Earn Community Service Hours Over Spring Break

Spring Break is just hours away, and to celebrate the upcoming week without school, The Community Service Guide is publishing one final post to ensure that TMA students are equipped to earn some community service hours amidst all the Spring Break boredom (Excitement! We meant to say excitement!).

Here are 17 opportunities for service happening this week:

1. Can't Wait for Spring Break? Sign Up to Volunteer with an Easter Egg Hunt!

2. Help Feed Seniors in Need with We Are Family DC

3. Celebrate the National Cherry Blossom Festival with Service

4. Support Local Watersheds and Work with Other DC Youth!

5. Volunteer and Learn about DC History

6. Sign up to Work with the National Air and Space Museum!

7. Finally, Greater DC Cares has 11 service projects happening this week! Sign up here: http://www.greaterdccares.org/HOC__Volunteer_Opportunity_Search_Page?p=vct

Don't forget to pick up a community service form from the Main Office before you leave for break! 

Questions: email Ms. Boehle-Silva at kboehle-silva@tmapchs.org

Help Feed Seniors in Need with We Are Family DC

We Are Family coordinates monthly grocery deliveries to 450 seniors in the North Capitol/Shaw and Columbia Heights/Park View neighborhoods. We need your help to make this happen!  

We gather at either the Metropolitan Community Church or Kelsey Apartments to assemble the grocery bags and then split up into groups to deliver the groceries to seniors in various homes, individual apartments, and senior housing buildings. These seniors are facing poverty and social isolation that puts them at risk for hunger as well as other dangers. These deliveries are scheduled at the time in the month where their financial assistance is running low and they are likely facing tough choices like whether to keep their power on, pay for medicine, or feed themselves. 

With the current economic problems many seniors are getting less support and are facing higher costs, furthering their desperation. You can help make an immense difference in their lives!

We Are Family coordinates monthly grocery deliveries to 450 seniors in the North Capitol/Shaw and Columbia Heights/Park View neighborhoods. We need your help to make this happen! We gather at either the Metropolitan Community Church or Kelsey Apartments to assemble the grocery bags and then split up into groups to deliver the groceries to seniors in various homes, individual apartments, and senior housing buildings. These seniors are facing poverty and social isolation that puts them at risk for hunger as well as other danger...

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To sign up for this and other volunteer opportunities, check out this webpage: http://www.wearefamilydc.org/volunteer/

Help St. Jude by Volunteering with the Great Urban Race

Great Urban Race is partnering up with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital , one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer research centers, for the third year in 2012, after fundraising over $300,000 to date. You can support St. Jude by simply volunteering for Great Urban Race events.

The race will take place Downtown Washington D.C. on 5/12/12 and volunteers will be needed for a variety of jobs. The best volunteers are the ones who arrive with a smile and interact with participants. It's a fun-filled, fast-paced day for participants, staff, and volunteers alike! Volunteer shifts are from 10am-5pm.

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Great Urban Race is partnering up with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital , one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer research centers, for the third year in 2012, after fundraising over $300,000 to date. You can support St. Jude by simply volunteering for Great Urban Race events.

The race will take place Downtown Washington D.C. on 5/12/12 and volunteers will be needed for a variety of jobs. The best volunteers are the ones who arrive with a smile and interact with participants. It's a fun-filled, fast-paced day for participants, staff, and volunteers alike! Volunteer shifts are from 10am-5pm. 

Please contact us at greaturbanrace@stjude.org for more information on how to become a volunteer at The Great Urban Race Washington D.C. and support St. Jude!

Please register by 5/7/12 to be a part of this great event.

Can't Wait for Spring Break? Sign Up to Volunteer with an Easter Egg Hunt!

If you're looking to earn some community service hours over spring break, check out this event sponsored by Greater DC Cares:

Easter Egg Hunt

You can sign up to volunteer on the bottom of the page.

Neighboring Now: Beat the Streets with MPD

Volunteer Now and Throughout the Summer!

Greater DC Cares

In collaboration with the Metropolitan Police Department, HandsOn Greater DC Cares and other local partners, residents throughout the District will be invited out for a day of celebration in their communities! The "Beat the Streets" Movement was started to dispel violence, improve community relations and encourage citizens to live peacefully.

Music, food and games will be available at each event. The local government, the community, health and non-Profit agencies will also provide relevant services (Jobs, health screenings, aging information, mentoring services, etc.) to our District residents.  Bringing together these supporters allows access to information, applications and appointments which will help our Citizens succeed.  

Six events from May until September will be held in various neighborhoods throughout the District. Two shifts of volunteers throughout the day are requested for each event: a team to set-up (3PM - 5:30PM) and a team to break-down (5:30PM - 8PM). If you are able to stay for the entire day, we'd love to have you and invite you to enjoy the event! Volunteers will also be asked to assist in food preparation and serving, engage with residents, and to help residents find different services available at the event.

Friday, May 18th, 2012 - 10 M Street NW (Raindate on Friday, May 25th)
Friday, June 15th, 2012 - 14th & Saratoga Street NE (Raindate on Friday, June 22nd)
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 - 5400 Illinois Avenue NW (Raindate on Wednesday, July 18th)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 - 3000 Buena Vista Terrace SE (Raindate on Wednesday, August 1st)
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 - 600 Park Road NW (Raindate on Wednesday, August 22nd)
Friday, September 21st, 2012 - 4500 Quarles Street NE (Raindate on Friday, September 28th)

For more information or to learn other ways in which you can participate, feel free to contact Officer Arthur Douglas at arthur.douglas@dc.gov. You can also contact one of the Neighboring Now representatives: Kierra Clark (kclark@greaterdccares.org | 202-777-4459) or Amanda Moore (amoore@greaterdccares.org | 202-777-4448).

 

Celebrate the National Cherry Blossom Festival with Service

March 20-April 27, 2012: National Cherry Blossom Festival volunteers provide more than support, they play an instrumental role in an important District of Columbia community tradition and, this year, will be a part of history as the Festival celebrates the 100th anniversary of the "Gift of Trees" from Tokyo to Washington, DC.

Festival organizers seek friendly, cooperative, and reliable volunteers who are at least 18 years of age. Knowledge about Washington, DC and the surrounding area is especially helpful - many visitors are from out of town and may need advice getting around. Various opportunities are available and groups are welcome and encouraged to register.

For more information, visit the National Cherry Blossom Festival volunteer page or email Sue Murphy.

Give Back Outside: Volunteer at the National Arboretum

March 24, 2012: Do you enjoy working with people and being outdoors? Are you a lifelong learner? The U.S. National Arboretum seeks volunteer guides and docents to share their love of plants and the Arboretum with visitors from around the world. 

Arboretum docents enhance the visitor experience by providing valuable information and answering questions at the front desk or at outdoor information stations; Guides connect visitors to the Arboretum through interpretive tours, including walking tours of individual collections or bus tours of the entire grounds for individual and group visitors. Volunteer trainings are ongoing, the next training is March 24.

For more information, visit the National Arboretum volunteer page or email the Volunteer Office.

Support Local Watersheds & Youth Civic Engagement

April 1-10, 2012: Earth Force, a nonprofit organization that supports environmental service-learning, seeks volunteers to help review DC middle school students' watershed-improvement project proposals for the annual Caring for Our Watersheds Youth Summit, an environmental educational competition held in conjunction with Mayor Gray's Unite for a Sustainable DC and the United Nations World Environment Day. Judges will be responsible for reviewing at least two proposals (with a flexible time frame) and joining a brief meeting (with an in-person and webinar option) to ensure proposals are ranked fairly.

For more information or to register, please contact Kurt Moser.

Make History at the Tudor Place Historic House & Garden

Ongoing Volunteer Opportunity: Tudor Place Foundation, whose mission is to educate the public about American history and culture around the development of the Federal City and the Nation's Capitol Region, seeks volunteers for its historic Tudor Place property, located on five and a half acres in the heart of the District's Georgetown area and home to Martha Washington's granddaughter and six generations of her descendants. Current volunteer opportunities include shop staff, docents and garden assistants. 

For more information, visit the Tudor Place volunteer page or email Jeralynn Graham.