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Local and National Student Service Projects
Choose one of these(follow the link to find out more) or start your own!
And, remember to register your project here.
Once your project is registered, SVL will post it on our Opportunities Guide so that other students and the community and can involved.
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Local Community Service Projects
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Student Volunteer LINK Programs
In addition to offering one day or on-going opportunities for volunteerism there are a few programs that SVL maintains. Please consider heading one of these community service programs. We'll show you how. Just contact us and let us know what interests you.
Some Assembly Required
LINK volunteers will assemble gifts (bikes, swingsets, etc.) during the holiday season.
PAWS
Coordination of Pet food donations for seniors
Rent a KID
Program connecting youth to citizens who would like lawnmowing and other services at low cost
New and Used Sports Equipment Collection
Collection of sports equipment to be donated to local and national organizations for distribution to needy children
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National Communitiy Service Projects
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Care Bags Foundation
Our new mailing/shipping address is: Care Bags Foundation C/O Annie Wignall 2713 N. 4th Ave. E. Newton, IA 50208
Website: http://www.carebags4kids.org/
Annie Wignall of Newton, IA is the founder and director of the Care Bags Foundation, an organization she started when she was eleven years old. Care Bags provides essential, fun, safe, and age appropriate things (games, toothbrushes, books, etc.) to kids during difficult times in their lives. Care bags go to over 800 disadvantaged, abused, and displaced kids every year and are distributed by 20 agencies serving over 80 towns in Iowa as well as going to other states for disaster relief and to needy kids all over the world via Airline Ambassadors. Using the Care Bags Starter Kit, other young people have adopted Annie's program and are implementing it in their own communities.
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Chores-For-Charity
You can begin participating in the Chores-For-Charity program as soon as you go to your part-time job. Chores-For-Charity empowers you to turn your part-time, summer, babysitting or even odd job into a volunteer activity.
How? By donating a small amount of the money you've earned to the charity of your choice. You can count the "unpaid" time as "volunteer time", which may qualify for community service credit. *
Website: http://www.choresforcharity.com/howyoucanbegin.html
If you have any questions, email us at choresforcharity@aol.com
Ilana Rothbein founded Chores-For-Charity as a way to raise money for FACES (Finding a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures). Juggling schoolwork, sports, social activities, and part-time work, she found it very difficult to organize a fundraiser. Instead, Ilana decided to donate the money from her babysitting jobs to FACES. Over a year, she donated 45 hours of her time babysitting and $450 of her earnings to FACES. She thought, "Maybe I can get other kids to do the same thing. Since kids are donating their time to contribute their earnings to a charitable organization, it's only fair that those hours be counted as charitable work." She began developing her personal fundraising project into an official program with support from her family and FACES
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