L.A. Works Insider June 2012 
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L.A. Works Day of Service with the LA Fire Department
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Visit L.A. WORKS' Site for More Volunteer Opportunities
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New Video Release:
The MLK Day 2012 video is now available for viewing on youtube!!
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L.A. Works Day Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities
Join L.A. Works Day Sponsors Supporting the LAFD Training Center beautification projects and Service Crawl 2012:
L.A. Works began organizing Days of Service events in 1991 to give companies a civic opportunity to impact their community. Since then hundreds of businesses have helped mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers to make a difference in Los Angeles.
Companies choose to get involved for a variety of reasons:
* building their brand with the public;
* enhancing corporate culture, boosting team-work, and productivity through improved employee morale; and
* showing support for improving lives in local communities.
To learn more about corporate fiscal sponsorship opportunities for L.A. Works Day 2012, please email L.A. Works Executive Director, Debbie Brutchey. |
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This year’s L.A. Works Day of Service volunteers will tend to one of LA's most revered landmarks, the Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center in Elysian Park. The training center is often the focal point from which Angelenos honor first responders who have fallen in the line of duty. The Hotchkin Training Center, the main training center for In-service training is in a grand Art Deco building near Dodger Stadium that once housed a Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center. In 1995, the building was vacated by the military and transferred to the Fire Department. It is named the Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center, after a firefighter who died while fighting a fire there in 1980 after falling through a fire-weakened roof. On how to get involved in the day, click MORE>>>
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Service Crawl LA is Back!
Did you miss last year's Service Crawl? Don't fret, because we're bringing it back in full swing for its Second Annual rendition as part of our annual L.A. Works Day of Service on Saturday July 21st. Get a team of friends together to race around Los Angeles engaging in a variety of fun service projects at local agencies, solving clues, gaining points and winning great prizes. Sign Up Your Team or if you're more of the event planning type and want to help behind-the-scenes in making this day come alive, join our Service Crawl Committee instead.
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L.A. Works Enrich & Serve:
Curb the Conflict
This new Enrich and Serve series is designed to provide volunteers with an opportunity to learn new skills and make a deeper connection to service, other volunteers, and the greater community. Our a partnership with Dale Carnegie Training LA, experts in delivering professional trainings, allows us to offer high quality environments for learning, collaborating, and growing as citizens. Each quarter we'll offer pre-project workshops covering a variety of personal and professional skill building. Volunteers get the opportunity to put their learning into action by spending the second half of the project volunteering at one of L.A. Works’ regular community service projects.
The first Enrich & Serve Series focuses on an issue we've all faced. But do we face it the way we wish we could? Join us on June 12th to uncover the tools of the trade in this conflict resolution workshop followed by our monthly volunteer project Activities With Kids at Zahn Shelter. MORE>>>
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L.A. Works Benefit Event
Join us for "Mondays For A Cause" a Philanthro Productions LA initiative to benefit L.A. Works! The "Mondays For A Cause" initiative is an effort by Philanthro to give non-profit organizations increased visibility and support within the community. The event will entail a night of live music, dancing, and a fun social atmosphere, with opportunities to meet other L.A. Works volunteers, supporters and nonprofit partners, while celebrating our shared commitment to L.A. Works! The event will feature two musical guests: The Very Special Guests and The New Limb. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. and the show begins at 9:00 p.m. The event is 21+ only. MORE >>>
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New Project Leader Addition @ APLA
Genese Scott is a longtime L.A. Works volunteer, donating her time to our monthly Food Sorting @ AIDS Project LA opportunity. She got inspired to make a bigger difference and mobilize others in the service she loves so much by taking on the role of leading the project on the first Wednesday nights of the month. Join her as she leads her first project on August 1! MORE>>>
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Leadership with L.A. Works
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Volunteer Leadership Project Openings
As our volunteer community is well-aware, each month L.A. Works is able to offer nearly 90 opportunities at nonprofit across LA thanks to our volunteer leadership. We could not offer such a diversity of opportunities without the dedication and commitment of our volunteers.
Are you inspired to lead? If you've got the passion and drive, help us take some of these project ideas or many others off the ground.
* Kids Creative Corner @ Alexandria House in Koreatown (weeknight)
* Gardening & Landscaping @ Shadow Hills
* Riding Club in Sun Valley (daytime)
* Food Sorting @ APLA in Koreatown (daytime)
* Activities With Kids @ Midnight Mission in Inglewood (weeknight)
* Cooking Classes (flexible)
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Behind the Scenes at L.A. Works
We have some exciting new volunteer leadership opportunities at L.A. Works. Get a behind the scenes look at how we support nonprofits all across LA by helping in some unique positions like Talent Scout, Matchmaker, and Producer MORE>>>
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Forest City Digs VA Garden
Memorial Day came early as 60 employees of Forest City converged on the self-sustaining Veterans Affairs Hospital garden. The VA garden, located inside the Veteran's Affairs Hospital complex near Westwood, is hidden a gem in the heart of the city where visitors can buy a variety of beautiful California native plants and support our veterans. The Garden is self-sustaining, relying on donations and sales of its California native plants to the public. Proceeds from the VA garden's nursery are used to provide stipends for individual Veterans in need of assistance.
Forest City, a construction management company, provided skilled volunteer labor maximizing its volunteer impact and adding to the gardens capacity to benefit its Veterans. Forest City's group of volunteers spent the day building nursery tables and clearing an overgrown orchard. After building the nursery tables and clearing the orchard, Forest City volunteers still had time to plant a variety of vegetables in the newly cleared orchard.
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Discover Your IMPACT Day
Discover Your Impact Day is Discovery Communications’ global day of employee volunteerism that takes place each June. Started in 2010 to celebrate Discovery's 25th Anniversary, Impact Day brings the Discovery family into their local communities to give back to organizations that support land, water and people, and underscores Discovery’s commitment to the people and places of the world that inspire our on-air stories.
On June 15th, Discovery employees in more than 20 countries and 35 offices will roll up their sleeves and work in teams to give back to their local communities. More than one-hundred and sixty volunteers from Discovery Communications' LA office will contribute their time and energy refurbishing San Pedro Elementary, a local school in their community. Volunteers will be building garden beds and planting climbing vines along an alley-facing fence. The playground facilities will also receive a makeover as volunteers install vinyl banners depicting California native plant themes along the playgrounds perimeter.
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How to Get Your Company Involved
We hope you enjoy how easy it is to volunteer through L.A. Works, now, why not include your colleagues in the mix? Whether you are a part of a company of 25 or 25000, we want to help you help them make a difference. For more information on ways we work with our corporate partners, visit our website, by clicking here, and then reach out to Debbie for more information.
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Summer Interns: In the Spotlight
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Once again, this summer L.A. Works’ office is bustling with activity and energy as more than six interns have joined our ranks. The following four interns are student from universities across the country who are spending a part of their summer vacation supporting our volunteer programming. MORE>>>
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Caroline Bringenberg
Junior, Occidental College
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Evelyn Ramirez
Sophomore, Harvard University
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Ailene Huang
Sophomore, USC
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Valentina Mann
Junior, Sarah Lawrence College
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