UlsterCorps: Volunteerism and Community Service in Ulster County, New York

Service Summit 2011

Thank you to all the participants, sponsors, facilitators & speakers who helped make the 2011 Service Summit so inspiring and successful!

Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2011 Service Summit so inspiring and successful – to all the participants, sponsors, facilitators & speakers – Dr. Gerry Benjamin, Mark Walter, Nancy Pompeo, Kevin Cahill, & most of all, the amazing New Visions hs students for their fantastic work on the Hunger Project!

Second Annual UlsterCorps Service Summit
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
8:30am-Noon
SUNY New Paltz
Co-sponsored by the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO), Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Ulster Savings Bank, and RiverTides

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The second annual UlsterCorps Service Summit focused on the End Hunger Project as a model collaboration for the County and included presentations by BOCES New Visions student representatives, Mark Walter, Executive Director of the New York State Office of National & Community Service, and Concluding Remarks by Assemblymember Kevin Cahill. Once again the Summit brought together over 60 representatives from the nonprofit, business, higher education and governmental sectors in Ulster County and built on positive outcomes of the first Summit. It was co-sponsored by the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO) at SUNY New Paltz, Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Ulster Savings Bank, and RiverTides.

Erica Wagner, SUNY New Paltz, Rev. Duncan Burns, Angel Food East, Diane Reeder, Queens Galley, Sarah Urech, Oncology Support Program, and Victoria Langling, Markertek/Daily Bread Soup Kitchen at the 2010 UlsterCorps Service Summit. Photo: Nicci Cagan, From the Ground Up

The information gathered at the Service Summit will be shared with community agencies working to use volunteers more effectively, businesses interested in increasing their employees’ involvement, and local government in their efforts to strengthen the well-being of communities in Ulster County. This event is part of the on-going work of UlsterCorps to deepen the knowledge about volunteerism and to find ways to implement and grow a culture of service and collaboration in Ulster County.

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New Visions Hunger Project Research Documents
Presented at the 2011 Summit:
Research Document 1 – Ulster County Soup Kitchens + Food Pantries
Research Document 2 – NV Hunger Project Logic Model
Research Document 3 – Interactive Map of Food Pantries, Supermarkets & UCAT Bus Routes
created by Ulster County BOCES New Visions Health Career Explorations students, 2011

Stiles Najac, Food Security Coordinator for Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Doris Weber, Family of Woodstock, share ideas on fostering volunteerism during the 2010 UlsterCorps Service Summit. Photo: Nicci Cagan, From the Ground Up

2011 Summit Agenda
2011 Summit Participants List
2011 Service Summit Evaluations

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Thank you to our
2010 Service Summit Speakers, Sponsors, Volunteers & Participants!

Listen to Greg Fry’s report on the 2010 Summit on WAMC
2010 Summit Agenda
2010 Summit Participants List
2010 Summit Evaluation Responses
2010 Agency Survey Report
2010 Volunteer Survey Report

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