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A Pedagogy & Practice Virtual Event We are excited to have Lynn Pierson from Bucknell and Andrea Woodward from Berea to share how their...

This summer, 59 students from 16 Member Schools participated in SHECP Summer Internship and Policy & Nonprofit Leadership Internship ...

When students apply to SHECP, they are agreeing to an internship experience that will place them in a new community , with new roommates...

The 2024 SHECP Annual Conference was held July 26-27 on the campus of Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia . The annual event...

This summer, as part of the 2024 Practitioner Insights event series , we welcomed three guests to share how their agencies are trying...

The 2024 SHECP Annual Conference will held July 26-27 on the campus of Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. The annual event is...

Dr. Harlan Beckley, SHECP's Founding Executive Director, has authored the new book Rethinking Equal Opportunity: Dignity, Human...

Here at SHECP, we “encourage the study of poverty as a complex social problem and we are trying to prepare students for a lifetime of...

A conversation with Professor Katie Shester about creativity and the quilt that inspired our 2024 Graphics The graphics for SHECP’s 2024...

On this episode of SHECP Talks, we continue to reflect on the links between resilience and childhood poverty. Jen was delighted to...

On May 30th , SHECP hosted two general speaker sessions as part of the week-long Internship Academy. The full SHECP Internship Academy...

SHECP is pleased to announce the selection of this year's interns for the Policy & Nonprofit Leadership Internship program. These...

On this episode of SHECP Talks, Kailee Brickner-McDonald, Director of the Middlebury’s Center for Community Engagement, and Sarah Stroup,...

Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of human interaction, yet how we approach it can profoundly impact our relationships and communities....

We in SHECP are dedicated to addressing the root structural causes of poverty and injustice. These causes will not, however, be entirely...

At the end of this month, Tim Diette will be stepping down as SHECP's Executive Director and transitioning to his new role as Dean of...

Sascha L. Goluboff, director of community-based learning and professor of cultural anthropology at Washington and Lee University, has...

By John Austin DeLozier, 2023 SHECP Intern with the Kanawha County Public Defender “What do lawyers even do?” I remember asking my dad...

In this SHECP Talks episode, Dora Kreitzer talks with two other Bucknell University students, Lissandro Alvarado and Da’Mirah Vinson to...

On this episode of SHECP Talks, Mansi Tripathi, a 2022 graduate of Washington and Lee University talks about her 2019 internship with the...