The Center for Community Engagement

Join Community Engagement’s team as a 1-year full-time AmeriCorps*VISTA member in 2016-2017. We will have 2 positions available for the 2016-17 year. Attend our info session and learn more at go/middvista.

Join Community Engagement’s team as a 1-year full-time AmeriCorps*VISTA member in 2016-2017. We will have 2 positions available for the 2016-17 year. Attend our info session and learn more at go/middvista.

Check out the Annual MiddAction Fair! Learn how you can get involved in the greater Addison County area! If you’re interested in poverty alleviation, education, youth mentoring, health care, food security, housing, and more, join us!

Join us in exploring volunteer and service-learning opportunities in the greater Middlebury Community. Community organizations and student organizations will be on hand to share service opportunities with students, faculty and staff. There is truly something for everyone! Questions? Contact Quanteshia Tennyson at 802.443.5113.

On January 21, 2017, the Center for Community Engagement will host a “Day of Activism and Service” as part of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. Workshops will provide an opportunity for students to build skills and knowledge in issues related to activism. Drop-in activities will help extend skills and knowledge to action – students can begin exploring opportunities to engage in our community, ways to be advocates, allies, and activists, and reflect on how Martin Luther King Jr. serves as a model activist.

Come learn about applying to a MAlt trip in February 2017! More information and application at go/malt.

Lecture by Helena Wong

How should Asians and Asian Americans be relating to social movements of our time like Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, and Not1More? How are grassroots organizers in Asian communities around the country pushing back against gentrification, discriminatory policing, environmental racism, and what happens when communities are hit with (un)natural disasters? How do we understand what is happening in China and bring it back to what it means to organize with a racial and gender justice lens here in the US?

Learn about how you can get involved with issues of hunger and homelessness in Middlebury. Student organization’s representatives and a keynote speaker will be featured while enjoying a lovely Atwater dinner. Sponsored by Community Engagement, Nutrition Outreach and Mentoring (NOM), Friends of John Graham, Middlebury Foods, and Charter House Coalition

Finding decent, affordable housing in Addison County is extremely difficult. Habitat for Humanity of Addison County builds affordable homes in partnership with families currently living in unsuitable housing. Our houses are designed to be super energy efficient and built by volunteer labor. Available for first time home buyers only. Why rent when you can buy your own home for less. Come by for a quick 15-minute information session to learn more about this opportunity to become a homeowner! Questions? Contact Mickey Heinecken, heinecke@middlebury.edu.

We are planning to host a dinner for food justice awareness. For our dinner we will be focusing on milk and integrating it into various dishes at the dinner. As Vermont is known for dairy, we think this would be a great opportunity to disrupt these ideas that the focus on local, organic Vermont foods (specifically dairy products) is the only responsible way to consume food. To disrupt this, we do not need to look far; Migrant Justice in Vermont, for example, has an entire campaign called Milk with Dignity, which aims to improve the working conditions of Vermont dairy workers.