Welcome to the Dudley Public Service Mailing list =) Occasionally, an
e-mail like this will be sent out to remind you of the upcoming public
service events being organized for the graduate community. Don't worry,
at most, only one e-mail will be sent per week. However, if you are
interested in any event you see listed, e-mail
dudleypublicservice(a)gmail.com and you will receive a reminder the day
before any given event as well.
In this issue:
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1. Homeless Meals Kick-off (9/29)
2. Hands/Baldwin School Partnership Orientation (10/1)
3. Breast Cancer Walk-a-thon (10/16)
4. Serve-a-thon (10/22)
5. Ghostwriter's Halloween Party (10/29)
6. Drives -Clothing and Canned Food
7. Ongoing Volunteer Placement Service
8. Public Service Network Weekly Public Service Updates
9. Dudley House Public Service Webpage
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Harvard Square Homeless Meals Program Kick-Off
This Thursday, September 29th 3pm or 5:30 pm, Dudley House Steps
Come join us as we officially kick-off our service with Harvard Square
Homeless Meals Program!! Meet at 3:00 pm to help cook or meet at 5:30 pm
to help serve! For both shifts, we will meet at the steps of Dudley
House and walk over together to Christ Church. If you can't meet us at
these times, feel free to drop over to Zero Garden St and join us there.
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Hands/Baldwin School Partnership Orientation
This Saturday October 1st 2-4 pm (meet outside Conant Hall)
Interested in tutoring or working with a Cambridge Elementary School?
Come join us for the first ever meeting of Dudley Hands! Since this is
the first year, we welcome your ideas. It will mostly be tutoring and
afterschool clubs. Tutoring will be one-on-one, focusing on subjects you
are interested in. Afterschool clubs will be theme based. The school is
just two blocks down from the residence halls on Oxford and Sacramento.
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Breast Cancer Walk-a-thon
Sunday, Oct 16, 8am, Dudley House steps
Raise awareness of breast cancer as you represent Team Dudley in the
largest one-day breast cancer walk in the nation. This non-competitive
"move-along-athon" traces a scenic 5.7 mile route along the Charles
River Esplanade. E-mail us or check the webpage for more info.
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Serve-a-thon
Saturday, Oct 22, 7:15am, Dudley House steps
On this year’s National Make a Difference Day, come join 3,000 others in
transforming and beautifying neighborhoods all over Boston in this
citywide day of service. Our team from Dudley House will help paint the
Margaret Fuller House community center in Central Square. Come serve our
community and make new friends! To register, check out our website or
visit http://www.cityyear.org/serveathon/ and sign up with Team Dudley.
There is a $25 registration fee. However, if this is making you hesitant
for any reason, please just choose the pay later option and contact us.
Our goal is to have at least 100 Dudley members out for this day of
service, so grab a friend and sign up now!
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Ghostwriters Halloween Party
Saturday, Oct 29, 1-4pm Common Room
The Dudley literary, arts and public service fellows invite all
volunteers who love kids and all Dudley families to join us in the fun
of the third annual Dudley House Ghostwriters Halloween Party, a special
event for student parents and their children including writing and
bookmaking activities, arts and crafts, pumpkin painting, and more.
Refreshments to be served. To RSVP or to volunteer, e-mail Patricia
Vieira (pvieira(a)fas.havard.edu).
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Drives - clothing and food
Keep your eyes peeled for collection boxes in the dorm's laundry rooms
and kitchens for clothing and canned foods. If you live in affiliated
housing or off campus and are interested in participating, reply to this
e-mail and let us know.
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Ongoing Volunteer Placement Services
Want to volunteer but don't know where to start? The Dudley Public
Service Fellows can suggest volunteer options that suit your interests
and schedule. E-mail dudleypublicservice(a)gmail.com for more info.
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Public Service Network Weekly Public Service Updates
The PSN is one of Harvard's undergraduate volunteer resources center.
They send out weekly updates which include ALL public service
opportunities and related talks and events from all over the Harvard
Campus. E-mail Amanda Glynn <asglynn(a)fas.harvard.edu> for more info or
to be added to this list.
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Dudley House Public Service Webpage
Our website is at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv.
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at your service,
Your Dudley Public Service Fellows,
Linda and Fan
Want to make a difference?
Was interested in public service last year, but then forgot?
Not sure where to start?
Come to the ***Dudley House Public Service Orientation Fair***
Monday, Sep 19th (in a few days!)
6-8pm - drop in any time!
Dudley House's Common Room (2nd floor)
Meet various on-campus and off-campus organizations, and see how you can
put your time and skills to good use!
Participating groups include:
Boston Latin Science Fair Mentorship Program, Science in the News, COACH
HANDS, Meals/Cookie Baking,
Knitting Circle, Green Campus Initiative, Girls Science Club
City Year Serve-a-thon, CYCLE Kids, The Volunteer Family
Mt. Auburn Hospital Blood Donation
questions? need more info? e-mail us at dudleypublicservice(a)gmail.com
Your Dudley Public Service Fellows
Hello Current Subscribers of Public Service Mailing List,
Being a subscriber of this list, many of you are involved in public service
activities either within or outside of the graduate community. We'd like to
take this opportunity to thank you, and invite you to a special event where
you can share your experiences and the information about the groups you work
with. Specifically, we are going to hold a graduate student public service
orientation fair, from 6-8pm on September 19th in Dudley House's Common Room
at 2nd fl, and we would love to see you join us and come to recruit for your
group/organization. Also, if you have ideas for new service projects, let us
know too!
**Please e-mail dudleypublicservice(a)gmail.com if you are involved in any
public service activities that you think others will be interested in. Please
also indicate if you would like to attend the fair as a representative of
the organization that you work with. **
We know that the GSAS graduate students are involved in a multitude of
projects, and we would love to see what you have been up to.
Even if you do not represent a group at the public service fair, we do hope
that you will come join us to learn about the various public service
opportunities available to you this year!
Thank you,
Dudley Public Service Fellows
Fan Zhang
Linda Liang
