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Are you seeking an educational, career, and other life opportunity in the area of diminishing poverty? If so, please visit the...

Teach Kentucky (TKY) is making an impact in Louisville, reaching young people who want to work themselves out of poverty. If you are...

By Kerriann Laubach Ms. Laubach is a student at Washington & Lee University School of Law As an undergraduate Environmental Studies major...

By Jillian Korn Korn with fellow interns Forester (Hendrix College) and Allen (Centre College). Before I began my internship at So Others...

Reny Mathew (Baylor) and Anna Goike (Notre Dame) interned at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine. Treating Drug Addiction to...

Elizabeth Forester Walking up to N Street Village, I was incredibly nervous. I did not know what to expect and worried that I would not...

Frolicking at LPMP This summer I had an opportunity to work for an incredible nonprofit organization called Life Pieces to Masterpieces....

Andre Ware interned with Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation in Boston. Every major news network in Boston was present. Over...

Cate Costley – SHECP Intern 2014, Middlebury College 2015 – will return to the Navajo Nation after graduation in May as a Teach for...

Hopscotch, I always thought, is a game played by innocent, laughing children on a playground that is safe from danger and pain. It is...

John Carroll University professor, Margaret (Peggy) Finucane, Ph.D., has received the 2014 David Hoch Memorial Award for Excellence in...

My specific role in the social services department involved “discharge planning,” which means that I initiated and carried out services...

At the clinic I shadowed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), a family health navigator, case managers, an insurance enrollment...

In this essay, I characterize the key aspects of the UCA, and Ellacuría’s arguments for why this is the proper way for a university to...

< In summer 2014, I completed a Shepherd internship at the Regional Center for Infectious Disease (RCID) in Greensboro, North Carolina. ...

Athens, OH, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 — Harlan Beckley, executive director, Shepherd Higher Consortium on Poverty (SHECP), visited Ohio...

SHECP Executive Director, Harlan Beckley, spoke at the Chautauqua Institution this summer on “Rethinking Poverty and Inequality: Changing...

Marymount University will host the Opening Conference on its campus in Arlington, Virginia, from June 5th to June 7th in 2015. More...

Kevin Blair, Professor of Social Work at Niagara University and Academic Director for the SHECP Program at Niagara, has just published a...

Emma Busse from Washington and Lee worked in Camden, New Jersey, and reports on what she learned about community and economic...