National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week ~ 11/15/09-11/21/09

The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) offers Washington State University students, faculty, campus departments, and community partners opportunities to share knowledge, skills, and resources for the benefit of student learning and the well-being of our communities. Click here to learn more about the vision, mission, and goals of the Center for Civic Engagement.

National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week

Help end hunger and homelessness in your community and America!

EDUCATE yourself and others about hunger and homelessness
ENGAGE in service activities to help meet the immediate needs of individuals
ADVOCATE for long-term systematic solutions

During the week of 11/15/09-11/21/09, there will be several educational events and service opportunities centered around this important issue. Visit the CCE's National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week page to see a listing of upcoming events. Check back for more information or call the CCE office at 509-335-7708.

The Real Food Callenge

The Real Food Challenge is an up-and-coming national and student-led movement to shift food on college campuses towards being sustainable, community-supported, socially fair, and healthy (and, of course, delicious).

With all of the student-led gardens springing up everywhere, new academic courses based on food justice issues, and amazing student-led initiatives for better food, [it's] about connecting students with each other to share knowledge, resources, and strengths. By doing so we not only support each other locally, but can build on a cause that will make a much larger impact on our surrounding communities and countrysides! For more information, visit the Real Food Challenge website.

Set the Trend ~ Create a Healthy Plastic Culture

"The Set the Trend program is an effort to raise awareness about an issue that affects our wellbeing...The 2009 campaign, Create a Healthy Plastic Culture, focuses on the use and abuse of credit cards. Creating a Healthy Plastic Culture means learning how to use credit cards wisely, build good credit, and start saving." Visit the Set the Trend website to learn more about this issue and how you can get involved.

Get Involved in Your Community

To view civic engagement opportunities near campus and establish your own portfolio of community service experiences while at WSU, visit our Students page and follow the instructions to create a service profile on SLPro.

Once you register with SLPro and sign up for a service opportunity, use the Monthly Record of Service Hours Form to track your hours. Your site supervisor must verify your hours on the lines provided. Their signature can either be on EACH line or at a DIAGONAL so their signature is each line where you have hours recorded. Submit your record of service hours to the CCE office located in CUB L48 to have them recorded into the SLPro database. Submission of service hours to the CCE is required of all student participants.

News and Information

11/17/2009

Measuring Community Impact

Be part of measuring and promoting the great work that WSU students and community partners are doing! Please take 5 minutes to reflect on the impact made in our community ... [more]

11/17/2009

Annual Report Card

Please check out the following link on our webpage to read the annual CCE Report Card for academiic year 2008-09: http://cce.wsu.edu/Content/Files/cce/cce%20report%20card%20-%202008-2009.pdf This document outlines our accomplishments and the feedback provided ... [more]