There is a NEW Youth & Community Center opening in Ellettsville on April 13!!!
This community center will serve as an after school center for youths of Monroe County. It will primarily be run by the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington!
Volunteers are needed to interact with youth, playing board games and other games, supervising them during arts, crafts and snack time; sharing talents and interests, implementing new programs, changing bulletin boards, cleaning and organizing rooms, providing tutoring and homework help and being a mentor.
Shift hours and days vary, and there are opportunities for both long and short-term volunteering!
All volunteers must have a background check and go through orientation.
For more information, contact: Amy Matney, Unit Director, (812) 332-5311
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Bike Riding!
Do you love to ride a bike? Do you ride to class, to eat, and for fun? Are you training to ride in Little 500? If so - you can help share your love of bike-riding with children by teaching them how to ride a bike!
Volunteers are needed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, May 11-13 from 4-5:30 pm each day!
All the action will be taking place at Bryan Park Pool, 1000 S. Woodlawn Ave. in the parking lot!
For more information or to sign up, please contact Kim Ecenbarger at ecenbark@bloomington.in.gov
Volunteers are needed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, May 11-13 from 4-5:30 pm each day!
Beginning bicycle riders (the kids) will be prepared to spend the entire summer cruising on their bicycles after this kickoff to Bloomington Bikes Week! Volunteers will teach participants how to confidently and safely ride their bikes through individual instruction, and also about bike maintenance, road safety, and proper bike and helmet fittings. Each child then receives a free bike helmet and must bring a bicycle without training wheels.
All the action will be taking place at Bryan Park Pool, 1000 S. Woodlawn Ave. in the parking lot!
For more information or to sign up, please contact Kim Ecenbarger at ecenbark@bloomington.in.gov
Earth Week!
EARTH WEEK BEGINS SUNDAY APRIL 19TH!We will be updating the blog with activities during this week that you can participate in to help clean up the Earth (in Bloomington :) )
1. You can begin your Earth Week celebration on April 19th between 1pm and 3pm by helping clean up Lower Cascades Creek Trail.
Immerse yourself in the wonders of nature at one of Bloomington’s most beautiful parks! Help maintain the beautiful trails with a spring clean up of Lower Cascades Creek Trail. Bags and gloves to use for clean up will be provided!
2. You can continue your Earth Week cleanup on Thursday April 23rd from 5:30-7:30pm at Griffy Lake. Volunteers will use paddles and boats to paddle around the lake and help clean it up! All bags, gloves, and boats will be provided!
For more information or to sign up for any of these programs email: Kim Ecenbarger at ecenbark@bloomington.in.gov
Go Green (and Pink) Around B-Town and Help the Boys and Girls Club!
A new Schwinn Motor Scooter has been donated to the Boys and Girls Club with the challenge of using it to raise support!The Club needs your to help to raise support by selling raffle tickets in order to raffle off the scooter and raise money for the Club!
The raffle will end before finals! We have a venue at the College Mall to sell tickets from and volunteers could easily work from there, in short shifts, on weekends through April.
If you're interested in helping the Boys and Girls Club raise money - and you have a few hours to spare during any weekend in April, please contact:
Chris Tann
Unit Director
BGC Bloomington
812-332-5311 ext. 13
ctann@bgcbloomington.org
If you have any problems, feel free to email honorvol@indiana.edu with questions!
Middle Way House Training
What: Middle Way Domestic Violence Training for Volunteers
When: Saturday, April 18th, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: 219 E. 4th Street at the First United Methodist Church
Across from the downtown post office
Middle Way House is seeking new volunteers to help maintain the level of service that they provide to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Both women and men are strongly encouraged to attend the training. They have volunteers opportunities in over 20 different program areas including: crisis line, childcare, tutoring, legal advocacy, community reception, and youth mentoring.
No registration is needed for the training.
More info: (812) 337-4510
mwh.vol.coord@gmail.com
When: Saturday, April 18th, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: 219 E. 4th Street at the First United Methodist Church
Across from the downtown post office
Middle Way House is seeking new volunteers to help maintain the level of service that they provide to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Both women and men are strongly encouraged to attend the training. They have volunteers opportunities in over 20 different program areas including: crisis line, childcare, tutoring, legal advocacy, community reception, and youth mentoring.
No registration is needed for the training.
More info: (812) 337-4510
mwh.vol.coord@gmail.com
Monday, March 23, 2009
STAND: Rock and Run Darfur
STAND is looking for volunteers!
NEEDED NOW: Volunteers for "ROCK AND RUN DARFUR" 5k and benefit concert 3/28! If you would like to volunteer, we ask that you attend a brief meeting this Wednesday at 6:30 in Ballantine Hall 240. If you cannot attend the meeting but are available to help out, please e-mail STAND@indiana.edu and let us know when you are free on Saturday between 8 and noon.
Information about the event can be found on this website: http://www.standnow.org/event/rock-and-run-darfur
NEEDED NOW: Volunteers for "ROCK AND RUN DARFUR" 5k and benefit concert 3/28! If you would like to volunteer, we ask that you attend a brief meeting this Wednesday at 6:30 in Ballantine Hall 240. If you cannot attend the meeting but are available to help out, please e-mail STAND@indiana.edu and let us know when you are free on Saturday between 8 and noon.
Information about the event can be found on this website: http://www.standnow.org/event/rock-and-run-darfur
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Want to go to Nicaragua this May?
Travel to Nicaragua w/the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center at IU!!
We have an amazing opportunity for students to do volunteer work on an alternative break in Nicaragua this May. We unexpectedly had a student drop out of the alternative break, and have space open on the trip.
Dates: Sunday, May 10th – Sunday May 17th (possibly returning on the afternoon of the 18th depending on flights)
Cost: $550* + airfare**
* Of this $550, you will receive approximately $200 back after the trip, thanks to a generous grant. Amount back depends on cost of group travel (to airport), number of students, etc.
**airfare will be +/- $450 Number of IU participants: 9
DESCRIPTION:
Q: What type of work will we be doing?
A: We will be doing mainly unskilled manual work in the host community, and
will be completing this work with members of the community. In this
impoverished community, we will be helping with community development
and serving basic needs, often by doing construction.
Q: What will our day look like?
A: Days will consist of eating meals together, spending six hours at the work
site (in two blocks), studying Jewish and secular texts together, and
activities with the host community.
Q: What happens before the trip?
A: We will have three orientation sessions as a group in the spring. These orientation sessions will be an opportunity to meet your fellow trip participants, learn about Nicaragua, get detailed information about our service work, and begin the discussion of the connection between Judaism and social justice.
Q: What is the timeline for applications, interviews, and paying?
A: If you know you’d like to go, please fill out the attached application and email me to set up an interview. We’ll buy our plane tickets within the next week. Money is due to me by March 27th.
Jen Abzug Zaligson
Engagement Director Helene G. Simon Hillel Center
Indiana University
730 E. Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47401
Phone: (812) 336-3824
Fax: (812) 339-1949
jazaligs@indiana.edu
For more information, call or email me and please visit http://www.ajws.org/volunteerfor information and a FAQ sheet on the project.
We have an amazing opportunity for students to do volunteer work on an alternative break in Nicaragua this May. We unexpectedly had a student drop out of the alternative break, and have space open on the trip.
Dates: Sunday, May 10th – Sunday May 17th (possibly returning on the afternoon of the 18th depending on flights)
Cost: $550* + airfare**
* Of this $550, you will receive approximately $200 back after the trip, thanks to a generous grant. Amount back depends on cost of group travel (to airport), number of students, etc.
**airfare will be +/- $450 Number of IU participants: 9
DESCRIPTION:
Q: What type of work will we be doing?
A: We will be doing mainly unskilled manual work in the host community, and
will be completing this work with members of the community. In this
impoverished community, we will be helping with community development
and serving basic needs, often by doing construction.
Q: What will our day look like?
A: Days will consist of eating meals together, spending six hours at the work
site (in two blocks), studying Jewish and secular texts together, and
activities with the host community.
Q: What happens before the trip?
A: We will have three orientation sessions as a group in the spring. These orientation sessions will be an opportunity to meet your fellow trip participants, learn about Nicaragua, get detailed information about our service work, and begin the discussion of the connection between Judaism and social justice.
Q: What is the timeline for applications, interviews, and paying?
A: If you know you’d like to go, please fill out the attached application and email me to set up an interview. We’ll buy our plane tickets within the next week. Money is due to me by March 27th.
Jen Abzug Zaligson
Engagement Director Helene G. Simon Hillel Center
Indiana University
730 E. Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47401
Phone: (812) 336-3824
Fax: (812) 339-1949
jazaligs@indiana.edu
For more information, call or email me and please visit http://www.ajws.org/volunteerfor information and a FAQ sheet on the project.
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