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Earth Day of Service
Sponsor Spotlight
TravelStore
bgreen/Nature USA
Starbucks Coffee
Clean Agency
Corner Bakery
Alacer
LÄRABAR
Costco
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Project Spotlight:
Kids in the Kitchen
On the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, L.A. Works’ volunteer project leader Andrea Schenck leads a volunteer based cooking and crafts project for the kids at The Center for Lifelong Learners. The center is a nonprofit that serves the community as a safe after-school center. The focus of “Kids in the Kitchen” is to provide a fun and safe environment where the kids have an opportunity to learn about cooking and crafts. Through cooking there are so many opportunities to learn – including math, science, reading, art and nutrition. The project hit a high when the children where successful at executing a Thanksgiving meal – we roasted Cornish game hens and called them mini “turkeys”. The children did it all, from cleaning the birds (most of the children had never touched raw poultry), dressing, basting, making a gravy and of course eating their perfectly roasted hens!
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Leimert Park Village, the historical enclave of black culture and arts in Los Angeles, has been showing signs of new life lately with a new monthly arts walk, music and arts festivals each summer, and the opening of a studio by internationally renowned artist Mark Bradford.
With such positive momentum driving interest to this hidden neighborhood, L.A. Works is excited to partner with the community, including Ben Caldwell, proprietor of the new media education center Kaos Network and a Leimert Park mainstay, to support residents in their work to establish Leimert Park as a black center of culture and a model of self-determination. Follow us on twitter and become a Facebook Fan to stay ahead of the news about L.A. Works Day 2011 on July 16th in celebration of our 20th anniversary!
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National Volunteer Week Celebration
We are inspired by you, our LA volunteer community! National Volunteer Week provides us an opportunity to display to the nation that by working together, we have the fortitude to meet our challenges and accomplish our goals. L.A. Works celebrates National Volunteer Week with innovative and empowering experiences between April 10-16 for over 700 Angelenos to get connected to their community. MORE >>>
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Earth Day: Community Gardening
On April 23, L.A. Works will host an environmental service project to celebrate Earth Day in a residential neighborhood in Watts. The project will include creating a new community garden space and revitalizing an existing garden area. Once complete, the community will manage the garden and plant vegetables and fruits in their leased plots. MORE>>>
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Chavez Day of Service a Success!
L.A. Works community volunteers and LAUSD school children celebrated service and honored Chavez’s birthday with a project in Echo Park to create community murals for local schools and libraries. Volunteers did a fabulous job setting up the paint areas for muralist Oscar Magallanes and kids as well as interacting with the children throughout the morning! For the news clips from the day, click MORE >>>
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Jonathan Club volunteers built garden beds in the kindergarten area for herbs, flowers and vegetables, planted flowers and shrubs along both sides of the entrance ramp, and painted bright murals across the campus.
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Jonathan Club Commits to Castelar
Fifty Jonathan Club members spent a Saturday morning in March painting and planting at Castelar Elementary School. Castelar Elementary School is a K-5 school with about 700 students in Historic Chinatown. Chinatown has been a gateway community for immigrants for many years, making Castelar one of the most diverse schools in the city. The club members enjoyed their volunteer experience with L.A. Works so much that they are considering additional ways to support the community, like adopting Castelar for the year and completing additional service projects there. For facebook photos, click MORE >>>
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L.A. Weekly's Celebration of Theater
On Monday April 4, 2011 LA Weekly celebrated local theater with their 32nd annual LA Weekly Theater Awards. The event was hosted by the Steve Allen theater troupe at the El Rey in the Miracle Mile, with Raffle proceeds benefiting L.A. Works.
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CBeyond's Commitment to LA
Mirroring the entrepreneurial spirit of the company and its small-business customers, Cbeyond has a "passion-led, employee-driven" community involvement philosophy. Employees are encouraged to follow their passion and volunteer in areas of personal interest. In an effort to support its employees' volunteer initiatives, Cbeyond invests in the community by sharing its "time, talent, and technology" with the organizations in which employees are actively involved. Cbeyond employees have donated more than 40,000 hours in the local community. Since 2008, CBeyond has generously provided us the signature BeyondVoice package of IT and Communications. Thank you! |
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BusinessWorks... in the works for some sunny spring service
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Roll Law Group P.C.
Walton Isaacson
LabWest
Kehillat Israel
Discovery Communications
Deloitte Services LP
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Leadership with L.A. Works
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Full-time JOB opportunity!
Become the newest member of the L.A. Works Team as our Director of Corporate and Community Partnerships... L.A. Works seeks a savvy, energetic, highly motivated individual who is capable of managing the corporate development aspects of the organization’s high-priority corporate initiatives. This position will be responsible for developing and executing short and long-term strategic corporate fundraising plans to raise the resources necessary to achieve the organization's growth objectives. MORE >>>
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Become a Volunteer Leader
@Languille Emergency Shelter
Are you an active L.A. Works volunteer who is ready to test out your leaderships skills? If so, consider leading a volunteer project at Languille Emergency Shelter. This is a chance to support a nonprofit, Good Shepherd Center for Women and Children, whose mission is to provide a temporary home for women in emergency situations, as well as provide clothing, meals and placement into transitional or permanent housing. This is a chance to spend a little bit of time with the women seeking refuge in this shelter, providing companionship, conversation and a little pampering to encourage and show support. Email Gil Gonzales, Director of Programs, for more information.
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Looking for a few good men
(or women!)
Do you like to lead groups, get your hands dirty, and see different areas across Los Angeles? Then the Volunteer Operations Internship position is for you! This intern has the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the nonprofit sector, learn about volunteer event planning, identify unmet community needs, gain leadership experience and contribute to the BusinessWorks and Days of Service programs. Full position description is available here or you can contact Porsha for more information. |
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In Memory of Mark Meinhart
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We are saddened to announce the February 28 passing of Mark Meinhart, a valued member of the L.A. Works family. Mark served as L.A. Works’ Corporate Relations Liaison from 2004 – 2009. He played a key role in connecting the Los Angeles corporate community to L.A. Works Day, Martin Luther King, Jr Day of Service as well as our monthly BusinessWorks projects that benefit local schools and nonprofit organizations.
Mark believed in service. He was a tireless advocate for L.A. Works. As many of you know, Mark was a great storyteller with a fabulous sense of humor. He will be missed. He passed after a brief battle with cancer. Mark’s survivors include his wife Becky and his son Nick. If you would like to contribute to a support fund for his family, please send a check to L.A. Works (570 W. Avenue 26, Suite 400; Los Angeles CA 90065) with Nicolas Meinhard in the memo line. We will send the donations to the family for a scholarship fund that has been set up for Nicholas.
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Share some Spare Airline Miles??
Registration for the 2011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (June 6-8) is now open! L.A. Works staff looks forward to being a part of the world's largest gathering of volunteer leaders from the nonprofit, corporate and government sectors. The conference promises to be a powerful event, attracting more than 4,500 service leaders to share best practices and empower us all to act. But, as you might imagine, a trip like this takes resources... L.A. Works is requesting donations of airline miles to fly two staff members to New Orleans for the conference in June. Please email Debbie if you might be willing to donate your miles to get the staff to this important conference on service. Thanks!!!
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Pick a Date, Any Date...
Website Tip of the Month
Here’s our first in a series of website tips that we are sharing to stay true to our mission to make volunteering in LA easy and accessible! On our new website, the easiest way to find projects that are led by L.A. Works volunteer project leaders is to go to the volunteer calendar that now has its own image on the right side of our homepage, halfway down… then when you are there, select “Opportunity Type: Managed by Us” to find over 90 projects each month that are convenient, do not require an orientation or a long-term commitment. MORE >>>
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Helping Japan
You can help respond to the Japan Earthquakes and Tsunami. Our HandsOn Tokyo affiliate is continuing to monitor the situation and will be identifying volunteer appropriate activities. For now, you can register your interest to volunteer for potential upcoming volunteer opportunities related to the relief and recovery of earthquake and tsunami impacted communities by registering with HandsOn Tokyo. If you live outside of Japan, volunteer opportunities may take longer due to need to find proper accommodations and support for international volunteers. If you register your interest to volunteer, as soon as volunteer opportunities become available HandsOn Tokyo will send you an email updating you on those opportunities. For those seeking family or friends in the devastated areas click here. Connect with other US Based organizations involved in the response here.
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Save Service in America
We know that in February, the House of Representatives proposed the elimination of the Corporation for National and Community Service. The latest short-term budget for the government expires on April 8. Before that date, Congress will have difficult decisions to make regarding federal spending for FY 2011. We also anticipate this week that the House Leadership will release its FY2012 budget proposal. We must continue to advocate on behalf of exemplary service programs such as AmeriCorps, RSVP and Foster Grandparents and the Volunteer Generation Fund. MORE >>>
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Are you an eBay shopper?
Did you know that you can donate $1 or more (up to $25) to support L.A. Works whenever you complete a purchase on eBay and pay using PayPal? At checkout, eBay will invite you to add a donation to your transaction. If you choose to give, eBay will automatically deduct your donation from your PayPal account and eBay’s nonprofit partner MissionFish will forward it L.A. Works! You can preselect which nonprofits will appear on your checkout page, through MyeBay. Please consider L.A. Works as your favorite nonprofit. MORE >>>
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