Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service

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2300 H St NW
Washington, DC 20037

(202) 994-7981

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Community & Nonprofit Development
Education & Youth

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Year Founded 2010
Legal Form 501c3

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The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service aims to integrate civic engagement into George Washington University’s educational work. We focus GW’s resources to meet community needs beyond the campus, promote active citizenship in a diverse democracy, and enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship at GW.

About Us
The work of the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service is centered around 3 major goals:

Meet Community Needs
- Develop strong reciprocal, respectful, active democratic community partnerships
- Use GW’s expertise and resources to address pressing human needs
- Use evidence-based strategies
- Ensure that projects have demonstrable outcomes for the community
- Focus on several strategic partnerships with multiple programs

Promote Active Citizenship in a Diverse Democracy
- Engage GW with the District of Columbia and the world
- Unite people of diverse backgrounds in meaningful relevant common experience
- Learn the values and skills needed to participate in public decision-making and community life

Enhance Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
- Promote and support engaged scholarship, including service-learning and community-based research
- Support scholarship about service and civic engagement
- Collaborate nationally and internationally to further higher education’s commitment to civic engagement
Our Impact
-The Nashman Center helps undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and community partners leverage their skills and resources to make a difference in the classroom and community through over 70 service-learning courses each year.

-GW Students meet local needs through ongoing service programs, engageDC, DC Reads, and Jumpstart. Alternative Breaks and signature service events such as Freshman Day of Service and Martin Luther King Day of Service get students engaged in national and international service that makes an immediate and powerful impact. We also partner with DC Public schools on an AmeriCorps VISTA project focused on developing community partnerships and volunteer programs in 10 Title I schools.

-The Nashman Center defines social innovation as creative approaches to addressing social problems. Approximately $50,000 in funding is available annually through our opportunities in addition to providing mentorship and support to students to turn their ideas into practical action that makes a measurable, sustained difference.

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GWServes AmeriCorps VISTA Program

The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service and DC Public Schools (DCPS) collaborate on an AmeriCorps VISTA program that places VISTA Members in Title I schools throughout the city. Our VISTA members are college graduates who have come to DC from across the United States to do a year of national service. VISTA Members serve in ten DCPS schools as well as two divisions of DC Public School's Central Office: Office of Out of School Time and the Office of Family and Public Engagement. VISTAs serve with school personnel and community organizations as well as with GW faculty and students to cultivate community partnerships, create systems that track and develop school partners and create sustainable systems for partner and family engagement.

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Community Partnerships VISTA Leader Math Matters Program Fellow Outreach, Training, and Evaluation VISTA

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