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MAKING RIPPLES Student Webinar Series

This FREE monthly webinar series for students from Indiana Campus Compact partner campuses who are devoted to work in and with communities will focus on topics selected by students across Indiana. Presentations will focus on topics such as finding funding to support your community-based work, planning Martin Luther King Day of Service and Spring Break Service experiences, telling your story in a meaningful way, and how to highlight your service experiences on your resume. See sessions below. Join the conversation on the 3rd Wednesday in October, November, January, February, March, and April from 8:00 PM – 9:15 PM EST /…

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Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center, nominated by IUPUI

Since 1911, the Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center has demonstrated a strong record of working together with community support to deliver human services to the urban, West Indianapolis area, the oldest suburb of Indiana’s capital city. IUPUI and the Center have worked together for over 20 years during which time they have been co-educators to thousands of students who have tutored, mentored, and developed programs such as personal fitness training, and helped provide access to living wage certificate programs. But their crowning achievement and the one with the deepest, most interconnected relationship with IUPUI and its faculty, students, and staff is…

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Cogan Blackmon, Valparaiso University

Cogan Blackmon, is a senior at Valparaiso University where he will graduate this May with a degree in Theology. Cogan has helped collect and deliver thousands of pounds of food to a local food pantry, advocated for workers’ rights in Chicago and Northwest Indiana, and has orchestrated many campus awareness events on community issues. He has spent countless hours working in his community and learning deeply about service and social justice. He said in his essay, “those activities enabled him to take concrete actions on behalf of justice, but without reflection, action is not enough.” He is the student coordinator…