Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 63.42
Liaison Elaine Durr
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2014
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Elon University
PAE-19: Community Sustainability Partnerships

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Elaine Durr
Senior Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution participate in community sustainability partnerships that meet the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s sustainability partnerships with the local community:

Elon University has a number of partnerships in the local community that help advance sustainability. Several of those partnerships are through the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement and involve students regularly doing service, often through academic service-learning courses, at local non-profit organizations. Three of those organizations are The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World at Timberlake Farm, Sustainable Alamance and Allied Churches of Alamance County. The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World at Timberlake Farm offers programs for children and adults to foster a connection between humans and the earth. The vision of Sustainable Alamance is to build a stronger and more sustainable community not only by promoting wise use of local, natural and economic resources, but by identifying, developing and including underutilized human resources that are effectively prevented from participating in the local economy. Allied Churches is a shelter for individuals and families experiencing homelessness as well as a soup kitchen open to community members. They partner with Campus Kitchen at Elon University (CKEU), which provides meals once a week for shelter guests. CKEU is an on-campus service opportunity through the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement for students, faculty and staff. CKEU collects food from Aramark Dining Services, a local certified-organic farm and other community partners. The program has a staff coordinator as well as a student director and student leadership team (11 students). In FY 12-13, CKEU resourced about 4200 pounds of food, produced over 3300 meals and provided 223 hours of service to Allied Churches.
The University has had a chapter of Habitat for Humanity since 1988. The campus chapter commits to fundraising and building one house a year in Alamance County. In partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Alamance County, Elon’s campus chapter has started construction on its twenty-third house.


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