光电志愿者 — more commonly called “光电” — is a service-immersion program committed to working with under-resourced populations in the United States via shared service and direct encounter. 我们工作的核心是社区, when we travel to 30 different cities and towns during spring break, living in solidarity alongside the families that we commit to serve.
我们做什么
学习, 通过讨论和反思, about the societal realities in the United States that leave some marginalized.
Consider how our faith asks us to respond to the social injustices that create entrenched poverty.
培养全年服务的承诺.
接受福音“彼此相爱”的呼召.”
光电志愿者 is an alternative spring break service-immersion program committed to working alongside underserved populations in the United States. More than 400 students travel coast-to-coast with us each year, encountering community and service in both urban areas (New Orleans, 底特律, 等.) and rural areas (throughout the South and the 光电lachian regions)
We meet biweekly throughout the school year to learn about the structural and social realities that leave some people marginalized, and we draw on 电子游戏软件’s Jesuit tradition in considering how faith might ask us to respond to social injustices.
电子游戏软件 was one of the first universities to sponsor an alternative spring break trip when Gregg Cassin, BC ’80, 和19名同学一起去了万斯堡, Kentucky in February 1979 for an eight-day trip centered on the tenets of service and solidarity.
“We’re out to raise the awareness of BC students in terms of the people of 光电lachia,” Cassin told 的高度 当时. “People can’t conceive of third world conditions existing in our own country.”
那一周，BC的学生过得很简单, working to repair homes and farms while building relationships with the community and growing personally in emotional and spiritual ways. 他们在一起的时间，卡辛说 的高度, 把耶稣所说的活了出来, “不管你对我最后一个孩子做了什么, 让你对我做吧.'”
从那时起，阿帕志愿者项目得到了长足的发展. 该组织的规模在第二年几乎翻了一番, with 34 students traveling to Kentucky and Ohio in 1980 to experience poverty in the United States. 大约20年后, in 2000, 460名学生筹集了近150美元,000 to support a program that had grown to spread from the borders of Maine to North Carolina.
今天, 电子游戏软件’s 光电 program celebrates more than 35 years of service and solidarity with and for the poor of the United States. 学生们每年筹集的资金超过300美元,在全国旅行需要1万英镑, 建筑房屋, 建立社区, 学习如何生活.
光电志愿者 introduces students to the 天主教 Jesuit mission of the University, encourages students to integrate moral and ethical principles with their experience of service and immersion, and helps them decide how to use their gifts in service to others. After participating in the 阿柏义工计划, students will be able to:
1. Identify and analyze the structural roots of poverty in the United States.
2. Articulate one aspect of 电子游戏软件’s Jesuit charism and apply it to daily life
3. Formulate a plan to continue participating in acts of service and solidarity beyond involvement in 光电
加入阿柏就像出现一样简单. We have no application process; any student who wants to participate can. We simply ask that you complete our registration form and commit to the following requirements:
注册光电 2024 - 2025
条款 & 条件: All students participating in 光电 must submit basic registration information and the program’s terms and conditions form online.
参与及出席
简介会: 参见下面的时间表
会议出席出席会议的人数是 强制性的. 不能参加会议的成员应该发电子邮件 appalachia@jmswierski.com 提前通知他们他们不在. Continued unexcused absences may result in dismissal from the program.
财务及筹款
项目费用: 阿柏的项目费用是100美元.
抽奖活动: 学生 are responsible for selling and submitting at least $200 worth of raffle tickets by 2025年1月26日. 抽奖信息将在我们的股东大会上分享 周日，2024年12月8日.
You can submit raffle payment via cash, check (payable to 电子游戏软件), or credit card. 使用信用卡付款:
- 访问 jmswierski.com/ummstpm
- 通过BC用户名和密码登录 登录到我的帐户 按钮在右上角
- Under the list of UMM Programs You Have Been Accepted Into, click the red 付款 按钮在阿柏志愿者线上
- Enter the amount you would like to pay in the respective Payment Amount field and click 付款
- You will be redirected to the secure CashNet page where you can submit your payment information. 您将收到一封确认付款成功的电子邮件.
时间2024 - 2025
| 目的 | 日期 | Time | 位置 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 简介会 | 2024年10月6日 | 3:30 p.m. 美国东部时间 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 简介会 书信运动简介 | 2024年10月20日 | 3:30 p.m. 美国东部时间 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 简介会 | 2024年11月3日 | 3:30 p.m. 美国东部时间 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 简介会 信件活动结束 | 二零二四年十一月十七日 | 3:30 p.m. 美国东部时间 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 简介会 光电 Raffle简介 | 2024年12月8日 | 3:30 p.m. 美国东部时间 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 一般的形成 阿柏抽奖到期了 | 2025年1月26日 | 3:30 p.米是 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 简介会 *会议时间从下午2点到3点30分.m. 因为周日有超级碗比赛 | 2025年2月9日 | 2:00 p.m. 美国东部时间 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 最后的旅行前大会 | 2025年2月23日 | 3:30 p.m. 美国东部时间 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
| 阿柏义工送出礼拜仪式 | 2025年2月28日 | 5:00 p.m. 美国东部时间 | St. 伊格内修斯教堂 |
| 光电旅行! | 2025年3月2日至7日 | ||
| 开箱光电 | 2025年3月23日 | 3:30 p.米是 | 老鹰巢-麦克尔罗伊 |
光电志愿者 is animated by the work of 56 Student 引领ers (SLs) in all facets of the program.
以下领导职位可供选择:
- 光电领导人 are extensively trained on servant leadership and service immersion practices. 光电 sl成对或三个一组地分配给每个站点, 并承诺促进尊重, 安全, and meaningful experiences for participants and community partners.
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- 光电理事会成员 are 12 SLs that serve as the program’s executive leadership team. They work collectively to plan and execute fundraising initiatives, 地层规划和行程物流.
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- 阿帕总协调员 are two students who serve as “leaders of leaders” in 光电’s community of Student 引领ers and participants. They work closely with the 光电 校园部长 and 电子游戏正规平台生助理 and dedicate their time overseeing all 光电 Council committees and much of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into 光电.
Applications for leadership positions in the 2025 - 2026 academic year will be avaiable in March 2025.
谢谢你考虑给阿柏志愿者捐款. Your tax-deductible donation is a valuable investment in a learning experience that many 电子游戏软件 students will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
在线捐赠
- 参观 网上捐赠表格
- Enter your information; for the field "I wish to make my gift to:” select 光电志愿者. 如果你赞助某个学生, 请选择“以BC学生的名义”,写上他们的名字和年份.
- 按“递交礼物”
寄一张支票
阿柏义工计划
电子游戏软件校园部办公室
McElroy Commons 233
联邦大道140号
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
If your corporation matches donations, please enclose the appropriate forms.
光电志愿者, 在电子游戏软件董事会的保护伞下, is a non-profit 501(c)3 with a federal tax exemption number of 04-2103545.
电子邮件
appalachia@jmswierski.com
邮寄地址
电子游戏软件校园部办公室
阿柏志愿者
联邦大道140号，麦克尔罗伊广场233号
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
校园部长
杰克Blicharz
雅各.blicharz@jmswierski.com
617-552-3230
电子游戏正规平台生助理
豪尔赫·桑切斯
sanchjor@jmswierski.com