000 in five months (Davies, 2014). This application serves as an early example of the power of crowdfunding 100 years before the advent of the Internet. Businesspeople and citizens rallied to a civic cause so a gift from the French government could find a home. Pulitzer used a single collection point to raise money from an enormous pool of donors and pledged amounts from pocket change upwards. Many crowdfunding experts consider The Statue of Liberty project the most successful crowdfunding campaign
proposal falls under the community service, and civic engagement categories. Although this grant proposal is for an expansion of preexisting program, I can see why they want to expand the program. The program is helps bring awareness to social problems, promotes physical activity, and helps entice people to engage in their communities. I feel that this expansion program would benefit communities,
computer programming (scratch ) taught to one of the local primary and secondary schools around Galway as part of the outreach project initiative prepared and scheduled by GMIT civic engagement for engineering students in order for them to obtain vital experience through making an academic participation and contribution out to the community. My engagement in this project has been indeed a momentous and time worthy experience that will invariably remain memorable in my life for a long time to come
had during my high school years. For instance, during my senior year I had a mentor who helped me create a book that would provide an overall big impact to the Hatboro Horsham School District Community. More specifically, we decided to work on a project which was to create a book that would inform students at an elementary school in Horsham to embrace challenges and look at obstacles from a positive perspective. The way my mentor best put it was for our book to have the message of giving advice.
Local Impact Communities are stronger because of the opportunities created by crowdfunding. States such as Pennsylvania struggle to discover tactics to increase revenue and jobs. Pennsylvania lacks a budget, and local municipalities are struggling (Pennsylvania, n.d.). According to the United Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015), Pennsylvania’s state unemployment rate is five percent. Crowdfunding is an innovative answer to solve unemployment and stimulate business development allowing startups
Preparing Women for Public Leadership: Programs and Strategies While we know that women are underrepresented in all facets of public leadership – from political to corporate and local to global – we have a particularly compelling reason to explore this issue in our immediate regional context. Pennsylvania ranks 44th out of the 50 states (CAWP, 2003) in women’s political participation and serves as an excellent local example of the need to empower more women and to change the climate in which
Project The Road Home in Salt Lake City is a non-profit organization that has been established since 1923 by the Travelers Aid Society. The main mission for the Road Home is to aid with children’s programs, and to help the homeless community in Utah which includes providing the homeless community with temporary housing. I chose to be a volunteer for the children’s’ book club out of all the opportunities offered to me. The mission of the book club at the Road Home Midvale Center was to tutor children
The MODEL Program will contribute to advance mentoring programs for youth with the most need that: (1) helps these kids in getting support and direction from a guide; (2) enhances the civic and scholastic participation of the youth; (3) enhances interpersonal connections between the youth and their associates, instructors, adults, and relatives; (4) diminishes the youth dropout rate from schools; (5) decreases adolescent misconduct and participation in gangs; (6) and enhances youth career goals and
A perfect example of civic hacking reveals itself in the NYC BigApps contest. NYC BigApps, sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Commission, is designed to foster civic hackers’ ideas to solve specific problems each year (“BigApps NYC 2015”). For example, this year’s challenges were called “Affordable Housing,” “Zero Waste,” “Connected Cities,” and “Civic Engagement.” Developers were challenged with the opportunity to program apps suited to help solve issues in New York City related
legislative brief Linking Learning to the 21st Century: Preparing All Students for College, Career, and Civic Participation highlights the benefits and some disadvantages of Linked Learning. Linked Learning is when high school courses and college and career preparation classes are offered to students that are in high school. Students would experience more variation in learning styles and real-life application of knowledge. By implementing Linked Learning, administrators hope to “rid of racial, ethnic,