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SHECP Releases 2018 Annual Report
Read the report here. #financialstatements #nonprofit #annualreport #shepherdpoverty #shepherdconsortium #governance #Poverty...
Dec 19, 2018


Hamilton College Joins Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to welcome its newest member, Hamilton College. SHECP is a...
Dec 19, 2018


SHECP Named Accredited Charity by BBB Wise Giving Alliance
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce that it has been named an accredited charity by the...
Dec 4, 2018


SHECP’s Peters honored by Auburn Seminary with Walter Wink Scholar-Activist Award
Elon University’s Rebecca Todd Peters, professor of religious studies, and the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty’s (SHECP)...
Nov 21, 2018


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:...
Nov 13, 2018


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...
Nov 7, 2018


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...
Oct 23, 2018


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...
Sep 20, 2018


University of Wisconsin–Madison Joins Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to welcome its newest member, the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
Sep 13, 2018


SHECP Welcomes New Governing Board Members
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce the election of two new members to its governing...
Sep 10, 2018


Harlem Children’s Zone: A Summer Learning to Ask
As I got in the car to drive to Washington, D.C., for the SHECP Opening Conference, my dad gave me a hug and whispered, “Leave it better...
Sep 6, 2018


Refugees Are Not the Problem, We Are
65.5 million. One person out of every 113 people in the world. These statistics represent the number of people who have experienced...
Aug 20, 2018


Nothing like a Password: Trial and Resilience in the American Asylum System
“We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the...
Aug 17, 2018


New Insight
“Ending toxic relationships since ‘08,” could very well be one of Judge David Matia’s most common sayings, ever since his Drug Court...
Aug 14, 2018


SHECP Interns Report on Efforts to Alleviate Poverty at Closing Conference
SHECP intern Margaux Curless, Centre College, reports on her work at the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO). Nearly...
Aug 8, 2018


SHECP to Hold Closing Conference for 2018 Interns in Cleveland
CLEVELAND—The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) will hold its 2018 Frueauff Closing Conference, at the campuses of...
Aug 3, 2018


Congressman Jim McGovern Addresses SHECP Opening Conference
ARLINGTON, VA.—Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts was the keynote speaker at the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on...
Jun 13, 2018


SHECP Names First-Ever Communications Director
LEXINGTON, VA.—The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sam Kille as its...
Jun 6, 2018


Beckley addresses “Judgment Mediating Grace”
Lexington, Virginia (May 23, 2018) – Harlan Beckley, SHECP Founding Director, delivered remarks at the Baccalaureate Ceremony at...
May 29, 2018


H.F. Lenfest Fund Awards $250,000 Grant to SHECP
LEXINGTON, Va., May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is proud to announce our largest...
May 7, 2018
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