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L.A. Works Insider October 2011
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An Inside Look @ L.A. Works' Events and Opportunities
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New Video Just Released
Thanks Rob Naples and Martin Wilson for putting this together for us!
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Volunteer Spotlight: Angie Kim
As a 12 year old when she landed in Los Angeles from Korea, Angie Kim was looking for ways to connect to her new community. A simple web search led her to Making Friends @ Alhambra Convalescent, a monthly L.A. Works project that was walking distance from her home.
Like many of the regular volunteers at this project, she found spending a few hours doing arts and craft projects with the senior residents a gratifying experience each month. She particularly appreciated feeling a common bond with the volunteers of all different backgrounds. MORE>>>
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Some Cool Threads for A Great Cause!
The great looking shirts that the volunteers and leaders were sporting on L.A. Works Day are available @ our apparel sponsor's site, bgreen. Proceeds from the shirts will be donated to L.A. Works!! Do good and look good doing it! L.A. Works Official Apparel Sponsor of 2011
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#ServiceCrawlLA Sponsorship Opps
Join the Downtown Yoga Circle studio in sponsoring the prizes for the November 20 #ServiceCrawlLA event. Yoga Circle is providing two New Student passes as prizes to 2 lucky Crawlers! Do you work somewhere that could offer a prize to a team of up to 6 Crawlers? If so, please email Becca! |
Visit L.A. WORKS' Site for More Volunteer Opportunities
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#ServiceCrawlLA
What are we talking about? A Service Crawl in Los Angeles? Is that like a pub crawl?... Yep it is, but instead of checking out new bars, you’re getting a taste of different nonprofits as you complete a community service project at each site! What do you think, perhaps equally refreshing… in a unique way? We still have space for your team! Get a team together to win some cool prizes and get check out some amazing nonprofit organizations as a part of L.A. Works’ first annual Service Crawl! MORE>>>
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20th Anniversary craft Beer Garden Celebration w/ColLAboration
We're partnering with the masters of the pop-up beer garden, ColLAboration (you may know them better as owners of Mohawk Bend, Blue Palms, Verdugo, The Surley Goat, 38 degrees, and Tony's Darts Away) to host our 20th anniversary celebration. In a beautiful hacienda style garden setting often used for filming and special events, L.A. Works’ guests will relax and enjoy a laidback beer garden event that celebrates Los Angeles’ volunteers who make this city great! Follow us on Twitter and/or Facebook to be the first to get the details and invitation!
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October 22: Make A Difference Day Make A Difference Day is the most encompassing national day of helping others. Held annually on the fourth Saturday of October, millions of Americans are rallied into a single day of action to help change the world. Everyone can participate. Find a need in your community and use the power of Make A Difference Day to mobilize your family, your neighbors, even your entire town into a day of action. MORE>>>
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UBS to Transform Youth Center with new Skate Park
On October 22, L.A. Works is coordinating several hundred UBS employees in service at the Vermont Youth Center. The volunteers will be building a skate park and adding some graffiti art to the grounds as well as doing projects like tile mosaics, creating a garden, and painting the boring white inside walls. We are pleased to lead this UBS team once again in service in celebration of Make a Difference Day.
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Making this Holiday Season Easier
With the holiday season just around the corner, we are excited to share a few unique ways that L.A. Works supports our corporate partners with their holiday needs. In lieu of a holiday party, consider getting the team together for a different type of celebration – a volunteer experience. L.A. Works will coordinate the “party” from start to finish to keep your whole team filled with cheer (especially the HR department who can take a break from planning!). If getting out of the office isn’t what you are looking for, L.A. Works can also help organize a “drive” for clothing, gifts, school supplies, food, etc. for your company. We custom fit every opportunity to your need, so just drop us a line and we can start planning today! MORE>>>
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Curious about what MLK Jr. Day of Service was like this year? Check out this video that Rob Naples created for us!
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Join TARGET and Sponsor MLK Jr. Day
Remember how much fun last year's MLK Jr. Day of Service was?!? Now’s your opportunity to get your company involved in LA’s largest celebration of service in honor of Dr. King. Each year, L.A. Works mobilizes Angelenos join volunteers across the nation "make it a day on, not a day off" with meaningful service, learning, and remembrance. On Monday, January 16, 2012 more than 1000 community and corporate volunteers will join together in revitalizing the campus of a school in Los Angeles to commemorate MLK Jr. Day in Los Angeles. To learn how you can volunteer with your colleagues on this powerful day of activism and action, email Debbie!
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Take Charge, Be a Volunteer Leader!
At every L.A. Works volunteer opportunity, volunteers are greeted by an L.A. Works Volunteer Leader who leads them in meaningful service. Volunteer Leaders are responsible for developing engaging and creative project activities, maintaining a good relationship with their nonprofit partner, communicating with volunteers leading up to the project and leading them on the day-of to maximize impact and ensure that they have a meaningful experience. MORE>>>
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
In October 1987, the first Domestic Violence Awareness Month was observed. That same year marks the initiation of the first national domestic violence toll-free hotline. The activities conducted have common themes: mourning those who have died because of domestic violence, celebrating those who have survived, and connecting those who work to end violence. For volunteer projects serving individuals affected by domestic violence, check out these L.A. Works projects at Women’s Village and Alexandria House.
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20 For 20 Service Crawl Committee
Have you heard? We're celebrating our 20th year! Be part of planning this year's event by bringing your marketing, networking, fundraising and creative skills to the table. The 20 for 20 Celebration is going to include an exciting and unique service experience that you won’t want to miss! The 20 for 20 Service Crawl is calling for organizers! Email Becca and let her know if you’d like to help with the marketing and outreach (or logo design), try to get prizes from local businesses, or the social media efforts.
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Interesting Opps and Bits
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Dale Carnegie Training LA is generously providing quarterly workshops to our volunteer community and corporate partners! Join us on October 26 for the third workshop in this series.
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Enrichment Workshop:
Understanding Diversity
When you connect with a variety of people, you may find that everyone has their own work styles and ways of operating. It's not a simple feat to work with every individual smoothly. This enrichment will offer tools and best practices to put aside differences and find ways to collaborate amongst diverse working habits. What you learn can be a huge eye opener in getting that project or event completed with less stress and fewer road blocks! MORE>>>
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Get Ready for a ShakeOut!
On Thursday, October 20th at 10:20 a.m. millions of people will participate in the 2011 Great California ShakeOut! In 2010, more than 7.9 million Californians practiced Drop, Cover, and Hold On to practice how they will protect themselves during earthquakes, and increased their overall preparedness. In the event of a disaster or emergency, L.A. Works is poised to help connect the spontaneous volunteers who want to help with the nonprofits and social services who need them the most. The main goal of the ShakeOut is to get Californians prepared for major earthquakes, so use the ShakeOut as an opportunity to learn what to do before, during, and after an earthquake. For tips on how to prepare, protect, and recover, MORE >>>
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Evolving our Service Enterprise Thanks to some recent grant funding, the L.A. Works team had the opportunity to travel to Sacramento to join the CaliforniaVolunteers Service Enterprise Initiative workshop. Social enterprises are organizations that leverage volunteers fully in their core operations in an effort to better address the social missions of their organizations. At this workshop we analyzed our own volunteer profile and began to identify the ways to formalize and enhance the processes we have in place. Follow us on Twitter and/or Facebook to be the first to hear about the volunteer opportunities within L.A. Works as well as how we will be sharing our expertise with our nonprofit partner organizations.
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Give Back w/out Opening your Wallet
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Easy FUNdraiser to support volunteers
Please help us with this fun and easy FUNdraiser!! Join Goldstar for free and Goldstar will make a $3 donation to L.A. Works. Plus, Goldstar will give you an instant $5 credit to use toward your first purchase. Goldstar offers half-price tickets to theater, concerts, sports, comedy, family attractions and more! 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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Make a donation as a gift to honor a birthday, anniversary, or just because! Specify which social issue you want your dollars to go to and we’ll send the honoree a  personalized email acknowledging that cause with your gift.
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