Event Description
SHOW WHAT YOU "CAN DU" THIS SPRING!
Drexel alumni, students, faculty, staff, friends and families are invited to join the Community Alumni Network at Drexel University (CAN DU) for a spring service project at the Lee Cultural Center.
Located directly behind the University’s Vidas Athletic Complex, the Lee Cultural Center is a 9.4-acre recreation and community activity hub that services Drexel’s West Philadelphia neighbors with afterschool programming, camps, dance classes, sport courts and fields, a public pool and more. Our CAN DU volunteers will work to enhance the Center's exterior and interior facilities just in time for the summer camps that will soon take up residence there this summer.
Volunteers will brighten up the Center's outdoor recreation areas with playground games, trash and debris clean-up, landscaping and other beautification projects. We'll update the Center's learning resources by providing books and other materials—creating a mini-library for the students' use. We'll also take on some physical improvements to the building facilities.
We'll begin the day fueling up with a breakfast buffet at Drexel Pizza, before we hop aboard Drexel shuttle buses for the quick trip to the Lee Cultural Center. Refreshments will be available throughout the day and we'll cap-off the project with an outdoor picnic lunch at the Center. During the lunch, Drexel's Lindy Center for Civic Engagement will provide an opportunity for volunteers to participate in an optional, guided reflection discussion.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
7:30 a.m. Volunteer Breakfast & Registration
Drexel Pizza
107 North 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Service Project
Lee Cultural Center*
4328 Haverford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
*Please see parking notes below!
12 to 1 p.m. Volunteer Appreciation Lunch
12:30 to 1 p.m. Optional Guided Reflection Discussion
In addition to breakfast and lunch, refreshments will be provided throughout the day, and all volunteers will receive complimentary, commemorative CAN DU t-shirts (while supplies last)!
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REGISTER NOW AT HTTP://WWW.DREXEL.EDU/ALUMNI/CANDU OR CALL 215.895.ALUM (2586)!
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS, SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT DRIVE
The Alumni Association is also collecting children's books (appropriate for ages 5-13) in new, like-new and slightly used condition to help fill the shelves of the Lee Cultural Center's nearly empty library, along with school and art supplies (paper, crayons, notebooks, pencils, calculators, etc.) that could be used by the children in the Center's after school programs. In addition, you can help stock the Center with playground and recreation supplies including, but not limited to: baseballs, bats and mits, kick balls, basketballs, jump ropes, sidewalk chalk, tennis balls and rackets, Wiffle balls and bats, and more.
You can bring donations with you to the project on May 17. If you can't make it or want to make your donation earlier, you can bring donations to any Drexel University Alumni Association event, including Alumni Weekend; deliver them off at the Paul Peck Alumni Center (3142 Market Street) between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; or drop them in the collection bins at Drexel's Earth Day Black Party on April 22 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Lancaster Walk.
===================================== CEO/LEAD CREDITS: Drexel student participants can earn one CEO LEAD credit for participating in the three-hour volunteer service only; plus earn one additional credit for participating in the post-service reflection discussion. For more info, contact CEOLEAD@drexel.edu or visit http://www.drexel.edu/CEOLEAD.
UNIV 101 CREDITS: Drexel freshmen enrolled in UNIV 101 and needing service credit hours will be eligible for 3 credit hours for participating in the community service project, and 5 credit hours for participating in both the project and the guided reflection afterwards.
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
* All volunteers are required to complete and submit a release form prior to beginning work. Download the form from the link found in your registration confirmation email. Completed releases can be sent to the Office of Alumni Relations by fax to 215.895.2095 or email to alumni@drexel.edu.
* Volunteers should not drive directly to the Lee Cultural Center, as parking is extremely limited. Complimentary parking will be available for volunteers at the Drexel University Parking Garage. Drexel shuttle buses will transport volunteers to and from campus and the Lee Cultural Center. The Garage is located at 34th and Market streets, with its entrance located between 33rd and 34th streets on Ludlow Street (one block south of Market).
* Suggested Attire: Long sleeves and pants, and sturdy shoes. Many projects will involve painting, so it is recommended that volunteers wear clothes and shoes that can get dirty or muddy. Gloves will be provided.
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