Making Connections Leadership Institute - An Opportunity to Learn About Providence
Making Connections is a community change effort to strengthen three Providence neighborhoods. Strengthening families and transforming neighborhoods are at the center of Making Connections Providence. Working in Elmwood, South Providence and the West End, it is the residents of these neighborhoods that get the work done. Making Connections provides the information and data, training, education and partnerships for people to identify the issues that impact their quality of life and works to prioritize their needs and develop strategies to address them.
The Swearer Center and Making Connections have been working for the past year for opportunities to collaborate and to draw student and faculty into the work of neighborhood and community change. We are happy to announce that four Brown students will be eligible the participate in
The Making Connections Leadership Institute (MCLI) that is at the heart of this effort to build stronger, healthier neighborhoods. MCLI trains residents in neighborhood issues, public policy, the smart use of data, and community organizing. Residents are provided with the resources and social networks to build their personal leadership capacity in order to influence change in their schools and neighborhoods, on non-profit boards and at community meetings.
Students participating in MCLI will: be immersed in neighborhood issues, work collaboratively with residents, come face to face with the dynamics of race, class and power as they relate to change, coalition building, defining relevant issues and shared leadership.
This is a rigorous program, meeting Thursday evenings 5-8 PM and Saturdays 9 AM –5 PM beginning March 6 and ending May 3. For students who want a closer relationship with Providence residents and issues facing neighborhoods this is a fabulous opportunity. Deadline: February 25, 2008, by 5pm.
Download the Application here.