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President and Mrs. Obama have announced a nationwide
service initiative, United We Serve, spanning
81 days, culminating with a National Day of Service
and Remembrance on September 11. These 81 days will
be the beginning of a sustained, collaborative, and
focused effort to meet community needs and make
service a way of life for all Americans.
Boston Cares is offering a challenge to answer the
President’s call to service;
to make volunteering a permanent part of your life
and to create tangible community impact. Read the
instructions below and join us in this nationwide
effort!
We
gratefully acknowledge the generous contribution of
the New Barn Foundation in support of the Boston
Cares United We Serve Challenge.
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INSTRUCTIONS
STEP ONE
In
order to successfully complete the United We Serve
Challenge through Boston Cares, volunteers must:
►Complete
the task in Column A
►Complete
1 task in Column B
(choose at least 1
from list of options)
►Complete
1 task in Column C
(choose at least 1
from list of options)
NOTE:
Your choices may change throughout the course of
this Challenge. As long as the tasks in each column
are completed, it is up to you to decide what you
choose.
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Column A
Volunteer
Respond
to the needs of Boston Cares’ nonprofit
partner agencies.
●Sign
up for and attend 5 Boston Cares
projects. |
Column B
Engaged Citizen
Take
your service a step further by learning
about issues facing your community, and
using your knowledge to lead and motivate
others.
● Attend a
Citizen Academy educational program (Social
Cinema, Explorations) AND attend the
service project that the program is linked
to.
● Attend a
Serve & Learn project.
● Use the
Boston Cares “Invite a Friend” feature to
bring a friend to a project and spread the
word about volunteering (your friend must
attend the project with you).
● Become a
trained
Project Leader.
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Column C
Project Organizer
Embrace the Obamas’ initiative to develop
self-organizing volunteers by taking your
ideas to serve and turning them into action.
Whenever you complete one of the tasks
below, share it with us
here
and with the White House and the nation by
posting it on
www.serve.gov.
● Develop
and organize a service project to do in your
community; choose whether you want it to be
listed on the Boston Cares Calendar to get
more people involved.
Register your project.
● Organize
a drive for a community nonprofit (ex.
canned food, toiletries, clothing).
● Engage in
acts of neighboring (ex. volunteer to
conduct an energy audit and change a
neighbor’s light bulbs, offer to help your
elderly neighbor shop for groceries, babysit
for neighbors’ kids so they can run errands,
etc.).
● Become a
Project Developer (consult with Boston Cares
to adopt and develop a project that responds
to a partner agency’s needs).
● Create a
portable project
to be donated to a nonprofit agency (what is
a portable project? Click
here
for resources, information and examples).
● Complete
a skills-based project for a nonprofit
agency (contact an agency with which you
have a relationship and ask what they need:
ex. website development,
building/repair/construction, painting,
etc.). |
STEP TWO
Pledge the hours that you will complete over the
course of the United We Serve initiative. Boston
Cares is challenging participants to collectively
complete 2,000
additional hours by September 11.
What will you
contribute to this effort?
NOTE:
All planning hours that you contribute to your
Column C choice will count toward your pledge total.
Click here to make
your pledge...
AND THEN
Click here to
register a project...
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NOT YET A BOSTON CARES MEMBER?
If you are not yet a member of Boston Cares,
welcome! Please sign up to attend a
New Volunteer
Orientation after you fill out this
form in order to complete the United We Serve
Challenge.
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