The Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University connects academic study with community and public service to strengthen communities and develop effective public leaders.
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- Location:
- Stanford, CA, 94305
- Phone:
- (650) 723–0992
- Mon - Fri:
- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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- Haas Center Open House
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Saturday, September 19 at 1:00pm - Graduation Breakfast
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Sunday, June 14 at 7:00am - Research with a Public Purpose...
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Friday, May 29 at 11:00am - Debra Satz: Lecture on Public ...
Lane History (Building 200), room 205
Thursday, May 21 at 4:00pm - Student Party at Haas!
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Friday, May 15 at 3:00pm
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University "We have the students, the employer, the employees, the public service center and the study body organization. You have everyone together in this program."
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Every Saturday afternoon at the Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford students pair up with campus employees’ children as part of the Tutoring for Community program. (Courtesy of Adrienne Pon)
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Do you believe that public service is important to a university education?
Tonight the ASSU and the Haas Center will host a town hall to discuss the Haas Center's strategic plan. Can't make it? Feel free to respond here, or email us!
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As the Haas Center for Public Service turns 25 this year, it is beginning an extensive check-up that includes creating a five-year strategic plan to reevaluate its role both in Stanford education and in community outreach.
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University For eight years now, usually in spring quarter, Janice Ross, MA '75, PhD '98, has taught Dance 197: Dance in Prisons: The Arts, Juvenile Justice, and Rehabilitation in America--a service-learning course that brings Stanford students face to face with America's burgeoning corrections system. The class intersperses lectu...res by experts on criminal justice and by pioneers in the prison arts movement with dance sessions with juvenile offenders.
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STEPPING OUT: Offenders and at-risk youth at Gateway School welcome a recreational activity with Stanford dance students.
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Campus Camp Wellstone is coming to Stanford! Learn to hone the skills
we use everyday to fight for our causes/passions/beliefs.
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Stanford is hosting its first Campus Camp Wellstoneon Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8. Campus Camp Wellstone is a 1.5 day training program held on college and university campuses around the country. ...
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University "Groups like STAMP, STOP, Night Outreach and the Stanford Project on Hunger (SPOON) do their best to help the area homeless and also raise awareness on campus."
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Apart from periodic rumors of strangers sleeping in Meyer, the issue of homelessness largely remains detached from Stanford campus.
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A question from John Gardner (from our friends at the Stanford Social Innovation Review): "Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike, into their 80s and 90s?" (Gardner was the first Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Ch...air in Public Service, and we have a fellowship in his name: http://haas.stanford.edu/fellowships/gar
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Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
See MoreHaas Center for Public Service at Stanford University Help the Haas Center foster a love of reading in young people of all ages (and hear from students at East Palo Alto Academy High school). For more information about our bookdrive, visit http://haas.stanford.edu/bringabook
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The Haas Center for Public Service, in partnership with the Stanford Alumni Association and Stanford Bookstore, is collecting new and gently used books this Alumni Homecoming Weekend (October 23-25, 2009). ...
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University Amanda Gelender '10 and the Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project (STAMP) were on NPR today. You can listen to excerpts of their production Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
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More college students than ever before are seeking psychiatric help on campus, according to recent national surveys of campus therapists. To raise awareness and dispel stigma, one innovative student theater group dramatized real-life accounts from students living with mental health problems.
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University We asked students why they choose action over apathy. Here is Catherine Lisa Aranda's answer. Why do you choose action over apathy?
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Connection to the Haas Center: EPASA tutor coordinator, Haas Summer fellow (Summer 2007), Youth and Education fellow (EPASA) (Summer 2008), Community Arts fellow (Summer 2009), Community Service Work-Study, Alternative Spring Break
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"One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and--pop!--out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar..." Today staff and students read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Jumpstart East Palo Alto preschoolers. There's still time for you to read it and be counted for Read for the Record! http://haas.stanford.edu/readfortherecor
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Can you imagine your childhood without your favorite stories? Neither can we. But the fact is that most children in low-income communities have few, if any, age-appropriate books in their homes. The number of books in a home is the single strongest indicator of a child's future reading ability. ...
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Compton, from the Inside:
A historian revisits his hometown to look at life beyond the stereotype (featuring Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor Al Camarillo)
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It has been more than 20 years since the rap group N.W.A released Straight Outta Compton. But the albuma sociological milestone in popular culturemade a lasting imprint. Compton remains shorthand for a violent, gang-ridden ghetto.
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University We have a new website and are looking for feedback and photos! Please visit http://haas.stanford.edu and let us know what you think. If you have a great photo for the front page banner, please let us know--we're looking to represent public service of all kinds at Stanford.
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We're proud to present a new Stanford Challenge video about the Haas Centerfeaturing Kiyomi Burchill '06 and Faculty Director Gabe Garcia.
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University Every student can have an impact through public service. Opportunities through student service groups, local nonprofits, and Haas Center programs allow students like you to work toward positive social change through activism, advocacy, direct service, philanthropy, policy/politics, and research. Come talk with student ...leaders from 50+ community service and political/social awareness student organizations as well as Haas Center staff about how you can apply what you're learning toward social justice.
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University "Millennials, generally those in their 20s, are coming out of college and seeking jobs with a social mission in droves, said Abby Conover, postgraduate program coordinator at Stanford's Haas Center for Public Service."
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Now that the financial system has been rocked to its core, “social capital” is getting a lot of buzz. But what is it? It boils down to putting your efforts into jobs with a socially positive impact, connecting money with meaning and investing with those principles in mind.
Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University Here's the video!
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Turning a campus kitchen into a classroom, Stanford Professor Rob Reich gets his students to think about food as something more than just what shows up on their plates. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu ...
