漏 2015 Christina Pasqua
On October 7, the聽Developing Future Leaders program at 杏吧原创’s Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies聽brought together scholars聽and community leaders聽to聽discuss the challenges,聽opportunities, strategies, and best practices for聽attracting and training the emerging聽generation of leaders.
Kicking off the day-long conference CFICE’s past Principal Investigator, Edward Jackson, spoke about community-campus partnerships, leading a conversation on “.” Later, CFICE’s current Principal Investigator, Peter Andr茅e, spoke as part of a session titled, “Expanding the Conversation:聽From Community to University”. In , he described the CFICE project in more detail,聽including articulating the plans for CFICE’s transition into Phase II, and discussing how these new directions may be relevant to organizations working on projects with student participants in the Ottawa area. He also shared some first hand learnings from his experiences as co-lead of the Community Food Security hub during聽the first two years of CFICE.
Established in 2010, the聽Developing Future Leaders Program is a pilot initiative that funds the placement of interns in partner agencies in the Jewish Community. The goal of the program is to help build the capacity of community groups while also聽providing students the opportunity to develop key leadership skills. Since its inception, the program聽has placed more than 80 students in the community. For more information on the program, visit the聽The Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies.