Roger Williams University
AmeriCorps Scholarships for Service

2008/2009 Corps Inducted in October

The Feinstein Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement is proud to announce the 2008/2009 AmeriCorps Scholarships for Service Corps at Roger Williams University. This year’s corps of 15 undergraduate students was inducted into the program on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2008.  The RWU SFS corps is:

Heather Berkley – Bristol Animal Shelter
Rosalee Brocuglio - Comm. Connections '08 Student Coordinator  and Forrest Avenue Elementary School (Middletown, RI)
Heather Canfield - Bristol Good Neighbors Soup Kitchen and Sowams Elementary School(Barrington, RI)
Rebecca Cleary- Bristol Reads!
Kayla Cotter – Bristol Animal Shelter, Bristol Reads Literacy Program
Jessica Crawford- service site TBA
Stephanie Gatsiadis – James L. Maher Center
Samantha Law – Bristol Animal Shelter
Sara Liebert- service site TBA
Mario Lobalbo - James L. Maher Center
Katelyn Morrisino – Bristol Reads Literacy Program Steven Neves – Mount Hope Farm
Sean Perry- Bridge to Success
Linda Sylvain- service site TBA
Jillean Veroneau - Bristol Reads

Each student will engage in a minimum of 300 hours of service to the community and will earn an education award of $1,000 for their efforts. More than 40 students have successfully completed Scholarships for Service since Roger Williams University first facilitated the program during the 2005/2006 academic year, earning more than $40,000 in education awards for current or future study. 

Scholarships for Service is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service and supported locally by the R.I. Campus Compact (www.compact.org/ricompact/)  and Rhode Island Service Alliance.

Please contact kread@rwu.edu for more information.

Updated 10/24/08