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upcoming service opportunities April 16, 2010

Courtyard Senior Living

Mondays, 1pm

Walk down Division and hang out with the residents at Courtyard. Every Monday at 1pm, you can participate in their Manicure Hour. Contact Brittany Tate (btate@warnerpacific.edu) if you’re interested.

Sandwich Outreach *New*

Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm

Bummed that Hot Chocolate is over? Get involved with the new Sandwich Outreach. This student-run outreach meets every Wednesday in the Coffee Shop to head downtown and serve sandwiches to the homeless. For more info, contact Kristi Pratt (kpratt@warnerpacific.edu).

Oregon Center for Christian Values—Needs volunteers for advocacy project!

Monday, April 19^th, 10am – Noon

OCCV needs volunteers to stuff envelopes in order to raise awareness about human trafficking.
OCCV will be meeting with Rep. Barton, the OLCC and several partnered organizations on Monday, April 19th, to stuff stickers into envelopes that will be mailed to businesses in Portland and the greater Willamette valley.

OCCV will be meeting at the OLCC offices on the corner of Milwaukie & Portland (9079 SE McLoughlin, Blvd. Portland OR 97222) at 10:00am, there will be a brief press conference at 10:30 followed by letter stuffing until noon. If you have any questions please email our Human Trafficking chairs – Howard Kenyon (howard@hnkconnect.com) or Bryan Colbourne (bryancolbourne@yahoo.com), but to RSVP please respond to this email or call our office at 503.222.2072. **We need to get an accurate volunteer count by Friday, we know this is last minute and we thank you for your involvement.

Growing Gardens

GROWINGGARDENS gets at the root of hunger in Portland, Oregon.  We organize hundreds of volunteers to build organic, raised bed vegetable gardens in backyards, front yards, side yards and even on balconies.  We support low income households for three years with seeds, plants, classes, mentors and more.  Our Youth Grow after school garden clubs grow the next generation of veggie eaters and growers! 

Youth Grow Event

Sunday, April 18, 12-3pm (Food Front Co-op Grocery – Hillsdale)

Sunday, April 24, 2-5pm (Food Front Co-op Grocery – Northwest Portland)

Growing Gardens/Youth Grow is looking for a few volunteers to help with a kids planting table at two local food co-ops. We will be helping kids make newspaper pots and planting seeds. For more information or to sign up contact Nell at 503-284-8420 or nell@growing-gardens.org.

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Growing Gardens needs volunteers to help prep containers for our Grow Anywhere Container Gardeners. Work will be done in their backyard demonstration garden and volunteers will use an electric drill. Times are flexible within Monday-Friday office hours. For more information or to sign up contact Nat at 503-284-8420 or nat@growing-gardens.org.

As always, if you have questions or ideas, send me an email or stop by my office in Schlatter.  And let me know of other service opportunities you would like to see highlighted to the WP campus.

“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”

Marian Wright Edelman