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May 6th, 2009 by
Akela Yarn
Jessica Gagne Cloutier is the Service-Learning coordinator at East Carolina University. Her main responsibility is to support and serve as the campus liaison for service-learning. Her other responsibilities are providing support for students enrolled in classes that utilize service-learning pedagogy, and assisting faculty with the entire service-learning process (from educating them on what service-learning is [...]
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May 6th, 2009 by
Akela Yarn
Katie Benson is Assistant Facility Manager and Volunteer Coordinator/Fundraising for the Humane Society of Eastern Carolina. Her start in the Humane Society was a bit unconventional. She started volunteering and it than led to a full time position. “A friend of mine is on the Humane Society board and asked me to volunteer for a [...]
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May 3rd, 2009 by
Akela Yarn
Every city and town has non-profit community organizations. The non-profit organizations in Greenville is unique in it targets a wide range of people through a wide range of programs. The persons in charge of these organizations are busy and do not restrict their jobs to a 9-5. There is always a need and always a community organization ready to serve that need. President Barack Obama started as a community organizer. He too understood that one must have a united community, a community that trusted and supported the efforts and initiative of change. Greenville has that community support which makes many of these organizations successful even with economic obstacles. It takes very special people to work for as well as with the community. These people have been profiled to get a better understanding of why they do it and how others can get involved.
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May 2nd, 2009 by
Akela Yarn
Some non-profit organizations have been around for years. Many of them have national organizations that serve as the blueprint for how they should be run. Citizens against an OLF is very different. It is a Grassroots Organization in Gates County, NC. Their goal is to prevent the Navy from building an outlying landing field in [...]
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April 23rd, 2009 by
Akela Yarn
Shawn Moore is the Community Partner Coordinator at East Carolina University. She is responsible for making sure community partners and the people they serve are served well and in a meaningful way by our students. Ensuring the students are safe and gaining insight and significant experiences, growing student leaders, developing long lasting relationships within the [...]
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April 22nd, 2009 by
Akela Yarn
Joyce Jones is the Executive Director of STRIVE as well as the Executive Director of LIFE of North Carolina. According to the Web site based out of New York “STRIVE, which stands for Support and Training Result in Valuable Employees, is a recognized innovative leader in job-readiness programs combining attitudinal training with fundamental job skills, [...]
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