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Why Pay to Volunteer?
One of the questions I posed to Nathan Darity – Amizade’s Creative Director – the first time I talked to him to talk about an individual volunteer placement in Santarém, Brazil, a city I had never...
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6th Annual Global Service-Learning Institute
Amizade is thrilled to announce, in partnership with Cornell University and New York Campus Compact, the 6th Annual Global Service-Learning Institute to take place on the campus of Cornell University...
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Grace’s Service Learning Adventure: Part 1
Throughout January 2013, former Amizade intern, current Slippery Rock University senior, and winner of PENNACE Student of Year, Grace Evans will be leading three different groups on Amizade...
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Amizade in Appalachia!
Amizade is thrilled to announce that we are expanding our program offerings; this time into our own region of Appalachia! In partnership with Sustainable Williamson, Amizade volunteers will now have...
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Grace’s Service Learning Adventure: Part 2
Throughout January 2013, former Amizade intern, current Slippery Rock University senior, and winner of PENNACE Student of Year, Grace Evans will be leading three different groups on Amizade...
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Grace’s Service Learning Adventure: Part 3
Throughout January 2013, former Amizade intern, current Slippery Rock University senior, and winner of PENNACE Student of Year, Grace Evans will be leading three different groups on Amizade...
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Amizade in Nicaragua!
We are thrilled to share with you more exciting new developments from Amizade! Volunteers now have the opportunity to travel with Amizade to Nicaragua! In partnership with the Cooperative La Hermandad,...
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Grace’s Service-Learning Adventure: Part 4
Throughout January 2013, former Amizade intern, current Slippery Rock University senior, and winner of PENNACE Student of Year, Grace Evans will be leading three different groups on Amizade...
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Grace’s Service-Learning Adventure: Part 5
Throughout January 2013, former Amizade intern, current Slippery Rock University senior, and winner of PENNACE Student of Year, Grace Evans will be leading three different groups on Amizade...
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Amizade at the UN for the NGO Committe on Social Development
Last week the NGO Committee on Social Development affirmed its 2013 Civil Society Declaration at its annual Civil Society Forum. Amizade Board of Directors Chair, Chad Martin, was in attendance and...
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Grace’s Service-Learning Adventure: Part 6
Throughout January 2013, former Amizade intern, current Slippery Rock University senior, and winner of PENNACE Student of Year, Grace Evans will be leading three different groups on Amizade...
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Summer Service in Brazil: Part 2
In May of 2013, students from West Virginia University Honors College traveled to Santarem, Brazil with Amizade Global Service-Learning. While in Brazil the students learned about the challenges of...
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Service-Learning in Appalachia with First Parish Youth
This summer, 60 members of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church traveled from Arlington, Massachusetes to one of Amizade’s newest sites in Williamson, West Virginia. Throughout their week in...
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English Language and Culture in Pittsburgh
One can read hundreds of quotations and advice about the benefits of travel, using the world as your classroom and venturing outside your comfort zone. But what happens when you have the privilege of...
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Service-Learning in Appalachia with First Parish Youth: Part 2
This summer, 60 members of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church traveled from Arlington, Massachusetes to one of Amizade’s newest sites in Williamson, West Virginia. Throughout their week in...
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“Middle of Somewhere” – The Navajo Nation
I met the student group at the Phoenix airport and their professor after renting a 12 passenger van. The Amizade staff had provided me with a meticulous itinerary and Google maps indicating the route...
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20 Years Time: While The Pirates Were Losing, The World Was Winning
~Brandon Blache-Cohen, Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning For the last two decades, a small group of Pittsburghers have had a unique window into the world, witnessing its great...
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Fair Trade Learning
Former Amizade Executive Director and Board Member, Eric Hartman is looking for your feedback. Eric, along with international education practitioners and researchers, nongovernmental organization...
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Meredith in Brazil
This summer, recent Duquesne University graduate and Amizade intern, Meredith Cann traveled to Amizade’s site in Brazil. As an Individual Volunteer, Meredith spent a full month staying with a host...
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Congratulations!
Amizade is proud to announce that 3 people in the Amizade family have recently been awarded funding from The AllPeopleBeHappy Foundation. Becky Gailey is one of seven Fall 2013 Volunteer Service Award...
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