Educational Initiatives
The Student Venture Partnership's Educational Initiatives |
The Student Venture Partnership (STVP) facilitates three annual educational workshops where community leaders speak at CC about their experiences. These educational workshops provide CC students with a more nuanced understanding of community problems and innovative approaches towards social change in the Pikes Peak Region. Currently, there exists a dwindling resource pool for non-profit organizations in the context of an increasing demand for services. STVP hopes to help combat these developments by educating college students to become intentional philanthropists and volunteers.
 |
 |
STVP’s Educational Workshop History:
December 13th 2004, Stewart House:
A panel of community speakers described their philanthropic work in relation to their passions and values. These speakers included: Michael Hannigan, Executive Director of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, Heather Carroll, Community Venture Partners and Executive Director of the Henry Joseph Edmonson Foundation, and Dan Hobbes, a CC alumnus, local rancher and active community participant in the Farmers markets and agricultural development.
March 8th 2005, Stewart House
The Executive Director of TESSA, Taa Dixon, a CC alumna and founder of 720Media, and Mary Ann Corey, coordinator of the El Paso County Bar Foundation.
December 13th 2005, Stewart House:
A panel of community speakers shared their experiences as workers and leaders in the non-profit world. Their talks focused on combining passions/personal values with their professional work. The speakers included: Tommy Moore, a 2005 CC graduate and Public Interest Fellow at the Non-Profit Center of Excellence, Paul O’Brien, the Executive Director for Canine Companions, Wendy Mike, Founder and executive director of FutureSelf, as well as Michael Hannigan, Director of Pikes Peak Community Foundation.
February 8th 2006, Stewart House:
An active philanthropist, Chet Tchozewski, came down from Boulder to speak about his personal experience in creating an international grass-roots non-profit organization. In 1998, Chet started Global Greengrants Fund, a non-profit that provides grass-roots, local leadership projects with small grants outside of the U.S. Global Greengrants Fund focuses on environmentally sustainable initiatives.
April 13th 2006, Tutt Alumni House:
Emily Davis, board member of the Public Interest Fellowship as well as founder of the Colorado Chapter for Resource Generation, a youth-based non-profit that seeks to make social change through innovation and privilege, came down from Boulder to speak about graduate school in non-profit management as well as tips for college graduates entering the non-profit field.
December 14th 2006, Stewart House
Lance Cheslock, a 1982 CC graduate, is the director of La Puente Home, a nonprofit organization located in Alamosa, CO. This organization provides emergency food and shelter for the hungry and homeless in the San Luis Valley using sustainable business practices. Lance spoke about the non-profit sector as a viable direction for college graduates.
Current Outreach:
STVP has developed and is continuing to expand a contact list in which we provide community members who have been involved with STVP current status reports and updates. The contact list includes the speakers from various Educational Workshops, members of the Colorado College faculty and staff, as well as individuals who have expressed interest regarding STVP’s progress as an organization. If you would like to receive our annual newsletter please send an email to stvp@coloradocollege.edu
Send questions or comments to: STVP@ColoradoCollege.edu
Copyright 2005 Colorado College
Site Updated 2-4-2007