Projects 2009

The first Projects for Justice and Sustainability grants have been awarded!

• A grant will allow the department of music to sponsor a choral competition. The goal of the project is to solicit and select a choral music composition for public performance that has as its inspiration and text some connection to the concepts of justice and/or sustainability. The composer of the selected composition will receive a prize and will travel to campus for the final rehearsals. The selected composition will be performed by Jewell students in the choral studies program at the annual summit sponsored by the Center for Justice and Sustainability.

• Alaina Barclay, a junior nonprofit leadership major from Kansas City, MO, received a grant to travel to Mozambique, Africa for three weeks this summer to work at the Carolina Belshe Orphanage.

• Abigail Pratt, a sophomore religion major from Liberty, MO received a grant to travel to central and eastern Uganda for three weeks with a group of undergraduate students sponsored by the "student.go" program of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

Projects for Justice and Sustainability is an annual competition sponsored by the Center for student-developed and student-executed projects. The grant program allows students an opportunity to develop, formally propose, receive funding for, and conduct research/action projects related to issues of justice and/or sustainability. We hope to announce each year's winners and hear from the previous year's winners at the annual Justice Summit. In this, our first year, the committee who determines the winners of Jewell's Pritchard Humanitarian Service Award served to determine the Projects for Justice & Sustainability as well.