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How clean is the water in Monroe County? This past summer, 18 Monroe County students in West Virginia worked with the Indian Creek Watershed Association to find the answer to that question. On June 25, fifth through ninth grade students embarked on a six-week program, called Mountain View Summer School Scientists, which aimed to help them study both chemical and biological elements of...
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At a Learn and Serve retreat in 2006, the PVCS Youth Chamber chose the Yavapai Food Bank as its major cause. The program developed was called the Community Food Partners. Three levels of sposorship were offered to the community. The Bronze Level required no money from the partner and the Youth Chamber provided it with a collection bin to collect nonperishable food 12 months a year. The Silver...
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The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Site (VITA) at Santa Barbara High School was the first high school to be issued an electronic filing number by the Internal Revenue Service in order to file tax returns. This VITA site prepare about six hundred to eight hundred tax returns for low income families, students, and the elderly. All tax returns are prepared at no charge and all student volunteers...
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Through its Project FLOW (Future Leaders of Watersheds) program, the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service provided funding to the Girl Scouts of Shawnee Council for their "Be Girl Scout Green" service-learning initiative. Troop 362 from Hardy County has been involved with the "Be Girl Scout Green" service-learning project from the very beginning....
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As a volunteer, I was introduced to the "I Can Read" Program by a friend of mine during my junior year of college at SIUC. My friend had told me about the opportunity of tutoring youth in reading and the program’s constant need for extra help. As an English major, I quickly jumped at the suggestion, and started volunteering two days a week. Shortly into my senior year, I had...
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Resources for Health's Roots & Shoots program is affiliated with the Jane Goodall Institute's network of service-learning groups around the world. In our group, families take action to care for their communities, the environment, and animals through service-learning projects. Another local nonprofit organization, Breaking UP Walls (www.breakingupwalls.org), is coordinating this project...
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Greenhouses by Wayne County Community Learning Centers (WCCLC) project for enhancing the beautification and neighborhood improvement has collaborated with the students in the 21st Century CKCLC to expand their activities by building a greenhouse on site to help them to keep the gardens going year around. Our students currently are working on a garden at their sites and will donate the produce to...
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With support from a Learn and Serve grant, NASC has trained RSVP instructors in 40 states and provided financial support to over 350 student councils to train in the process and launch RSVP in their schools. The efforts over the past three years have engaged more than 44,000 students and generated over 120,000 hours of volunteer service. Read more... (99K pdf)
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Thousands of youth across the country have committed to revitalize the movement for civil rights by challenging today's societal crises. Youth in Los Angeles, Atlanta, High Point, North Carolina, Prince George's County and Baltimore, Maryland, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and from Pine Bluff, Arkansas challenge others to join the movement...
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An engineering student at the University of Southern California wanted to use her expertise to improve the community, but didn’t know how. That is, until she enrolled in "Engineers as Teachers," a course designed by local non-profit, Iridescent, for inner city Los Angeles engineers to give back to the community that surrounds them. At Iridescent, our mission is to foster...
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