Spring Break
Column: Clearinghouse for Volunteers: Watch a movie for a good cause
Corinne Hawes
Issue date: 4/24/09 Section: Editorial/Opinion
04/29/09 - First Book is a national nonprofit organization that works to promote literacy in low income children by providing them their first books and improving access to books.
First Book URI is holding its first movie night fundraiser to support this literacy initiative by showing the classic movie "The Neverending Story" with all your favorite characters, including Falkor, Atreyu, The Childlike Empress and of course, Bastian.
The movie will be showing on the last day of classes, April 29, at 7p.m. in Swan Hall Auditorium. The admission is $3 for URI students with an ID, $5 for the general public, and children under 12 get in for free!
With admission, you are buying one to two new books for a Rhode Island child. There will also be refreshments sold. Come enjoy this timeless movie with your friends and/or family.
If you are looking for other ways to get involved with volunteering be sure to check out:
* Jumpstart URI, an AmeriCorps program that recruits college students to mentor 3 to 5-year-old children from low income families who need strong role models to help prepare them for kindergarten.
It is a full academic year commitment, in which Jumpstart members work on a team with other college students and dedicate 10-12 hours in a local early childhood or Head Start center, while being paired one-on-one with a partner child.
As part of the program, members also enroll in a CSV 302 (three credits per semester) course and could earn an additional three credits or receive work study. If that isn't enough, upon the completion of 300 hours you receive a $1,000 education award.
*Scholarships for Service, a part time AmeriCorps program which is run through Rhode Island Campus Compact where students can gain hands on experience through volunteering in their community.
By volunteering at a nonprofit organization, students have a year to complete 300 hours of service. In exchange, students are rewarded with a $1,000 education award that could be used toward tuition, loans, books, etc.
*Clearinghouse for Volunteers is an office on campus that helps students find a plethora of volunteer opportunities individual or group projects for either short or long term durations. It has a wide variety of Community Agencies in its database that specialize in education/mentoring, domestic violence, advocacy, animals, environment, health, special education, poverty, hunger and homelessness.
Please stop by the Clearinghouse for Volunteers in Roosevelt Hall Room 125 if you are interested in hearing more or e-mail the Clearinghouse for Volunteers at cfv@etal.uri.edu.
You can also join the volunteer ListServ where weekly e-mails are sent out regarding various volunteer opportunities at www.uri.edu/volunteer.
Have a great last week of classes and summer!! Keep on volunteering and we'll see you in the fall.
First Book URI is holding its first movie night fundraiser to support this literacy initiative by showing the classic movie "The Neverending Story" with all your favorite characters, including Falkor, Atreyu, The Childlike Empress and of course, Bastian.
The movie will be showing on the last day of classes, April 29, at 7p.m. in Swan Hall Auditorium. The admission is $3 for URI students with an ID, $5 for the general public, and children under 12 get in for free!
With admission, you are buying one to two new books for a Rhode Island child. There will also be refreshments sold. Come enjoy this timeless movie with your friends and/or family.
If you are looking for other ways to get involved with volunteering be sure to check out:
* Jumpstart URI, an AmeriCorps program that recruits college students to mentor 3 to 5-year-old children from low income families who need strong role models to help prepare them for kindergarten.
It is a full academic year commitment, in which Jumpstart members work on a team with other college students and dedicate 10-12 hours in a local early childhood or Head Start center, while being paired one-on-one with a partner child.
As part of the program, members also enroll in a CSV 302 (three credits per semester) course and could earn an additional three credits or receive work study. If that isn't enough, upon the completion of 300 hours you receive a $1,000 education award.
*Scholarships for Service, a part time AmeriCorps program which is run through Rhode Island Campus Compact where students can gain hands on experience through volunteering in their community.
By volunteering at a nonprofit organization, students have a year to complete 300 hours of service. In exchange, students are rewarded with a $1,000 education award that could be used toward tuition, loans, books, etc.
*Clearinghouse for Volunteers is an office on campus that helps students find a plethora of volunteer opportunities individual or group projects for either short or long term durations. It has a wide variety of Community Agencies in its database that specialize in education/mentoring, domestic violence, advocacy, animals, environment, health, special education, poverty, hunger and homelessness.
Please stop by the Clearinghouse for Volunteers in Roosevelt Hall Room 125 if you are interested in hearing more or e-mail the Clearinghouse for Volunteers at cfv@etal.uri.edu.
You can also join the volunteer ListServ where weekly e-mails are sent out regarding various volunteer opportunities at www.uri.edu/volunteer.
Have a great last week of classes and summer!! Keep on volunteering and we'll see you in the fall.
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