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Community Service Bulletin

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

One-Time Opportunities

Ongoing Opportunities

Fellowships and Funded Opportunities

One-Time Opportunities

Serve dinner to the men at Pine Street Inn (1/10)
Healthy volunteers are needed to serve dinner to guests at the Men’s Inn at Pine Street Inn, Boston’s largest homeless shelter on January 10, 4:30-6:30 pm. Its mission is to be a community of respect and hope for each guest it serves; to be a resource through which neighbors and friends can help meet the basic needs of others; and to serve as a national leader in the fight to end homelessness.

Pine Street Inn in the South End, and is T-accessible via the Silver Line and Red Line.

To sign up, visit www.pmd.org. 

Ongoing Opportunities

Help print-disabled students succeed in their education.
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic provides learning through listening. Opportunities are ongoing, at our digital-audio recording studio, 58 Charles Street, Cambridge, near the Galleria Mall, a ten-minute, safe walk from Kendall Square.

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. Recording in all academic areas is needed, but there is an acute need for readers in the sciences.

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

Help impoverished children in India: Join the India School Fund!
The India School Fund (ISF) is a MIT-Harvard run nonprofit organization that has built a school in the Indian village of Rajugella and is now looking to create an MIT chapter in order to get more students involved in the many projects going on at ISF.

The MIT chapter will be established by spring 2009 and is looking to recruit MIT students. Some projects the group will be working on include curriculum design, nutrition research, health policy, and water purification.

Contact Wendy Chen, chenzw@mit.edu, or visit the website for more information: www.indiaschoolfund.org.

Join the X PRIZE Lab @ MIT for our spring course on creating revolutionary innovations in bionics!
In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight captured the public's imagination, leveraging a $10M prize into over $100M in innovation. Now the X PRIZE Foundation is developing new prizes to focus innovation around other "Grand Challenge" themes, including healthcare, energy and environment, exploration, and global entrepreneurship.

The spring X PRIZE Workshop is all about generating revolutionary breakthroughs in the life sciences, and this year's teams will focus on the massive breakthroughs that can be achieved in the field of bionics. Students will examine the intersection of incentives and innovation, drawing on economic models, historic examples, and analytic tools to help develop new prize concepts for sparking the kinds of change that will change the way the world thinks about augmented human performance, brain-machine interfaces, and revolutionary new prosthetics technologies.

Students with backgrounds in engineering, science, business and medicine are all welcomed. Enrollment is limited, so apply today: web.mit.edu/xprize.

Questions? Email xprize@mit.edu.

Volunteer as a web designer for a community home in Cambridge.
Project, Inc. would like a volunteer to design a website for their non-profit group home in Cambridge. Work mainly from home and make your own hours!

This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in building his or her resume for web design and/or community service. There would be minimal oversight on the project from the organization, which would allow for a highly motivated individual to experience ownership over their work. Also, this project would allow someone to temporarily become a part of an interesting and local non-profit and gain a deeper understanding of this Cambridge community.

For more information, contact Andrew Wood, awood2@gmail.com, 413-218-2891.

Fellowships and Funded Opportunities

Apply for the Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur Grant (deadline: February 6)
Three grants will be awarded to service learning proposals demonstrating the most innovative and promising use of funds to establish or significantly expand a partnership between the student (and his or her school) and a community non-profit organization. A faculty member and community partner must sign off on the proposal and act as informal advisors.

Apply by January 15, 2009. Applications and information can be found at www.masscampuscompact.org.

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. If you have questions, feel free to call us at 617-253-0742, or stop by 4-104.

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