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This program gives students the opportunity to develop and implement a community impact project over one academic semester. The mini-grants, ranging from $500-$4,000 will enable students to partner with the local community, reflect upon their programs, and provide immediate support to an important cause.
What is Rich/Collins Community Leadership and Impact Fellowship?
What is 3 years? There have been 3 cohorts before you. You are the 4th ever CEAP Cohort!
This is Brandeis’ student-run volunteer emergency medical service.
What is The Brandeis University Medical Corps (BEMCo)?
This is a disability awareness group that works to build relationships and connections between the families of children with disabilities and Brandeis students.
What is SPECTRUM?
Visitors can come to campus without any pre-approvals. All visitors, guests and contractors must wear a mask at all times on campus, except while eating, and maintain distancing when possible. This is needed prior to arrival on campus and shown to the campus host only for:
What is Proof of a negative rtPCR test from a sample taken within 72 hours?
This will provide volunteers with non-program specific information about risk management, volunteer expectations, waivers, Department of Community Service programs, as well as leadership opportunities. All Waltham Group volunteers must complete this once during their time volunteering at Brandeis.
What is the All Volunteer Training?
This program, which was created by last year's CEAP cohort, aims to connect service clubs, student groups, and other student organizations which do service across campus to share community service resources, plan community service projects, advertise opportunities for collaboration, and build a stronger community. Service is represented by mutually beneficial community engagement efforts that address larger community needs. Our goal is to support community engagement efforts led by students. Though you may not represent a “Community Service club”, we are a resource for the student body in all community service projects. Such Community Service clubs include Waltham Group and other service clubs, including Education for Students by Students, Relay for Life, etc.
What is the Community Organizing and Resource Network (CORN)?
This organization is the first of its kind to apply the law school clinic model to the undergraduate level. By training undergraduate students so they can become DOJ accredited representatives, this organization aims to make sure no one must face the immigration process alone.
What is the Right to Immigration Institute (TRII—pronounced “Tree”)?
This program has had several successful collaborations with other student organizations to host creative programming for the kids, such as the Prosthesis Club, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, BeWISE, and the Robotics club.
What is JBA?
All individuals regardless of vaccination status must wear a mask in all Brandeis indoor settings, except in certain spaces which are explicitly named in the policy. Unvaccinated individuals are required to wear a mask at all times — indoors or outdoors — with the exception of when.
What is when eating and drinking while maintaining 6-foot distancing or when alone in an indoor space?
This is a a pilot Leadership & Mentorship Program for BIPOC college and Waltham high School students and supporters. The program hopes to foster educational, leadership, mentorship, and professional development opportunities.
Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, Brandeis University Alumni, members of the Waltham community, and current Brandeis graduate students will mentor Brandeis undergraduate students who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color. In the fall, this program will provide a mentor and create workshops for Brandeis undergraduate students while in the spring the undergraduates will channel their acquired leadership skills to mentor Waltham High School self-identified BIPOC Sophomore, Junior and Seniors.
The program will include workshops, retreats, online and in-person mentor and Mentee meetings, and the full support of Brandeis Department of Community Service, Brandeis Intercultural Center, Waltham Partnership for Youth (WPY), and Waltham Black Future Fund.
What is Roses in Concrete?
This is the name of the donor of the CEAP program.
Who is Hal Luft?
This organizations engages, inspires and involves the entire community in a love of learning. The group organizes unique classes, facilitates discussions and creates events, such as TEDxBrandeisUniversity and Splash, that make knowledge easily accessible to members of the community. In the annual TEDxBrandeisUniversity Event, members from the Brandeis community are given the platform to share their ideas with the campus and the world. Splash is a community education event where hundreds of grade 6-12 youth come to campus for a day to take fun and unique classes taught by Brandeis students.
What is Education for Students by Students?
This program organizes Halloween for the Hungry and the Spring Wellness Drive.
What is Hunger & Homelessness?
Outdoor gatherings have no distancing or capacity requirements. Indoor gatherings have no distancing or capacity requirements, but are currently based on this. Unvaccinated individuals should maintain 6 feet of distance as much as feasible.
What is the most up to date room capacity?
Through engagement in conversations, training and listening to the voices of our community, we have outlined some action steps for us to continue to ensure we are inclusive, anti-racist, and that our values, core competencies, and learning outcomes are embodied by each of our campus and community partners. Within the past year, our department drafed THIS to give a glimpse into the training/professional development of our staff and students (recent past and future), policies, programs, and communication plan in response to the Black Action Plan.
What is our 5-year Anti-Racist Plan?
These are the four 2021-2022 CEAP Ambassadors.
Who are Kim Ligon (Partnerships & Community Organizing), Lauren O'Keefe (Training & Volunteer Retention), Olivia Combs (Assessment, Advocacy & Civic Engagement), and Ashna Kelkar (Marketing & Campus Outreach)?
This organization is a student-led club that focuses on advancing the mission of the Alzheimer’s Association through our three main goals: volunteering, outreach, and research related to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). They are the primary resource on the Brandeis campus to connect students with information about the disease, current research updates, advocacy initiatives, and volunteering opportunities.
What is the Brandeis Youth Movement Against Alzheimer's?
These two programs provide after school programs for Waltham middle school students from both McDevitt and Kennedy Middle Schools.
What are LaCE and Afternoon Enrichment?
These individuals are prohibited from university-sponsored travel.
What is unvaccinated individuals?
These are the 5 Department of Community Service & Waltham Group Core Competencies.
What is:
Reflective Thinking
Engaged Global Citizenship
Self-Identity & Awareness
Professional Skills
Connection & Belonging
This is the year when Lori Levinson Luft ’69 and a small group of Brandeis friends created the Waltham Group.
What is 1966?
Program History: When Lori Levinson Luft ’69 and a small group of Brandeis friends created the Waltham Group in 1966, they sparked a movement at Brandeis that continues to inspire students today. Now 55 years later, Brandeis students annually provide over 40,000 hours of volunteer service through more than 40 community service clubs, founded and led by student leaders like Lori. Generously funded by her family, the Community Engagement Ambassador Program will engage talented Brandeis students whose passion for community service and values reflect those of Dr. Lori Levinson Luft ’69. Their work will honor Lori’s memory and be a fitting tribute to her remarkable contributions to Brandeis.
This organization hopes to inspire and encourage women in science and engineering to realize their professional and personal goals and address issues inherent in maintaining a diverse and balanced workforce.
In past years, this organization has strived to foster confidence and literacy in STEM fields in youth from underrepresented groups through free mentorship programs in Waltham.
What is Brandeis Encourages Women in Science & Engineering (Be WiSE)?
This program added a new community partnership with Project Sunshine within the last 2 years.
What is Advocates for Health (formerly Hospital Helpers)?
Fully vaccinated individuals can travel domestically on university-sponsored travel or for personal travel without special approval. Note that the Waltham Group and all off campus community service programs must always receive approval from their community partners first and foremost, and always notify DCS whenever you travel. Fully vaccinated individuals may travel internationally on university-sponsored travel, but must receive prior written permission from who.
Who is the Dean of Students?
Note: Undergraduates apply to Dean of Students; graduate students apply to their Graduate Dean.