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American Poverty in Context: Housing Issues, Homelessness and Community Action in Vermont

Learn more about Service Learning at Middlebury College.

Ingrid Pixley is a long-time Vermont resident, working as a Property Manager for Addison County Community Trust,  a local non-profit organization that provides affordable housing to the low- and middle-income people of Addison County. Doug Sinclair’s the co-founder of the Middlebury Community Care Coalition (MCCC), which since 2004 has since grown to 600 members who contribute over 18,000 volunteer hours per year supporting the housing and food needs of families and individuals who need a helping hand.

People

Doug Sinclair

Co-Founder of Middlebury Community Care Coalition

Ingrid Pixley

Property Manager for Addison County Community Trust

Yuan Lim

Student Organizer

Veronica Muoio

Student Organizer

Dan Murphy

Student Organizer

Related Links

To Learn More and Take Action, check out these links

First Stop:

Alliance for Civic Engagement (ACE)

Fall 2010 Student Symposium: American Poverty in Context

Housing Issues:

National Coalition for the Homeless

Vermont Committee for Temporary Shelter (COTS)

Middlebury Community Care Coalition (MCCC)

Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE)

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Ingrid Pixley and Doug Sinclair

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American Poverty in Context: Poverty 101

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In 1997, Dr. Beckley helped to create and became the first Director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability, which integrates sustained rigorous academic study and focused direct service to disadvantaged communities and persons. In 1999, Dr. Beckley was named the Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Religion and in 2002 he received the state of Virginia’s highest award for excellence in education, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award.

People

Harlan Beckley

Director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability at Washington and Lee University

Yuan Lim

Student Organizer

Veronica Muoio

Student Organizer

Dan Murphy

Student Organizer

Related Links

To Learn More and Take Action, check out these links

First Stop:

Alliance for Civic Engagement (ACE)

Fall 2010 Student Symposium: American Poverty in Context

Shepherd Program

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Full Symposium Schedule

Harlan Beckley

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American Poverty in Context: Community Action in New England

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Hal Colston is the founder and director of the Good News Garage. GNG was created to address transportation equity for people in poverty. Hal left the GNG in March 2004 to start a new nonprofit, NeighborKeepers – an inclusive community built that generate Circles of Support. Dr. Colston also teaches a community service course at Champlain College, and serves on the board of the HowardCenter, United Way Community Investment Committee, Vermont Health Foundation and the Visiting Nurse Association.

People

Hal Colston

Founder and Director of Good News Garage and Neighborskeepers

Yuan Lim

Student Organizer

Veronica Muoio

Student Organizer

Dan Murphy

Student Organizer

Related Links

To Learn More and Take Action, check out these links

First Stop:

Alliance for Civic Engagement (ACE)

Fall 2010 Student Symposium: American Poverty in Context

Good News Garage

NeighborKeepers Circles of Support

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Hal Colston

Full Symposium Schedule

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Fall 2010 Student Symposium: American Poverty in Context

October 21st- 29th will be the Fall Student Symposium, “American Poverty in Context.” We aim to build awareness and encourage discussion of poverty-related issues on the local and national level. The symposium will tackle issues such as hunger and local foods, social determinants of health, labor legislation, community action, and homelessness. In addition to inspiring intellectual discourse on poverty, we hope to motivate more students to participate in volunteer activities and to consider pursuing careers in non-profits.

Please click on the posters below in the downloads section for more detailed information about each event!

People

Joel Berg

Executive Director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger

Harlan Beckley

Director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability at Washington and Lee University

Robert Prasch

Middlebury College Professor of Economics

Samantha Marder

Project Manager, Project Health  Providence

Hannah Nichols

Talent and Technology Coordinator, Project Health National Offices

Hal Colston

Founder and Director of Good News Garage and Neighborskeepers

Doug Sinclair

Co-Founder of Middlebury Community Care Coalition

Ingrid Pixley

Property Manager for Addison County Community Trust

Jeanne Montross

Executive Director of HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects)

Yuan Lim

Student Organizer

Veronica Muoio

Student Organizer

Dan Murphy

Student Organizer

Related Links

To Learn More and Take Action, check out these links

First Stop:

Alliance for Civic Engagement (ACE) !

Hunger and Food Justice Issues:

VT FoodBank

Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger

New York City Coalition Against Hunger

Health Equity:

Project Health

Unnatural Causes: Documentary on Poverty and Poor Health

Housing Issues:

National Coalition for the Homeless

Vermont Committee for Temporary Shelter (COTS)

Middlebury Community Care Coalition (MCCC)

Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE)

Feel Free to Post your own links below as well.

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Full Symposium Schedule

Information about Individual Events:

Harlan Beckley

Joel Berg

Hal Colston

Ingrid Pixley and Doug Sinclair

Professor Robert Prasch

Samantha Marder and Hannah Nichols

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The Splendor of Europe: Art Markets in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London

Learn more about the History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College.

This research explores these markets from  cultural, geographic, political, and economic angles, concentrating on an aspect peculiar to each city. Thanks in part to its strategic crossroads location, the Antwerp market developed earliest, nurturing a dynamic, cosmopolitan scene. In Amsterdam, we shall also discuss financial difficulties that artists, notably Rembrandt, may have faced. Lastly, we shall leave the continent, venturing across the English Channel to roost in London, which itself came to showcase a glittering auction and art market, dominated by the royalty and aristocracy.

People

Sophia Wang
Researcher

Pieter Broucke
Professor of History of Art and Architecture; Associate Curator of Ancient Art

Related Links

This research was part of the Greece vs. Rome exhibit at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.

FYSE1279: Greece vs. Rome

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Photos of the Greece Versus Rome Exhibit:

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Made in Tianguis: Informal Commerce in Guadalajara, Mexico

Learn more about International Programs & Off-Campus Study at Middlebury College.

Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city, has grown and thrived primarily through commerce. Often the most important kind of commerce in the city is informal buying and selling at unfixed prices in unfixed or temporary locations. Important aspects of Tapatían (Guadalajaran) culture are represented in the day-to-day activity of street vendors and tianguis (open-air markets). This presentation is adapted from a long-form essay (in Spanish), written during a semster on Middlebury’s program in Guadalajara.

People

J.P. Allen
Researcher

Nicole Chance
Coordinator of International Programs & Sponsor

Related Links

C.V. Starr School in Latin America

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Gastronomic Hierarchies of Value: the Market for French AOC Wines

Learn more about International Studies and Sociology & Anthropology at Middlebury College.

The business model of the food industry, as it stands today, is unsustainable.  To counter these negative trends, organizations like Slow Food International have begun to champion the importance of “quality” for health, the environment, and the art of gastronomy. But what does quality mean and what will be its impact on the global food industry? An analysis of wines produced in France and labeled with the government-sponsored quality certification system, Appelation d’Origine Contrôlée, reveals that an emphasis on quality and geography, rather than brand, makes the food market more monopolistically competitive, more inclusive yet hierarchical.

People

Emily Gullickson
Researcher

Thierry Warin
Sponsor and Associate Professor of Economics

Lynn Owens
Sponsor and Assistant Professor of Sociology

Related Links

Spring Student Symposium

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Reassessing the First Anglo-Dutch War of the Seventeenth Century

Learn more about History at Middlebury College.

At the dawn of Europe’s global age, England and the Dutch Republic clashed in a series of violent naval battles known as the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654). I argue that the First Anglo-Dutch War was the direct result of the calculated political and economic strategies of the English East India Company (EIC).  Through carefully crafted popular marketing campaigns and the consistent, calculated lobbying and infiltration of England’s monarchy and national government, the EIC definitively influenced English foreign policy – a strategy that would establish the foundation for the greatest global empire the world had yet seen.

People

Andrew Van Horn Ruoss
Researcher

Paul Monod
Advisor & A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History

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Related Links

1651: A true relation of the unjust, cruel, and barbarous proceedings against the English

1614: Englands vvay to vvin vvealth, and to employ ships and marriners

1651: An act for increase of shipping

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