{"id":130,"date":"2020-02-18T18:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offices-test.csilverman.com\/civicengagement\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2021-07-03T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:29:19","slug":"student-organizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/student-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-Directed Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Inserted by Dropdownizer plugin. Forces video embeds contained in dropdowns to have a size --><style>.dropdownizer__dropdown iframe { width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Vassar students interact with the community is various ways. As a student, you may explore the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/community-engaged-learning\/\"><em>Community Engaged Learning<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;program. Students may decide to volunteer in the community and that can take place through working directly with a community organization, working through a student directed organization, or working with a Vassar sponsored program. Student led organizations are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Generations<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Visit Vassar Warner nursing home residents each Saturday<br><a href=\"mailto:generations.vsa@vassar.edu\">generations.vsa@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Hunger Action<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Educate about food insecurity in the area and serve free meals<br><a href=\"mailto:hungeraction.vsa@vassar.edu\">hungeraction.vsa@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Pro Health<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Discuss Health issues\/ Provide weekly healthy snacks at Catherine St Center Community Center<br><a href=\"mailto:prohealth.vsa@vassar.edu\">prohealth.vsa@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Habitat for Humanity<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Help create homes through working with local chapter<br><a href=\"mailto:habitatforhumanity.vsa@vassar.edu\">habitatforhumanity.vsa@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Food Rescue<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Recover catered, dining hall food and deliver to area shelters<br><a href=\"mailto:hahabib@vassar.edu\">hahabib@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Vassar Refugee Solidarity<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Assisting refugees settling in area and in Albany<br><a href=\"mailto:vcsolidarity@vassar.edu\">vcsolidarity@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Foundation for International Relief of Children<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Health Education at Children\u2019s Home<br><a href=\"mailto:saseper@vassar.edu\">saseper@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>VC++<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Teaching Computer Programming to area youth<br><a href=\"mailto:corose@vassar.edu\">corose@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Community Health Educators<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Teaching Health Education at Poughkeepsie High School<br><a href=\"mailto:saaltmanezzaed@vassar.edu\">saaltmanezzaed@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vassar students interact with the community is various ways. As a student, you may explore the&nbsp;Community Engaged Learning&nbsp;program. Students may decide to volunteer in the community and that can take place through working directly with a community organization, working through a student directed organization, or working with a Vassar sponsored program. Student led organizations are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/civic-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}