[11633] in APO News
Service Newsletter 2/10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kristin Kuhn)
Tue Feb 10 15:54:51 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:54:27 -0500
From: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-news@mit.edu, apo-pledges@mit.edu
New!: Details for each item at bottom of email! :)
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Events You Should Come To!
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1. 2/16 @ 5-8pm: Ruggles Singalong. Meet in the office!
2. 2/16 - 2/20 @ 12-5pm: Bookex Pickup in the office
3. 2/21 All Day: HMMT
4. 3/14 @ TBA: Charles River Conservancy
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Events You Can PC!
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5. 3/7 @ 9:30am or 1:30pm: Walk for Hunger Poster-Painting
6. 3/14 @ TBA: Family Literacy ChildCare
7. 5/1 @ TBA: Negotiation Workshop for Girl Scouts
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Ideas
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* National Braille Press: 617-266-6160
this is really cool, you help blind people!!
* Pine Street Inn: 617-892-9186
create and serve (or just serve) a meal to homeless
* Friends of Harbor Islands: 781-740-4290
http://www.fbhi.org/islandbound05.htm
work outside! probably not until May.
* MIT Campus Police: 617-253-9755
sometimes they have projects for us!
* Boston City Hospital: 617-534-7419
read stories to children
* Sojourner House: 617-442-0590
paint a room, maybe, do odd jobs for them
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Interesting Opportunities I've Heard About
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2/10 @ 7pm in 1-135: Leadership Training Institute Info Session
(Mentoring program for underpriveleged Boston students. Possible
opportunities in China this summer.)
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1. *Ruggles Singalong*
PC: sophical
2/16, 5pm. Meet in the office.
Ruggles Assisted Living Community is a home for elderly homeless. Come
brighten up ~15 people's day by singing with them!
2. *Bookex Pickup*
PC: nteague
https://apo.chmrr.net/hours/39
2/16-2/21, 12-5pm
Bookex is a huge service to the student body, and wrapup is just as
important as set-up. We've got to get books and checks back to
everyone! Come hang out in the office for a while next week and help
out. :)
3. *HMMT*
Contact: jaxxson
Help this high school mathematics competition run smoothly! Meeting place TBD.
4. *Charles River Conservancy*
PC: viccro
March 14, time TBD. Help keep the Charles River area clean and
beautiful. The exact project we will be doing is TBD, but in the past
we have trimmed overhanging tree branches. Yay for the outdoors!
5. *Walk for Hunger Poster-Painting*
Saturday, March 7, 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM and/or 2 PM to 5 PM. Paint
colorful, 4-foot signs for Project Bread's 40th annual Walk for
Hunger. Signs inform, motivate, and educate walkers about hunger and
poverty in Mass. (as well as minimize graffiti along walk route). 500
painted signs will direct, educate, and motivate, as well as decrease
graffiti, along the 20-mile walk route. Project Bread is the
nonprofit organization that organizes the annual Walk for Hunger to
raise funds to support 400+ emergency feeding programs in 135
communities Massachusetts, a Hunger Hotline, food drives, and shaping
public policies that address hunger. For more info., visit
http://www.projectbread.org
6. *Family Literacy Fun Day*
Thank you again for helping us at Family Literacy Fun Day in
November. You were all a huge help. Now we are looking for volunteers
for our Caring for Babies Forum on March 14. It is a free event for
parents and child care providers in Cambridge and Somerville. At the
Forum, participants take workshops
about best practices in caring for young children. Workshop topics
generally include literacy development, nurturing relationships,
positive discipline, and connecting toddlers to science and math. The
event is aimed towards low-income and immigrant parents and providers
who do not regularly have access to this type of information. We are
looking for volunteers to help set up breakfast and lunch, to help
with child care, and to do miscellaneous set up tasks during the event
on March 14th. I am also looking for volunteers to help do a mailing
about the event in February and to help make reminder phone calls the
week before the event. Are you guys looking for any new projects? I
think you sent a group to Caring for Babies last year and you really
helped the event work smoothly. We would love to work with you again.
Let me know if you're interested or if you have any questions. Meg
Gray, 617-547-1063 x220, graym@ccrcinc.org.
7. *Negotiation Workshop for Girl Scouts*
Girls (grades 4-5), will work on their ability to negotiate and
resolve conflict through games and activities. Girls will travel from
stations to participate in games and other fun activities that will
help them to understand what negotiation means. Volunteers are needed
to help with each station, check-in, and set up. Volunteers should be
8th grade and older (adults very much welcome). This patch program
will be held on March 15 (Taunton), March 20 (Chelmsford), May 1
(Boston). No experience necessary, training will be provided. For more
information, please contact Jennifer Van Buren at
jvanburen@girlscoutseasternmass.org or 978-689-8015.
