Description: We are currently working on a proposal to do a massive bulb planting around the school. There are no perennial flowers, and the building looks quite drab from the outside.

Description: We are supporting our troops overseas. We send supplies they can use and goodies to eat - Our project for the year is to send items to the troops overseas. We will begin with pillows made by the children with a note attached to establish a pen pal. Then throughout the year we will send stamps, stationary, candy, socks and other supplies to them.

Description: Operation Thanksgiving: We are kicking off our Learn & Serve Challenge Week by hosting a luncheon (food donated by Wal-Mart) for the faculty and staff featuring Miss Oklahoma whose platform is service-learning. Miss Oklahoma will briefly give her testimony and talk to the teachers about the importance of incorporating service learning in their classrooms. After she speaks, the leadership class is presenting a challenge to the teachers called Operation Thanksgiving. Each department will be in charge of coming up with a service-learning project that will result in students bringing items to send to the overseas troops. We will put an ad in the local newspaper asking people of the Ada community to submit names of their loved ones who are stationed overseas. Our goal is to engage at least 300 students in this project.

Description: California Certified Service-Learning Trainer Program: This event will kick off the certification process for 8 new highly qualified service-learning trainers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Youth Service California and the California Department of Education work to develop a cadre of trainiers across the state to spread high quality service learning. To learn more about the certified trainer program, click here: http://calservenetwork.org/downloads/certifiedtrainer.doc

Description: presidential health challenge: we teach tai kwon do , basketball, football , dance, kick boxing and work with wayne clark with the georgia bowling league

Description: Introducing Alpha-Nova To The Community: To Introduce The Alpha-Nova Organization To THE Community As a Resource, For different Youth Referrals, For Socil Services Referrals For Assitance.To Organize Qi-Gong Therapy CAM Technique Sessions, Concetrating on Youth K-12 And,Re-entry Prisoners, That Are in Dire Need OF Literary Reading Skill Services, Housing,Youth Mentoring Services For Collegiate Goals and Planning.

Description: From Tree to Table: The 6th grade students will walk from Alvord Community Sustainability Magnet School 3 blocks to the city bus stop and take public transportation to the Community Farm. This is a farm that is dedicated to growing food to feed the hungry. We will pick apples and pears that will go to the Santa Fe Food Depot as well as take bushels back to school to be made into apple crisp, dried pears and apples, and apple sauce then taken to Saint Elizabeth's Shelter that is located a block away from our school.

Description: LEARN from each other AND SERVE San Antonio 2009 Summit - In an effort to encourage students to learn from each other and serve the City of San Antonio, the American Humanics Student Association (AHSA) is hosting its very own Learn and Serve Challenge at the UTSA Downtown Campus on October 9, 2009. Through a joint effort with community and nonprofit leaders, AHSA students will host high school students from across the city to help develop student-led programs that will inspire the city’s youth to take ownership of, and pursue workable solutions addressing, the issues facing the City of San Antonio.

Description: LEARN from each other AND SERVE San Antonio Summit: The LEARN from each other AND SERVE San Antonio Summit is a day-long summit that will expose youth to the value of nonprofit organizations, civic engagement, and higher education. This Summit will engage students and community leaders in a productive dialogue about current issues facing San Antonio, TX. Participants will then develop a plan of action to implement at area high schools to affect one key issue identified. The goal of this Summit and the consequent student-led projects is to make a fundamental, positive impact on one key issue facing San Antonio.

Description: Protecting God's Creation: Resilient Planet: PK-8 will participate in activities that center on community involvement and solidarity and are directed towards Holy Redeemer in DC including “Thanksgiving in a Box” and gift giving at Christmas. Students in Grades 6-8 will be introduced to the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens on October 9th during their Retreat. Students will study the Park including ways they can directly impact the health of the area. Students will return to participate in a culminating activity.

Description: Governor's Proclomation, State Awareness Campaign re: service learning and L&S AZ.

Description: In-Service Day with Joan Liptrot- Institute for Global Education and Service Excellence: Students and staff have begun to plan for and implement service learning projects focused on using technology resources to spread the word about the benefits of service learning. Students are being in-serviced by teachers and staff and have created Nings to share resources and collaborate with other Servie Learning teams.

Description: Baltimore City Public Schools Service Learning Celebration of Service Reception: This reception is at our district’s bi-weekly school board meeting to rally support for the service-learning program. We anticipate 200-300 participants and this celebration will provide a platform for student leaders to showcase great service projects which are going on in Baltimore City. This opportunity will allow students to educate additional students, parents, key decision makers and community members about what service-learning is, as well as share a number of on-going service opportunities with all assembled.

Description: 2009 Youth Legislators~ Legislative Black Caucus 2009 Youth Summit & Youth Empowerment Series : This event began with the kick-off, the Legislative Black Caucus Youth Summit~ High School Leaders Shaping 2010 Youth Legislation. Students engaged in a number of workshops working with state legislators to discuss current and pending legislation pertaining to topics such as cyber-bullying, texting while driving and compulsory attendance age. Students also engaged in workshops on making a good first impression and concluding the day’s events with a mini-college fair. Students will continue to meet on a monthly basis to discuss how legislation impacts young people and their communities. Students will continue to advocate for legislation that positively impacts young people and their communities.

Description: Invitation to Serve- Service Learning Project with Moveable Feast: Baltimore City Public Schools has partnered with RSVP, Baltimore City Health Department’s Senior Corp. Program to engage approximately 125 students in grades 6-12 in a serve project on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at Frederick Douglass Senior High School. Students will learn more about neighbors in our community living with HIV/AIDS and will also learn more about ways to give back to their communities and the importance of giving to others. We will also discuss volunteerism and service as a whole, and its importance. We will conclude with a service project where students will make approximately 1,400 Thanksgiving cards for the clients that Moveable Feast provides services for on a daily basis.

Description: Service-Learning Midele School Promotional Campaign: Select middle schools are promoting service-learning by wearing shirts and/or buttons to promote service in the community and all middle schools have been involving parents over the past 6 weeks by sending home informational flyers and brochures to highlight and promote the district service-learning plan.

Description: Fresh Fruit Friday: Fresh Fruit Friday is a program that gives children and families easy access to fresh fruit before and after school on Friday. We sold bananas & apples, made healthy slogans for announcements, posters. My mission and goal is to inspire people to make healthful choices and be a voice in the fight against childhood obesity.

Description: Adopt A Park - Our organization partnered with the recreation board to install a playground safety surround, walking track, landscaping and possibly a swing set.

Description: Chicago Marathon: Our school is striving to include Service learning across many curriculums so that students get the opportunity to serve in their community in many different learning situations. It also allows students to apply what they have learned in school to real life experiences.

Description: WV Learn and Serve Conference: The event is an annual service-learning conference that engaged youth and adults.

Description: Park Rejuvenation Day - Starting during the week of October 5th, our foundation will be having workshops about conservation with instructions about native vs. non-native plants, our Chaparral climate, proper composting methods and overall how to take care of our environment. On October 31st, we will work with the LA Conservation core to restore our park by cleaning, pruning and planting native flora. Our final goal will be to maintain our park and sustain the vegetation with our own compost for years to come.

Description: During the 08-09 school year students evaluated the needs in Wichita Falls, then presented and chose the organizations they would assist the following year. (1)Students will assist the Pregnancy Help Center in organizing and restructuring their space to help expand the services they provide. (2) Students will set up monthly service trips to Faith Mission to help in whatever capacity needed that month so that Faith Mission can further help the homeless in the community. (3) Students will organize a group and proceed with required training to help with Christmas in Action (home repair organization)the following April.

Description: We will train student volunteers to run a diversionary court that will hold their peers accountable for misdemeanor criminal charges but upon successful completion will keep them from having a criminal record. Student volunteers will receive training in various courtroom positions including Clerk of Court, Bailiff, Defense Attorney, Prosecuting Attorney and juror. Student volunteers will also receive training in restorative justice. After a training period, student volunteers will run their own court with the only adult involved sitting as Judge for the courtroom. Students have a hands-on opportunity to experience the justice system and in the process set high standards of conduct in their own schools.

Description: Creating Smiles for the Future - We will have a table set up at Back to School night to give out information about Learn/Serve to parents/visitors. A short video made at last year's event will be shown at that time. We will engage 50 students in service-learning by May, 2010. We plan to teach over 500 young children about good oral hygiene during our event.

Description: Certificate of Recognition: The State Superintendent of Pubic Instruction, Jack O'Connell presented a Certificate of Recognition to the Learn and Serve Challenge.

Description: Green your Net, Net to Green: An educational forum among participants on the subject of global warming in relation to natural disasters, including most recent Station Wildfire in Los Angeles County and Morakot Typhoone in East Asia. The discussion will focus how the climate changes contribute to the disasters, and what educators can do to advocate low-canborn activities in our daily life.

Description: Diversity at CRLS - We will host a diversity event in the school, for diversity is part of our school motto.

Description: Education Go Get It- Start Where You Are! - In an effort to have all students K-5 will participate in Service Learning in order to eventually become a sustained, collaborative and focused model for promoting opportunities for elementary school aged youth to be engaged learners and active contributors to society. This year, we will aim towards letting kids find out about themselves, encouraging them to do what they love to do, and giving support in helping them find a path forward.

Description: Television guest spot on KATC 3: Interview on morning program and discuss Carencro Middle's School Gardern and ask for volunteers and community support. We are in the process of constructing a school garden and plan on involving 5 different classes and include at least 60 students in the construction and planting of our garden. We also have a few community volunteers and businesses that will participate. We hope to have our first planting and harvesting in the Spring in 2010. We will then try to expand our garden, participants and volunteers during the 2010 - 2011 school year.

Description: Learn & Serve Challenge Week - Learn & Serve Challenge Week offers Cascadia college students, faculty and staff opportunities to engage work together on short-term community service projects including stocking food banks, teaching elders computer skills, building and repair projects. We will host a launch in support of the week's activities on October 5, 2009, and there will be on-going promotion prior to the launch.

Description: Cascadia Community College Learn & Serve Challenge Week - We will host a civic engagement event to ralley support for service-learning that will include opportunities for dialogue followed by community service wiithin walking distance of campus at local community agencies.

Description: Learn & Serve Challenge Week - During Learn & Serve Challenge Week, students at Cascadia will have several options for civic engagement and community service including attending dialogue session for service and service at local schools, community centers and food banks.

Description: Service Learning's First Year at Cathedral HS - Cathedral H.S. initiated a service learning program a year ago. Since that time, teachers have experienced several professional development opportunities and experimented with embedding service learning into their courses. The Learn & Serve Challenge will focus on a student led video production of the service learning activities that have occurred in 2008-09 academic year. The video will be used at our November Open House to promote service learning and to educate parents and teachers. Future service learning class experiences will involve at least 5 additional teachers and 10 classes.

Description: Let's "Greenify" Our School: The PPEP TEC High Schools are public charter schools that serve 11 communities through Arizona. The Celestino Fernandez Learning Center is our largest campus, which holds a little over 300 students. The students have demonstrated desire to participate in eco-friendly type of projects, like recycling. Our immediate goal is for our school and student body to become more “green,” and our long term goal is to turn an ordinary car into an alternative energy vehicle.

Description: Learn and Serve Challenge - We will give students the opportunity to participate in multiple individual events throughout the week. These events include but are not limited to Second Harvest Food Bank, Ramblewood Energy Repair and Uptown Men's Shelter.

Description: Service Pojects focusing on poverty - The Learn and Serve challenge will be one of the events that will help us meet our goal of increasing the number of students involved in service learning this year. For the challenge we will start off with food sorting at a warehouse for the Second Harvest food bank on Tuesday October 6th. Then we hope to schedule a Habitat for Humanity build project for Satursday October 10th. Finally, Sunday October 11th we are scheduled to fund, prepare, and serve a meal at Charlotte's Uptown Men's Shelter.

Description: Ushers @ Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon by Jackson Park Hospital: STUDENTS served as ushers at this annual event that honors community females with "the Rose Award" and also raises money to fund free mammograms and health screenings for a largely economically challenged population of women residing on the southeast side of Chicago. It is estimated that over 80% of the paitents receive medicare or public assistance to pay for their services so this organization has been raising funds to subsidize their patients for the past 31 years. The students ushered by selling raffle tixs and runners for the winners and provided service as needed by the organization. Students reported @ 10am and finished up about 3:30pm.

Description: CPS Homeless Students Fundraiser: The JROTC Department consisting of 135 cadets will raise money to support the CPS Homeless Students. The proceeds of the fundraiser will go to the CPS Department of Homeless Student's and be used to purchase school supplies, school uniforms, or any other needs of the students. The JROTC Department's goal is to raise approximately $1,000.00.

Description: Water Qualty Project - Sixth grade students monitor the water quality of their neighborhood creek. Students help the North Olympic Salmon Coalition collect macroinvertebrate samples for a Benthic Index of Biological Integrity creek score used to gauge the restoration projects. Students also help plant trees along sections of the creek each year to help salmon.

Description: The promotion or Tour de Rocklin and bike riding.: My class of 6th grade students are accepting donated bikes (old ones) from community members and fixing them with money that they have raised to then give to kids who can't afford one. They also want to promote bike riding as a healthy activity, make Rocklin more "bike friendly" and help the school district raise money for tech equipment. They made a presentation to teachers telling them about an upcoming bike ride (the first Tour de Rocklin). Teachers got bags of decor for their classes to decorate the teacher's helmet. There will be an all school assembly by them on the 9th to get kids interested and parents on board.

Description: Public Awareness to business community: In the next two weeks, we will have at least two articles published in local media about how young people are impacting our community through service learning projects. We will also outreach to the young professionals in Des Moines through a local non-profit forum to promote awareness of local efforts to engage youth. We plan to highlight the work of our Youth Venture teams that are connected to school efforts. We anticipate a feature of some of the youth projects in the Central Iowa newspaper - the Des Moines Register.

Description: Service Learning Organization/Project Fair: Community organizations and teachers will give brief discussions on their individual organizations/projects to the students, parents, staff in an effort to provide students with effective service projects.

Description: in planning stage - perhaps an expo fair of sorts

Description: undecided

Description: PC Diagnostic Clinic - Business Professional of America students and the Technology club students will sponsor this event. The event is open to the Public. Residence in the City of Warren or faculty and staff will bring in there computers/laptops to be repaired. Students will remove virus, cleanup the computer. Install software/hardware. Give computer recomendations. This event is free of charge.

Description: All 400 scholars at Democracy Prep Charter School, located in Central Harlem, will undertake service-learning projects next fall. Projects will include: tutoring partnerships with local elementary schools, playground construction and park clean-up, mentoring local middle school students, etc...

Description: Welcome Kits and Educating : The 3rd grade students at Discovery Elementary received thousands of school supplies from local organizations and a group of people in Maple Grove Minnesota. The students will create Welcome Kits and Cards for all new Discovery students. The students will adopt another 3rd grade class from St. Cloud School District and create Welcome Kits for their students as well. This spring the Discovery Students will create a project to present to the other students and help them start a Service Learning Project.

Description: School newspaper "highlight" of program - Tenth grade high school students will be tutoring third graders and helping them to read better, meanwhile they will also be improving their own reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students will also apply lessons from other disciplines, such as math, science, and the arts as part of growing the garden and creating outside reading areas. We will be expanding upon the garden using themes from popular children's books as inspiration, such as the "Wizard of Oz" and Dr. Seuss's books. The high school students will also teach the third graders to plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children's picture books. During Learn and Serve challenge week, we will be highlighted in our school's newspaper.

Description: Beautification and organic gardening project

Description: Service Learning for a sustainable food system - Earth Care International is organizing Re-Generate! Service Learning for Sustainability Week as a part of their Service Learning for Sustainability Initiative. The Re-Generate! Service Learning for Sustainability week creates opportunities for youth, adults, teachers, schools, and community organizations to work collaboratively towards creating positive change in their communities, while enhancing the educational process. During this week, Earth Care International will be conducting a public education campaign highlighting service-learning projects and the educational and community benefits they produce. The focus of Service Learning Week is on sustainable food systems.

Description: We will host a service learning summit bringing together students, faculty members and community partners to identify common areas of interest and to develop relationships. Conference sessions will include "Tips for productive use of volunteers"(for community partners), "How to get the most out of a service learning project" (for students), and "Ideas for productive service learning collaborations" (for faculty). Following the summit we will track how many new partnerships are made and the types of projects that are developed. The goal is to increase the number of established service learning partnerships by 50% over 2008-09.

Description: Raising Service Learning Awareness - Bringing Learning to Life for All Students: Service learning has been an initiative for 5 years in the Edina School District. Our goal for the Learn and Serve Challenge is to promote awareness of the impact of service learning on students, teachers, the school and the community by highlighting stories in the local newspaper, the internal newsletter and creating a comprehensive website. Watch for exciting details.

Description: Space - Students enrolled in speech courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will share their interest and enthusiasm on topics related to space with participants in the Kids & Company afterschool program through presentations and hands-on activities. The NASA Educator Resource Center is collaborating on the project. Presentations and activities will take place on Monday October 12, Wednesday October 14, and Friday October 16.

Description: ELP Fall Food Drive : The YSU Emerging Leader Program was successful in collecting 503 pounds of food last year for the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley. This academic year our goal is to double our benchmark as well as increase student engagement to 50 participants. We are also developing a student organization to promote and engage in service throughout the University community. Students will be engaged through a combination of planning, direct service and reflection.

Description: Each One -Teach Many - Excel Youth Zone youth who have experienced classroom and out-of-time service-learning projects will host and facilitate workshops at schools, youth groups and organizations on how service-learning has impacted their lives and learning. Youth will engage each participant group in a hands-on service project related to their classroom or groups learning interests. Excel Youth Zone’s youth will run these mini service-learning projects based on the K-12 High Quality Standards of Service-Learning.

Description: Mentor Orientation: We are hosting a mentor orientation for Alma College Students to let them know the importance of mentoring. This orientation will provide them information on becoming a mentor as well.

Description: Service Learning Open House - On October 6, 2009 Fitzgerald Career Center will be giving out popcorn to all high school students during their lunch hours. The popcorn will be packaged in little baggies with helpful career development tips on each bag. On October 7, 2009 Fitzgerald Career Center will be spotlighting National Serrvice Learning Challenge by hosting an open house for all staff/students administration and community. An invititation for this event will be sent through our schools broadcasting class. On November 18, 2009 Fitzgerald Student will "Dress for Success" raffle tickets will be given to participants and and we will have a drawing for prizes.

Description: Fla. Service-Learning Leader Schools Application Release - Florida Learn & Serve will release the application for the second annual Florida Service-Learning Leader Schools Recognition program, which will select and recognize the elementary, middle, and high schools across the state with the most exemplary service-learning programs. Winners will serve for three years and help others to replicate, adopt, or adapt their successes.

Description: Community Tea & Hot Chocolate Party - We will host a Community Tea & Hot Chocolate Party. Retired community vounteers along with our students will come together for a community art project . Tea & Hot chocolate cups will be created for the Bethany Home which houses abused mothers and children. The goal is to create 100 cups for the residents of Bethany Home to remind them of their importance. For our students we hope to engage and teach them the value of giving and caring for others.

Description: FWHS/MS/ISSP Learn & Serve Environmental Citizenship Program - September 9 2009 is the kick-off of the Fort White High School/Middle School/Ichetucknee Springs Parknership Program at The Ichetucknee Partnership Open House where students will highlight their year-long goals and accomplishments related to our program. The over-all goal is to enhance the knowledge, skills, awareness and appreciation levels of the students, their families, park visitors and community residents, alerting them to real threats to the spring and river ecosystems. There will be a book signing of a student produced story called The Ichetucknee Basin Basics.

Description: Service learning project kick off with a school around water or energy!

Description: Inclusivity Meeting: As part of our 3 year strategic plan (this is year 3), FrontRange Earth Force (FREF) staff has committed to discussing and acting on ideas to be more inclusive of all in our communities. A part of this work is meeting the high quality standards (especially meaningful service and diversity) and another part of the plan is to transform communities according to their vision by using service learning as a teaching method and as a way to improve the school, neighborhood and community culture. On Tuesday is our regularly scheduled inclusivity discussion with FREF staff.

Description: Taking Service Learning & Community Engagement from GGC to Gwinnett County: The focus of our activity is to educate and inform our GGC College community about what service-learning is and possible planning activities and events for the future. We hope to educate our students, faculty and staff about our new Service Learning, Active Citizenship and Community Engagement office which is officially 2 weeks old. Georgia Gwinnett College opened its doors on August 18, 2006 as the first new four-year public college created in Georgia in more than 100 years; and the first new four-year public college created in the nation in the 21st century.

Description: Raising Awareness of Service Learning and Its Benefits in the District and the Community - We are continuing to raise awareness of service learning and its benefits in the district and throughout the community. To do this, we will be running the video “Bringing Learning to Life” on our local GBTV cable channel throughout the week, will be placing posters in each of our school buildings highlighting service learning & its benefits, & will be sending out an email to all district staff members informing them about service learning and its benefits for students and the community.

Description: Wetland Watchers Service Trip: As part of Learn and Serve Challenge week, we had 42 students particpate in a Trash Bash litter pick up on Saturday, October 3 and we will have 130 students involved in service-learning activites in a local wetland area on the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain. Students will plant 200 trees, participate in chemical, physical, and biological water quality testing, and learn about the history of the area.

Description: We Are Thankful - Our ninth grade academy will be supporting service-learning by writing letters to community, state, and national leaders, using their English I course standards. Students will raise awareness of the value of service-learning and how Learn and Serve funding is improving teaching and learning. Letters will be mailed during the Challenge Week. The letter is also an invitation to a November reception at the school in thanks for the service our leaders provide for our community.

Description: Service Learning You Tube Video: The students will prepare a script, record and edit a service learning video which discusses the importance of service learning and shows them participating in various activities. Although we are an alternative program for students who cannot attend school, we want all students to engage in creative and effective activities. This will be ongoing throughout the school year. We will also have a quarterly newsletter that documents progress and successes of the students who participate in service-learning.

Description: Cultural Kitchen - Cultural Kitchen is a cultural awareness building program that serves 500+ Chicago Public School students each year. Students earn Service Learning hours by cooking an ethnic meal and sharing it with world travelers. They act as ambassadors, sharing knowledge of Chicago and experience of living in America, and educating travelers about a focus country they studied in their classrooms. Students complete the program with more open minds and respect for the world and its people.

Description: Service-Learning Highlights: We will host a table to provide service-learning information and resources to faculty, as well as highlight service-learning courses. We will have a service-learning ad-hoc committee formed by the end of the school year, which will encourage faculty to incorporate service-learning into the curriculum.

Description: service project -- promote awareness to our 60 + student organizations

Description: The Cherokee Nation Youth Leadership Conference - The focus of the conference will be STEM (science, Technology, Engineering, adn math) Projects. Participating students will:Learn how to plan a service-learning project, be introduced to the concept of social advocacy, understand the process of creating a local environmental profile, be able to make connections between service projects and classroom curriculum, realize the importance of partnering and collaberation to successful service learning, be introduced to helping a agencies for environmental service-learning projects.

Description: Peer leadership training for homeless children

Description: Reach Out Iowa: Iowa State University Extension will work with local community organizations in Marshalltown, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Winterset, Des Moines and Humboldt to support service-learning activities. Youth and adults will work together to identify needs in their community and develop an action plan for addressing them. Youth will use social media tools to share their projects with others involved in service-learning. We hope to engage 6900 young people in service-learning over the next three years.

Description: Read For The Record - The Irvine Unified School District, in partnership with Team Kids and Jump Start, will be collecting new and gently used books for at-risk kids. These books will be collected and delivered to the Early Literacy Project. On October 8, 2009, students from our various elementary schools, along with our IUSD Superintendant, Gwen Gross, IUSD Principals, teachers, parents and community leaders, will meet at our Early Childhood Learning Center at 3:00pm to collect all the books for delivery to the ELP. Our goal this year is to incorporate service learning in elementary and middle school classrooms. Our intention is to begin with the core curriculum subjects of science, social science, math and English and extend each student's learning to include community service activities.

Description: School Board Presentation - We are making a service-learning presentation to our local school board. Students participating in our service-learning program will present a PowerPoint to describing the activities we will conduct throughout the schooln year. We are trying to promote service-learning in our area, and hope to get other schools involved too.

Description: October is Volunteer Month in Rhode Island!: The JAYCEES provide a statewide (RI) forum through personal and collective skill development via planning, organizing, coordinating and promoting its October Autumn Festival of horticultural tasks, public gardening assignments, tree management learning, plant cultivation practices and overall community relations building at their award-winning JAYCEE Riverwalk-Corridor & Arboretum!

Description: Child Health Month: Jefferson County High School Service Learning students are teaming with local health officials in promoting good health for children. Throughout the month students will put their skills in action with programs designed to educate healthy choices ranging from food to exercise.

Description: Presentation to our local community/creating a link on our school's website/PSA to entire school and on website: A presentation will be made 10/05/2009 to our community leaders and parents at our PTSA meeting. We will create and update a link to a service learning newsletter (on-going), show casing our students in action. We will continue to demonstrate the importance of giving back to the community with engaging 300-400 students in service-learning by June 2010. A PSA will run for our entire school on Friday 10/09/09.

Description: East & West Hawai'i Service Learning Project: Scholars will visit the historic, lush Waipi'o Valley will engage in malama 'aina or traditional stewardship practices as they make positive impacts on the environment by protecting Waipi'o's natural resources. Scholars will assist in the repopulation of native species in 'O'okala Community Forest while learning about the area and exploring careers opportunities in Forestry Management. Scholars will also explore post-secondary educational opportunities at North Hawai'i Educational Research Center (NHERC).

Description: Mathewson Senior Center - Luncheon and Painting Pumpkins: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009, the Keystone Service Club members and T.O.P.S. Club members traveled together to the Mathewson Park Apartments in Factoryville. We prepared and served a hot lunch of tacos and salad. We also painted pumpkins with the seniors and we participated in a sing-a-long. We spent time listening to the seniors and talking with them about the upcoming parade on October 17. We also planted some mums near the front entrance to the Mathewson Park Apartments. We enjoyed a wonderful afternoon together. Some of the seniors live in these apartments and some of the seniors come to visit us each month from 12:30pm until 2:30pm. It was a beautiful experience for everyone involved.

Description: Get Started with Service-Learning - KIDS Consortium is holding a series of one-day service-learning workshops around New England leading up to and during Challenge Week. Our goal is to engage 100 new educators and community partners in service-learning projects with K-12 students. Workshops are scheduled for Freeport and Kittery Maine; Concord, New Hampshire; and Springfield, MA. Information and registration at www.kidsconsortium.org.

Description: Get Started with Service-Learning - KIDS Consortium is holding a series of one-day service-learning workshops around New England leading up to and during Challenge Week. Our goal is to engage 100 new educators and community partners in service-learning projects with K-12 students. Workshops are scheduled for Freeport and Kittery Maine; Concord, New Hampshire; and Springfield, MA. Information and registration at www.kidsconsortium.org.

Description: Get Started with Service-Learning - KIDS Consortium is holding a series of one-day service-learning workshops around New England leading up to and during Challenge Week. Our goal is to engage 100 new educators and community partners in service-learning projects with K-12 students. Workshops are scheduled for Freeport and Kittery Maine; Concord, New Hampshire; and Springfield, MA. Information and registration at www.kidsconsortium.org.

Description: Get Started with Service-Learning Workshop - KIDS Consortium is holding a series of one-day service-learning workshops around New England leading up to and during Challenge Week. Our goal is to engage 100 new educators and community partners in service-learning projects with K-12 students. Workshops are scheduled for Freeport and Kittery Maine; Concord, New Hampshire; and Springfield, MA. Information and registration at www.kidsconsortium.org.

Description: Boo II: This is one of many activities we'll conduct over our 2009-2010 year. We hope to assist over 200 area children by providing free Halloween Costumes.

Description: Handwashing for Safety: FCCLA is a service learning organization that is integrated throughout my famil and consumer science curriculum. We have had illness spread throughout our school district last year to the point of being qaurantined from out of district activities for a month, and now with the swine flu this year we are attempting to be proactive by educating our elementary school through unique and relevant lessons to each grade level aboiut the importance of handwashing and the spread of germs.

Description: Youth Lead Lawrence: Breast Cancer Awareness: Youth become knowledgeable about risk factors for breast cancer including environmental connections, dietary factors, physical activity, and the role of genetics. They learn the importance of early detection and treatment and discuss issues surrounding health disparities, barriers to screening, and access to care. Youth Leaders hold discussions with peers, distribute linguistically and culturally appropriate educational materials, and organize community events in highly accessible, culturally-familiar settings such as community schools, churches, and neighborhood fairs.

Description: First Tuesday Faculty Learning: Civic Responsibility in the Curriculum: Hands-on workshop for integrating civic responsibility and service learning into the community - we are encouraging more faculty to participate in service learning over the next two years.

Description: Eliza Bryant: We will do activities with the seniors at Eliza Bryant on a monthly basis. Including collecting items to make gift baskets for holidays and birthdays.

Description: 2009 Book Collection & Donation Drive: We have begun partnering with elementary, middle, and high school aged student volunteer groups to assist with our foundation's 2009 Book Donation Drive to collect 3,000 children's books written in English to donate to TWO needy schools in The Republic of Panama in Central America. A Presidential Community Service Award Ceremony in support of service learning will be hosted by our foundation for the students during the winter.

Description: Name the Pigs/Kiss the Pig - After conducting an intense study of the school cafeteria's waste production the Lisbon Central School Environmental Club instituted the recycling of milk cartons and the collection of all of the cafeteria's food waste. This food waste, which makes up about 60% of the waste disposed during all of the school's lunch waves, is being picked up each day by a local farmer. Environmental Club members purchased 2 pigs for the farmer in exchange for the daily collection of the cafeteria food waste. In an effort to promote this effort to the students the Environmental Club members have organized a "Name the Pigs" Contest and "Kiss the Pig" Contest. For the grand finale the two pigs will visit the school, their names will be pronounced and the "winning" staff member will kiss the pigs in the presence of the student body.

Description: Join the National Movement: LCCC Service Learning: For the Learn & Service Challenge the Lorain County Community College (LCCC) Service Learning team is getting the word out! Since the LCCC Service Learning program is new to campus, we need to let students know about it! We are going to have an info table for the week by a popular student hang out, The Corner Bistro. The Americorps*VISTA volunteer working on Service Learning will man the table every day from 11:30 - 1:00. We want the students to know about the opprotunity Service Learning offers. We are going to build student energy around this national movement at LCCC!

Description: America's Promise Ready for the Real World Service-Learning Workshop: The Louisiana Serve Commission and America's Promise are collaborating on a service-learning professional development workshop for teachers and administrators of several schools in the New Orleans area. Through these workshops it is anticipated that teachers will begin to utilize service-learning in their classrooms and receive support from their administrators.

Description: Accept The Challenge - We will use the week of October 5 to encourage teachers to "Accept the Challenge" to complete at least one service learning project with their class this year. Projects will take place throughout the school year. Last year the "Challenge" was a very effective campaign to get teachers to commit early and start planning projects for the year!

Description: Lucky U initiative - We are holding a community meeting on September 30, 2009. We plan to challenge and to invite the total community to help us to have at least one caring adult in the lives of the students in the Chester Union Free School District by January 30, 2010. In the process, we will share: hand signals that are designed to help youngster to know and do the good, pre-teens and teens to identify challenges they might face during the teen age years. Funds generated will be used to address identified concerns.

Description: "MJH Celebrates Learn and Serve Challenge Week": 400 students will wear "Celebrate 'Learn and Serve Challenge Week" stickers in support of Celebration Week. A bulletin board created by the service learning "Puppy Tale, Folk Tales, and more..." students, will be displayed in the foyer of the school for students and parents to view information about service-learning. Students will make "Have a Great Day" cards for residents of Many HealthCare as they continue the intergenerational program. They will make monthly visits (with puppies on some visits) to the Many HealthCare Nursing Home providing activities and interaction with the residents.

Description: Veterans' Day Wall of Honor

Description: Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Day: Senior anatomy students, along with their teacher Ms. Danguilan, are organizing a pink day to raise awareness for Breast Cancer at our school. The involved students are looking to fulfill their goal of raising $1,000, inform the student body about breast cancer, and rally students to participate in the October 18th Brease Cancer Walk in Chicago.

Description: 2009-2010 Kick-Off - The Learn and Serve Challenge week will serve as our kick-off for our 20+ service-learning projects for the 2009-2010 school year. During this week not only will our projects begin, but we will also have a Learn and Serve Awarness Day in which our more than 1,000 participants will wear a Learn and Serve Indiana lapel pin and share with others the benefits of service-learning to the school and the community.

Description: Volunteer Fair: This summer we partnered with a Public relations class on campus to plan a volunteer fair in the student memorial center. We hoped that this fair would bring more publicity to our newly named office, Volunteer Central, get students on campus more interested in working at non-profits in the community and let local non-profit agencies know about student volunteer interests at the university. We've never held a volunteer fair on campus before, so we weren't sure how it would turn out, but with a lot of planning, we pulled it off! There were 40 agencies and campus organizations there to recruit student volunteers and 120 students visited the fair. All of the feedback that we've recieved since the fair has been positive and it's my goal to have 220 students attend the fair next fall.

Description: Focus on National Community Service - English students are addressing the question "Should national service be mandatory for 18-25 year olds?" They are using interviewing skills, journaling, free-writing, and primary and participatory research methods to gain knowledge and perspective on the topic of national community service. These activities will culminate into a panel discussion for Milwaukee Area Technical College's Walk Against Poverty Campaign, December 4th, 2009.

Description: Across the State: Spreading the Message of Service Learning - As Miss Oklahoma, it is my goal to reach as many schools and students as possible and tell them my story of success through service- learning. Hopefully my journey and presentation will inspire them to be a part of service- learning. After my presentation, I also offer teaching tools to help teachers understand the full meaning of service- learning and the importance of using it in the classroom.

Description: 2009 Pen or Pencil / SNCC High School Tour: The Show Me the Way Foundation (SMTWF) to encouraging and inspiring high school students in partnership with the NAFJ through the Pen or Pencil/Student No Violence Coordinating Corporation (PP/SNCC) High School Tour. This tour will ebgage youth at 20 high schools with a target to enroll 1000 students to do community service projects through Pen or Pencil. The Tour is scheduled to begin on October 5, 2009 and culminating in July 2010

Description: Fiscal Literacy Grant Summit - The Summit, which include the use of innovative technologies, and innovative “Deep Dive” sessions, comes with a twist: several groups of Millennials will leave the summit with grants to start making change on the issue of Fiscal Literacy in their local communities. And even more interesting, the individuals and teams can receive up to $5K in funding from a group their Millennial peers at the millennial-led non-profit Mobilize.org. A product of grassroots organizing and social entrepreneurship itself, Mobilize.org hopes that this summit will be the first in a series of summits to address issues ranging from civic participation to economic inequity. Grant Summit winners will each receive a grant, and more importantly, will receive the support of Mobilize.org and our extensive partner network to champion their proposal and create systemic and long lasting change in their communities.

Description: Projects focused on issues surrounding racism and bullying, partnering with the Diversity Club and local No Place for Hate Group; Projects focused on Volunteerism and Community Service Learning Awareness, partnering with the local Plymouth Youth Development Collaborative and Marketing Vocational Classes; Expected that other projects will be developed upon the start of the school year. Previous two are projects ideas that stem from 2008-2009 school year activities and partnership building to continue and grow in the 2009-2010 school year.

Description: Parlin Airfield - Save the Hangar: We plan to engage 45 children in service-learning at Richards School. We plan to unveil a problem that our local airport is dealing with. They have an 80 year old hangar that needs to be rehabilitated. The airport manager will visit the Richards School Program to describe the history of the airport and the hangar and ask the students to help them with this very large project. This will be the beginning of the service-learning project. It is our hopes that the visit will spawn 1-3 service-learning projects.

Description: Governor's Proclamation: The Governor of New Jersey has signed a Proclamation recognizing October 5-11, 2009 as Learn and Serve Challenge Week in New Jersey.

Description: LSA District Displays in State House: NJ Learn and Serve America: School-Based Program subgrantees will be setting up displays in the NJ State House. These displays will be seen by all walking through the state house corridors including government officials, policy makers and state house staff.

Description: LSA Project Directors Meeting: The LSA Project Director Meeting is the first meeting of the subgrantee school districts for the fiscal year. In this meeting the districts will receive information pertaining to rules, regulations, and administering their program.

Description: Voting Counts Encouraging increased numbers of voter turnout

Description: Ohio Youth Challenge: Our on-going SITES Program is co-hosting the Ohio Youth Challenge for Learn and Serve America. 75 students plus teachers from 20 schools will be convening in Columbus, Ohio to conduct service-learning projects and to kick-off the Challenge Week. Projects for the two-day event include Story Book Project, where students will collaborate, create, and publish a children's anthology with service themes; and Project Puppet, where students will create felt board characters with textural materials for use at the Cleveland Sight Center's Preschool for the Visually Impaired. SITES continues its Leadership Camp, Seniorfest, Make a Difference Day, 2Q Project, Project Storybook, Outreach Week, Coats for Kids, Be the Pebble Inservice, and many other service and learning activities.

Description: Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Project - The special education students I teach will be volunteering with the Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity organization. The work will involve landscaping, digging, moving dirt and mulch, and a variety of other tasks that will enable a family to occupy the house that (through other volunteer work) has been built for those in need. Prior to this experience, some of my students will be working to learn more about the need for volunteers, local volunteer organizations (including Habitat for Humanity), and ways to give back to the community. This year, we will engage in at least three service-learning projects in order to promote learning and giving within the community.

Description: Model Building: The National Collegiate 4-H Program is a service-learning youth development organization. One of the major goals of is to increase member and service diversity. To accomplish this objective, recruitment of members from other diverse organizations and non-agricultural majors must be accomplished. Youth enjoy building models. Model building has many professional applications. A learn and serve project in model building fulfills both objectives by not only providing an environment of service-learning but also promoting diversification

Description: Both the community service involvement and a site improvement activity are pending - need administrative approval.

Description: Ottawa University Alternative Break: The goal of the first Ottawa University Alternative Break is to engage 35 Ottawa University students in voluntary service in the Ottawa community during their Fall break of October 7th through October 9th. Students select projects they are interested in and sign-up according to their schedules. Another goal is to have students utilize their days off from classes as opportunities to learn and serve in Ottawa.

Description: 1/2 Day Session: We will host a seminar/ program on Nov. 18, 2009 with students from Un. of PA/Wharton School of Business around the topics of: Gender Roles, Media,Teen violence and the much more. We have invited organizations to present,the students are presenting plays, poetry slam, murals, cultural identity gallery, Freedom Center art work and more.

Description: Cleaning up the Community

Description: Service-Learning/Club Fair

Description: Community Cleanup: The students meet to identify a community need in our area. Since we are a town that hosts a state university, the students were aware of the need to clean up the down town after students arrive in September. The first part of our Learn and Serve is to clean up the down town. The second part of the project is to spread awareness to the university students that we have pride in our community!

Description: Youth Who Care! - "Youth Who Care" is the slogan of our on-going Service Learning class (20 students) at Prescott Valley Charter School. For the L&S Challenge we've chosen four components: 1. Two major food drives to support the Yavapai Food Bank (10/5-23; 12/19) 2. Four community/school blood drives (9/8;11/3;2/4;4/17) 3. One-time volunteer opportunities including the Susan G. Komen Cancer Walk (10/11), Arthritis Foundation Walk (12/5), Special Olympics (4/24), Boys and Girls Club Walk (9/19) 4. Five on-going committees- Green Flag (ecology); video production (service to local nonprofits); techies (web site, Facebook); resource library; fundraising We formally kick-off our Challenge with a presentation to the PV Town Council on 10/8/09!

Description: We are going to write a new release announcementto our local newspapers about the service learning opportunties that are available for high school on our website at www.teeninbusinesswebsite.org. To promote service learning opportunties for high schools tudents. We will create post cards to distribution to local schools, libraries, youth organizations, and community events about the service learning opportunties that available on our webiste. We will also send a mass email to youth organziations asking them to list service learning opportunties at the agency for high school students.

Description: Service Learning Interview - This interview will allow two of the Sophomore INVEST Participants and the Project Director to discuss the new INVEST Program at The Louisiana Tech University IDEA Place and the importance of Service Learning in the region. The interview will also be an opportunity to explain the difference between volunteering and service learning. The community will be made more aware of ways that they, too, can contribute during the week and throughout the year.

Description: Training of Trainers: Project SHARE has received Developmental Partnership funding for the enhancement and expansion of service learning as a teaching strategy. 15 participants representing 5 school districts, community organizations and the k-12 grade span attended a training of trainers led by Dr. Cricket FL Kidwell. Participants received valuable resources and gained considerable knowledge regarding the elements of high quality service.

Description: Service Learning - Service Learning is a class a teacher at Putnam City West High School has been using to target "at risk" Hispanic students and give them an opportunity to become involved in and participate in activities throughout the community. The goal of this class is to allow students to experience their own community in a way they may never have before and to build a sense of ownership and pride in the difference they can make by doing volunteer work. The class is a semester long and begins with hours spent in the class room doing "Team Building" activities, role playing realistic situations that students may face, and discussing and reflecting on students behavior in public and in certain situations. The students brainstrom and research needs throughout their community and begin contacting organizations to partner with. Once the students are ready, they attend a different type of community service activity each day. By the end of the semester most students have completed 50-60 hours of volunteer work, which can be a huge benefit when applying for college and scholarships. Some of the activities and projects the Service Learning classes have completed are working at "Feed the Children", "The Infant Crisis Center", "The Children's Center", "Grace Living Center", "Presbyterian Urban Mission", "The Oklahoma City ZOO", "The Harn Homestead", and others. The students have been able to pack boxes for the hungry, sort clothing and diapers for infants, play bingo with the elderly, organize and put together a Christmas party and gifts for needy children, tutor elementary and middle school children, they have done yard work and gardening, and also been able to do behind the scenes work with animals at the ZOO and volunteer in the Land Run re enactment, for hundreds of Elementry school kids. These amazing and one of a kind experiences are something students will always remember and at the end of each semester are required to reflect upon about how they have affected and changed their lives. It is amazing to see the growth and motivation that many of these students go through over the course of this class and how much self confidence and pride they gain by being an important, productive part of their community. January will be the start of the third Service Learning class at PC WEST.

Description: Support Our Troops Care Package Drive - On October 5-16 our school will be collecting care packages for troops, Each grade level (sixth,seventh,and eighth) will have a different category of good, such as, the sixth will be collecting misc., the seventh will be collecting toiletries. and the eighth will be collecting food. We will also be holding a Veterans Day Ceremony at our school on November 10,2009. We will be honoring all the veterans with food and music.

Description: Bear Hugs is a project to donate teddy bears to children in need. Volunteers will help raise funds and help make bears at Build a Bear.

Description: Recycling for Ridge Ruxton School - Our students are multiply handicapped with cognition being the dominant disability. Our students collect cans from other schools or organizations in our community and bring them back to school to clean, crush, bag and deliver to the local recycling center for money.

Description: Teaching students how to become great leaders.

Description: We intend to do do clean up projects at our Underground Railroad Museums. We are also going to join students fro all over Ohio to meet with legislators and the State of Ohio Education Superintendent to see how service learning can be included in state government and the education system in Ohio.

Description: Youth Leadership Challenge - Our students will work along side state senators and state representatives to mold a plan that will increase the number of students in Ohio who participate in community service.

Description: Single Stream Recycling - We have invited Cecil County Sanitation to speak to our entire student body about the correct way to recycle using the single stream program. Ms Adams will be speaking on Thursday and we have invited North Bay educators to come and visit our students the next day to encourage the students to recycle correctly Our sixth graders have spent a week with the North Bay educators dicussing composting ,recycling ,etc . This will be an excellent follow up to those classes We hope that the students will learn the correct way to recycle using single stream and use it outside of school as well

Description: Green School Initstive: recycling paper, plastics, and glass. Make rain barrels and flower boxes. Sponsor a American Diabetes Walk and Pennies for Patients.

Description: Kick of Promotions Media support local awareness of access Get Involved MakeItHappen Spring Time Summer Fall Winter Fun USDA Rural Champion Community Awards Farmers Market Festivals Expo Careers Talents Skills Crafts Outdoor and Indoor rebuild America Partner Associate backofficesupportsystem management and leadership Crew Staff Personnel Creation of Jobs in self help and education The Spirit Torch Hall of Fame Nominator Design for Savings Preserve Legacy legal, finance, security, Bragging Rights Award Rural Champion Community Lead notice Acknowledgement 2009-2010-2020 game planning checkpoints annual dedications tribute foundes day celerbration Lead oneman employersMBE-WBE-DBE-EDGE pending update Wholesale Reseller POS. Supplier Vendor State of The Art Expo Workspace Showcase CRM. Host Producer Event Making History Make A Difference Film Movie TV Video Photo Documentary sponsor pledge handson Inkind Acts of Kindness Included Community Innovation Award Judge Big Idea;s Grow Seeds of Greatness presenter Ready To Go... Honor Review Presidential Team, group awards Gotta LuvMe O+ No Energy Loss products and service provider new Core Drives Mission Purpose Conversions and Retrofits for Health and Safety Wellness Wholistic Clean any size building Quality of Life state of the art Award Energy Star Logo pending bar labeling custom brand UL. Listed tested proven advance solutions R&D. Our Heros & Sherows Experts and their talents and entertainments roundtable festival expo direct 100- indirect 1000-3000 production make shifts light assembly Banner The Black Family & Technology Day Fun Fund Rasing For Ever www.christophercolumbusawards.com

Description: Scarlet Day of Service - look for a variety of service projecsts in the New Brunswick/Piscataway community

Description: Students Against Violence Everywhere-United Society; students organized campaign to increase awreness and prevention of violence in our homes, schools, communities, country and world. - SAVE-US (Students Against Violence Everywhere-United Society) is a youth founded, youth led, youth intiated organization open to all students Kindergarten thru Graduate School. Our mission is to increase awareness of violence and its negative impact on the quality of life of young people and to advocate for prevention and alternatives to stop violence in our homes, schools, communities, country and world. Each month we select a different form of violence and we campaign to promote awareness and prevention. For the 2009/2010 school year we have selected domestic violence, dating violence, bullying, gang violence, hate crime violence, suicide and geneocide for our campaigns.

Description: SCA Watershed Education Project: The SCA NH Conservation Corps places teams of AmeriCorps members in 11 elementary schools and 1 middle school in Manchester, NH as well as 1 elementary school in Allenstown, NH. The AmeriCorps teams teach a 10 week watershed education program to 4th and 8th graders and guide students in the development of unique service learning projects at each school. Student projects are put on display at the Earth Day event in Manchester each spring. Over 1200 students, 50 teachers and 30 AmeriCorps members take part in the service learning projects.

Description: Student Ambassadors: Students at Scott River High School will use the challenge week to kick off an on-going student ambassador project for their community where on a weekly basis they will participate in a service learning project that has a direct benefit to their community. During the challenge week they will implement a public relations effort in which they will publicize their service learning project to the community and other neighboring schools.

Description: Service-Learning Training for Out-of-School Time DCPS Coordinators - Serve DC - The Mayor's Office on Volunteerism will host a training for 100 DC Public Schools' Out of School Time Coordinators. This training will focus on service-learning and describe the service-learning model IPARDC (investigation, preparation, action, reflection, demonstration and celebration) and the K-12 Standards for Quality Practice. It will also discuss the dropout crisis. Serve DC believes that service-learning can provide this group of DC educators a tool to enhance student learning, since the coordinators are the link between the schools and the community-based organizations.

Description: Grant-Writing - The Service-Learning Youth Council made up of 24 7th and 8th grade students, award Florida Learn and Serve grant money to the projects throughout that school that meet the criteria. The Youth Council helps each pair of leaders from the project to write their grant proposal. The activities vary from Social Inclusion (buddy partners of a regular education student and a handicapped student) to Character Education through Drama to Art for Multiple Sclerosis patients.

Description: HOPE-Helping Other People Everywhere - High school students tutoring elementary students Educating other students on domestic violence; teen parenting; creating a Service Learning newsletter; Service Learning Institute for community agencies and other students; helping a school for homeless kids relocate and set up their new site; improving our new school site; making posters for Lion's Club and other events.

Description: Got Farm? Fall Garden - As part of our Service-learning this year, we will plant a fall garden at our school. This is a continuation from he project from last year. We will engage approx. 30 special education students in this endevor.

Description: Harvest for the Hungry - St. Mary's County Public Schools are participating in the Harvest for the Hungry food drive as well as increasing awareness about poverty.

Description: Creating a Better World One Helping Hand At a Time - At St. Timothy School we believe in educating the whole child, spiritually, academically, and socially that is why we have created a schoolwide service-learning program. Each class develops and implements meaningful service-learning projects that focus on children becoming global citizens by giving back. Each grade focuses on a basic human/world need and works with a local, national, or global organization to raise funds for. Each class project is completed through hands-on learning, which combines curriculum and California State standards across all academic areas. Below is a list of class themes and specific organizations each class works with.

Description: Documentary: Our young people have created a documentary on the effects of drugs in their community. They have screened their documentary at several location and will be screening it at the Alcoholism Council of New York.

Description: Save our Earth-Recycle - I encourage the Community to bring in used computer equipment,printer cartridges,aluminium cans, and any other items that they would usually throw away in the trash. I recycle these items by refurbishing the computers,salvaging them for parts then what is left I turn in to recycling centers in the local area.I sometimes receive small amounts of cash which I use to operate my Community Services Center.

Description: Immigrants and Farm workers: Contributions and Issues - The 430 students and 16 teachers of the TCHS Service Learning Academy have adopted immigration and migrant workers' issues as the central theme for this year's service learning projects. We will be partnering with immigration and farm workers' organizations, colleges, the Mexican Consulate, and other organizations who will help us to promote awareness on the need for comprehensive immigration reform and to address issues related to Central Florida migrant farm workers and immigrants in our community, state, and nation. We will partner with Rollins College students to investigate what happened to Lake Apopka, called a "dead" lake. Toxic pesticides from farm lands surrounding the lake have poisoned the water and killed the fish and wildlife. Cries were raised calling for the restoration of the lake and prevention to save the impacted wildlife. But what about the farm workers who were exposed to the pesticides? Some have died and others have chronic illnesses related to pesticide exposure. Service Learning academy students will be meeting with and interviewing those farm workers. We are compiling their stories and publishing a book to bring awareness to their plight. We are also interviewing immigrants and publishing their stories. There is a lot of misinformation about why the newest immigrants have come to the United States and sometimes their valuable contributions to our community are ignored. SL students will be tutoring students in a multi-cultural class. These students recently moved to the United States and have low level English skills. We will work to raise their reading, writing and speaking skills. They will join us in our service learning projects, helping us to glean the fields, meeting and interviewing the farm workers and immigrants, and working with the children of the migrant farm workers. We will be reading several books, hosting speakers and learning about the farm workers and immigrants. We will also be using the Cesar Chavez Foundation curriculum in our classes. We will sponsor a Cesar Chavez service learning project to mark the anniversary of the birth of this great American hero, March 30, 2009. Students will also conduct advocacy efforts to get Cesar Chavez's birthday recognized as a state holiday. We are sponsoring a book drive to collect books for the farm workers' center to benefit the families and children of the farm workers. During the week of the Learn and Serve Challenge we will be writing editorials on issues related to comprehensive immigration reform and farm workers' issues, tutoring immigrants, and meeting with farm worker organization leaders. The academy students and teachers will host the 5th Annual OCPS District Service Learning Conference. This year the workshops will relate to immigration, farm workers, and environmental and economic issues related to the use of pesticides and production of food. We will invite workshop leaders from across the U.S. that are experts in this field to lead student and teacher conference workshops. We also will be tutoring immigrants to pass the citizenship test.

Description: Habitat Service-Learning Partnership Kick Off - In recognition of World Habitat Day 2009, seniors at Tecumseh High School kick off their year long service-learning partnership with Habitat for Humanity which will address the lack of decent housing around the world, including the need for affordable housing in Warrick County. Seniors in Mrs. Gresham’s AP English class are conducting the Welcome Home Housing Simulation for students in Mr. Stinson’s 7th grade Social Studies classes. Through this simulation, students will learn about the difficult process of securing housing for low-income individuals.

Description: Make and Donate ART for Charity Event for New Choices Domestic Violence Shelter. Make and Donate ART for local nursing home facility, The Pavilion. Make and Donate ART for Compassionate Care, local Medical Clinic. Make homemade Thank you cards as a gift. A gift that keeps on giving!

Description: STELLAR Program Kick-Off : STELLAR, Service Through Engagement, Learning, Leadership, and Responsibility, provides an opportunity for students engaged in service to take their service work to the next level by developing leadership skills related to service and making connections between their academics and their service work. This week, we will be kicking off the 2009-2010 STELLAR program with our first meeting, and setting our learning and service goals for the year.

Description: Pieces of Poverty: Service-Learning and Reflection: A group of university and high school students will assist with a food distribution event at a local food pantry. Then, GW students will participate in a discussion about poverty in DC and service related to poverty. Our goals are to educate the GW community about poverty in DC and America, to connect students already engaging in the community around poverty issues, and to provide information for interested students on how to get involved.

Description: Education Through Restoration: The Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance was incorporated in 2002 to advocate for and involve local communities in restoration activities at the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant. In 2007, the Alliance initiated a youth Education Through Restoration Program whereby local 4th-6th graders participate in service learning experiences at Badger, not only learning about the ecological and cultural history of the prairie at Badger, but working toward restoring it; over 800 students participated in 2008, and our program is growing by leaps and bounds!

Description: Restore, Rededicate, & Remember Postcard Campaign - The mission of the Foundation is to raise funds for the restoration of the DC War Memorial, and to sponsor and secure legislation for the re-dedication of the site. HR 482 has been introduced in Congress, and the Foundation has begun raising awareness and funds to establish a true national memorial. To assist in this process we have developed the "Restore, Rededicate, & Remember Postcard Campaign". This is an extremely simple campaign for anyone of any age to effectively facilitate! We send a packet of postcards (or more if you request!) that have been professionally printed with images of the state of the current DC War Memorial. You ask friends, family, co-workers, students, customers, etc to donate a minimum of $1 for the opportunity to write their name on a postcard in support of the historic HR 482 bill. As you are collecting completed postcards, display them proudly around your school, business, home, etc! Then when your individual campaign is complete, either personally send the completed postcards to your congressmen to encourage them to support HR 482, or return the completed cards for us to send to your congressmen along with the collected donations in the self-addressed envelope we provide. It’s that simple! This is a fantastic grass roots campaign that will not only encourage our leaders to act quickly in Restoring, Rededicating, and Remembering the WWI Memorial; but it will also help us begin raising the funds necessary to make Mr. Frank Buckles dream a reality.

Description: Kids Helping Kids - Thurmont Middle school will be participating in the Kids Helping Kids project. Language Arts teachers will be focus on literature involving themes of hunger and homeless and all Thurmont students will be invited to donate canned food items to support the local food bank. The school Leo club will assist with the collection and distribution of food to the Thurmont Food Bank.

Description: Canine Commandos - Canine Commandos (grades five and six; gifted and academically talented) was formed to train dogs in shelters to correct behaviors for successful adoptions. This school program has received much success and support and just awarded $10,000 grant to include ten more schools (250 students) to join Commandos for consistent training. All schools will use the Canine Commandos as their thematic unit for integration of subject matter using sunshine state (gifted) standards. Two needs are fulfilled; community involvement and higher order gifted activities including persuasive letter campaigns, reflective journal scrapbooking, research/proposal writing on shelter comparisons throughout the world, school newspaper, email pen pals.

Description: We will be recruiting interns and holding a service-learning workshop. It will begin a process that will continue service-learnign projects throughout the year. Annual repeated projects we have developed and repeat are: UPO Arbor Day Celebration, a project that educates environmentalawareness and responsibility including action of planting trees. Leadership principles and practices essay contest, a project that nurtures leadership development, and many more. These are examples but many more are carried out in ways that benefit the college students education as well as serving the educational needs of the youth and/or community organization they serve with.

Description: ETHOS

Description: Middle school and high school students will participate in a service-learning program. The program will be year-long, using the Six Pillars of Character and Leadership Development through Community Action as learning tools. Students will go to the community to do service projects, as part of the program. The program will be a partnership between U of I Extension and local schools.

Description: Award Ceremony honoring Faculty, Staff, Students engaged in Community Engagement Community Service Fair Service Project Student-led trainings for student voluteers on mentoring, tutoring, ESL tutoring, sensitivity/diversity training, being an effective volunteer, reflection May provide workshop on some aspect of Service-Learning for faculty May have a speaker event

Description: Valdosta High School is currently planning their 2009-2010 Service Learning projects. Students will be engaged in promoting Valdosta High School's Standard Focused - Project Based - Service Learning program by recruiting volunteers to participate in the scheduled service-learning activities. The students have planned to host two event during the Learn and Serve Challenge week: "Say No to Drugs" campaign and "Mix it up at Lunch" conflict resolutions program. VHS Service Learning Youth Advisement Team will conduct a poster contest that will heighten awareness of the negative effects of smoking and illegal drug use. They will also get students to help organize activities for the "Mix it up at Lunch" program.

Description: Operation-Preparation: Valdosta High School will create signs and hand out flyers to build support and recruit people for service learning programs.

Description: Habitat for Humanity House Remodel Project: Students will learn how to plan a remodeling project, the steps nessesary to start a complete remodeling of a home and the steps directly involved in doing the work. Students will learn how to work together as they cooperate with each other to demolish old walls and install new wall systems throughout the home. Students with more skill and experience will be paired up with those who lack these skills to mentor each other through the process. The whole group will be focused on the tasks at hand while learning to think ahead to anticipate future work needing to be done with the goal of avoinding future construction delays or problems. The Habitat project creates a wonderful opportunity to extend service learning into a new elective technical area. Students will complete a pre and post service learning reflection. Throughout the project students will be required to keep a journal recording their experiences. Construction students will begin the year with an overview of what Habitat for Humanity is and how it has changed the lives of many people through out the world. Students will meet the selected family during the orientation.

Description: Youthe Service Initiave - 6th Annual Youth Service Conference & Expo - Friday, October 16th

Description: Stewardship Service Learning Project - Our school in partnership with Network Williamsburg, is participating in an on-going, schoolwide service learning project based on the theme of "stewardship." We will work to increase awareness of the needs in greater Williamsburg; and will seek opportunities to partner with many nonprofits , volunteering and offering services to the community. The project kickoff will be in September when we host a nonprofit fair with our partner. Throughout the year, participants will share how they have encouraged each other and used their talents to help others.

Description: BUILDING THE BELOVED COMMUNITY: Will added later

Description: Organizaing For America & Passing It Forward/Host a PIF Event/Be a PIF Mentor: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpkwl4 Organizing For America & Passing It Forward (Community Service) We are the world's largest online mentoring organization helping others get what they want. Are you doing something to help make the world a better place? Our PIF volunteer mentors will help! For more information, go to www.aunitedworld.org or attand our event on October 8th at Veronika's house at 7:00 p.m.

Description: Baskets from the Heart: Our 200 student participants will conduct a food drive in October and November. They will collect cans of food. Create graphs to account for the amounts and various types of food collected. Then, we will create baskets of food for local families in need. Our local law enforcement agencies have volunteered to deliver the baskets for our program in time for the Thanksgivig holiday. Additionally, in the spring of 2010, our student participants will volunteer at the Baton Rouge Food Bank.

Description: Recycling campaign for school and community

Description: Clean up the Bosque - (river area along the Rio Grande)

Description: Campaign Earth: Protecting Our Wetlands - In honor of the 16th Annual “National Public Lands Day [National Estuaries Day - 2009”] on Sept. 26th - the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public wild lands Americans enjoy, our students will make service contribution at a local estuarine preserve located at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area on September 25, 2009. Activities include: shore line clean up, habitat restoration and maintenance projects, native plant and tree plantings, invasive species patrol, species counts, and trail maintenance projects. [http://www.publiclandsday.org] By planning, planting, and maintaining this native habitat area, students will help to prevent erosion, slow runoff, increase infiltration into the ground, and support wildlife.

Description: Campaign Earth: Observing National Public Lands Day at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area - The students of Woodmere Middle School - Team 8A continued its commitment to “Campaign Earth” - a living unit in interdisciplinary learning and environmental service - with its second trip to the Town of Hempstead's Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside to complete its second service learning project. Under the direction of Conservation Biologist and certified GLOBE Program specialist, Mr. Mike Farina and their teachers Ms. Diane Bentivegna and Mr. Jeremy Stein, this event was planned in honor of the 16th Annual National Public Lands Day, our nation’s largest hands-on service effort to improve and enhance public lands in America. This year, the theme for National Public Lands Day focused on the connection between land and water resources since it also coincides with National Estuaries Day. Accordingly, these students rolled up their sleeves and set aside a day to lend a helping hand to Long Island’s tidal wetlands which provide protection for shellfish, small fish, migratory birds and many other animals. Acting as young conservationists, they collected and logged vital weather-related data for the Globe Program's international "Climate Research Campaign." They also conducted soil testing and planted several blueberry bushes and other varieties of native vegetation to give a boost to wildlife habitat, prevent soil erosion and improve air and water quality. In addition, students made natural bird feeders to support the winter migratory songbirds who frequent the south shore of Long Island every year. These young conservationists also donated spring bulbs for the Marine Nature Study Area's Beautification Project as well as bags of birdseed for the winter bird migration. To recognize their commitment to the environment, these students were awarded an official "Certificate of Leadership in Service and Learning" from the Town of Hempstead's Conservation Biologist Mike Farina and Town Supervisor Kate Murray. With a compelling call for all Americans to participate in meaningful public service, this service-learning learning project was a premier opportunity for Woodmere Middle School students to take a leadership role in helping to preserve, protect and enhance their local community's public lands and water resources.

Description: We will celebrate service and service-learning at the Wyoming High School with an array of tables that highlight various service clubs and activities as well as our academic elective service-learning class (Social Service Field Experience) for juniors and seniors. We will also participate in the state challenge (2 days with an overnighter) with other high schools from around the state during that same week.

Description: Service Day and Service Dinner: We will engage 40 students and adult leaders in an overnight service project working with individuals experiencing hunger and homelessness.

Description: Piece by Peace Be the Change - This year’s theme is “Piece by Peace Be the Change”. This year’s Co-Chairs are Dakarai Carter and Taylor Bowerman, both Juniors in High School. While the group intends to continue their presence in and around the City of Detroit there will be an intense effort to expand the project throughout Michigan this year with a goal of recruiting as many as 3000 young people It is the young people’s feeling that it really is about “neighbor helping neighbor”. It is about moving away from the TV and meeting face to face with the people we live with. It is about meeting new people, making new friends and reaching out and giving a hand where it is needed. It is by developing these friendships that we change the world. This is truly about making our world a better place to live. As Derrick Smith, past GYSD Co-Chair put it after a very dedicated day of work: “Doing my part in the community means so much to me. What makes this experience so important is the fact that I got to work with other youth in a neighborhood I knew. One day I will be able to look back on the this day and say I helped to start a movement, a change in my community and our world.” Derrick Smith, Jr.