Community Engagement House Application!

2010- 2011 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HOUSE APPLICATION:  DUE MARCH 23

Mission Statement for the Community Engagement House (COHO):
The purpose of and mission for the Community Engagement House is to promote a seamless community amongst college students and residents of surrounding areas by hosting events open to all and providing networking and a physical meeting place for organizations devoted to serving the community at large.

Disclaimer: You may not get a single. You may not know your roommate. Just like your room isn’t guaranteed, the house isn’t guaranteed. Those chosen to be in the house will be active participants in reapplying for the house in April 2010. You can apply if you are going abroad next year, please just note on your application which semester you will be abroad.

Directions for Applying: Please answer the following questions and keep in mind we're hoping for quality over quantity.  Please email your responses to Lara Case at caselr0@sewanee.edu and send your drawing for question 6 via the student post office or attach a pdf.  There will also be an information session about living in the house and what we do on Sunday, March 7th at 8:30pm at the Community Engagement House (attendance is not required to apply).

1)Why do you want to live in the house? What do you hope for the future of the house and for the Sewanee community?
2) Please describe an event you’d hope to have for the house. Perhaps address the vision for the house you mentioned in question one.
3) How are you in involved in the community either in Sewanee or elsewhere?
4) What are your strengths? How will you apply these as you live and work with eight housemates? How will you apply these to your work with the broader community?
5) Add a resume and a reference’s name, phone number, relationship, and email.    
6) Finally, please utilize any all creative skills you have to draw the house. Add things that already exist at the house that are important to you or things that you’d like to see at the house. Have fun with this. 

overdue post but a fun event... SOUP SWAP

Hey Sewanee! Sorry its been so long since there has been a posting, but Ill start trying to make it for regular from here on out. TOMORROW [Thursday] night is going to be an awesome event that everyone should go to! Its the first annual Soup Swap and is for a good cause, plus who doesn't love soup?

WHAT: 1st Annual Sewanee Soup Swap!

WHO: NY Outreach trip, MCC, and Comm Service House 

WHEN: Thursday, February 25th from 5:30 until 7:00pm

WHERE: At the MCC (corner of Mitchell Ave. and Willie 6 Rd.) 

WHY:  $5 donations are encouraged to support the NYC Outreach Trip, which works with HIV/AIDS non-profits in the city (The Momentum Project and Gay Men's Health Crisis).

Please bring your own bowl and spoon.
Also, if you would like to donate soup, please contact Emily Luethke at luethec0@sewanee.edu.

Haiti Fundraising

Sewanee Community, here is the most recent update on what all you can do to help out the relief efforts for the Haiti Earthquake. 

There are many experienced agencies on the ground that need monetary support. There are several places that you can go and donate:
-Partners in Health: http://www.pih.org/home.html
-Doctors Without Borders:  http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
-Episcopal Relief and Development: http://www.er-d.org/
-Redcross: http://www.redcross.org/
-Oxfam: http://www.oxfam.org/

 

Those wishing to make a donation in conjunction with the Sewanee Tet Ansanm:

1. send a check with the memo line 'Haiti Earthquake' made out to:

Sewanee Outreach

735 University Avenue

Sewanee TN 37385

2. Go to http://givetosewanee.com to enter your credit card information and write 'Outreach Program in Haiti' in the comments field.

Haiti Earthquake

Dear Sewanee Community,

As most of you have heard, there was a devastating earthquake yesterday in Haiti, which has left many dead and even more homeless. Our friends in Cange and Zanmi Lasante have not suffered any problems, and continue to try and contact our Haitian friends. Here is an update that was recently received from our friends Pierre Gabaud and Hyvenson Joseph . We will try to start some kind of monetary donation fund soon, and will need everyone's help once that gets set up. Until then, please keep everyone in your prayers and thoughts.


To St. Lukes and Sewanee Communities.

I ask your prayers and  make a plea on behalf of the Haitian population and communities at home and abroad for the Earthquake of magnitude 7 that hit the nation yesterday Tuesday January 12  in the afternoon. 
As of today, Pierre and I have not been able to get in touch with all our families over there.  Insofar with a phone call that I received from Florida, I have got the news that I have one aunty whose house is destroyed fortunately no one was at home at this time.  I need to hear from my two half- siblings who live in the heart of Port-au-Prince, and some other relatives that live in the outskirt.
Pierre had sent a note to Suzanne last night to put Haiti in the prayer list.  As the infrastructure has been damaged that makes it difficult to communicate with the people in Haiti.   That is all the news we have got so far, and we will surely inform of any news we receive about our love ones in the middle of this disastrous situation.

Hyvenson 561-372-8065
Pierre       786-444-3868
Thanks for your prayers.

Hyvenson and Pierre.

Happy New Year!

Welcome 2010! This year holds great possibilities for community engagement opportunities in and around Sewanee, and we hope to be a resource for you this year and for many more. For starters, next Monday kicks off a Winter Community Engagement Week where students will return to the Mountain a week before classes begin to learn about issues related to housing, poverty, and environmental sustainability in our community. Pictures and reflections to come...

Let us know what your involved with by emailing us events, stories, ideas, pictures, and video. And again, Happy New Year Sewanee!