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| | November 4, 2022

Communiversity Youth Program

Communiversity Youth Programs (CYP), sponsored by the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC, is a program helping local elementary and middle school students expand their experiences and education outside of the classroom. UNC Bonners have helped local youth learn valuable skills and gain new experiences through activities like culinary workshops, […]
| | November 4, 2022

we are

we are (working to extend anti-racist education) provides anti-racism training for children, families, and educators. we are works towards dismantling systemic racism in education by offering summer camps for children in rising 1st-5th grade, professional development for educators, and workshops for parents and families. UNC Bonner leaders have gotten the chance to help provide resources […]
| | November 15, 2018

Compass Center for Women and Families

Compass Center for Women and Families helps all people navigate their journey to self-sufficiency, safety, and health. The Center empowers individuals and promotes equal access to opportunity regardless of gender or economic status. Services include career and financial education, domestic violence crisis and prevention programs, assistance with legal resources, and youth health programs. For more […]
| | November 15, 2018

Community Empowerment Fund (CEF)

The Community Empowerment Fund (CEF) is a student-powered non-profit organization focused on enabling and sustaining transitions out of homelessness and poverty. Founded in 2009, CEF provides relationship-based support, workforce development, financial education, and matched savings accounts to individuals experiencing or at-risk of experiencing homelessness in Orange and Durham Counties of North Carolina. CEF's approach combines […]
| November 15, 2017

A Bonner Beginner

The following blog was written by Veda Patil, a first-year Bonner partnered with the Jackson Center.   Before I was a Bonner, I didn’t think I could be one. When I heard about the Bonner Leaders Program at orientation this summer, I wasn’t sure it was something I was cut out for. It sounded like […]
| November 13, 2017

Bonner Congress 2017

The following blog was written by Owais Mahmood, a sophomore Bonner Leader who is partnered with Dobbins Hill and was selected to be the sophomore representative at the national Bonner Congress.  I would have imagined the experienced that I had during Bonner Congress! It was full of excitement, perspective and loads of Bonner Love! I […]
| November 9, 2017

Close your Eyes. Breathe. Have you changed?

The following blog was written by Jerome Allen, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the Bonner Leaders Program who has been working in the Ukraine through Peace Corps. "Close your eyes. Breathe. Now, imagine yourself in front of the Campus Y in four years in your cap and gown. Have you changed? Imagine looking at the faces […]
| | October 23, 2017

Dan'Tayia Marable

Dan'Tayia Marable is a Biology major with minors in Chemistry and African and African-American Diaspora Studies. The social justice issues in which Dan'Tayia focuses on through her community partner are education and more directly closing the school to prison pipeline, as well as community building. At the Rogers Road Community Center, Dan'Tayia is the administrative assistant […]
| | October 17, 2017

Tiffany Turner

Tiffany Turner is a senior Public Policy major with minors in Social and Economic Justice and Marine Science. Over the last three years with Bonner Leaders, Tiffany was partnered with TABLE, a Carrboro nonprofit that provides healthy, emergency food aid to children in the area. At TABLE, Tiffany served on the Board, as liaison for the Tar […]
| | October 17, 2017

Kamille Vargas

Kamille Vargas graduated from Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Vargas worked as a Karate Teacher Assistant at family development center, volunteered for Beverly Woods Elementary's Mother and Son Carnival, Santa's Bag, Ronald McDonald House, and Centro Medico Latino's Fair, among others. Vargas enjoys driving at night. As a Bonner, she words with Hargraves […]
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