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MLK Day Service-Learning Success Stories

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse knows what great work you do and we want others to know, too. Please send us stories and photos of your service-learning successes.

  • "A Day On, Not a Day Off"
    On January 18, 2010, The University of Central Oklahoma was officially closed. Instead of sleeping, playing Wii or going to a movie, UCO students chose to serve their community in the spirit of MLK, Jr. 90 student, faculty & staff volunteers met at The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma to prepare food packs out of donated food for thos less fortunate. This day was themed "A Day On,...
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  • Kapiolani Community College Helps Shelter Hawaii's Homeless (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Over 70 students from Kapiolani Community College honored the spirit of Dr. King by proving a much-needed service to a struggling community—Hawaii's rising homeless population. KCC’s service-learning team partnered with Hawai’i Helping the Hungry to Have Hope (H-5) to convert an old tour bus into a temporary homeless shelter, as part of the Evans Bus Project. The new mobile...
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  • Northern Virginia Community College (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    For this year’s MLK Day of Service, approximately 200 Northern Virginia (NOVA) Community College  students, faculty and staff took the day on and helped those in need. Over 300 school supply kits, including donated items such as pencils, erasers, and notebook paper, were put together to be sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan who will then distribute the supplies to school...
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  • MLK Day of Service Project Yields Mutual Rewards (Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    (Morganton News Herald Newspaper) January 20, 2009 MORGANTON - Early Tuesday morning, Morganton Station (Old Nite Furniture complex) was invaded by a small army of more than 60 volunteers armed with shovels, rakes, drills, saws, hammers, cameras, laptops, paint brushes, cleaning supplies and more importantly, a unified purpose in honoring the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr through a day...
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  • Online Service Learning Project Engaged Students to Service (A Learn and Serve America Subgrantee)
    Sara Buttram a Broad Ripple High School 10th grade student in Indianapolis Indiana is the winner of the "Season of Service Images of Peace" Contest (107K pdf), sponsored by Service For Peace, Learn and Serve Indiana, Peace Learning Center, Indy Parks, and the Indiana Civil Rights Commission. Her winning poster entitled "Holding Peace" was displayed at this year's Martin Luther...
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