Do You Feel Called to Community Service?
Interfaith Action provides service-learning opportunities where students can share their call to service with others from diverse cultural, religious, and non-religious backgrounds. We strive to be a safe space where students can come to the table as their whole self, sharing their religious, spiritual, or philosophical identity with others in collaborative community service and dialogue..preview.JPG)
Interfaith Action programming, as guided by students, reaches across our Ann Arbor community, across our region to Detroit, and across our nation. Highlights include:
- Serve-Alongside – Joining local groups as they engage in community service efforts, and visiting their place of religious worship or spiritual practice to learn more about what motivates their call to service.
- Dialogue Dinners – Bi-weekly dinner dialogues about the intersection of religious/spiritual/faith identity and different topics of social concern. Dialogues usually revolve around recent community service that inspired the topic.
- Alternative Breaks – ASB trip(s) for 2012 will focus on multifaith cooperative efforts in the areas of social services and faith-based community organizing, with opportunities for training in methodologies of interreligious dialogue.
IA News
Alternative Weekends: Site Leader and Lead Team App
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDVRbHo2WFpFRU03RDI...
Now Accepting Applications for Site Leaders and Lead Team for Alternative Weekends
Nominate a Faculty or Staff Member for the Rosalie Ginsberg Award for Community Service and Social Action
The Ginsberg Center is pleased to recognize the staff and faculty of our University community that have committed themselves to community service and...
Commitment to Service Award Winners Announced
Rohit Abraham and Christie Donahue, two U-M students actively involved at the Ginsberg Center, have been awarded the Campus Compact Commitment to Service Award!
The Commitment to Service Award...
MSA's Muslim Chaplain profiled on NPR
The new Muslim chaplaincy was recently profiled by NPR:
Milestone at University of Michigan: Muslim Chaplain
"Although the population of Muslim students is growing, there are only about 30 Muslim chaplains at colleges across the country. This semester, the University of Michigan became the first public university with an endowed position for a Muslim...
Interfaith Action Now Accepting Applications for Alternative Spring Break
Applications are open for Interfaith Action’s Alternative Spring Break trips to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Both trips will be focused on interfaith cooperative efforts in the areas of social services and faith-based community organizing. Students will receive training in methodologies of interfaith dialogue, volunteer with a multifaith-supported service agency, and learn from community organizers engaging...
Something from Last Week - Nov. 3rd
Interfaith Action's Dialogue Dinners aren't isolated events - they are part of a continuing conversation that everyone is welcome to join. Occassionally points of discussion, articles or books mentioned, or other ideas touched upon will show up here as "Something from Last Week."
Last week at the Dialogue Dinner someone touched up the topic of Buddhism as a philosophy, rather than a religious tradition, viewing it as compatible with or even compliamentary to another tradition or...
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AVODAH Information Session
AVODAH, the Jewish Service Corps, will be having an informational conference call this Sunday, November 6th at 2 pm EST.
AVODAH combines social justice work, Jewish learning, and community building into a program for recent college graduates. At...
Rosalie Ginsberg Scholarship for Community Service and Social Action
Up to two $3,000 scholarships will be awarded this year to support University of Michigan students holding junior or senior standing this fall who demonstrate a commitment to community service or social action and who demonstrate financial need. Preference is given to students from Cuyahoga County, Ohio; thereafter to students from Ohio; and thereafter to any student. Inger and William Ginsberg established the Rosalie Ginsberg Community Service Scholarship Fund in honor of...
