OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Service-Learning Emerging Leaders Initiative
Local, state, tribal, regional, and national organizations and public-sector agencies host emerging leaders, ages 25 to 35, who have demonstrated a commitment to making a difference in the lives of young people, schools, and communities. The emerging leaders are employed by the host organization for a period of two years — building organizational capacity and a new generation of diverse service-learning leadership. The initiative …

• expands the current leadership of the service-learning field to include a new generation of young, more culturally diverse leaders
• sharpens the skills and capacity of individuals and organizations to build the service-learning field through practice and professional development; policy advocacy; research; constituency-building; and communications and visibility
• cultivates culturally competent leaders and organizations within the service-learning community
• ensures stronger connections between service-learning and broader social change objectives
• furthers the use of service-learning to address structural issues of race, class, power, and access in disempowered communities

Each host organization receives a grant of up to $25,000 per year to subsidize a portion of an emerging leader's salary. Emerging leaders are employed full-time making a minimum of $35,000 with full health and dental benefits. Emerging leaders receive in-person and online professional development and mentoring. They also engage in individual leadership planning and are offered publication and presentation opportunities. For more information contact Maya Beecham at National Youth Leadership Council in Minnesota at (651) 999-7374 or email through this link on their website http://www.nylc.org/contact.cfm?oid=5501

Portland State University is proud to announce an online Certificate in Service-Learning
This Fall PSU launches the certificate with a course “Service-Learning Design and Practice” taught by Kate McPherson, a national expert on service-learning. This course offers teachers, administrators, and nonprofit staff a strong theoretical and practical foundation for implementing service-learning in the classroom or community. For more info, visit:  http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=45V6.  More information on the certificate program can be found at www.ceed.pdx.edu/service-learning.  For scholarship information, send an email to Emily Gilliland ( ELG@pdx.edu)