The Campus Kitchens Project continues promoting the message of Martin Luther King this MLK Service Day with seven in-network and eleven out-of-network organizations implementing service projects as sub-grantees. Below are proposed projects for each organization. Collectively, the groups may produce over 900 volunteers and 12,000 meals this year.
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| Ambassadors of Caring will participate in a year-long program, which includes a fall semester of project planning, a MLK Day kickoff event for each of their individual projects, and a semester of service in which they implement their individual or group projects. The projects will culminate with a final community celebration on May 20th, 2010 at Drexel University. |
College of William and Mary Campus Kitchen
| The Campus Kitchen at William and Mary organized five projects that will occur over the course of a semester, all designed to combat poverty in Williamsburg. Through these five projects, CKWM will provide supplemental, nutritious meals to low income families and individuals while building a connection within the communities through various planned activities. |
Duke University Center for Civic Engagement – Durham Programs
| Duke is partnering with North Carolina Central University, Southern High School, Durham Rotary Club, and Stop Hunger Now on a joint Million Meals service event. These groups will pack 60,000 nutritious, dehydrated rice-soy based meals for distribution amongst children in crisis-burdened areas and school lunch programs in developing countries. Specifically, Ghana, Bolivia, and Hati. |
Everett Community College – Center for Service Learning
| EvCC will work to implement a year-long, quarter of service project directed towards alleviating hunger and isolaton of homeless and under-resourced community members by making and distributing meals on the streets. Other service projects will include clothing and toiletry drives and street outreach activities. EvCC will also be working to implement a National Day of Service on MLK Day to assist senior citizens and disabled community members in need of chore services. The MLK Day event will commence with a community meal at Everett’s Vineyard Church where volunteers can reflect and share experiences. |
Gettysburg College Campus Kitchen
| Virtually Delicious is a food based service project. Students from CKGC will provide computers for the youth at El Centro in order for them to learn computer literay skills while learning about nutrition. This will be achieved through internet exploration, learning to use Microsoft Office, online games, planning family menus, and creating a final power point presentation. This is a semester long program. |
| CKLEE students will partner with city’s Dream Keeper Award committee and Haven Place to engage award recipients and disadvantaged youth in four ‘Service Saturdays’. On these days, the youth will serve hot meals to low income families and the homeless. |
| On Monday, January 18th, The Mission Continues and St. Louis University Campus Kitchen will host a food drive to honor the memory of Dr. King and his continuing legacy of service. Volunteers are asked to bring non-perishable food items for the kitchen. Volunteers will also help organize donations and cook a meal that will be distributed to low-income, elderly, and disabled community members. |
New Life Community Kitchen
| Will work with CKLEE and the Dream Keepers award committee on MLK Day and throughout the semester to complete a series of food drives and service projects. In addition, they will launch a Culinary Job Training Program at Lee University. To kick-off this program, an event will be had at the Community Soup Kitchen. A meal will be preapred by the trainees and served by local high school and college students. |
Oklahoma City MLK Holiday Commission
| The coalition will provide a Food Pantry in conjunction with the MLK Job Fair on MLK Day 2010. Their hope is that the food pantry will help alleviate hunger in Oklahoma City. They will target the NE sector of Oklahoma City. Their goal is to feed at least 120 families |
| St. Andrew’s will kickoff their new Campus Kitchen by doing a pilot day of service on MLK Day. Once implemented, the Campus Kitchen will operate 1 day per week and provide appoximately 75 noonday meals for participants in the Bethesda Cares meal program. During the semester of service, St. Andrew’s will provide opportunities for students to be engaged in meaningful service learning through partner organizations. |
St. Lawrence University David Garner Center for Volunteerism
| St. Lawrence will be hosting a service event to honor MLK and also to help kick-off the opening of their Campus Kitchen. They will be hosting an information fair, panel discussion, and food fact maze to raise awareness about hunger, food distribution and waste, and social justice. They will close with a recycled food meal served at the Universalist Unitarian Church. |
The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest
| CKWF will partner with The Shalom Project and El Buen Pastor on a semester long project to implement a community garden. The project kick-off will be on MLK Day 2010. The goal of the project is to plant and maintain 3 gardens throughout Winston-Salem – near WFU, in Old Town, and in West Salem. These gardens will help lead community members and students in an invesitgation of nutrition and social justice. |
Tikvat Israel Youth & Family Programming Department
| Tikvat and USY (6th-12th graders) will partner with a local youth group to complete a service project at N Street Village (supplies services to homeless women in DC) on MLK Day 2010. Following MLK Day, Tikvat will host a variety of social action projects throughout the semester. These will consist of a canned food drive, a personal-sized toiletry drive, Sunday Night Supper for N Street residents, assisting with the Annual Street Clean Up of Baltimore Road, and delivering Passover Packages for those in need of Sedar items. They will also be completing fundraising projects to help mee their pledge to Tikum Olam. Some of the projects will be a macaroni and cheese grogger sale and a car wash. |
Tulane University, Center for Public Service
| Tulane and Loyola University will partner to build community partnerships, raise student volunteers, and launch their semester of service during the MLK Week of Peace. Students will volunteer on MLK Day with local shelters and rehab centers to prepare and serve meals and remodel their facilities and communal areas. While volunteering, students will provide educational activities about MLK, stress management, community building, healthy eating, and affordable/available community services. Tulane will also be launching “Taste of Solidarity”, to bring students from partnering unveristies together in service projects that target NOLA hungery and homeless populations. |
United Way of Pierce County – Pierce United
| Will engage local student volunteers in 8-10 service projects on January 16th, 2010, in honor of MLK. The projects will address issues such as homelessness, hunger, and veteran services. Volunteer opportunities will be available for 12 weeks folllowing MLK Day for volunteers who wish to follow up on their pledge for service and nonviolence. On April 24th, 2010, students will be asked to volunteer again for Global Youth Service Day and demonstrate how they have fulfilled their pledges. |
University of Nebraska at Omaha
| U of N Omaha will provide meaningful service activities for local youth on the non school day. Participating youth will learn, serve, and express themselves through the arts and centered around the theme “Building the Beloved Community”. |
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Campus Kitchen
| CKUWEC will host a series of service events in the Eau Claire community. On MLK Day 2010, volunteers will share a meal with community members in need. The following month, CKUWEC will kick off its first semester of service project with an OXFAM hunger awareness banquet. In March they will work with Community Table to host a meal prepared by ex-offenders. This meal will kick off CKUWEC’s Culinary Job Training program. Finally, in April they will work with youth and young adults in their community to remove invasive species. |
Washington and Lee University Campus Kitchen
| On MLK Day 2010, CKWL studens will host a Serive Day in Glasgow, VA, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Service Day will extend into a semester of service in which CKWL will partner with Glasgow Food Bank and St. John’s Episcopal Church to serve weekly meals to the Glasgow community. |
