CharityAmerica.com and Bentley College Announce Partnership for Service-Learning Initiatives.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 2000 Nine Hundred Bentley College Bentley College is located at 175 Forest Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, 10 miles west of Boston. Founded as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham in 1968 and today is ranked 31 on Business Week's top 100 undergrad Students Turn to Innovative Charity Website to Make a Difference CharityAmerica.com and Bentley College announce a partnership that integrates technology and learning to help make it easier for students to register online for community service opportunities at local nonprofit organizations. CharityAmerica.com, a comprehensive resource for qualified nonprofits and their supporters, launched its extensive student volunteer campaign, CharityAmerica Students Care, with Bentley College and its Service-Learning Center (BSLC BSLC Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church BSLC Blackpool Sea Life Centre BSLC Best Shortened Linear Code ). As part of Bentley's First Year Initiative course--which requires freshmen students to fulfill a one-day service-learning project that integrates hands-on community service with classroom learning--students will log onto the BSLC page at www.bentley.edu and link to www.charityamerica.com to select from a broad scope of service opportunities. CharityAmerica's online technology allows students to register online, with direct access to company profiles, project descriptions and available service times. More than 900 students will choose from a variety of opportunities--from tutoring children, to setting up computer labs, to painting buildings--based on their particular interests and the parameters of the course. For example, if an FYI "For your information." See digispeak. FYI - For Your Information class wants to emphasize a public policy issue such as homelessness, students may spend the day working in a soup kitchen and talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to people involved in day-to-day activities. "In all facets of the curriculum, Bentley College is committed to the integration of business and technology, and the partnership with CharityAmerica helps bring service-learning to the next level," said Robert Koulish, director of the BSLC. "Providing students with online access to opportunities helps streamline planning for service-learning, and gives students the resources to choose a project that is right for them. If students are more active in the selection process, it may increase their initiative and the overall learning curve." In addition to giving students information at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. and better meeting the needs of local nonprofit agencies, the campaign has exponentially increased the number of nonprofits that participate in Bentley's Service-Learning program. More than 50 organizations have registered to date including the Greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region. Food Bank, Greater Waltham Association for Retarded Citizens, Perkins School for the Blind Perkins School for the Blind, at Watertown, Mass.; chartered 1829, opened 1832 in South Boston as the New England Asylum for the Blind, with Samuel G. Howe as its director; moved 1912. , Pine Street Inn, Mass Coalition for Battered Women, New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. SCORES and the Watertown Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. . "We are thrilled to embark on this partnership because of the far-reaching benefits for both college students and our online nonprofit community," said Timothy McCarthy, Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CharityAmerica.com. "We are helping to define a new standard in service-learning by providing students with a greater understanding of philanthropy and the needs of the community that surrounds them. We anticipate that this experience will engage students and they will continue to log on to CharityAmerica.com to volunteer, exchange information and give back through in-kind donations." In addition to the Student Care campaign, CharityAmerica.com offers an array of comprehensive giving tools for students over the Internet. For more information on the CharityAmerica Student Care Campaign call 1-877-KIND ACT or visit www.charityamerica.com. About CharityAmerica CharityAmerica.com is the premier national online resource connecting qualified nonprofit organizations and their supporters. CharityAmerica.com's "Philanthropy Causeways" - Donations, Volunteer, Events, Tickets and Shopping - empower individuals to give back to the charities of their choice. CharityAmerica.com is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts Natick (Pronunciation IPA: /ˈneɪtɪk/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 32,170 at the at 264 North Main Street. The company's telephone number is 508-903-4100. Additional information can be found at www.charityamerica.com. About Bentley College Bentley College is committed to providing the most advanced business education possible. Approximately 4,200 undergraduate, 1,500 graduate and 2,500 executive professional education students learn in an environment that integrates information technology with a broad business and arts and sciences curriculum, gaining knowledge, interpersonal skills "Interpersonal skills" refers to mental and communicative algorithms applied during social communications and interactions in order to reach certain effects or results. The term "interpersonal skills" is used often in business contexts to refer to the measure of a person's ability and experience for careers in a global economy. Bentley College is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, 10 miles west of Boston. Visit www.bentley.edu for more information. |
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