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SSC NEWS AND
PRESS
Below you will find SSC news updates and press releases. To learn
more about our events as they get closer please see our
Events
page. Or to check out the schedule for Community Actions
Projects (CAPs), head to our High School
Opportunities
page for the calendar.
Baltimore Ravens Recognize Students Sharing
Students Sharing has been chosen as a recipient for the 2008 Honor
Rows Program, presented by M&T bank. In recognition of SSC's
"outstanding service to the community" 40 of our students were
invited to attend a Raven's game and meet some of the players on
field.
Special thanks to Klein's for
donating food for this event.
Former Club Leader Returns to SSC
Katie Flowers, former SSC club leader at Seton Keough High School
and SSC board member, is returning to SSC for a ten week fellowship
this summer. The fellowship is part of the Non-Profit Leadership
Program organized through the Shriver Center at UMBC. Katie is a
junior at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
SSC News Updates
Students Sharing Coalition
Receives
2007 AIM for Excellence Award
From left, Larry
Walton, James Calvin, Linda Kohler, and Ted Gross at awards
ceremony.
Baltimore, December 5,
2007 - The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows Program announced
this year’s winner of the Annual AIM for Excellence Award at the
annual AIM for Excellence Conference held at the Tremont Conference
Center...
...This year’s other
winners, Students Sharing Coalition and Maryland Mentoring
Partnership, each received an unrestricted grant for $10,000 in
honor of their executive directors, Linda Federico Kohler and Linda
Stewart. Both agencies successfully utilized the knowledge and
expertise they gained from the program to implement positive change
within their organizations. Students Sharing Coalition expanded the
role of network partners and their number of volunteers to increase
the outreach and success of The Halloween for Hunger program.
Maryland Mentoring Partnership applied key concepts and knowledge
from the program in their executive director transition process.
The AIM for Excellence Award is an awards program established
Students Sharing in Print!
The germ for the book started in conversations during the Spring
of 2006 between Linda Kohler, Executive Director of Students Sharing
Coalition and Diana Sarnet, former President of the Students Sharing
Board and a graphics design faculty member in the Communications
Department at Loyola College. Linda wanted to create a book that
would demonstrate the work of youth activism for wider circulation
and act as a source of personal information. Diana, and a group of
faculty in the Communication and Writing Department were searching
for ways to engage Loyola Students in the civic life of Baltimore
using their writing and graphics classes as opportunities for
service-learning and the development of civic literacies. The result
became Changing the World Around Me: Profiles in Youth Activism,
a book written by Loyola College students who interviewed former and
present Students Sharing members from 12 to 29.
Linda Kohler
says of the book, "This book will hopefully bring insight to
thousands of people regarding the great possibilities for developing
and enhancing a civil, just society. Service learning is a powerful
methodology that can have far reaching consequences for our youth
and nation. Today more than ever we need to offer more
opportunities for our students to reach beyond their comfort zones
and to work across race and class lines to break down social
barriers. Whether it’s renovating a home together, mentoring a
youngster or planting a garden, service has shown to build trusted
relationships; bring hope and allow us to share our talents and
skills. A growing body of literature describes the valuable impact
service can have on young people. Well-coordinated and meaningful
service learning can help youth achieve academically; strengthen
their job and career skills, and increase their self-efficacy, self
-confidence and respect for diversity. There are seemingly
insurmountable issues in our communities, ailments that are only
healed with understanding, collaboration and experience. We hope
that this book inspires you to take the leap, get involved and find
your hidden potential that will become a powerful force of change in
our communities."
SSC in the Press
Chinquapin 7th Graders Makeover Dewees Park
WJZ TV Channel 13, June 2007
Developing a Love for Sharing
Baltimore Afro-American, December 2006
Cornell Graduate Returns Home to Serve
Baltimore Afro-American, December 2006
Area Teens Donating Spring Break To Needy
WBAL Channel 11, April 2006
Students Sharing Receives Top Honors
Press Release, May 2004
Making A Difference
Towson Times, November 1999
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