youth involvement

JDRF Golf & Tennis Open: Dollars for Diabetes

DFine21 — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:12:48 -0500

Dollars for Diabetes, an initiative started by Team Brotherly Love is a project run by kids for kids. It was founded after Team Brotherly Love started the JDRF Golf & Tennis Open one year ago, in order to get kids involved. The initiative gets children of all ages engaged in fundraising or what we call, "FUNraising." These youth philanthropists "funraise" at all community events ranging from town fairs to tournaments to athletic events as well as at retailers around the state of New Jersey.

Video Game Club

thayes — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:54:07 -0500

The Video Game Club is a group focused on giving the youth of a lower income community the chance to have a safe alternative in the evening. The group will meet once a week in the leasing office of the community. The evening will consist of a life skills building activity and then the youth will be able to compete in video games on teams and against eachother. The gaming time will help the youth build self confidence, self worth and help them develop skills in conflict resolution.

TeenChat

coleru08 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:56:34 -0600

TeenCHAT (Teen Community Health Action Team) is a group of 12 teens, who come together and talk about the issues facing our community and how they affect our health. Some of the issues we discuss on a regular basis include: racial disparities in school, the workplace, economic wealth, and health care. We discuss healthy options for school lunches, and how to implement them into the public school system; we discuss how to revamp the physical education programs in the Seattle Public School system. We put on local health fairs, open to the community, so that our voices can be heard.

Team Hunger Force

Team Hunger Force — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:46:31 -0500

Team Hunger Force is an organization started by Josie D. and Scott L. to raise food, money, and awareness about world hunger and how it plagues the world. We recently held our first fund raiser in our hometown (Cheboygan, MI), which consisted of a door-to-door canned food drive, a raffle for products from local businesses, bakes sales, and a concert series in the evening. While in the future we will not be hosting identical events, we are going to continue to promote awareness and try to make a difference across Michigan.

Program aids for the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center

drwade — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:31:18 -0500

The project is to research the programs offered at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center and through varying scout programs and to determine which elements of the scouting programs can be completed during a visit to the Center.
The Center staff receive an in depth database of the rank and bade requirements that can be completed by visiting scouts and a brochure is available for visiting scout leaders and parents to use during their visit to enrich their experience at the Center.