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Volunteer Community Service

Volunteer Community Service. Overview. ASCE & Volunteer Community Service Our Annual Service Events What Members are Doing Nationwide How ASCE can reward good work How to have successful volunteer efforts. The CVCS. ASCE Committee on Volunteer Community Service

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Volunteer Community Service

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  1. Volunteer Community Service

  2. Overview • ASCE & Volunteer Community Service • Our Annual Service Events • What Members are Doing Nationwide • How ASCE can reward good work • How to have successful volunteer efforts

  3. The CVCS • ASCE Committee on Volunteer Community Service • Runs Community Service Events at ASCE National Conferences (next year in KC!) • Selects Award Winners for Outstanding Public Service by Section or Individuals • Promotes and Encourages Members to reach out to their Communities

  4. Annual Community Service Events • Planning 2009 Event in Kansas City, MO • 2008 – The Bradley Center, Pittsburgh • 2007 – Frontline Outreach Center, Orlando • 2006 – Boys & Girls Club, Chicago • 2005 – Bradley Senior Center, LA • 2004 – COIL Senior Center, Baltimore • 2003 – Donelson Senior Center, Nashville

  5. Things to doPart 1: working with students • Discussion: • What types of activities do you do, or can you imagine doing, with K-12 students?

  6. Things to doPart 1: working with students • Speaking to classes of kids or big assemblies

  7. Things to doPart 1: working with students • After-school programs

  8. Things to doPart 1: working with students • Career fairs

  9. Things to doPart 1: working with students • Field Trips

  10. Things to doPart 1: working with students • Job Shadow This photo borrowed from Boeing Web Site.

  11. RESOURCES!!! • ASCE’s own resources • http://www.asce.org/kids/ • Order Handouts Through ASCE • Has links to other great resources • COMING SOON – ASCE & PBS team up on New Website for Kids • ENGINEERYOURLIFE.ORG • Great site! Specific focus on young women engineers. • ENGINEERYOURFUTURE.ORG

  12. RESOURCES!!! • Engineering Education Service Center www.engineeringedu.com • Activities, videos, presentations, books, posters, pins, etc. • Feel free to always contact ASCE for any help you may need! • Whatever you want to do, the odds are someone in ASCE is doing something similar.

  13. Things to doPart 2: community involvement • Discussion: • What types of activities can you do to help your community?

  14. Helping the Underprivileged • Food, Toy or Clothing Drives • Fundraising or “Bell-ringing” • Help in Senior Centers, Hospices or Food Pantries • “Adopt-a-YMCA” or similar program • Engineers Without Borders or similar work

  15. Community Improvements • Construction / Rehab Projects • Your Own, Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together, etc… • Skateboard Parks, Playgrounds, Small Bridges • Clean-Ups, Community Gardens, or “Adopt-A-Stream” or “Adopt-a-Highway” programs • “Do Not Dump” Stencilling • Work with Scouts

  16. Steps towards a Successful Public Service Event • Consider working with a charitable organization needing help. • Form a Committee and Allow around 5 months • Plan activities with realistic numbers for volunteers and achievable scopes • Fundraise, seek sponsors or buy supplies • Start seeking volunteers early.

  17. Rewards for Outstanding Community Service • Group Unity and Confidence • ASCE Awards given yearly include Public Service Awards to Groups or Sections and Citizen Awards to Individuals. • Dozens of Other ASCE related Awards can involve community service (Diversity Champion, “Young Faces”, Edmund Freeman, etc.) • Pre-College Outreach Committee will be raffling off laptops to those reporting their activities.

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