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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Ackerman Elementary School |
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Ackerman, MS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Charlotte Cornish
1998
Terry Stacy
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| Description |
| Two hundred students from Ackerman Elementary in Ackerman, MS, will transform land adjacent to the school playground into a "Learning Park". This park will consist of a winding trail with various learning stations. Students will be responsible for creating an outdoor classroom, trail, rock and mineral garden. The Learning Park will also include a native Mississippi crops area, hummingbird and butterfly area, math park, and labeled plants and trees. Other schools in the area will be able to use the park, as well as Boy and Girl Scout troops. After the park is completed, these students will sponsor an Environmental Awareness Day there once a year.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Aiken High School |
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Aiken, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Art Lader
Teacher
1997 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Forty members of the German Club at Aiken High School will "adopt" residents of the Windham house, a 47-unit senior living facility in Aiken. Monthly visits will include Internet lessons for interested residents. They are also seeking funding to establish a domain name for the facility, so that students can work with seniors to create and generate content for a Web site. Additionally, a meal will be provided at each session. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Alexander Science Center School |
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Los Angeles, California |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jane Ching Fung
Teacher
1992 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Alexander Science Center School is a brand new public charter school located in Exposition Park. Although located within the beauty of the park, the school grounds consist of concrete structures and metal walls. Students will develop a community garden on school grounds, which will also serve as an active learning lab, bringing various grade levels together for cross-age learning. Students will create nine garden beds, and a class of 20-30 students in grades K-3 will act as stewards for each bed. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Anaconda High School |
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Anaconda, MT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Angela McLean
Social Studies Teacher
2007 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Operation Read to Me
Through "Operation Read to Me," each of the students in the Anaconda Public Elementary School system who have been identified as needing significant reading help will have the opportunity to be mentored by students from Anaconda High School. This program will be used as a tool to invite other community members and parents into the elementary classrooms to read to all 500 elementary students over the course of the school year. The high school students will develop public service announcements, advertising campaigns, and letters to parents and local business partners to raise awareness and encourage participation in the program. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bais Chaya Preparatory Academy |
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Pompano Beach, Florida |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Rafael Davin
Teacher
1995 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Thirty-five ninth-grade girls from Bais Chaya Preparatory Academy will mentor students from Hebrew Academy Community School twice a month. One hundred-fifty of Bais Chaya's 350 students are on significant scholarships. The ninth graders will provide students with an hour of mentorship, assistance and encouragement. Additionally, Bais Chaya students will visit two retirement facilities in the area to conduct an arts and crafts project connected to a Jewish theme. Each facility will receive three visits during the school year. Finally, students will volunteer once a month to help shop for, collect and distribute food parcels to 20 needy families in the Coral Springs, Florida area. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bayless Elementary School |
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St. Louis, MO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kimberly Grempler
Teacher
1998 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Approximately 225 first and third grade students will participate in various service activities. Projects will include constructing welcome boxes to greet new ESL students and families to the Bayless District; neighborhood beautification; and working with senior citizens.
Bayless Elementary students place flags in their "Bayless Remembers 9-11" sign at their FFY kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Belknap Elementary School |
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Beaver, UT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
LaRayne Brown
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Thirty-two ESL students from Belknap Elementary School will receive assistance from junior high and high school students in working on various community service projects. Projects will include neighborhood beautification, working with senior citizens, and literacy programs involving Head Start students and adults.
Festival for Youth friends at the Belknap kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Benjamin Franklin Middle School |
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Teaneck, New Jersey |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Beverly R. Plein
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| During monthly meetings, sixth- and seventh-grade students will interact with seniors from the Rodda Center at both the center and the school. An emphasis will be placed on gathering histories. Memoirs, descriptive essays and poetry will allow students to develop writing skills as they serve others. Other projects include collaborating with seniors on school beautification and providing technology instruction for the seniors. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bennett High School |
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Salisbury, MD |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Charles Greiner
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Over 1,000 elementary, middle school, high school and college students will participate in a schoolyard habitat restoration project. The students will plant a 1.4-acre lawn area in front of the school with native species of trees. The area will serve students as an outdoor classroom and will serve the community as a "mini-park." Students will landscape the area and install birdhouses.
Click here to read about Bennett's kick-off event
A Bennett High School student with friends from Prince Street Elementary School in Salisbury, Maryland.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Beulah Payne Elementary School |
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Inglewood, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Charles DeSeriere
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Approximately 80 elementary school students will participate in a variety of service projects aimed at serving the community of Inglewood. Activities will include: a Health Festival; Great American Smoke-Out; Sports Festival; Safe-House Campaign; Senior Citizen Beautification; Landmark Clean-up and Earth Day. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bismarck High School |
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Bismarck, ND |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jennifer J. Montgomery
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Forty students will participate monthly in a program titled "Strong Community-Strong Kids-Strong Schools" Town Hall Meeting project. The students will hold student-organized and student-led town meetings on subjects crucial to the combined interests of schools, families, community members and community leaders. The core thread of the project will involve Bismarck High School students in working with the adult advisors to create and implement a peer mentoring program for Native American students at Bismarck High who comprise nine percent of the student population. The goal of the peer mentoring will be to help these students become more involved in the life of their school.
Click here to read about Bismarck's kick-off event
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Blue Valley Northwest High School |
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Overland Park, Kansas |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Amy Murphy
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Members of the 127-person student body will work as peer tutors for 16 special education students. Projects will be carried out on a monthly basis and will include training in September followed by monthly activities such as an afternoon of whiffle ball, leading and implementing a bowl-a-thon for the Special Olympics, preparing a holiday feast for friends of the program and participating in spirit weeks at the school. Creating opportunities for special education students to participate in school-wide activities is the ultimate goal of this program. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bobcean Elementary School |
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Flat Rock, MI |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Timothy Hammar
Teacher
1996 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Approximately 250 kindergarten, third- and fifth-grade students will take part in a project entitled "Service with a Smile." This project will include monthly performances by the Flat Rock Bell Choir, mentoring, and work with senior citizens.
The Flat Rock Angel Bell choir performs at their Festival for Youth kickoff |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Boonsboro Elementary School |
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Boonsboro, MD |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jeanne Ecton
1996 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| In the Shafer Park Millennium Makeover project, Boonsboro Elementary students will work together to showcase this small neighborhood park as a natural, historical and cultural resource for the community. Currently the park depends solely on town and county funding. Students will create an outdoor multi-purpose theater area, design and plant gardens, and monitor the ecological impact of the park on the area. All of Boonsboro's citizens will be invited to participate in the planned activities. Approximately one hundred students will participate on a monthly basis in this park revitalization project.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bremerton High School |
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Bremerton, WA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Madonna Hanna
1999
Dr. Sue Longstreth
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|
| Description |
| At Bremerton High School in Bremerton, WA, performing arts students will perform an original play entitled "Beautiful Differences" about accepting people with differences. Production of the play will include over one hundred regular education and special needs students. This play will be performed for younger students at elementary schools in the district and at other community sites. Following the play, the cast and crew will host discussion groups about the play's message and encourage the younger students to share what they have learned from it. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bremerton High School |
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Bremerton, WA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Madonna Hanna
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| One hundred students will perform a play entitled "Beautiful Differences" that reinforces an anti-bullying/anti-teasing message.
Festival for Youth participants from Brmerton High School show their patriotism by posing in front of their hand crafted American flag. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bremerton High School |
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Bremerton, WA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Madonna Hanna
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Dare Not to Swear!
"Dare Not to Swear!" is an anti-swearing campaign designed to provide a value system to elevate student attitudes, feelings and communication. In creating a "swear free" school district, the program will encourage positive attitudes and the choice of vocabulary words that elevate, not denigrate, spirits. From its base at Bremerton High School the program will be introduced to middle and elementary schools. Monthly contests including art, poetry and songwriting will keep attention on the project while generating community interest. Posters promoting "Dare Not to Swear!" will be displayed in classrooms, libraries, school buses, and in the district's administrative office. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Browning High School |
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Browning, MT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Leo Bird
Chemistry and Astronomy Teacher
2005 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
Translating Tribal Traditions
High School students will learn the time-honored tradition of designing and constructing the Blackfeet Tribe's central dwelling unit, the lodge (or teepee) from the two remaining elders able to pass down the oral instructions. Through a hands-on process in which the students will actually construct five different lodges, they will come to understand that their ancestors were home economists, mathematicians and scientists. The lodges will become an integral part of a new cultural interpretative center. This intergenerational project will strengthen the youth's appreciation for the wisdom of their elders and their rich ancestral history. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Bryan Senior High School |
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Omaha, NE |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Robert Whitehouse
Principal
1997 Milken Educator
Debbie Galusha
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| Description |
| Bryan Senior High School students will develop an area along a new bicycle trail in Omaha, Nebraska, into an educational and aesthetically appealing "rest area" for walkers, joggers and bicyclists. To beautify this area, students will clean out weeds and grass, plant new species of flora, and create educational information on the plant life in the area. Students will also plan and initiate similar "Adopt-a-Bike Trail" projects for other schools in the vicinity. This hands-on project will create a stronger relationship between the students and the community. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Burke High School |
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Charleston, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Linard McCloud
1997
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| Description |
| In Charleston, SC, music students at Burke High School will form a Senior Citizens Band and perform at local hospitals and nursing homes once a month. Performances will include music, dancing, sing-a-longs and clapping numbers.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Burton Elementary School |
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Rexburg, ID |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Peggy Rogers
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Calendars in Rexburg will fill up with diverse monthly community service activities focused around "Strengthening our Community through Knowledge and Great Works." Among the many projects, students will stage a cultural fair to share customs from around the world. They'll promote healthy living with a fitness faire involving parents in a joint effort to promote nutritious meals and snacks. They will revive the lost art of eating together as families by learning how to transform mealtimes into happy occasions that strengthen families. One month, they will even borrow dry-pack canning equipment from the local cannery so that students can learn how to store food. The resulting canned goods will be donated to a local food bank. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Burton Elementary School |
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Rexburg, Idaho |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Peggy Rogers
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| In this project entitled "Color Our World with Service through Values," students will embark on a themed project each month that is tied to a Community Value Program in which a color represents that month’s value theme. For example, WORK will be the designated value theme in September and the designated color will be yellow. Students will plant bulbs and perennials in that color. In October the designated value will be HONESTY, signified by the color orange. Students will also help a local toymaker paint toys in these colors to be shipped to developing countries. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Cambridge-area elementary schools |
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Cambridge, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kimberly DeRose
Student
2005 Milken Scholar
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|
| Description |
| FYRE (Future Young Robotics Explorers) will provide an opportunity for public elementary students to take part in a hands-on science enrichment program, engaging young learners in math, science and engineering. Kim DeRose and fellow Harvard students will create two after-school programs at local Cambridge elementary schools in which pairs of undergraduate students teach elementary students how to use LEGO equipment to build and program their own robots. Students will get to use programming software that enables them to navigate a canyon on Mars or rescue stranded astronauts. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Camellia Basic School |
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Sacramento, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Don Ogden
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| One hundred twenty students will partner with parents and local service agencies to participate in monthly gardening days at Camellia Park, a 10-acre site adjacent to the school. Activities will include planting, pruning and weeding trees and flowers at the park.
Click here to read about Camellia's kick-off event
Three Camellia Basic School students share in the efforts to beautify their school grounds.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Capital High School |
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Helena, MT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kelly Morand
Teacher/Peer Mentor
2005 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Linking for Learning
To address the disconnect that often occurs between at-risk teens and their community, a selected group of high school freshmen will be partnered with upper-class mentors who will serve as role models and teammates in service projects. This collaborative undertaking will be an extension of the Link Crew Peer Mentoring Program, which offers orientation assistance to help incoming students make the transition to high school. In addition to strengthening school connections, the teens will work together on monthly projects throughout the community. Possible activities include cooking meals for a homeless shelter, volunteering for the Special Olympics, and exchanging regular correspondence with elderly residents at assisted living facilities. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Carey Junior High School |
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Cheyenne, WY |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Paul Crips
1999
Larry Johnson
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|
| Description |
|
Seventy students in the Astronomy Club at Carey Junior High School, in Cheyenne, WY, will travel to small communities in Wyoming and Nebraska to host "star parties." At these events, the students will share their love of exploration and discovery with community residents by discussing comets and comet hunting, planetary orbits, star constellations, and galaxies. They will also help residents look through telescopes. Furthermore, the young astronomers will make sundials that will be given to each community to be placed in their parks or a central community location. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Carlinville Intermediate School |
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Carlinville, IL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Bobbie Klaus
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Entitled Project REAP (Reading Enriches All People), the project at Carlinville Intermediate School has the entire fifth grade class bringing reading and literacy promotion into daycare and pre-school facilities, community centers for disabled adults, and nursing home and senior citizen centers in Carlinville. Additional one-on-one reading will take place with kindergarteners from the local primary school. Students will also incorporate performance in their work with senior citizens. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Cashman Elementary School |
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Amesbury, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Maria Ferrandini
Teacher
1997 Milken Educator
Leslie Barnaby
Tech Specialist
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|
| Description |
 Over one hundred fourth grade students from Cashman Elementary in Amesbury, Massachusetts, will work with senior citizens, community leaders and high school interns in the area to create and maintain a quiet, safe area in the local park for reading, reflection, lunching, and playing table games. Students will also plant a vegetable garden and give the harvest to at-risk families and seniors in the Cashman community. Furthermore, students and seniors will collaborate on a "Garden Page" within the school's Web site featuring pictures and written descriptions of their efforts.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Castleberry High School |
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Ft. Worth, Texas |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Matilda M. Meador
Assistant Principal
2000 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Members of the Key Club will raise funds for and work with second graders at Joy James Elementary School, where many students lack resources for school supplies. Key Club members will place solicitation jars throughout the community, keeping track of money collected and providing students with purchased supplies during monthly visits. Additionally, Key Club members will create performances, skits and presentations for second- and third-grade students on topics such as water safety, bike safety, bullying and peer pressure. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Cedar Hall Elementary School |
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Evansville, IN |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Bruceann King
Cathlin Susan Gray
1998
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|
| Description |
 At Cedar Hall Elementary School in Evansville, IN, four hundred students will participate in a variety of monthly community service projects. These projects include monthly "Adopt-a-Spot" litter patrols, planting trees and flowers at various sites throughout the community, designing and distributing holiday door decorations for seniors, and providing food baskets to needy families during the holidays. Students will also conduct food drives, rake leaves in the neighborhood, and host a party for community residents by running games booths and serving refreshments. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Cedar Ridge Elementary School |
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Eden Prairie, MN |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Janet Pladson
Assistant Superintendent
1997 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
Kids Against Hunger
With over 800 students and a staff of approximately 100, the Cedar Ridge Elementary School expects to be able to package 60,000 meals, which will be sent to an area of the world in need. Partnering with the nonprofit organization, Kids Against Hunger the school community will orchestrate the complete undertaking, from weighing bags of food to raise funds for shipping costs. In a powerful, hands-on demonstration, these students, ages five to ten, will experience in a very tangible way that their work can make a difference in the world. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School |
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Baton Rouge, LA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Vicky A. Condalary
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Each month, 220 first-grade, third-grade and special education students at Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary will participate in performing arts, fine arts, outdoor beautification and outreach activities with both preschoolers and senior citizens in the community. The Heritage Manor senior center beautification will be the heart of the project, as students work to beautify the senior center’s garden.
Milken Educator Vicky Condalary addresses the assembly.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Centennial Arts Academy |
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Gainesville, GA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kristie C. Smart
Second-Grade Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
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| Description |
The Making of a Museum
Second-grade students at Centennial Arts Academy will create an on-site Georgia History Museum. Each region of the state will be represented through the use of artifacts, interactive displays, plant life and artwork. The students will act as tour guides for their peers, responsible for researching and writing their own scripts. In addition to learning about the habitat of a specific region, youngsters will learn about environmental challenges and preservation efforts. Their creative skills will be nourished as they paint a mural, produce a brochure and design a Web site. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Centennial Arts Academy |
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Gainesville, GA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kristie Smart
Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
The Making of a Museum
Second grade students at Centennial Arts Academy will create an on-site Georgia History Museum. Each region of the state will be represented through the use of artifacts, interactive displays, plant life and artwork. The students will act as tour guides for their peers, responsible for researching and writing their own scripts. In addition to learning about the habitat of a specific region, youngsters will learn about environmental challenges and preservation efforts. Their creative skills will be nourished as they paint a mural, produce a brochure, and design a Web site. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Central Elementary School |
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Edgewater, MD |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dana Manojlovic
Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Better Days for the Bay
Restoring the Chesapeake Bay is a challenge that students and staff at Central Elementary School have chosen to undertake. The service program will educate the students and community in ways to help save and refurbish the Bay, as well as involve students in the process of clean-up and pollution prevention. Activities include cleaning up area beaches, planting trees in order to prevent further run-off and pollution, and building a rain garden. Through collaboration with the school's PTA Beautification Committee, students will foster community awareness and cooperation with local businesses and organizations. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Central Middle School |
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Waterloo, IA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Sue Pettit
1999
Bob Tyson
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|
| Description |
|
In a "Reading Buddies" program at Central Middle School in Waterloo, IA, one hundred students will read to youngsters in the YMCA's Pre-Kindergarten class on a monthly basis. Reading buddy groups will be formed and will be invited to share posters, seasonal cards, and displays on family health. Also, groups will discuss important issues such as safety and diversity and make toys for needy children during the holidays. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Chambers Middle School |
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Arcola, MS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Angela Johnson
Principal
2005 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Weekly intergenerational projects involving students, teachers, parents and community will connect past and present to prepare for the future. A documentary film will be produced to "rescue and preserve" school and community culture for future generations. Scenes will include interviews conducted during a Head Start story hour, a cook-off for dads, and entertaining for senior residents of an adult care facility. The local WABG-TV station will provide news coverage during the course of project events and the local university will assist with editing of the final documentary. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| College Hill Elementary International Studies Magnet School |
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Texarkana, AR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Amy Braswell
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Inner and outer beauty will be celebrated in word and deed by College Hill fourth graders. At Bobby Ferguson Park, they will gain botany skills by identifying trees and planting flowers, and enhance their artistic skills by turning pond-side wooden benches into works of art. In December, students will bring holiday spirit to downtown Texarkana, decorating the windows of empty and abandoned stores in time for a citywide holiday parade and tree-lighting ceremony. And returning by popular demand, students will begin their second year as mentors for special needs adults at Opportunities, Inc. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| College Hill Magnet School |
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Texarkana, Arkansas |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Amy Braswell
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| The entire fourth-grade class will spend time at a local nursing home and simultaneously prep, and paint a mural in a high-visibility area in downtown Texarkana. The mural will be dedicated at the end of the school year. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Collinswood Language Academy |
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Charlotte, NC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Maria B. Petrea
Principal
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Planting Anew
A massive light rail transit construction project in Charlotte required the removal of trees and other greenery. The students at Collinswood Language Academy will undertake an environmental and beautification project to replenish and enhance the green areas around the rail line. In addition to preserving the existing green areas, the students will plant 90 trees. Throughout the year they will monitor the trees' growth and provide regular maintenance. In the spring they will plant flowers. To improve the quality of life in the neighborhood, the students will also lead a recycling effort. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Columbian Elementary School |
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Carthage, MO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Angie Besendorfer
1996
|
|
| Description |
|
As part of the "Kids Kare" project, over five hundred students at Columbian Elementary School in Carthage, MO, will participate in a variety of activities benefiting area senior citizens. These projects include collecting blankets during the winter, performing home and yard clean-ups, planting a community garden, conducting a canned food drive, making Easter baskets, and performing at nursing homes and senior citizen centers. Thirteen individual classes will participate in monthly activities and also plan large-scale activities to involve the whole school. At the end of the year students will host a picnic for all seniors who have participated with them throughout the year. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Columbus Jewish Day School |
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New Albany, OH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jessica Groom
Teacher
Dianna Lindsay
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students from Columbus Jewish Day School will work with students from Dowd School for homeless children, residents of New Albany Care Center, members of Interfaith Hospitality Network and other agencies. Students will participate in direct service work at the beginning of each month, alternating between activities in the area of hunger/homelessness and working with seniors.
Students from Columbus Jewish Day School prepare to take food to the homeless.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Compton Elementary School |
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Canton, OH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Julie Herman
Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
|
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| Description |
Able to Make a Difference
To increase public and student awareness that special needs students can contribute to their community, students with mild and multiple disabilities from Compton Elementary School will lead a campaign to raise literacy skills at a local day care facility which serves low-income families. They will host bake sales to purchase books, make story props, record stories on cassettes, and read to the young children. At the end of the school year, each of the children at the day care, will be presented with a set of books to keep at home. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Cottage Grove Middle School |
|
Ford Heights, IL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kathy Horvath
1992 Milken Educator
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| Description |
|
Last year, the first library in Ford Heights was opened in a room at Cottage Grove Middle School. Students will spend the year improving the physical structure and learning environment of the library by redesigning the floor plan, building wooden shelves to store books and creating artwork exhibits which will change monthly. In addition, they will work with students, parents and community members to assess books that are needed and programs that will make the library more accessible to the community. Volunteer students will staff the library so it can be open more often, develop and promote family reading nights and read to adults who have not previously had that opportunity.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Cotton Plant High School |
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Cotton Plant, AR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jacquelyn Powell
Ruth Randall
|
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| Description |
| Seventy-five students from Cotton Plant High School will participate in a beautification project in Cotton Plant, AR. Students will expand flowerbeds at a local elementary school, the Medical Center, and the Community Center. Also, groups of students will adopt vacant lots in the community, keeping them free of litter and adding low-maintenance shrubs and perennials. Then they will erect signs identifying themselves as the caretakers of their lots.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Cypress Park Elementary and East Side High Schools |
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Cleveland, MS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Renee Moore
English Instructor
2001 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Renee Moore and her husband Reverend Clernest Moore lead a youth organization known as the Nu Delta Royal Achievers (NDRA) in the Mississippi Delta, a region where 27.9 percent of children are obese and where poverty has exacerbated issues of anger management. NDRA students from Cypress Park Elementary and East Side High Schools will write and produce skits reflecting the difficult issues confronting community youth, presenting alternative solutions to deal with challenges. These skits will be performed monthly at each of the nine area elementary schools. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Daffodil Valley Elementary School |
|
Sumner, WA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tim Garchow
Scott D. Whitbeck
1996
|
|
| Description |
| In a project titled "Operation NION (Not In Our Neighborhood)" at Daffodil Valley Elementary School in Sumner, WA, students will spend at least one evening each month removing litter from their neighborhood. This project will involve one hundred fifth- and sixth-grade students. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Dalton High School |
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Dalton, GA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Mike Stanton
1999
Karen Minor
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|
| Description |
| At Dalton High School, in Dalton, GA, students will create a book about the working people of their town, which is known as the "Carpet Capital of the World." The existence of this community is totally dependent on the carpet industry and the people who work in the mills. Students will go out into the community to conduct interviews. Then they will use computers to develop the book in both English and Spanish. Finally, after organizing a book signing and reception for the people featured in the book, they will sell the book in May (Labor History Month) and donate the proceeds to a community-based charity. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Dayton High School |
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Dayton, OR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Mitch Coleman
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Twenty-five high school students, along with local junior high school students, will work monthly to complete a three-and-a-half-mile-long nature trail in the city of Dayton. The trail is designed to be utilized by community members and visitors to the town for both their walking and running enjoyment. Students of all ages in the school district will also be able to use it for science studies and for classroom exercises.
Dayton High School students on the trail they will be enhancing with their friends from Dayton Middle School during their kickoff in Dayton, Oregon.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| DC Preparatory Academy |
|
Washington, DC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
MaryKate Hughes
Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Creating Classroom Connections
As DC Prep—a Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) public charter middle school in one of the poorest census tracts in the district—expands to open an elementary campus, current students will take the lead in helping to forge connections. The middle school students will serve as math and literacy mentors for the new elementary pupils and champion efforts to clean up the school environs which are plagued by urban blight—litter, graffiti and lack of aesthetic beauty. With their leadership skills in evidence, older students will serve as role models for younger students while recognizing that they can play a large part in serving their community. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Desert View Intermediate School |
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Los Lunas, NM |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Juliette Romero Benavidez
Bilingual Resource Teacher
1998 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
|
In this hands-on community beautification project, 320 fifth- and sixth-graders from Desert View Intermediate in Los Lunas, NM will clean up their neighborhood. Students will provide service to families in the area by doing yard clean-ups, cutting weeds, picking up trash and planting trees and flowers. Because there are no trash pick-up services in the area, the students' efforts will not only improve the neighborhood aesthetically, but will also foster community pride in the area's residents. In addition, students will correspond with the families, visit them throughout the year, and record their progress on the project in a journal that includes before and after photos.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Desert Vista High School |
|
Phoenix, AZ |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Deborah Anklam Benedict
Teacher/Department Chair
1998 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students will create and distribute a book about their community, Ahwatukee, Arizona. The book will include the history of individuals and organizations integral to this relatively newer suburb of Phoenix where students attend school. Students will lead the project and determine what is included in the publication. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Dillon Elementary Schools |
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Dillon, MT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barby Judge
Enrichment Teacher
1998 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| In Dillon County, Montana, 850 students from grades 2-8 will combine their skills by creating a public bike-hike path approximately 20 blocks in length. Comprised of students from Mary Innes School, Parkview Elementary and Dillon Middle School, the group will stake the path, measure it, prepare it for painting, and maintain it on a regular basis by raking and weeding. Additionally, students will conduct research and publish their results on the benefits and use of the bike-hike trail. This trail will provide a safe means for students to travel to and from school as well as recreational opportunities for members of the community. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Dr. George Cunningham School |
|
Vineland, New Jersey |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Theresa L. Bordo
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Twenty-six fourth graders will make monthly visits to the Vineland Veteran Home. During the visits, students and veterans will read, take nature walks, perform plays and plant flowers on the grounds of the home in the spring. A newsletter will be created detailing their monthly activities. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Dundee-Crown High School |
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Carpentersville, IL |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Gary Swick
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students will revitalize a vandalized and neglected area of the town with multiple projects. "Save the Silo," for instance, will rally the community to keep a historically significant landmark. Teens will work with third and fourth graders on a 370-acre site known as Raceway Woods. They will banish graffiti and, in its place, create a timeline mural that depicts the various phases of site history including ice age formations, native peoples, early development, racetrack history, preservation efforts, and current uses. The restoration process will be captured by a video production of their work. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Dundee-Crown High School |
|
Carpentersville, IL |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Gary Swick
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| One hundred fifth- and sixth-graders will work on the restoration of a 50-acre property in Carpentersville, Illinois. Students will conduct management activities to improve the ecological health of the site and enhance its access by the public.
Two Dundee Crown teachers lead the crowd in singing "This Land is Your Land" at their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Dutchtown Middle School |
|
Geismar, LA |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Amanda Mayeaux
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students will engage in literacy advocacy work within the school and in the community through the creation of literacy-themed public service announcements, a literacy poster and a Web site, on which they will feature a list of recommended books as a resource. Additionally, they will organize and lead book discussion groups.
Check out Dutchtown Middle School's Literacy Web site at http://teacherweb.com/LA/DutchtownMiddleSchool/
FortheLoveofLiteracy/index.html.
Click here to read a September 5, 2004 article in The Advocate about this project. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| East Central Heritage Middle School |
|
San Antonio, TX |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Raye Lynn White
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Approximately 200 middle school students will collaborate with various service agencies including: Cover Youth Center, which is used as a distribution location for the San Antonio Food Bank; East Central Social Services Department, which services disadvantaged families; and Avalon Place Nursing Home, in which students will adopt the senior residents. The students will help with service work at these different agencies in order to form a link with those being served.
FFY Program Coordinator, Javon Frazier, poses with two East Central Heritage teachers after their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| East North Street Academy |
|
Greenville, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Melodie Barron
J. Todd White
Executive Director, South Carolina Teacher Advancement Program
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Fifth grade students from East North Street Academy will mentor three and four year olds monthly at the SHARE/Head Start location at Jesse Jackson Townhomes, a housing project from which approximately 15 percent of the school’s population is bused.
Students from East North Street Academy are in high spirits at their Festival for Youth kickoff event.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Eastwood Elementary School |
|
West Fargo, ND |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marcia Kenyon
1996 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Through a community service project entitled "Intergeneration Connection", first graders at Eastwood Elementary School in West Fargo, North Dakota, will become "buddies" with area senior citizens. Each month, students will visit with 35 residents of the West Fargo High Rise and brighten their lives by sharing books and writings; putting on a skit, music program, and science activity and math fair; and exchanging stories about their families. The entire community will share the Festival for Youth experience through photos posted at local businesses. In the spring, the "buddies" and their families will celebrate together at a picnic in the park.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Edwardsville Elementary School |
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Edwardsville, KS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Cheris Bass
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| One hundred students will participate in a project titled, "Enlarging Our Community Circle," in which they will participate in monthly service activities at a local senior center.
Click here to read about Edwardsville's kick-off event
A student helps put up a sign displaying the motto of Edwardsville Elementary's Milken Festival for Youth project.
Kickoff Photos: 1-12 Ongoing Project Photos: 13-18
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| El Monte High School |
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El Monte, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nick Salerno
Principal
1997 Milken Educator
Doug Halvorsen
Principal
|
|
| Description |
|
At El Monte High School in El Monte, California, forty-five students from the leadership class will unite with over 300 members of the boys' and girls' athletic teams to implement monthly sports clinics for neighborhood students from grades K-8. The student leadership class will develop and manage all of the administrative and organizational aspects of the program, incorporating the appropriate athletic teams and coaches based on the sports season. These monthly clinics will be designed to provide positive role models, productive activities and hands-on instruction to the younger children in volleyball, football, wrestling, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, tennis and cheerleading.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| El Monte High School |
|
El Monte, California |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nick Salerno
Assistant District Superintendent
1997 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Players from the El Monte High School football team will mentor seventh- and eighth-grade boys from a feeder middle school within the district. Twice a quarter, two high school students and one seventh- or eighth-grade student will get together for instructional activities and athletics. A pre- and post-project questionnaire will be administered to gauge academic and other attitudinal changes. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Elms Elementary School |
|
Jackson, NJ |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Theresa Licitra
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| In a series of alternating visits, 56 fifth-grade students from the Elms Elementary School will meet with twenty seniors from the Jackson Senior Center for interviews, poetry reading, discussions of mutual interests, and story sharing for selected writing activities. The young people of Elms will exchange ideas, insights, recollections, and future goals in collaboration with their elder partners; in turn, their elder partners will become the role model, the voice and the extension from which the youngsters' writing will grow. The project will culminate with a student-edited anthology of collected works selected from these shared experiences in conjunction with other New Jersey Festival for Youth site locations. This project is being conducted in connection with NJMUSST (New Jersey and Milken Unite Seniors, Students and Teachers) and the New Jersey Milken Network.
Click here to read about Elms Elementary's kick-off event
Students from Elms Elementary School pose with their new senior friend, who also happens to be the father of 2002 Milken Educator Theresa Licitra.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Emek Hebrew Academy |
|
Sherman Oaks, CA |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Mona Riss
First-Grade Teacher
2007 Milken Jewish Educator
|
|
| Description |
Everybody Loves a Good Story
Blind and visually impaired children who are not yet fluent in Braille have very limited literary resources available to them. Through the "Everybody Loves a Good Story" project, approximately 200 students at Emek Hebrew Academy and students from two Los Angeles area schools for blind children will digitally record lively readers' theater interpretations of 125 stories. Each school will receive two complete sets of the story collections and the recordings will also be made available through Enlightenment for the Blind and a new lending library of the Blind Children's Fund, which serves 1,000 blind children across America and in 90 countries around the world. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Fisher Elementary School |
|
Walpole, MA |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Holli Armstrong
Assistant Principal
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students in grades K-5 will create an Environmental Classroom located behind Fisher Elementary School. Additional work will include the upkeep of an existing nature trail where students will identify plants and work with the local vocational school to learn how to create metal nameplates for plant identification purposes.
Click here to read a September 24, 2004 article in the Milford Daily News about this project. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Florida State University School |
|
Tallahassee, FL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Debi Barrett-Hayes
Department Chair
1998 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| At the Florida State University School in Tallahassee, Florida, 30 high school students will act as mentors to 120 sixth-graders as they work together to perform a variety of services throughout the community. This collaboration will include designing posters for public display that outline healthful eating habits, serving meals to the homeless, participating in Meals on Wheels food service to the homebound and doing hands-on home construction with Habitat for Humanity. As positive role models, the high school students will travel to the middle school once a week to provide community service training sessions for the sixth-graders.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Food Bank of Larimer County |
|
Fort Collins, CO |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Michael McCarthy
Elementary Art Specialist
1996 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Empty Bowls
The poverty rates in Larimer County have grown at alarming rates in recent years. To address this critical community issue, over 750 students from more than a dozen area schools will take an active role in addressing hunger awareness and promoting civic involvement in their fight to end hunger. They will volunteer at local food banks and, under the tutelage of professional artists, will create hundreds of pottery bowls to be sold at two Empty Bowls Dinners and Art Auctions. Last year, the project raised in excess of $50,000 and helped the Food Bank for Larimer County collect and distribute 5.6 million pounds of food to over 21,000 residents. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Francis S. Grandinetti Elementary School |
|
Ridgway, Pennsylvania |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marcia Raubenstrauch
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Talented and gifted students will form a service club and carry out a variety of community service projects including: assisting the Elk County Historical Society with displays, cleaning and organizing; creating a bingo event at the local Head Start Program with books as prizes; and creating brochures for new parents touting the benefits of reading. Other monthly projects include visiting the Valley Ridge retirement home to present student-created gift bags and working with the Ridgway Heritage Council and the Ridgway Public Library.
Grandinetti Elementary School's Milken Festival for Youth Project in the News:
Ridgway Students Take Learning Into The Community
WJAC-TV
September 13, 2005
Yearlong community service projects launched with grant
The Ridgway Record
September 14, 2005
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Franklinton High School |
|
Franklinton, LA |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Cheryl Bruton
Teacher
2005 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| In a community severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Franklinton High students will have the opportunity to help restore their community's flora by distributing seedlings communitywide. The teens will partner with community groups to develop a new walking trail near the school, as well as flower gardens in public areas to make Franklinton blossom once again. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Gadsden High School |
|
Anthony, New Mexico |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Gloria Basden
Teacher
1997 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| This project entitled "Maestros en Mosaics" combines art and history. Students will create and paint mosaic tiles for placement at the entrance to Gadsden High School. The main entrance was constructed in 1929 and designed by famed architect Henry Trost. Space will be reserved for several tiles commemorating members of the Anthony community who have made positive contributions. Students will research candidates and a schoolwide vote will take place. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Garden City High School |
|
Garden City, KS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jesus Bernal
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| High school students will collaborate with the Police Department, the Chamber of Commerce and the local League of United Latin American Citizens to eradicate graffiti at sites around Garden City, Kansas. The community will be notified of the service being provided through public service announcements created by Garden City High School students and through the Chamber of Commerce monthly newsletter. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Garden Lakes Elementary School |
|
Avondale, AZ |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Vicki Walker
Teacher
Kimberly Allen
Assistant Principal
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Approximately 103 third- and fourth-grade students from Garden Lakes Elementary will visit a local senior center twice a month and form relationships with the residents.
Students from Garden Lakes Elementary pose for a quick shot during their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Gaston Point Elementary School |
|
Gulfport, MS |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jerry Morgan
Principal
1999 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students involved will work twice a month to clean up, beautify and maintain a local park within walking distance of the school.
Milken Educator Jerry Morgan discusses his Festival for Youth project with local media.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Glendale Jr./Sr. High School |
|
Flinton, Pennsylvania |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nancy Gobert
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| High school students along with students from Saint Francis University will meet with area elementary students at the Coalport Community Building each Saturday for science-based activities. Additionally, once a month throughout the school year Ms. Gobert and her students will travel to area daycare centers and preschools to teach hands-on science to children who attend those programs. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Gold Hill Elementary School |
|
Fort Mill, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Della Bacote
1998 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Sixty third and fourth graders from Gold Hill Elementary in Fort Mill, South Carolina, will participate in monthly service activities designed to brighten the lives of Gold Hill residents. Their projects will include participating in an "Adopt-a-Highway" cleanup, visiting sick children in the area hospital and creating and distributing "Birthday in a Box" sets for homeless children who don't have resources for birthday celebrations. In addition, the students will make greeting cards for senior citizens, read to pre-schoolers, decorate grocery bags with positive messages and sew and fill Christmas stockings for the abused and neglected children in their community.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Greenbriar Elementary School |
|
Indianapolis, IN |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Alicia Harris
Assistant Principal
2001 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Raising Expectations
A world of possibilities will open up for Greenbriar Elementary students as they are provided with opportunities to play a more vital role in their school and community. Each month they will visit a different Indiana university and participate in clean-up and beautification projects for a nearby neighborhood. Through a series of activities, such as distance learning sessions, blogs and video logs, the students will engage others to raise the standard of expectations for all. In chronicling their activities on the school's Web site, at the monthly Parent Teacher Organization meetings, and in displays exhibited in local businesses, the students hope to establish positive connections throughout the community. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Greenbriar Elementary School |
|
Indianapolis, IN |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Alicia Harris
Assistant Principal
2001 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Raising Expectations
A world of possibilities will open up for Greenbriar Elementary students as they are provided with opportunities to play a more vital role in their school and community. Each month they will visit a different university in Indiana, where they will be exposed to advanced academic offerings. They will gain a sense of community empowerment as they work to clean up and beautify their nearby neighborhoods. Through a series of activities such as distance learning sessions, blogs and video logs, the students will engage others to help raise the standard of expectations for all. Two mentoring programs will foster strong, positive connections and encourage students to reach for success in school and in life. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| H. W. Mountz School |
|
Spring Lake, NJ |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
John Bormann
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Approximately 36 students will participate in poetry writing workshops with senior citizens from a local senior center. Students will engage in interactive activities with seniors in their community by utilizing the common threads of literacy, dialogue and reflection. This project is part of the NJMUSST (New Jersey and Milken Unites Seniors, Students and Teachers) network.
Click here to read about H. W. Mountz's kick-off event
Students from H. W. Mountz School participating in this year Milken Festival for Youth project pose at their kickoff event in Spring Lake, New Jersey.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| H.E.L.P. Group |
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Sherman Oaks, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President
|
|
| Description |
| Four hundred students with special needs who attend The H.E.L.P. Group in Sherman Oaks, California, will participate in age- and ability-appropriate activities throughout the community. The number of visits per student will vary from three times a year to weekly, and the agencies served include intergenerational, health care, environmental and animal protection groups. Organizations that have previously benefited from the H.E.L.P. Group's affiliation with the Festival for Youth program include the Foundation for the Junior Blind, Heal the Bay, Tree People, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Valley Shelter, Valley Interfaith Food Pantry, Simi Valley Community Hospital, Guide Dogs of America, Jewish Home for the Aging, Pet Orphans, Crippled Children's Society, Angeles National Forest, Valley Cities Jewish Community Center and California Environmental Project. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| H.E.L.P. Group |
|
Sherman Oaks and Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Barbara Conway
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|
| Description |
| Includes Sunrise School and Pacific Ridge in Culver City and Summit View School and Village Glen School in Sherman Oaks. Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the L.A. Mission and putting lunch boxes together, planting trees and picking up trash at the beach. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| H.E.L.P. Group |
|
Sherman Oaks and Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
|
|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees.
Click here to read about the kick-off event at The HELP Group's Culver City campus
Click here to read about the kick-off event at The HELP Group's Sherman Oaks campus |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| H.E.L.P. Group |
|
Sherman Oaks, CA |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
|
|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Harrand Creek Elementary School |
|
Enterprise, AL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Mary Watson
|
|
| Description |
| In this beautification project, 300 students from Harrand Creek Elementary in Enterprise, Alabama, will enhance their community by creating an outdoor amphitheater, vegetable and flower gardens, and a wildlife sanctuary. Students from grades K-6 will work with senior citizens and community members regularly to prepare and maintain the soil, plant seeds, nurture the plants and maintain the wildlife sanctuary. The amphitheater will be used as an outdoor classroom and a meeting place for environmental clubs, Boy and Girl Scout troops, and senior citizens groups, among others. As an additional service to the Harrand Creek community, the students will initiate a recycling program.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Harris-Lake Park Community Schools |
|
Lake Park, IA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Judith Brueggeman
Principal
1998 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Approximately 60 students will work on a three-part community service project. Part one will involve the beautification of the school's baseball, softball and soccer fields, a park and a local walking trail. Parts two and three of the project will include the development of a fitness/walking program for citizens of the communities that are within the district.
Click here to read about Harris-Lake Park's kick-off event
Lake Park Mayor Ann Ditsworth discusses the importance of the Harris-Lake Park Festival for Youth project.
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Harris-Lake Park Elementary School |
|
Lake Park, IA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Judith Brueggeman
Principal
1998 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Penpal Partners Cross the Ages
Seventy students at Harris-Lake Park Elementary School will have very special study buddies this year as they invite senior citizens to participate in a unique literacy and penpal program. In this intergenerational exchange, each student in grades 3–5 will correspond with a senior and select three books to study together. After literature discussions, the seniors will visit the classroom to partner with their penpals in taking a test on the books they have read. Through literature, letter-writing and cross-generational learning, both students and seniors will broaden their perspectives while learning from one another. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Hartford High School |
|
Hartford, CT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Yvonne J. Dean Griffin
Teacher
1999 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Members of the Teacher Cadet Program will partner with the National Honor Society and work to enhance the lives of Hartford's less fortunate. Initiatives will include creating Thanksgiving Dinner Baskets for 20 families in need, gifts for six children who have an incarcerated parent, and interaction with senior citizens at Immanuel House, a senior citizen residential unit in Hartford. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Harvard Medical School / Martha Elliot Health Center |
|
Cambridge, MA |
|
| Site Coordinator(s) |
Henry Horton
2001 Milken Scholar
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|
| Description |
Mentors Move Mountains
In partnership with the Martha Elliot Mentorship Program, Henry Horton and a group of fellow Harvard Medical School students will serve as mentors and role models to at-risk teens, ages 10 to 15, from the Roxbury and Jamaica Plains areas of Boston. The Harvard students, many of whom share similar backgrounds with the teens, will introduce their mentees to a variety of new experiences. They'll tour the Harvard campus, volunteer at a Rescue Kitchen, and ice skate at Boston's legendary Frog Pond. Exposing the teens to a world outside their normal surroundings will help them see brighter possibilities and recognize the value of education and community service. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Harvard University |
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Boston, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Henry Horton
2001 Milken Scholar
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| Description |
Mentors Move Mountains
In partnership with the Martha Elliot Mentorship Program, Henry Horton and a group of fellow Harvard students will serve as mentors and role models to at-risk teens, ages 14 to16, from the Roxbury and Jamaica Plains areas of Boston. Together, they will help at a homeless shelter, learn about nutrition, and create a mural. The Harvard students, many of whom share similar backgrounds with the teens, will introduce their mentees to a variety of new experiences. By exposing the teens to a world outside their normal surroundings the goal is to inspire good choices and achievement for the future. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Harwood Union High School |
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South Duxbury, VT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Susan Hennessy
Library Media Specialist
2007 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Seniors to Seniors
Seniors at Harwood Union High School will pair with local senior citizens to create multimedia presentations on specific community issues. The yearlong project will provide a unique vehicle to give voice to these shared stories through participation in a 21st century dialogue. The presentations will be screened at a community-wide celebration event and will also air on a local cable access television station. In addition, the students will create a Web site to house the historic programming. This intergenerational collaboration will offer to both groups of seniors the chance to view their community through another lens. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Hawthorne Elementary School |
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Sioux Falls, SD |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Karen Lukens
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Approximately 460 students will create, build and plant a reading garden in front of the school. This will be an entire school project that will include kindergartners through fifth graders and special needs students. The project will include planting, gardening and mural painting.
Click here to read about Hawthorne's kick-off event
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Health and Science High School |
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Beaverton, OR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Maria Carrillo
Biology/Life Science Teacher
2005 Milken Educator
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| Description |
The Languages of Learning
The students at Health and Science High School are turning the tables in the classroom as they become teachers for minority parents and the school staff. With the goal of improving communication between parents who speak only Spanish and the school staff, students will offer instruction to both groups. Minority parents will be offered English lessons and the staff will be taught Spanish. To promote parent participation, students will provide childcare and a bilingual story hour for young children. Not only will these high school students witness the power they have to improve their community, but they will also help strengthen appreciation for its multicultural diversity. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Helen Mathews Elementary School |
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Nixa, MO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Peggy Auvil
Pamela Holmes
1998
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| Description |
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At Helen Mathews Elementary in Nixa, MO, all third-grade students will create a community museum showing the history of their town and area. First, students will renovate a concrete building that was formerly a two-stall milking parlor by doing landscaping, planting and watering. Then they will create or donate items to display in the museum and perform monthly clean-ups of the building. The project will culminate with the mailing of postcard invitations to the public announcing the opening of the museum. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| HELP Group/Summit View School/Village Glen School |
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Sherman Oaks, Culver City, California |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Debbie Martin
Director of Special Events and Community Affairs
Dr. Barbara Firestone
Executive Director
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| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, and taking care of abandoned animals. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Hilliard Horizon Elementary School |
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Columbus, OH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Debra Gardner
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Every grade will have a different focus as students at Hilliard Horizon pursue a community service program based on seven core virtues: honesty, compassion, giving, self-discipline, perserverance, responsibility, and respect. Students will "Buddy-Up" with low income children and families, special needs preschoolers, and senior citizens. Fifth graders, for example, will photograph and interview the folks at Hilliard Parks Recreation Senior Center about their countries of origin in order to create a book about immigration. Third graders will interview the residents at Arbors Nursing Home about Hilliard history to create "living history" journals. At the end of the year, all "Buddy-Up" partners will be invited to participate in an Arts and Literacy Fair. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Hollis Primary School |
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Hollis, NH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Gail Paludi
Principal
1999 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Green Gardening
Through the creation of an outdoor classroom/environmental garden, students at Hollis Primary School will beautify their property while also providing an environmental learning lab. Composters will be used to convert food waste into fertilizer for the garden. Students, parents and community members will be able to serve as environmental stewards while participating in the maintenance of the garden and the collection of recyclable materials. Project collaborators include the town's Department of Public Works, the Hollis Garden Club and the Parent Teacher Association. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Horace Mann Middle School |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Herb Holland
1990
Sheila Baker
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| Description |
| Forty students who are members of the extra-curricular Drama Club at Horace Mann Middle School, in South Central Los Angeles, California, will bring the performing arts to senior citizens at local retirement homes and community centers. Once a month, students will travel by bus to give presentations for the seniors in storytelling, drama, dance, art and creative writing. The daily lives of both the performers and their audience will be enhanced as they learn about each other through the arts and grow in their understanding of their shared cultural heritage. This is the second year of funding for Horace Mann Middle School.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Horace Mann Middle School |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Herb Holland
Teacher
1990 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Thirty-five students who are members of the extra-curricular Drama Club at Horace Mann Middle School, in Los Angeles, California, will bring the performing arts to senior citizens at local retirement homes and community centers. Once a month, students will travel by bus to give presentations for the seniors in storytelling, drama, dance, art and creative writing. The daily lives of both the performers and their audience will be enhanced as they learn about each other through the arts and grow in their understanding of their shared cultural heritage.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Hot Springs High School |
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Hot Springs, AR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
John Shewmaker
Principal
1995 Milken Educator
Deloris Massey
|
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| Description |
| Twenty-five students from Hot Springs High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas, will work together to create a library and promote literacy at the local Head Start Center. The Head Start Center has an enrollment of 176 children but no library facilities. Students have developed a plan to convert an old storage room into a library by cleaning it out, painting it, and working with the Center staff to categorize books and place them on the shelves. After the library is completed the students will visit the Center monthly to read to the children and actively encourage parents and community leaders to volunteer at the new Center library.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Indian Knoll School |
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West Chicago, Illinois |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Salvador Tamayo
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Salvador Tamayo's fifth-grade students will organize soccer matches for residents of a West Chicago suburb, many of whose residents are from Mexico and Central America and are new to this country. The soccer games will be a way for the community to interact and learn about services available to them through local social service organizations. Students will be required to include siblings and parents in order to play. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Inverness Primary School |
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Inverness, FL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Scott Hebert
1998
Sarah Hebert
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| Description |
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Sixty fourth- and fifth-grade students from Inverness Primary School, in Inverness, FL, will beautify the outside of Hernando Elementary School, a historical building built in the late 1800s. On a monthly basis, students will conduct clean-ups, plant native plants and flowers, design and paint a mural, and add park-style benches for the surrounding area. This building will eventually house numerous community resources such as a folk heritage museum, cultural and theater arts center, and family resource center. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Irwin Elementary School |
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Fort Wayne, Indiana |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Christine Michael
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Fifty second graders will build relationships with senior citizens at the Lutheran Home in Concord Village. Together they will learn about tulips and plant an international tulip garden. The second graders will also create a personal journal of their experience as a reflection tool. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| James Hillhouse High School |
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New Haven, CT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
John B. Nguyen
Social Studies Teacher
2007 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Diaper Deeds for Those in Need
With more than 20 percent of the population in New Haven living at or below the poverty level, many local families are not able to afford diapers for their babies and young children. Diapers, which are not typically covered by government assistance programs, can cost as much as $100 a month. Thus, a substantial number of parents cannot provide their children with this basic need. The students and teachers at James Hillhouse High School have decided to address this community problem by assisting the Diaper Bank of New Haven with monthly diaper drives and organizing diaper distribution centers. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Jeannette Myhre Elementary School |
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Bismarck, ND |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Junella Feickert
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| Description |
| Students will be involved in monthly service activities organized around the theme of building cross-age connections. Activities will include reading to younger children and performing for senior citizens.
Students from Myhre Elementary plant trees as part of their Festival for Youth community beautification project. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| John M. Barnes Elementary School |
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Flat Rock, MI |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Timothy Hammar
Third-Grade Teacher
1996 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Music Brings Us Together
Music will be the bridge uniting two generations in a community service project that connects local elementary students with senior citizens in Flat Rock, Michigan. In monthly musical performances the students will join with the high school marching band, choirs and other groups for a variety of presentations at venues around the city, including the school's auditorium, senior centers and local restaurants. The culminating event will be the orchestration of a "Senior Prom," literally for seniors, complete with decorations and refreshments. Adding more sweet notes to this harmonious project will be a reading partnership between students establish and seniors. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Johnny G. Economedes High School |
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Edinburg, TX |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Graciela De Anda
Teacher
2000
|
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| Description |
| The 40-member Student Council will make up the core group of participants and will lead the student body in community service activities. Monthly activities will include: cemetery, highway and beach cleanups, nursing home visits, and a two-pronged literacy initiative in which students will read to youngsters at area elementary schools and conduct adult literacy programs after school. This is a new school located in a low-income area of southern Texas.
A mariachi band, composed of Economedes High School students, entertains the crowd at the school’s Festival for Youth kickoff. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy Elementary School |
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Hays, KS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nancy Harman
Principal
2000 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Students will pen monthly letters to a grandparent or significant senior, seeking insights into their elders' schools, childhood, family and heritage. The letters will be published in memory books. Youngsters will also partner with adult volunteers to create a friendship garden for their school and two murals depicting friendship across generational lines. One mural will decorate the school entry hall while a second will brighten the halls of the Cedar View Assisted Living Center. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne Eras Center |
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Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Francziska Steagall
|
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| Description |
| With the community as their classroom, students will participate in a broad spectrum of service projects that include volunteering at the St. Joseph Center for homeless men, women and children; visiting with senior citizens at the Marina Convalescent Center; and planting trees together with the youth-led environmental group Tree Musketeers. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne Eras Center |
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Culver City, California |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Francziska Steagall
Teacher
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| Description |
| As in previous years, students from the Kayne Eras Center will participate in a wide variety of service projects including work with the St. Joseph Center, a homeless facility; visiting senior citizens at the Marina Convalescent Center; and beautifying the community as the Tree Musketeers. Other initiatives include beach clean-ups and student-led performances for the community. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne Eras Center |
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Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Francziska Steagall
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| Description |
Spreading Sunshine and Smiles
Kayne Eras Center is a multi-service facility serving over 550 children, adults and families through special education programs and services. A cornerstone of the enrichment programming at Kayne Eras is community service, with students participating in a broad spectrum of activities. As an offshoot of their past six-year involvement as volunteers at the Marina Convalescent Hospital, students will create a succulent garden at the hospital so that residents who are unable to walk outside, as well as those passing by the facility, can enjoy a vista of beauty. Other beautification projects will include beach clean-up and tree planting and care. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne-ERAS Center |
|
Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Francziska Steagall
Barbara Cull
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| Description |
| Approximately 150 students will participate in a variety of community service activities such as dramatic and musical performances at the Culver City Senior Center, recycling, eco-station cage cleanings and animal feeding, involvement with the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles, a mural project, and a literacy project with McBride Elementary School students.
Click here to read about Kayne-ERAS' kick-off event
Kickoff Photos: 1-7 Ongoing Project Photos: 8-25
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne-ERAS Center |
|
Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Francziska Steagall
|
|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a variety of community service activities such as drama and music performances at the Culver City Senior Center, recycling, eco-station cage cleanings and animal feeding, involvement with the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles, a mural project, and a literacy project with McBride Elementary School students.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne-ERAS Center |
|
Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Francziska Steagall
Donna Baker
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| Description |
| At the Kayne-ERAS Center in Culver City, CA, approximately seventy-five special needs students in grades 4 -12 will work with the Culver City Senior Center by sending mass mailings, doing art projects, dramatic presentations and community beautification projects with the seniors. In addition, the students and the senior citizens will visit the Getty Museum together twice during the year. Students will also participate in reading and mural projects with McBride Elementary School. This will be the third year of Kayne-Eras involvement with Festival for Youth.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne-ERAS Center |
|
Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Cull
Executive Director
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| Description |
| At the Kayne-ERAS Center in Culver City, CA, 60 special education students in grades 4-12 will work with the Culver City Senior Center on a variety of projects designed to foster understanding and create a positive bond between older citizens and young people who have special needs. Students will participate in art projects, dramatic presentations and community beautification projects with the seniors, and will work with them on activities such as stuffing and sealing envelopes for mass mailings. The highlight of the year will be a visit the students and seniors will make together to the Getty Museum.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne-ERAS Center |
|
Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Francziska Steagall
Barbara Cull
|
|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a variety of community service activities such as drama and music performances at the Culver City Senior Center, recycling, cleaning eco-station cages and feeding animals, involvement with the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles, a mural project, and a literacy project with students from nearby McBride Elementary School.
Teachers from the Kayne-ERAS Center read inspirational quotes to get their students fired up about service at their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kayne-ERAS Center |
|
Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Francziska Steagall
|
|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a variety of community service activities such as drama and music performances at the Culver City Senior Center, recycling, eco-station cage cleanings and animal feeding, involvement with the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles, a mural project, and a literacy project with McBride Elementary School students. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kernodle Middle School |
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Greensboro, NC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jim Carson
1999
Stephen Teague
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| Description |
| Two hundred students from Kernodle Middle School in Greensboro, NC, and their senior citizen "buddies" will interact through a variety of activities at the school and at the Well Spring Senior Citizens Home. Activities include a talent show, band/choral concert, poetry reading, and Valentines Day and Earth Day celebrations. Students will also help the seniors develop computer literacy on the Internet and through email. Finally, they will interview their buddies and create oral histories of their lives.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Kettering Middle School |
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Upper Marlboro, MD |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Donna Harrison
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| Description |
| Approximately 175 students will collect and publish the stories of senior citizens at the Largo Landing Fellowship House. They will also prepare and maintain a container garden at this facility and spend time with the seniors during monthly visits. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lake Center Middle School |
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Santa Fe Springs, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nancy Florez-Muro
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Students will research and collect the stories of local veterans. Each student will author one page of what will eventually be an anthology. There will be in-class meetings between area veterans and students throughout the year. The finished product will be unveiled on Memorial Day, 2005.
Click here to read a November 10, 2004 article in the Whittier Daily News about this project. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lake Park Elementary School |
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Lake Park, GA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Vallye Blanton
Teacher
1994 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Fifth-grade students will meet weekly with their pre-school "book buddies" to read with them, sing songs and make crafts for seniors. Approximately once a month, fifth graders will accompany the pre-school children to the retirement center to engage in activities with seniors.
Fifth grade students at Lake Park Elementary perform, "You Can Be What You Want to Be" for first and second graders at the Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lakeview Elementary School |
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Greenwood, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kelly G. McCalla
Literacy Coach
2000 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
Meet Me in the Neighborhood
At Lakeview Elementary School, the fourth- and fifth grade students are tackling the problem of illiteracy in their community. This group of students, the "Lakeview Literacy Kids," will aim their efforts at providing literacy-related experiences and literacy materials for low-income children in their neighborhoods. Through the presentation of a skit, "Jack, the Dog Who Wanted to Read," the students will share strategies for learning to read and suggestions on how to become a better reader. A real dog named Jack will accompany the students on each site visit. The children in each audience will receive a photo of Jack, a new book, and take-home reading activities.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lancaster Elementary School |
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Lancaster, NH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Sharon Wilkinson
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| Description |
| Students will work on arts and crafts activities and build an indoor garden with seniors from Country Village and Holton Point retirement centers. The indoor garden will be placed in the Holton Point activity room. By using the "Standup Garden" both the ambulatory residents and residents confined to wheelchairs will have the opportunity to plant flowers and vegetables. Students will be responsible for starting the gardens and providing long-term care for them throughout the school year.
A student from Lancaster Elementary helps to cultivate an indoor "Stand Up" Garden with a resident from a local nursing home as part of their Festival for Youth Project. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Leacock Elementary School |
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Lancaster, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Linda H. Chronister
Teacher
1998 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Sixty-five students from Leacock Elementary, located in Intercourse, Pennsylvania, the heart of Amish country, will create a nature center on a piece of unused land adjacent to the school grounds and town library. A local senior citizen will teach the students how to construct bird, bat, owl, and butterfly houses. They will also plant spring flowering bulbs, perennial and annual flowers; create a flag for the existing flagpole; and provide maintenance to the area on a monthly basis. This nature center will be accessible to students, library patrons, employees from local businesses and tourists taking a break from sightseeing and shopping. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lee Senior High School |
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Marianna, AR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Mike Rodriguez
Counselor
1991 Milken Educator
Faye McGowan
|
|
| Description |
 The Lee Senior High "River Choir" is comprised of high school students who receive their greatest positive strokes from their singing performance and good attendance as well as their academic achievement. These artistically talented volunteers will visit a nursing home in the area once a month to perform and visit with the senior citizens who reside there. In addition, each of the 30 choir members will "adopt" a senior citizen who lives in the community and perform jobs for them around their homes, such as raking leaves, cleaning and touch-up painting. The ambulatory seniors will accompany the students as their guests when the choir performs at area churches on Sundays. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lewistown Junior High School |
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Lewistown, MT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Pat Hould
Principal
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| Description |
| In a special literacy project entitled "Hey Diddle Diddle, the Flannel's in the Middle," each 7th grade student at Lewistown Junior High School in Lewistown, MT will create a flannel story-board based on a children's book. The 7th graders will create cutouts of characters from the stories and place them on boards covered with flannel. As part of this effort to encourage literacy and artistic expression in younger children, they will tell the stories and show the boards of cutout pictures in presentations at the public library, Head Start Center and three elementary schools in the area. Each student will deliver his/her story at least four times throughout the year. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Libertyville High School |
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Libertyville, IL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Joe Wojtena
1995
Sally Hauck
|
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| Description |
|
In this expansion of the Top Cats Mentoring Program, forty Libertyville High School students in Libertyville, IL, will be paired with at-risk students ("Cubs") at Green Bay Elementary School. Cats will meet weekly with their Cubs for mentoring, supervised study buddy time, reading, arts and crafts, and recreation. Field trips and guest speakers will also be integrated into the program. Finally, Cats and Cubs will work together to create a "Childrens' Garden" for quiet reflection and peaceful play at the elementary school.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lincoln Avenue Academy |
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Lakeland, FL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Holly Wallace
Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Work-A-Thon to Work Wonders
Helping to improve the living conditions for elderly and disabled area residents is the focus of a service activity to be undertaken by fourth grade students at Lincoln Avenue Academy. By sponsoring a "Work-A-Thon," the students will recruit parents, community volunteers, and other students and teachers to spend the Martin Luther King holiday making physical improvements to homes of the elderly and disabled. With funds raised during the "Work-A-Thon," students will award mini-grants to support similar projects. Students and community alike will experience the rewards of investing in their community both physically and financially. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Lincoln Avenue Academy |
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Lakeland, FL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Holly Wallace
Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Work-A-Thon to Work Wonders
Helping to improve the living conditions for elderly and disabled area residents is the focus of a service activity to be undertaken by fourth grade students at Lincoln Avenue Academy. By sponsoring a "Work-A-Thon," the students will recruit parents, community volunteers, and other students and teachers to spend the Martin Luther King holiday making physical improvements to homes of the elderly and disabled. With funds raised during the "Work-A-Thon," students will award mini-grants to support similar projects. Students and community alike will experience the rewards of investing in their community both physically and financially. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lincoln Elementary School |
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Madison, South Dakota |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marletta Eich
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Ms. Eich's fourth-grade class will work with ten students from South Dakota State University to interview local veterans and community elders and publish and present their stories. Additionally, students will create activities such as finger puppet plays based on books they are reading in class and present them to preschoolers and children enrolled in the local Head Start Program. Students will also "adopt" state legislators, writing them letters about their work. Literacy surveys will be completed for each book read in class. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lincoln Elementary School |
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Madison, SD |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marletta Eich
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| For this multifaceted project, fourth graders will work with South Dakota State University students to interview local veterans and community elders, then publish and present their stories. Students will create finger-puppet plays based on books they are reading in class for preschoolers and children enrolled in the local Head Start program. Literacy surveys will be completed for each book read. Students will also "adopt" state legislators, and then write letters about the MFFY activities, to enhance their literacy skills with a taste of the democratic process. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lin-Wood Public School |
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Lincoln, NH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nancy B. McIver
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students will design a landscaping master plan and plant a vegetable garden, flower garden, shade trees and shrubs for the local non-profit childcare center.
A child from the Lin-Wood Cooperative Child Care Center shows her spirit at the Lin-Wood school's Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Londonderry High School |
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Londonderry, NH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kelly Giguere
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Tenth-grade students will collaborate with students from the Academic Career Training Program (ACT) on a variety of service projects. Students from ACT have developmental disabilities. Service projects on which the two groups would work together include planting a garden at the school and in the community, creating crafts such as wildlife-themed Christmas tree ornaments, and assisting the Londonderry Rotary Club in coordinating a dinner for area senior citizens. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lopez Elementary School |
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Fort Collins, CO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Michael McCarthy, Ph.D.
Teacher
1996 Milken Educator
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| Description |
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Through a service project entitled "Empty Bowls" in Fort Collins, Colorado, over 150 students strive to fight hunger through art. High school students will create ceramic bowls to be filled with food and served at a community dinner where the price of the dinner includes the purchase of the student artisan's bowl. Additionally, elementary school students will make ceramic bowls to be auctioned off at the dinner and other events throughout the year. All of the proceeds from the dinner and the auctions will go directly to the Food Distribution Center where each dollar received buys $10.20 worth of food for distribution to needy families. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lopez Elementary School |
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Fort Collins, CO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Michael McCarthy
Teacher
1996 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| "Empty Bowls" is a grassroots project creating and selling bowls to benefit the hungry. In conjunction with Empty Bowls' 10th anniversary, students from 10 schools will study issues related to hunger in the U.S. and internationally, exploring the theme "The Face of Hunger will Surprise You." Young people will volunteer at the Food Bank of Larimer County warehouse or food drive collection site, then create pottery bowls that will be included in the ticket price for a special 10th anniversary event. Working together with community and school media, students will tell the tale of how a grass-roots project evolved into a major service learning tradition, generating thousands of dollars in donations to a nonprofit that feeds the hungry. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lopez Elementary School |
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Fort Collins, CO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Michael McCarthy
Teacher
1996 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Empty Bowls
"I can change the world with my own two hands" is the motto adopted by participants in the Empty Bowls Project, a grassroots effort to benefit the hungry. Students from over a dozen schools will join together to volunteer at the Food Bank of Larimer County which serves more than 40,000 residents, half of whom are children. In ten years the project has grown to become the Food Bank's largest income-generating event. Students will work with local artists to create 500 ceramic bowls which will be used at the Empty Bowls Dinner and Art Auction. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Lou Henry Hoover School |
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Whittier, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Bonnie Price
Teacher
1998 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Approximately 80 students will create a Native Plant Garden at Hoover School. They will also create a field guide for the garden and create table center displays for a local senior center. Service work will revolve around developing the garden and creating a link between the community and the school via the garden.
Click here to read about Hoover's kick-off event
Signs proclaim the site of Lou Henry Hoover School's Native Plant Garden.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Louisa E. Perritt Primary School |
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Arkadelphia, AR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Wanda O'Quinn
1998
Tina Phillips
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| Description |
| At Perritt Primary School in Arkadelphia, AR, forty-five kindergarten and first-grade students will form a "Guardian Angel Band" to watch over seniors at a local nursing home. The Guardian Angels will visit their friends at the nursing home once a week, singing with them, playing games, reading stories to them, taking pictures and walks with them, and once a month bringing them a pet to play with. Also, students will help build bluebird houses to be placed around the nursing home residents' windows.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Mabelvale Magnet Middle School |
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Mabelvale, AR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Connie Green
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Students and seniors will participate in monthly activities at the school and in the community. Activities will include: computer training, gardening, bird watching, recycling, industrial technology, home economics and art.
Students and teachers at Mabelvale Magnet Middle School prepare to enjoy a very "festive" cake.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Madison Elementary School |
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Madison, SD |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marletta Eich
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Venerate our Veterans
At Madison Elementary School, fourth grade students will experience the ultimate in intergenerational activities as their service activities range from mentoring preschoolers to publishing oral histories of local veterans and senior citizens. Weaving through all of the projects will be literacy initiatives. Whether creating finger puppet plays and a reader's theater for the young children in the Head Start program or partnering with area college students to write the oral histories, the students will enhance their reading skills. The students will also correspond with state legislators about this community service project. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Main Street School |
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Exeter, NH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Susan Drinker
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Over 250 students will participate in a wide range of service activities. The core of the project will be creating and maintaining a friendship garden that will link two school campuses to the Phillips Exeter Preparatory School’s new botanical garden. They will also create a 1/2-mile nature trail for community use. Work will be done across grades with older students working with younger ones.
Click here to read about Main Street School's kick-off event
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Malcolm X Academy |
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Detroit, MI |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jeffery Robinson
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Ten students from Michigan State University will mentor 25 Malcolm X Academy students in a project titled "My Brother’s Keeper." Both groups will be involved in various service projects in the city of Detroit. Activities will include: "Clean Up Your Community" campaigns, poetry performances and conflict resolution training.
Three friends from Malcolm X Academy pose for a snapshot during their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Manzano Vista Middle School |
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Los Lunas, NM |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Juliette Benavidez
Milken Educator
1998
Michelle Osowski
Principal
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| Description |
| On a monthly basis, seven hundred seventh- and eighth-grade students from Manzano Vista Middle School in Los Lunas, NM, a suburb of Albuquerque, will partner with younger students at Tome Elementary School. They will spend time reading with them as well as writing and illustrating original stories with them.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Maplewood High School |
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Guys Mills, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jason Drake
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Northwestern Pennsylvania is plagued with over 12 million waste tires, an environmental and health hazard that provides breeding grounds for mosquitoes. For this "Tires to Trails" project, some 250 students from several schools will collect used tires, then work to raise awareness among residents and elected officials about the benefits of recycling as well as the dangers associated when tire piles attract mosquitoes that could potentially spread the West Nile Virus. A future goal is to raise funds to resurface the walkway around Woodcock Dam Reservoir with a rubberized track of recycled tires. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Maplewood High School |
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Guys Mills, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jason Drake
Biology/Life Science Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Recycling Roll-out
A monumental recycling project to address the environmental and health issues presented by waste tires will be spearheaded by students from several high schools in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The students will coordinate with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Crawford County Solid Waste Authority, Crawford County Conservation District, Allegheny College Creek Connections, and several other government agencies to remove over 10,000 tires that fill a ravine at the sensitive headwaters of the historic Oil Creek. This area, known as the "Birthplace of the Oil Industry," not only presents a breeding ground for mosquitoes but poses a perilous fire hazard that endangers the aquatic ecosystem. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Maplewood High School |
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Guy Mills, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jason Drake
Biology/Life Science Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Retiring Waste Tires
A monumental recycling project to address the environmental and health issues presented by waste tires will be spearheaded, for a third year, by students from several high schools in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The students will coordinate with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Crawford County Solid Waste Authority, Crawford County Conservation District, Allegheny College Creek Connections, and several other government agencies to remove 7,000 tires that fill a ravine at the sensitive headwaters of the historic Oil Creek. This area, known as the "Birthplace of the Oil Industry," not only presents a breeding ground for mosquitoes but poses a perilous fire hazard that endangers the aquatic ecosystem. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Maria C. Colon Sanchez Elementary School |
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Hartford, CT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Delia Bello-Davila
Principal
2002 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Seventy-five students will participate in a four-part project that includes a gardening project, mural painting, playground landscaping, and performing arts. There will also be special community presentations that will aim to attract 400 young people and their parents. These events will showcase student performances, mural projects and landscape work. The large events will include holiday shows, talent shows and a pride parade.
Click here to read about Maria C. Colon Sanchez Elementary's kick-off event
Sanchez Elementary School students at the beginning of their parade through the community.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Mariner High School |
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Everett, WA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tami Nesting
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Students will organize, lead and host Mariner Cultural Literacy Nights featuring floor-to-ceiling displays documenting the lives of people who have come to Everett, Washington. During these monthly events, speakers will address themes of community and culture, and students will add photos and text to the ever-expanding banners. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Marion High School |
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Marion, IN |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Bobbie Owensby
Teacher
1999
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| Description |
| An acting group of 30 students will perform for retirement centers, health care centers, local elementary schools and Head Start schools in the community. The group will perform skits, poetry, readings, dances and comedic sketches from historical time periods. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Mauldin High School |
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Mauldin, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Shay Willimon
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| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including collecting aluminum cans with the local fire department, cleaning up a small creek, recycling, and creating and maintaining a Web site of their service projects.
Three Mauldin High School students and their new friend from nearby Washington Center anxiously anticipate a strike at their Festival for Youth kickoff. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Miami Springs Senior High School |
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Miami Springs, FL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Sgt. Melvin Mitchell
Thomas Gammon
Milken Educator
1999
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| Description |
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In this "Leading Through Reading" project, all ninth-grade students at Miami Springs Senior High School in Miami Springs, FL, will visit elementary schools, daycare centers and homeless shelters on a monthly basis to read to younger children. The local library will provide the high school students with training in reading to younger children and suggestions on age-appropriate books. At the end of the year, the students will provide their reading buddies with books of their own. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Miamitown Elementary School |
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Miamitown, OH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Susan Jefferson
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Once a month, students from Miamitown Elementary will perform baton-twirling routines for orphanages, nursing homes and health care centers.
The Miamitown color guard showcases their skills at their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Middletown High School |
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Middletown, RI |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Paul Mello
Teacher
1990 Milken Educator
Barbara Reed
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| Description |
| At Middletown High School in Middletown, Rhode Island, students will form a Community Service Club that will reach out to a cross-section of the Middletown community. These student volunteers will assist senior citizens with yard work, moving light furniture, and painting fences; visit the local residential care facilities to organize games, spend time with the residents and write letters for them; and plan, implement and host a senior citizen's dinner in the high school cafeteria. At the local Head Start Center, as well as the community's elementary schools, the club members will assist with childcare and promote literacy by reading to the younger children. Students will also assist at Lucy's Hearth Women's Shelter. During the holidays they will bring the joy of the season to disadvantaged families by creating and implementing a gift-giving program.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Midland Academy |
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Midland, GA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Ann McDuffie
1996
Linda Akers
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| Description |
| Third-grade students from Midland Academy in Midland, GA, will interact with senior citizens at the Morningside of Columbus Assisted Living Center in a program called "Reaching Beyond." Students will organize arts and crafts activities, readings, musical performances, and gardening with the seniors. In addition, students will paint and decorate a minimum of 6 rocking chairs to donate to Morningside. Finally, students will compile photos from all the activities into a scrapbook to give to the seniors at the end of the year.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Mitchell Road Elementary School |
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Greenville, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
J. Todd White
Principal
2000
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| Description |
| Fifth-graders and first-graders will work together to make letter, number and color books for all the three year-olds at the local Head Start centers. The students will make and bind the books at school and the fifth-graders will go to a different Head Start Center each month to present the books and to work with the younger children.
Students from Mitchell Road Elementary take a second to pose for the camera during their Festival for Youth kickoff. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Montclair High School |
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Montclair, NJ |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
James Aquavia
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Approximately 25 students will participate in poetry writing workshops with senior citizens from a local senior center. Students will visit their elderly partners once a month for the duration of the school year and talk with them about various themes. The impressions, details, and stories students and their elders share will become material for collaborative poetry writing. This project is part of the NJMUSST (New Jersey and Milken Unites Seniors, Students and Teachers) network.
Click here to read about Montclair's kick-off event
Local poet Christine O'Connor shares a poem with the group to get everyone in the right mood for their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Monte Vista Middle School |
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Monte Vista, CO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Sandee Hay
Principal
1990 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| One hundred 7th graders from Monte Vista Middle School in Monte Vista, Colorado, will participate in a "Pals Program" with the residents of the Colorado State Veterans Center at Homelake. During their weekly visits, the students will bring cheer to their "pals" by getting to know them and decorating their rooms with special items such as picture frames and colorful quilts. Students will also host a dinner at the Veterans Center for their "pals", celebrate their birthdays with them, and make arts and crafts which they will present to the veterans as gifts. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Mountain View High School |
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El Monte, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nick Salerno
Assistant Superintendent, El Monte Union High School District
1997 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Teach Me a Lesson
"Teach Me a Lesson" is a cross-age tutoring program to draw talented young people into the teaching profession while improving academic outcomes for young students. More than 100 high school students will serve as literacy tutors for elementary and middle school students. The tutors will help the many English Language Learning children master the fundamentals of math and reading while developing their own skills as effective educators. The program hopes that as the high school students witness the valuable contributions they can make in the classroom, they will pursue careers as teachers. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Museum of Natural History |
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Providence, RI |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Judith Sweeney
Curator of Education
1992 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Sixty high school students from the Providence, Rhode Island, school district will work together with the museum curator and the Parks Department to research, design and construct a Community Solar System to be located in Roger Williams Park. These students will use their knowledge of technology, science, mathematics, design and industrial arts as they work with members of the community to construct a scale model of the solar system along walking paths in the park. They will also design an informational brochure to accompany the exhibit and act as guides for elementary students who visit the park and planetarium.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| N.F. Woods Advanced Technology and Arts Center |
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Mooresville, NC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Mary Kidwell
Teacher
1995 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| As volunteers for the "Study Buddies and Healthy Bodies Program," members of the high school Health Occupations Student Association, Junior Civitan Club and Future Homemakers of America will take on the responsibility of an after-school tutoring program. With the goal of improving both the academic accomplishments and dietary habits of children residing at a local housing project, these volunteers will present short lessons on nutrition, fitness, first aid, careers, study skills and character development. They will also prepare and serve nutritious snacks for the elementary students. Approximately 50 high school students will participate in this mentoring program four days per week.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Naranca Elementary School |
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El Cajon, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Beth Bunker
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| Description |
| Approximately 160 kindergarten students will participate in various projects with senior residents of The Springs, a retirement community. These activities will include beautification of a local park, arts and crafts, and concerts in the winter and spring.
A student from Naranca Elementary poses with his newfound senior buddy. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Neshaminy High School |
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Langhorne, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Suzi Drake
Michael Hoy
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Students from Neshaminy High School will provide a weekly tutoring/mentoring program for homeless children at the local Red Cross Homeless Shelter.
Milken Educator Michael Hoy (second from right), Festival for Youth Site Coordinator Suzi Drake (front right, seated) and Festival for Youth Program Director Paul Mindell (front left) with Neshaminy High School students at their kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Nickajack Elementary School |
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Smyrna, GA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Mona G. Tucker
1998
Cindy Szwec
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| Description |
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In the "Raising Respect" project at Nickajack Elementary School in Smyrna, GA, over six hundred students will create an outdoor nature classroom, picnic area and display area for the school and community. Also, they will provide enhancements to a "rail trail" adjacent to the school and act as field guides for young children from disadvantaged areas. On the 15th of every month, community members, senior citizens and other students will come to the school to participate in beautification activities such as picking up trash, sweeping the pavement, and clearing weeds from the trail and picnic area. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| North Charleston High School |
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North Charleston, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Rick Burkhart
1999
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| Description |
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Students in the Adaptive Aquatics program at North Charleston High School in North Charleston, SC, will provide water therapy and socialization for over 100 orthopedically handicapped students at six local schools. Each participating school will receive water therapy for their students twice a month. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| North Charleston High School |
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North Charleston, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Richard Burkhart
Teacher
1999
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| Description |
| In its second year with FFY, the expanded Adaptive Aquatics project will include a larger number of orthopedically handicapped students. The project will now serve disabled students from 11 schools. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| North Community High School |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Natalie Rasmussen
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Students at North Community High School will create projects around three issues plaguing students and affecting their school and community: substance abuse, crime/violence and poverty. Students will also visit and collaborate with service organizations that address these issues. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| North Whitfield Middle School |
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Dalton, GA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jill Ryerson
Lead Teacher
2007 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Serving and Sharing
To offer young teens an educational environment in which they will experience learning firsthand through community involvement, the students at North Whitfield Middle School will participate is a variety of service activities. Through monthly visits to area nursing homes, the students will build relationships with their elderly neighbors. They will also beautify their community with recycling and beautification efforts. And the students will be regular volunteers at a local homeless shelter, preparing and serving meals to those less fortunate. Almost 100 students will be active participants in the yearlong project. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Northwest Middle School |
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Knoxville, TN |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Sharon Robinson
Assistant Principal
1999 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Seventh-grade students from Northwest Middle School will make monthly two-hour visits to a nearby elementary school to mentor and work with second graders. Visiting students will bring books and work on reading skills with their younger buddies. Additionally, students will work on a school garden project together. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Northwest Yeshiva High School |
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Mercer Island, WA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Carol Coe
Teacher
1995
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| Description |
| During the course of a project entitled "Past Times," 140 students will photograph, videotape and transcribe the stories of Jewish senior citizens from their community. These young people will be working to preserve their Jewish culture by recording the stories of the elderly and sharing this heritage with their community-at-large.
Northwest Yeshiva students pose in front of the Festival for Youth banner at their kickoff. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Norwood Public School |
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Norwood, NJ |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Patty McGee
Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Approximately 35 students will build partnerships with senior citizens from a local senior center and work together on writing and literacy-based activities. Both the students and seniors will alternate visitation sites monthly between Norwood Public School and the senior center, and the students will compose particular types of writing from the stories that their elders share with them. Students will write within particular genres such as poetry, memoir, picture books and personal narrative, using the stories of the elders to stimulate original writings. This project is part of the NJMUSST (New Jersey and Milken Unites Seniors, Students and Teachers) network.
Click here to read about Norwood's kick-off event
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Oak Lawn School |
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Cranston, RI |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Linda Bello
1998
Walter Reis, Principal
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| Description |
 In the "Healthy Body-Healthy Mind" project at Oak Lawn School in Cranston, RI, fourth-grade students will visit several schools on a monthly basis and teach students in grades K-2 about getting healthy and staying healthy. They will also distribute student-designed coloring books and perform a play about food, good nutrition, good manners and proper exercise. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Oakdale Elementary School |
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Rock Hill, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tracy Craven
Kindergarten Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Honoring Hometown Heroes
Kindergarteners at Oakdale Elementary School will spend the school year researching and celebrating the people in their community who make lives better for others. As they set about to discover and honor their hometown heroes, the students will also be introduced to various professional and volunteer careers. Each month these young citizens will present their heroes with personalized gifts and plant flowers in their honor. Throughout the year videotapes, stories and pictures of the kindergarteners' interactions with the heroes will be shared through the school's newspaper and at a special assembly. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Oakdale Elementary School |
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Rock Hill, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tracy Craven
Kindergarten Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Honoring Hometown Heroes
Kindergarteners at Oakdale Elementary School will spend the school year researching and celebrating the people in their community who make lives better for others. As they set about to discover and honor their hometown heroes, the students will also be introduced to various professional and volunteer careers. Each month these young citizens will present their heroes with personalized gifts and plant flowers in their honor. Throughout the year, videotapes, stories and pictures of the kindergarteners' interactions with the heroes will be shared through the school's newspaper and at a special assembly. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Oakland Elementary School |
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Greenwood, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kelly McCalla
Teacher
2001
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| Description |
| Fourth- and fifth-grade students will revitalize a local nature trail and interact with seniors at a local nursing home. First, the students will clean up and remark a local nature trail. They will create learning stations, plant a butterfly garden, build birdhouses, and create a field guide to local plant and animal life that are native to their community. In the second project, students will participate in various activities with the seniors including interviews, walks on the nursing home grounds, reading, playing games, arts and crafts, and performances.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Oakview Elementary School |
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Simpsonville, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Shay Willimon
1998
Karen Snipes
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| Description |
| While participating in the "More Alike Than Different" project, fifth-grade students at Oakview Elementary School in Simpsonville, SC, will partner with mentally disabled students at Washington Center. Over seventy students will work together on activities including recycling, planting flowers, bowling, watering plants, and organizing a Christmas music program, a Valentine's Dance and an Easter Egg Hunt. Also, Oakview students will decorate clay pots with pre-schoolers and clean the park at the zoo. Finally, the program will culminate with a "field day" featuring recreation activities that are adaptive to the abilities of the Washington Center students. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Ogden Elementary School |
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Ogden, Kansas |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jim Armendariz
Principal
2004 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Four classes of 75 students each will plant, harvest and distribute produce to members of the Ogden community, which has a 70 percent poverty rate. Students will work with the Ogden Youth Center and the Friendship House to carry out the project. Additionally, students will work on several schoolwide cleanups. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| O'Loughlin McCarthy Elementary School |
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Hays, KS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Nancy Harman
Principal
2000 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Approximately 60 students will partner with senior citizens from the Cedarview Assisted Living Center. Students will participate in the arts as well as share their talents with the 39 residents at Cedarview.
Click here to read about O'Loughlin McCarthy's kick-off event
Kickoff Photos: 1-12 Ongoing Project Photos: 13-18
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pacific Ridge |
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Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
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| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pacific Ridge |
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Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
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| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Palmetto Elementary School |
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Palmetto, FL |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Rubylinda Zickafoose
Teacher
1998
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| Description |
| Second-grade students will make books utilizing photography and computer technology and will share their creations with younger students at six local preschools. The program will culminate in a Reading Festival at the end of the year. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Palmetto Middle School |
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Williamston, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Ivan Kershner
Assistant Principal
1995 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Special needs students from Palmetto Middle School will make monthly visits to the NHC nursing home in Anderson, South Carolina. Students will bring plants to the nursing home and plant them in a flowerbed on the grounds of the home. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Palmetto Middle School |
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Williamston, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Ivan Kershner
Assistant Principal
1995 Milken Educator
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| Description |
Marking the Past
To preserve and maintain several historic cemeteries which are in need of attention and repair, students at Palmetto Middle School will adopt these important community spaces. In addition to repairing the physical appearance of the cemeteries and preserving historical headstones, the students will incorporate academic activities as they learn about the persons interred and their place in South Carolina's history. This service learning project will involve approximately 250 students, 11 teachers, and several local and state historic preservation organizations. As the historic sites are preserved, a new sense of community pride will be created. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Park Forest Elementary School |
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State College, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Donnan Stoicovy
Principal
1996 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Students involved in the K.I.D.S. Program (Kids Involved in Doing Service) will participate in a variety of service projects including acting as a welcome committee for new students through a meet-and-greet program, organizing and implementing activities between senior citizens, making connections with military personnel and veterans, and gardening and planting on school grounds. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Park Street School |
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Kennebunk, ME |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tom Sferes, Ed.D.
Teacher
1991 Milken Educator
Kelly Clarrage
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|
| Description |
| In this intergenerational program, second grade students from Park Street Elementary in Kennebunk, Maine, will interact with seniors at a local assisted living community. Twenty-five students will make monthly visits to the center and converse with the residents on topics such as fun and games, school days and friends, family and traditions, pets, and changing prices. The seniors will share their memories of yesteryear and the 2nd graders will bring them "up to date" on their own activities in the '90's and on into the new century. As the final part of their project, the students will write life histories of the residents based on their interviews.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Parkway Central Middle School |
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Chesterfield, MO |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Karen LaFever
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| Eighth-grade students participating in "Central Service Days" will travel to sites in the community to engage in various service activities. The service activities of each class will correspond to the subject of the class. The science class will work with elementary students on inquiry-based science labs, the history class will adopt residents of a local nursing home and create a living history portfolio, the literature class will pair up with the school district's early childhood center for a variety of reading and writing activities, and the math class will engage in math activities with fifth graders at another school in the district. All students will be surveyed before and after to gauge attitudinal changes toward the groups with which they have been working. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Patrick O'Hearn Elementary School |
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Dorchester, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Marilyn Saba
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| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including visiting senior centers, creating multicultural plays and artwork, and community beautification.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Patrick O'Hearn Elementary School |
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Dorchester, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marilyn Saba
Teacher
Dr. William Henderson
Principal and Milken Educator
1998
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| Description |
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One hundred students from O'Hearn Elementary School in Dorchester, MA, a community in greater Boston, will perform cultural pieces, play games, and record oral histories with seniors at two local senior centers. They will also create multicultural art such as African weavings, Asian brush stroke paintings and West Indian scratch drawings to present to the seniors. Finally, students will share photos, videos and stories from the year's activities with the seniors at the culmination celebration. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Peter Woodbury School |
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Bedford, NH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Virginia Toland
Dr. Gail Paludi
1999
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| Description |
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In this expansion of the Community Action Team (CAT) program at Peter Woodbury School in Bedford, NH, fifth-grade students will organize a recycling, clothing and soup kitchen drive, make holiday cards for abused and neglected children, and perform songs at a nearby senior citizen center. Furthermore, students will plan an open house for at-risk 3- and 4-year olds, taking them on tours of Woodbury School. All students will be involved on a monthly basis while a core group will participate weekly. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Petway Elementary School |
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Vineland, NJ |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Theresa Bordo
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Fourth graders will make monthly visits to the Vineland Veteran Home, a two-way exchange between the generations that brings joy and insights to both. Many of the veterans no longer have family in the area and relish the youthful interaction as old and young read together, take nature walks, perform plays, and plant flowers on the grounds of the home. A newsletter will chronicle the monthly activities. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Philomath High School |
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Philomath, OR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jeffrey Mitchell
Tom Thompson
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Approximately 44 students from Philomath High School will cultivate a large field behind the city's major food bank. Students will fence in and cultivate the land, which will allow them to grow food to help replenish the bank.
A Philomath High School student works to tear down and replace a dilapidated fence that surrounds the area adjacent to the food bank, where students will be creating a fruit orchard.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pio Pico Elementary School |
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Santa Ana, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Judith Magsaysay
Elementary Administrator
1996 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| The “Safe Places to Play” program will engage 20 students in community research on the lack of safe playing areas in the Pico/Lowell community. This community has been identified as the second most densely populated area per square mile in the United States. Students will work with teachers, parents and community residents to restore and rehabilitate a “safe place” to play. The project will also sponsor a health and safety fair in the fall. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pioneer Education Center |
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Pittsburgh, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marsha Robbins
Barbara New
1998
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|
| Description |
| Students at Pioneer Education Center in Pittsburgh, PA, have disabilities including cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, spinal and head injuries and neurological disabilities. They will partner with students from two area high schools in a community service project called "Pioneer Pet Partners". In addition to feeding and exercising animals at the humane society the students will visit area senior citizen centers and offer the residents opportunities to touch and hold the pets. In this second year expansion, Pioneer students will meet with senior citizens more frequently. New activities will include games and teaching of computer skills. Students will also be responsible for collecting funds for the humane society from cans located at businesses in the community.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pioneer Education Center |
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Pittsburgh, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara New
Teacher and Technology Coordinator
1998 Milken Educator
Bernadette Kirk and Marsha Robbins
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|
| Description |
|
Students at Pioneer Education Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have disabilities including cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, spinal and head injuries, and neurological disorders. These students will unite with students from two area high schools in a community service project called "Pioneer Pet Partners." The mainstream high school volunteers and their special education student partners will go to the Humane Society once a week. As contributors to the "Puppy Play Program" they will feed and exercise the animals. In addition, twice a month, the students will visit nursing homes in the area and offer the residents opportunities to touch and hold the pets. Finally, the thirty students participating in the partnership will design a Web page consisting of photos, stories about their visits and factual information about the pets. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pioneer High School |
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Whittier, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Javier Gonzalez
Teacher
1997 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| One hundred fifty students from Pioneer High School in Whittier, California, will perform a variety of service activities throughout the school year. These volunteer activities include reading to Head Start pre-schoolers and celebrating holidays with them; passing out food to the homeless at a local shelter; going swimming with autistic children; and building handicapped-accessible trails at a wilderness camp. Additionally, students will participate in the Heal the Bay program, volunteer for the local chapters of the Salvation Army and Red Cross, visit with the residents at area convalescent homes, and act as role models for younger children by hosting a neighborhood Play Day.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pioneer Middle School |
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Tustin, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Andy de Seriere
Assistant Principal
2002 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
What Kind of World Do You Want?
Whether assembling care packages for U.S. troops overseas or cleaning up area beaches, the students at Pioneer Middle School are intent on making a positive difference through community service. More than 100 students identified a host of projects connected under the umbrella theme of "What Kind of World Do You Want?" Their mentoring activities will include monthly tutoring sessions at an elementary school and a day-long event for special needs students from the Blind Children's Learning Center. Other projects involve creating environmental public service announcements and providing health care packages to a local homeless center. They hope that through their efforts, others in the community will be inspired to join in similar endeavors. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Pleasant Hill Elementary School |
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Topeka, Kansas |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Victoria N. Seeger
Teacher
2004 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Two hundred fifty students from all grade levels will be given character words such as responsibility or patience and will develop portraits of people or organizations who embody that word. For example, responsibility will be illustrated with a portrait of the school principal. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Poplar Springs Elementary School |
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Meridian, MS |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kathy Brookshire
1998
Susan Hester
|
|
| Description |
| Seventy gifted education students in grades 2-5 at Poplar Springs Elementary School in Meridian, MS, will work together to beautify a neglected strip of land in their town. Students will pick up trash and clean the area, plant shrubs and flowers that will attract wildlife, make a pathway of stepping stones, paint a mural on a bridge abutment of an overpass, and hang bird feeders. Then students will maintain the project on a weekly basis by picking up trash, weeding, mulching, and restocking bird feeders.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Powder Mill Middle School |
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Southwick, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Terrence Day
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|
| Description |
| Once a month, fifth-grade students will visit the residents of the Country Estate nursing home and participate in activities such as arts and crafts, bingo, interviews, picnics and talent shows. The students will also participate in a beautification project designed to improve the nursing home grounds. At the end of the project the students will create a yearbook about their experiences. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| PS 42 and PS 124 |
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New York, NY |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Kim Foo Chow
1996 Milken Scholar
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| Description |
Fun Displays with Pros for Active Learning (PAL)
The classroom walls in selected public school classes will expand as volunteer professionals from throughout the community visit the school to share the dynamic facets of life in New York City's Lower East Side. By working together to decorate display boards with spotlighted themes, students will grow to better understand the changing face of their community while imagining their own roles and opportunities, both at a local and global level. In addition to this newfound awareness, the project looks to motivate the students' passion for academic success and community service. When the professionals, community members, and students all have fun learning together, everyone becomes a winner. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Remington Middle School |
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Franklin, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tim Farmer
Principal
2003 Milken Educator
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|
| Description |
| Sixth through eighth graders will read The Revealers, a book that deals with the topic of bullying. Next, they will review data from a bullying survey taken at their school. Using this information as well as lessons learned from the book, students will create a new survey for parents to complete with their children. Student interviews will be done with elementary and high schools across the district. Based on all this information, students will then create performances to perform in elementary schools across the district. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Remington Middle School |
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Franklin, Massachusetts |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Timothy Farmer
Principal
2003 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Three hundred sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders will first read The Revealers, a book that deals with the topic of bullying. They will then review data from a bullying survey taken at the school two years ago. Using this information as well as lessons learned in the book, students will create a new survey for parents to fill out with their children. Student interviews will be done with elementary and high schools across the district. Students will then create performances based on the information they have gathered to take to elementary schools within the district. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Ridgefield Elementary School |
|
Erie, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Ruth Ruud
Elementary Administrator
1996 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| One hundred twenty first- and second-grade students will visit with residents from an independent living facility in Erie. Students will create bonds both by visiting the facility and by having the seniors come to their school. Two field trips, one to the Erie Zoo, the other to the Presque Isle State Park Nature Center, will also be scheduled. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Ridgway Elementary School |
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Ridgway, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Marcia Raubenstrauch
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students will be engaged in a variety of service activities aimed at improving their community. Activities will include: beautification, food and toy drives, working with senior citizens, mentoring younger children, working with Meals on Wheels and the Dickinson Mental Health Facility. Students will work with Forest Rangers to learn about habitat and conservation. They will take the knowledge learned from the forest rangers to effectively service their community and environment by beautifying their well-used parks.
Ridgway students work with a Forest Ranger to beautify a local nature area.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Roxbury and Jamaica Plains |
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Boston, MA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Henry Horton
Student
2001 Milken Scholar
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|
| Description |
| In partnership with the Martha Elliot Mentorship Program, Henry Horton and a group of fellow Harvard students will serve as mentors and role models to at-risk teens, ages 14 to16, from the Roxbury and Jamaica Plains areas of Boston. Together, they will help at a homeless shelter, learn about nutrition, and create a mural. The Harvard students, many of whom share similar backgrounds to the teens, will expose them to a variety of field trips and experiences ranging from a look at Harvard Medical School's patient simulator, a trip to the zoo and pond skating. By opening up a new world of possibilities, the goal is to inspire good choices and achievement for the future. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Sacajawea Middle School |
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Bozeman, MT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jennifer Royall
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Approximately 130 seventh-grade students will be engaged in a variety of service activities aimed at developing meaningful relationships with seniors at area facilities. Activities will include: interviewing seniors and recording oral histories; holiday parties and sing-alongs; arts and crafts and technology training. Students will also participate in restoring a heavily used recreation trail to a more pristine and scenic site. The area will be beautified with plantings and benches.
A Sacajawea Middle School student with friends from a local nursing home.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Sacopee Valley High School |
|
Hiram, ME |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dorothy Maxwell
Teacher
1995 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| As part of the "Community Generation WWWY Outreach Program," thirty students in grades 8-12 from Sacopee Valley High School in Hiram, Maine, will teach basic computer skills to adults in their community. First, students will design and implement a wide-reaching publicity campaign to recruit residents. Then the students will volunteer two hours per week to train those residents that have been selected in an effort to encourage improved technological literacy in this rural and economically depressed community. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Samuel Jackman Middle School |
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Sacramento, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Felicia Bessent
Vice Principal
1991 Milken Educator
Carolyn Elder
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|
| Description |
| In the "Second Annual Celebration of the Arts Through Cultural Diversity and Community Unity," 450 students from Jackman Middle School in Sacramento, California, will promote cultural arts throughout the community by visiting preschools, convalescent hospitals, community centers and ethnic and cultural group events. During these visits they will give performances in drama, puppetry, dance and music and get to know the audience. Twice a year the students will host an Arts Festival at the school, inviting their fellow students, parents and community members to an evening of both fine arts and performing arts presentations. The students will document their activities on a Web site with pictures, video clips, student and community comments and a calendar of future events. Last year, as part of their Festival for Youth Community Service project, the Jackman Middle School Choir performed at Governor Gray Davis's inauguration ceremony. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Santa Fe Elementary School |
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Oakland, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Lauran Cherry
Teacher
2001 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students will continue the project they began last year, entitled "It Takes a Whole Village," in which they work with both local seniors from the Sojourner Truth senior center and preschoolers from a nearby child development center.
Santa Fe students are in high spirits at their Festival foy Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Santa Fe Elementary School |
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Oakland, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Lauran Waters-Cherry
Teacher
2000
|
|
| Description |
| Students will form ties with senior citizens, hospital patients and preschoolers through a variety of activities including interviewing, literacy projects and arts and crafts.
A Sante Fe Elementary School student and senior citizen from Sojourner Truth Senior Center get together for a close embrace. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Sawtooth Mountain Elementary School |
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Grand Marais, MN |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Jana Larson
1998
Debra Waage
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|
| Description |
|
In a program entitled "Grandma's Suitcase," fourth-grade students at Sawtooth Mountain Elementary School in Grand Marais, MN, will decorate suitcases and use them to transport book-making materials to senior citizens at local housing and activity centers. Twice a month they will meet with the seniors to read or design books together, then they will fill the suitcases with the books for display at the senior center, town library and local hospital. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Silverton Paideia Elementary School |
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Cincinnati, OH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Nancy Berger
|
|
| Description |
| Fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students will participate in a wide range of service activities including beautification, performances, a food drive, and helping senior citizens.
Principal Henry Bradshaw addresses the crowd at Silverton Paideia Elementary’s Festival for Youth kickoff. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Solana Vista Elementary School |
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Solana Beach, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Susana Baum
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Solana Vista students will meet with a designated senior citizen monthly to read stories based on selected book themes, such as "Heroes and Heroines," "Science," and "Art." Students and senior citizens will build relationships by sharing experiences and knowledge with each other through this literacy opportunity.
Click here to read about Solana Vista's kick-off event
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Southern Hills Career Center |
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Georgetown, OH |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Judy McCormick
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|
| Description |
| Students participating in the Early Childhood Education Program will visit preschools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and nursing homes to present messages about the prevention of drug use and violence. The Criminal Justice program at the center will also be involved with the project to promote a positive image of law enforcement. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Southern Middle School |
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Reading, PA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Janet Giddens
|
|
| Description |
| Middle school students will teach elementary students about the effects of bullying and how to defuse situations with bullies.
Janet Giddens and her students from Southern Middle School pose for a picture at their Festival for Youth year-end celebration. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Spotswood Elementary School |
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Harrisonburg, VA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Steven Jackson
Principal
2000
|
|
| Description |
| Sixty-five third graders, along with 50 high school students, will cultivate various plants in a greenhouse, which they will then present to 100 residents of the Camelot Health and Rehabilitation Center. This project will create multi-generational bonds through the work by the students at the greenhouse and the interaction between the students and seniors.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| St. Labre Indian School |
|
Ashland, MT |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tom Andres
Teacher
2003 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| The senior class at St. Labre Indian School will be responsible for removing a dilapidated plastics factory currently used as a hideout for illegal activity. In its place, will be a concrete slab on which a basketball court will be constructed. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Summerville Elementary School |
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Summerville, SC |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Gene Sires
1998
Pam Christ
|
|
| Description |
| At Summerville Elementary School in Summerville, SC, one hundred students will participate in two ongoing community service activities. One group of fourth- and fifth-grade students will do landscaping at Habitat for Humanity homes, including planting trees and shrubs, and make baskets to present to families moving into these homes. Another group of students will give choral performances at area retirement homes, community centers and local festivals.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Summit Middle School |
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Edmond, OK |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
|
Craig Moody
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|
| Description |
| Students will renovate the playground at Arcadia Elementary School, located in a poor, rural community. Work will include painting playground equipment and planting flowerbeds.
Summit Middle School students pose for a picture outside the Old Round Barn in Arcadia, Oklahoma. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Summit Middle School |
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Edmond, OK |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Craig Moody
Suzanne Giordano
Teacher
2000 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
| Students from Summit Middle School will participate in a service project entitled "Summit’s Second Saturday Festival." On the second Saturday night of each month, the community’s disabled citizens and their families will be invited to come to Summit Middle School to participate in various themed parties.
FFY Program Coordinator, Javon Frazier, and some Summit Middle School students anxiously await the start of their Festival for Youth kickoff.
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Summit View School |
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Sherman Oaks, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
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|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Summit View School |
|
Sherman Oaks, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
|
|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Summit View School |
|
Valley Glen, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Pam Savic
Dr. Nancy Rosenfelt
Program Director
|
|
| Description |
| One hundred forty students from Summit View School in Valley Glen, California, all of whom have special needs, will participate in age- and ability-appropriate activities selected by their classroom teachers. The number of visits vary from three times a year to weekly, and agencies served include intergenerational, health care, environmental and animal protection groups. Organizations that have previously benefited from Summit View's affiliation with the Festival for Youth program include Heal the Bay, Tree People, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Valley Shelter, Valley Interfaith Food Pantry, Guide Dogs of America, Jewish Home for the Aging, Pet Orphans, Crippled Children's Society, Angeles National Forest, Valley Cities Jewish Community Center and California Environmental Project. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Summit View School |
|
Valley Glen, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Dr. Nancy Rosenfelt
Director
|
|
| Description |
| One hundred forty students from Summit View School in Valley Glen, California, all of whom have special needs, will participate in age- and ability-appropriate activities selected by their classroom teachers. The number of visits vary from three times a year to weekly, and agencies served include intergenerational, health care, environmental and animal protection groups. Organizations that have previously benefited from Summit View's affiliation with the Festival for Youth program include Heal the Bay, Tree People, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Valley Shelter, Valley Interfaith Food Pantry, Guide Dogs of America, Jewish Home for the Aging, Pet Orphans, Crippled Children's Society, Angeles National Forest, Valley Cities Jewish Community Center and California Environmental Project. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Sundance Elementary School |
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Sundance, WY |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Tammy Needham
Third- and Fourth-Grade Teacher
2002 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
Hometown Readers and Heroes
This year an entirely new dimension to reading will take place for the third-grade students at Sundance Elementary School. Weekly visits from parents, senior citizens and students from Bear Lodge High School will provide each elementary student with 45 minutes of individualized reading attention from three volunteer mentors. The reading pairs will take turns reading every other page aloud. Throughout the school year, the young students will research and select local heroes. To spotlight these exceptional individuals, the students will submit articles to the local newspaper and, in May, will host a tree-planting ceremony to honor all of their chosen heroes. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Sunrise School |
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Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
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|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Sunrise School |
|
Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Barbara Conway
Dr. Barbara Firestone
President and CEO, H.E.L.P. Group
|
|
| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, going to the Los Angeles Mission and putting lunch boxes together, going to the beach and picking up trash and planting trees. |
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| Site Name |
|
Location |
| Sunset Elementary School |
|
San Ysidro, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Elva DeBaca
Third-Grade Bilingual Education Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
|
|
| Description |
A Trail to Literacy
Students from Sunset Elementary School will continue their community-wide beautification project to enhance the outdoor area surrounding the San Ysidro Public Library, which is literally walking distance from the U.S.-Mexican border. They will remove rubbish, plant "reading trees" to provide shade, paint and decorate benches, and create a "trail to literacy" pathway connecting the library to the school. This route will be filled with wonderful art pieces and symbols of unity, strength and a sense of community. Leading the art activities will be Victor Ochoa, the acclaimed master muralist who worked with the students last year in the creation of a mural which depicted a sense of belonging for everyone in the community. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Sunset Elementary School |
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San Ysidro, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Elva De Baca
Third-Grade Teacher
2006 Milken Educator
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| Description |
A Trail to Literacy
Students from Sunset Elementary School will lead a community-wide beautification project to enhance the outdoor area surrounding the San Ysidro Public Library, which is literally walking distance from the U.S./Mexican border. They will remove rubbish, plant "reading trees" to provide shade, paint and decorate benches, and create a "trail to literacy" pathway connecting the library to the school. Together with Master Artist Victor Ochoa they will paint a mural to depict a sense of belonging for everyone in the community. The intergenerational project will be documented in photo galleries displayed in public venues and on a DVD to be donated to the library. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Sunset High School |
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Portland, OR |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
Maria Carrillo
Teacher
2005 Milken Educator
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| Description |
| At this school where a significant percentage of students are English-language learners, students will actually teach their parents computer skills that will enable them to be better informed about events at school. Parents of incoming middle as well as high school students will learn how to navigate the school Web site, communicate through email with school staff, and access grades and attendance. Strengthening the home-school connection and stimulating involvement in school activities will help students thrive in the high school environment. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| The H.E.L.P. Group |
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Sherman Oaks, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Barbara Conway
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| Description |
| Students will participate in a wide range of service activities including neighborhood beautification, collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters, and taking care of abandoned animals.
Milken Family Foundation Executive Vice President Richard Sandler fires up the students at the H.E.L.P. Group with a a stirring speech at their Festival for Youth kickoff. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| The H.E.L.P. Group |
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Sherman Oaks, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
K.D. Smith
Dr. Barbara Firestone
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| Description |
| Four hundred students with special needs who attend The H.E.L.P. Group in Sherman Oaks, California, will participate in age- and ability-appropriate activities throughout the community. The number of visits per student will vary from three times a year to weekly, and the agencies served include intergenerational, health care, environmental and animal protection groups. Organizations that have previously benefited from the H.E.L.P. Group's affiliation with the Festival for Youth program include the Foundation for the Junior Blind, Heal the Bay, Tree People, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Valley Shelter, Valley Interfaith Food Pantry, Simi Valley Community Hospital, Guide Dogs of America, Jewish Home for the Aging, Pet Orphans, Crippled Children's Society, Angeles National Forest, Valley Cities Jewish Community Center and California Environmental Project. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| The Help Group |
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Sherman Oaks, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Cheryl Raver
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| Description |
| Students at The Help Group will engage in a wide variety of service activities to be conducted across the Los Angeles area. Projects range from neighborhood beautification to collecting food and clothing for homeless shelters to caring for abandoned animals. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| The Help Group |
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Sherman Oaks & Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Cheryl Raver
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| Description |
Help Is On The Way!
The Help Group serves children with special needs related to autism, Asperger's, and other learning and emotional challenges. Over 800 students from all three of The Help Group campuses will engage in a wide variety of service activities that reach across the Los Angeles area. They will lend their time and talents to numerous organizations such as Heal the Bay, Make a Wish Foundation, and the Ronald McDonald House. One primary focus of their volunteer efforts will be to brighten the lives of the elderly. When they see smiles light up the faces of residents in the many senior communities they visit, they will know their presence alone has made a difference. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| The Help Group |
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Sherman Oaks, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Cheryl Raver
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| Description |
Help Is On The Way!
The Help Group serves children with special needs related to autism, Asperger's Disorder, and other learning and emotional challenges. Over 800 students from all three of The Help Group's campuses will engage in a wide variety of service activities that reach across the Los Angeles area. They will lend their time and talents to numerous organizations such as Heal the Bay, Make-a-Wish Foundation, and the Ronald McDonald House. One primary focus of their volunteer efforts will be to brighten the lives of the elderly. When they see smiles light up the faces of residents in the many senior communities they visit, they will know their presence alone has made a difference. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| The Kayne Eras Center |
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Culver City, CA |
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| Site Coordinator(s) |
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Francziska Steagall
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| Description |
Spreading Sunshine and Smiles
Kayne Eras Center is a multi-service facility serving over 550 children, adults and families through special education programs and services. A cornerstone of the enrichment programming at Kayne Eras is community service, with students participating in a broad spectrum of activities. Through selfless work, the students clean dirty beaches, learn the valuable lesson of human worth through aid to homeless individuals, plant and care for trees, and bring cheer to lonely senior citizens. To create a vista of beauty for residents at the Marina Convalescent Hospital who are unable to walk outside, the students will cultivate a 1,000-square-foot succulent garden. |
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| Site Name |
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Location |
| Tigerville Elementary School |
