For the National Bonner Fellow Retreat on September 28-30.

1. National Bonner
Fellow Retreat
Washington & Lee University • September 28-30, 2015

2. Purpose
• Leverage and channel experience
• Leadership development
• Building networked capabilities

3. The Fellowship
• National Leadership Role
• Leadership and Leadership Development
• Resource Development
• Meetings
• Campus and Program Support

4. beloved community

5. WHO ARE we?

6. sharing our pathways
• a few significant
moments or parts of
your own life that have
brought you to this
place
• where you hope it
might lead

7. a common commitment
• “Access to Education, Opportunity to Serve”

8. Goals

9. transformation

10. Campus Change
Individuals
& Places
Develop & engage
students’ knowledge,
skills, values, and
collective action.
Bonner Transformation Goals

11. Develop and integrate
community engaged
learning courses &
programs.
Programs
Individuals
& Places
Campus Change
Bonner Transformation Goals

12. Organizations
Build campus center that
leads effort to make
place-based community
engagement deep, pervasive,
integrated & developmental.
Programs
Individuals
& Places
Campus Change
Bonner Transformation Goals

13. Systems
Leverage Bonner Network
as a community of best
practice, and resource for
higher education locally and
nationally
Organizations
Programs
Individuals
& Places
Campus Change
Bonner Transformation Goals

14. Individuals
& Places
Mobilize students, faculty,
staff, & community
members to support
individuals & places.
Bonner Transformation Goals
Community Change

15. Programs
Individuals
& Places
Train & support leaders who
develop & manage
evidence-based programs and
projects.
Bonner Transformation Goals
Community Change

16. Organizations
Partner in capacity-building
for organizations to improve
effectiveness, efficiency, and
resources.
Programs
Individuals
& Places
Bonner Transformation Goals
Community Change

17. Systems
Partner in capacity-building
for collaboratives working to
achieve measurable
community and systemic
change.
Organizations
Programs
Individuals
& Places
Bonner Transformation Goals
Community Change

18. Meetings

19. Meetings
• Bonner Congress (October 9-11 at the
University of Houston)
• Fall Directors Meeting and Assessment
Institute (November 1-5, 2015 at the
Claggett Center)
• Summer Leadership Institute ( at Maryville
College)

20. campus consultation

21. campus consultation

22. platforms
• Website
• Wiki
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Slideshare & YouTube
• Others

23. website

24. wiki

25. facebook

26. linked in

27. others

28. directors advisory council
• Ashley Cochrane, Berea College
• Tricia Dusick, Edgewood College
• Rick Ellis, Washburn University
• Anne McKee, Maryville College
• Deb Myers, Mars Hill College
• Ruth Janisch-Lake, Macalester College
• Walt Tennyson, Rhodes College
• Krystal Woolston, Montclair State University

29. bonner advisory board
• Greg Barber, Morehouse College ‘17
• Anna-Grace Barry, Carson-Newman University ‘17
• Megan Breitenbach, Montclair State University ‘16
• Diamond Carr, Rider University ‘16
• Jonathan Franklin, Wofford College ‘16
• John Massey, Stetson University ‘16
• Derrion May, Waynesburg University ‘16
• Tabi Rudinski, Ursinus College ‘16
• Kiki Spiezio, Washington & Lee University ‘17
• Aaron Smith, Widener University ‘17
• Chloe Stowell, University of Houston ‘17

30. program liaisons
Elvis Diaz, Program Associate

31. management liaisons

32. YOUR LIFE’S WORK?

33. be curious!
be
generous!
be kind!