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The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service, the White House, is located across from this popular campus destination.
What is Whole Foods?(will also accept SEH and Beefsteak).
The Public Service Grant Commission supports, encourages and cultivates innovative, student-led service by providing $20,000 in funding each year. How many deadlines are there to apply for funding?
What is 4?
This signature event welcomes new students to GW, introducing them to GW's commitment to service, exposing them to the vibrant neighborhoods of the District of Columbia, and fostering a sense of community.
What is Convocation & Welcome Day of Service?
This mission of this program is to empower students, staff, and faculty to understand their role in local and global communities through service-learning trips across many issue areas.
What is GW Alternative Breaks?
True or False: Community-Engaged Scholarship is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.
What is True?
In 2012, the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service joined this division at the University. (Hint: The Multicultural Student Services Center and Disability Support Services are also part of this division)
What is the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement.
Jumpstart is a national AmeriCorps program that trains and places college students in teams to serve preschoolers in low-income neighborhoods to ensure that every child is prepared to enter kindergarten ready to succeed. Corps members are able to earn their federal work-study and after completing this number of hours of service a Segal Education Award.
What is 300?
This event during the holiday season brings joy and gifts to families in need.
What is Give-A-Gift?
In partnership with DC Public Schools and community-based organizations, this program is committed to providing quality on-site, one-on-one or group tutoring for K-8 students in Washington, DC.
What is GW SMARTDC?
This academic residential community is a highly-selective first-year program for students interested in becoming active citizens engaged in their communities.
What is Civic House?
The Nashman Center uses this online tracking platform to verify and capture the GW community's service hours.
What is GW Serves? (will also accept Give Pulse).
Members of the GW community that serve over this number of hours in a single year are eligible to receive a President's Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) and graduating students are eligible to receive silver service cords.
What is 100? (Note: PVSA awards have 3 levels bronze (100-174), silver (175-249), and gold (250+))
This event typically on a Monday in January is a national day of service.
What is MLK Day of Service and Leadership?
This program connects students to nonprofit organizations across the district serving in direct and indirect capacity building roles for a semester or academic year.
What is engageDC?
True or False: Community-Engaged Scholarship can be integrated into courses in ANY of GW's schools.
What is True?
This social media handle shares information about Nashman Center programs, deadlines, GW and DC service events.
What is @GWServes?
GW currently recognizes this number of community-engaged scholarships courses.
What is 70?
This annual training brings together student leaders from across the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement to provide an opportunity for collaboration and to understand the core values of cultural intelligence, community engagement, and working across difference.
What is the Institute for Citizen Leaders?
This program aspires to be a cornerstone for community engagement through arts-based work that promotes real social dividends, therapeutic respite, and advanced college preparation.
What is Artreach GW?
This fellowship awards GW students with funds (up to $10,000) to bring creative concepts into practice that align with their respective academic goals. The award is a catalyst for new ideas and a way for students to turn their education into action. (Hint: It is named after the former University President)
What is The Knapp Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Service-Learning?
The Nashman Center and DC Public Schools collaborate on this program.
What is AmeriCorps VISTA?
During the 2017-18 academic year, the GW community completed this number of service hours. (Correct response within 10,000)
What is 703,331?
This annual day of celebration and call to action honors the life, work, and values of our foremost human and farmworkers rights activists.
What is Chavez, Huerta, and Itliong Day?
An incubator for social innovation, this program provides a workshop series for students who want to master the skills that will equip them to transform their desire to make a difference into a functioning project or venture.
What is GWupstart?
During this bi-annual event, the Nashman Center brings together students, faculty, staff, and community partners to showcase and learn more about the community-engaged scholarship projects, and research that have taken place over the course of the semester.
What is the Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship?