October
Volunteer Opportunities
Dear Penn Community,
In our continued
efforts to be good neighbors, the following is a list of the monthly
posting of community service opportunities. As many of you know,
each month, Penn Volunteers In Public Service (Penn VIPS) posts
a list of volunteer opportunities. These opportunities are developed
from the many requests we get from the surrounding community to
be partners in a particular initiative and/or sometimes to provide
assistance. Contact me at (215) 898-2020 or send an e-mail: sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu to
volunteer for these programs.
--Isabel
Mapp, Associate Director, Faculty, Staff and Alumni
Volunteer Services Director,
Penn Volunteers In Public Service, Center for community Partnerships
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Volunteers Needed: State Senator Vincent Hughes' Youth
Conference 2003--Pledge
of Excellence, Saturday, October 18. Conference is
designed to provide resources to students and their families.
Help out with monitoring workshops, information booths, serving
lunch, etc.
Volunteer to
work on the "Day of Service Committee": Join us and help
plan for Penn's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. Help
coordinate programs that include Banner Painting with children,
a school beautification project, a gift making project to benefit
the elderly in our community, mentoring and a voter registration
drive.
New
Beginnings Educational Training Center, Inc. Truancy Prevention
Program: We
are seeking college students to volunteer and assist with this
program. This is our second year running the program and are
in need of 2 volunteers to assist the program staff (Certified
Teacher and Assistant Teacher) between the hours of 3 p.m. and
6 p.m. The volunteers will assist high school students with computer
assignments, literacy skills, tutoring and other related program
activities.
Interested
in joining the Penn Team participating in the AIDS Walk on October
19th? A group is currently forming.
Volunteer
to teach Web Applications: The instructor of Reboot's Intern
Access class has bailed on us. We need someone to teach the course
ASAP. It can meet on either Tuesday or Thursday mornings
from 8-10 a.m. This is an intermediate level access class that
seeks to prepare students to deal with the back end of web applications.
The
African American Interdenominational Ministries is seeking
volunteers: The Southwest Youth and Family Network of Philadelphia
has provided
services to youth who are referred to us through the area schools,
the judicial system as well as faith and community based organizations. They
are in need of volunteers who would be interested in mentoring
youth as well as those who would be interested in after school
programs operating in Faith Based Organizations and Community
Based Organizations who need mentor-tutors.
Mentors,
Mentors, Mentors needed for the Penn's WorkPlace Mentoring Program
in its 8th year of operation! Volunteer to host a student for
just a few hours once a month. Volunteer to mentor an 8th grade
middle school student one day a month. Students come to campus
the third Thursday of the month at 9 a.m. They participate in
a group program and then visit with their individual mentor in
the mentor's workplace. Students depart campus around 1:30
p.m. Each mentor receives training and support. Join the
many other mentors involved in this program.