Some 100 Ä¢¹½tv students will provide community service for five nonprofit agencies and organizations on October 12 for the fall Into the Streets event.
Ä¢¹½tv's Office of Service Learning, part of the Career and Professional Development Center, organizes this biannual event, which is part of a national program to encourage university members to be active in their local communities. Each fall and spring, the office invites local nonprofit organizations to apply for help from students.
Ä¢¹½tv has been recognized by the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts. Students record close to 150,000 hours of volunteer service during a typical academic year. Using the current national minimum wage, those hours would be valued at more than $1 million.
Agencies being served include:
- Downtown Indiana: clean up litter in downtown, tidy up flowerbeds, and sweep sidewalks, 9:00 a.m. to noon
- Evergreen Conservancy: help get site winterized, take down storybook walk, other maintenance, 9:00 a.m. to noon
- Indiana Community Garden: garden fall clean-up, weeding, mulching, composting, and planting, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Indiana County Humane Society: outside landscaping, cleaning up flower beds, and planting, 9:45 to 11:00 a.m.
- Salvation Army: clean and pain the entry and lobby area, moving furniture, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Ä¢¹½tv's Office of Service Learning will host a picnic for volunteers and agency representatives from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Pratt Hall. Romeo's Pizzeria and Mediterranean Kitchens will donate food for the picnic.