The Community Service Resource Center
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Image: April 25, 2009 Nursery Planting Event, Community Service Volunteers
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WEEKLY COMMUNITY SERVICE BULLETIN BELOW...
Check this bulletin each week for upcoming volunteer opportunities!!!
Community Service Resource Center LISTSERV 10-28-09
Please visit the Community Service Resource Center (CSRC) located in Room 225, South Hall!
CSRC Office Hours:
M 11:00-4:00pm
T 10:00-1:00pm, 1:30-4:00pm
W 10:00-3:30pm
R-F 10:00-1:00pm
Go to http://iccweb.ucdavis.edu/cs/index.htm for more volunteer opportunities and information about the CSRC!
Visit http://iccweb.ucdavis.edu/CS/volunteers/database.htm to search for volunteer organizations on our volunteer database!
If you are a volunteer coordinator, part of a club or organization, and/or know about volunteer opportunities or upcoming events that you would like to see on our weekly listserv, please email communityservice@ucdavis.edu!
One-Time Volunteer Opportunities
Tree Planting
Date/Location: Saturday, October 31 st from 1:00-4:00pm, Davis
Description : A local nonprofit wants volunteers who are willing to grab shovels and plant trees. The planting is part of National NeighborWoods Month, a campaign run by the Alliance for Community Trees.
Tree Davis is looking for volunteers who can help maintain young trees planted within the past one to three years.
Visit http://www.treedavis.org for up-to-date information about plantings.
Contact : Ruth Williams at (530) 758-7337 if interested in volunteering.
Family Night in Oak Park
Date/Location: Wednesday, October 28 th from 5:00-7:00pm, The Oak Park Community Center ( Sacramento)
Description : The Oak Park Community Center (located at 3425 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) is hosting a family night on October 28 th from 5-7 pm. Volunteers are needed to help with set up, assist with activities, break down and clean up. Volunteers must be at least 16.
Contact: De Dee Cornelius at (916) 808-6114 or dcorneli@cityofsacramento.org for more information and to sign up.
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities
Chancellor’s Undergraduate Student Advisory Board
Description : The Student Assistants to the Chancellor, Allison Zike and Nina Massoumi, are recruiting 12-14 students to serve on the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Student Advisory Board. This board is meant to compose of students who represent various areas of student affairs in order to advise Chancellor Katehi on issues that affect students such as the budget cuts, fee increases, and other aspects of student life.
We are highly encouraging all of you to apply for the position. It is a wonderful opportunity to express your voice and the voice of your community or department in the decisions that are being made in Administration.
The application is available on sac.ucdavis.edu with more information of the application process and the structure and function of the board. If you have any further questions feel free to email us at sac@ucdavis.edu, stop by our office hours listed on our website ( sac.ucdavis.edu), or access us through our facebook group (2009-2010 Student Assistants to the Chancellor).
Davis Cold Weather Shelter
Description : Davis Community Meals (DCM) is a non-profit, non-denominational organization whose mission is to provide low-income and homeless individuals and families with housing, food, and human ser-vices to help them rebuild their lives.
We are recruiting volunteers for our cold weather shelter that is opening on November 16, 2009. The shelter provides overnight accommodations to 10 homeless individuals; 8 men and 2 women. It will be open every night from November 16, 2009 to March 31, 2010, all holidays included. Volunteers perform intakes, interact with the shelter guests, ensure the safety and security of all, and learn valuable life skills.
The shelter opens at 6 pm each evening. During the hours of 6 pm to 11 pm, there are three volunteers on-site. From 11 pm to 8 am, there are 2 volunteers on site. Training will be provided.
Contact: Harmony Scopazzi (Volunteer Coordinator of DCM) if you or your group is interested in volunteering.
Phone : 530-220-4089
Email : volunteersatdcm@sbcglobal.net
Holiday Carol Singers and Musicians
Date/Location: Ongoing, Old Sacramento
Description : Help us bring in the holiday cheer this November and December by volunteering your talents as a singer or musician. School caroling groups and performance groups are encouraged to apply. Please submit a cd, tape, or come in for a rehearsal.
Contact : Janessa West at (916) 808-4980 or jwest@cityofsacramento.org for more information.
Moral Values Program (MVP)
Date/Location: Ongoing, Sacramento, CA
Description : In need of volunteers to help tutor and mentor kids of all ages in the MVP program. Volunteers have the opportunity to help students that live in abject poverty to succeed in a program that gives them the opportunity. Volunteers can commit long term or short term.
Contact : Regina Braun
Volunteer Coordinator
rjbraun@mvpsacramento.org or call (530) 545-3389
www.mvpsacramento.org
Internship Opportunities
ASUCD Environmental Policy and Planning Commission
Description : ASUCD's Environmental Policy and Planning Commission is hiring for Winter Quarter! If you're interested in repairing campus environmental issues and raising awareness about global environmental issues, then this commission is the place for you!
To apply, go to asucd.ucdavis.edu/jobs.
The last day to file an application is November 12, 2009.
ASUCD's Environmental Policy and Planning Commission is also looking for a Chair for the remainder of the school year!
If you're interested in directing a commission that copes with campus and global environmental issues, then this may just be the perfect position for you. The position pays $49/wk.
To apply, go to asucd.ucdavis.edu/jobs.
The last day to apply October 29, 2009.
Contact : Priya Shukla at pshukla@ucdavis.edu for additional questions regarding either position.
Director for “The Vagina Monologues”
Description : The Women's Resource and Research Center, in collaboration with the Consortium for Women and Research, is pleased to announce that “The Vagina Monologues” will be performed again this year, in February 2010. We are now searching for a Director for this year's performance.
Anyone is welcome to apply. Women, women-identified folks, and women with intersections of identities are strongly encouraged to apply. Theater experience is a plus, but not required. The most important requirement for directing The Vagina Monologues is the desire to build a larger womyn-centered or feminist community at UC Davis, in the City of Davis and with the larger V-Day initiative: http://www.vday.org/.
To apply : Submit a resume and a paragraph (300 words or less) answering the following question: How do you envision the role of Director for The Vagina Monologues building a womyn-centered or feminist community at UC Davis?
Application deadline : Friday, October 30 by 5:00PM.
Please submit applications via e-mail to Michelle Yates at myates@ucdavis.edu.
Camp Adventure Youth Services
Description : Interested in traveling abroad for free and working with children?
UC Davis students and students from Sacramento State and community colleges can become camp counselors or swim instructors abroad, receiving air fare, housing, plus a daily stipend and weekends off for travel. Camp Adventure places 900+ college students and recent graduates in both summer and school year youth development and camp counseling programs on U.S. military bases, British garrisons and some U.S. embassies in Europe and Asia.
In 2009, 42 UCD students and 20 CSUS and California community college students enjoyed rewarding internships in England, Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Korea, Japan, Guam, Hong Kong, China, Marshall Islands, Okinawa and the United States, e.g. Hawaii, Pennsylvania & Florida.
There are many benefits of participating:
-Service Learning with children
-Experience new cultures: military, foreign country or new region of the U.S.
-Resume Builder
-Living stipend of $22 a day issued prior to departure
-PAID AIRFARE AND HOUSING IS PROVIDED
-Receive 12 (elective) semester-based units
For more information email ucdavis@campadventure.com or visit www.campadventure.com or http://iccweb.ucdavis.edu/international/campadventure.htm
or attend an information meeting (choose one):
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Thurs, Nov. 5 |
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Tues, Nov. 17 |
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Thurs, Dec. 3 |
The group interview called the LAC ( Leadership Assessment Center) will be held:
Sat. Nov. 21 9am-4pm UC Davis Olson Hall
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Sat. Dec. 12 at Sac State Union
The International Conservation Partners Program
Date: Ongoing (1 hour per week)
Description : The International Conversation Partners Program is looking for motivated, outgoing individuals who can give an hour a week of their time to meet with an international visitor to our community. You and your partner will decide on a mutually convenient day, time and place to meet – conversation topics range according to your interests. This is a fun way to help someone from another country improve English conversation skills, and you can learn more about a place in the world you’ve never been to but might want to visit some day.
Contact : Susan Linz
susanlinz@hotmail.com or call (530) 758-6122 to sign up and get an international partner today!
Teacher Aide/Intern: 3rd Grade Class
Description : Third grade teacher is seeking for aides/interns to work in her class on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 8:30-12:00 this fall at Willett Elementary School. Aides must enjoy working with children, like to help, can see a need and fill it, and have good English skills. Aides need to be here long enough to get a feel for the class and for the children’s needs. For this reason, aides are preferred to be here more than one day per week.
Responsibilities:
- helping students with work and skills in reading, writing, and math
- helping kids with "homework club"
- work with English language learners.
- correcting/checking some work
- helping with organizing or preparing some materials
- helping children on various sorts of projects
Contact: Karen Russell at karussell@djusd.k12.ca.us or (530) 757-5460 ext.125 If interested.
Email available Monday and Wednesday mornings for the fall quarter and how many hours needed/planned to work. Also, provide your phone number(s) and best times to reach you. You can reach Karen Russell after 2:40 p.m.
California JusticeCorps Program
Description : The JusticeCorps program provides equal access to justice by recruiting university students to serve in overburdened legal self-help centers throughout California. JusticeCorps members receive intensive training throughout the year so they can provide in-depth and individualized legal services to self-represented litigants under the supervision of an attorney.
Members assist litigants by:
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Providing one-on-one direct service
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Assisting with legal workshops
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Helping complete legal forms
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Conducting front desk triaging
All JusticeCorps Members:
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Commit to serve a minimum of 300 hours during a one-year term (September, 2010 – August, 2011)
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Work a minimum of 8-10 hours per week (one full day or two half days)