There will be no general meeting this week (1/28/09). Instead, the board members will be meeting, and we will try to plan out the semester. There are a few volunteer opportunities that will be updated later today. Join us next week, Wednesday, 6:30 Mattin Center 162!
More information about our first meeting for Spring of 2009 soon!
There is a giant marching band competition at the M&T Bank stadium downtown, and they need volunteers to help it run smoothly. We’ll probably be helping to sell programs and tickets. We desperately need volunteers for this event, so please sign up if you’ll be available. Email Olivia at otong1@jhu.edu if you’re interested in going. Nov 9 8am-6pm (leaving early at 12pm)
2. Featured Projects
Weekly:
• District Hayride Nov 7 7-11pm
Our Circle K District is having a hayride/bonfire at Milburn Orchards in Elkton, MD to get to know the members of our neighboring clubs. It’s from 8-10pm, but we’ll be taking a van or car up at about 7pm. It will be really fun and a good networking opportunity, so come out and join us! Email Kari at ksepely1@jhu.edu for details.
• M&T Band Competition Nov 9 8am-6pm
There is a giant marching band competition at the M&T Bank stadium downtown, and they need volunteers to help it run smoothly. We’ll probably be helping to sell programs and tickets. We desperately need volunteers for this event, so please sign up if you’ll be available. Email Olivia at otong1@jhu.edu if you’re interested in going.
• Red Cross Blood Drive Nov 19 & 20 8am-7pm
The Red Cross is having its second blood drive of the school year on November 19th and 20th. They need volunteers to help at the snack table to make sure donors are okay before they leave, and they also are looking for a few people to help publicize by handing out fliers, putting up posters, chalking sidewalks, etc. Contact Angela at angeli@jhu.edu if you would like to volunteer or donate blood!
• Thanksgiving Parade Nov 22, morningish
BOPA is looking for volunteers to man the giant balloons at the Baltimore Thankgiving parade. This year the balloons are a Jack-in-the-Box and a Snowman. You can work with a partner, and we need to register quickly because the spots are filling up. Email Jae at jkim275@jhu.edu for more info.
• Keswick Center Bingo and Social Hour Fridays 1:45-4pm
Email Neeta at nshroff1@jhu.edu if you’re interested!
•Chesapeake Bay Restoration Project Sat Nov 15th 9am-1pm
Join the Conservation Department of the National Aquarium in Baltimore for a day restoring the Chesapeake Bay! The Conservation Department is currently recruiting volunteers to participate in a debris cleanup of the urban Fort McHenry Wetland (Baltimore City). Other activities include general trail maintenance of the Fort and butterfly garden/raingarden maintenance. Space is limited and registration is needed, sign up today! Contact Joe at joetsao@jhu.edu for more info.
Single Service:
3. Other Volunteer Opportunities
Jones Falls Watershed Association- Canceled!
4. Save the Date
Healing a Fractured World- November 21st
Hampden Christmas parade (Ride in a duck!)-December 7
5. Dr. Rayner Browne Project- Change cups and more!
Friday, November 7th!
Our Circle K District is having a hayride/bonfire at Milburn Orchards in Elkton, MD to get to know the members of our neighboring clubs. It’s from 8-10pm, but we’ll be taking a van or car up at about 7pm. It will be really fun and a good networking opportunity, so come out and join us! Email Kari at ksepely1@jhu.edu for details. Call 302-690-5970 (Kari) if its nearing the time.
Weekly:
• Keswick Multi-Care Center Bingo and Social Hour Fridays 1:45-4pm
Keswick Multi-Care Center is a nursing home that is walking distance from campus. We will assist residents in wheelchairs from their rooms to the auditorium for Bingo, help some play Bingo at 2:30 pm, and help with their Social Hour after Bingo. The residents love visitors and extra attention, so this is a great way to help brighten someone’s day at the end of the week. Email Neeta at nshroff1@jhu.edu if you’re interested!
• Children’s House Arts and Crafts Sundays 5-7pm
Have fun doing arts and crafts with children staying at the Johns Hopkins Children’s House! These children have traveled from all over to be treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and would enjoy something separate from hospital life. From paper-bag hand-puppets to bubbles, we work with whatever we’re given. Just don’t Jack Pollock each other. Email Joe at Joetsao@jhu.edu if you’re interested, or just show up at the Charles Commons JHMI shuttle stop at 4:55.
Single Service:
• Keswick Center Halloween Costume Judging Friday, Oct 31 2pm
Every year the residents and staff at Keswick dress up and have a Halloween Costume Competition. Since we’re unbiased on the issue (unless your Grandma happens to live there), they would like to invite us to judge their costumes and pick the winners. Fun activity for the day of Halloween! We’ll give you an extra half volunteer hour if you come wearing a Halloween costume! Contact Neeta at nshroff1@jhu.edu to sign up.
• Relay for Life April 2009
Relay for Life honors cancer survivors, pays tribute to the lives lost to the disease, and raises money to help fight cancer. We generally have a table with some sort of game/activity to raise money. Registration if free before October 31st, so make sure to sign up even if you don’t know if you’ll be there. Go to http://tinyurl.com/circlekrelay, click “Join Our Team” and then “Early Bird Registration”. Email Sunny at mro3@jhu.edu if you have questions!
• Division Hayride Nov 7 7-11pm
Our Circle K Division (Towson, UD, and a couple other schools) is having a hayride/bonfire at Milburn Orchards in Elkton, MD to get to know the members of our neighboring clubs. It’s from 8-10pm, but we’ll be taking a van or car up at about 7pm. It will be really fun and a good networking opportunity, so come out and join us! Email Kari at ksepely1@jhu.edu for details.
• M&T Band Competition Nov 9 8am-3pm
There is a giant marching band competition at the M&T Bank stadium downtown, and they need volunteers to help it run smoothly. I’ll have more details soon, but we need to know how many people are interested so that I can talk to the organizers. Also, we need someone to organize the project! Contact Kari at ksepely1@jhu.edu for more details.
4. Other Volunteer Opportunities
• Jones Falls Watershed Association Nov 8 9 am-12pm
This will be a restoration project of a city or county park. Details have not been released, but likely involved cleaning debris and planting trees. Contact Joe Tsao at JoeTsao@jhu.edu for details.
• Campus Kitchens Project
CKP is a program that will begin early next semester, and is currently seeking potential volunteers interested in committing 1 hr of their time toward either cooking nutritious meals for community donation, or distributing these meals. CKP will collect excess food that would otherwise go to waste, and will turn this food into hot meals that will be donated to various areas of need in the local community. We are hoping to set up a regular schedule of volunteer shifts in the kitchen, and potential chefs will have to be trained and certified this semester, so if interested, please contact us at CKP@jhu.edu as soon as possible.
• Study Buddy Program Mondays 6-7pm
This program needs students who can tutor children (elementary and up) one-on-one at the Hampden Family Center. Tutors will get paired with a student, and will be expected to commit their Mondays from 6-7. The volunteers can use the campus shuttle to reach Hampden after 5 pm. Contact Ash Raina at hfcvolunteer@gmail.com if you’re interested.
• Waverly Tutorial Student Initiative
Volunteer as a tutor at the local public library (the Waverly branch of Enoch Pratt Free Library). Clients of this program range from K-12. This tutoring program aims to provide a much-needed service to the Waverly community, as well as to help connect the Hopkins community to its neighbors. The library is within walking distance of campus, right across the street from the 32nd St. Farmers Market, about a 5 minute walk down 33rd St from Charles Commons. Hours of operation for the tutoring program are: Mon and Wed 4-7:30 pm, Tues and Thurs 4-5:30pm, and Saturday 10am-1pm. We ask for commitment to at least 1 hr of tutoring per week, but we are flexible and won’t mind cancellations as long as they are made beforehand. Please contact Jessica Zha at jez@jhu.edu for more info on how to apply.
Circle K Agenda
October 22nd, 2008
Projects
Every Week:
• Keswick Multi-Care Center Bingo and Social Hour Fridays 1:45-4pm
Keswick Multi-Care Center is a nursing home that is walking distance from campus. We will assist residents in wheelchairs from their rooms to the auditorium for Bingo, help some play Bingo at 2:30 pm, and help with their Social Hour after Bingo. The residents love visitors and extra attention, so this is a great way to help brighten someone’s day at the end of the week. Email Neeta at nshroff1@jhu.edu if you’re interested!
• Study Buddy Program Mondays 6-7pm
This program needs students who can tutor children (elementary and up) one-on-one at the Hampden Family Center. Tutors will get paired with a student, and will be expected to commit their Mondays from 6-7. The volunteers can use the campus shuttle to reach Hampden after 5 pm. Contact Ash Raina at hfcvolunteer@gmail.com if you’re interested.
• Waverly Tutorial Student Initiative
Volunteer as a tutor at the local public library (the Waverly branch of Enoch Pratt Free Library). Clients of this program range from K-12. This tutoring program aims to provide a much-needed service to the Waverly community, as well as to help connect the Hopkins community to its neighbors. The library is within walking distance of campus, right across the street from the 32nd St. Farmers Market, about a 5 minute walk down 33rd St from Charles Commons. Hours of operation for the tutoring program are: Mon and Wed 4-7:30 pm, Tues and Thurs 4-5:30pm, and Saturday 10am-1pm. We ask for commitment to at least 1 hr of tutoring per week, but we are flexible and won’t mind cancellations as long as they are made beforehand. Please contact Jessica Zha at jez@jhu.edu for more info on how to apply.
Single Service:
•Operation Aware Mapping Day Oct 21-24 9AM-12PM
Students Sharing Coalition, an organization that encourages Baltimore students to take a more active role in their community through community service, is looking for chaperones to lead groups of 5-10 students on their Operation Aware Mapping Day. This will consist of exploring the communities with the students while encouraging them to ask questions and reflect on the impact of service to the community. E-mail Angela at angeli@jhu.edu for more information or to sign up.
•Breastival Oct 26th 11-4pm
Breastival is a Breast Cancer Awareness event co-hosted by CAC and aKDPhi. The purpose of the event is to inform the Hopkins population and community about Breast Cancer Awareness. You would just be either running games or standing behind education booths and asking people simple questions and stamping their free food passes. This event needs a leader! Email Jess at jez@jhu.edu if you’re interested.
•Ready, Set, Design Oct 26th 9am-1:30pm
This is a mentoring event where female college students work with middle school girls to show them that science and engineering are fun and that girls can be just as good at engineering activities. We need female students (some engineering experience is helpful but certainly not required) to work with the girls to teach them about the scientific method and help them build models. We also need guys to work in the machine shop (cutting up foam board to build models, etc). Please email Neeta at nshroff1@jhu.edu if you’re interested.
• Keswick Center Halloween Costume Judging Friday, Oct 31 2pm
Every year the residents and staff at Keswick dress up and have a Halloween Costume Competition. Since we’re unbiased on the issue (unless your Grandma happens to live there), they would like to invite us to judge their costumes and pick the winners. Fun activity for the day of Halloween! We’ll give you an extra half volunteer hour if you come wearing a Halloween costume! Contact Neeta at nshroff1@jhu.edu to sign up.
• Relay for Life April ??
Relay for Life honors cancer survivors, pays tribute those lost to the disease, and raises money to help fight cancer. We generally have a table with some sort of game/activity to raise money. Don’t forget to register by October 31st! Email Sunny at mro3@jhu.edu for details.
• Campus Kitchens Project
CKP is a program that will begin early next semester, and is currently seeking potential volunteers interested in committing 1 hour per week toward either cooking nutritious meals for community donation, or distributing these meals. CKP will collect excess food that would otherwise go to waste, and will turn this food into hot meals that will be donated to various areas of need in the local community. We are hoping to set up a regular schedule of volunteer shifts in the kitchen, and potential chefs will have to be trained and certified this semester, so if interested, please contact us at CKP@jhu.edu as soon as possible.
• Haunted House Project- more info soon
Save the Date
UDCKI Annual District Hayride Fri Nov 7th 6:30-11pm
Jones Falls Watershed Association Project Sat, Nov 8, 9:30am–12:00pm
M&T Band Competition Nov 9, 8am-5pm
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Project Sat Nov 15th 9am-1pm
There will be a Circle K party this friday, October 24th. Email JoeTsao@jhu.edu for more information.
Project Prevent Health Fair is a fair designed to help Baltimore residents become more concious of their health. I was put in charge of sign-in, so I sat at the front door handing out tickets to people and explaining the process. Each person would take a ticket, and visit five health-awareness stations. What these stations do, I’m not exactly sure. Afterwards, they would be able to get free food and enter a raffle. Children were able to get their face painted, and get balloon animals.
Personally, I didn’t get too much out of the experience, because I wasn’t able to interact with others. Most people who came in seemed very anxious to get to their destinations, but also came in confused as to what they were doing. They were in a hurry when I gave them directions, and lost after they started walking down the hall. I ended up condensing my speech to something like “Follow the arrows. Come back to enter the raffle with your ticket.”
The people who were cooking food ended up cooking in a doorway of the building. Smoke started to fill the halls, and despite me informing them of this, no one did anything about it. Part of me hoped the fire alarm would have gone off. So much for trying to keep people healthy.
Another problem I had was that I was told I would have to get on a later bus because they had to take the Hopkins a capella group home first (they had come to sing for the residents). The two other volunteers and I were annoyed because we had been there for much longer, and felt cheated and not appreciated. It may have been the wrong way to handle things, but together, the other volunteers and I protested by boarding the bus while everyone else was taking a group photo. We did manage to squeeze on at the end. I guess the lesson to learn and to take into my own events is to make sure the volunteers feel appreciated, especially the ones who have been there the longest.
One good thing thing did result from the event though: I did manage to get free food.