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MAC Therapeutic Riding: 730am - 1230pm The Michigan Abilities Center offers horse riding lessons to kids and adults who are recovering from injury or suffer from chronic physical or emotional disabilities, since horse riding has shown to strengthen essential muscle groups as well as provide a unique bond between horse and rider. On this project, we will assist in the lessons (leading the horse, spotting the riders), and help the staff with work that needs to be done around lesson times.Everything is outdoors, so dress warmly in clothes you're willing to get a little dirty with sneakers or work-boots.
800am Time Block
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Fen Workday: 800am - 200pm Invasive Species removal. We will be cutting down and applying herbicide to invasive species in the Ives Road Fen. Boots will be provided. Long pants are required and long sleeves recommended.
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Tree Planting with the Greening of Detroit: 800am - 200pm We will help plant 135 shade trees along Jefferson, a major thoroughfare which welcomes visitors and residents to downtown Detroit.
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Books for Kids: 800am - 100pm We will be taking a trip to Detroit to sort and organize books that will be sent to area schools whose tight budgets don't cover new books.
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Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary Workday: 830am - 1230pm We'll be helping with the morning chores of the Rabbit Sanctuary! Cleaning and other workday stuff will be involved so dress appropriately!
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Workday at Matthaei: 840am - 1220pm Removing invasive groundcover, mulching, maybe some planting depending on the weather. Dress to work outdoors. Close-toed shoes and layers. Gloves and tool provided.
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Kiwanis Rummage Sale: 845am - 1215pm Who can possibly resist a Rummage Sale? Come spend the morning helping at the Ann Arbor Downtown Kiwanis Rummage Sale, one of the most popular local sales. Hang out with great Kiwanians, help customers, and maybe even do a little shopping yourself!
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Salvation Army Bell Ringing: 845am - 1115am It's time to kick off bell-ringing season! We will be helping Salvation Army, which aims to help the homeless and underprivileged, ring bells outside of Borders on State St. Make sure to bring your enthusiasm and it'll be a lot of fun!
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Sciencepalooza: 845am - 115pm It's Sciencepalooza at the Children's Hands On Museum! We'll be working with the children who are visiting the museum and assisting them with a variety of hands-on activities relating to this month's theme, which is We've Got Chemistry. If you love science and working with kids, you'll definitely have fun!
900am Time Block
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Volunteering at Hope Medical Clinic: 900am - 1200pm We will be working in their attic, reboxing patient charts and helping to enter patient information into their database. If you are looking to gain some experience in a medical environment, but more importantly, to donate your time to a great place with a great mission, this is for you! Please bring a wireless-enabled laptop with you.
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Meals on Wheels: 915am - 1115am Formerly known as Motor Meals, we will be driving around Ann Arbor delivering meals to people who cannot obtain meals on their own. This is a great way to explore the city and converse with some amazing people!
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Cooley High School Clean-Up: 915am - 230pm We will be working on removing the graffiti found around Cooley High School with an environmentally friendly scrub. Our hard work will help make the school a better learning environment for high school students and assist the schools in promoting higher education in Detroit. It'll be an exciting way to meet new people and really help out a city in need.
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Harding Elementary School Work Day: 915am - 230pm We will be helping Harding Elementary School with moving things and cleaning out a room for a new teacher/parent lounge. Our time and efforts will lift a huge burden off of the faculty of the school and help them achieve the goal of providing better education for their young students. It'll be a fun way to meet new people and really make a difference in a struggling city like Detroit.
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NAP Workday: 930am - 100pm Removal of invasive shrub species, such as Buckthorn, Honeysuckle, and Autumn Olive, at Argo Nature Area which is about 5-10 minutes away. It can be pretty strenuous, but it's also a lot of fun! There will be a staff to train us to use the equipments safely beforehand. Come do community service and enjoy nature at the same time!
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Sequoia Brunch: 930am - 100pm Sequoia Place is an apartment building for senior adults and we will be preparing them a "Resident Appreciation Brunch" and also eating with them!
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Rockin' the CASA Event Set-Up: 930am - 430pm We will be helping the Court Appointed Special Advisors (CASA) Program set up for their Motown-themed fundraising event, Rockin' the CASA! All proceeds from tonight's event will go toward helping neglected and abused children throughout Washtenaw County, and will help give those children a voice in the court system. If you love being friendly, outgoing, and meeting new people, sign up!
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Bingo at Gilbert: 930am - 1130am Yes, BINGO! Join us as this classic game is timeless and fun for all ages-- the young and the young at heart alike.Gilbert Residence, is a nursing home and assisted living service for senior citizens.
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Habitat for Humanity ReStore Help: 945am - 115pm First Shift. It's the ReStore's 3rd Anniversary with a blow-out sale! Come help staff, assist customers, and conduct surveys. They'll even have free popcorn and slushies!
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Tutoring at Hamtramck High School: 945am - 345pm The Bengali Student Association is partnered with the
A. Scott Foundation in the CosMos Leadership Development program. The program's goal is to empower the junior students at Hamtramck High School
through leadership development, academic assistance, test preparation and community service. We will be helping with homework questions the students have. If you love teaching this will be a great project!
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Tutoring at Traverwood Library: 945am - 115pm Enjoy teaching and working with kids? Come tutor with us at the Traverwood Library! We will be offering free homework help and general tutoring questions for any children who walk into the library. It'll be a lot of fun, and feel free to bring some of your own work along also if you like!
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YMCA Cheerleading Tournament Help: 945am - 215pm The YMCA is putting on a flag football and cheerleading tournament this Saturday at Ypsilanti High School and they need volunteers to help coach some of the cheer squads. We will be learning the routine with one of the regular coaches and then helping lead the squads of 8 to different fields to help cheer for different teams. If you love kids and cheerleading and football, this project will be a blast! You do not need to have prior cheerleading experience, just a willingness to learn and be enthusiastic!
1000am Time Block
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Bucketing for Dance Marathon: 1000am - 1200pm This year Circle K has their own Dance Marathon team. Come help raise money for Dance Marathon a non-profit organization that raises money for Beaumont and Mott Children's Hospitals for children rehabilitation and therapy programs. The more people that come out for the event the more we will be able to raise for such a great cause!
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Careers in Social Justice Event Set-up: 1015am - 1245pm The format of this event provides opportunity for students to meet and engage with former U-M students currently engaged in social justice work either through a career path or otherwise. One way that students will meet these individuals is through panel discussions that address focused areas of work. Another way is through a networking session that will take place at the end of the day. Volunteers will be helping set-up the event and are encouraged to stay if they want!
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Salvation Army Bell Ringing: 1045am - 115pm It's time to kick off bell-ringing season! We will be helping Salvation Army, which aims to help the homeless and underprivileged, ring bells outside of Borders on State St. Make sure to bring your enthusiasm and it'll be a lot of fun!
1100am Time Block
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Recycle Ann Arbor ReUse Center Help: 1115am - 115pm Recycle Ann Arbor is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to providing education and innovative services in the collection, processing and distribution of recyclable materials. The center receives a ton of cool items that we will be sorting, cleaning, pricing, and preparing for resale!
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Flower Planting with Geco Travel: 1130am - 300pm Geco Travel will be making Ann Arbor look pretty by planting tulip bulbs at several supportive housing properties around Ann Arbor . It will be a lot of fun, so come help out and make Ann Arbor look beautiful. All volunteers will receive a 10% discount on a to Costa Rica, courtesy of Geco Travel!
1200pm Time Block
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Card Making for Hugs and Hope: 1200pm - 200pm Children fighting for their lives have very little to smile about. You can change that by sending them some "Happy Mail." Cheery cards give these kids a few more smiles, a little more hope, and a reason to get out of bed each day. Experience the satisfaction of making a sick child's day and giving them something to look forward to. Send a card and a hug -- one of the smiles you create just might be your own!
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Food Packaging with Gleaners Food Bank: 1215pm - 430pm As one of the oldest food banks in the United States, Gleaners Community Food Bank's mission is to turn surplus food, which otherwise would go to waste, into millions of nutritious meals for hungry people in southeastern Michigan. Today, we will be heading to their Taylor distribution center to package food for families in need!
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MAC Workday: 1230pm - 530pm The Michigan Abilities Center offers horse riding lessons to kids and adults who are recovering from injury or suffer from chronic physical or emotional disabilities, since horse riding has shown to strengthen essential muscle groups as well as provide a unique bond between horse and rider. We will be helping with various tasks around the farm to improve lessons, organize information, and to improve the environment around the center. Dress warm, it may or may not be outside.
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Habitat for Humanity ReStore Help: 1245pm - 415pm Second Shift. It's the ReStore's 3rd Anniversary with a blow-out sale! Come help staff, assist customers, and conduct surveys. They'll even have free popcorn and slushies!
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Salvation Army Bell Ringing: 1245pm - 315pm It's time to kick off bell-ringing season! We will be helping Salvation Army, which aims to help the homeless and underprivileged, ring bells outside of Borders on State St. Make sure to bring your enthusiasm and it'll be a lot of fun!
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Geocaching with the Leslie Science Center: 1245pm - 315pm We'll be helping out with Leslie Science Center's Geocaching event, where kids will use GPS systems to ramble through the forest and fields in search of a hidden treasure.
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Sciencepalooza: 1245pm - 445pm It's Sciencepalooza at the Children's Hands On Museum! We'll be working with the children who are visiting the museum and assisting them with a variety of hands-on activities relating to this month's theme, which is We've Got Chemistry. If you love science and working with kids, you'll definitely have fun!
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Tutoring at Traverwood Library: 1245pm - 415pm Enjoy teaching and working with kids? Come tutor with us at the Traverwood Library! We will be offering free homework help and general tutoring questions for any children who walk into the library. It'll be a lot of fun, and feel free to bring some of your own work along also if you like!
100pm Time Block
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Hikone Community Center Help: 115pm - 400pm The Community Action Network is an organization that aims to assist low-income families with food, shelter, and family services such as after school programs for children. We will be going to one of their centers, Hikone Community Center, to help maintain the center and gardens. It will be a fun time to get to know your other volunteers and help out all of the families who rely on the center!
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Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary Workday: 130pm - 530pm We'll be helping with the morning chores of the Rabbit Sanctuary! Cleaning and other workday stuff will be involved so dress appropriately!
200pm Time Block
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Creative Painting at Gilbert: 200pm - 500pm Come to Gilbert Residence (a nursing home and assisted-living community) for Creative Painting! The residents will be given black & white photographs which they will be painting on with whatever colors they decide. We will be setting up the activity, helping during the painting session and then cleaning up!
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Cookie Decorating for the Veterans Haven House of Hope: 200pm - 300pm We will be decorating cookies and containers to give to the Veterans Haven House of Hope for the residents to enjoy. As these veterans have a lot of other struggles in their lives, it really brightens their day to come home to freshly made treats. It'll be fun for anybody who loves cookies and decorating!
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Decoration Help at Salvation Army: 200pm - 500pm Come help decorate the Salvation Army for the Holiday Season! They have all the supplies; you just need to do the decorating. They have bagels too!
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Salvation Army Bell Ringing: 245pm - 515pm It's time to kick off bell-ringing season! We will be helping Salvation Army, which aims to help the homeless and underprivileged, ring bells outside of Borders on State St. Make sure to bring your enthusiasm and it'll be a lot of fun!
300pm Time Block
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Saline Craft Show: 300pm - 630pm Saline Middle School is hosting its annual craft show and they need help cleaning up. The craft show is a great way to expose children to art, and they will need a lot of help afterward putting everything away. It'll be a fun time and you might get to see some of the cool art they have too!
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Go Blue! Beat OSU Can Drive: 330pm - 530pm Help collect canned goods around the Ann Arbor community for the Go Blue! Beat OSU Can Drive. All collected cans will be donated to Gleaners Food Bank to provide for families and schools in need. The cans will then be weighed to see whether Michigan or Ohio State can collect the most non-perishables throughout the week. Show your Maize and Blue spirit and help out a great cause!
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Avalon Housing Office Help: 345pm - 615pm Avalon Housing is a non-profit organization that provides affordable housing to many people who were homeless or have a mental/physical disability. We will be helping Avalon Housing reorganizing and packing their supplies.
400pm Time Block
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United 2 Heal: 400pm - 600pm We will be working with the student organization United to Heal to sort medical supplies to ship out to countries in need. Last year over 1 million dollars worth of medical supplies were donated!
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Careers in Social Justice Event Breakdown: 415pm - 645pm The format of this event provides opportunity for students to meet and engage with former U-M students currently engaged in social justice work either through a career path or otherwise. One way that students will meet these individuals is through panel discussions that address focused areas of work. Another way is through a networking session that will take place at the end of the day. Volunteers will be helping with event breakdown.
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Tech Day Help: 430pm - 730pm Tech Day is the University of Michigan College of Engineering's annual fall event that invites prospective college students and their parents to explore Michigan Engineering. We will be helping distribute lunch to all of the high school visitors!
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Salvation Army Bell Ringing: 445pm - 715pm It's time to kick off bell-ringing season! We will be helping Salvation Army, which aims to help the homeless and underprivileged, ring bells outside of Borders on State St. Make sure to bring your enthusiasm and it'll be a lot of fun!
500pm Time Block
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MAC Workday: 500pm - 830pm The Michigan Abilities Center offers horse riding lessons to kids and adults who are recovering from injury or suffer from chronic physical or emotional disabilities, since horse riding has shown to strengthen essential muscle groups as well as provide a unique bond between horse and rider. We will be helping with various tasks around the farm to improve lessons, organize information, and to improve the environment around the center. Dress warm, it may or may not be outside.
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Rockin' the CASA Event Help: 530pm - 1130pm CASA, a volunteer program serving neglected and abused children in Washtenaw County, is putting on a fundraising event called Rockin' the CASA, which is Motown-themed this year! We will be helping them with various tasks during the event, such as registering guests, selling raffle tickets, and helping to process their auction sales.
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Leslie Science Center Mailing Help: 545pm - 815pm The Leslie Science Center is a local Ann Arbor organization that hopes to educate and raise awareness about the environment to young children and their families. We will be helping them complete some very important mailings they are sending out to help maintain their programs. They love working with Circle K and really appreciate all that we do. It'll be a fun way to get to know your fellow volunteers!
600pm Time Block
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Salvation Army Bell Ringing: 645pm - 915pm It's time to kick off bell-ringing season! We will be helping Salvation Army, which aims to help the homeless and underprivileged, ring bells outside of Borders on State St. Make sure to bring your enthusiasm and it'll be a lot of fun!
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PROVIDES Care Package Event: 800pm - 930pm We will be working with PROVIDES to assemble care packages and write letters to children in developing countries. PROVIDES is an organization committed to fighting against world hunger and to providing children in needs with basic necessities. Come and write to Balkissa, the child that Circle K members sponsor!
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United 2 Heal: 800pm - 1000pm We will be working with the student organization United to Heal to sort medical supplies to ship out to countries in need. Last year over 1 million dollars worth of medical supplies were donated!
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United 2 Heal: 1000pm - 1200am We will be working with the student organization United to Heal to sort medical supplies to ship out to countries in need. Last year over 1 million dollars worth of medical supplies were donated!
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Stay Healthy, Stay Hydrated: 100am - 300am Come pass out water and condoms from UHS on South University to people leaving the bars to keep them healthy and hydrated! The more, the merrier!
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United 2 Heal: 200am - 400am We will be working with the student organization United to Heal to sort medical supplies to ship out to countries in need. Last year over 1 million dollars worth of medical supplies were donated!
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United 2 Heal: 400am - 600am We will be working with the student organization United to Heal to sort medical supplies to ship out to countries in need. Last year over 1 million dollars worth of medical supplies were donated!
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Success by Six Packets: 600am - 800am Interested in early child care and development? Washtenaw Success by Six is a program that has a mission to prepare all children in Washtenaw county for school by the age of 5 or 6. They send packets with developmentally appropriate materials to parents to help them raise their kids and learn about health care and support networks. We will be helping them prepare these packets to be sent to local parents. It will be a great opportunity to help educate the community and get to know your fellow Circle K members!
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