At the Ware Institute for Civic Engagement we empower our students to become agents of change to positively impact our communities both locally and globally.
10 Ways the Ware Institute Empowers Students
1. Students work with over 30 Community Partner organizations to volunteer and intern during the academic year and summer here in Lancaster!
2. Through Community Based Learning courses, like Human Rights-Human Wrongs, F&M students have helped win political asylum for 26 asylum seekers from countries all over the world.
3. F&M students receive course-credit by working over the summer in Ecuador with, Social Entrepreneur Corps, founded by Greg VanKirk, the winner of the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year award.
4. Students teach at the Heritage Academy in Ghana, a school founded by F&M alum Kwesi Koomson, to bring the pass rate on national exams up to 100% in a district where the average pass rate is 42%.
5. The ONE Goal Program, two-time winner of the Davis Projects for Peace, allows students to spend their summer working at the Chris Campbell Memorial field where they have educated over 500 disadvantaged youth in Khayelitsha, South Africa.
6. One of the 11 Interns in the Public Service Summer Internship (PSSI) program learned this summer how to put Obama’s Affordable Care Act into action by working with experts at Lancaster General Hospital to pioneer preventative health efforts.
7. Launch into the Lancaster community with our 20 Steinman Interns who are working at local non-profits in paid year-long internships through the F&M Works in Lancaster program.
8. Annually, 60 incoming freshmen follow in the 15-year legacy of the Putting It Together (PIT) Program, which has launched over 700 students into community service, leadership, and meaningful peer relationships.
9. Students who prepare taxes for low-income families through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program have brought back over $1.5 million to the Lancaster community in refunds and EIC in the past three years.
10. Squash ACES and F&M SLAM partners F&M students with kids from Reynolds Middle School to combine sport with tutoring, mentoring, leadership and college prep.
