Area of Internship: Public Relations
Date of Internship: June-Dec 2010
Location: Bloomington, IN
Brief Description of Company or Organization: Books & Beyond is a collaborative project of the Newark Collegiate Academy (Newark, New Jersey), Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center (Bloomington, Indiana) and Kabwende Primary School (Ruhengeri province, Rwanda). Books & Beyond is an innovative, newly established project which promotes intercultural communication, literacy skills, advancement of education and service-learning by engaging students in authoring, illustrating, publishing and marketing children’s books and/or a collection of short stories. Working in small pairs, IU’s Global Village students mentor Newark Collegiate Academy high school students and together the partners develop short stories that are compiled into a book and sent to Rwanda. Copies of the book, along with teacher training guides and professional development workshops being developed for Kabwende Primary, will serve as models for the Rwandan students to create their own books. The Rwandan students’ stories will be sent back to the United States, compiled in an anthology with the existing stories from New Jersey and Indiana, and will be sold with the profit from the anthology returned to Kabwende in Rwanda. Along the way, students are acquiring skills in authoring, mentoring and collaborating, intercultural communication, grant writing, documenting and fund-raising.
Brief Description of Duties: •Develop the Books & beyond website
•Create and maintain social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook •Write promotional articles to raise awareness about project with magazines, blogs, and other new related outlets •Research and outreach to businesses in Rwanda that have philanthropic interests •Strategize and develop contacts with IU Greek community to coordinate fundraisers for the project •Assist with grant writing and other general Books & Beyond tasks as needed
Contact Information:
Address: Global Village Living-Learning Center
Indiana University Foster Residence Center Foster-Martin, 1000 North Fee Lane, Bloomington, IN 47406-7501
Phone: 812-855-4264
