James Fallon, the longest serving member of the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation board of trustees, visited campus on Tuesday, Dec. 5. Fallon was conducting the foundation’s first campus site visit, prompted in part by Elon’s receipt of the Presidential Award in the first President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The foundation funds two programs that the national selection committee cited in its selection of Elon Elon for one of only three Presidential Awards.
The Leaders in Collaborative Service (LINCS) program allows an Elon student to serve as an on-site volunteer coordinator in local non-profit and human service agencies that have a high volume of Elon students working as volunteers. The Elon LINCS student frees up valuable agency management time by helping recruit, supervise and coach Elon students during their volunteer service.
Fallon, who was accompanied by his wife, Carol, has served 26 years on the Little Rock, Ark.-based
philanthropy. The Fallons met with Ben Pierce ’07, above whose education at
Elon has been supported in part by the Charles A. Frueauff Endowed
Scholarship.
The Community Partnership Initiative (CPI) program awards small stipends to teams of university faculty and agency administrators to address strategic challenges facing a non-profit agency.
During the visit, Fallon met with key campus administrators, faculty and staff working on these projects, including Smith Jackson, vice president for student life and dean of students; Nan Perkins, vice president for institutional advancement; Larry Vellani, director of corporate and foundation relations; Jeff Stein, assistant dean of students for service-learning and residence life; Mary Morrison, director of the Kernodle Center for Service Learning; Tammy Cobb, outreach coordinator for the Kernodle Center; Angela Llewellyn Jones, associate professor of social justice and a CPI faculty partner; Katie Filkins ’08, a LINCS coordinator who also participated in a CPI-related course; Sherri Henderson, director of the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club and a LINCS community partner; Joy Ciriano, executive director of Family Abuse Services, which is both a CPI and a LINCS community partner.
For more information about the LINCS and CPI program, contact Mary Morrison at the Kernodle Center, 336.278.7250.