Next week, we will welcome our fifth class into the Clinton School’s Master of Public Service degree program. After a week of orientation activities, the 36 students will begin regular classes on August 24. CLICK HERE for more details on Class 5.
Read MorePhilanthropy Scholar to Study Nonprofit Funding
With the help of two Clinton School students, Besel will study the ability of nonprofit organizations in the center’s target areas of the Arkansas Delta region and New Orleans to leverage funding from the private sector.
Read MoreBeatrice in the News
Clinton School student Beatrice Biira of Heifer International fame is featured in a video on NBC’s new website thegrio.com.
Read MoreIPSP Update: Turo Helping AIDS Orphanage in Uganda
I have been spending this summer completing my IPSP with the Nyaka AIDS Foundation in Uganda. One of Nyaka’s most successful components has been its Grannies Project, which has mobilized more than 6,000 women in two districts. After having lost their own children to HIV/AIDS, many of these women have stepped up raise their grandchildren, the next generation of Ugandans.
Read MorePreparing for Incoming Class
With student orientation just around the corner, Clinton School faculty and staff are preparing for our fifth class. CLICK HERE to read the 36 students’ bios. Part of that preparation includes organizing the 2009-2010 Practicum Projects.
Read More2009 Class Gift
The Class of 2009 delivered a wonderful “class gift” to the Clinton School today. The pottery pictured below from Miller’s Mud Mill in Dumas, Ark., will be on display at the Clinton School River Market Campus. A plaque marking the gift is also pictured:
Read MoreIPSP Update: Fischer in Bolivia
Hola from Bolivia. I am spending my summer working at La Colónia Ecológica, an orphanage and afterschool center devoted to helping children and adolescents in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Founded in 2002 by Francisco Villanueva Torrez (Kiko) and Maria del Carmen Vargas Doria Medina (Carmen), La Colónia serves over 114 children, 30 of whom live at the center and have either been abandoned or whose parents work long hours in low paying jobs.
Read MoreIPSP Update: Obama Visits Ghana
Currently completing my International Public Service Project (IPSP) in Accra, Ghana, I was delighted to find out that President Obama would be visiting the country during my time here. And of all the cities in all the countries of the world, he just completed his visit to city where I am currently spending the summer.
Read MoreStudents Weigh in on LR’s Top 12 Attractions
Mayor Mark Stodola and the City of Little Rock’s tourism committee recently released a new brochure listing the “Top Twelve” attractions in Little Rock. Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford is a member of that committee.
Read MoreIPSP Update: Turro Works with HIV/AIDS Orphans in Uganda
I am completing my international project at Nyaka AIDS Orphans School which located in Nyakagyezi village in southwestern Uganda. Nyaka serves more than 300 children who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS and with more than 2 million AIDS orphans in the country, the needs are very great.
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