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Community Service Bulletin

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Spotlight

Create CityDays 2008!

This great one-day community service event is part of freshmen orientation at MIT and one of the largest service events of the entire year. CityDays is an MIT tradition that requires a great coordinator at its helm, one with exceptional organization and communication skills, and creative vision. Responsibilities include recruiting community agency partners, planning activities, working with PSC and Orientation staff on event logistics and leadership, writing descriptive materials, maintaining contact with group leaders and others, and keeping track of everything. As part of the PSC team, you will be involved in a number of service areas while taking the lead on this very important program. This position requires substantial time, with a minimum of 10-15 hours per week during spring term, and 20 hours per week during summer, with the possibility for full-time employment. Compensation is $10/hour.

To apply, email brief cover letter and resume to Heather, at the MIT Public Service Center, trickett@mit.edu.

One-Time Opportunities

Ongoing Opportunities

Fellowships and Funded Opportunities

One-Time Opportunities

Volunteer this Saturday with Spark! (3/8)
What's Spark? Spark is like the Educational Studies Program, Splash, only in the spring and a kickoff to the longer weekend program, HSSP later this spring.On March 8, hundreds of high school and middle school students converge on the MIT campus, where MIT students and community members teach them short classes on everything they can think of!

Sign up to volunteer and earn yourself a bowler hat! Lots of volunteers are needed to run morning registration, help students change classes, and be security.

If you volunteer, you'll get free food and a free security t-shirt. If you do two security shifts (or substitute helping with morning registration), you get a free bowler hat.

So please volunteer for Spark! It's a big, crazy, awesome event that needs lots of help to pull it off. If you're interested, email yalu@mit.edu.

Prepare for Piping Plover Nesting Season! (3/29)
Work with People Making a Difference (PMD) on Saturday, March 29, 9:15AM-12:30PM, rain or shine, to help prepare for Piping Plover nesting season at South Shore-Third Cliff in Scituate, MA (carpooling available).

The Mass Audubon's Coastal Waterbird Program is one of the most effective entities working to protect coastal birds and barrier beaches in New England. Launched in 1987 in response to declining populations of Piping Plovers and Terns in the Commonwealth, with the primary objective of protecting these species' nesting areas throughout the state, this is accomplished through cooperation with federal, state, and local governing bodies, private and public landowners, Audubon members, and the public.

The vast majority of the 75 sites on the MA coast are public beaches with few or no resources dedicated to the protection of these birds. PMD volunteers will be preparing for protection of nesting, feeding, and resting areas by installing signs, rope, and fence, as well as collecting heavy debris such as lobster traps and knotted ropes.

More info about this program can be found at www.massaudubon.org/cwp/index.php.

No experience is required, but every volunteer must dress appropriately in layered, waterproof, breathable gear and insulated boots/shoes, be able to walk on the sandy beach, and perform physical activity in cold, beach weather for two hours (with breaks).

To sign up, visit www.pmd.org.

Looking for a Career for the Common Good? Attend the Massachusetts Non-Profit Service and Career Fair! (4/2)
Discover and engage with talented, dedicated, passionate individuals and organizations that are committed to social change and service. Explore long-term service opportunities and careers in non-profits on Wednesday, April 2, 5-8PM at City Year Headquarters, 287 Columbus Avenue, in Boston. For more information, contact Naomi Weiner, 617-542-2544, x218, nweiner@mass-service.org, or visit manonprofitservicefair.wordpress.com/.

Ongoing Opportunities

Spend a Few Hours to Help Save Three Lives!
Help the American Red Cross at a local blood drive. The American Red Cross Blood Services of Massachusetts has blood drives in Cambridge every month and most are accessible by the T.

They have opportunities for people to help at local blood drives in the registration and canteen areas.You can volunteer a few hours a week, or a few days a month, according to your schedule.

Call Georgia Cirillo, 978-794-5625, x 14 for more information and an application.

Advocate for Gay and Lesbian Rights!
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), New England’s leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and expression, seeks committed volunteers to staff its Legal InfoLine! Be trained in GLBT/HIV civil rights legal issues. No prior legal experience is needed. Register now for the next training, April 8 & 10 (5:30-9:30PM) and April 12 (9AM-5PM). Volunteer one weekday afternoon a week from 1:30-4:30PM helping people who have experienced discrimination by providing legal information that can make a real difference in their lives! Get more information and an application at www.glad.org/Join_Us/volunteer.php#Legal_Infoline. Call Bruce Bell, 617-426-1350, or email bbell@glad.org for more information.

Lead Hands-on Science Activities with Girls!
The Science Club for Girls is seeking energetic female volunteers to serve as Science Club Leaders at the after school at Fletcher-Maynard Academy in Central Square, a short walk from MIT. Volunteering requires just 2 hours a week of your time on Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30PM. Apply online www.scienceclubforgirls.org.

For more information, contact Kareen Wilkinson, kwilkinson@scienceclubforgirls.org or 617-549-2442.

Help Print-Disabled Students Succeed in their Education.
Come to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) studio to digitally record textbooks in a wide variety of subject areas.

Two-hour recording sessions take place daily, throughout the morning and evening. Ultimately flexible scheduling; you record when it is convenient for you. "Last-minute" and "walk-ons" welcomed. RFB&D records in all academic areas, but there is an acute need for readers in the sciences.

The RFB&D digital-audio recording studio is located at 58 Charles Street, Cambridge, near the Galleria Mall -- a ten-minute, safe walk from Kendall Square.

For a complete information kit, email volboston@rfbd.org.

Help Blind Students…in Russia!
Work in your free time with a local nonprofit, started by MIT staff. The only project in the US helping blind students in Russia needs help with website, blogging, outreach, finding penpals, networking, developing social groups, publicity, etc....

For more information, contact Harris Sussman, harris@sussman.org, 617-629-0048.

Fellowships and Funded Opportunities

Apply for a Spring and/or Summer Public Service Center Fellowship!
The Public Service Center is offering paid Fellowship opportunities for the spring semester and the summer! If you are an MIT student, you can work on a project by yourself, with friends, or apply to join a team selected by the Public Service Fellowships staff. You can create your own project or select an advertised project to work on from the PSC website. All Fellows work on projects that bring sustainable benefits to communities around the world.

Check out the opportunities at web.mit.edu/mitpsc/fellowships/. Applications for summer fellowships are due at noon on March 21. Applications for spring fellowships are accepted on a rolling basis.

For more information, contact Alison Hynd, hynd@mit.edu.

Recruit Students to Apply to Teach For America!

Teach For America is seeking full-time Recruitment Associates for 2008/09 school year,
beginning in July. Read the complete job description and apply by March 16 at
tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp;jsessionid=2AF05C873D2CD41DF943A92149E20AF7?org=TEACHFORAMERICA&cws=1&rid=1428.

The recruitment team at Teach For America is responsible for enlisting this country’s most Promising future leaders to join our movement to eliminate educational inequity. Recruitment associates play an essential role in this team’s success, and comprise over one-third of its 200 members. Each recruitment associate reports directly to a recruitment director and together they work to develop and execute strategies to achieve ambitious goals for recruiting a diverse group of corps members across a portfolio of colleges and universities. Within their portfolio, recruitment associates also take on primary ownership of the recruitment campaigns at one or more emerging campuses, schools where Teach For America has historically had a limited presence. The recruitment associate is responsible for developing the strategy, creating a marketing plan, and leveraging resources to execute a successful campaign.

The ideal candidate will have:
- A Bachelor’s degree
- 0 to 4 years of experience
- Experience working with organizational systems (e.g. Excel, databases) preferred

The MIT Public Service Center is not responsible for the quality or safety of outside service agencies, and does not screen volunteer placements or projects.

The Community Service Opportunities bulletin is published once a week by the staff of the MIT Public Service Center. To access information about previously published opportunities, please visit the archives on the right column. If you have questions, feel free to call us at 617-253-0742, or stop by 4-104.

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