Giving Tuesday & Alternative Spring Break

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:21:21 -0500

This Giving Tuesday, will you help support 36 UMBC students who will spend Spring Break 2020 exploring social challenges and potential solutions in Baltimore?

Alternative Spring Break (ASB) participants work with nonprofits, city governments, community organizers, residents, and activists. They develop a new sense of the human-scale impacts and dimensions of abstract, systemic issues: seeing the impacts on the people affected, and understanding a variety of perspectives on the problem. In addition, they develop skills that help them reflect on experiences; share, solicit, and make use of stories; build community; work in partnerships; and analyze approaches to problem-solving to identify what works, and what else is possible.

All UMBC ASB experiences are designed and led by students with support from the Center for Democracy and Civic Life. Please consider donating and helping us spread the word. Thank you!