Julia Schuster and Tara Prendergast – C.V.

Starr 2010
- BRYTE received $2,000 from UFB to make a
website!!
- Received honorable mention of SAO Community
Outreach student leadership award!
- Awesome May 1st community day (see photos)!
- Janet Isserlis – BRYTE guru and sponsor – was
laid off from the Swearer Center. !
INPUTS: volunteer hours and
skills, Tutee time and effort,
coordinators time as individuals
and group, IIRI support,
Swearer Center support,
applicants, funding!
ACTIVITIES: Tutoing,
Mentoring, VDM’s, enrichment
activities, i.e. zoo days and
park, art projects, meetings,
training for volunteers, written
application and interview !
OUTPUTS: 3 hours tutoring
per week, trained volunteers,
progress reports, money in
match funds for IIRI, x number
of volunteers selected!
OUTCOMES!
I. Short-term: tutor-tutee
relationships, improved language
skills, Brown Students more familiar
with Providence, bi-directional
cultural learning, greater ability to
participate in school, relief for IIRI
staff, handing in homework.!
II. Long-term: Increased confidence for
refugees, raised awareness about
refugee resettlement, expertise in
running an organization for student
leaders, cultural awareness and
intimate understanding of institutional
inequality.!
OUTPUTS:!
•  Art Projects and Events:!
!- Indicator: BRYTE kids and tutors engaged in making art, event!
!- Target: Events for the BRYTE community or showcasing artwork done by BRYTE
participants !
!- Timeline: one event (either community or Art) per semester!
•  Trained and Informed Volunteers:!
- Indicator: volunteers feeling prepared for tutoring, understanding boundaries of their role,
and having access to information for enrichment activities (including additional support
services refugees can access)!
- Target: Volunteers will have packets, and continual trainings as well coordinator support !
- Timeline: By fall 2010 these materials will be compiled, and trainings planned out !
•  Tutoring and Enrichment activities for Volunteer-Refugee pairs:!
- Indicator: weekly progress report tracking hours and summarizing session!
- Target: at least 3 hours/week per pair; !
- Timeline: Ongoing!
OUTCOMES:!
•  Short-term: Improved language skills ! Long-term: increased confidence, eased
integration challenges, greater access to resources in community!
! !- indicator: volunteer measured progress over the course of a year, refugees more comfortable
speaking, and accessing other resources i.e. after school programs!
! !- Target: Customized effective tutoring!
! !- Timeline: measurement at the end of every semester!
•  Short-term: Brown students more aware of refugee resettlement experience !
increased awareness of: institutional inequalities in the U.S., overall cultural
awareness !!
! !- Indicator: volunteers speaking about these issues, and being supportive of families (observed
by coordinator) !
! !- Target: BRYTE alums and volunteers more proactive voices!
! !- Timeline: ongoing, 2010-2011 explicit engagement with these themes!
•  Partnerships: between students and refugees, volunteers and coordinators, BRYTE
and community organizations!
! !- Indicator: commitment of volunteers and coordinators, appreciation from the IIRI, active
interaction with community partners, refugee families feeling support/friendship!
! !- Target: strong and sustainable relationships on all these fronts!
! !- Timeline: short-term between individuals in BRYTE, continuous between BRYTE as
organization and community partners as well as refugee community !