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1/16/2009 |
Gov. Perdue Announces AmeriCorps Members To Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Through Service |
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Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that AmeriCorps members across North Carolina will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by volunteering their time to help others. More than 400 members will help build houses, distribute food, educate others about volunteerism and disaster preparedness, and participate in a variety of community events. |
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1/16/2009 |
Hands on Charlotte Volunteer Event Honors MLK Through Service |
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Building On The Dream is an annual large-scale volunteering event organized by the local nonprofit agency Hands On Charlotte (HOC). Its purpose is to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through service to the greater community. Building On The Dream offers volunteers the chance to participate in a range of service projects
on Saturday, January 17, with a kickoff celebration on that morning at Thomasboro Elementary School, as well as projects taking place on the MLK Holiday of Monday, January 19. Building On The Dream will activate as many as 500 volunteers at approximately 20 volunteer project sites around Charlotte, with each project focusing on the issues of poverty and challenged neighborhoods. |
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1/16/2009 |
Truman State University Celebrates Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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In celebration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Truman State University’s Multicultural Affairs Office has coordinated several events to take place Jan. 19-23. |
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1/16/2009 |
Washington DCJCC MLK Day of Service |
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The Washington DC Jewish Community Center would like to spread the word in our community about our annual MLK Day of Service. The project brings together close to 200 volunteers of all backgrounds and faiths. Volunteers will make a difference in the lives of young people in our community. |
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1/16/2009 |
Atlanta Remembers, Celebrates and Acts on the LIfe and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King |
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“The Fierce Urgency Of Now”, The sixteenth annual Hands On Atlanta Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Summit, is an innovative six-day summit held Wednesday January 14 through Monday, January 19, exploring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s message of service, activism, diversity, and nonviolence. The Summit is presented by Hands On Atlanta, The King Center and Delta Air Lines. |
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1/16/2009 |
Starbucks Joins Call for National Service and Asks, “Are You In?” |
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Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) and HandsOn Network are joining to launch the “I’m In!” campaign, an initiative to make it easy to participate in the President-elect’s call for national service. In participating Starbucks stores across the nation, the American public will have an opportunity to pledge five hours or more of community service toward a local volunteer opportunity of choice. Starbucks will honor each person who pledges with a free tall brewed coffee beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 25. The goal of the effort is to raise pledges in excess of one million hours of service from all over the country. |
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1/15/2009 |
MLK 2009: Celebrate the Dream |
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In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Jr.’s birthday, Pittsburgh Cares will be holding two special events to promote respect for diversity in Pittsburgh. Participants are expected from schools, colleges, companies and the general public to continue the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by working together to build a stronger and more respectful community. |
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1/15/2009 |
AmeriCorps Alums set to March in Inaugural Parade |
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President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden's Inaugural Committee have invited AmeriCorps Alums and the Peace Corps Community to march in the 56th Inaugural Parade. Only 100 organizations were selected out of the 1,382 organizations that applied to participate. |
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1/14/2009 |
More Than 250 Volunteers to Landscape Overtown Housing Project as Part of This Saturday's National Day of Service |
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For this year’s Martin Luther King holiday, President-elect Barack Obama is urging Americans to honor the holiday as a day of service, volunteering in their communities and helping the disadvantaged. More than 250 volunteers from Barry University will take part in the national initiative this Saturday, Jan. 17, landscaping a housing facility in Overtown as well as taking part in other service projects throughout Miami-Dade County. |
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1/13/2009 |
The City of Lancaster and Volunteers to Spruce Up the Assistance League of Antelope Valley Preschool Child Care and All Day Kindergarten |
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On Saturday, January 17th the City of Lancaster is sponsoring a clean-up of the Assistance League of Antelope Valley Preschool Child Care and All Day Kindergarten. This facility is in need of some TLC. As one of the featured projects on the City’s to-do list for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, this facility will get a face lift from local volunteers. Washing tables, toys and windows, as well as sprucing up landscaping and painting signs, are all tasks slated for this community-centered effort. |
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