This document discusses the DEEP Initiative of the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy at Siena College, which aims to build a more just, peaceful, and humane world through academic community engagement. It outlines the initiative's goals of supporting faculty and student service and academics, and having a positive impact on the community. It then describes the initiative's service model, areas of focus, and partnerships with community organizations.

1. Academic Community
Engagement
The DEEP Initiative of the
Franciscan Center for
Service and Advocacy:
“...building a world that is
more just, peaceable and
humane.”

2. Academic
Community Engagement
“...building a world that is more just, peaceable and humane.”
“[O]ur intellectual endeavors must be in conversation with the
suffering in our local and national communities so as to provide
a real experiential basis for asking and reflecting on the big
questions of our day, questions that exercised the early
Franciscans themselves (Fr. Michael Blastic, OFM).”

3. Academic Community
Engagement
•Build Infrastructure to support Academic Community
Engagement for Siena Faculty
•Build Integration of Service and Academics for Siena
students
•Plan for positive impact of Siena service activities in the
community on both acute and systemic roots

4. DEEP Service Model
Developing Engaging Educational Experiences
Infrastructure:
We provide an infrastructure of academic support services for faculty,
students, and community partners.
Multi-faceted:
Our approach to Community Partnerships includes collaboration on:
a. Siena VISTA Fellows Site Placements
b. Siena Bonner Service Leader Site Placements
c. Academic Service Learning Partnerships
d. Academic Internship Site Placements
e. Occasional Volunteer Site Placements
f. Site-Based Team Management of Volunteers
g. Community-Based Research Partnerships
h. Collaborative Resource Development
i. Collaborative Strategic Planning
j. Non-Profit Community Networking and Collaboration
k. Technical Assistance (Web 2.0, Board Training, etc.)
I. an ongoing, three-year plan of collaboration with each partner.

5. DEEP Service Model
Capacity Building:
In each Partnership we make, our goal is to build the capacity of:
a. the organization to meet the needs of its clients
b. the student to successfully take leadership roles that emphasize justice and service
c. the faculty to better integrate place-based and problem-based learning into their
classes by aligning the needs of community partners with course learning objectives
to produce rigorous learning experiences that are also of service to others.
Developmental Commitment:
We are developmentally oriented and committed to sustainable Community Partnerships.
Integrated:
We seek to more fully integrate the academic pathways and experiences of students with
the service experiences in which they participate. This may take the form of Academic
Service Learning, but may also take the form of assisting students with connecting cognate
course work with an issue of particular importance to the Community Partner with which
they are serving or the form of Community-Based Research projects . For examples a
student working on refugee resettlement with a Community Partner may be advised to take
a political science course on Refugees and Child Soldiers.
Contextualized:
We encourage and facilitate students and others to reflect on their participation in
Community Partnerships through the lenses of social, philosophical, and theological
analysis.

6. Program Areas
Academic Service Learning Siena Bonner VISTA National
Community Based Service Program Research
Research (SBSP)
(ASL/CBR)
PBSL SBSL VISTA Fellows ASCE
CBR- SBSA- SVSoS Community
Course Based Academic Associates Needs
Non-Course Based Non-Academic
PolicyOptions.org
ASL Interns SBSoS Associates National and Social Capital
Regional
Training
Course Designation BWBRS National and
Regional
Consultation

7. ASL/CBR
Background
Training
Support
Resources
Rigor

8. ASL/CBR
Problem Based Service
Community Based Research
Learning- PBSL
Learn and Serve America/Campus Compact Learn and Serve America/Princeton University/Bonner
24 Trained and Stipended Faculty 6 Stipended PolicyOptions.org Faculty
Campus Compact Membership Siena Greenway-Hudson Project
Roundtables and Conferences Environmental Studies
All Three Schools Center for Law and Justice/ Times Union Study
Science--Mary Anne Eagan, Jean Mangun, Jim Mathews,
Larry Wolbright, Kate Meierdiecks, Rose Fin (this Center for Law and Justice/ Focus Group Study
January)
Business--Paul Thurston, Andrea Smith Hunter, Raj
Davesegyam, Jim Booker, Cheryl Buff, John O’Neil (this
January)
Liberal Arts--Tom Dickens, Karen Mahar, Jenn Dorsey,
Max Levine, Robyn Voterl, Donna McIntosh, Diane
Strock-Lynski

12. Siena Bonner Service
Leaders Program
• “Access to Education Opportunity to Serve”
• 4 year program
• 10 Recruited Freshmen per year (1800 hrs/4 yrs)
• 5-7 upperclassmen “walk-ons” per year
(300-450hr/yr terms)
• Full Enrollment will be 60 students

13. SBSL Program Pillars
• Service: NCAA Div. 1 Varsity Academic Service Team
• Site Placement and Team Approach
• Training and Professional Development
• Leadership and National Network Participation
• Academic Track

14. SBSL Program
Academic Track
• Currently Specialized Foundations
• Specialized Sociological Perspectives focused on poverty
• Academic Advising to synchronize academics with
service, both in terms of content and skills of courses
• Internship and capstone integrating academic
experience in or outside major.
• Would like to work towards integrating the Academic
Track and current FCSA Minor.

15. Campus Collaboration
Siena Bonner Service Siena Bonner Summer of Bonner Web-based
Associates Service Associates Reporting System (BWBRS)
Any Student interested in earning a
National AmeriCorps Education Similar to Siena Bonner Service Web-based tracking for service
Award, but not a part of the Siena Associates activities
Bonner Service Program
Complete their term of service in
Two Categories:
summer Can Track Service of Anyone
Academic and Non-Academic
(300 hour term)
Academic: same qualify hour to count
for academic credit and AmeriCorps
Award. Work Study Tracking
Ex. Social Work Field Experience
Non-Academic: May enroll and count
their hours done as a part of another Customizable Fields (pending)
service club or initiative on campus

16. BWBRS

17. VISTA Program
Siena VISTA Fellows VISTA Summer of Service
Post-Graduate Year of Service (16-18)
Associates
8 week terms
Similiar to Siena Bonner Service Program- Summer of
Anti-poverty Capacity Building-Indirect Service
Service Associates-Indirect service
Program Team/Site Teams Only available in current VISTA Fellow sites
Supportive Program Infrastructure
Strong relationships between site-supervisors and
VISTAs
Professional Development Training
Academic Enrichment Program

18. DEEP Partnerships
Placements Performance Measurements Program Infrastructure
Training and Enrichment: Bonner
3 year strategic plan and VISTA Weekly Meetings, Site team
Evaluations: Mid year, End, Exit
Assignment Description Meetings, PDO, Biweekly staff
meetings
Pre-meeting
Site Based Teams Site Visits Work Study
Community Learning Agreement
Academic Orientation One on One Meetings Presence of National Service
Revise Tracking Community Partner Support

19. Deep Service Infrastructure
OCCASIONAL
VOLUNTEERS:
GOOD ACTS
CHARITY
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
(CURRENT FCSA)
COMMUNITY
PARTNERS

20. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate VOLUNTEERS:
full-time GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded CHARITY
Anti-poverty DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
COMMUNITY
PARTNERS

21. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate Bonner (60):
VOLUNTEERS:
full-time Long term developmental
GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded Academically Integrated service
CHARITY
Anti-poverty placements
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (GRETCHEN)
(CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
COMMUNITY
PARTNERS

22. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate Bonner (60):
VOLUNTEERS:
full-time Long term developmental
GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded Academically Integrated service
CHARITY
Anti-poverty placements
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (GRETCHEN)
(CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
Resource Development
COMMUNITY
PARTNERS

23. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate Bonner (60):
VOLUNTEERS:
full-time Long term developmental
GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded Academically Integrated service
CHARITY
Anti-poverty placements
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (GRETCHEN)
(CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
Resource Development
COMMUNITY
PARTNERS
ADVOCACY:
POLICY
ACTIVISM
SOCIAL CHANGE

24. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate Bonner (60):
VOLUNTEERS:
full-time Long term developmental
GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded Academically Integrated service
CHARITY
Anti-poverty placements
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (GRETCHEN)
(CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
Resource Development
COMMUNITY
PARTNERS
ADVOCACY:
POLICY
NETWORKING: ACTIVISM
BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CHANGE

25. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate Bonner (60):
VOLUNTEERS:
full-time Long term developmental
GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded Academically Integrated service
CHARITY
Anti-poverty placements
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (GRETCHEN)
(CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
Resource Development
COMMUNITY
PARTNERS
ADVOCACY:
POLICY
Technical Assistance
NETWORKING: ACTIVISM
BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CHANGE

26. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate Bonner (60):
VOLUNTEERS:
full-time Long term developmental
GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded Academically Integrated service
CHARITY
Anti-poverty placements
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (GRETCHEN)
(CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
ASL/CBR (20):
Academic Service Learning Resource Development
Community Based Research COMMUNITY
(LAUREN) PARTNERS
ADVOCACY:
POLICY
Technical Assistance
NETWORKING: ACTIVISM
BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CHANGE

27. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA (15): OCCASIONAL
Post-graduate Bonner (60):
VOLUNTEERS:
full-time Long term developmental
GOOD ACTS
Academically Grounded Academically Integrated service
CHARITY
Anti-poverty placements
DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Capacity Building (GRETCHEN)
(CURRENT FCSA)
(YALITZA)
ASL/CBR (20):
Academic Service Learning Resource Development
Community Based Research COMMUNITY
(LAUREN) PARTNERS
ADVOCACY:
POLICY
Technical Assistance
NETWORKING: ACTIVISM
BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CHANGE

28. Strategic Partnerships
Presentations
• Unity House
• Grand Street Community Arts

29. Deep Service Infrastructure
VISTA:
Post-graduate, full-time, Academically Grounded, Anti-poverty , Capacity Building
VISTA
Bonner:
Bonner
Long term developmental, Academically Integrated service placements
Bonner
OCCASIONAL VOLUNTEERS: Bonner
GOOD ACTS, CHARITY, DRIVES AND --ATHONS
Bonner
ASL/CBR: ADVOCACY:
Academic Service POLICY, ACTIVISM, SOCIAL CHANGE
Learning, COMMUNITY
Community Based PARTNERS
Research NETWORKING:
BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL OCCASIONAL
VOLUNTEERS
Technical Assistance
Resource Development
Bridging Campus and Community

30. Serving the Mission
• Emily Merritt said...The Siena Bonner Service Leaders Program fits perfectly into the
mission of the college. By serving our Siena and surrounding communities and helping
others we are showing "reverence for all creation" and "affirm the unique worth of
each person." We strive in the presence of diversity and appreciate the beauty in
everyone and everything we encounter, which is why we love devoting our time to
others, especially the "poor and marginalized", and learning from all of our
experiences. The Siena Bonner community as a whole is one "where the members work
together in friendship and respect" to "commit to building a world that is more just,
peaceable, and humane." These values and attributes make us a truly unique group of
people that is strong and special. Our actions, leadership, and motivation are what make
the world a more enjoyable place to live. What we learn and give lasts forever.
November 18, 2009 7:46 PM

31. Moving Forward
• Spring 2010 Updates
• March Conference INSPIRE 2010
“do justice, love mercy, walk humbly”
• New ADACE
• New VISTA
• Sneak Preview of Summer 2010 Projects
• Associates
• ASL/CBR Conference
• BWBRS Campus Wide

32. •Questions????
• Lets build together!