensive planning took place over the school year. We interviewed the student participants and are preparing a detailed report on the project

Description of funding /fundraising 1. Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic - Income on Lawyers Trust Account, Steve Frankino fund , 2. Interpreter Internship - One-time Wachovia Foundation Grant, 3. North Carolina spring break outreach - funds were donated by Diocese of Charlotte, St. Margaret Catholic Church, Mobil Oil foundation, numerous in-kind donations from Philadelphia area law firms, and volunteer donations. Also, the Athletics department donated the use of its van.

Comments All of these projects are initiated out of VLS


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Name of Project

Federal Tax Clinic


Law School/Federal Tax Clinic Keith Fogg - [email protected] - 93895

Description of Activity The mission of the Federal Tax Clinic has twin goals: (1) to provide quality legal representation to low income taxpayers and (2) to provide legal skills training to our students while teaching them the importance of representing clients who would otherwise not have access to legal representation


The Tax Clinic represents low income taxpayers who have controversies with the IRS. The Clinic represents taxpayers in audits, in Tax Court and in collections proceedings. The Clinic usually has about 90-100 cases open. Taxpayers are represented by law school students.



The students take class, Federal Tax Clinic, where they learn skills by representing taxpayers in real cases. Ten students take the class each semester. Some students continue working with clinic in subsequent semesters to allow the clinic to represent more clients and allow students to gain more knowledge. I do not count paid students in the numbers or, of course, the professional and staff who are paid.


Taxpayers whose income is less than 250% of federal poverty guidelines who live in the greater Delaware Valley have access to our services.


8,300


The Tax Clinic is built around a 4 credit course and is one of four(4) clinics at the law school. There is the regular activity of course planning and preparation client outreach occurs in a variety of ways: 1)agreement with the US Tax Court that results in letters to 700 pro se Tax Court petitioners each year requesting trials in Philadelphia; 2) regular contact with local legal and other non-profit service providers; 3) contact with Congressional offices. Activity is assessed through 1) student evaluations 2) client surveys, and 3) grant funds.

Description of funding /fundraising The Tax Clinic receives a grant from the IRS pursuant to secion 7526 of the Internal revenue Code. Usually, this grant runs between $95,000 and $100,000.

Comments Clinic classes do not exactly fit the "Project" model. Students getting course credit are not exactly "volunteers". Once you get past those hurdles, law school clinics provide significant benefits to the community and to the students. Clients are almost universally appreciative at a high level and students frequently site clinic courses as their favorite courses in law school. Clinics are a great way for Villanova Law School to train students while providing a tremendous service to the community under the Villanova banner.


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Name of Project

Homeless Advocacy Prukoject – Adopt a Shelter


Villanova Career Strategy Office – Law School Elizabeth Dunn - [email protected] - 97228

Description of Activity Students conduct a legal intake at the HELP Shelter in Philadelphia once a month and then under attorney supervision the students follow up to provide the clients with appropriate guidance and suggestions.

Location of Delivery Service HELP Shelter, 48th and Wyasling, Philadelphia, PA Brief Description of Project Activities

Students conduct intake and follow up on issues such as custody, SSI/SSDI, credit concerns, housing issues and benefits.



The HELP Shelter is a transitional living facility for women and children in need.


160


Each month we coordinate with the shelter, recruit student volunteers and ensure the volunteers have the information they need to be successful. There is a required training at the outset of each semester.

Description of funding /fundraising The project is supported by the law school.


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Name of Project

Hydroelectricity project in Waslala, Nicaragua


Villanova School of Business Debra Arvanites - [email protected] - 94102

Description of Activity The goal of this project was to get business students involved in a service opportunity that specifically required them to use their business knowledge to solve social and economic issues. In this particular project, our students collaborated with engineering students who built the hydroelectric system and sought to create a sustainable business model for the project. There are plans to collaborate on more projects of this nature and be involved with providing electricity to communities, which brings measurable improvements in living standards in those areas.

Location of Delivery Service Nicaragua Brief Description of Project Activities

Three undergraduate business students, all members of Business Without Borders (BWB), all traveled to Waslala, Nicaragua over Fall break in 2009. This was the first trip of its kind, so the students went down there primarily to gather information about opportunities for future service projects. Students interviewed various community leaders and returned with vital information and contacts that have allowed BWB to continue its work in Waslala.



The Faculty member was Debra Arvanites, BWB's advisor in VSB.


The hydroelectric project provided electricity for about 40 members of a small rural community.


250


During the first half of the semester leading up the Fall break trip, students met with the faculty member (Dr. Arvanites) to plan for the project on a weekly basis. The students also met with the engineering students who were going on the trip as well in order to plan and coordinate.

Description of funding /fundraising The three students who participated in this service project were required to help out BWB in its fundraising efforts since BWB was going to pay for a portion of their trip expenses. These fundraisers were primarily through t-shirt sales, but we were also able to receive money through VSB alumni.

Comments Villanova has sent student groups to Waslala for a few years now, but this was the first time that business students have traveled to Waslala.


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Name of Project

Law School Externships: Public Interest

Year Begun Not Sure Sponsoring Villanova Entity/ Individual

Villanova School of Law David Santee - [email protected] - 96415

Description of Activity Students earn academic credit working as externs. To be eligible for credit, the externship must be performed at a government office or non-profit agency.

Location of Delivery Service 117 separate placements Brief Description of Project Activities

Students performed a variety of legal work as externs for government offices and nonprofit agenices


147 0 0 0 0 147 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Students working for government offices served the community at large. Students working for non-profit organizations served the clients of those organizations.


32,760


Externships are administered by the Assistant Dean for Trial Advocacy Programs & Externships, who coordinates matching students with externship placements based on the educational objectives of the student externs.

Description of funding /fundraising None. Comments Expanded relationship: The externship hosts are generally pleased with the work that

our student externs do. Most extern hosts continue to offer externships to our students on an ongoing basis.


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Name of Project

Lawyering Together


Career Strategy Office – Villanova School of Law Elizabeth Dunn - [email protected] - 97228

Description of Activity Lawyering Together matches current students with Villanova alumni to work on pro bono cases. We have partnered with Philadelphia VIP; SeniorLaw Center and Support Center for Child Advocates, as well as area firms in order to increase low income individuals access to representation.

Location of Delivery Service Varies Brief Description of Project Activities

Villanova law students are matched with practicing attorneys to work on pro bono cases. The law school has partnered with local legal service offices, including Philadelphia VIP; SeniorLaw Center and Support Center for Child Advocates in order to provide low income individuals with representation.


90 1 3 40 134 Total Persons Served 90 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

The majority of the clients in the Lawyering Together program are low income and/or seniors or children in need of legal assistance.


300


The Director of Public Service and Pro Bono Programs recruits alumni volunteers through mailings, emails and presentations at area law firms. We have Championship Partners program that allows law firms to commit to a certain number of volunteers participating in the program. In exchange we highlight the firms commitment at recruiting events throughout the year. In addition to recruitment, the Pro Bono Director must create and coordinate trainings for our student volunteers. Throughout the year, the Director maintains contact with both student and attorney volunteers to ensure that communication is going smoothly and the cases are moving forward. Once a year, there is an appreciation event for our volunteers.

Description of funding /fundraising Funding for Lawyering Together is provided from the law school general budget. Comments The American Bar Association reports that only 20% of indigent individuals receive the

representation they need. Through Villanova's award winning Lawyering Together program, our alumni and students are working to make a difference in that number.


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Name of Project

Learners Connect! Learning Partners


Honors Program Karima I. A. Bouchenafa - [email protected] - 95299

Description of Activity Learners Connect! Learning Partners is a service-learning initiative developed through the University Honors Program in support of the Villanova University partnership with the Microsoft School of the Future. Villanova student volunteers assist School of the Future students with classroom assignments, college application materials, and other projects as needed.

Location of Delivery Service Microsoft School of the Future, 4021 Parkside Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-1087 Brief Description of Project Activities

Volunteers provide assistance to School of the Future students in the College Resource Room, as well as in classrooms and at other school activities (as needed).



Two of the volunteers are graduate assistants, employed by the Honors Program, who serve as coordinators of the project activities.


School of the Future upper-classmen.


1,500


The Honors Program Director and staff meet with the graduate assistants and School of the Future Counselor to discuss the needs of the School of the Future students and staff, as well as the needs of the Villanova student volunteers. At the end of each program year, the graduate assistants provide a report on that year's activities.

Description of funding /fundraising The project is funded through the University Honors Program. Comments At the School of the Future's 2010 Commencement, which was the school's first, it was

announced that 100% of the graduating class had been accepted to college/university or some other type of higher education institution. Villanova University received the school's Crimson & Gold Award for our support of the School of the Future since its inception.


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Name of Project

Sophomore Service Learning Community


College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Noreen Cameron - [email protected] - 93251

Description of Activity The Sophomore Service Learning Community is an intentional community in which sophomores from all Four Colleges apply to live in Alumni Hall. Each student is required to take one course each semester, serve 3 to 5 hours a week in the community and a one credit integrating seminar. The mission of the Sophomore Service Learning Community (SLC) is to bring students together in a multidimensional community living and learning experience. Students will expand their understanding of issues surrounding social justice through the integration of service and academic course work, reflection and action on behalf of the people with whom they serve.

Location of Delivery Service Cooke Elementary School, 1300 Louden, Philadelphia, PA 19141 Brief Description of Project Activities

Classroom Aides / Peer Mediation Project / teaching cooperative games at recess



Children between ages of 6-13 who are in "at risk" school.


2,520


Teachers at Cooke compare state test scores of classrooms that have Villanova Mentors and those that do not. It is not scientific. They also keep track of behavior improvement of students who have a Villanova mentor.

Description of funding/fundraising Villanova students painted a mural with the children in their lunch room. Students raised money for supplies.

Comments Our level of involvement is in response to the needs of Cooke elementary.


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Name of Project

Unity Clinic


Nursing Elise Pizzi - [email protected] - 267-254-4535

Description of Activity Goal - Provide acute care and primary care services to the uninsured and immigrant population in South Philadelphia. Purpose - Maintain health, diagnose health problems, refer for specialty care Outcomes - Provide a source for health care for the uninsured and immigrant population

Location of Delivery Service Unity Clinic, 500 S. Broad Street, Health District #1, Philadelphia, PA, 19146 Brief Description of Project Activities

Provide primary care for the uninsured and immigrants in South Philadelphia.



College of Nursing students provide triage as patients check in to clinic. Nursing students also teach health topics centered around health promotion and disease management. College of Nursing faculty supervise students in triage and work with them to develop teaching plans and presentations.

Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

The majority of our patients are immigrants from Indonesia. We also serve anyone who requests service, e.g. Hispanic, Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese and American patients. Persons served are immigrants and the uninsured


1,000


Clinician meetings are scheduled quarterly to plan for clinic progress and growth. / Clinic director

Comments We have expanded student volunteering to include health teaching.


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Name of Project

VESTED


Engineering Stephen Jones - [email protected] - 610-842-3843

Description of Activity The goal of the program is to raise the interest of K-12 students in engineering majors. We reach out to middle and high school students throughout the Delaware Valley to participate in the program. The desired outcome is to significantly increase the number of minority students and women who enter college as engineering majors.


Local high school students participate in an eight Saturday engineering program. They listen to guest speakers, meet with Villanova students, partcipant in engineering design projects and give engineering presentations.



The volunteers are Villanova University students who are a part of the service learning program. They serve as mentors to the high school students who are participating in the VESTED program. They work with students on various projects and encourage them to attend college.


The students are high school students who are enrolled in local public, Catholic and charter high schools.


1,280


The staff is involved in the interview process for each student who participates. Staff send out applications to schools and visit schools to talk about the VESTED program.

Description of funding /fundraising Villanova University is the primary funder of the project. Our fund raising staff reaches out to foundations and corporations to get funding to support the program. We have received funding from the Hamilton Foundation and Wachovia Bank.

Comments Partnerships with high schools are a great way to give students early exposure to engineering as a profession. This program has increased the level of School District of Philadelphia interest in Villanova University.


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Name of Project

Villanova Civil Justice Clinic


Villanova Civil Justice Clinic (part of the Villanova School of Law) Dveera Segal - [email protected] - 96417

Description of Activity The mission of the Villanova School of Law Clinical Program is twofold: 1.To help law students become reflective, ethical, creative, zealous, and justifiably confident advocates who value pro bono and public interest work; 2.To express publicly, through service and scholarship, the Law School's commitment to serve the poor and disenfranchised members of the community through promoting social justice and the common good. Thus, the Civil Justice Clinic seeks to provide critical legal services where there is a significant unmet need and to provide law students with the best educational opportunity to develop their advocacy skills while learning about the realities of living in poverty and the importance of providing pro bono legal services.

Location of Delivery Service Villanova School of Law as well as local geographic area Brief Description of Project Activities

In the Civil Justice Clinic, law students represent low-income clients in a range of civil legal matters, including custody; child support; adoption; public and subsidized housing; mortgage foreclosure assistance; utilities; Unemployment Compensation; Social Security disability benefits; other public benefits; civil forfeiture; special education; employment; and expungement of child abuse records, which often serve as a barrier to employment.



The Civil Justice Clinic is a one-semester course in which students represent indigent clients in a structured practice setting, under the supervision of full-time members of the law school faculty. Thus, the “volunteers” are the students enrolled in the course each semester, the students who are employed in the summer to assist in the representation of the ongoing cases of the clinic, the faculty members who are the attorneys-of-record in the cases and who supervise the law students, and, lastly, the paralegal who is the administrative staff person supporting the Civil Justice Clinic.


Low income individuals, living in Philadelphia County, Delaware County and the state of Delaware, who are seeking legal representation in a non-criminal matter.


5,835


The Civil Justice Clinic is a six-credit course offered at the law school each semester. It is one of four clinics that comprise the Villanova Clinical Program.The faculty and staff engage in all the usual tasks related to course planning. We work with various non-profit agencies and courts in order to obtain case and client referrals.We ask each client, upon the conclusion of their case, to complete a survey about their experience and the service they received. We also ask our students to evaluate their experiences in the course. We obtain outside grant funding for this project. Thus, we submit annual grant requests and reports to the funder. We have regular meetings of the faculty and staff of the project and engage in regular assessment of the various aspects of the project.

Description of funding /fundraising The Civil Justice Clinic is primarily funded by the Law School. In addition, we receive $200,000 per year from the Pennsylvania IOLTA Board to support the operation of the Civil Justice Clinic and the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic.

Comments Each of these is a course that students participate in for credit. At the same time, each of these courses does enable students, faculty and staff to provide life-changing benefits to clients who are in disadvantaged populations and would not otherwise be able to obtain these needed services.The students benefit from incredible experiential learning. They have the opportunity to combine theory and practice by applying what they’ve learned in their other courses to make an impact in the lives of real people.


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Name of Project

Villanova - Julia de Burgos Collaboration


Department of Computer Science William Fleischman - [email protected] - 94819

Description of Activity Through this project, Villanova undergraduates provide enrichment experiences in computing and related research for seventh and eighth grade students as well as computing resources and technical support for teachers at the Julia de Burgos Elementary School in North Philadelphia. The goals are 1) to help the largely Hispanic student population at Julia de Burgos develop computing skills necessary for success in high school and the world of work and education beyond high school, and 2) to provide Villanova undergraduates the opportunity to redress some of the effects of the so-called "digital divide."

Location of Delivery Service Julia de Burgos Elementary School, 4th and Lehigh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brief Description of Project Activities

Past activities have included 1) a weekend course (taught by undergraduate mentors from the Villanova Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery) in computer architecture, operating systems, application software, and use of the web for research, culminating in the donation of laptops to twenty Julia de Burgos student participants selected by their teachers, and 2) a year-long project involving computer instruction in PowerPoint and web-based research (again conducted by Villanova undergraduates) in which all the eighth-grade students at Julia de Burgos developed team projects relating chronic and infectious diseases and environmental factors to differences in life expectancy for residents of Philadelphia and surrounding counties.



Students at Julia de Burgos Elementary School were the principal beneficiaries. In addition, Villanova undergraduates regularly reported on their outreach activities in the course on Computer Ethics required of computer science majors.


240


Professor Fleischman regularly meets with teachers and administrators at Julia de Burgos Elementary School to discuss proposed project activities.

Description of funding /fundraising A 2008-2009 Wachovia grant funded one year of project activities. Last year's donation of computers resulted from the summer 2009 rollout of new computing equipment at Villanova University.

Comments The project was initiated by Lance Rougeux, a 1998 graduate of Villanova, who began teaching at Julia de Burgos Elementary School in Fall 1998. Rougeux maintains an interest in the project even though he now works in the Educational Products division of Discovery Channel.


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Name of Project

Villanova Law Pro Bono Society

Year Begun Sponsoring Villanova Entity/ Individual

Villanova School of Law Liz Dunn - [email protected] - 97228

Description of Activity The Pro Bono Society (PBS) is a student run organization intended to promote and facilitate pro bono volunteer work among law students. PBS coordinates several pro bono projects each year, most notably Street Law; Birth Certificate Clinics and our Spring Service Trip to New Orleans.

Location of Delivery Service Primarily Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Brief Description of Project Activities

Pro Bono Society coordinates pro bono activities throughout the year, including outreach to inner city high school students, birth certificate clinics at homeless assistance facilities, Know Your Rights sessions at Inglis House and a Spring Service trip to New Orleans.


70 2 4 4 0 80 Total Persons Served Difficult to compute Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Inner-City students, homeless, and other needy individuals


3,000


It is difficult to estimate a number of individuals served by the Pro Bono Society since their work is accomplished as both individuals and in the group setting. Individual members of PBS volunteer at legal service offices and public defenders throughout the city. The group is committed to larger scale activities where hundreds of school children receive a basic introduction to stop and search law or an entire housing community learns about the rights of the disabled to access transportation.

Description of funding /fundraising PBS receives a semester budget from the student activities fund. From there, the group raises funds through bake sales, talent shows and other fundraising events.


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Name of Project

Villanova Undergraduate Program at SCI-Graterford


Sociology; CAS, Stanley Jacobs - [email protected] - 94559

Description of Activity To provide a Liberal Arts program of study (AA & BA) to men incarcerated at Graterford, to assist in their rehabilitation and possible re-entry into society.

Location of Delivery Service State Correctional Institution (SCI) Graterford; P.O. Box 246, Graterford, PA, 19426 Brief Description of Project Activities

Provision of Villanova undergraduate courses to Graterford inmates to enable the earning of Villanova AA and BA degrees. Planning of curriculum and recruitment of regular Villanova faculty, adjunct faculty, and uncompensated volunteer adjuncts from area colleges and universities,as well as philanthropies (e.g. Columbia, Princeton, LaSalle, West Chester, Violette DeMazia Foundation). Two "regular" courses taught by compensated faculty are offered each term. For several years, Dr. Jacobs has been able to recruit an uncompensated faculty member from area schools, to offer a 3rd course. He acts as the liaison between students and the University and is responsible for most communication, which is almost completely written (there is no electronic or telephone communication allowed). Responsible for budget administration (primary expenses are text purchases and reimbursement of travel expenses).


0 2 1 0 0 3 Total of Persons Served 100 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Men incarcerated at SCI-Graterford. The men, the institution, and society at large are all benefitted by the program.


400


Monitoring student progress and performance; assessing curricular needs; interacting with potential and prior faculty; keeping abreast of DOC regulations and policies.

Description of funding /fundraising University provides operating budget and "underwrites" the tuition value for 60 students per semester. If Dr. Jacobs recruits an unpaid volunteer adjunct to offer a 3rd course, the University allows the registration of an additional 30. Dr. Jacobs has attempted to raise funds externally and have had no recent success.


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Name of Project

Villanova University/Catholic Relief Services Partnership


Office of Mission and Ministry Barbara Wall, Partnership Administrator – [email protected] – 95431 Suzanne Toton, Partnership Coordinator – [email protected] - 97428

Description of Activity Collaborative education, research, advocacy and service including: • Lectures/Events: Five or so annual university lectures and events addressing

issues/topics such as: Quality of Life for Orphans/Children in Haiti, Economic Crisis & Common Good, Beyond Fair Trade: Global Poverty Reduction, Post-war resettling, human trafficking, plight of tea plantation workers, and Tamil people.

• Curriculum: Global Solidarity Network Study e-Broad addressed the following subjects: Human Trafficking, Food Security, Refugees and Displaced persons, Student Organizing on Climate Change: From Campus to Capitol Hill; Law School Clinic on asylum cases.

• CRS Ambassadors: HIV/AIDS, Peace Building/Food Security, Fair Trade, Immigration Migration, Haiti Candle Light Prayer Vigil

• University Response to Haiti Earthquake: Special Mass with collection designated for Haiti, Student Organizations and the Service Learning Community raised funds, donations from OPIR in the name of seniors who completed the Senior Survey. Total amount raised was approximately $17,000.


See above


305 16 1 0 16 338 Total Persons Served Difficult to specify Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Peoples of underprivileged nations


Difficult to specify


The coordinator’s annual report lists the partnership’s accomplishments and assesses its strengths and weaknesses. A delegation from Villanova annually meets with CRS and delegations from the four university partner institutions for assessment and planning. The Villanova Planning Committee (with representatives from each college, Campus Ministry, Student Life and the Augustinian Order) meets to plan activities for the following academic year.



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Name of Project

Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership


COE / CEE Rob Traver - [email protected] - 97899

Description of Activity The mission of the Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership is to advance the evolving field of sustainable stormwater management and to foster the development of public and private partnerships through research on innovative stormwater Best Management Practices, directed studies, technology transfer and education.

Location of Delivery Service Our focus is the Commonwealth of PA but we interface across the US and International Brief Description of Project Activities

We work on projecting our research to the engineering, and the public/private partnerships. We are involved with outreach through our website, speaking engagements, and seminars. For example, Dr. Traver is speaking at about 6 sites across PA this year not counting conferences. We also host tours of our VU research sites. Advancing the field of stormwater management, working a lot with local governments, State, EPA, and PaDEP



Students and Grad Students are paid as Graduate Assistants, but volunteer and help with many projects

Total Persons Served The majority of PA – Difficult to compute Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

Governmental Agencies (State, County, and Twp.), local and national Environmental Groups, and anyone who cares about stream health. EPA also benefits from our work.


Dr. Traver’s time is 250+ hours


Planning meeting with Partners twice a year for feedback and direction on where to go with grants, etc.

Description of funding /fundraising Engineering Firms partner and have yearly “fees” that help a lot. The rest is from research grants, and some funding from the William Penn Foundation.


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Name of Project

Walter Lucas Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP)


Villanova School of Law Elizabeth Dunn - [email protected] - 97228

Description of Activity The Walter Lucas Public Interest Fellowship Program at Villanova University School of Law provides financial support to students who commit their summers to public service legal work. Many law students, dedicated to helping the less fortunate, are limited by financial constraints. Similarly, public interest legal organizations often cannot afford to hire much needed summer interns.Through fundraising, PIFP provides summer fellowships to Villanova Law students, who in turn aid the larger community by working with various public interest organizations and their clients. An entirely student-run organization, PIFP funds student fellowships through a variety of creative endeavors. To date, PIFP has raised over $500,000 and has awarded a total of 110 summer fellowships.

Location of Delivery Service Various locations in U.S. and globally Brief Description of Project Activities

The highlight of PIFP’s fundraising efforts is the annual Spring Auction, held at Villanova Law School and featuring items solicited by students and faculty throughout the school year. The first auction, held in April 1998, raised $19,000 and funded six summer fellowships. The date of the fourteenth annual auction is to be determined. In 2010, PIFP generated over $70,000, providing thirteen students with $4500 summer fellowships. Prior fellowship recipients have worked at public interest organizations throughout the world, including the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, the United Nations Development Program in Ghana, Greater Boston Legal Services, the Defender Association of Philadelphia, the California Appellate Project, the National Center for Victims of Crime, the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Humane Society of the United States. In addition, 2010 marked the fifth year in a row that PIFP provided $12,000 to fund its Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP). LRAP provides a $12,000 award, paid over three years, to a recent graduate committed to working for a public interest organization or governmental agency.



The project provides funding to students interested in spending their summers and post graduate work in public interest careers. While these students are the direct beneficiaries of the work, the organizations that benefit from their work, the clients served and the communities improved are beneficiaries as well.


1,000


This is an entirely student run organization. Students are responsible for every aspect of the program, from overseeing the fellowship application and selection process to soliciting gifts and coordinating the auction.

Description of funding /fundraising PIFP receives backing from the law school and then goes on to raise additional funds to support the work of public interest minded students.


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Name of Project

Water for Waslala


• College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering Jordan Ermilio - [email protected] - 96859 • College of Nursing Betty Keech - [email protected] - 94912

Description of Activity Water for Waslala (W4W) is a group dedicated to raising awareness about the world water crisis and raising funds to continue building water systems in impoverished areas of Nicaragua.

Location of Delivery Service Water for Waslala, LaParroquia Inmaculada, Waslala, Nicaragua Brief Description of Project Activities

Since 2002, the College of Engineering and later, the College of Nursing have partnered with the non-profit organization Water for Waslala (WfW) to assess, design and implement water supply projects for over fifteen rural communities in Nicaragua. During spring semester, students in a senior design seminar class to Waslala for a week assessment trip. Students assist local groups identify community needs and create project plans. Students travel to rural villages to evaluate prior projects/assess new ones for water supply/distribution systems. Students return to Villanova and finalize engineering specifications for a gravity-fed water supply and distribution system... these groups then prepare and submit proposals for funding consideration. In order to incorporate environmental health education and awareness into the project cycle, the College of Nursing was solicited to give health and hygiene workshops as a part of their Community Nursing Clinical. NOTE: ME4800; Senior Design Seminar is a mandatory course for all Junior Mechanical Engineering students and, participation in the Community Water Supply Project is optional. Nursing students who are in their senior year of clinical can choose to participate in the Waslala project as a part of their Community Nursing Clinical.



Volunteers range in both age and academic discipline. As WfW was started by Villanova students and those alums are still involved in our activities (they are the board of directors of the non-profit, Water for Waslala)

Total Persons Served 3,000 Description of Persons Served or Groups Benefitted

This project is aimed at providing water supply services to communities living in an isolated region of Nicaragua.


2,300


1. Conducting orientation seminars with student volunteers who are traveling to Waslala, Nicaragua. 2. Fundraising and educational activities on campus for raising awareness of students in regards to the global water crisis. 3. Assessment and Design of proposed water supply projects in Waslala. 4. Monitoring and Evaluation of newly constructed water systems in Waslala. 5. Report and Proposal Writing.

Description of funding /fundraising Funding for these projects is raised through the organization’s Board of Directors and includes an annual “Walk for Water” event on Villanova’s Campus. Grants and individual contributions are also an important part of funding contributions.

Comments www.waterforwaslala.org



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