Downtown Marketplace

Last April, SIFE students recognized a unique opportunity they could get involved with: reviving the Selinsgrove Downtown Farmer’s Market. At the time, there was only one Amish farmer who set up shop each Saturday. By partnering with the Borough Manager and other local business leaders, we had the opportunity to visit four Amish farms and speak to the families about the market. We also started a promotional campaign to promote the Farmer’s Market to the Selinsgrove Community. This year, we will continue our partnership with the Borough Manager as we work to expand the market to more local farmers and promote it throughout the community. There is tremendous growth potential for this project and we are excited to get started!

Golf Tournement

Our Annual SU SIFE Golf Tournament is our biggest fundraiser. Bringing professors, family, friends, and the SU community together for a day of golf ending with a dinner, we are able to raise funds for our projects and competition expenses. This year the tournament will be held at the Colonial Golf and Tennis Club in Harrisburg, PA, on April 26th, 2010.

Below is information about the 2010 golf tournament:

Flyer
Sponsor Information
Reservation Form

Market Street Festival

This will be the fourth year that SU SIFE has a stand at Selinsgrove’s annual market street festival. We will be distributing pamphlets on our different projects and holding a putting contest to advertise our annual golf tournament. We will also have a "wheel of SIFE" where small children can spin the wheel and answer questions pertaining to the six criteria for SIFE. We look forward to this project each year because it allows us to show the Selinsgrove community what we have done to give back.

Project SCI

Project SCI began in the Spring of 2006 when SU SIFE forged a partnership with Carmen Rivera, a bilingual educator at the Shamokin Correctional Institute. Ms. Rivera was in need of resources for classes she taught on success skills. Our SIFE team put together an extended curriculum for her classes that centered on interviewing skills and resume writing. We provided kits that contained the lesson plans, master copies, transparencies, and books needed to teach the lessons. Most importantly, we provided these resources not only in English, but also in Spanish.

Since Spring 2006, this project has grown and flourished. Ms. Rivera constantly returns to our SIFE team with positive feedback about how well the inmates respond to our curriculum. Because we have stayed in contact with Carmen, we are able to make improvements and additions to the curriculum whenever necessary.

This year we plan on modifying the curriculum to use with Women in Transition. We also plan to develop a way to track the success of inmates who were educated using our curriculum.