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As a student at Lake Forest Academy, service is an important aspect of the curriculum and community. This year multitudes of students from Lake Forest Academy have participated in environment oriented service in order to give back to the local community. For our personal service project we went to participate in a service day on April 3rd at Lake Forest Open Lands, a local organization...
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Oakridge Middle School, Clover, SC Giving Back Team Project supported the Books 2 Students Project this year. This project supports the "Corridor of Shame" Schools in South Carolina. The "Corridor of Shame" schools are high poverty schools with limited resources. We partnered with the York County Education Association-Retired on the project. We set a school-wide goal to...
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This project expanded on an existing partnership to add a service-learning component to ongoing mentoring relationships. RSVP mentors and their mentees engaged in service together, choosing one of two opportunities: 1) One group volunteered at the Northwest Iowa Food Bank to learn about the scope and depth of hunger in their community. Six mentors and their mentees packed over 300 bags of...
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As part of National Emergency Preparedness Month, over 40 people participated in a four hour workshop titled, "Are YOU Ready? Emergency Preparedness for Senior Citizens" on September 19, 2007. The class was organized by the Byron-Bergen Emergency Response Team (BBERT), a student group that supports health, safety and disaster planning initiatives throughout the Byron-Bergen...
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The SaYES award allowed Marshfield R-1 School District to enhance and support existing service-learning projects across four schools and all grade levels. These included: 1) High school Students Opposed to Destructive Action (SODA) worked with older adult volunteers to develop a stage performance addressing safety issues for Kindergarten and first-graders. The older adults provided direction...
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With support from a Learn and Serve grant, NASC has trained RSVP instructors in 40 states and provided financial support to over 350 student councils to train in the process and launch RSVP in their schools. The efforts over the past three years have engaged more than 44,000 students and generated over 120,000 hours of volunteer service. Read more... (99K pdf)
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Thousands of youth across the country have committed to revitalize the movement for civil rights by challenging today's societal crises. Youth in Los Angeles, Atlanta, High Point, North Carolina, Prince George's County and Baltimore, Maryland, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and from Pine Bluff, Arkansas challenge others to join the movement...
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An engineering student at the University of Southern California wanted to use her expertise to improve the community, but didn’t know how. That is, until she enrolled in "Engineers as Teachers," a course designed by local non-profit, Iridescent, for inner city Los Angeles engineers to give back to the community that surrounds them. At Iridescent, our mission is to foster...
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Charlevoix High School Construction Technology teacher Brian Certa probably didn't know what he got himself into when he wrote a letter to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition applauding the goals of the show and tentatively offering assistance in the future. On Tuesday, March 4, Certa got a call to bring four of his seniors down to New Orleans, Louisiana, to assist the show in...
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The Broadcast Media Club at L'Anse Creuse High School was created during the 2007-2008 school year to help students learn the art of broadcasting. The club is open to students in 9-12 grades and all participants are given a unique opportunity to participate in community service. The club broadcasts nearly 60 events throughout the year thanks to LCHS' closed-circuit network and also...
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