BCC's Annual Civic Engagement Opportunity Fair
The Civic Engagement Program at Bristol Community College will hold the 4th Annual Civic Engagement Opportunity Fair on Tuesday, September 11, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the Commonwealth College Center, G-Building, brick area on the BCC Fall River Campus. Internships, service-learning placements and community service options are available.
Students can stop by the Civic Engagement Opportunity Fair and talk to representatives from nonprofit community organizations and BCC clubs that need help meeting real needs for service in our community. Find out how to document 100 hours of Community Service and receive a National Volunteer Service Award from President Barack Obama. This opportunity is open to everyone in the BCC Community who is an American citizen: students, faculty, staff, and administrators.
The participating community agencies and BCC organizations include:
• BCC’s Civic Engagement Program/AmeriCorps Student Leaders in Service Projects
• BE ENRICHED Afterschool Program, Tansey Elementary School, Fall River
• BOLD (Building Our Lives Drug Free) Coalition at SSTAR in Fall River
• Buzzards Bay Coalition in New Bedford
• Citizens Schools
• City of New Bedford's Local Consumer Program
• Coalition Against Poverty Fall River and New Bedford
• Coalition for Social Justice Fall River and New Bedford
• Community Care Services
• Family Services of Fall River
• Horizons for Homeless Children
• Mercy Meals and More in New Bedford
• New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park
• New Bedford Housing Authority
• NHPF Foundation for Affordable Housing
• Operation Clean Sweep
• Our Sisters' School in New Bedford
• Positive Action Against Chemical Addiction (PAACA)
• People, Incorporated in Fall River
• Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford, Inc.
• SouthCoast Compeer at UMASS Dartmouth
• SouthCoast Serves
• Whaling City Clippers non-profit Regional Football Team
• and more …
For more information, contact Jennifer Boulay ext. 2853, or email jennifer.boulay@bristolcc.edu