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Students Commit to Poverty Education-  Eight-week program immerses students in disadvantaged communities For eight weeks this past...

By Joe Pettit.  Dr. Pettit is an associate professor of religious studies at Morgan State University.  This Opinion-Editorial appeared in...

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to open Childhood Literacy as a Public Health & Economic Imperative Symposium on July 30th The focus of the...

July 12, 2016 — The Cleveland Clinic, the National Community Action Foundation, and Kennesaw State University will be Partners for the...

6 May 2016, Arlington, VA – More than 100 Shepherd Interns will gather at Marymount University (Main Campus) in Arlington, Virginia, on...

Thomas H. Lee Partners, LP Honors Tom and Nancy Shepherd Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston, where Tom Shepherd worked for twelve years as...

These memories of Tom Shepherd from Consortium and Washington and Lee students and alumni, colleagues, and friends express admiration for...

April 28, 2016 – Registration is now open for the 30 July, “Childhood Literacy as a Public Health and Economic Imperative: What Do We...

Thomas R.  Shepherd, who with his wife, the Reverend Nancy Shepherd, was the founding benefactor and longtime supporter for the Shepherd...

The Shepherd Higher Education on Poverty and the Atlanta Speech School announce the speakers and schedule for a jointly sponsored...

The University of Vermont strengthened its commitment to better understand and create solutions that reduce societal inequities caused by...

SHECP executive director Harlan Beckley visited SHECP Member Niagara University on 16 November. In addition to give remarks to students...

23 November, 2015,  – Alexandra Bowles, Founder of Atlas Grant Solutions, Roanoke, VA, has been appointed development consultant for...

The Center for Social Concerns and the Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor at the University of Notre Dame will host a three-day...

Essays from many of the nearly one hundred college and law school students who served as 2015 Shepherd Internships are being posted...

4 September 2015, Lexington, Virginia – The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty announced today that John Carroll University...

The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) has received another matching grant from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz...

AGENDA 2015 Symposium and Frueauff Closing Conference “Food, Nutrition, and Health in Children” and Shepherd Internship Reports. Schedule...

16 July 2015 – Lexington, VA – The Charles A. Frueauff Foundation of Little Rock, Arkansas has pledged a substantial grant to the...

Timothy S. Jost, Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, a featured speaker on the Affordable Care...