Brown Center for Leadership and Service Upcoming Events

 

We would like to extend a warm invitation to you to join us in serving our Gainesville community through the BCLS Gator Plunge Day of Service. During Gator Plunge, our volunteers branch out around the Gainesville area to different sites to provide beneficial service to our community. Volunteers can participate in a variety of services that range from working with animals, alleviating environmental issues, and many more interesting activities. Please consider participating in this event and making a positive impact on our amazing Gainesville community. Gator Plunge will take place on Saturday, September 24, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Volunteer registration takes place from August 25 through September 21. Please see the Gator Plunge webpage of The Brown Center for Leadership and Service website for more details.

We also have great leadership opportunities! Interested individuals can apply to be site leaders. Gator Plunge site leaders gain important leadership and facilitation experiences. They are essential to the success of Gator Plunge! Training will be provided to include skills on volunteer motivation and reflection. Site leader applications are open now to September 9.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Laura Guzman at LauraGu@Leadershipandservice.ufl.edu.

 

Looking for a way to leave your legacy and influence a young person’s life? Work with students ranging in age from elementary to high school through the Mentor UF program, an arm of the UF Brown Center for Leadership and Service. Hours are flexible to your schedule. Applications for Fall 2016 close Friday, August 26. For more info, email cls@leadershipandservice.ufl.edu.

 

The Brown Center for Leadership and Service is very excited about our monthly social issue education initiative E3 (Educate. Empower. Engage.) Each month we focus on a new social issue. Upcoming issues include education inequality, disabilities awareness, food security, civic engagement, civil rights, women’s empowerment, and mental health.

The Center partners with a campus department, a UF student organization, and a campus partner to bring information about these issues to our students, faculty, and staff. By visiting the Center, you will learn what UF is doing to improve the issue, what UF student organizations are doing to make things better, and what our city is doing to improve the issue. We even have service projects right here in our office for you to do!

Our August issue is environmental preservation (waste reduction). We are partnering with the UF Office of Sustainability, Gators Going Green, Greeks Going Green, and The Repurpose Project. People can make their own t-shirt yarn! Bring in an old t-shirt or use one of ours.

The Center is located in Suite 2015 on Level 2 of the Reitz Union.