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Week 2: Make the choice to belong. It’s easy to feel lonely in college. Maybe you look around and it feels like everyone else has found their team, or their organization, or their place, and you haven’t. Or maybe you have found your place but even in a crowded room you feel like you’re the only one. You see everyone else posting about their amazing connections and best friends and your feed looks empty in comparison. We have an epidemic of loneliness around the world. Learning how to meaningfully connect with others right now will help you at DePauw but it will also teach you lessons you’ll carry with you throughout your life (and enable you to help others, too). The Surgeon General offers some practical suggestions on making meaningful connections at https://lnkd.in/gS9t29b3. A few of my favorites: Invest time in nurturing your relationships through consistent, frequent, and high-quality engagement with others. Minimize distraction during conversations to increase the quality of time you spend with others. Seek out opportunities to serve and support others. Try helping your family, friends, and community members or participating in community service. Be responsive and supportive and practice gratitude. Reflect the core values of connection in how you approach others through the actions you take and conversations you have. Actively engage with people of different backgrounds and experiences to expand your understanding of and relationships with others. My hope for you this week is that you take the first step to a meaningful connection this week. Every week while classes are in session I send a message of encouragement to the DePauw student body. This is today's.

🎓Free ILG Webinar: Empowering Communities Through Resident Academies 📅Tuesday, September 24, 1:30 – 3 p.m. Looking for ways to engage traditionally disengaged or hard-to-reach communities? Want to hear about ways to engage more diverse and representative groups? Resident Academies, sometimes called Citizen Academies or Civic Academies, are an invaluable way to provide ongoing education and communication with community members about various topics, including local government structures, services, and upcoming engagement opportunities. Join ILG’s upcoming webinar to discover how Resident Academies can drive positive change in your community and help you reach traditionally under-engaged or hard-to-engage residents. For more information and to register visit https://lnkd.in/guthx75U

ICYMI: the entire conversation from this year's convening held by the Alliance for Education!

Getting right into the mix! 211 has an incredible amount of data related to housing needs and community resource availability, and we are proud to partner with 40+ counties in PA to work collaboratively toward data driven housing scarcity and affordability solutions.

Save the date! Our next #CIPS Americas Community Connection Drop-in will take place on 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟵𝘁𝗵. Join us to discuss ways in which we can continue to enable #community and #connection among the profession. if there are any specific topics you'd like to see on the agenda, or if you would like to lead on a spotlight session, please comment below 👇

Folks, here's our chance to help shape the next Button. (My favorite time of year!) Just a quick 2 minutes to complete the survey.

Our latest newsletter is now live, packed with exciting events and opportunities to engage with the community. Don’t miss out on the chance to connect with peers and explore enriching activities. Read more here: https:/conta.cc/4eHp3kA #StudentLife #CommunityEngagement #CampusEvents #WilliamAndMary #Newsletter

Join us April 25 to learn more about this important rethinking 94 project - the Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul. This program will not be recorded - live attendance only. Open to members and non-members. Program details: Project staff will provide an update on where Rethinking I-94 is within the NEPA process, share the alternatives that were released in July 2023, and give an overview of the efforts that are taking place to inform and engage community members and stakeholders. Attendees will learn: 1) where Rethinking I-94 is within the NEPA process 2) about the 10 alternatives that are being evaluated and 3) how MnDOT is approaching the engagement and outreach efforts to ensure community voices are central to this process. To learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gnvtmHSt

I've been thinking about how we'll publicize our burgeoning programs, Educate and Experience. So I checked out how my local @austinpubliclibrary branch handled community plugs. The bulletin board at Ruiz Branch is pretty overwhelming... but that doesn't mean we don't publicize in this way. It just means it won't be our only means of publicity + we'll keep our flyers simple To refine our programs, we are getting clarity on these three things at once: (1) Refining our "front door" - how do we get sign-ups? (2) Refining our curriculum - what is valuable to participants, and how do we convey it? (2) Revenue - being reliable costs staff time and tools, which costs money Thanks for doing this work with me: @viviomj @paul.v.haar Thanks everyone who graciously granted informational interviews in the spring: Peter B., CapMetro Lisa Chang and Cinde Weatherby, League of Women Voters Austin Area Sergio Torres-Peralta, Office of Sustainability Prakhar Bajpai, Innovation Office Corina Preston, Communications and Technology Management Kate Nicholson, BetaNYC Eric Kotin, Lead For America