Wednesday 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

KSC100-Lobby North | Clock Tower (Southern/Dobson campus)

Net Impact Officers develop leadership skills for interactions and collaborations with people of all ages and backgrounds. Net Impact Officers increase team building, presentation and organizational skills through multiple projects. Support from the global non-profit organization Net Impact and Mesa Community College staff empowers students to apply their leadership skills to connect, to engage, and to invest in their campus and their greater community while in college and into their career lives.

Mondays 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Meeting Link: https://tinyurl.com/CivicAction2022-23

Civic Action teams connect students with community partners and resources to conduct both long-term and short-term projects that make a difference in their own communities. Students serving on Civic Action teams develop civic knowledge, skills, and abilities valuable to their future employers; plus, students learn how to continue service to the community as engaged citizens after graduation.

MCC Engagement Team Projects:

• MCC Votes Coalition
• Andrew Goodman Ambassador
• CEEP - Civic Influencer
• Civic Engagement Week (Fall)
• Civic Action Week (Spring)
• Constitution Day
• Up to Us
• National Voter Registration Day
• National Voter Education Week
• Other student initiatives

Tuesdays 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

KSC100-Lobby North | Clock Tower (Southern/Dobson campus)

Campus Engagement teams are a great way for new and returning students to connect with each other through small group projects, and team-building exercises. Students joining the Campus Engagement teams meet weekly to create, plan, and collaborate with each other, student clubs, and college departments to improve campus life and the community’s experience with Mesa Community College.
Environmental and Sustainability
The environmental and sustainability projects focus, is to heighten awareness about environmental concerns; build knowledge about the impact of human behaviors on nature; and create behavioral changes in human interactions with the environment.

MCC Engagement Team Projects:

• College service events
• Book Drives
• VolunteerFest
• Halloween Extravaganza
• Monarch Waystations
• Maricopa Native Seed Library
• bags2beds/Weaving Treasures
• Other student initiatives

Community Engagement teams meet weekly to organize and promote involvement in local events supporting our community partners’ efforts to serve families in our area. Students engaged in community events and activities develop servant leadership skills and address many pressing social issues such as hunger, literacy, cultural awareness, senior support and more.
Veterans’ History Project
By preserving the legacy of veterans through their personal stories, students develop confidence, character, and leadership skills of their own. Veterans’ stories and memorabilia collected may be eligible to submit to the Library of Congress, and local history museums. This project entails students learning to capture oral history through a guided process.

MCC Engagement Team Projects:

• Net Impact Program
• Veterans’ History Project
• Good Deeds Day
• Random Acts of Kindness
• Special Olympics
• Autism Society of Greater Phoenix LEGO Club
• Hunger Awareness projects
• Battle of the Badges
• Other student initiatives

Center for Community & Civic Engagement

MCC Student Vote Fellows - $600 stipend

Ask Every Student Implementation Grant funding is to support two MCC Students Vote Fellows. The Fellows will coordinate on-campus voter education/registration activities and events held in conjunction with other campus stakeholders. The Fellows will also coordinate weekly Civic Action Council meetings and recruit Civic Engagement Ambassadors from across the campus. In addition, the Ambassadors will support our Faculty, along with MCC Students Vote volunteers. They will make presentations on student voting, voter education and voter registration in classes across disciplines. Fellows will participate in leadership development training and weekly staff check-ins.

Application

Wednesday 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Meeting Link: https://tinyurl.com/NetImpact2022-23

Campus Elections Engagement Project

Civic Influencer - $500 stipend

Civic Influencers is a nonpartisan, nonprofit that activates young people’s civic power through organizing, learning, and advocacy. We use real-time data to draw attention to democracy power outages on campuses and in communities, and train young people to fight for youth voting rights and the policies they care about. We design youth-centered, data-driven civic action projects that remove barriers to voting and push decision makers to give young people a seat at the table.

Andrew Goodman Foundation

Andrew Goodman Ambassador - $1000 for events and materials

Andrew Goodman Vote Everywhere is a national, non-partisan, civic engagement movement of student leaders and university partners. The program provides extensive training, resources, as well as a peer network to support its Andrew Goodman Ambassadors while they work to register voters, bring down voting barriers, and tackle important social justice issues on their college campuses.us

Campus Vote Project

Democracy Fellows - $500 stipend

Every day Democracy Fellows talk to their peers about registering to vote, educate them on election laws and what’s on the ballot, and make sure students at their campus are ready to engage with democracy. Fellows are not only engaging their peers in the next upcoming election. We’ve challenged our fellows to implement programs on each of their campuses that will remain long after they graduate and make an impact on students for years to come.

For more information, contact Debra Ohlinger at debra.ohlinger@mesacc.edu