Word: outreaching
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...official recognition. The group’s “confrontational” recruitment tactics were cited as the main reason for the snub. But what Rabbi Zarchi describes as Harvard Chabad’s spirit of “inreach”—“Outreach,” he says, “can imply that you’re in and someone else is out”—is still alive and well. “There’s nowhere we won’t go to make Judaism acceptable...
Secondly, to say the OSAPR does not conduct outreach education is simply fallacious. Last year, approximately 2,000 Harvard students and staff attended one or more of our educational events and programs, including 61 workshops each fall (one for every freshman entryway) and the annual performance of “Sex Signals.” Additionally, we work with each house’s Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) team to conduct at least one educational outreach program per semester in every house. We have also partnered with numerous, diverse student organizations—like the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...situation. Since 2004, students from poor and working-class families pay little or nothing to attend Harvard; Harvard admissions officers also visit more high schools in poor communities; Harvard began a small summer program for promising low-income students; and students and graduates engage in broader and more systematic outreach. The percentage of low-income students at Harvard is inching up, without any sacrifice in quality of those admitted, and other wealthy colleges and universities are slowly following in Harvard’s footsteps...
...said. “With [Black Students Association], we’ve had the Renaissance Ball, we’ve had forums, discussions, black political leaders coming in, but it’s all within the black community. There’s been no real community-wide outreach...
...flexibility of simple churches is a huge plus. They can accommodate the demands of a multi-job worker, convene around the bedside of an ailing member and undertake big initiatives with dispatch, as in the case of a group in the Northwest that reportedly yearned to do social outreach but found that every member had heavy credit-card debt. An austerity campaign yielded a balance with which to help the true poor...