A Thousand Volunteers
Over one thousand Tulane University students hit the streets of New Orleans on Saturday, Sept. 1 to volunteer as part of “Outreach Tulane,” a variety of day-long projects in various neighborhoods of New Orleans.
Students coordinated projects with over twenty community groups, including the Louisiana SPCA, Habitat for Humanity, Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadian, Project Lazarus, City Park, Communities in Schools, the Green Project, Malta Park Assisted Living Facility, Beacon of Hope Resource Center, and more. Volunteers gathered bright and early on Newcomb Quad of the uptown campus and were bused to service agencies around the city.
It was the largest single day of community service for our students, faculty and staff. Activities included painting public schools, general cleaning and yard work, cutting fabric squares to make beds for animals, socializing with elderly residents, sorting and packaging food and other donations, building a Habitat home, and picking up trash and debris.
Public service is a graduation requirement at Tulane.
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Central Michigan University Volunteers for Louisville Festival of Film, 2009
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., Oct. 5, 2009 — After nearly four days of volunteering their time and event-planning skills to ensure Louisvilles first International Festival of Film was a success, 30 Central Michigan University students are back in Mount Pleasant after a job well done.
I cant thank these students enough, said Conrad Bachmann, executive director and creator of the festival, as he hugged students before they stepped on the bus back to Mount Pleasant. Without them, this event wouldnt have been as successful as it was. These kids came here ready to work, and their talents rose to the occasion.
The students from CMUs Department of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Services Administration coordinated a number of events over the weekend from a red carpet gala, film screenings, technical set up and tear downs to entertainment and hors doeuvre parties leading up to films such as The Burning Plain, which stars Louisville native Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron.
They also worked one-on-one with directors and actors, learning both about the film business and what it takes to execute a high-profile event that attracted hundreds to Louisville home to the famous Kentucky Derby. Throughout the festival, students helped facilitate screenings at venues that included the Muhammad Ali Center, the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts and the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.
I am just so proud of my students, said CMU instructor Lorie Tuma, who oversaw the students in Louisville. They really came together as a team and embraced this event and through it all they became professionals.
CMU senior Justyna Kopacz said networking with well-known stars and directors during the festival was enlightening.
This has been an amazing experience, said Kopacz of St. Clair Shores. We now have a real behind-the-scenes look at how events like this come together. We learned so many of the ins and outs and what needs to be done to get the job done.
Over the festival, students connected with celebrities that included Doris Roberts, best known for playing Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, and Jennifer Lawrence, who is currently filming The Beaver with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster in New York.
Students even shared a hospitality suite loaded with food and snacks with Kathryn Joosten, currently starring as Mrs. McClusky on the popular award-winning series Desperate Housewives.
She was just so welcoming to us, said CMU junior Kristine Deater of Brighton. Here she is this celebrity and she opened up to us so much. She was just inspiring, and I think we all learned a lot from her.
The CMU students are part of the events management minor, which is one of the largest minor programs on CMU’s campus with 250 students. The minor is offered through the Department of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Services Administration. To learn more, visit http://rpl.cmich.edu.
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How old do you have to be to work in a daycare center?
My mom’s friend owns a daycare center, and ive been volunteering there for months. She said she was open to giving me a paying job but she’s unsure of the legal age. Im 15 and i live in FL, anyone know when i could start working?
Thanks!
In the state of Florida, you have to be 16 to be counted in the child to teacher ratio and 18 to be left in charge of a group of children.
GILBERT “GIBO” TEODORO (gibo volunteers, feb. 22, activities)
a part of tree planting at campaigning in Payatas and Commonwealth Market, Quezon City..
Volunteer Center Hotline: 722-24-81 and 722-24-82
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Sandbag Filling Apr 2, 2009 Civic Center
Jamestown, ND — (KCSi-T.V. News)Preparations are underway at the Jamestown Civic Center Arena for filling sandbags, for designated Jamestown levee sites. Thursday, April 2nd, sandbagging operations will begin at the Civic Center in Jamestown. Work will continue until April 10th (tentative). There will be three shifts;
8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
8:00 PM – 2:00 AM
Jamestown High School along with Jamestown College will be providing volunteers for the first two shifts on Thursday and Friday. The most need for sandbaggers is this weekend. If you are willing to help please contact the Auditor’s Office at the Courthouse at (701) 252-9035 or you may also e-mail the office at StutsmanAud@nd.gov
Click here to send Email to Sandbag operations
You may also call City Hall at (701) 252-5900. When calling or e-mailing please indicate what hour(s) you are available to help along with your name. At check-in you will be asked to provide your name, address and phone number. All information is kept confidential.
Volunteers are asked to not just “show up” at the Civic Center.Please inform us if you wish to help. Volunteers are asked to dress for both inside and outside work. If you have a pair of gloves please bring them with.
Dike building operations is scheduled to begin on Saturday morning April 4th. Hours will run from 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM. Volunteers are asked to report to the Civic Center where they will be bused to the worksite. Workers are asked not to drive their personal vehicle to the work area because of parking and congestion problems.
Stackers will stage at the Civic Center to be bused to the levee site. Flatbed trucks with pallets of bags and buses with loads of volunteers will need to move to the sites where levees are being built. No one should drive a private vehicle to a stacking site. Private vehicles may get in the way of the movement of volunteers and sandbags.
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El Salvador Fuller Center Project 2007
A work group heads to El Salvador to volunteer their time and help build a 100 house village for families in need.
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I have been asked to join a heritage center as an advisory board member?
I am an artist that did some volunteer work for the center (a government organization). They "are in the process of finding some fresh, enthusiastic and young members". They have been very good about asking me. Should I take it? It will be volunteer work of course.
Of course you should! What an honour! Be Proud and accept 
Are there any women’s crisis centers that allow volunteers under 18?
I want to volunteer at an all female crisis center or even a youth homeless shelter but I can’t find one that allows for the volunteers to be under 18. Do you know of any in Nevada that would allow me to? I am 17.
I volunteer at a shelter and you need to have an adult with you if you yourself are under 18. It is a legal requirement. We have families with little kids come in and volunteer as a family sometimes. We also have some youth groups like Girl Scouts come in and do a meal together – as long as they have adults with them it is fine.
If you have no group or adult to volunteer with, you may consider some of the following ideas;
- contribute or even organize a clothing drive, clothing is needed all year long, not just in the Winter. You could make it smaller by just doing a sock-drive getting donated used socks. (arrange this ahead of time with a shelter so you have a group to accept them and you’ll know their needs/requirements ahead of time) Other things shelters often need are small sizes of personal care items like toothpaste, shampoo, soap, but check ahead of time – each shelter is different.
- Many shelters have volunteer groups come in to prepare meals – see if they would give you a list of groups who help them out and ask to come in and volunteer with them.
- If you are in school and do you like to write? Consider contributing a piece to your school paper on homelessness and how it affects people of your age. This would help increase awareness of the situation.
- Do you knit or crochet? There are often groups making items for charities for the winter – they do this all year long. Find such a group or start one.
There are many things you can do to help out before you turn 18, and doing any of them will help you understand the situation so that you will be a better volunteer when you are of age.
It is nice to hear that someone wants to help. Best of luck.
Haiti-CNN iReport from Fond Parisien Disaster Recovery Center
Hear from volunteer doctors at HHI’s Fond Parisien Disaster Recovery Center. Take a tour as volunteers show you where surgeries are conducted, how surgeons power their tools, who changes bandages, and how lives are being saved.
Video by Chris Morrow, CNN iReport (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-400168).
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Anne Carlsen Center Sandbagging Done!
The Anne Carlsen Center in Jamestown, ND, is thanking volunteers for assisting with the sandbagging efforts on its campus. Due to concerns about overland flooding, the Center evacuated on Monday and has been sandbagging continuously since then.
Sandbagging efforts will not continue Wednesday, and volunteers are no longer needed, says CEO Dan Howell.
At this point, weve done all we can do to protect the structure, says Howell. We are extremely grateful for the hard work of the many volunteers who have helped us these last couple of days.
Staff and volunteers from the community, including members of several athletic teams at Jamestown College, assisted with the sandbagging.
ACC students are being accommodated at four locations in Jamestown: Jamestown Hospital, Ave Maria, Hi-Acres Manor Nursing Center and the Jamestown Civic Center. ACC staff members are at each of these locations, working in partnership with our hosts, to provide quality care.
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