Kick-Off "Harvard Serves" Los Angeles!
Come learn about our volunteer opportunities, register to volunteer, and meet other Southern California alumni as we celebrate "Harvard Serves," the Global Month of Service coming up this April!
Thursday, March 24th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Location Ken Edwards Community Center, 1527 Fourth Street, rooms 103, 104, 105, Santa Monica, CA 90401
(Parking: municipal lots $3 after 6:00 PM, both within one block. South side of Broadway between 3rd & 4th Streets, or west side of 4th Street between Broadway and Santa Monica Blvd.)
Please join us! While advance registration is closed, we will be happy to accept your registration at the door.
This coming April, the Harvard community, alumni, friends, family, and undergraduates alike, are invited to participate in a unique public service initiative, inspired by Harvard President Drew Faust’s exhortation to apply "our knowledge to help advance the well-being of people in the world beyond our walls." Called "Harvard Serves," this public service initiative hopes to mobilize all 330,000 Harvard alumni and the extended Harvard family – including the 14,400 of us in Southern California - to volunteer our time and efforts in our own communities. Last year 150 area alumni volunteered, and this year we hope to double that number.
Local alumni have signed up 24 area organizations offering opportunities to volunteer in an exciting range of projects: from ecological, to educational, to food delivery, to inner-city youth, to music in underserved communities.
The list of participating organizations includes:
826LA, Venice and East LA
Camp del Corazon
Center for the Pacific Asian Family
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles West
For OC Kids Neurodevelopmental Center
Friends of the Los Angeles River
Global Education, Peru
Go Green
Haven Hills
Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles
Iridescent Learning
Kids Reading to Succeed, Pasadena
Knitting for Charity
LAX El Segundo Blue Butterfly Preserve
Levitt Pavilion-MacArthur Park
Los Angeles Audobon Society
Los Angeles County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Los Angeles Maritime Institute TopSail Youth Program
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Minaret Academy
Minds Matter of Los Angeles
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Peace4Kids
US Vets
On March 24, come meet representatives of these organizations and volunteer. Join classmates and fellow alumni - plus, one lucky attendee will win the door prize of a week’s membership in the Sports Club LA, and another will win two tickets to an LA Sparks basketball game!
Please join us! While advance registration is closed, we will be happy to accept your registration at the door.
Cost: $10 per person to cover venue, food and beverages.
Contact: Liz Ryan, 310-822-6042, lryan.ryanworks@gmail.com.
If you are unable to attend the kick-off and would still like to volunteer, please sign up through https://hcsc.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=243.
For more information on national and international events, visit http://www.service.clubsandsigs.harvard.edu/. And, should you wish to join the growing community of Harvard alumni involved in public service around the world please sign up at http://onthemap.harvard.edu/.