Join Harvard's Global Month of Service for April 2016
Harvard Serves – Engage In Your Local Community! Each April Harvard alumni across the world participate in the Harvard Alumni Association’s historic tradition of public service. The Harvard Serves initiative continues that long-standing commitment.
The Harvard Club of Southern California invites Harvard alumni, friends and family to participate in Harvard’s annual Global Month of Service. Last year, over a thousand alumni participated in Global Month of Service volunteering opportunities, making a difference in their local community and connecting with fellow alumni.
Local alumni have organized projects in non-profit organizations throughout the region providing opportunities for alumni to meet one another and assist in their local communities. This year we have numerous and diverse opportunities to get involved including mentoring high school students at Cabrillo High School, acting as docents for a walking tour of Los Angeles Chinatown, and volunteering at an animal shelter in Orange County.
The list of organizations has been collected by our alumni for our alumni and will be updated on an ongoing basis. To sign up for a volunteer opportunity, scroll down to the organization with which you'd like to volunteer, and call or email the alumni coordinator. Once you register with them, the event alumni coordinator will be in touch with further details.
For questions, contact Lindsay Louie, at lindsay.louie.21@gmail.com.
Scroll down further to see volunteer opportunities by any of the following wonderful organizations:
Brain Health Alliance, Inc.
Cabrillo Ivy League Mentorship Program
Community Lawyers, Inc.
Global Education, Peru
Harvard Tutors in the Schools
Los Angeles Conservancy x Los Angeles Chinatown
OC Animal Care
Southern California Chinese Relay For Life
UCLA Disability Law Society
Check back regularly as more volunteer opportunities will be added soon!
Brain Health Alliance, Inc.
www.BrainHealthAlliance.org
When: Throughout April and beyond
Where: via internet televideo conference or in person at 8 Gilly Flower St, Ladera Ranch, CA 92694
Contact: Carl Taswell, ctaswell@BrainHealthAlliance.org, 949-481-3121
Cabrillo Ivy League Mentorship Program
http://lbcabrillo.schoolloop.com/
When: Last Thursday of each month, 3 PM - 4 PM.
Where: Cabrillo High School, 2001 Santa Fe Avenue Long Beach, CA 90810
Contact: Ethel Laczko, 626-429-3138 or etheledu@yahoo.com
Community Lawyers, Inc.
www.community-lawyers.org
When: Throughout April and beyond
Where: 1216 East Compton Boulevard, Compton, CA 90221
Contact: Rosa Hirji, rosa@rkhlawoffice.com
Community Lawyers, Inc. provides low and moderate-income people access to affordable legal services and develops innovative opportunities for attorneys and law students in underserved communities. CLI is located in Compton, CA and serves many Spanish speaking clients in and around Los Angeles in such areas of law as family law, immigration law, and landlord-tenant law. Outreach to the greater L.A. community for fundraising and support is always needed and appreciated. Check us at: www.community-lawyers.org.
Global Education, Peru
www.globaled.us
When: Dates per consultation of volunteers and coordinator
Contact: Ethel Seminario-Laczko at 626-429-3138 or etheledu@yahoo.com
When: One hour or more/week during school year. Time of day TBD.
Where: 32nd St. USC Magnet School, 840 32nd St., Los Angeles
Contact: Priscilla Heim at 310-472-4478 or priheim@verizon.net
Alumni are invited to tutor children K - 12 in all subjects. A knowledge of your subject and an understanding of children is helpful.
Los Angeles Conservancy x Los Angeles Chinatown
https://www.laconservancy.org/chinatown
When: Sunday, April 17, 2016
Where: 727 N. Broadway Suite 208; Los Angeles, CA 90012
Contact: Shirley Zhang; 213-680-0243; xszhang@chinatownla.com
The Los Angeles Conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of Los Angeles County.
OC Animal Care
http://ocpetinfo.com/
When: Throughout April
Where: 561 The City Drive South,Orange, CA. 92868
Contact: Chi Bui; orthochi@yahoo.com
OC Animal Care is an open-admission animal shelter. As such, we took in more than 30,000 dogs, cats, bunnies and other pets last year. Some may be ill or injured. Others may have behavioral issues or be aggressive. We receive pets from people who can no longer care for them, and pets that are no longer wanted. We receive many perfectly healthy dogs and cats that just need a new home.
We believe it is not the animal’s fault for being at the shelter. We want every healthy, treatable and manageable animal to get a second chance at love. We are doing that in a variety of ways.
OC Animal Care strives to save the lives of all healthy, treatable and manageable dogs and cats in our community. To reach that goal, we host monthly adoption events and promote our animals online. In addition, we work very closely with our non-profit rescue adoption partners, other local animal shelters and our volunteer foster caretakers. We are also fortunate to have the support of Noble Friends Foundation for OC Animal Care who fundraises on our behalf.
Southern California Chinese Relay For Life
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=73798
When: Saturday, April 23, 2016; 11AM-3PM
Where: 350 S. McPherrin Avenue, Monterey Park, CA 91754
Contact: Vivian Chan 2vivianchan@gmail.com
The American Cancer Society Relay For Life movement is the world's largest and most impactful fundraising event to end cancer. It unites communities across the globe to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and take action to finish the fight once and for all. With the support of thousands of volunteers like you, the American Cancer Society is helping save more than 500 lives a day. Please join us and take action against a disease that has taken too much!
UCLA Disability Law Society
www.community-lawyers.org
When: April 23, 2016
Where: Room 1347, UCLA School of Law, 385 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Ariana Cernius, acernius@post.harvard.edu, (949)294-1601
UCLA Law Disability Law Society (DLS), Autism Speaks U UCLA, and the David Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy (PILP) are proud to announce our Spring Symposium, "Disability and the Law: A Focus on Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and the Multi-Disciplinary Nature of Disability," to be held on April 23rd! The mission of the symposium is to promote awareness about the multidisciplinary nature of disability - how it transcends all ethnicities, genders, and socioeconomic levels, as well as the boundaries of different professions. Students, faculty, parents, professionals, community, and friends (non-UCLA Law affiliates are WELCOME!) are all invited to attend and hear from our amazing panelists on topics ranging from medicine, to law, to sports and recreation!
RSVP here. An application requesting MCLE credit for this activity is pending for approval by the State Bar of California.