Bentley’s Service Learning Center received the Bob Ray Partnership Award at the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance’s 12th annual spring fundraising event: Home for Good, Solutions Start Here. Bentley was honored for their service learning programs focusing on homelessness and their commitment to partnering with social service organizations to bring business principles to the nonprofit sector.
According to the MHSA’s interview with Jonathan White, director of the BSLC, “It is the BSLC’s focus to work toward the elimination of homelessness by better educating the next generation of civic business leaders, while also doing our part to build strong programs for those who are currently homeless in the greater-Boston community. Working on the challenges our society faces with homelessness is at the very core of Bentley University’s mission to educate creative, ethical, and socially responsible organizational leaders by creating and disseminating impactful knowledge.”
The BSLC is a nationally recognized thought leader in service-learning, student leadership, applied learning, and civic engagement. Through service-learning programs, Bentley students experience the connection between community-based service and academic, individual, and professional development. The BSLC delivers effective programming models to over 60 sites throughout the Greater Boston community.
Photo credit: Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance and Hannah Cohen Photography