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Service Events
Relevant effective practices for: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Planning a Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service
Programs nationwide celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day as a "day on, not a day
off" by engaging youth, neighbors, partners and businesses in service projects that
promote Dr. King's legacy of service and justice. This toolkit by the Corporation
for National and Community Service helps programs plan an effective MLK Day service
project and promote their project to the media and the public. The toolkit includes
ideas for service projects, a project-planning checklist, partnership possibilities,
and a sample media advisory and press release.
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Offering educational activities for children on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
On the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service, 2002, City Year San Antonio (CYSA) partnered with the City of San Antonio's Martin Luther King, Jr., Commission, and six local AmeriCorps programs in order to provide educational activities for youth and to enlighten roughly 50,000 people about the Civil Rights movement. Besides assisting with the march, CYSA and AmeriCorps members designed and implemented hands-on learning activities to teach youngsters about the Civil Rights Movement and the legacy of Dr. King. While adults listened to the Commemorative Program, over 350 children participated in a wide variety of instructive activities. Dahn Windhorn of City Year San Antonio, submitted this effective practice in February, 2002.
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Involving children of prisoners in a Martin Luther King, Jr., Day event
For AmeriCorps*VISTA members, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day offers a unique opportunity to fulfill the Corporation's goals of increasing volunteerism and satisfying member responsibilities of planning mentor/mentee activities. For children of incarcerated parents, this day of service can prove to offer a sense of accomplishment, while educating them about the life of this great leader.
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Planning and implementing a successful statewide service event
Statewide service events can be a milestone in an AmeriCorps member’s service term —
connecting a member to the larger AmeriCorps community and allowing him or her to
see the power of networking to affect change in the world firsthand. However, for
project directors, these types of events can present planning and logistical
challenges! Stephanie Sullivan of the Tennessee Commission on National and
Community Service submitted this effective practice in May 2006, which offers
methods to help ensure that programs will achieve the desired results. A link
to the document, “Team Tennessee AmeriCorps Statewide Event Toolkit,” is provided
and includes a section on roles and expectations of members, media and publicity,
budgeting and liability issues, a planning guide and FAQ sheet. Read more.
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Planning the logistics of a volunteer service project
After you’ve secured the resources and the volunteers, it is important to verify that all the minutiae of a service project are taken care of, to help guarantee that the day or days of the project will run smoothly. Hands On Network submitted this project checklist in fall of 2006.
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Finalizing your service day project plan
Have you ever planned a service project, arrived at the site, and realized that you forgot something important? It may have seemed like a minor detail early in the planning process and so you decided to take care of it later . . . but later never came. Avoid this scenario with these best practices from Hands On Network, submitted in fall 2006, and excerpted from the Hands On Program Assessment Guidebook. Read more.
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Creating a central organizing system for a city-wide day of service event
The Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service is considered the largest MLK Day of Service event in the United States. Co-chair Todd Bernstein explains how a collaboration of community organizations has effectively established and sustained a central organizing system that matches volunteers with existing service projects and provides technical assistance to organizations holding their own Day of Service activities. In 2001, the group had over 25,000 volunteers serving in several hundred projects. This practice is from an interview presented on the For Non-profit Organizations website. Read more.
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Instituting a new service day by combining university and community resources
AmeriCorps*VISTA members at the University of Montana, under the auspices of the Montana Campus Compact (MTCC), helped institute the first annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service in Missoula, Montana. By partnering with Missoula Youth Homes, 35 volunteers helped paint, patch, and provide basic maintenance to homes in economically distressed areas. A reflection and learning component to highlight diversity issues was included in the daylong event. Shannon Maynard, AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader and Publications Specialist, submitted this effective practice in April 2002. Read more.
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Promoting literacy through service projects
In an effort to encourage literacy and connect with families, an AmeriCorps Promise Fellow partnered with Sonoma County service providers to organize a book drive and service project to build and stock 75 family bookshelves for families and schools. The family-bookshelf project was part of a four-day celebration honoring the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This effective practice was submitted by Pam Nirdlinger, AmeriCorps Promise Fellow for the Sonoma Regional Service Collaborative. Read more.
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Using a service council to generate collaborations in a large state region
The Rio Grande Valley, located in the southern portion of Texas and partly along the Mexican border, encompasses four counties and covers over 4,200 square miles. AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps*VISTA, Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve members with the Rio Grande Valley National Service Program serve a large part of this geographical region. Since 1995, these service organizations have collaborated, pooling resources and bringing together widely dispersed members and volunteers. This effective practice was submitted by Jennifer Jefts of AmeriCorps Youth Harvest at the Southwest Cluster AmeriCorps Program Directors Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico held in February 2002.
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