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Below is a comprehensive list of service opportunities on campus and in the St. Louis community, organized by interest areas. There are many opportunities for varied interests! ARTS After School Art: Go to Steven's Middle School one afternoon a week from about 3:15 pm until 5:15 pm to run afterschool art activities. There are no meetings, planning done through email. Contact: Emily Torell, Co-director, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Katie Anderson, Co-director, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Art and Kids: Create opportunities that expose children to the arts. Participate in a weekly after-school craft project working with youth to discover their creative side through drawing, painting, sculpting, etc. Contact: Michele Brush, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Ashley Schneidman, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Project Picasso: Project Picasso incorporates arts and crafts with art history to benefit the children in the hemetology/oncology ward of Children's Hospital. Transportation is provided Contact: Chelsea Davis, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Project Sunshine: Volunteers provide arts and crafts, tutoring, reading, special events, and other activities for the children and families in hospitals. Contact: Erin Moss, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Nicole Sussman, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Picture the Future: Picture the Future combines photography and creative writing to engage inner-city middle school students in new ways of learning about themselves and their world. Students from Lift for Life Academy, a charter school for at-risk students, come to Wash U. to participate in the program. Contact: Chelsea Roberts, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Anna Brody, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Project Good Days: Help support children and youth with serious chronic health conditions by providing encouragement and support through creation of care packages. This program collaborates with the Child Life Department of Children's Hospital. Contact: Sherri Huang, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Kristen Klempert, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION Habitat for Humanity: The Washington University Campus Chapter of Habitat for Humanity serves to raise funds for building Habitat homes, to raise awareness about the need for affordable housing, and to build alongside future homeowners at Habitat construction sites in the St. Louis area. Contact: Yan Wang, President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or William Shim, Vice President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Engineers without Borders: EWB partners with developing communities to improve their quality of life trough the implementation of environmentally sustainable, equitable, and economical engineering projects while developing internationally responsible engineers. EWB is currently involved in two international and multiple local projects. The international projects include optimization of a low cost/high efficiency cook stove for use in Guatemala and throughout Central America, as well as designing a peanut dryer for use in creating a nutritional supplement for malnourished children in Haiti. Contact: E-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit our website at http://ewbwashu.org for project opportunities and meeting times. EDUCATION/ OUTREACH Promoting Active Lifestyles: Promote active lifestyles through nutritional education, health advocacy, mentoring, and educating youth on healthy lifestyle choices. Be a work out buddy to a youth to help them stay active and get fit! (no athletic skills required, we just play fun games outside) Help us fight childhood obesity one kid at a time. We visit the kids at the Monsanto YMCA after school for an hour or two twice a week! Contact: Erica Feldman, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Jessica Shoss, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Alliance of Students Against Poverty: SAP aims to unite all students and groups on campus that work to end hunger and homelessness into one collaborative effort through cooperative events and meetings. Our first pillar is awareness: we hold events to educate people on campus about the issues of hunger and homelessness. Our second pillar is advocacy: we wish to provide students with outlets for action on specific issues. Service projects are the final pillar of ASAP's work. Contact Eric Duffy, President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Stephanie Koh, President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Green Action: Green Action is a student organization that focuses on the environmental sustainability of the Washington University community. The group is a forum for discussing concerns with University practices, putting forward ideas for positive change, and working with students and faculty to develop solutions that can be implemented. Green Action also provides the student body with information regarding the recycling system, the mug program, the Green Action Recommended products at the Campus Bookstore, and other ways to live sustainably on campus. Contact: Will Fischer, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Melissa Legge, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Washington University Marrow Registry: Social action group dedicated to educating students, faculty, and community members about the life-saving opportunities associated with joining the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Registry. Each year we host a several drives at which anyone between the ages of 18-60 may join the National Marrow Registry. Contact: Anna Henkel, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Kayla Zalcgendler, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Catalyst: Participate in a weekly after-school science education program for elementary age kids teaching basic scientific principles and doing hands-on science activities. Contact: Blake Butler, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and Michael Ruebhausen, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Spotlight on Youth: Spotlight on Youth volunteers produce short plays regarding important social issues, such as drug and alcohol abuse, domestic abuse, and racism. Plays are performed for St. Louis elementary and middle school students. Volunteers write scripts, perform, direct, or help design a mobile set. Levels of commitment vary. Volunteers are needed to write scripts this semester. Contact: Amanda Coppock, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or David Houston, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Volunteers for Environmental Restoration, Development and Education: Work to foster a greater awareness about environmental issues among school children or assist nearby communities with beautification and restoration projects. Lucy Colville, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Kelley Greenman, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it X B.E.A.U.T.Y. X Drive: X B.E.A.U.T.Y. X is dedicated to promoting increased self-esteem and positive body image to young ladies both at Washington University and throughout the greater St. Louis community. It is our mission to facilitate outreach programs and seminars that emphasize self-esteem and self-awareness, primarily through school involvement, on-campus community service, and prom dress drive. Contact: Halley Hindman, President/ Prom Dress Drive Chair, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ACADEMIC TUTORING Ninos: Tutoring and mentoring group for Hispanic (mostly Mexican) elementary school students in the South side of St. Louis. Tutoring includes language skills help, simple math, and other fun learning activities ***Some proficiency Contact: Julia Burns, Leader,
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or Each One Teach One: Washington University's tutoring initiative, dedicated to connecting WU tutors with students in greatest need of support. Choose one of four programs: CollegeBound, AP Prep, KIPP, or JumpStart. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ARIS After School Program: Students from the WashU community are able to connect with members of the St. Louis community in this unique tutoring program bringing together refugees from Somalia and college students. Here, middle- and high-school age student’s work on their reading and writing skills, as well as work on any homework questions they may have. Plus, there are plenty of Puertas Program: The Puertas Program is a college prep tutoring/mentoring program that serves underprivileged Hispanic students in South St. Louis. The program is organized and sponsored by the Romance Languages & Literatures Department at Washington University. Volunteers meet once a week with Hispanic students, either on campus or in South St. Louis Carpenter-Branch Public Library and help students with English and Math ACT level exercises. The Puertas Program provides materials or resources that tutors need to work with his/her Hispanic student. Spanish language skill is not required but desired. Tuesdays or Thursdays from 4pm to 7pm. Transportation is provided. Contact: Virginia Braxs, Coordinator of Volunteer Programs Romance Lang., This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it GATEWAYS: Serve as a classroom aide Saturday mornings through the Gifted Resource Council's gifted education program at Wydown Middle School. Assist in a variety of educational activities for students who are in grades K-8. Contact: Alfred Wang, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Greg Delos Y-Tutor: Y-Tutor allows Wash U. students to tutor at three sites in the St. Louis area. Sites include Brittany Woods Middle School in University City, the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Boys and Girls Club in East St. Louis, and Wydown Middle School in Clayton. Tutoring is offered Monday through Friday, and tutors go to their sites for one hour each week after school. Transportation is provided to sites. Contact: Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it either to get more information about all of our sites or to sign up for a specific day at a given site. MENTORING CHILDREN Campus Y Big Brother and Big Sister: Act as a big brother or sister for elementary school students in U City by participating in a one-on-one mentoring relationship. By just visiting your little once a week, you'll get the chance to have a huge impact! Contact: Natalie Alm, Program Leader,
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or Circle K: Circle-K is a service organization dedicated to changing the world one person at a time, through continuous work with the children in our community. E-mail one of the presidents or come to our meetings, Wednesdays at 8PM in Shepley Seminar. Contact: Perry Morocco, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Emily Ritter, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Help to Heal: Provide childcare and tutoring to residents of Lydia's house, a transitional housing facility for abused women and their children. Contact: Lauren Hillemann, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Steven Hollander, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Juvenile Detention Center: WashU Students mentor teens weekly at St Louis Juvenile Detention Center. Contact: Katelyn Gibert, Co President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Matthew Lohmann, Co President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Night Off: We are looking for students who would be willing to give up one night a month to babysit for an autistic child and possibly siblings for free. We are especially in need of students who have experience with autism. But all students are welcome to help! Contact: Ernika Quimby, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Julie Karue, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Out of The Blue: A group of Washington University undergraduate and graduate volunteers, makes weekly visits to the Mark Twain Elementary School. There, we mentor, teach, and entertain elementary school students from the area. Our goal is to foster literacy, creativity, and an overall love of learning through engaging and thought-provoking activities (planned by each member of our group). Contact: Lauren Weiss, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Kimi Bolch, Co-President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Sunday with the Kids: Develop friendships with children ages 5-13 on Sundays in a local non-profit agency through games, art projects, and sports. Contact: Nich Okoro, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or David Shepard, Student Director, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it CONNECTING WITH THE ST.LOUIS COMMUNITY Feed St. Louis: The mission of Feed St. Louis is to use food as a tool to end hunger. Our approach integrates active service with homelessness and malnutrition awareness. Feed St. Louis has three main components: Food Salvage, Food Preparation, and Awareness. We are continually looking for new volunteers for our Sunday Centenary Volunteer Days: We meet at the Big Bend Metro stock at 2:15pm on Sundays. To get involved please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . S.A.G.E. Service Across Generations: Become a friend to senior citizens in the community through one-on-one interactions and group activities at a nearby nursing home. Contact Glenn Kunkes, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Natalie Kress, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Teach ESL: Teach ESL is dedicated to bridging the gap between students and workers on campus by provided students to tutor immigrant workers in English. We provide one on one tutoring for many of the ResLife housekeepers and the Top Care grounds crew. We also host social events and training sessions for volunteers. The time commitment is 2 hours per week. This is usually structured as two 1 hour sessions at times mutually agreeable to the students and worker. Contact: Jessica Goldkind, President, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Mr. Wash U: The Mr. Wash U. event ultimately serves three purposes. Essentially the show will pose as a contest to select and crown the one undergraduate male who exemplifies the epitome of a Washington University student through any combination of the following: personality, character, integrity, extra-curricular involvement and contribution to the Washington University and extending community. In doing so, the event will unify the undergraduate student body while raising a projected goal of $20,000 to donate to City Faces. The money that Mr. WashU donates every year is the main source of funds for City Faces and could not exist without Mr. WashU. We also aim to educate WashU and the surrounding neighborhood about the social injustice that occurs in St. Louis and which is being addressed by City Faces. We have completed our application process for the 2009-2010 school year. However, there are many other ways you can get involved with Mr. Wash U and City Faces throughout the year besides being on the Exec Committee. Please email us to find out more. Applications for the 2010-2011 school year will be sent out after next year's show on April 1, 2010. TRAVEL BASED/ INTERNATIONAL WashU GlobeMed: GlobeMed's mission is to connect the assets of a student-led network to grassroots health organizations working in communities around the world. By inspiring and training university students to mobilize resources for global health, we seek to build a movement fighting for a more sustainable and secure world. We have a partnership with an NGO in Uganda. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to get involved. One World: OneWorld seeks to demonstrate the common bonds that unite all people despite the world’s many nations, cultures, religions, and struggles through our per-semester magazine and educational events. Through these activities we also work to connect university groups interested in various social justice issues. Our group welcomes both scholarly and creative undergraduate works (poetry, photo journals, short stories, etc.) that focus on bettering the situations of those who are disadvantaged. Possible topics range from those that take a specific interest in an area of social justice to those that concentrate on community service, culture, the environment, or faith. lease feel free to e-mail us if you are interested in joining our group, submitting an article, or are just curious! Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Service Trips with Community Service Office: Mark your calendar for these dates: Thursday October 1 (5-6 pm) is a service trip information session, on Thursday October 22 from 5-6 there is a service trip leader training session and on Sunday February 7 from 2- 3:30 there is a Service Trip Participant Training. If you are organizing a service trip and would like to participate in the Council, if you have questions regarding your service trip, or if you would like to learn about service trips being planned, please contact Sarah Tillery at (314) 935-3943 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Alternative Spring Break: Alternative Spring Break is an opportunity for students to spend their spring break doing service work. Students apply to visit one of three different destinations (locations TBA). Contact Megan Chan, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Raina Hall, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information. Alternative Winter Break: Alternative Winter Break is an opportunity for students to spend their winter break doing service work. Students apply to visit one of three different destinations (locations TBA). Contact Jasmine Berg, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Jayashree Gowda, Program Leader, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to get involved. Lutheran Campus Ministries: Community service is an important part of Lutheran Campus Ministry and includes Fall and Spring Break Service Trips, Habitat builds, tutoring, and other activities of student interest. Contact: John Lottes, Campus Pastor,
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ACTS Missions: The ACTS (Association of Christian Truth-Seekers) campus ministry group focuses on local and overseas missions during the year. About once a month, ACTS participates in a local (St. Louis) service opportunity; Every spring break, we visit an orphanage in Arkansas; and, each summer we go on 1-2 overseas missions (this year, Panama). The purpose of this group is to help students plan and raise money to support these missions. Contact Campus Minister, A.J. Bennett, for more information on our local and overseas mission efforts at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . CAMPUS EVENTS/ Short Term Commitments Locks for Love: Locks of Love is a national non-profit organization making wigs for children with long-term medical hair loss. Twice each year (fall and spring) we hold a hair-cutting event where local professional hairstylists donate their time to cut hair. Donors can either get a regular hair cut for $20 or they can get a free cut if they have ten or more inches of hair. The hair cutting events are twice per year, November and April, usually on the 1st Monday of the month from 9am - 5pm. To get involved: Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to join! (You don't have to donate your hair to be a part of the club) WU Locks of Love meets for an hour once every week. The day and time of the meetings changes each semester because we do our best to accommodate to our members. Give Thanks/ Give Back: GTGB is WashU's Annual Holiday Gift Drive. GTGB supports an organization called 100 Neediest Cases (a joint project of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the United Way), which runs a holiday gift-drive to benefit the poorest families in St. Louis. 100 Neediest Cases identifies over 10,000 cases of area residents struggling to overcome poverty around the holiday season. GTGB organizes student, faculty, and staff groups that sponsor the families by buying gifts, clothing, household appliances, and/or other specially requested items for their adopted families. The gift drive culminates every year with two wrapping parties in which volunteers wrap all the donated gifts for the families. Registering to adopt families begins Oct 15 and Gift Wrapping Parties are Nov 14 & 21, 12pm-5pm in Umrath Lounge. Contact: Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are interested or come to one of our events. We'd love to meet you! Relay For Life: Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society's signature fundraising activity. This unique event offers a community the opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer. Relay celebrates life and remembers those who have lost their battle with cancer. The money raised during this event goes to the American Cancer Society to help save lives through research, education, advocacy, and service. Mark your calendars for this years Relay for March 21. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information. Dance Marathon: The eleventh annual Saint Louis Area Dance Marathon will bring participants from Wash U, other Saint Louis universities, local high schools, and the Saint Louis community together for this exciting fundraiser benefiting Children's Miracle Network, an extraordinary national nonprofit organization. Students and community members participate in a year-long charitable effort culminating in a twelve-hour event of dancing, fun, and games. Dance Marathon will be held from 3pm to 3am on November 7 & 8, 2009 in WU's Athletic Complex! Contact: Visit www.dmstl.org to find out more information about how to get involved with Dance Marathon. You can register to dance until October 7 OR sign up to volunteer or donate at any time! Please email Andrew Seidl, DM's Executive Director, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you have more questions. Blood Drives: Sign up to volunteer or donate blood on September 15, 2009, November 11, 2009, January 26, 2010, and March 31, 2010. You can also join the blood drive leadership team- Applications are due September 25. Contact: Go to http://www.communityservice.wustl.edu/bd/ for more information.
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