Michael Jenuwine, a faculty member in the , has received the 2011 Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D. Faculty Community-Based Research Award for research into Indiana’s guardianship laws. The award, given annually by Notre Dame’s , honors a Notre Dame faculty member whose research has positively impacted the lives of those in the local community.

“Guardianship is the only legal proceeding where a person can lose their fundamental rights without being present at the hearing, in a hearing that lasts less than 15 minutes where the rules of evidence don’t even apply,” states . “Our students found cases where guardianships have been in place for decades and no one has ever followed up on it. We’ve had cases where guardians die and no one knows about it and the wards are out there for years and years without supervision or help.”

Working closely with the Indiana Adult Guardianship State Taskforce, Jenuwine helped to design and implement investigations aimed toward the ultimate goal of improving the guardianship laws for the state of Indiana. The taskforce consists of judges, lawyers, social service providers, the ARC of Indiana, Adult Protective Services, and others who advocate on behalf of incapacitated and endangered adults. Closer to home, Jenuwine is working with the St. Joseph County Guardianship Consortium, which consists of area service providers, to help identify local practices and to propose ways to improve advocacy on behalf of protected persons in St. Joseph County.

Law students played an important role in this work, performing legal research and designing and conducting a telephone survey, as well as participating in visits to various courts throughout the state to review guardianship case files, reading all court filings and recording data. Two law students completed training to become certified guardians through the National Guardianship Association.

Using data gathered in this study, the Indiana State Task Force on Guardianship is now drafting legislation that will help resolve the most common abuses of guardianship. Additionally, presentations on findings have been made to the Indiana Judicial College and the State Guardianship Taskforce. At the local level, findings have informed groups in pilot project counties of local practices, to assist them in designing training programs for guardians, lawyers and judges.

The Ganey Award is funded by local entrepreneur and philanthropist, Rod Ganey, and awarded by the Center for Social Concerns. The Center facilitates community-based learning, research and service for Notre Dame undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. Since 1983, more than 17,000 students and hundreds of faculty have been engaged in its courses, research and programs.

Contact: Mary Beckman, associate director, academic affairs and research, Center for Social Concerns,
574-631-4172, mbeckman@nd.edu

The of the University of Notre Dame will host leading international scholars in the Catholic Social Tradition on campus for a Dear Brothers and Sisters Conference March 24 to 26 (Thursday to Saturday), to consider how 120 years of Catholic social teaching apply to the social issues of our world today. Issues to be discussed at the conference include globalization, immigration, racial justice, the environment and worker rights.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican, has been invited to offer the annual Romero Lecture entitled “Archbishop Oscar Romero: Preacher and Teacher,” which will double as a conference keynote at 8 p.m. on March 25 in the McKenna Hall Auditorium. The Cardinal will celebrate Mass at 5:15 p.m. that same evening in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus.

Bill Purcell, associate director for Catholic social tradition at the Center and convener of the conference, stated: “We are excited to be at the heart of a dialogue between leaders in higher education, the non-profit sector, and the Church as they seek to develop practices, grounded in our Catholic social tradition, that address the most pressing issues of our time.”

The Dear Brothers and Sisters Conference is being convened by the Center for Social Concerns, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, the Henkels Lecture Series of the , as well as 12 other sponsors to foster dialogue between scholars, Church leaders, and practitioners in the church and non-profit sector. The lectures are free and open to all students, faculty and the public.

The Center for Social Concerns of the University of Notre Dame facilitates community-based learning, research and service, informed by the Catholic Social Tradition.

The complete conference schedule is available .

The University of Notre Dame has been selected as one of 115 institutions in higher education to receive the 2010 Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement.

The classification, designated by the , recognizes “the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”

“Recognition from the Carnegie Foundation is one of the best markers of progress in the field of higher education,” said , Notre Dame’s president. “Eminently consistent with the University’s mission and Catholic character, classification as an institution of Community Engagement affirms Notre Dame’s efforts to address challenges and improve the quality of life in communities near and far.”

The Carnegie Foundation requires institutions that apply for the elective Community Engagement classification to demonstrate diverse ways that community engagement is a salient component of university life. In addition to student service, Notre Dame was able to provide evidence of faculty teaching and research that focused on community concerns, engaged learning efforts, and University contributions to community development such as funding neighborhood enhancement and fostering economic growth. These activities were found in the ongoing work of all colleges at Notre Dame, as well as many centers, institutes and administrative units, most notably the , the , and the Office of Public Affairs and Communications.

In 1970, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education developed a classification of colleges and universities to support its program of research and policy analysis. For over three decades, the Carnegie Classification has been the leading framework for describing institutional diversity in U.S. higher education. In 2006, the Carnegie Foundation introduced “elective” classifications. Unlike classifications based on secondary analysis of existing national data, elective classifications rely on voluntary participation by institutions, permitting analysis of attributes that are not available in the national data. The first elective classification, released in December 2006, focused on community engagement.

Contact: Jay Brandenberger, director of research and assessment, Center for Social Concerns, 574-631-5293, jbranden@nd.ed

The University of Notre Dame’s , , and have collaborated to co-sponsor a weekend of service, prayer and learning for students, alumni, faculty and friends of the University in Rome.

More than 30 participants will take part in a full slate of events in celebration of the life and ministry and of Brother André Bessette, C.S.C., the first saint of the . Bessette will be canonized, along with five others by on Sunday (Oct. 17).

Weekend events include:

• The premiere of a film produced by Salt and Light Television, Canada
• Service projects with the Missioners of Charity and the SAnt’Egidio Community in imitation of Brother André’s ministry
• Lecture by Professor Kathleen Cummings of Notre Dame’s on “Canonization in the American Context”
• Celebration dinner in the Trattoria degli Amici, a restaurant ministry of the Sant’Egidio community with people with disabilities
• A prayer vigil with pilgrims from around the world at Sant’Andrea della Valle Church
• The Canonization Mass and ceremony at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday morning

Student participants currently studying abroad in Notre Dame programs in Europe will join faculty, staff and alumni based in both the United States and in Europe for these events. The weekend is planned in collaboration with the Congregation of Holy Cross, the ND Club of Europe, the ND Club of Rome, the , the , and the Cushwa Center.

Contact: Rosie McDowell, director of community-based learning outreach, Europe

Ken Hackett, president of , will present the Center for Social Concerns’ 2010 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C. lecture, “Globally Engaging Charity in Truth,” on Sept. 23 (Thursday), at 7:15 p.m. in the Andrews Auditorium of Geddes Hall on the University of Notre Dame campus.

CRS is one of the world’s most effective and efficient relief and development agencies according to independent studies and Hackett will share best practices on relief and development efforts, situating the work of CRS in the context of recent papal encyclical which addresses the financial crisis.

“The recent release of the grim poverty statistics in the U.S. ought to serve to remind us of the desperate needs of our brothers and sisters around the world as well,” said Rev. William Lies, C.S.C., executive director of the . “As Pope Benedict outlines in Caritas in Veritate, as Catholics we are called to be global citizens who act as a force for peace and justice to improve development globally.”

Throughout the 2010–11 academic year, the Center for Social Concerns’ courses, events and other efforts will emphasize the importance and transformative power of charity in truth. In the Catholic Social Tradition, Christian charity is a more comprehensive term that is at the heart of the gospel message and what makes justice possible.

This event is free and open to the public.

Two University of Notre Dame graduate students recently led a workshop titled “Meaningful Teaching Experiences: Partnering with the Community” to encourage graduate students interested in teaching and getting involved in the larger South Bend community to participate in volunteer teaching at South Bend’s Center for the Homeless (CFH).

Carrie Miller, who studies chemistry, and Laura Kinnaman, who studies physics, led the workshop, which was sponsored by the , the , and the CFH. It was designed to further develop a culture of volunteer teaching by Notre Dame graduate students.

“I encourage others to volunteer because the University of Notre Dame does not exist in isolation — when we enrich those around us, we enrich ourselves,” Miller said. “Fostering a culture of volunteerism to help the homeless in South Bend is a legacy that will endure after we move on to our post-graduate careers, and I want everyone to have a part in that legacy.”

Held last month, the workshop featured a video of interviews with students at the CFH, created by Miller and Kinnaman. Following the video, Miller addressed the overall design of the math course that they teach at the center and discussed some of the activities they created. Andrea Nemeth from the CFH also was available to answer specific questions about the adult education programs.

As one participant noted, “I was pleased to know of this opportunity to teach outside of the typical academic environment, the unique challenges it presents for instructors and the good it does for the community.”

Complete details about the workshop are available online at or by contacting the Kaneb Center at kaneb@nd.edu.

The John A. Kaneb Center, founded in 1995, stimulates reflection about—and advocates for the enhancement of—practices, policies, and structures related to teaching and learning.

The Center for Social Concerns, founded in 1983, is the service and community-based learning center of the University of Notre Dame. The CSC provides educational experiences in social concerns inspired by Gospel values and Catholic social tradition.

Joshua DuBois, executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke on “Hope in Action Through Faith-Based Initiatives” in Notre Dame’s Geddes Hall. DuBois’ lecture concerned the power of hope potentially emerging from the initiatives of communities of faith.

The Institute for Church Life and Center for Social Concerns welcomed members of the Notre Dame community to the Geddes Hall Open House. Gifts totaling $14 million, primarily from Michael and Sheila Geddes and Thomas and Mary Cabot, funded construction of the new 64,000-square-foot building, which includes a chapel named after the Cabot family.

These are just two of the many questions that will be answered through new research being undertaken by staff members of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns.

The research will make use of data from the first longitudinal study documenting changes in student attitudes about spirituality during the first three years of college. Conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA, the study surveyed 14,527 students attending 136 colleges in the fall of 2004 and again in the late spring of 2007. The study found that, while attendance at religious services declines, college students nationwide show significant growth in a wide spectrum of spiritual and ethical considerations during their first three years of college.

Further analysis of the HERI research will be conducted by two teams respectively led by Jay Brandenberger, the center’s director of experiential learning, and Nicholas A. Bowman, post-doctoral research associate at the center.

Brandenberger’s team will investigate the impact of religious and spiritual engagement on students’ sense of compassion and social responsibility, including the impact of spirituality and religiosity on pro-social orientations and behaviors such as compassion, caring and social responsibility among college students; the extent to which these prosocial orientations and behaviors conversely influence spiritual and religious development among college students; and the impact of college experiences on pro-social attitudes and values.

The team led by Bowman, with Jenny L. Small, who recently completed doctoral studies at the University of Michigan, will examine the spiritual development and well-being of college students who identify with “marginalized religions,” as opposed to those who identify with more socially privileged or prominent religions. They will examine the effects of the religious affiliation and makeup of the institutions attended by such students and how their college experiences affect their spiritual development and well-being.

The research will be conducted from May to December of this year, and the researchers hope to present their findings to journals that focus on higher education and faculty and student development.

Contact: Jay Brandenberger at 574-631-5293 or Brandenberger.1@nd.edu

Students planted 40 trees in Mishawaka during Tree Planting Day, hosted by the Center for Social Concerns’ Carbon Offset Program.

Daniel Lende, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the winner of the 2009 Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D., Faculty Community-Based Research Award.

The award, which includes a $5,000 prize, honors a Notre Dame faculty member whose research has made a contribution to a local community organization.

Lende’s work focuses on medical anthropology, the synthesis of biological and cultural anthropology, and applied anthropology. His research centers on behavioral health problems, particularly substance use and abuse.

In 2005, Lende took part in his first community-based research project, “Cultural Barriers and African-American Women in South Bend: Improving Breast Cancer Screening” with Notre Dame undergraduate Alicia Lachiondo, and Margaret McKinney-Arnold of African American Women in Touch. Furthered by a Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D., Mini-Grant, the study became part of Lachiondo’s senior thesis, and was later published in Qualitative Health Research.

Lende also served as senior thesis advisor to Notre Dame undergraduate Meg Towle as she conducted community-based research on HIV/AIDS with the organization Touching Tiny Lives in Lesotho, the findings of which were later published in the African Journal of AIDS Research.

Inspired by the positive impact of community-based research on learning outcomes, student development and a community organization’s capacity to improve its services, Lende in 2006 developed a community-based research course, “Researching Disease: Methods in Medical Anthropology,” with a grant from Notre Dame’s . In this course, Lende and teams of Notre Dame undergraduates partnered with local community organizations including Imani Unidad, African American Women in Touch, Notre Dame Office of Alcohol and Drug Education, and a support group for veterans suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

The research has since enabled community organizations to improve the conditions in hospital waiting rooms, educate the public about PTSD and provide better services to women living with HIV/AIDS. Findings have been published electronically on Neuroanthropology.net, and one project was turned into a guide book, “Underneath It All: Humor in Breast Cancer,” which has been used by McKinney-Arnold and Memorial Hospital in South Bend.

Lende earned his doctorate in anthropology from Emory University and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He has served as an administrator, counselor and research director in rehabilitation centers in Nigeria and Columbia.

The Ganey Award is funded by local entrepreneur and philanthropist, Rod Ganey, and awarded by the Center for Social Concerns. The Center facilitates community-based learning, research and service for Notre Dame undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. Since 1983, more than 15,000 students and hundreds of faculty have been engaged in its courses, research and programs.
More information about the Ganey Award is available on the Web at http://socialconcerns.nd.edu/faculty.

Contact: Mary Beckman, Center for Social Concerns, 574-631-4172, mbeckman@nd.edu

Bill Purcell, director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy 91ĘÓƵ of Government, will deliver a lecture titled “American Politics – Living Faithful Citizenship,” at 7 p.m. Monday (March 2) in the auditorium of the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Center. He will share his insights on living out a vocation in public service.

Sponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, the talk is free and open to the public.

Purcell has spent more than 30 years in public service, law and higher education. From 1999 to 2007, he served as mayor of Nashville, Tenn., during which time the city experienced unprecedented economic growth and development, including the construction of more than 26,000 affordable housing units. In 2006, Purcell was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing Magazine.

Prior to his appointment at Harvard, Purcell served as founding dean of the College of Public Service and Urban Affairs at Tennessee State University and was founder and director of the Child and Family Policy Center at Vanderbilt University. He has served as a legislator and majority leader in the Tennessee House of Representatives and as senior assistant public defender in the Nashville Metro Public Defender’s Office.

Purcell earned his bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College and his law degree from Vanderbilt University, where he recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Founded in 1983, Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns is the community-based learning and research center of the University. The center is one of the top 25 service-learningprograms in higher education, with some 17,000 students having participated in its service-learning courses locally, nationally and internationally.

Titled"Technology and the Globalization of Education: The Story of One Laptop Per Child,"the talk is free and open to the public.

Developed out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005, One Laptop Per Child manufactures and distributes laptop computers to children in poor and developing regions around the world. Designed to be affordable and to withstand rural conditions in developing countries, the laptops cost about $200 each and use solar and hand-crank power sources. OLPC employs 23 full-time workers.

Kane calls his work"the most important job I’ve ever had. This project is bigger than any one of us. This is not a business, it’s a movement."

Kane was graduated from Notre Dame in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in accountancy, and he earned a master of business administration degree from Babson College. He began his career with Deloitte and Touche and has held senior management positions with Global BPO Services, RSA Security Inc., Aspen Technology Inc., Corechange Software, and Ardent. In addition to his work with OLPC, Kane is a senior lecturer of international finance at MIT’s Sloan 91ĘÓƵ of Management.

The lecture is sponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial 91ĘÓƵ and Ford Program in Human Development and Solidarity, with co-sponsorship by the Department of Political Science, ND8, and the Africa Faith and Justice Network.

_ Contact: Paul Horn,_ " phorn@nd.edu ":mailto:phorn@nd.edu __

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Mark Hanis, executive director of Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) will present a lecture titled"Responsibility to Protect: Darfur and Beyond"Friday (Nov. 7), at 1 p.m. in the Montgomery Auditorium of the LaFortune Student Center at the University of Notre Dame.

The event is sponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns and is free and open to the public.

Hanis is the founder and executive director of the GI-Net, an organization that seeks to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide.

Hanis is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and was raised in Quito, Ecuador. He read about the genocide in Darfur during his senior year at Swarthmore College and came to believe that the world was doing nothing in the face of genocide. In response, he co-founded and became the executive director of GI-Net.

GI-Net’s mission and programs are grounded in consultations with a variety of experts on the ongoing Darfur genocide, members of the Darfurian community and others who have extensive experience in policy, education, media and grassroots organizing. GI-Net members educate their communities, advocate for action from their elected officials, and fund-raise directly for civilian protection and human security.

Hanis and GI-Net have been featured in the New York Times and The New Republic, and Hanis has appeared on CNN Headline News, NBC and NPR.

_ Contact: Paul Horn,_ " phorn@nd.edu ":mailto:phorn@nd.edu

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Two of the 2008 presidential campaigns leading policy advisors will speak at a forum at 6 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 28) in the McKenna Hall auditorium at the University of Notre Dame.

Ike Brannon from Sen. John McCains campaign and Howard Lerner, an aide to Sen. Barack Obama, will discuss issues related to energy, the economy, national security and health care. Sponsored by the nonpartisan NDVotes08 program in the Center for Social Concerns, the event will be moderated by Rev. William M. Lies, C.S.C., executive director of the center, and is free and open to the public.

Lerner advises the Obama campaign on environmental and renewable energy issues. An attorney, he serves as the executive director of the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center, the Midwests leading public interest environmental and sustainable development organization. Lerner previously was general counsel at Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a public interest law center specializing in complex civil litigation and policy development.

Brannon serves as senior policy advisor for the McCain campaign after previously working as senior adviser for tax policy in the U.S. Treasury.He was the principal economic adviser for Sen. Orrin Hatch on the Senate Finance Committee and chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee. He also previously served as senior economist for information and regulatory affairs in the Office of Management and Budget.

Since 1983, the Center for Social Concerns has been the service and community-based learning center for Notre Dame. The center invites students, faculty, staff and alumni to think critically about todays complex social realities and about their responsibilities within them, in an effort to embody the Universitys missionto create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common good that will bear fruit as learning becomes service to justice.

_ Contact: Nicole Bourbon, Center for Social Concerns,_ " nbourbon@nd.edu ":mailto:nbourbon@nd.edu

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Staff and faculty members from 15 colleges and universities will take part in the Center for Social Concernsfifth annual Andrews/McMeel Summer Service-Learning Forum from Oct. 24 to 26 at the University of Notre Dame.

Representatives from Duke, Georgetown, Loyola-Maryland, Stanford and other universities will gather to engage in discussion about challenges in summer service-learning courses and programs.

Andrea Smith Shappell, director of the Summer Service Learning Program (SSLP) at the Center for Social Concerns, said,This is a tremendous opportunity to learn from others who are committed to the integration of experiential learning with classroom learning.The forum sessions will provide models for increased involvement of faculty and students in a variety of disciplines.

Previous conferences have been held onModels of Summer Service-Learning,Focus on Youth,Discipleship and CitizenshipandCatholic Social Thought and Community-based Learning.

Since 1980, the Center for Social Concerns has sponsored more than 4,000 students in community service projects in 250 sites nationwide. In 2008, 222 students took part in three domestic opportunities, the Summer Service Learning Program, the Latino Leadership Internship Program, and ACCION.These opportunities include three credit courses in theology with classroom sessions in the spring and fall semesters as well as reading and writing assignments in the summer.

In the SSLP, more than 100 Notre Dame alumni clubs and 175 sites host the students for eight weeks in the summer, providing room, board and mentoring.The Notre Dame alumni clubs and James F. Andrews Memorial Scholarship Fund provide a $2,300 scholarship for students at the completion of the course.

_ Contact: Andrea Smith Shappell at_ " Shappell.1@nd.edu ":mailto:Shappell.1@nd.edu

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This year, as 300 University of Notre Dame students spend this week of fall break addressing some of the nations most pressing social concerns, some will make less of an impact.

The 36 students travelling to Washington, D.C., for the Center for Social ConcernsWashington Seminar, Gospel of Life and Energy Policy Seminar and Social Change Seminar will reduce their environmental impact by taking the train, reducing their carbon footprint by 43 percent.

This carbon footprint will be further reduced in April, when the center partners with the Mishawaka Department of Parks and Recreation to offset carbon dioxide emissions by planting trees. The trees will be registered with the United Nations Environment Program Billion Tree campaign, a program In which every tree registered is matched by the planting of another tree in the developing world.

The initiative comes as part of the centers response to the moral questions raised by the Notre Dame Forum on sustainable energy held last month on campus, and was made possible through close collaboration with the University’s new Office of Sustainability.Through continuing collaboration with the Office of Sustainability, the center plans to take further steps to increase efficiency and decrease its global environmental impact.

Founded in 1983, the Center for Social Concerns is one of the nation’s premier community-based learning, community-based research and service centers.In the past 25 years, nearly 19,000 students have given up their fall, winter, spring or summer break to learn and serve at more than 280 sites worldwide.

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The University of Notre Dame’s Higgins Labor 91ĘÓƵ Program and Center for Social Concerns have entered into an official partnership, effective July 1.

The partnership will allow for new and creative growth of the Higgins Program in the area of labor studies at Notre Dame. It also will enhance the Center for Social Concernsexisting scholarship by promoting research, education and outreach on questions that relate to economic justice and the rights of workers.

This is an exciting moment for the Higgins Program and the center,said Rev. William M. Lies, C.S.C., executive director of the Center for Social Concerns.The Higgins Labor 91ĘÓƵ Programs deep partnerships with labor locally and nationally will enhance the centers ability to cultivate community partnerships and foster inquiry into some of the most pressing economic issues facing workers today.

The work of the Higgins Program will be strengthened immeasurably by association with the service and community-based learning model so effectively implemented by the Center for Social Concerns,added Martin Wolfson, the new director of the Higgins Program and an associate professor of economics and policy studies.

The Higgins Labor 91ĘÓƵ Program was established In 1994 and is named for Monsignor George Higgins, former director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (now the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference) and recipient of Notre Dames Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics. Monsignor Higgins was a forceful advocate of working people and organized labor; in all his work he put into practice Catholic Social Teaching on the rights of workers, the dignity of work, and economic justice.

Contact: William Purcell, Center for Social Concerns, 574-631-9473, wpurcell@nd.edu

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University of Notre Dame students involved in ND-8, a student club dedicated to education, advocacy and action on the United Nationseight Millennium Development Goals, have raised $35,000 for the Building Tomorrow organization to fund the construction of a primary school in the Wakiso district of Uganda that will serve 350 children.

The fund-raising project began in April of last year when George Srour, founder of Building Tomorrow, spoke at Notre Dame.Inspired by that visit, and the opportunity to give a gift that could impact generations of Ugandans, the group initiated various creative fundraisers and educational campaigns throughout the year, including a symbolic brick sale and aBike to Ugandaevent in which students and faculty raised money from sponsors as they pedaled the distance from Notre Dame to Uganda.

Notre Dames connection to the school will not end with this fund-raising campaign.Jenna Knapp and Robbie Bernardin, undergraduate members of ND-8, will be working as interns with Building Tomorrow in Uganda this summer, supported by funds from the Universitys Kellogg Institute.A group of Notre Dame architecture students will work to personalize the design of the school building to ensure maximum benefit for the children and teachers, as well as to make it energy efficient.

After the school is built, ND-8 plans to hold drives for school supplies, shoes and other items for the children, as well as to create a pen pal program between the Ugandan school and Notre Dame.The children also will be provided with blue and gold uniforms.

Founded in 2006, ND-8 is mentored by staff of Notre Dames Center for Social Concerns and supported by the Kroc Institute, the Ford Family Program, and the Student Activities Office of the University.

_ Contact: _ Rosie McDowell at " McDowell.9@nd.edu ":mailto:McDowell.9@nd.edu , or ND-8 at " ndeight@nd.edu ":mailto:ndeight@nd.edu

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The fourth annual Notre Dame Canned Food Drive will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday (April 26)at Legends restaurant on the University of Notre Dame campus.

Rev. William Lies, C.S.C., director of Notre Dames Center for Social Concerns, and Lisa Jaworski, executive director of the Food Bank of Northern Indiana, will address the students participating in the food drive, after which they will go into South Bend neighborhoods to collect non-perishable goods from local residents during the day.All of the food will be donated to the Food Bank of Northern Indiana.

The drive will culminate with a 5 p.m. ceremony in the parking lot behind Legends during which Notre Dames president emeritus, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., will bless the food before its delivery to the food bank.

The food drive, whose organizers hope to collect 15,000 pounds of food, is sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns, the World Hunger Coalition and the residence halls of Notre Dame.

_ Contact: Rosie McDowell at 574-631-0468 or_ " McDowell.9@nd.edu ":mailto:McDowell.9@nd.edu

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