Project SHINE

Welcome to Project SHINE's national website.  Click on the links above or watch our video to find out more about the program.  Learn about our specific programs at colleges accross the country using the links to the left.

AMERICORPS APPLICATIONS BEING ACCEPTED FOR FALL 2010!

AmeriCorps VISTA (full time service): The Project SHINE Community Organizing/Marketing Coordinator will serve and support Project SHINE. Key tasks include; working with SHINE staff to research and develop work based ESL curriculum, ongoing maintenance of SHINE website, support student leadership board, and the immigrant semester awareness initiative. The VISTA will support recruitment and training of SHINE tutors.  ESL experience required! Pre-Service Orientation is November 16-29, and the position begins November 22. Application steps and questions to jessica.kratzer@templecil.org. Applications are being accepted via till September 20, 2010

AmeriCorps State and National (part time service): AmeriCorps members serve 9-10 hours per week and attend monthly trainings from October-June. Members promote a healthy community and strengten social connnections by tutoring English, health literacy, healthly workshops and recreational activites. Members recieve a stipend and education award. Interested applicants should email volunteer@templecil.org. Applications are being accepted until October 1, 2010. Those who are bilingual, bicultural, or health experience or working towards a career in health are in high demand!

Summer 2010 edition of RISE AND SHINE, written and publised by Elyse Venturella, AmeriCorps VISTA 09-10. Click here to view!

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Project SHINE and the Intergenerational Center is pleased to announce a new national report that analyzes the motivations of immigrant elders engaged in civic roles and highlights the promising practices of agencies who successfully engage them. Click below to download a full version of the report!

To learn about the state of civic involvement among immigrant elders, focus groups and individual interviews were conducted in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Atlanta Georgia and Orange County California with 99 immigrant elders from seven major ethnolinguistic groups. We also spoke with key informants in the communities including Community Based Organizations to learn about the current efforts that sustain and promote the civic roles of elders who are foreign-born.

For more information about the publication, its key findings and implications for organizations and community leaders, click here.

Project SHINE is a national service learning program that supports a broad and diverse group of college students in building relationships with elderly immigrants and refugees through language, literacy and citizenship tutoring.

For information about specific SHINE programs throughout the country, click on "The National Consortium" icon below or one of our local sites links in the top left.

Its that time! Learner Survey's, Student Post Survey's, and Community Based Organization Survey's!  Don't forget the Faculty Survey below!