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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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Students in CHEM 316: Analytical Chemistry Lab partnered with 3 Rochester, NY neighborhoods to test soil for the presence of lead. Collect soil was tested and neighborhood residents received reports summarizing the analyzed data relative to EPA standards. Students learned about the risks and health effects associated with lead poisoning and became skilled in well-established protocols of...
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Students in a Senior English seminar partnered with elders from St. John's Home in Rochester, NY, and conducted one-on-one interviews to capture the elder’s life history. The elder’s story was then turned into a mini-biography of the individual, which was given to the elder, his/her family, and the staff at St. John’s Home.The elders are being provided with companionship, an...
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St. John Fisher College students from the Multivariate Advanced Statistics class, and from the Survey Design and Analysis class, partnered with NeighborWorks in Rochester, NY, to create and administer surveys within three different neighborhoods. As a result, NeighborWorks received useful data on homeowner needs and satisfaction for three "Healthy Block" neighborhoods. This data was...
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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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The Pads Packers major goal was to help the homeless. We achieved that goal by packing 40 sandwiches and lunches for the homeless people. We then delivered the sandwiches and lunch bags to PADs. We wanted to make a change and help people less fortunate than us. To raise the money to pay for this all, we charged $3 per lunch bag, and we donated the extra money to PADs. To spread the...
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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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