Meet the NEW 2011-2012 CEI Interns!!!
The Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative is a team of 16 Greek sophomores who are all inquisitive, dynamic, well-networked and creative Jewish students looking for a new way to create new, innovative, campus-based Jewish activities for themselves and their friends.
Interns are responsible for advancing Jewish outreach on campus by creating innovative initiatives that are meant to engage otherwise uninvolved Jewish students at Penn. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Attending weekly 2-hour sessions with the rest of the interns. Sessions include leadership development, exploring Jewish values and traditions, and high-profile guest speakers from Penn and Philadelphia
- Attend bi-weekly small group supervision meetings
- Building new relationships and strengthening old ones
- Creating new Jewish and/or Israel-related initiatives on campus
- Being outgoing, approachable, and very social (Jewish Shmoozing!)
- Traveling to Israel on a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip and/or participating in a Hillel or JRP sponsored Alternative Spring Break trip.
Some past initiatives by Penn students include:
- Social Entrepreneurial Network (the SEN initiative): A CEI Intern created this club, which brings social entrepreneurs who are extremely successful professionals (such as Edgar Bronfman) to campus to meet and mingle with students.
- Trees and Weed: One CEI Intern had a Tu’Bishvat seder funded wholly from his stipend in which he led a discussion about Jewish perspectives on mind-altering substances and Judaism.
- Moral Voices: Another CEI Intern helped create a Penn branch of Moral Voices, a group that spreads awareness about social justice issues on campus (this year focused on human trafficking)
- Jewish Food Critique (JFC): CEI Interns buy Jewish food (bagels, lox, etc.) with part of their stipends from delis all over Philadelphia for a student-led contest
- Shabbat dinners around campus: Hosting Shabbat dinners and discussions for their friends, some interns made celebrating Shabbat something fun and easy to do
And much more!
Questions about CEI?
Contact Emily Perl
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