How might a media campaign for a particular local Boys and Girls Club draw awareness to that club’s specific needs, increase community-club interactions, and give B and G Club youth a (louder) voice?

 Media Campaign: PSA and Facebook group

For Wallingford Club-our specific experience, but applies to all service sites that participate with UW.

Need: Long(er)-term service

Increase community/club interaction: Encourage stronger commitment to already existing service programs

CLAIM!!!: Why are new campaign matters and how it intersects with the needs of your local B/G Club

Campaign: Awareness and call to action through PSA and FBook to change current service-learning program. We encourage extending the commitment to a full-year, rather than the current quarter-long requirement. (Sustained service-learning projects)

Why does it matter?:   For the kids- creates stronger, more meaningful bond between volunteers and kids. Increases feelings of importance in the kids.

Volunteers?–Can become more familiar with organization itself, with kids/community partners they are working with, more familiar with actual needs they can fulfill, how they can productively contribute, more autonomy, more trust, more positive influence.

Partner organizations: Less turnover, less paperwork, less orientation of new volunteers

From last quarter’s course, here are some examples for you:

 

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The challenge: How might you augment or build upon this pre-existing archive?

Be in touch with questions!

This prompt is rather open-ended. In your second sequence groups, please take thirty minutes to collaboratively compose what you learned this quarter about “service” — as a word, as a concept, as a set of practices, as a form of learning, as an experience — the choice is yours.

Here are some possible approaches to help you focus:

1. Look at the definitions we were working with. Do you think a new definition is necessary? If so, compose one and provide some example usages.

2. Return to the course texts. How did some of them, or one of them in particular, help you better understand “service”?

3. Check out the UW rhetoric for “service-learning.” Given your experiences, how would you revise this language? Give examples.

4 . Consider Tuesday’s panel. What did you learn from it and how does it map onto “service”?

I will be taking your responses, editing them, and posting them — together with your work on Alcoff, Cruz, and Illich — on the collaboratory soon. That said, make your entry engaging, concise, and quality. And categorize it under “service.”

Ideally, you could use this entry in your MP2, right? Indeed…