Rippling Waters Organic Farms

Its not too late!

Sunday August 30th (this Sunday) we will be joining with a team of USM students to visit Rippling Waters Organic Farms from noon to 3pm. Rippling Waters Organic Farm is a non-profit entity which provide community gardens, school gardens, grows food for the local food pantries, and increases the educational aspects at the farm for visitors. We will learn about their community outreach program and roll up our sleeves in the fields and get a bit dirty!!

Transportation will be provided via a bus leaving from the Gorham Campus at noon from the athletic complex.

Please feel free to send me an email at dcimato@usm.maine.edu if you are interested!!

-DMC

Maine Coastal Cleanup

Hey everyone,

USM will be participating in the Maine Coastal Cleanup ---

https://www.maine.gov/spo/coastal/projects/coastweek/cleanup.htm

Friday September 18 at 9am, will be the date. The specific beach to be announced...

-DMC

Mozilla Service Week September 14th-21st

Hi Everyone -

I came across this service opportunity on idealist.org, and figured it might interest the more tech-savvy of you interested in community service.

http://mozillaservice.org/learn_more/index/en_US

Web browser Mozilla Firefox is calling on everyone to do community service through, or around, the internet between September 14th and 21st. If you follow the link above you will see a few of their suggestions for what to do.

If you do take up this call to service, let us know and log your hours!

Cheers,
DAB

Fall Events Lineup!

Hey Y'all,

DMC here with some volunteer opportunities available for this fall:

9/11 - Deering Oaks Park Cleanup
9/12 - 9/19 - Maine Coastal Cleanup
9/24 - American Red Cross Blood Drive in the Planetarium
10/9 - Habitat for Humanity Build
10/17 - Iris Network White Cane Awareness Walk

All these are great one time events to get involved with. Look for something coming up in the next week or so in Gorham Maine too!!

And if you have not heard, we will be at the Big Brother Big Sister Yard Sale tomorrow all morning in the USM Portland Campus Athletic Center. Help out a great mentoring organization and get some really cool stuff for cheap prices. Then I will see you at the beach!!

Over and out.

New School Year!! And Service Year!!

We are back and in action!!

This is David here, but since there are two David's in the office, I will just go by DMC to make it easy. I am the volunteer coordinator for USM and will be posting on here as often as I can.

Along with me, Lauren, Alicia, David (DB) and our counterpart Brittany in the SGA office are tackling the new school year full-steam ahead. We will be managing our facebook and email accounts, so feel free to send us messages and invites. We want to be included!!

So I hope everyone enjoyed the summer, I actually can't wait til it cools down!!



And FYI:

September 11 will be a National Day of Service in our nation. We will be joining in a Deering Oaks Park Clean-Up with the Hour Exchange Portland that day. If your in the area we would love to meet everyone and spend what will be a great day together. More details will follow in the coming weeks..

-DMC