-: So my name is Bailey Clark and I serve as the
Associate Director in the Center for Leadership
and Community Engagement at Rollins College.
So the mission of the Center for Leadership
and Community Engagement is to support
students, faculty and staff with opportunities
to get involved in the community
and hopefully create positive change.
My role specifically within the office
is to direct the Bonner Leaders Program.
That's a program for 40 students at Rollins
that dedicate six to eight hours every week
with a non-profit organization in the greater Orlando area.
So they focus on impact areas like the environment,
education, hunger and homelessness, poverty
and the goal is for them to take on roles
within those organizations that help
the organization fulfill its mission.
So everything from placing them in organizations
where they are passionate about the mission
to giving them tools to be successful in their roles.
We do weekly courses with them.
We provide monthly trainings on non-profit,
best practices in non-profit management,
volunteer management and things like that
to make sure that they're successful in their roles.
Currently I'm teaching a class on non-profit management
and we've invited our partners from the Edyth Bush Institute
to come in and talk about what it means
to start a non-profit organization.
Quite a few of the students that we work with are
really passionate about the organizations
that they work with and perhaps want to either pursue
a career in non-profit management
or start their own non-profit one day.
So we go through what that takes and we've talked
a lot about how many non-profit organizations exist
in the Central Florida area and ways to either
plug into existing ones or enhance
the work that they're currently doing.
In addition to my role with the Bonner Program,
I support the Community Engagement
designated courses on campus.
So those are courses where students spend
at least 15 hours per semester
working with a non-profit organization.
Anything from helping elementary schools
to develop curriculum to working with local
health organizations to better serve
the populations within their communities,
to working with environmental issues through the sciences.
We provide resources to faculty
and students to make that possible.