The Derek Canfield Barker Prize is administered by the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service. Nominations will be solicited from Brown University faculty and administrators. To qualify for the Barker Prize students must have participated in a sport at Brown, but it may be on an intramural level. Students do not have to have top grades, but must demonstrate that they have worked to the best of their ability. Nominated students will be asked to write an essay about their motivations for doing the community service activities they've undertaken while at Brown.
Nominations are due in the late spring.
The Southside Community Land Trust and the Swearer Center for Public Service sponsor a student intern to coordinate their Children's Garden and Environmental Education Program. The Children's Garden is located on the Land Trust's City Farm in South Providence and runs for ten weeks during June, July and August. The intern is responsible for meeting daily with children from local summer youth programs to coordinate the cultivation and maintenance of the garden and facilitate educational programs related to food production and distribution, nutrition and health, ecology, and local environmental issues. Interested Brown students need not have extensive gardening experience, but must be prepared to put creative energy into the project. Previous work with children and urban environmental issues is helpful.