Fighting against poverty in Rochester with the Urban Fellows Program

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Urban Fellows is an annual program open to college students in the Rochester area: This includes UR students, students at local universities, or any student originally from the Rochester area. Pictures is the Westside Farmers Market where one Urban Fellow is historically partnered with each year.

Urban Fellows, an annual program hosted by the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) and funded by Americorp, gives undergraduate students the opportunity to work with local nonprofits over the summer — and get paid for it.

Each student is matched with a nonprofit, which they remain with for the 10 weeks of the program.

“We pair all of those undergraduates with a local organization in the community that’s working on an anti-poverty project. That can be a bunch of different things,” program manager, Sarah Murphy ‘19 said…

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