Looking to Volunteer?

We can hook you up! Here’s how you can get involved in the coming weeks.

• Adopt a Family through Angel Tree
  • Get together with some of your friends, residence hall, club, sorority or fraternity. Adpot a family though the Salvation Army and help make their holidays a little more special by donating items on their holiday wishlist. Email eventscsc@gmail.com.
• Donate Canned Goods in the First Annual Thanksgiving Can-off
  • The CSC has officially challenged the Educational Resource Center and the Orientation Office to a friendly competitive can-off! Donate cans and non-perishables to boxes in any of the three offices (but preferably ours) before November 24th. All donations will go directly to Boston Can Share. Email bucsc@bu.edu.
• Give your books to the Invisible Children book drive
  • Help children in Northern Uganda by donating your books to Invisible Children! Book donation boxes will be in the CSC, Towers and West Campus. Want to see where your books are going? Check out http://www.invisiblechildren.com/bookdrive. Give your books before Tuesday, December 1st.
• Create a piece of art for AIDS activism
  • Draw, paint, photograph or create graphic design that relates to Universal Access, Human Rights or HIV/AIDS by November 24th. Finalists will be displayed in the Howard Thurman Center (in the GSU’s basement) during World AIDS week in December. The top three will be determined by popular vote & will receive prizes. Email pictureAIDS@gmail.com with questions.
• Share your school supplies with under-resourced children
• Donate your gently used school supplies and textbooks to the CSC’s Delta Initiative Supplies Drive by Wednesday, December 17th. All supplies will go to under-resourced children in the Mississippi Delta region who really need it. Your notebooks that still have leftover paper, pens, pencils, markers and textbooks are all welcome. If you’re a math student, we need your old protractors, rulers and calculators. Come drop your supplies off at the CSC, or email bucsc@bu.edu if you’d like someone to come pick it up.

Invisible Children, and Lots of Emotions

by Maria Gutierrez, MAPP Program Manager

 

After lots of work, Sam and I stood in BU Central, and extremely excited, saw the movie start to play. It is a film that shows high school students that raised thousands of dollars for Invisible Children, who travelled to Uganda and got to meet all of the people that they have helped. It is a very intense and emotional film that touches the heart and soul of every person that sees it.

Invisible Children is a non-profit organization that raises awareness and money to help the north Uganda region that has suffered a long war and has seen more than 30,000 children abducted into the rebel armies. The night included the documentary, “read-arounds” where people wrote their feelings about what they saw, and a Ugandan speaker who is an advocate of the bill that asks the United States government to take action about the Uganda situation to end the suffering of thousands of people.

I believe that our goal for the night was achieved. We didn’t only show people what is happening in Uganda, but we gave them the tools to change and to take actions against those horrible things that are happening. As the three founders of Invisible Children created a global movement, each one of us can change the life of one of those children, and together give them hope and get some of that hope ourselves.

Thanks to all 50 students that came. And let’s keep working on making a difference!

This Week in the CSC

• Tomorrow 11/3 is the Children’s Theatre Dress Rehersal at 7:00 (not 7:30)  in COM 101! Come see the troupes’ skits (with a college humor twist) before they are performed for children across the Boston area.
• Wednesday 11/4 is MAPP’s Invisible Children Night at 7:30 in BU Central. Come see the groundbreaking documentry that exposed the lives of child soldiers in Uganda, and learn how you can help.
• Making Music, Wizards, the Communications Team, MAPP, Project Hope (on a limited basis), Student Food Rescue (as the program expands) and the new once-a-month program are still accepting volunteers.

And in other news…ASB is really getting started as all 70 coordinators start their office hours this week!

Next week:

• Hunger Awareness Week: SFR will be organizing two volunteer days on Wednesday and Friday. Stay tuned for details.
• OXFAM Food for Food tables: Keep your eyes peeled Monday-Thursday for our donation tables outside of the dining halls. Donate your dining hall meals to OXFAM and help fight world hunger!

Invisible Children & MAPP Event November 4th

This Week in the CSC

• Hike for Hunger is still accepting donations in support of its hikers. Proceeds go to support Heifer International and the CSC’s Student Food Rescue. If you are interested in supporting one of our hikers who did the 50k walk, contact Z or stop by our office.
• Making Music is looking for lots of volunteers to teach instrumental, dance and vocal lessons to children in Greater Boson! Contact Program Manager Kristin for info.
• Children’s Theatre is holding a fundraiser with Improv Asylum this Sunday night. Buy tickets in person or over the phone and mention CT, and %50 of the profits will go to the program. Check out the Facebook event for more info.
• Pumpkin Palooza is this Friday from 11-4 on the BU Beach. Come paint or carve a pumpkin, and it will be donated to a Boston shelter to spread the Halloween spirit!
• FYSOP Alumni Day of Service is this Saturday from 8-2. If you are an alumni interested in participating, contact Development & Alumni Relations Manager Shane.
• Are you a volunteer with the CSC? If so, the CSC’s Public Relations team would love you to share you experiences with the BU community! Contact Andie if you are interested.

Upcoming Events

• October 27th: Trick or Can, 4-7pm
• November 3rd: Children’s Theatre Dress Rehearsal, COM 101, 7:30pm
• November 4th: MAPP & Invisible Children awareness event, BU Central, 8pm

This Week in the CSC

• Today is the last day to hand in your Making Music application!
• Wizards, Student Studio, MAPP and Project Hope are still accepting applications on a rolling basis.
• Wizards needs volunteers for Tuesday afternoons. Contact Missy if you are interested.
• Alternative Spring Break Coordinator applications are due this Friday, October 9th.
• Children’s Theatre needs 1-2 volunteers to join their Wednesday troop. Contact Matt if you are interested.
• The FYSOP Program Manager application is now available! It will be due Friday, October 30th. Check our website in the coming week for the application, or email our manager Lindsey.

This Week in the CSC

• Many program applications are due this Friday, 9/25, including Voices from the Middle, Afterschool, Project Hope, MAPP and Student Studio. Contact individual programs for more information.
• Information Sessions this week:
  • Children’s Theater’s info session was Tuesday. Please email PM Matt Donnelly if you’re interested in joining.
  • ASB Coordinator info sessions are tonight, 9/23, and tomorrow, 9/24, in the GSU’s Conference Auditorium on the 2nd floor.
  • Siblings & their new partner program DREAM have their info session tomorrow, 9/24, in the GSU’s Academy Room on the 1st floor.
• ASB Committee Chair interviews are ongoing. Those hired will be announced at the beginning of next week.

Upcoming Applications & Deadlines:

• First Communications Team Meeting (Ad, Photo, PR) Monday 9/28 at 8PM in the CSC. Photo team applications are due at this meeting.
• ASB Coordinator Applications are due 10/2.