Alternative Spring Breaks
ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK TRIP DETAILS:
The Dartmouth Center for Social Impact is proud to partner with housing communities to launch house-based Alternative Spring Break programs. This year, we are working with Allen, East Wheelock, and West House to host meaningful and dynamic ASB trips. Each trip has been intentionally designed to explore pressing social challenges that are meaningful to members of each housing community.
See below to learn more about the trip designed for your house, and to apply to join your housing community in this important work!
ALLEN HOUSE
"Place, Story, and Inequality in New Orleans"
Join members from Allen House on an ASB trip to New Orleans, Louisiana to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches in the city's Lower Ninth Ward. This part of the city was severely impacted by Katrina's flooding and has had the slowest recovery rate of all the neighborhoods in New Orleans to date. Trip participants will work with the organization lowernine.org to restore homes in the Lower Ninth Ward, while also spending intentional time together exploring how place and inequality are related to the lasting effects of the storm.
Key themes: race, gender, and class identity, storytelling, climate change, housing security
Dates: March 14 – 21, 2020
Ready to apply to the *Allen House* ASB? Click here.
EAST WHEELOCK HOUSE
"The Politics of Recovery in San Juan"
East Wheelock House's Alternative Spring Break trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico will explore the politics and policy of climate change, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Maria, by partnering with El Departamento de la Comida. El Depa supports the ecological resilience and decolonization of food on the island by directly supporting farms and farmers. The Puerto Rico cohort will form a "Solidarity Brigade" to directly serve a specific farming project related to renewable energy and sustainable farming. Additionally, students will spend time learning about the impact the hurricane had on environmental and urban development, community connections, and the relationship between Puerto Rico and mainland United States.
Key themes: environmental sustainability and ecological resilience, food justice, climate change, public policy
Dates: March 14 – 21, 2020
Ready to apply to the *East Wheelock House* ASB? Click here.
WEST HOUSE
"Asylum-Seekers in New England: Understanding the Nuances of Immigration, Community, and Belonging in Portland"
West House's inaugural Alternative Spring Break trip to Portland, Maine will invite participants to explore the nuances of immigration, including how policy impacts the varied experiences of refugee and asylee populations in Maine. In partnership with the Maine People's Alliance, a grassroots organization dedicated to increasing the number of community leaders positioned to impact social change, this ASB will provide cohort members with a unique experience to directly participate in this transformative process through letter writing, canvassing, and supporting MPA during their Spring legislative session.
Key Themes: immigration policy, community organizing, democracy and public opinion, community and belonging
Dates: March 21 – 28, 2020
Ready to apply to the *West House* ASB? Click here.
ELIGIBILITY:
Students interested in attending this immersive educational experience must meet the following criteria for eligibility:
* Affiliated with the house associated with the trip to which you're applying.
* On-campus the term prior (Winter 2020).
* Able to attend the required weekly pre-education workshops during the Winter term (Friday Afternoons from 3:30pm-5:30pm).
* Have taken curricular or co-curricular offerings at Dartmouth that relate to the social impact work that will be done on their House's trip.
* Be in good standing with the College.
COST:
We ask students to pay around 20-25% of the full cost of the trip which for this 7-Day Alternative Spring Break immersion trip is $250*/student.
This fee will encompass ALL of the following:
- Transportation
- Allen and East Wheelock: transportation includes airfare t0/from Boston Logan Airport, ground transportation to/from Hanover to Boston Logan Airport for students who are on-campus, and roundtrip transportation from airport to host city.
- West House: transportation includes ground transportation to/from Portland, Maine for students who are traveling to/from Hanover and ground transportation while in Portland.
- All meals, snacks, and purified drinking water
- All lodging accommodations
- 1+ excursion to explore other local attractions
- All fees associated with the social impact work on the trip
- A series of 8-9 pre-education sessions in advance of the trip
- Pre-trip preparation and logistical coordination for all of the above
* However, we do not wish financial means to impede any student's participation in this opportunity and will meet 100% of demonstrated need so if this pertains to you, please complete the (optional) financial aid section of this application.
**Students are responsible for getting themselves to/from one of these airports
APPLICATIONS
Applications for the 2019-2020 Alternative Spring Break trips are live.
To begin your application, follow the link under your House's trip!
For any additional questions, please email Ashley.T. Doolittle@Dartmouth.edu.