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Cal Poly took a capacity-building approach and used its SaYES mini-award to market and promote VolunteerSLO, a comprehensive online database of local volunteer opportunities. The resulting marketing campaign targeted local baby boomers near retirement and encouraged them to become involved in K-12 service-learning projects and activities. Among other accomplishments, Cal Poly produced a...
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Interages, Inc. used SaYES funds to expand its existing Intergenerational Bridges service-learning and mentoring program, which pairs newly arrived immigrant youth in ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) programs with supportive older adult mentors to assist with the transition to U.S. culture, language acquisition, and personal development. In this project, high school students...
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Academy for Academics and Arts (AAA) middle-school students teamed with local baby boomer volunteers to restore the school's greenhouse to working order and organize it to be user-friendly for classes of all ages, including storage areas for each grade level. One baby boomer volunteer served as expert gardener and coordinated efforts and resources across the project. Led by their baby-...
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(Morganton News Herald Newspaper) January 20, 2009 MORGANTON - Early Tuesday morning, Morganton Station (Old Nite Furniture complex) was invaded by a small army of more than 60 volunteers armed with shovels, rakes, drills, saws, hammers, cameras, laptops, paint brushes, cleaning supplies and more importantly, a unified purpose in honoring the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr through a day...
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Does service learning support and boost academic achievement? This is a question that educators and administrators seek to answer—intrinsically, those teachers who participate in service learning know that it does, but finding solid, black and white evidence to document that fact is sometimes difficult. But for Navajo students of the STAR School, service learning also reconnects them to...
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The Teen Action and Support Center (TASC) is a non-profit in Rogers, Arkansas who offers free services to teens and their families. Our largest program, In Service, is a community service learning program that links students in the community with volunteer opportunities. We work with students who need community service for all sorts of reasons, such as college and scholarship applications,...
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I am a 13 year old middle school student. I have started a non-profit organization (501(c)(3)) -- Empower Orphans. The purpose of "Empower Orphans" is to elevate the well being of orphaned children and empower them to succeed, by helping them help themselves. Our focus is to help create self sufficiency by supplying them with the tools to gain a basic education and technical skills...
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After taking a history walk around our neighborhood, students began an ongoing cross-curricular project centered around an abandoned family cemetery. Students have documented the history of the Thomas Eddie Family, memorialized in the cemetery. They have added to the Sunset Hills historical archives. Upon discoverin that Thomas Eddie was a mountain man, and one of the 7 trappers of the Rocky...
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Project FLOW – Future Leaders of Watersheds subgrantees submitted t-shirt designs for the FLOW Day of Service T-Shirt. Hand-drawn designs were transferred to electronic media and posted on the VolunteerWV Blog. FLOW youth exercised their democratic right and voted on the design they preferred during a two week period. The winning design was placed on the back of the service day t-shirt....
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The Wood County 4-H program in Ohio USA is a key leader in the area of service learning through the art of quilting. For the past five years 4-H members and volunteers have created more than 110 quilts for cancer patients, domestic violence victims, teenage mothers and individuals in need identified by 4-H members. This year 50 members, have gathered together to construct quilts for the...
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