Past Ginsberg Center Award Winners
The Ginsberg Center would like to congratulate these winners of the Rosalie Ginsberg Awards for Community Service and Social Action!
PAST GINSBERG CENTER AWARD WINNERS
Campus Wide Awards
Ginsberg Center Awards
University of Michigan Nominees for State and National Awards
Campus Wide Awards:
- Outstanding Campus Impact
Outstanding Community Impact
Outstanding Center Impact
Outstanding Staff Member
Outstanding University Program
Outstanding Community Partner
Outstanding Faculty
Outstanding Campus Impact
This award is given to individual students and student organizations that have demonstrated excellence in creating, developing, or sustaining opportunities for community service/social action and learning.
2007-2008
Arts Enterprise, for engaging University of Michigan students and faculty in arts-related community outreach and social entrepreneurship.
Naomi Goldberg, for reinvigorating the Ford School’s LBGT student organization, and for involving her peers in discourse around difference and inclusion.
Allyson Hoerauf, for her work as a Project Community Peer Facilitator, where she contributed to students’ on-site experiences and strengthened the academic rigor of the Gender & Sexuality program area.
2006-2007
Andrea Bachman, for her work in developing new opportunities for student leadership in GIEU.
Amber Moore, for her work with the School of Social Work Curriculum Committee and the Social Welfare Action Alliance.
Amanda Hernandez, for her work as a Minority Peer Advisor, as well as with the Program on Inter-Group Relations and SERVE.
Grace Kotre, for her work with Darfur Action: STAND, and building relationships among activist groups on campus.
Karen Tabb, for her leadership within the School of Social Work, and her work to build connections outside of the School.
Outstanding Community Impact
This award is given to individual students and student organizations that have made service or social action an integral part of their college experience by their significant contribution to the community. Recipients' efforts build partnerships between our campus and communities to initiate social change. Recipients show depth of commitment to a certain organization or issue.
2007-2008
Danielle Bober, for her community development work as an AmeriCorps member at Focus:HOPE in Detroit.
Amanda Garratt, for increasing Detroit Head Start parents’ civic participation and advocacy around issues related to environmental justice.
Intellectual Minds Making a Difference, for working towards the eradication of the academic achievement gap between urban and suburban students in Southeastern Michigan.
Jaclyn Jackson, for her sustained and deep work with Project Community, SERVE’s VIEW (Volunteers Involved Every Week), UROP, and the UM Medical School’s Diversity and Career Development Pipeline Programs.
Shaun Patel, for establishing the University of Michigan’s chapter of Students for Organ Donation (SOD) and spearheading a registration drive which resulted in over 7,000 new organ donors.
2006-2007
Kaitlin Gallup, for her involvement across the community, as well as her work with Students Helping Others Choose Knowledgably (SHOCK).
Shoshana Hurand, for her work building campus/community partnerships through the arts.
LaShawndra Thorton, for her work with teen girls at Barat House through SERVE’s Alternative Weekends.
Outstanding Center Impact
This award is given to individual student(s) who have made significant contributions to more than one program or initiative at the Center. Recipients will have demonstrated their leadership by making multiple contributions to our Center through their involvement in programs and initiatives.
2007-2008
Aria Everts, for her work with the Ginsberg Center Student Advisory Board and Project Community, and for her significant role in the Ginsberg Center’s outreach and marketing efforts.
2006-2007
Amanda Hooper, for her work with SERVE’s Alternative Spring Break, as well as her contribution to the Ginsberg Center Student Advisory Board.
Outstanding Staff Member
This award is given to a university staff member who has demonstrated excellence in providing, developing, or sustaining opportunities for engaging students in community service/social action and learning.
2007-2008
not awarded
2006-2007
Jeanine Bessette and Robin Routenberg, for their work in raising awareness of the Proposal 2 ballot initiative through a series of educational workshops surrounding “MCRI Decision Making.”
Outstanding University Program
This award is given to an academic or co-curricular program or course that has demonstrated excellence in creating, developing or sustaining opportunities for community service/social action and learning.
2007-2008
Nurse Managed Centers (School of Nursing), for advocacy on behalf of community members with unmet health needs, and for providing exceptional opportunities for students to engage in community service/social action and learning.
2006-2007
Healthy Asian American Project (HAAP), for providing equitable access to quality health care resources among Asian American communities.
Social Justice Careers: Alumni Making the Michigan Difference, for a one-day student conference featuring young UM alums who continue their commitment to service and activism after graduation.
Outstanding Community Partner
This award is given to community organizations that have demonstrated excellence in partnering with an initiative on campus to provide opportunities for community service/social action and learning.
2007-2008
Maxey Boys Training School, for work with the Prison Creative Arts Project to facilitate the creation of original plays, poetry, and art by incarcerated youth.
Mosaic Youth Theatre, for collaboration with the School of Social Work and Department of Psychology on projects that build knowledge and methods for community-based education and change.
2006-2007
New St. Paul Head Start, for their work with UM’s Detroit Initiative to involve students in Detroit area Head Start programs and with special needs children.
SOS Community Services, for their work with UM’s “Telling It” project, creating opportunities for artistic expression with homeless children.
The Triangle Foundation, for their work with UM’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and Alternative Spring Break.
Outstanding Faculty Member
This award is given to university faculty members demonstrating excellence in providing, developing and/or sustaining opportunities for engaging students in community service/social action and learning.
2007-2008
Lorraine Gutiérrez, for her efforts to help establish a community service learning model across campus, and for her work with the Detroit Initiative, a community service learning program which she established in the Department of Psychology.
2006-2007
Beth Glover Reed, School of Social Work, for her work with the School’s social justice curricular efforts.
Janie Paul, School of Art & Design, for her work with the Community Connections Program, the Prison Creative Arts Project, and Detroit Connections.
Ginsberg Center Awards
Ginsberg Center Program Awards
Michigan AmeriCorps Partnership
2007-2008
Bridget Christian
Robin Duncan
Sr. Janice Popilek
2006-2007
Sr. Lenore Boivin
Mary Simpson
Rebecca Fried
America Reads
2007-2008
Jennifer Lohner
Rebecca Kanine
Annie Sullivan
2006-2007
Sarah Severance
Elizabeth Leal
Jennifer Haynes
Project Community
2007-2008
Ashlynn McGill
Nafisah Ula
Chris Dadok and Pam Croydon
2006-2007
N. Michelle Hughes
Mary Brigid Dillon
Rebecca Kanine
SERVE
2007-2008
Thatiana Tavarez
Karen Viado
Rachel Jackson
2006-2007
Molly McCullagh
Olivia Kao
Juline Chen
2008 Bridging Art and Activism Challenge:
Redefining the American Dream
“check your rights,” by Matt Hallock
“Do the Math,” by Benjamin English
green flag, by Carolyn Wiedeman
“consider community,” by Laura Hillenbrand
Honorable mention: “Where will the future of America dream?” by Paige Russell
These awards are made possible by the Rosalie Ginsberg endowment established
by William and Inger Ginsberg in his Mom's name.
University of Michigan Nominees for National and Statewide Awards:
U-M Student Recipients of 2007-2008 Michigan Campus Compact Awards
Heart and Soul Award
Lauren Deaton
Jaimie Philip
Aditi Sagdeo
Tanyaporn Wansom
Yilin Zhang
Michigan Humanitarian Award;
Commitment to Service Award
Andrea Bachman
Community Impact Award
James Logan
The Ginsberg Center nominated the following for state-wide and national service-learning awards.
U-M Nominee for National Campus Compact’s Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award
Campus Compact member presidents are invited to nominate one student for this prestigious award. Five students nationally are selected to receive this distinguished award for their outstanding public service and receive a cash award to help strengthen or sustain the service program of their design or choice.
Andrea Bachman
U-M Nominee for Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.
This national award recognizes exemplary leadership in advancing the civic learning of students, including public scholarship, building campus commitment to service-learning and civic engagement, and fostering reciprocal community partnerships.
Richard Redman, School of Nursing, 2007-2008
Gregory Markus, Political Science, 2006-2007
U-M Nominee for Ernest Lynton Award for Scholarship of Engagement.
This national Award recognizes faculty members who connect their expertise and scholarship to community outreach. Award recipients demonstrate excellence in sustained effort in community outreach and professional service; use of innovative and imaginative approaches; institutional impact through teaching, program development and student/faculty participation; and external success through scholarly output, community impact and student learning.
Margaret Dewar, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Ginsberg Center, 2007-2008
Janie Paul, Art and Design, 2006-2007
Michigan Campus Compact Faculty Award for Community Service Learning campus award winner.
This state Award is given to one person from each Michigan Campus Compact member campus who engages or influences students to be involved in community service or service-learning through modeling, influence, or instruction.
Nicholas Tobier, School of Art & Design, 2007-2008
Mabel Rodriguez, Residential College, 2006-2007