1. Amanda & Zaia’s Impact Presentation

2. Introductions
• Name
• Organization/Department
• How have you interacted or
worked with the Office of Civic
Engagement this year?

3. 5-7 minutes
later…

4. Office of Civic Engagement (OCE)
"Connecting with
communities,
connecting with
ourselves."

5. Mission Statement
The Office of Civic Engagement aims to empower students to
be active leaders in their communities, promote critical
thinking about social justice issues, and develop citizens
committed to a lifetime of public service. The Office of Civic
Engagement accomplishes this by providing students with
opportunities to engage in curricular and co-curricular service
that build sustainable, positive relationships with community
partners while reflecting on the social justice issues that affect
communities on a local, national and global level.

7. Formation of OCE
• Serves entire campus
• 4 program areas
• 3 positions
– Director of Experiential Education and Service
Learning
– Civic Engagement Coordinator
– Nonprofit Capacity Building Coordinator

8. Civic Engagement Coordinator
• Connecting students to service
and service-learning
opportunities
• Coordinating Hunger and
Homelessness Week
• Advising student service
organizations
• Coordinating Make a Difference
Day and Community Service Day
• Forming Office of Civic
Engagement Service Advisory
Council (OCESAC)
• Developing sustainable
partnerships with community
organizations

9. Nonprofit Capacity Building Coordinator
How did this position come to be?
Cause: In 2009, the McDonough Center for
Leadership and Business at Marietta College
completed an in-depth study about nonprofit
capacity building in the Mid-Ohio Valley.
Effect: Through a grant from the Sisters of St.
Joseph Charitable Fund, I was hired to coordinate
the implementations of the study’s
recommendations.

10. What is Nonprofit Capacity Building?
“The primary intent of
organizational capacity is to
enhance an organization’s
ability to achieve its social
mission.”
(Kibbe, 2004, p.7)
 Networking and
Advocacy
 Financial Resources
 Operations and
Governance
 Human Resources
 Marketing
 Information Technology
 Programs and Planning

11. Goals for the Office
1. Increase student
engagement within
the community
2. Increase student
leadership positions
3. Help fill community
and nonprofit capacity
building needs
4. Promote dialogue of
social justice issues

12. Goal 1: Increase student engagement
within the community
• Make a Difference Day
• Community Service Day
• One-time Service Projects
• Alternative Break Program
• Sustained Service Commitments
• AmeriCorps*VISTA Summer
Associates
• Robert E. & Sally S. Evans Internship

13. Goal 2: Increase student
leadership positions
• ASB Leaders
• CSD Leaders
• Hunger and Homelessness
Week Coordinator
• Next Gen: Nonprofit Board
Training for Youth
• AmeriCorps*VISTA Summer
Associates
• Cooperating Collections
Student Leader

14. Goal 3: Help Fill Community and Nonprofit Capacity
Building Needs
• Biweekly workshops
• Marietta and
Parkersburg
• 16 total workshops
• Averaged 17 people per
workshop
• Served 357 people
throughout the year
Workshops and Networking Activities

15. Nonprofit Capacity Building Conference

16. Networking

17. Goal 4: Promote dialogue of social justice issues
•Social Justice Film Screenings
•Hunger and Homelessness
Week
•Service-learning courses
•COLL 400 The Job Search
•COMM 380 Media and
Health
•MASS 308 Media Writing

18. Office of Civic Engagement
"Connecting with
communities,
connecting with
ourselves."

19. What’s Next?
For Zaia:
• Teach For America
– Mississippi Delta Region
– Math
– Secondary School (7th to
12th)
– Two year commitment
For Amanda:
• One final year of VISTA
at Marietta College!
• Looking forward to
work with all of you
next year 

20. Thank you for a great year!
Questions?