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Consortium News
Double Your Impact
Thanks to the generosity of the Connolly Family Foundation, donations to the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) will be matched—dollar for dollar—now through Giving Tuesday, up to a total of $20,000. Give now [...]
RFP Deadline Nearing for CST Conference
The University of Notre Dame, a SHECP member school, will host the 2019 Catholic Social Tradition Conference, Option for the Poor: Engaging the Social Tradition, March 21-23, 2019. By assembling experts in Catholic social ethics, the [...]
New Book Offers Ethics-Focused Approach for First-Year Writing Courses
Oxford University Press has just published a new book, Good Writing: An Argument Rhetoric, by SHECP governing board member Connie Snyder Mick, academic director of the Center for Social Concerns and co-director of the Poverty [...]
Connolly Family Foundation Pledges $600,000 to SHECP
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce that it has received a $600,000 charitable commitment from the Connolly Family Foundation to enable the consortium to build capacity and promote [...]
Videos
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Intern Testimonial
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Shepherd Internship Experience
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"Poverty and Antipoverty Policies Before and After the Great Recession"- Sheldon Danzinger
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2012 Shepherd Consortium Symposium Panel Discussion
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2015 SHECP Symposium - “Building the Foundations for Child Health"
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2015 SHECP Symposium, "The Evolution of Food Insecurity as a Public Health Issue"
Student Testimonials
This opportunity truly changed my outlook on addiction and poverty in society. I have seen poverty abroad and I have seen poverty in America, but this internship really helped me look at the reasons for how people could become entrenched in a cycle of poverty.
During my time at Youth Force, I truly understood the impacts of grassroots campaigns. In a room of teenagers, I was standing around those who are effectively pressuring state government to change their stances on many vital issues.
My summer as a Shepherd Intern was a great opportunity for me to live out Notre Dame’s poverty studies minor; I learned so much about health insurance and health access in low-income communities and how I hope to practice medicine in the future.
Working with LIFT-Philadelphia personalized the issues of poverty and inequality for me. I couldn’t have fully learned the facts of these issues without having met some of the people who live them every day. Knowing their stories has made me determined to make a difference.