Features by Theme (Social Justice)

Wade C. Jacobsen, Prison Teaching Initiative volunteer and research specialist at the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, discusses different programs that focus on transitioning at-risk youth to adulthood. You can read the full blog post here: http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/blog/transition-adulthood

For more than 15 years, the Guggenheim internship program has placed Princeton undergraduates in criminal justice non-profit organizations in the NYC metropolitan area, working in the areas of legal and social services and policy.

College has always been seen as a time of change, personal evolution, growth and exploration, a viewpoint shared by high school seniors lusting for the next year's freedoms, and by alumni reminiscing about their past experiences. Similarly, colleges and universities are also ideal incubators for civic engagement and social change, evolution, growth and exploration on a community level, in addition to individual. This enormous potential, and the successful initiatives that it breeds, can be found right here amongst the Princeton University student community.

Back in the fall of 2009, a Trenton area charitable organization called Mercer Street Friends had the best of problems.

It had a rapidly growing new program on their hands - a weekly effort that diverted food from their food bank to local elementary schools, who had sizeable populations of children that received free lunches - and there was high demand from an increasing number of schools to provide the children with much-needed meals to eat over the weekend, when the subsidized food was out of reach.