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Consortium News
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 [...]
Fighting the Battles to Win the War: Public Defenders Seek Justice, Fairness and Dignity for All
I spent my summer working at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City. When I told people where I was going I received a lot of mixed reactions. Some asked me, why Baltimore? Isn’t [...]
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.