MLK Day of Service

Dear Friends!

It is time to get moving with our big plans for the Martin Luther King Day of Service event. We are very excited to announce that we are doing a big project with our community partners The Telling Room and The Portland Housing Authority. We will be training USM students, members of the NAACP Youth Council and community members to run work shops at the Riverton and Kennedy Park study centers.

These workshops will be focused on creating 6-word memoirs and narratives, where individual youth will use the images, words or lessons of Dr. King to write their own 6 word story. All volunteers who go through the training will then volunteer a couple of evenings at either the Riverton or Kennedy Park centers towards the end of November or in early December.

For more info, come by the Farm house or go the following web page:

http://www.mlkday.gov/

We made the Times!

There is an article on the NY Times webpage about about Americorps!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/us/07land.html?hp

As you will see, it is a bit more romantic than what most of us in Americorps experience, but its not a bad read. It also addresses the important question of "why serve" through the personal stories of a few of the volunteers.

Enjoy!
DaveB

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