In Theatre for Young Audiences, you can work with middle school groups to develop a script and create a theater production based on the young students’ experiences. We also offer classes with a community focus. Recently, Sophie Roe '19 was awarded a Napier Award to continue expanding Pomona Employment Partners (PEP) to serve homeless individuals in the city of Pomona. Students built the Hunger and Homelessness Initiative, which takes leftover dining hall food to local shelters. Many of these programs were started by Pomona students. Working with our PAYS college-prep program for local, underrepresented high school students.
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Mentoring local middle school and high school students.Devoting your Spring Break to volunteering.Through these programs, you can participate in hands-on learning, have meaningful and lasting experiences with people outside of the College, and contribute to our surrounding communities. The Draper Center for Community Partnerships develops many opportunities for students to engage. You can turn those words into action while at Pomona through community engagement and outreach opportunities. This maxim from Pomona’s fourth president James Blaisdell is a guiding force at Pomona College. “They only are loyal to this college who, departing, bear their added riches in trust for mankind.”
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There is a quote on our College Gates that we don’t take lightly: Alternabreak allows students to travel around California completing service projects.