UMassGives 2023

For 50 years, STPEC’s interdisciplinary programming has challenged students to approach our most complex societal concerns with a critical analysis and transformative solutions. STPEC could not have thrived for this long without your help. Please help us mark this important milestone with a donation to STPEC.

Your donation during this year’s UMassGives campaign will support student activism and internship work through the Sara Lennox Scholarship Fund and the STPEC Summer Grassroots Internship Scholarship. As you know STPEC students bring their passion, time and talent to a variety of social issues. Over the past year STPEC students have: 

• Provided organizing, communication and administrative support for the Professional Staff Union at UMass Amherst. 
• Provided research about best practices for the nascent and ground-breaking Division of Community of Care of Northampton (Northampton, MA). 
• Canvassed and provided organizing support for Western Mass Labor Action (Pittsfield, MA). 
• Farmed with the worker cooperative Riquezas del Campo and its partnering organization the Pioneer Valley Workers Center (Hatfield, MA). 
• Provided intake services for the legal services organization, Georgia Justice Project (Atlanta, GA).
• Developed curriculum for the Peace Institute’s STEM summer program (Remote). 

Your UMassGives contribution will help STPEC students bring what they’ve learned in the classroom to the real world. Because student activism and internship work are largely unpaid, STPEC students need financial assistance to pursue these opportunities. Please support the next generation of engaged scholars and activists. 

Thank you!