Upcoming Events This Month!
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table at the Waves Expo or heard us talk at the Business Division meeting or the Life Outside the Classroom Sessions. We had an amazing turnout and are so excited for this upcoming semester. We hope to see you at our upcoming events this month. Below are some dates to mark on your calendar.
Informational Meeting: Thursday, August 28th (9PM - 10PM) in AC 205
If you are interested in learning more about AH Scholars or are a returning member, please join us for our first meeting of the year! EVERYONE is invited and we are looking forward to seeing YOU! We will be discussing more about our organization, playing fun activities, talking about upcoming events, and eating snacks.
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon: Sunday, August 31st (5PM - 1AM)
This is our first service event of the year and we want as many people as possible to support this awesome cause! If you love serving and staying up late, this event is for YOU! Please RSVP to american.humanics@pepperdine.edu by Thursday, August 28th.
Welcome to Pepperdine!
If you are a new student and have an interest in living a life of service we hope you will consider becoming involved with us. We provide education, volunteer opportunities, scholarships and certification in nonprofit management. To learn more, please read through our website and contact us with any questions. For the latest AH news, check out our summer newsletter. Feel free to contact us with any questions at American.Humanics@pepperdine.edu and we hope to meet you at NSO!
Interested in Serving on the Leadership Team?
All of the spots for Leadership Team are up for grabs. Serving on the Leadership Team provides many perks, such as leadership experience, more AH involvement, a scholarship, and a great way to strengthen your resume. If you are interested in applying to become a member of the Leadership Team, you can apply here if you are a freshman or here if you are a sophomore, junior, or senior. Applications are due by July 28th before midnight.
AH Summer Newsletter ‘08
Please take the opportunity to read through the AH Summer Newsletter. This summer’s newsletter highlights new executive committee members, what our members are doing this summer and our new plans for next year. The newsletter can be found here.
Thank You!
Thank you for all of your hard work and participation during the last year. We hope all of you are having a great summer and we are looking forward to your continued support next year. We are also excited to welcome all of the new members and returning members from overseas.
-AH Scholars Executive Committee
Summer Reading
It is our hope that each of you has a chance to read this years AH Scholars summer reading, How to Change the World by David Bornstein. Between working, vacations, catching up with high school friends, and the numerous other summer activities, our summers become very busy, but if you are able to find some time to read this book, you will not be disappointed.
From Publishers Weekly
Journalist Bornstein (The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank) profiles nine indomitable champions of social change who developed innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in places as distinct as Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and inner-city Washington, D.C. As these nine grew influential when their ingenious ideas proved ever more widely successful, they came to the attention of Ashoka, an organization that sponsors a fellows program to foster social innovation by finding so-called social entrepreneurs to support. As Bornstein interviewed these and many other Ashoka fellows, he saw patterns in the ways they fought to solve their specifically local problems. To demonstrate the commonality among experiences as diverse as a Hungarian mother striving to provide a fuller life for her handicapped son and a South African nurse starting a home-care system for AIDS patients, he presents useful unifying summaries of “four practices of innovative organizations” and “six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs.” Bornstein implies that his subjects are in the tradition of Florence Nightingale and Gandhi; the inspiring portraits that emerge from his in-depth reporting on the environments in which individual programs evolved (whether in politically teeming India or amid the expansive grasslands of Brazil) certainly show these unstoppable entrepreneurs as extraordinarily savvy community development experts. In adding up the vast number of current nongovernmental organizations and their corps of agents of positive change, Bornstein aims to persuade that, “without a doubt, the past twenty years has produced more social entrepreneurs than terrorists.”.