article thumbnail

20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

A warm and safe place to live with hot food on the table is non-negotiable. Holiday Food Drive Have your students organize a food drive to collect non-perishable items and deliver them to local food banks or shelters to support families in need. No, winter sports gear itself is not a necessity like food and shelter.

article thumbnail

11 Effective Self-Directed Student Fundraiser Project Ideas

Experiential Learning Depot

Student fundraiser project opportunities! Spring is a great time of year to fundraise because we're in the final stretch of the school year. ​And what better way to do all of that than with student-led fundraiser projects? As an experiential educator, I love to have my students host and run their own community fundraisers.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Student Research and Advocacy Center at Lee College houses a food pantry. The basic needs hub offers all kinds of assistance, including help with transportation, childcare, and its own market for fresh food, a significant addition because the campus is in a food desert, according to Forde Spiers.

article thumbnail

Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He describes his current work as “being a thought leader, resource person and a fundraiser, a person looking at innovative ways to implement some of our programs and activities that we provide for students at UCLA.” There are food closets and snack carts on campus as well as food vouchers, to which AAP participants have access.

Food 279
article thumbnail

New Documentary Sheds Light on CCNY Student Uprising of ‘69

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They also received strong support from the community that had so often been excluded from the college, with locals bringing the protesters food and blankets. The students taught each other classes in politics and English as a second language and were visited by prominent figures like Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Black Panther Party.

article thumbnail

Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During the COVID-19 pandemic, seven nights a week she hosted virtual dinners with donors by ordering food from the donors’ favorite restaurants and having it delivered to their homes. At the start, there were no major donors making multi-million-dollar contributions, but smaller donors came through.

article thumbnail

A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

million to meet immediate needs, warning that the small evangelical institution located in the heart of Wall Street is at risk of closure if it can’t quickly fundraise its way out of a dire situation. Fundraising is stagnant. “That type of fire alarm fundraising very often is not successful. million was Feb.