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Center for Community-Based Learning and Action Seminar II E 2125, Olympia Campus

2700 Evergreen Parkway NW; Olympia, WA 98505 (360) 867-6137

ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17

New Greeners Serve the Community! New Student Orientation

Community to Community Day of Service 2016 Message from Ken Tabbutt

Provost The Evergreen State College

A Place for the Community to Engage ~Jacinta McKoy, Center Visionary

CCBLA and Gateways Staff 2016-17

Director: Ellen Shortt Sanchez CYS AmeriCorps Tutor and Gateways Group Home

Coordinator: Keli’ii Kaui SOS: CCBLA Faculty: Lin Nelson, Pete Bohmer

Evergreen Work Study Community Service Coordinator: Serene Lawrence

CAC AmeriCorps AMP Coordinator: Uriah Thomas Gateways Administrative Assistant: Sloane Crabb Gateways Program Coordinator: Talib Williams

Gateways Faculty: Dr. Joye Hardiman, Larry Mosqueda Campus Food Bank Coordinator : Jordan Billiot

Mutualism between Evergreen

Students and the Community

In the field of biology, mutualism refers to two

different types of organisms that have a relationship

in which they both benefit from the activity of the

other. The Center for Community Based Learning

and Action (CCBLA) promotes mutualistic rela-

tionships by supporting student internships with

nonprofit and government organizations. These

internship opportunities allow students to gain prac-

tical experience, apply their knowledge, and learn;

in turn, organizations benefit from the personal en-

gagement and, occasionally, gain a permanent em-

ployee.

In addition to internships, CCBLA promotes mu-

tualism through New Student Orientation Action

Day, Gateways for Incarcerated Youth, Evergreen/

Olympia Tutoring Collaboration, Thurston County

Food Bank and other initiatives that engage stu-

dents and strengthen the community.

CCBLA allows us to serve the community and

the community to serve us; what could Greener

than that?

Center for Community-Based Learning and Action www.evergreen.edu/communitybasedlearning

“Evergreen, the College Connecting to

Communities and the Public Trust:

There is a strong movement in and around colleges/

universities that invites and challenges those institu-

tions to be more publicly engaged and accountable.

You can see this in Black Lives Matter challenging how

educational institutions could/should be more honora-

ble and accountable.”-Faculty Emeritus, Lin Nelson

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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING AND ACTION ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17

Community

Partners 16-17 AVID Olympia High School Books to Prisoners

Boys and Girls Club

Big Brothers Big Sisters Capital Recovery Center

Central for Natural Lands Management

Childcare Action Council CHOICE High School

CIELO Project

Community to Community Development Community Investment Partnership

Community Lifeline Shelton

Community Youth Services Crisis Clinic

EGYHOP

Emergency Food Network of Pierce County Evergreen Elementary Dual Language

Evergreen Villages

Familias Unidas Para la Justicia Family Support Center

Fertile Ground Community Ctr/Commons

First Peoples Multicultural Advising Freedom Farmers at Muirhead Farm

Garfield Elementary School GI Voice Coffee Strong

Green Hill School/JJ&RA

GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty)

Graduation Matters Shelton

Hands On Children Museum

Hansen Elementary School Heartsparkle Players

Hispanic Roundtable Latinx Youth Summit

Hope Garden Interfaith Works Emergency Shelter

JJ&RA Mentoring

Kiwanis Food Bank Garden Kokua

LEAD (Literacy and Education for Adults

with Disabilities) Lincoln School Garden

Madison Elementary School

Madison Welcome Room Mason County Consortium Student Success

Mason Matters

Media Island Mentoring Works Washington

Native Plant Salvage

Nature Nurtures Farm Nisqually Land Trust

North Thurston High School AVID

Northwest Cooperative Development Ctr. Northwest Eco-Buildering Guild

Olympia Food Co-Op

Olympia Free Clinic Olympia Free Herbal Clinic

Olympia High School

Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Olympia Seed Exchange

Olympia Senior Center

Pacific County Youth Alliance People for Puget Sound

Pear Blossom Shelter

Pierce County AIDS Foundation (PCAF)

A student participant in Community to Community shared: “I learned about how psychological trauma connects to the homeless epidemic

and peaked my interest in developmental psych.” 104 PARTICIPATING

ORGANIZATIONS!

Community to Community (C2C) New Student Orientation Action Day was

organized in collaboration with United

Way’s Day of Caring. Students got to

know local organizations and each other

at this event.

106 students served at 10 organization

sites for C2C Day of Caring 2016, for a

total of 318 volunteer hours.

Evergreen/Olympia Tutoring Collaborative Coordinated by CCBLA Youth in Service (YIS)

AmeriCorps member through Community Youth Services. Evergreen students and

faculty responded to needs of Title 1 public schools and after-school programs in

low-income communities in Thurston and Mason counties supporting students

through tutoring and mentoring.

Our CCBLA YIS AmeriCorps member supported 33 Greener volunteers work-

ing with youth. She mentored 17 youth through the AVID college access pro-

gram at North Thurston High School

College Access Day In collaboration with YIS AmeriCorps team members, Native Student Alliance

and the Evergreen Longhouse, the WaHeLut Indian School came to campus for

MLK day. 26 middle and high school youth joined 45 Evergreen students for a

campus visit, Longhouse welcome, Scavenger Hunt, and CRC Sports Time with

Evergreen Women’s Basketball and Volleyball teams. They shared food and

participated in workshops about science, Native American art, crafts, and Hula

dancing. Special thanks to faculty Yvonne Peterson and students in ‘Thinking

in Indian’ academic program.

Community Service Work Study: Evergreen Work Study This Program is Coordinated by a Work Study Student provided by Academic

Deans. Evergreen Work Study Community Service is a collaboration with Student

Employment. 16 Evergreen students worked 3,546 hours supporting 12 local

grass roots non-profits, focusing on real community needs around fighting pov-

erty, providing education to immigrant learners, confronting homelessness with

innovative solutions, and offering crisis social services. Organizations included

Sound Learning, Kokua, Stonewall Youth, Family Support Center Pear Blos-

som Shelter, TCFB Campus Food Bank, Interfaith Works Emergency Shelter,

CIELO Project, Tacoma Community House, PIPE, Trans/Queer Center,

SPSCC DEC, YWCA, Rebuilding Together Thurston County.

Center for Community-Based Learning and Action

C2C Students served at Sidewalk to end homelessness

(Photo: Shauna Bittle)

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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING AND ACTION ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17

Gateways for Incarcerated Youth WA Campus Compact College Access

Corps AmeriCorps members report 37

Evergreen students served as academic

mentors to 98 incarcerated youth at

Green Hill School JJ&RA facility and

Community Programs.

The Gateways College Class brings

Evergreen students to Green Hill

School to work collaboratively in a

seminar-style learning environment

with 36 incarcerated youth who earned

college credit in fall and winter. 26

youth received mentoring at Oakridge

and Touchstone Community Programs

(group homes). Mentoring was sup-

ported by Thurston County Communi-

ty Investment Partnership (CIP).

AmeriCorps members and Gateways

staff ran this year’s first Dodgeball

tournament. Thanks to players and

donors!

TCFB Food Bank Satellite at Olympia Evergreen Campus

The volunteer run Thurston County Food Bank Satellite at CCBLA, supported

by the Community Service Work Study position, has served over 746 Ever-

green students and community members.

Thurston Co. Food bank reports 12 volunteers served 136 hours. Perisha-

bles are available in office refrigerator and the shopping model continues to

support clientele autonomy.

José Gómez Farmworker Justice Day 400 students in 9 Academic Programs heard Ramón Torres,

Familias Unidas, Rosalinda Guillen of Community to Com-

munity Development, Maru Mora Villalpando, NW Deten-

tion Center Resistance and Ernesto Lopez, the Puente Hu-

man Rights Movement in Arizona. Learning about farm-

worker organizing creative protests and hybrid campaigns,

our event connects food production, labor, public health, so-

cial justice and cross-national movements for justice.

Thanks to President’s Equity Fund. Viva José Gómez!

Center for Community-Based Learning and Action

Community Partners cont.

Partners in Prevention Education Pizza Klatch

Planned Parenthood

POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights)

Rachel Corrie Foundation

Rebuilding Together Thurston County Regional Alliance for Youth (RALLY)

ROOF

Safeplace Sidewalk

Shelton High School

South Sound Beach Naturalists South Sound Volunteers Coordinator s

Sound Learning

South of the Sound Com. Farm Land Trust South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement

SPSCC Diversity and Equity Center

South Sound Seniors Stonewall Youth

St Martins University Service Immersion

Stream Team—City of Tumwater The Bridge (CYS)

Tacoma Community House Thurston Community TV (TCTV)

Thurston County Volunteer Legal Services

Thurston Conservation District Thurston Co. Food Bank-Gleaners

Thurston Co. Food Bank School Gardens

Thurston County Syringe Exchange Trans and Queer Center—Evergreen

United Communities AIDS Network

United Way of Thurston County United Way of Mason County

Veterans Ecological Trades Collective

WaHeLut Indian School Washington Middle School

WashPirg

Works In Progress Youth Empowerment Strategies

YouthBuild

YWCA-Girls Advancement YWCA Women’s Resource Center

“ In an excerpt from faculty José Gómez graduation speech he talked about "the full cycle of prosperity" and argued that

"the very people who harvest our food don't have enough food to feed their children.”

José Gómez Farmworker Justice Day 2017; Memorial to José Gómez, Evergreen Faculty

CCBLA recognition event

Evergreen MPA student Melanie White

completed Student Serving WA 2016 project

with Hillside NW Co-op Development Ctr. Pictured with team: Eder Nunez, Joanna Barnes, Juan Carlos Ruiz Duran and Daniel Arranaga (NWCDC)

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2016-17 Total CCBLA Budget $150,493 (% 28 of budget for students wages)

2016-17 CCBLA Budget

Evergreen Institutional Funds Grants to Students

Salaries

(CCBLA & Gateways) 64,087.32

Evergreen Work Study Com. Service Student

wage s IN KIND: $42,563

Benefits 35,242.69 Grant to CCBLA

Goods& Services 6,600 North Thurston SD

AmeriCorps Grant 2,000

Total 105,930 Total 150,493

What’s Next for CCBLA? Thurston County Food Bank and CCBLA partner to

host new WACC VISTA position to fight hunger, sup-

port downtown programs and develop satellite Campus

Food Bank Tuesdays continuing 4-6pm.

CCBLA participates in Food Systems Working Group.

Books To Prisoners, housed at the CCBLA, contin-

ues volunteer hours on Sundays

Faculty member Karen Gaul convenes the Strengthen-

ing Community Faculty Institute.

WACC College Access Corps AmeriCorps provides

support incarcerated youth. CYS AmeriCorps tutors at

AVID NTHS & Gateways. Community to Community Day Expansion to 300+ students!

Evergreen, CCBLA and Student Engagement:

CCBLA-GATEWAYS AMERICORPS SERVED OVER

140 YOUTH.

OVER 125 EVERGREEN STUDENTS CONTACTED CCBLA FOR COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING.

Center for Community-Based Learning and Action

Center for Community Based Learning and Action

Advisory Committee 2016-17

Community Partners: Charo Portaro (CIELO), Jenny Blumenstein

and Consuelo Guijosa (Sound Learning), Keiya Johnson (Family

Support Center– Pear Blossom Shelter), Randi Miller and Amy

Briggs (Kokua), Chris Bauermeister (TC Food Bank), Miguel Pineda

(Sidewalk), Daniel Arranaga (NW Co-op Development Ctr), Keylee

Marineau (Community Youth Services)

Evergreen Faculty: Alice Nelson, Mukti Khanna,, Anne Fischel, Lin

Nelson, Chico Herbison, Catalina Ocampo, Ted Whitesell, Eric

Stein, Stephanie Kozick, Jennifer Martinez

Students: Jordan Billiot, Sloane Crabb, KaLehua KaApana (First

People’s Peer Advisor)

Evergreen Staff: Emily Pieper, Jean Eberhardt, Mimi Alcantar,

Karama Blackhorn and CCBLA Staff.

CONTINUING WORK ON RACIAL JUSTICE PARTNERSHIPS

Campus Wide, Evergreen Registered

505 Internships

22% were In-Program Internships (Internships within Academic Programs)

with 226 organizations

49% were at Schools & Non-Profits

TC United Way CIP

Fundraising

$6,672 $11,151

Green Hill Contract $17,000 Merchandise 1,275

Medina Foundation $15,000 Donations 5,397

16-17 Total Gateways Budget $49,823 CCBLA SUPPORTED Over 561 Evergreen Students in

13 Academic Programs

Thank you to our AmeriCorps Partners:

2016-17 CCBLA Staff and Students

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING AND ACTION ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17