In anticipation of his inauguration as the 15th president of LMU, David W. Burcham has initiated an Inauguration Service Week into the university’s commemorative events.
During the week of February 13 – 19, students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of LMU and Loyola Law School are invited to participate in the many service projects organized by student clubs and groups throughout the week. The culminating event will be the President’s Day of Service on Saturday, Feb. 19. Service opportunities will be available at four major service projects throughout Los Angeles.
Alumni from across the country will volunteer in Chicago, Denver, Hawaii, Las Vegas, New York, Orange County, Portland, and Sacramento. For more information about these regional service projects
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President's Day of Service - February 19, 2011
Signups are now closed for this event. Volunteer confirmations with parking/transportation information will be sent by Tuesday, February 15th. Over 700 students, faculty, staff and alumni will participate in this first President's Day of Service.
BBQ at Midnight Mission 8am-2pm
Website: http://www.midnightmission.org/
Description: Preparing and serving meals at a special BBQ for the 2,000 guests of the Mission located in Skid Row. Due to the large number of clients and volunteers, this event cannot accept volunteers under the age of 18.
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) 9am-2pm
Website: http://www.heartofla.org/
Description: Painting and building projects at this youth center that provides after-school programs focusing on academics, arts and athletics. Children 14 years old and older are welcome at this site.
STAR ECO Station 9am-2pm
Website: http://www.ecostation.org/
Description: Creating and updating habitats for birds, crocodile and reptiles. Children 14 years old and older are welcome at this site.
Westchester High School 9am-2pm
Website: http://www.westchesterhs.org/
Description: Repainting hallway walls and other smaller projects identified by the high school. Children 5 years old and older are welcome at this site.
Other Service Week Events - February 13 - 18
Signups for the week of service are now closed. Volunteer confirmations with parking/transportation information will be sent one week prior to the event.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Dockweiler Beach
Sponsor: Christian Life Community (CLC)/Leavey 4, O'Malley RHA Building Council
Event Date: 2/13/2011
Start Time: 10am End Time: 2pm
Site Location: Dockweiler Beach
Description: Volunteers will clean-up Dockweiler Beach.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Sponsor: Del Rey South RHA Building Council
Event Date: 2/13/2011
Start Time: 8pm End Time: 10pm
Site Location: Del Rey South First Floor Lounge
Description: Volunteers would come to Del Rey South First Floor Lounge and make Valentine's Cards for the children in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Children's Wing. Selected volunteers could then deliver them to the hospital.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Sponsor: LLS, Phi Alpha Delta and Student Bar Association
Event Date: 2/14/2011
Start Time: 10:00am End Time: 3:00pm
Site Location: LLS Student Lounge
Description: Volunteers will make Greeting Cards for sick children at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
Marycrest Manor (1)
Sponsor: Delta Sigma Pi
Event Date: 2/14/2011
Start Time: 3:00PM End Time: 6:00PM
Site Location: 10664 St James Drive, Culver City, CA 90230
Description: Visit the nursing center sponsored by the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles to deliver cards, bring flowers, create paper mache arts and crafts.
Playa Del Rey Care and Rehabilitation Center
Sponsor: Sursum Corda
Event Date: 2/14/2011
Start Time: 3:30 PM End Time: 5:30 PM
Site Location: Playa Del Rey
Description: Volunteers will be hosting a Valentine's Day Party for the residents with entertainment, conversation and dancing in the day room. Volunteers will also deliver flowers and cards to each resident.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Desmond Hall
Sponsor: Desmond RA
Event Date: 2/15/2011
Start Time: 8:00PM End Time: 9:30PM
Site Location: Desmond Hall
Description: Students will be making Valentines and Hygiene kits for the homeless to be distributed later in the week.
El Espejo (1)
Sponsor: El Espejo
Event Date: 2/15/2011
Start Time: 2:45pm End Time: 5:00pm
Site Location: Lennox Middle School
Description: Volunteers will pair up with a mentor and mentee in the classroom for tutoring and the exploration of cultures and customs.
Leavey 6
Sponsor: RHA Executive Board
Event Date: 2/15/2011
Start Time: 9:15 pm End Time: 11:00 pm
Site Location: Leavey 6 Meeting Room and Skid Row
Description: Volunteers will be making sandwiches and packaging meals for the homeless.
Ocean Park Community Center and Jefferson Blvd.
Sponsor: Feed the Hungry
Event Date: 2/15/2011
Start Time: 11:30AM End Time: 1:30PM
Site Location: 1453 16th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Description: Volunteers will prepare lunches for the clients of the Ocean Park Community Center and the day laborers on Jefferson Boulevard.
Shriners Hospital for Children
Sponsor: First Year Class Council & FRESH Squad
Event Date: 2/15/2011
Start Time: 1:30pm End Time: 4:00pm
Site Location: 3160 Geneva Street Los Angeles, CA 90020
Description: Volunteers will be doing a "Spring flower" craft with the patients at Shriners Children's Hospital.
LLS Student Lounge
Sponsor: LLS, Public Interest Law Foundation & Surf and Ski Club
Event Date: 2/15/2011
Start Time: 10:00am End Time: 4:00pm
Site Location: LLS Student Lounge
Description: Volunteers will be putting together toiletry "care packages" for homeless people to be delivered to a shelter in Venice Beach.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Midnight Mission
Sponsor: Center for Teaching Excellence and Center for Service and Action
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 6:00 (leaving at 5:30) End Time: 8:00 am
Site Location: 601 South San Pedro Street Los Angeles, California 90014
Description: Service-with-Reflection for Learning, Wholeness and Justice
Volunteers will engage in service at Midnight Mission on Skid Row and reflect on our experiences to explore a process that is all too simply called "reflection," a term which belies multiple dimensions of learning and transformation. We have room for 11 faculty members in the CSA vans. Faculty only.
186th Street Elementary School (1)
Sponsor: Ignatians Service Organization
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 3:00 (leaving at 2:30) End Time: 4:15
Site Location: 1581 West 186th Street, Gardena CA
Description: Volunteers will be helping elementary school students to plant and decorate pots. The students will be able to take the pots home and sustain the plant for as long as they desire. The goal of this project is to educate the children on sustainability while still having true Iggie fun!
A Million Thanks
Sponsor: LLS, Public Interest Law Foundation
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 10:00am End Time: 4:00pm
Site Location: LLS Student Lounge
Description: Volunteers will write letters of support to American troops.
Daniel Freeman Elementary--" I Have a Dream Foundation"
Sponsor: Latino Business Student Association
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 2:30pm End Time: 5pm
Site Location: Inglewood, CA, 90305
Description: Volunteers will be doing recreational activities, tutoring, gardening and arts and crafts with students in the after-school program.
El Espejo (2)
Sponsor: El Espejo
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 2:45pm End Time: 5:00pm
Site Location: Lennox Middle School
Description: A day of mentoring dedicated to promoting fitness and nutirtion for the El Espejo mentees.
Guadalupe Homeless Project (GHP)
Sponsor: MEChA
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 4:30pm End Time: 9:00pm
Site Location: Dolores Mission, Boyle Heights
Description: Volunteers will help prepare dinner for the homeless men at GHP. They will also assist in serving the men and sitting down with them for dinner in order to hear their stories.
Midnight Mission (1)
Sponsor: McCarthy Hall Resident Advisors
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 6pm End Time: 10pm
Site Location: Skid Row
Description: Volunteers will gather in the McCarthy Hall lobby to create fleece blankets and view a documentary about the culture of homelessness in Los Angeles. After the blankets are created volunteers will travel to Skid Row in downtown LA to deliver the blankets to clients of Midnight Mission.
Downtown Women's Center
Sponsor: Black Student Union
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 6:30pm End Time: 8:30pm
Site Location: 442 South San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA
Description: Volunteers will help prepare a meal for the women of the Downtown Women's Center.
Operation Gratitude
Sponsor: East Quad RHA
Event Date: 2/16/2011
Start Time: 10:00PM End Time: 11:30PM
Site Location: Sullivan Lounge
Description: We will be collecting items for care packages to be sent to soldiers and write letters to the military to be included in the care packages from Operation Gratitude.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
El Espejo (3)
Sponsor: El Espejo
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 2:45pm End Time: 5:00pm
Site Location: Lennox Middle School
Description: A volunteer experience dedicated to promoting literacy and culture to our El Espejo mentees. Volunteers will group with mentors and mentees in different classrooms, and engage in tutoring and a class presentation that mentors will lead about a specific book or poem written by a Latina/o author.
Hannon Amphitheatre
Sponsor: Leavey 5 & Leavey 6
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 12:15 End Time: 2:15
Site Location: Midnight Mission
Description: A community service program in which residents as well as members of the greater LMU community work together to create 35 fleece-tie blankets.
LMU Community Garden
Sponsor: Human Rights Coalition, Garden Club, Eco Students
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 12pm End Time: 3pm
Site Location: Between Sullivan & Pereira
Description: Volunteers will participate in the "breaking ground" celebration by preparing the soil for planting the garden. Work will include tearing out the existing plants and aerating the soil for planting.
Malone Student Center
Sponsor: LMU Greek Council
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 12:15 End Time: 1:35
Site Location: The Hill
Description: Volunteers will work with Greek Council to put together toiletry care packages for the homeless that will be distributed at Midnight Mission that Saturday. Before putting the care packages together, there will be a drive within the Greek community to get toiletries. We will also go to local businesses and ask for donations.
Midnight Mission Housing Program
Sponsor: Marians Service Organization
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 6pm End Time: 8pm
Site Location: Inglewood
Description: Volunteers will play with children who live at this site that assists low income families.
Santa Monica
Sponsor: Beta Theta Pi
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 5:00pm End Time: 12:00am
Site Location: Pizza Del Rey (by First Year Living Area)
Description: The men of Beta Theta Pi, along with volunteers, will be making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at LMU. We will then take these sandwiches and hand them out along with some water to the homeless in Santa Monica, ensuring that these individuals will receive at least one meal for the day.
LLS Student Lounge
Sponsor: LLS, Public Interest Law Foundation
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 10:00am End Time: 4:00pm
Site Location: LLS Student Lounge
Description: Volunteers will be making no-sew fleece blankets for the elderly in convalescent homes.
Westside Children's Center
Sponsor: McCarthy Hall RHA
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 3:00pm End Time: 5:00pm
Site Location: Westside Children's Center
Description: Volunteers will take children's books that have been collected throughout the month to the Westside Children's Center and volunteer with the children. Volunteers will also learn about the services offered at the Center and how they can continue to be involved with the Center.
Wilshire and Union Day Laborer Center
Sponsor: LLS, La Raza
Event Date: 2/17/2011
Start Time: 11:30am End Time: 2:30pm
Site Location: 1600 Shatto Street Los Angeles, CA 90017
(East parking lot, Home Depot @ Wilshire and Union)
Description: Volunteers will advise day laborers on their rights.
Friday, February 18, 2011
186th Street Elementary School (2)
Sponsor: LMU Pi Beta Phi
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 12 pm End Time: 2 pm
Site Location: 1581 West 186th Street Gardena, CA
Description: Volunteers will promote literacy to a 3rd grade class through interactive reading and writing games.
Blessed Sacrament Church
Sponsor: MAGIS
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 6:00pm End Time: 7:30pm
Site Location: Loyola Marymount University Campus
Description: Volunteers will be creating care packages for the homeless population of Hollywood. Volunteers will create but not deliver the packages.
Bread & Roses Cafe
Sponsor: Belles
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 9am End Time: 12pm
Site Location: St. Joseph's Center, Santa Monica
Description: Volunteers will make sack dinners for the homeless who attend Bread & Roses Café located in the Santa Monica area.
Dolores Mission
Sponsor: Underwings Praxis
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 3:00 p.m. (carpools will leave at 2:30pm) End Time: 5:30 p.m. (Return 6:30 p.m.)
Site Location: 170 S Gless St., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Description: Volunteers will interact with students (K-8) and provide mentoring and tutoring services to students. In addition, volunteers will be hosting a mini carnival for the students in which volunteers will play games, do activities, and participate in a kickball/dodge ball tournament.
El Espejo (4)
Sponsor: El Espejo
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 2:45pm End Time: 5:00pm
Site Location: Lennox Middle School
Description: Volunteers will be paired with a group of mentors and mentees in different classrooms, and engage in 30 minutes of tutoring and then particiapte in various activities that promote teamwork and interaction amongst everyone. Facepainting will be offered for our mentees as a fun treat for their hard work throughtout the week.
Habitat for Humanity Build
Sponsor: Center for Service and Action
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 8am End Time: 3pm
Site Location: Lynwood, CA
Description: Volunteers will assist Habitat for Humanity build a home.
Loyola Village Elementary
Sponsor: Sigma Chi
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 2:30 PM End Time: 5:00 PM
Site Location: 8821 Villanova Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Description: Volunteers will help with tutoring elementary school kids.
SAGE
Sponsor: MAGIS
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 2:00pm End Time: 5:pm
Site Location: Nickerson Gardens Sage Center, Watts, CA
Description: Read children's book to the children of SAGE.
St. Columbkille Elementary School
Sponsor: Gryphon Circle
Event Date: 2/18/2011
Start Time: 12:00 pm End Time: 2:45 pm
Site Location: W. 64th St., Los Angeles, CA
Description: The volunteers will be playing games with the students outside, and possibly help the students decorate little pots which will be given out at a Spring Gala, a fundraiser that will ensure that the school can stay open. Volunteers may also participate in a playground beautification project and effort to make the area safer.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Marycrest Manor (2)
Sponsor: Campus Ministry
Event Date: 2/19/2011
Start Time: 1:30pm End Time: 3:30pm
Site Location: 10664 St James Drive, Culver City, CA 90230
Description: Volunteers will Play games, such as BINGO or Rummikub, with residents of Marycrest Manor. Volunteers will meet at the lower level of Sacred Heart Chapel for brief orientation. We will be at Marycrest by 2pm. Leave from Marycrest at 3:30pm, return to campus by 4pm.
Pico-Union Neighborhood
Sponsor: LLS, Student Bar Association and Environmental Law Society
Event Date: 2/19/2011
Start Time: 11:00am End Time: 1:00pm
Site Location: Area surrounding LLS campus
Description: Volunteers will be participating in a neighborhood clean-up project.
Weekend 2/18-2/20
DeColores
Sponsor: Campus Ministry -Music Ministry
Event Date: 2/18-2/20
Start Time: 5:30pm Friday End Time: 4pm Sunday
Site Location: Mexico
Description: On Saturday morning we will be involved with a building/construction project, midday we will go to Casa Imigrante to hear stories of migration. On Sunday we will serve breakfast at an orphanage and play with the children. Music Ministry alums only please.