Community Impact Alumni and Supporters are invited for an evening of celebration.
Monday, December 5, 2011
6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
(Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets)
Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
Complimentary admission
RSVP required
Respond to communityimpactevent@gmail.com
To download the invitation, please click on the following link: CI Connect Invite 2011.12.05
Community Impact’s (CI) GED high school equivalency program is one of the most effective in New York City, according to an analysis of adult education in the City by the New York State Education Department. CI’s GED program, which serves nearly 500 low-income adults annually, was ranked third out of nearly 50 programs in the City and received a “highly proficient” rating, the highest designation the State bestows upon GED programs. Community Impact’s GED program emphasizes fundamental educational skills in order to maximize long-term professional results. The comprehensive program includes pre-GED, GED, and Spanish GED courses, providing opportunities for students of a wide array of educational, professional and personal backgrounds. The GED curriculum offers students instruction in a range of subjects and elite exam preparation, as well as broader assistance in developing everyday and professional skills, including time management, critical thinking, and public speaking.
GED graduates further their progress through the additional services in CI’s comprehensive Jobs Education and Empowerment Program (J.E.E.P.). In addition to GED, CI offers the Job Road employment training program, Computer Training courses and the College Road program to prepare students for higher education. Community Impact’s J.E.E.P. services are delivered by a highly talented team of students and faculty from Columbia University and Barnard College along with neighborhood residents.
Hello Community Impact volunteers! Check out this opportunity to kick off October by getting involved with the Fit for All 5K!
Fit for All 5K, taking place on Saturday, October 1, 2011, will encourage children and adults, through their participation, to raise funds and awareness for this increasing obesity epidemic. Registration will begin at 8:00 am and the 5K race will begin at 9:00 am. The kid’s race, varying in distance based on age, will begin at 11:00 am. Prizes will be awarded after the last race. For more information please visit www.fitforall5k.org. If interested in volunteering, please contact Tara Hopkins at thopkins@ymcanyc.org.
Generation Citizen’s mission is to empower historically under-represented youth to be activeparticipants in the democratic system. We envision a country in which every individual isequipped and empowered to effectively participate in the political process as an engaged citizencapable of advocating for change. We fulfill our mission by training college students to partnerwith teachers to implement an action civics curriculum in lower-income secondary schools.
Generation Citizen’s focus on taking action sets us apart from other civics programs. GenerationCitizen students don’t read about the political process in a textbook, they learn it throughdirect engagement—meeting with representatives, lobbying local legislators, organizing letterwritingcampaigns, writing opinion pieces for newspapers, and making documentaries to raiseawareness about community issues they care about. Students then present their efforts to otherGC students and community leaders in a citywide Civics Day event. By uniting high school andcollege students in the program, we instill within students a sense of agency in the politicalprocess and their own lives.
Generation Citizen currently has active programs in Providence, Boston, and New York City.Over the last year, we empowered over 2,000 youth to use their voices as active citizens.
For more information and to apply to mentor please visit: www.generationcitizen.org
The Community Impact Van Amson Fellowship would like to introduce the first in a series of reflections from our amazing summer fellows! First up is Nina Spierer, a rising senior at Barnard College working at Art Start, a unique outreach program.
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“Revelations in E Minor”
Art Start primarily works in homeless shelters and probation offices throughout the city. An art start motto is “process over product,” which manifests in an emphasis on the process of creating rather then the production of a final masterpiece. Creativity (whether it is painting, drawing, writing songs or poems) aids youth in development and increases their self-confidence. Art start serves as a source of stability in an inherently unstable environment for the population of youth with whom we work. Though I have often heard these values preached, since I began interning at Art Start in January, I have never fully realized their true meanings until this week.
