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Monday, April 14th, 2025

Bucknell Applies for the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification

The Center for Community Engaged Leadership, Learning, and Research recently submitted an application to receive the Carnegie Foundation’s Classification for Community Engagement. This national designation recognizes higher education institutions’ commitments to working with their local communities. The Carnegie Foundation defines Community Engagement as “collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.” To determine whether Bucknell will receive the Community Engagement Classification, the Carnegie Foundation examines not just the Center for Community Engaged Leadership, Learning, and Research, but how […]

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Thursday, March 27th, 2025

CCELLR hosts annual Kindness Campaign

For the past three years, the Center for Community Engaged Leadership, Learning, and Research (CCELLR) has been working on a project called the Kindness Campaign. The Kindness Campaign originated in 2020, with the local Evangelical Hospital speaking with Susquehanna Valley regional United Way about starting a positive youth kindness campaign, which they would fund. That year, the campaign lasted for a week with its biggest highlights being at a Bucknell men’s basketball game, where the campaign was shared with the community, merch was given out, and really the core of this campaign was started.  Stacey Piecuch, the Assistant Director for […]

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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

CCELLR’s Annual “Empty Bowls” event raises funds and awareness about food insecurity

On March 19th, the Center for Community Engaged Leadership, Learning, and Research hosted its annual Empty Bowls event, which raises funds for a weekly hot-meal program in Milton, Community Harvest.  Attendees purchase a ticket for the event, and with their ticket comes a ceramic bowl made by students at 7th Street Studio and a bowl of soup provided by Chartwells. On top of that, Empty Bowls also had an auction featuring local art and donations from local small businesses, the proceeds of which also go to the Community Harvest Food Program. At each dining table, there were also resources with […]

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Sunday, November 5th, 2023

The SHECP Internship: A Conversation Between Three Interns

In the most recent SHECP Talks episode, summer 2023 intern Dora Kreitzer ’25 interviewed two other Bucknell SHECP interns, Da’Mirah Vinson ’26 and Lissandro Alvarado ’25 about their experiences with the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) internship program. Both Vinson and Alvarado interned at Foundation Communities in Austin, Texas, a non-profit which provides affordable homes, free on-site support services, and community resources such as college application assistance, tax advice, healthcare, and housing. Alvarado was an intern there in 2022, Vinson in 2023. In the summer of 2023, Alvarado was one of three participants in SHECP’s Policy & Nonprofit […]

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