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UNB students put spin on spring break

By=20 Toni-Lynn=20 Robbins
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - = Bangor Daily=20 News

Seventeen = students from=20 the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton will be in the area over = the=20 weekend as part of an alternative spring break.

The=20 students, who are enrolled in Renaissance College, the = university=E2=80=99s leadership=20 school, were expected to reach Salem, Mass., on Tuesday where they will = complete=20 a service learning project, said Meredith Eaton, an AmeriCorps VISTA = member at=20 the United Way of Eastern Maine. The students will stop Friday night and = participate in a mock emergency sheltering drill at the Brewer=20 Auditorium.

On=20 Saturday, the students and three faculty will meet at the University of = Maine in=20 Orono to help prepare the University Park for tree planting, while a = small group=20 will complete a painting job at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern = Maine in=20 Bangor. Once the projects are complete, the students will have lunch = with past=20 and present AmeriCorps members, UM students and members of the Maine = Commission=20 for Community Service.

"They = don=E2=80=99t have a=20 national service program like we do," said Eaton. "They are very = interested in=20 finding out what we do and interested in shaping public policy in Canada = while=20 encouraging community engagement."

The=20 students are active university students who take classes in leadership, = public=20 policy and community problem-solving, Eaton said.

Maryalice = Crofton,=20 executive director for MCCS, said community service and nonprofit = organizations=20 were topics of discussion in the 2005 Canadian Maine Symposium. At the = time she=20 met Rick Hutchins, the UNB faculty member in charge of this = week=E2=80=99s trip. She=20 said Hutchins hopes the trip will help his students learn more about = themselves=20 and the effects of their service in the community.

During the = symposium,=20 Crofton said she learned that the relationship between nonprofit = agencies and=20 the government is very different in Canada. In the U.S., nonprofits use=20 government and privately donated funds, while in Canada nearly all = nonprofits=20 are government funded, she said.

"In=20 Canada =E2=80=A6 [nonprofits are] almost completely government funded = and they are very=20 interested in how the nonprofit sector engages for-profit funding = support,"=20 Crofton said.

The=20 MCCS "wants to continue the relationship between the commission and any = partners=20 we might discover that will work out, not only in the state and other = states,=20 but across the border."

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