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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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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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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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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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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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Over 70 students from Kapiolani Community College honored the spirit of Dr. King by proving a much-needed service to a struggling community—Hawaii's rising homeless population. KCC’s service-learning team partnered with Hawai’i Helping the Hungry to Have Hope (H-5) to convert an old tour bus into a temporary homeless shelter, as part of the Evans Bus Project. The new mobile...
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For this year’s MLK Day of Service, approximately 200 Northern Virginia (NOVA) Community College students, faculty and staff took the day on and helped those in need. Over 300 school supply kits, including donated items such as pencils, erasers, and notebook paper, were put together to be sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan who will then distribute the supplies to school...
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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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The Military Buildup Community Forum is a service-learning project coordinated by GCC's Criminal Justice and Social Sciences students. This year-long endeavor started when Fall 2008 students surveyed the public to find what they considered major concerns facing our island community. The impending military buildup in reference to the relocation of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam ranked...
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Southern High School Marketing students spent some time teaching the elderly at the Guma Trankilidat Senior Care Home various ways to use technology to assist them in their everyday lives. Students shared their knowledge of the Microsoft programs. Students demonstrated how to use the Excel program in creating a general ledger for tracking their income. Microsoft Word was used for writing...
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