Bonner Center for Civic Engagement Feature Stories

SEEDS Leadership
Building authentic relationships
The SEEDS Project is recognized with a Collaboration of Change Award at the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement's annual Engage for Change Awards.
Richmond Virginia skyline
UNIVERSITY NEWS
City treks: Spiders explore Richmond
The UR community celebrates Pride Month, Juneteenth, and other events through the Bonner Center’s Summer in the City series, now in its tenth year.
Chris Mitchell by a flowering tree in front of the Humanities Building
Paying it forward
First-generation college student shares his knowledge of college with his Latinx high school mentees.
University of Richmond Habitat chapter
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Habitat returns home to UR
Students revive UR's Habitat for Humanity chapter. Their 100 members include a Spider who helped build her own family's Habitat house.
Students at one of the campus events are hosted by the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and the MLK Celebration Committee.
UNIVERSITY NEWS
Contemplating MLK's inspiring words
Drawing from the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on campus, local leaders and UR community members discuss what it means to "commit to humanity."
Jillian Yates
Jillian Yates, ’24

A Burhans Civic Fellowship provides biology major new perspectives and teaching experience in Indonesia.