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MLK Week of Service
Dr. Martin Luther King knew what makes a great American:
Doesn't matter if you're young or old.
Doesn't matter where you live.
Doesn't matter how busy you are.
All that matters is what you do for others.
Here’s an opportunity to use your talent! Record children books for the East Harlem Academy listening center. Volunteers will read from a range of books and make recordings for students to read along with. BOOKED BY MLK SCHOLARS!
RSVP Now!
Don’t Walk By is an annual homeless outreach that will take place in Manhattan every Saturday in February offering the homeless population an alternative to life on the streets. Last year, over 1,300 volunteers from New York joined together to bring warm meals, clothing, medical treatment, shelter and more to men, women and children during one of the coldest months in the city.
Starting in the early morning, soups and sauces are prepared in eighty-gallon steam kettles while the meats, side vegetables and starches for dinner entrees are prepared in twenty ovens. By 8am, staff and volunteers typically have labeled and lidded 1,400 soups and 1,000 dinner entrees. The rest of the day volunteers help chop hundreds of pounds of vegetables needed every day for soups and entrees while chefs and cooks prep, cook and portion the soup bases, meats, sauces and sides for the next day’s menus. Frozen version of entrees are also cooked and packaged for future delivery.
Housing Works community of volunteers help in the Online Sale Department of the bookstore. Volunteers will assist with the processing of online orders, packaging books for shipment and sorting incoming donations.
SAFH’s Soup Kitchen serves approximately 200 hot and nutritious varied meals during the week and on Sundays. SAFH staff and volunteers cook, serve, and clean up after these meals, which are offered cafeteria-style in our community room. Related to the Soup Kitchen are two Food Pantry programs. On Monday mornings seniors and others with chronic need are able to come twice per month. Tuesdays through Fridays, low income families and individuals pick up bags of groceries, including food for three meals a day for three days, according to family size and conforming to state-approved nutrition standards. Along with SAFH staff, volunteers also help with the preparation of bagging food items and the distribution of packaged food to families and individuals in need.
YCP can use the support of volunteers to help with its Pantry program. This is an excellent opportunity to experience the necessary team-work called forth to operate a food pantry. Volunteers will work in teams to divvy up food, pre-pack, and organize bags by family composition in preparation for individuals and families to receive nutritional meals.
Join the Administrative Management Council’s Naughty Knitters and Crafty Crocheters for a lunchtime workshop creating scarves and hats for local seniors. Professionals will be onsite to assist beginners, no experience necessary. Materials will be provided!
SAFH’s Soup Kitchen serves approximately 200 hot and nutritious varied meals during the week and on Sundays. SAFH staff and volunteers cook, serve, and clean up after these meals, which are offered cafeteria-style in our community room. Related to the Soup Kitchen are two Food Pantry programs. On Monday mornings seniors and others with chronic need are able to come twice per month. Tuesdays through Fridays, low income families and individuals pick up bags of groceries, including food for three meals a day for three days, according to family size and conforming to state-approved nutrition standards. Along with SAFH staff, volunteers also help with the preparation of bagging food items and the distribution of packaged food to families and individuals in need.
Join the Administrative Management Council’s Naughty Knitters and Crafty Crocheters for a lunchtime workshop creating scarves and hats for local seniors. Professionals will be onsite to assist beginners, no experience necessary. Materials will be provided!
This is an excellent opportunity to experience the necessary team work called forth to operate a food pantry. Volunteers will work in teams to divvy up food, pre-pack, and organize bags by family composition in preparation for individuals and families to receive nutritional meals.
Starting in the early morning, soups and sauces are prepared in eighty-gallon steam kettles while meats, side vegetables and starches for dinner entrees are prepared in twenty ovens. By 8am, staff and volunteers typically have labeled and lidded 1,400 soups and 1,000 dinner entrees. The rest of the day volunteers help chop hundreds of pounds of vegetables needed every day for soups and entrees while chefs and cooks prep, cook and portion the soup bases, meats, sauces and sides for the next day’s menus. Frozen version of entrees are also cooked and packaged for future delivery.
Don’t Walk By is an annual homeless outreach that will take place in Manhattan every Saturday in February offering the homeless population an alternative to life on the streets. Last year, over 1,300 volunteers from New York joined together to bring warm meals, clothing, medical treatment, shelter and more to men, women and children during one of the coldest months in the city.
MLK Day of Service at Bowery Mission (1/17/2011)
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Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium
What is the Future of Diversity in the Media, Arts, Education, Cities, Economy, Immigration and Activism? Find out at the university-wide event during MLK Week at NYU, featuring 7 leaders from various areas speaking for 7 minutes on 7 topic areas surrounding this year’s theme, The Future of Diversity: Here & Now. Confirmed speakers include Dr. Cornel West, Princeton University Professor, philosopher and influential intellectual, who will address the issue of activism; and Dr. Mitchell L. Moss, Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation and Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, who will speak about the issue of cities. We will also be presenting the NYU MLK Jr. Humanitarian Award to Associate Professor Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen, an NYU Alumnus and the Founding Director of NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America.
Everyone is welcome. Please RSVP at http://mlkweek2012.eventbrite.com/.