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Looking to be Involved in Community
Partnerships?
The Draper Center for Community Partnerships
has connections with both on- and off-campus organizations for students who
are interested in getting involved in local community work. The following
opportunities are some of our more popular programs, but you can find a
complete list of opportunities in our office (SCC 228).
Sign up for our mailing list by clicking this link:
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On-campus
Pomona Partners
The goals
of this program are to build self-esteem and a positive sense of community,
and to make learning accessible and fun, in a mentoring relationship that
provides junior high school students with valuable life skills.
Every
Friday afternoon from 1:30pm to 4pm, mentors from
Pomona
College help Fremont Middle School
students with school work and projects centering on cooperative learning, multicultural
reading, science projects and conflict resolution techniques. Volunteers
should be willing to work with teenagers, warm, enthusiastic, and committed.
For more information, please contact Maribel Gonzalez and Brian Coreas at pomona partners@gmail.com.
Alternabreak
For
students who wish to participate in an alternative community work program
during either Fall or Spring Break, consider our Alternabreak! Each semester,
our community outreach coordinators plan volunteer opportunities extending
throughout California; in the past,
Alternabreak participants have traveled to San Francisco,
San Diego, and Los Angeles. There are a variety of
projects planned, ranging from work with community farms to construction
projects to food banks. The cost of alternabreak is $15, which covers food,
housing, and gas. We pay for the rest!
Please stop by our office for more
details.
Pomona College Academy
for Young Success (PAYS)
PAYS
(formerly known as the Summer Scholars Enrichment Program) is an intensive,
college-focused summer program geared toward students
who are first in their family to attend college, those from low income
families and/or those who are African American or Latino.
Participants experience college life by living on campus in a residence
hall for the summer. Students learn in small classes, conduct research
with faculty, receive mentoring from college students, prepare for college
admission, and make friends with students from other high schools.
Pomona
College
ESL Tutoring Program
This english as a second language tutoring program links students of the claremont colleges with Pomona College Staff who wish to learn english as a second language. click this link for more information: http://pomonaesltutors.wordpress.com/
Off-campus
Reading to Kids
Reading to Kids is a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring
under-served children with a love of reading, thereby enriching their lives
and opportunities for success in the future. To this end, reading to kids
gathers about 600 children and 220 volunteers at reading clubs on the second
Saturday of every month from 9am to 12pm at four
Los Angeles elementary schools.
At the monthly reading clubs, pairs of volunteers read aloud
to small groups of children, while their parents receive training on how to
encourage their children to read at home. Kids, parents, teachers, and school
libraries receive book donations at the end of the Reading Clubs. These are
important donations, as 60% of low income homes do not have age-appropriate
reading materials for children.
Please contact Sarah Kolterman at
info@readingtokids.org
Uncommon Good
Uncommon Good is a nonprofit organization that works to ensure that the poor
have access to quality education, health care and legal services. It provides
mentoring and other services to low income children to help them break the
cycle of poverty through successfully completing an education. Uncommon Good
also sponsors young health professionals and lawyers who are devoting their
careers to serving the poor.
Please come into our office for more details.
America
Reads
The
mission of America Reads is to mobilize the resources of 1 million college
students and other volunteers to act as reading tutors for three million
third graders reading below grade level.
Pomona
’s America Reads program aims
to get volunteers in all 15 local elementary schools. America Counts
encourages college students to help fourth and fifth graders in math.
Volunteers
work one-on-one with third graders who have been selected by their teachers.
Lesson plans and materials are provided. Students who are on financial
aid/work study will be paid to work, but all volunteers are accepted.
Transportation to and from schools is provided by our van.
For more information, please contact Sergio Marin at the Draper Center for Community Partnerships SCC 228.
Prison Library Project
The
mission of the PLP is to provide reading material free of charge to inmates,
prison chaplains, librarians, and study groups; as well as to drug/alcohol
recovery groups, survivors of domestic abuse, and support groups for HIV/AIDS
patients within the immediate community. Their goal is to help inmates, and
others who receive our material, learn how to take charge of their lives in
positive ways and to be able to return to society (as 90% of them do) with
the thinking, skills, and confidence to contribute to their families and
communities in meaningful ways. Many inmates use the books they receive from
the Prison Library Project to study for GED's, pursue spiritual growth, learn
English (and other languages), etc. The PLP receives nearly 200 letters a
week from inmates. They mail over 300,000 books, magazines, and audiotapes
each year to 600 prisons throughout the
United States.
The PLP is
constantly in need of volunteers to help read letters, pull and package
books, design flyers, work at festivals and book sales, and assist with data
entry and other record keeping tasks. It is located within walking distance,
about 2 blocks away from the Claremont
metrolink station. Please visit http://www.inmate.com/prislibr.htm
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On The Spectrum
On the Spectrum (OTS) is a 5-C organization committed to helping children with any of the autism spectrum disorders and their families in the Claremont and surrounding communities through mentoring, recreational activities, outreach, and education. In addition to providing various services, programs, recreational opportunities, and events for children with autism spectrum disorders and their families, OTS is also committed to educating the Claremont community about autism spectrum disorders. OTS is also currently working with the Autism Support Group, Geek Tower Jr., various 5-C clubs, the Draper Center for Community Partnerships, the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company, and various other Southern California resources and organizations to provide events and programs for children with autism spectrum disorders and their families as well as to provide educational outreach for the Southern California community.
The club is currently working with Ability-First (a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals with both physical and developmental disabilities and disorders) to provide a mentorship program and a ballroom dance program called Happy Feet. The mentorship program is a program in which trained 5-C college students are paired up with children and young adults with autism spectrum disorders at AbilityFirst and work one-on-one with them during AbilityFirts's after-school program.
The club is als coordinating with the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company (CCBDC) to provide the Happy Feet program where trained college students from CCBDC and the greater 5-C dance community teach ballroom dance lessons to children with both developmental and physical disabilities at AbilityFirst.
New Volunteer
Opportunities
Are you part of an organization that would
like to request volunteers?
Or have you been volunteering with an
organization that you would like to see implemented as a VC program or event?
If so, please contact us directly by email
at drapercenter@pomona.edu, call us at
(909) 607-1810, or drop by our office: SCC 228 every weekday
from 9am-5pm.
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