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Winter Break
Volunteer Opportunities

Center for Civic Engagement, College of Charleston

Want to lend a helping hand during winter break? Our community partners need you! Check out these awesome volunteer opportunities. Happy Holidays!

One-Time Events
Fields to Families mission is to help increase nutrition and ease hunger by coordinating the distribution of fresh produce obtained from local gardens and farms to nonprofit organizations that feed the hungry. They are constantly looking for volunteers to harvest and/or deliver fresh produce. Volunteers are needed THIS Saturday, 12/20 at 10:30am at Wadmalaw Island. Register at this link: http://tinyurl.com/mqdp7fq. They will resume harvesting January 3rd. For more information contact them at (843) 388-2487 or info@fieldstofamilies.org.
MUSC Children’s Hospital is looking for volunteers for their 7th Annual Cares for Kids Radiothon. Iheart Radio is donating airtime to MUSC to allow call in donation. During this time there will on air interviews of patients, families and doctors. Volunteers are needed to help answer calls and take pledges from callers during the Radiothon. Individuals may sigh up for a two hour shift January 29th and 30th between the hours of 6am-7pm. To volunteer, register at this link http://vols.pt/7vD342

In This Issue:
Coastal Connections…………..……….2
Fields to Families…………..…………...1
Lowcountry Street Grocery..………..1
Meeting Street Academy …….……...2
MUSC Children’s Hospital….……….1
Project Street Outreach………….…...2
TUV 2-1-1 Hotline…………….………..2
Center for Civic Engagement
MLK Day of Service………….…………2

Contact us:
Center for Civic Engagement
Lightsey Center, Room 203
843.953.5838
volunteer@cofc.edu
volunteer.cofc.edu

Lowcountry Street Grocery is a mission-driven, mobile farmers' market designed to make healthy, local food affordable and accessible for all Charleston residents. Their mission is to improve healthy food access in Charleston's food deserts while concurrently supporting small farms and local businesses. Their mobile market will travel across the Lowcountry, bringing farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as free nutrition education programming, directly to their patron's neighborhoods. They have many volunteer opportunities during the time frame noted (12/12/14-1/12/15). Specifically, they are looking for "Farm & Garden Helpers", who can assist in maintaining the fields at the farms as well as the school garden at Memminger Elementary. They also need "Mobile Market Prep Support" -- making cold calls, collecting contacts for the database, and collecting basic market research. For more information or to get involved, contact Kate Dewitt at kdewitt@lowcountrystreetgrocery.com or 843.597.3064

Meeting Street Academy empowers young people from under-resourced neighborhoods to become confident, productive and principled members of society through excellence in academics. They believe in the power of a rigorous and inspiring educational experience and use tutors in the weekly study hall to supplement classroom instruction. They are currently in need of ~24 volunteers across grade levels to tutor K-5 students. Volunteers would need to come in Monday -Thursday, 2 days a week for 45 minute session.
Majors accepted are: Education, Business, Accounting, Literature, Creative Writing/Journalism, Science, and Nursing. Volunteers must attend an orientation and complete a background check. Tutoring will begin the week of January 19, 2014.
If interested contact: Abby Matthews at 336.426.9859 or amatthews@meetingstreetschools.org.

The 2-1-1 Hotline is a service of Trident United Way that provides supportive listening and crisis intervention 24/7. Volunteer Phone counselors help clients access information about community resources, and serve as a listening line and suicide prevention lifeline. Volunteers are trained and are only required to serve 1, 4 hour shift each week. This is a great opportunity to learn or enhance valuable communication skills while giving back to the community. The Hotline trains new volunteers three times a year and will be having their next training in February. The dates are as follows:
Feb. 3rd from 5pm-8pm Orientation Feb 7th & 8th 10am-5pm Active Listening Feb 21st & 22nd 9am-5pm Suicide Prevention
If interested in attending, email Dee Partridge at dpartridge@tuw.org. You must attend all
training dates to qualify.

THE CENTER FOR CIVIC ENAGEMENT IS CALLING ALL STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF TO CONSIDER JOINING US IN SERVING IN THE CHARLESTON COMMUNITY.

8:30AM—1:00pm
*Service sites are student led*
**Lunch and transportation provided**
REGISTER online on OrgSync beginning Monday, January 5th.

Coastal Connections is an MUSC-initiated program that utilizes student interns to assist patients with accessing resources in their local communities in order to promote overall patient health and well being. Interns are volunteers that work closely with patients and families to identify their needs, connect them with resources and ensure appropriate follow up. Volunteers may work a minimum of one 3 hour shift per week in the MUSC Emergency Department, Pediatric Emergency Department, or clinical setting. Term begins January 12th and ends May 1st. More information and applications can be found at http://ociois.quickbase.com/db/bievmvjz6. Applications must be turned in by January 2nd.

The YWCA’s Project Street Outreach is a distribution and referral service for the civilian and veteran homeless population in the greater Charleston area. The project utilizes teams of volunteers who act in the role of foot soldiers responsible for going out into the community and local shelters to provide the homeless with necessities for basic living.
Hot meals and clothing are distributed every Monday, from 5:30-6:30 at 2025 Reynolds Avenue, North Charleston and every Thursday, from 5:00pm-6:00pm on Meeting and Jackson Streets.
Donations are welcome! Men and Women clothing in larger sizes , gloves, blankets and toiletry items are of the greatest need. To volunteer, register at this link: http://tinyurl.com/mdtfnq6