Be a Part of a National Storytelling Movement

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Join Forces with Indiana Campus Compact & Be a Part of a National Storytelling Movement Five Indiana Campuses Will be Awarded a FREE Facing Project Indiana Campus Compact is excited to announce a new partnership with The Facing Project, a nonprofit that connects people through stories to strengthen communities. The Facing Project was co-founded by our Executive Director, J.R. Jamison, along with New York Times bestselling author Kelsey Timmerman. The Facing Project works with campuses and communities to organize and share the stories of citizens through the talent of local writers and actors. Writers are matched with community members facing the selected topic (depression, hunger, homelessness, disabilities, etc), meet with them face-to-face, and capture their stories in the first-person. The stories are compiled into a book and brought to life on stage through a community theatre event. Since its founding in 2012, The Facing Project has worked with 30 communities/campuses in eight states and two countries and has been hailed...

Pen to Paper Writing Retreat

Indiana Campus Compact Indianapolis, IN, United States

Pen to Paper is an academic writing retreat designed to provide time, space, and resources to guide faculty, professional staff, graduate students, and community partners working on manuscripts related to service-learning and community engagement. The two and a half-day retreat provides participants with time to discuss ideas with and receive feedback from editors, receive mentoring from retreat facilitators, share ideas with peers, and write. Each year attendance is intentionally kept to a minimum in order to foster personal connections between participants, editors, and senior faculty coaches. The small group also provides the space participants need to focus on engaged scholarship.