State: California Field: Community Educatio ...	Latino Youth for Community Preparedness Our venture idea is to educate our community in ways that they can protect themselves and loved ones in the event of a natural disaster or in an emergency situation. Our focus would be to provide bilingual (Spanish and English) first aid and disaster preparedness trainings. We want to help people re . . .   Read more
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State: New Hampshire Field: Youth Volunteer Se ...	The NH Board of Youth Volunteers The NH Board of Youth Volunteers (NHBYV) serves as a network of young volunteers from around the state of NH that exemplify the power of youth. This Board of Youth Volunteers has been designed to bring youth volunteers, between grades 7-12, together throughout the year to plan, organize, execute and . . .   Read more
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State: California Field: Environment	Mission Recycling Committee The Mission Recycling Committee (MRC) adds to the efforts of improving the environment by advocating recycling. The focus is to establish a long lasting recycling program, to encourage recycling, and to spread recycling awareness to every student at the school. At Mission High, there is a requirem . . .   Read more
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State: New York Field: Education	Redemption, Inc. Redemption, Inc. is a community-based non-profit organization serving disadvantaged and underserved youth ages 13-19 within marginalized communities in urban areas. Redemption encourages the educational advancement of youth by promoting intergenerational learning, community involvement, and self-adv . . .   Read more
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State: New York Field: Youth Enrichment	Action Courage Action Courage is the answer to filling the gap between ideas and action. We provide our clientele access to a database of connections and resources that will help breakdown many daunting and time-consuming barriers. We target students who have creative ideas but need an infrastructure to crystalliz . . .   Read more
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State: New York Field: Education	Team H.O.P.E. We are the Haven of Opportunities for Progress in Education (H.O.P.E.). H.O.P.E.'s mission is to enhance the lives of elementary school children who have been affected by domestic violence and who, therefore, live in shelters. Our team is composed of students from the Opportunity Programs at NYU. Th . . .   Read more
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State: South Carolina Field: Youth Volunteer Se ...	Carolina Service Council The purpose of the Carolina Service Council is to organize service events and social awareness campaigns in the community surrounding the University of South Carolina. CSC is committed to the development of students through leadership and service to others, and to its community through the organizat . . .   Read more
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State: New Hampshire Field: Arts & Cultural Aw ...	Rhythm & Rhymes Records Our venture is trying to break cultural boundaries with our talents in music. We want to bring our diverse population together. We've noticed that some people aren't very accepting and we want to change that. We want to expose other cultures and have people from different backgrounds join together a . . .   Read more
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State: New York Field: Community Educatio ...	Get Right Get Right will work to ameliorate the iniquities that exist in today's legal system. Observing that too often, low-income citizens who are accused of crimes receive sub-par legal representation without any further help, we believe that addressing the topical problem without treating the underlying c . . .   Read more
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State: Illinois Field: Technology	The Community Learning Center The Community Learning Center is an independent ecumenical organization located at 4500 S. Prescott Ave. in Lyons. The Community Learning Center is open to all local area residents regardless or creed, nationality or sexual orientation. The Center was founded in 2005 by several local educators with . . .   Read more
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State: Massachusetts Field: Youth Volunteer Se ...	Team Ultimate Team Ultimate is aimed towards preadolescence aged inner-city girls. We meet once a week for roughly 8 weeks (which makes up one "session"), to teach the sport of ultimate Frisbee and use it as a tool to touch upon other important life skills, such as teamwork, respect for others, and self confiden . . .   Read more
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State: New York Field: Education	Promoting Immigrant Voices in Education Our purpose is to further immigrant parents' awareness of their rights to translation and interpretation services in NYC public schools, in order to provide greater opportunities for meaningful involvement in their children's education. Through collaboration with individual schools, we hold communi . . .   Read more
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State: New Hampshire Field: Youth Volunteer Se ...	Birthday Wish Our venture provides party packages for disadvantaged children. Each package contains the nessessary parts of a successful party, including streamers, plates, a cake, frosting, and even a present for the birthday girl or boy. Also, the second part of our venture involves helping more fortunate famil . . .   Read more
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State: Kansas Field: Youth Volunteer Se ...	Hands on Wichita Hands on Wichita ultimately strives to bring the community together in a cohesive effort to make Wichita a better and more supportive place for a young person to grow. To accomplish this goal, Wichita's Promise Youth Council (WPYC) is coordinating Hands on Wichita, a one day event that brings toget . . .   Read more
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State: New Hampshire Field: Youth Enrichment	Suncook Valley Sports Swap We are going to hold sport swaps twice per year where families can buy gently used sports equipment for much less than retail prices. The money that the swap makes will go toward "sportships" to help pay the sign up fees for our town and school sports for families in need of a little help. This way, . . .   Read more
• Read Comments on this Entry       • Post your own Comment on this Entry< We do this by conducting safety-related projects, such as speaking to kids about how to prepare for disasters,handing out safety pamphlets, and distributing safety packets . . .   Read more
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State: California Field: Health	SIRUM (Supporting Initiatives for the Redistributi ... SIRUM will utilize real time, simple information technology to connect clinics and hospitals with charitable suppliers to ensure that usable medicine reaches under-served communities. SIRUM will accomplish this by acting as an online exchange that streamlines the process of matching demand for medi . . .   Read more
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State: Missouri Field: Education	Kansas City Wall of Fame and Shame As teenagers, who respect ourselves, we noticed that there is a serious problem with retailers marketing alcohol, other drugs and bad choices to teenagers. As proud Youth Service members, The Wall of Fame and Shame campaign was designed to alert our communities to what retail stores sell to our yout . . .   Read more
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State: California Field: Youth Enrichment	The Disability Awareness Team The Disability Awareness Team goal is to educate people on the challenges faced by the visually and hearing impaired community. We are learning sign language and are planning to take braille classes so we can teach others the way the deaf and blind communicate. We are planning to have one week in M . . .   Read more
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State: Florida Field: Youth Volunteer Se ...	Homebound Boca Raton, Inc. The purpose of Homebound Boca Raton is to provide transportation to high school students as an alternative to irresponsible driving situations such as: drunk driving, over-occupancy of vehicles, and driving past the legal curfew. . . .   Read more
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State: Pennsylvania Field: Violence Preventio ...	It Could Be Me It Could Be Me is an organization composed of twenty teenage students that are making a difference in the world. Our goal is to educate, help resolve humanitarian crises, and natural disasters going on in the world today. We want our younger generation to get invovled to help because our future depe . . .   Read more
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