community service

The 29th Day Preventive Task Force: Discussion - Education - Action

SimplySissy — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:50:06 -0500

The 29th Day Preventive Task Force is a Student Activist Group that is still in it's first year. Our slogan is Discussion - Education - Action. We seek to make our campus, our community, and our world a better place through several programs. Some of our efforts include:

Recycling Efforts - from picking up trash and recycling the salvagable materials to encouraging our peers, professors, and campus staff to recycle.

District-wide K-12 LTS Program

Sperbs — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:47:40 -0500

Our town needs change... and it needs to come from the youth population. Proposed is a Learning Through Service (LTS) program that would work with all public schools K-12 (and any private / charter school that shows interest!) to execute community service projects that directly correlate to the curriculum students are learning!

Our students are extremely active, and this program would allow them a more upfront and creative way to be activists! For more on WH youth activism, check out our website: www.rockandlearn.org

Teens Organizing and Giving Aid (T.O,G.A.)

skeeterbeanz09 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:40:16 -0500

A party was held, and to get in, you had to doate 2 hygeine items. these were later placed into bags, that were decorated, with soothing pictures and quotes. we then took these bags to a place called the refug house. the refuge house is a temporary shelter for foster children. the kids' faces were so filled with hope and joy, and i was so excited. i felt a sense of accomplishment and hopefully making the children feel a little more welcome at the home. but, it didn't stop there. the refuge house still needed our help. they needed another office, so they were building one in San Antonio, Tx.

Girl Talk - Fuel for Inspiration (April 21st Launch)

haleykilpatrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:33:18 -0500

Girl Talk was founded in 2002 by a then 15-year-old Haley Kilpatrick. Girl Talk is a student-to-student mentoring program that pairs middle school girls with high school girls who serve as mentors. Weekly meetings are held before or after school, during which the high school leader conducts valuable lessons that address issues middle school girls face every day. One example of a weekly lesson is Being Nice.

Be prepared for the Unexpected

msayers — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:02:17 -0500

Accident, nature, or by terrorist attacks — we have become much more aware of the devastation that can be caused by unexpected disasters such as these. Since September 11, 2001, much has changed in our world, nation, state, and community. Each day we are worried by the "what ifs" and wonder what we can do.

Kickin' It Through the Night

LindseyPoyer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:04:59 -0500

The project I organized and carried out to benefit the community was Kickin’ It Through the Night. It was an all night soccer tournament to benefit special Olympics. I conducted this project for a marketing and business class, called Advanced Marketing and DECA. DECA is an association of marketing students that I am involved in. The first day of Advanced Marketing & DECA class, our advisor presented us with all of the goals for Lakeville North DECA for the year.

Peace Park

PeacePark — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:07:56 -0500

This project is stimulated from Public Achievement which is an international, experienced-based civic education initiative that empowers young people to engage in public work. Focused on the most basic concepts of citizenship, democracy, and public work, Public Achievement draws on the talents and desires of ordinary people to build a better world and to create a different kind of politics.

Composting for Kids

Jahank02 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:50:37 -0500

The project that I plan on undertaking is to construct 3 medium sized compost bins for the Toledo Area Metro Parks. These bins will all be connected to form a composting system where the material to be composted will be placed in the first box, then as it further decomposes it will be moved to the second box, and finally be moved to the third box for the final stage of decomposition. These boxes will also include aeration tubes to hasten the decomposition process. The aerat

Indie Fest

mattfelkey — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:40:45 -0500

This is a yearly concert my friend and I started in the summer of 2007 that actually happened in October of 2007. We brought in some of the best unsigned or underground indie/alternative rock bands in the midwest to come play at the Tecumseh Center for the Arts in Tecumseh, Michigan. We wanted to show our town some real music, and give the best local bands a chance to play with some of the best bands out there, while still doing something good for our community. The profits from the show go to a local charity.

The Big Creek Clean

mrothert — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:57:51 -0500

Big Creek is the only natural waterway that meanders through the City of Canton, Illinois (population 15,000), a rural community in west central Illinois. Soon after the first pioneers settled this area in 1825 a sawmill was erected on Big Creek. Over the years it has served as a great economic and natural resource for the community, however in recent years the length of the creek has been polluted with junk and debris (tires, barrels, litter, etc.)