This document provides information about the Bonner Vision and program. It discusses the goals of providing college students opportunities to engage in community service through developmental and financial support. The Bonner program aims to promote access, diversity, civic engagement, community building, social justice, international perspective, and spiritual exploration. It also outlines common commitments for Bonner scholars, including engaging in weekly service, developing as agents of change, serving legitimate community needs, connecting service to studies, and accomplishing inspiring projects. The document summarizes the impact of the four-year Bonner program on student development and skills. It outlines community impact goals around cooperation between campus and community, strengthening a culture of service, and forming a higher education consortium committed to service.

1. Bonner Vision,
History & Future
Welcome to New
Members of the Bonner
Community

4. Bonner Summer
Interns

5. Bonner
Program Motto
Access to Education,
Opportunity to Serve
To afford college students
an opportunity to use their
energy, talents, and
leadership skills to engage in
community service while
providing developmental and
financial support.

6. Diversity
Respect the many different
dimensions of diversity in
our public lives.
Civic Engagement
Participate intentionally as a
citizen in the democratic process,
actively engaging in public policy
and direct service.
Community Building
Establish and sustain a
vibrant community of place,
personal relationships and
common interests.
Social Justice
Advocate for fairness, impartiality and
equality while addressing systemic social
and environmental issues.
International Perspective:
Develop international understanding
that enables Bonners to participate
successfully in a global society.
Spiritual Exploration
Explore personal beliefs while
respecting the spiritual practices
of others.
Common
Commitments

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% of TOTAL 40% 49% 59% 67% 74% 79% 85% 89% 91% 93% 94% 94% 95% 96% 96% 97% 97% 97% 97% 98% 100%
BONNER SCHOLAR PROGRAM
ESTIMATED FAMILY CONTRIBUTION (EFCO) DISTRIBUTION
Class of 2009 - 2015
Who are the Bonner students?

9. ✴Engage every week, every
semester
✴Develop and grow as an agent
of change
✴Serve legitimate needs and
make an impact
✴Connect service and studies,
and connect people
✴Accomplish inspiring projects!
✴Graduate and stay involved
What does a
Bonner do?

10. ✦Yield tool - access and diversity
✦Builds an infrastructure to engage
every week, every semester
✦Provides a developmental, multi-
year program model
✦Shifts how institutions sustain
partnerships to make an impact
✦Connects co-curricular and
curricular pathways
✦Promotes graduation and grades
✦Builds institution’s reputation
Why Does The
Bonner Program
Matter?

11. ★Four years are significant
★Proven skill learning
(developmental model)
★Commitment to social justice
★Dialogue across difference
★Power of structured and
unstructured reflection
★The importance of mentors
★Civic-minded professionalism
Proven Impact on
Students

12. Community
Impact Goals
Change the Count
To facilitate greater
cooperation and communication
between the campus and the
community by channeling the
energies and talents of
college students faculty, and
staff to help address the
challenges and opportunities
of a local community.

13. Campus
Development
Everybody everyday!
To challenge and strengthen
a “culture of service” in
which the school’s teaching,
research, and service mission
are integrated and every
student, faculty, and staff
is encouraged to serve.

14. Higher Education
Goals
Service-Based
Scholarships
To form a consortium of
diverse higher education
institutions sharing a common
commitment to service and to
serve as a successful model
to other institutions which are
interested in starting service-
based scholarship programs.

15. SERVICE
• # of alumni who go on to serve in the Peace
Corps, relative to school size.
• % of students who serve in ROTC.
• The third gives the % of funds in Federal
Work-Study money that goes to community
service (versus non-community service).
• Combined measure of the # of students
participating in community service +
the total # of service hours performed,
both relative to school size.
• # of staff supporting community
service, relative to the total # of staff; the #
of academic courses that incorporate
service, relative to school size
• Whether the institution provides
scholarships for community service.

16. Student
Development
“Access to
Education,
Opportunity to
Serve”
Campus Infrastructure
Culture of service
Community
Partnerships
Measurable
impact
Integrated Approach

17. Bonner Transformation Goals
Systems
Organizations
Programs
Individuals
& Places

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

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

20. 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

21. 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

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

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

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

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

26. CommunityCampus
Systems
Leverage Bonner Network
as a community of best practice,
and resource for higher education
locally and nationally
Partner in capacity-building for
collaboratives working to
achieve measurable community
and systemic change.
Organizations
Build campus center that
leads effort to make
place-based community
engagement deep, pervasive,
integrated & developmental.
Partner in capacity-building
for organizations to
improve effectiveness,
efficiency, and resources.
Programs
Develop and integrate
community engaged learning
courses & programs.
Train & support leaders who
develop & manage evidence-
based programs and projects.
Individuals
& Places
Develop & engage students’
knowledge, skills, values, and
collective action.
Mobilize students, faculty, staff, &
community members to support
individuals & places.
Bonner Transformation Goals

27. Transformation

29. “Few will have the greatness to bend
history itself, but each of us can
work to change a small portion of
events. It is from numberless diverse
acts of courage and belief that
human history is shaped. Each time
a man stands up for an ideal, or acts
to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends
forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy and
daring those ripples build a current
which can sweep down the
mightiest walls of oppression and
resistance.”
Robert Francis Kennedy

30. Who are the Bonner Directors & Coordinators?