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 Concert builds awareness of campus community service
Students in the MCJ 159 "PR Case and Campaigns" class staged a "Rock the Richter" concert on campus April 25 to raise awareness about the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning. The center is the main connection between students and community service. The concert project, overseen by Betsy Hays (Mass Communications and Journalism), involved students in a publicity campaign that included media alerts, press releases, T-shirts, posters and event planning. Several hundred people attended the concert, hearing a parade of bands and visiting tents to get information about community service opportunities as the campus moves toward a goal of 1 million hours of service each year by 2011.
Conference will help people learn nonprofit leadership
The American Humanics Student Association and the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning are co-hosting a Nonprofit Leadership Conference on Friday, May 2, to guide people interested in creating social change. The session in the University Business Center will attract nonprofit and business leaders, donors and philanthropists, students, academics, elected officials and policymakers. Registration for the conference is required. The event will be followed at 4 p.m. by a free, open presentation and book-signing by Heather McLeod Grant, who wrote "Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impacts Nonprofits." Click here for details.
 Peer
mediation programs get boost from baseball
There are two key dates during May for the Valley School Peer Mediation Programs
based at Fresno State. On May 20, it's Peer Mediation Appreciation Day for
elementary and middle school mediators trained by Fresno State students in the
Mediator Mentors Project. The program also is partnering with the Fresno
Grizzlies to honor peer mediators from 50 schools during a baseball game May 18
at Chukchansi Park in downtown Fresno. Tickets to the game are $10 - half of
which goes to support peer mediation programs at Fresno State. To purchase
tickets, call 278.0249.
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