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The Fremont Unified School District, serving over 32,000 students in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently adopted a Data Dashboard system to quickly and visually show district performance in six key areas: Improved Student Achievement, Community Engagement, School Operations, Safe and Secure Facilities, Staff & Employee Relations, and Fiscal Stewardship.
The portion of students engaged in...
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Between the months of October and December 2010, students of Nibley Park Elementary School worked with artist Roger Whiting every Tuesday on this mosaic mural for the One World Café in downtown Salt Lake City. The café is run by One World Everybody Eats, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing food for the poor on either a free or work-earned basis. They also make their food...
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Through a series of fortunate events, The Preservation Project grew from the ground up into an initiative developed to build youth civic engagement through experiential service-learning while integrating the arts with community outreach and education. Empowering youth to be leaders in the community while developing their sense of altruism is paramount. Co-founder Angie Leonard states, "By...
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In September 2009, The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee tapped Dallas based nonprofit Big Thought to create an education initiative which would allow youth to have an impact on the North Texas region and showcase that heroes aren't just the players on the field, that they are right in our own backyard.SLANT 45: Service Learning Adventures in North Texas, was designed to inspire youth...
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CAMP Gator (Collegiate Achievement Mentoring Program) is an innovative, service-learning, leadership mentoring program that pairs athletes and non-athlete student leaders from the University of Florida with at-risk elementary and middle-school boys and girls from high poverty schools in the Gainesville community. Many of the mentees chosen to participate in the program have discipline issues,...
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Voicing Experiences Through Service (VETS) is a multi-year, multi-state project funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service and housed at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, Bloomington. VETS supports young people ages 14 to 21 as they build relationships with veterans and collaboratively record oral histories of their service. These histories...
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The mission of our service project is to strive to aid people who are victims of socioeconomic circumstances over which they have limited control by providing relief in a welcoming environment, showing that we will put forth the effort to struggle with them. To accomplish this goal, we chose to donate our time and volunteer at Inspiration Cafe. The cafe is located in Uptown on Chicago's...
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Mission Description Raising awareness in the Lake Forest Academy community is one of our major goals. We want to educate all members of the community including all students, teachers, and other families who live on the campus. We want to show them what the dangers of distracted driving, especially texting while driving, are. We would like to make sure every one in the school is made aware...
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Our sophomore seminar class focuses on community service. Our group chose to organize a drive for underprivileged children. We chose children living in poverty in Tanzania because a student in our group was planning to travel there over her spring break and could deliver the supplies. We decided that the best approach was to ask for donations of school supplies from our school community,...
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We are a group of sophomore students at Lake Forest Academy whose mission was to raise money in order to buy school supplies for students less fortunate than us. In order to do this, we organized a team composed of students who were interested in bettering the education system in America. To begin our task, we set out a mission statement for what we wanted to achieve and came up with a...
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