MEMO Community Service

Hey Everyone,

Below is a list of Community Service Ideas from Nicole. I would like EVERYONE to participate and make sure you get back to Nicole telling her your event preference. Community Service is VERY important for your resume's and for our group. Please make sure you are taking advantage of opportunities, such as the ones below, when they arise.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Joey Maestas

MEMO Chair

jmaestas@mac.com

Begin forwarded message:

From: Nicole Rae Sandoval <Nicole.Sandoval@Colorado.EDU>

Date: October 27, 2010 8:27:26 AM MDT

To: David.Martinez@colorado.edu

Subject: Community Service Ideas

Hey Dave,
Please send this to the MEMO members!
Thanks!


Hello MEMO members,
Here is a list of the community service opportunities that I mentioned at our meeting on Monday evening. It is kind of a large list so I am asking EVERYONE to please choose their top 2 favorite opportunities that you would like to take part in. If there is one or two ideas that seem to be popular among everyone I will be in contact the foundation and see what it will take for MEMO to get started. If there are a number of foundations that people are interested in I wil try to make small groups and arrange an opportunity for each group to help out where they would like. I think that whether we are helping out as a large group in one community service opportunity or we help out at a number of places MEMO will be sure to do good. Let me know!

*Community Service Opportunities
1. BoulderReads - Literary Program helping children with reading.
Requirements: 6 month minimum meeting 1 or 2 times a week for and hour and a half at each meeting time. Making lesson plans is recommended. If we do choose to prosue this we need to fill out tutor applications which I will provide and there is 15 hours of training necessary.

2. Circle of Care - Senior Citizens Program
This program would involve us going to performances with a senior citizens and would involve driving. However you do receive a free ticket. I was also thinking if we do this, I could speak with the theater department and see if we could get them to donate tickets to one of their upcoming shows because the they have requested donated tickets. No prior training is needed and each person only has to do this one time if they would like.

3. EFAA- Emergency Family Assistant Association (1918)
Help out families in Boulder and Broomfield Counties by providing support to families in need, people with disabilities, and senior citizens. the areas that we could help out are food,shelter, rent assistance, and utilities.

4.Holiday Food Basket Volunteers
We would help pakcing bags, delivering, and distributing.
** I really like this idea with the holidays right around the corner and this is a one time thing that we could all easily do.

5.Children Services
This program would have us assist children with their homework and with various recreational activities or do group activities with the children. This is a 6 month requirement that meets 2 times a week but between all of us we could split it up so that it can be a one or two time thing. We can make a regularly scheduled time where we do a craft with the kids or a sport.

6. Volunteer Connection
Tutoring kids ages 5-17. They are open to having us meet with the children a couple of times a week to a couple of times a month.

7. Denver Rescue Mission
As always the Denver Rescue Mission needs help. They offer group opportunities and I can call and see what this entails. We could help with serving meals and they take up to 10 people at a time so we could split up into groups and do this. The serving times are seven days a week 5:30am-6:45am, 10:30am-1:30pm, 4:30pm-6pm, and 7:30pm-9pm.
They also offer a Reading and Writing Club helping kids ages 3-18 with homework. This is monday through thursdays 4:30pm-6pm.
Another program they need hekp with is their Whiz Kids Tutoring for kids ages 6-10. This goes from October to April every Thursday from 7pm-8:30pm.
*These two tutoring programs are at the Denver Broncos Complex.

8.The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Denver
They accept donations or they need help setting up and cleaning up holiday events/ decorating.

9. El Centro Cultural Nights
I have been in contact with Felipe and I am meeting his this next week. We would help with trasportation, setup, and distributing food to the attendees. Sounds easy and fun! I would really liek to work with this group because they definitley need the help. I met them this summer and I know they would be very appreciative.

*********As a seperate component I think we should do another toy drive this year. Last year's toy drive was a success and I think it will be another success this year. I will be in contact with Dave to figure out who to contact*****

Thank you,
Nicole Sandoval Community Service Chair

p.s. If anyone has other ideas that I have not presented please let me know.