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Creating tomorrow's leaders through community service today.
Community Involvement Program
Original Concept and Motivation
-The student-athletes who participate the most in Newton's numerous
sports-related teams and activities (both formally and informally),
typically gain the most from the exceptional programs and services available
within our community.
-Most of these student-athletes are very interested
in getting involved in community service activities as a way to give back to
the community and to help support worthwhile causes.
-For most
student-athletes it is very difficult to commit to on-going community
service projects because their active involvement in sports and schoolwork
does not allow them enough consistent free time or enough advanced notice of
practices and games.
Goals and Objectives
-Create an
organization for these student-athletes that provides them with substantial
opportunities for community service involvement, while not conflicting with
their sports and/or academic commitments.
-Create an organization that
exposes the student-athletes to a wide variety of worthwhile causes.
-Create an organization that utilizes the unique qualities and capabilities
of Newton's student-athletes---strong, healthy, disciplined, dedicated, and
energetic young men and women accustomed to working hard for sustained
periods of time in a team environment.
-Create an organization that can
help support the Newton
area's numerous other community service groups/programs. Instead of being
viewed as a potential drain of other community service organizations
resources, ASC
can be
the first to potentially provide helpful support to all of them.
-Create
an organization that is reasonably simple to operate. Require the requesting
organizations to submit to us a formal request for support that outlines the
required activities and provides a plan to help supervise our volunteers.
-Create an organization and operating plan that is easily sustainable and
repeatable (something that can easily be duplicated by other communities).
-Involve student athletes from all
Newton high schools (public, private, and parochial) as well as those
from Newton
that attend
outside schools. Eventually expand to include the local
Newton-based colleges.
-Although the core focus of this
organization is on student-athletes (based on their unusual time
constraints), anyone with similar time constraint challenges is encouraged
to become an active member of
ASC.
Additional Notes/Comments
Typical volunteer events will
involve 4-6 hour blocks of time.
Our goal for each member is to have them
participate in a minimum of four volunteer days per school year (which would
equate to around 20 hours of volunteer work annually).
Our targeted
activities typically will involve providing a physical labor force to help
support major community initiatives such as spring cleaning at a nursing
home, helping build a local playground, working with the Special Olympics,
manning water stations at fundraising walks, etc.
We will provide
certificates of community service involvement for all of the
ASC members for each individual event they participate in.
We hope to
stage one big fun event at the end of each school year for all volunteers at
which we will provide certificates of achievement based on the members
overall level of involvement.
We hope to minimize meetings/organizational
time for the members and maximize actual volunteer time.
We hope to
recruit local sponsors to help pay for the
ASC t-shirts, etc., we provide for the members. Our goal would be to
have enough funds to provide newly designed shirts each year for the
members.
We will name team captains on an annual basis as group
leaders/coordinators. This will be based on their level of involvement with
ASC and their leadership skills.
We will establish a Board of
Directors that includes adults and students as well as an Advisory Board
made up of community leaders.
ASC
Creating tomorrow's community leaders through
active
community service today.
For further
information about joining
ASC, receiving a list of our upcoming activities, or to make a
request for support from
ASC, please contact ;
President--Adrienne Gordon --
617-969-9633
acgee40@hotmail.com
Vice
President--Mary Cross --
617-965-2991 -- marycross@comcast.net
Treasurer--Adrienne Gordon --
617-969-9633
acgee40@hotmail.com
Secretary--Bob Ravelson -- 617-332-4890
-- robertravelson@rcn.com
Board Members
John
Lilly--617-669-9771--Jelnewton@aol.com
Phil Levoff --
617-965-3397 -- PLevoff@aol.com
Brenda Alpert -- 617-243-9453 --
brendaalpert@aol.com
Adrienne Gordon -- 617-969-9633 -- Adrienne.Gordon@thesullivanco.com
John & Jan Westman -- 617-244-8562 -- westmanj@comcast.net
Ames Abbot --
617-969-9758 -- amesabbot@comcast.net
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