Day Three Civic engagement and Project Management (One day - C.E.P.M.)

Wednesday September 18 2013

Literature

Based on the definition of the "Association of American Colleges and Universities" ( AACU) : "Civic engagement is working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference . It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes." In addition, civic engagement encompasses actions wherein individuals participate in activities of personal and public concern that are both individually life enriching and socially beneficial to the community.

Introduction to community service case management (3 hours)

This session will consist of a field visit and community testimony from the perspective of a field expert in the frame of community development and capacity building. This will be given by Mr. Bill Pfeiffer (Director of the NYU office of Civic engagement).

The participant will visit several community service and active NGO's in New York City such as:

• "Community Voices Heard" (115 East 106th Street, 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10029 | 212.860.6001 );
• "New York Cares" (65 Broadway, 19th floor New York, NY). New York Cares was founded by a group of friends in 1987 who wanted to take action against social issues in New York City. Today, the organization engages 43,000 volunteers in service each year, helping 450,000 New Yorkers in need.

Key note speakers of the Day at the LAU premises (2 hours)

• John Daley, M.P.A. (former board member of the New York Foundation)

  John Daley has more than 30 years of executive management experience in the nonprofit sector as a professional and as a volunteer. He currently serves as Vice President and Treasurer of the Henry Luce Foundation. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of the Outreach Project and the Director of the Office of Youth Services at Catholic Charities, Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. He was an independent management consultant for the Western Queens Consultation Center, Dynamite Youth Center, Hudson Guild, and Unitas Therapeutic Community. Mr. Daley has also served as auditor for the American Express Company & Cerro Corporation and Coopers & Lybrand. He is a graduate of St. Francis College and New York University, where he received his master's degree in public administration.

• Keith Hefner

  Keith Hefner is the Executive Director of Youth Communication, which he founded in 1980. Youth Communication develops teen journalists and publishes New Youth Connections, a newspaper with a readership of 200,000 New York City youth, and Represent, a national readership of 12,000 youth in foster care. Youth Communication has published 70 anthologies of young people's writing and sold 60,000 copies of these books. Prior to that, Mr. Hefner published a magazine and a series of books on youth issues. He won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989, and he was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of New York City at Columbia University during the 1986-87 academic years. Mr. Hefner was also a New York Foundation grantee; his last grant was received in 2000. He has served on several boards including the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and Youth Today.

Learning outcomes

• Acquire and apply skills, abilities, and knowledge to serve an organization that benefits the community.
• Gain an understanding of a community by building a reciprocal relationship within a community organization.
• Develop an empathetic understanding for other people and life situations.
• Build confidence in one's ability to contribute to the common good.
• Understand one's responsibility to be an active citizen in society.
• Add positive value to one's college experience.