Saturday after Earth Day a group of 20 volunteers gathered at a popular recreational trail in Traverse City and we split up into small groups and collected trash, and swept the trail clean. We cleaned a few miles of the trail which heavily used by walkers, bikers, runners and skaters.

THS Service Learning students and Key Club members along with the PE department encouraged students in grades 9-12 to form teams of 15-20 students to compete in a double elimination tournament to raise money for Haiti relief. A faculty jeans day was also organized to help sponsor the teams. 7 teams competed and approximately 150 students participated in the tournament. Students were asked to donate a minimum of $5 to play and outside donations were collected to offset the cost of a tournament t-shirt. Service Learning students designed a t-shirt bearing the image of Haiti's flag and their motto: "Unity Makes Strength".

We planted the trees on the school territory for the Earth Day (I know,doesn't fit too good but it's just one day before,I'll mark it as Friday) with Interact Club of the school.

Dayspring Elder Care of Jeffersonville, NY had their launch fundraiser on Saturday, April 24, 2010. Delaware Valley Job Corps Center located in nearby Callicoon, NY used this opporutnity to have students volunteer their time to help out at the fundraiser in recognition of Global Youth Service Day. The week prior to the event, 15 culinary trade students spent a total of 10 hours preparing a luncheon for 60+ people in attendance. On Saturday 4/24, the day of the event, 9 culinary students and 3 adult supervisors arrived at First Presbyterian Church of Jeffersonville (where the fundraiser took place) at 8:30 a.m. to finish luncheon preparation and set up for the day's events. After speeches were given by local community members, including New York State Assemblywoman, Aileen Gunther, lunch was served by the Job Corps students to 60+ people. The students were courteous and professional helping out and personally serving the many community elders in attendance. They were so pleased to have the help of the young ladies and gentlemen from Delaware Valley Job Corps and were very complimentary about their polite manners and kindness. For this Global Youth Service project, a total of 208.5 volunteer hours were given by the Delaware Valley Job Corps students!

We set up recycling bins at Relay for Life & set up trash cans beside them. The Relay For Life lasts from 5pm to 5 am. At midnight, we start picking up & sorting recycleables & throwing away trash. We then take recycleables to recycling center. Last year we collected 22 large trash bags of recycleables and in 2010 we collected 25!

Woodward Upper School Computer Club's E-cycle Team along with member of the EAC will partner with Computers For Youth www.cfy.org to provide refurbished computers to disadvantaged youth. We ask for a $5 donation for recycling as the proceeds this year will help the Upper School work with technology integration and global outreach for the Terranova Village School, Woodward's sister school in Zambia, Africa.

Early Drop-off
We strongly encourage used equipment to be brought early by Friday, April 23rd. Simply contact the IT department via email or at 404.557.1132 to make arrangements to leave your donations or if you have large amounts of equipment. You will be able to fill out a information for a tax-deduction receipt and give the requested $5 donation. It will be stored there until Saturday. For Woodward North families, there will be a drop-off by Thursday, April 22nd. Please contact the front office for their community location and other details.

Questions, need a form or have E-cycling other times of the year, email: ecycle@woodward.edu

I actually did it already. I invited my friends to do face painting for our local Easter Celebration. I organazid everything : provided our group with paints, paint brushes and food. I bought all this stuff by raising money in our local school.
The event went very good. We had fun :))

Our troop, Burbank Girl Scout Junior Troop 718, decided to earn our Girl Scout Bronze Award by designing a project that promotes environmental-friendliness and can help make a positive impact in our community.

We decided for our Bronze Award we wanted to do something to help the environment. Our project’s goal was to promote environmental friendliness throughout our community. Our troop held a recycling drive for cans and plastic bottles and we colleclted and recycled over 370 pounds of recyclable material. The money we earned from our recycle drive was used to purchase eco-friendly bags that we customized and plan to give out to our community as a message for EVERYONE to remember the three R’s – Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!

We will be passing out our FREE reusable bags this Sunday, April 25 as a participant in our city's "Green Zone" event at Downtown Burbank's Art Festival.

We hope to continue to serve our community as well as our planet by addressing environmental issues and to do our part to make the world a better and greener place!

The girls from Troop 718-6
The Rising Stars of Burbank
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles

The new Columbus Interfaith Youth Group under the umbrella of the Interfaith Center for Peace is holding their first joint service project bringing together youth and their mentors from several organizations and residents of the Near East Side to “Spruce Up” the neighborhood. This project is in collaboration with the Columbus City, “Keep Columbus Beautiful” initiatives for April 2010, Earth Day.

On Saturday, April 24, the youth will grab litter, uproot weeds, remove trash and offer their help to area residents’ and area churches outdoor projects including planting flowers, tilling gardens and painting fences.

After the spruce up, hundreds of pinwheels will be planted in the neighborhood. Since April is also “Child Abuse Prevention” month, Franklin County Children Services has partnered with Ohio Children's Trust Fund and other counties across the state to promote Pinwheels for Prevention. This campaign is designed to enhance awareness about child abuse and neglect.

Participating Organizations:
Interfaith Center for Peace
First Unitarian Universalist Church,
Ohio Muslims,
Muslim Family Social Services,
Art of Living,
Covenant Presbyterian Church,
Noor Islamic Cultural Center,
Promise Land Believers Fellowship,
International Gospel Center,
Youth Advocate Services,
Isha Foundation,
HIP HOP,
Harmony Project

ARBOR DAY

Come Celebrate Planting A Special Tree and MORE! Continue to Create a Rhode Island Forest at the award-winning JAYCEE Corridor & Arboretum and state Senator Donald Roch Riverwalk! Help the JAYCEES find a spot, dig a preparation hole, navigate our TREE, apply some proper planting techniques and water it and watch it really grow ... for all to admire through the years! No special training or requirements are needed. Families and groups are welcome, too! Contact: The JAYCEES of Central Rhode Island Post Office Box 348 W. Warwick, RI 02893 Our telephone number is (401) 828-9191 (e-mail) wwjayceeskc@aol.com * SCHOOL VACATION WEEK & AFDTER SCHOOL PROGRAM!

Earth Day 40th Anniversary & Community Celebration

Come join in this historic 40th anniversary of the global EARTH DAY Community Celebration with the Central Rhode Island JAYCEES and its Kent County Junior Chamber & JAY-Teens!

Volunteers will assist the JAYCEES in Kent County, to host, coordinate and implement, the annual EARTH DAY (recycling)activities under the auspices of Department of Environmental Management and the Rhode Island Earth Day Committee.

The JAYCEES and volunteers will carry out routine landscape chores such as raking and bagging leaves, picking-up scattered debris, shoveling mulch and preparing extensive cultivation beds for Spring plantings.

In addition to doing the usual and regular clean-up surveys for their award-winning JAYCEE Corridor & Arboretum, the JAYCEES and their diverse team of associates, also will support the area businesses and commercial entities along with many civic-minded volunteers to focus a direct effect(recycling) upon the aesthetic appearance of Arctic Village District and locale.

We will be celebrating our 2nd Annual Global Youth Day Celebration at Long Elementary School in Dearborn, Michigan on 3100 Westwood Street. We will be cleaning around the school, cleaning out the garden and the playground areas, and planting a tree.

Students will weed and clean up schoolyard wildlife habitats.

Northwest Middle School students will participate in community service learning days by grade level on May 17, 18, and June 4, 2010. All students will participate in a variety of community service activities around the area! We are pioneers in this endeavor and very excited. Reflection is important to impact the students before, during, and after the service experience. S.M.A.R.T. Team at NWMS has teamed up with the Community Service Planning Team to conduct a Lunch and Learn at the school on Friday, April 23, 2010. Team members set up a table in the lunch commons with large papers each asking a question to contemplate prior to going into the community to serve. Students wrote their answers about what talents they have to help others, how they think their day of service will effect others, whether they prefer to do service work alone or as a team and why, and what responsibilities they have as a young citizen on the charts. Answers where thoughtful and awesome and will be summarized for morning announcements the week following the Lunch and Learn as well as immediately prior to and following the service learning days. NWMS is a caring community and wants to share with others!

Middle School students will research the appropriate type of tree to plant on our school playground for shade. They will plant the tree and take care of it until it matures.

Salmen High’s newly formed student initiated environmental organization, the EARTH Group, has developed an on campus conservation program. These students have used research findings to educate fellow students and community members about the importance of protecting the environment, and at the same time, organized a long-term, sustainable conservation effort at the school level.

The ultimate goal of the project is to uncover area needs and issues requiring activism which will lead to the design of a conservation project for implementation in the larger community. The student group and faculty sponsors have collaborated with representatives from Keep Slidell Beautiful, Slidell Tree Board, American Forest Foundation, Salmen High PTSA, and Department of Environmental Quality to carry out a year long theme of Green and Growing.

On Saturday, April 24 parents, students, faculty and members of Keep Slidell Beautiful will join forces for a Clean Up Day. Students have created and placed posters around the campus to bring attention to the importance of recycling and keeping the grounds litter-free. Students and faculty are also conducting weekly drives by collecting cans and paper from classrooms for recycling.

For its efforts, Salmen received a grant from Project Learning Tree, a national organization that provides funds “for students to ‘learn by doing’ in hands-on projects that improve an aspect of their community’s environment.” Salmen’s program was one of two Louisiana school projects awarded funding for the 2010 grant cycle.

The Scott River Watershed, a major tributary to the Klamath River drainage system, is experiencing habitat degradation related to agricultural diversion of stream flows, removal of riparian vegetation due to overgrazing and water quality problems related to runoff from recent intensive logging practices. Current information provided by the Department of Fish and Game and the American Fisheries Society indicates that the salmon population in the Scott River is at a high risk of loss. There had been a strong run of salmon and steelhead in the Scott River, including its tributaries, until recently. Etna High School, in the middle of Scott Valley, is a major component of this agricultural community. We have the unique opportunity to involve students in riparian restoration projects while educating them on the survival requirements and the importance of salmon to our region. A group of 25 high school students will work to organize, publicize, implement 5 separate watershed / ripararian restoration projects, to conclude with a Watershed Fair / Celebration. Middle and Elementary schools will be involved with each project.

Kindergarten students are partnering with the in-house pre-school to help them prepare for kindergarten. Students are assisting the pre-school with educational activities as well as helping the parents understand what they and their child can expect from kindergarten.

Mixed-Age students have formed a partnership with Bothwell Hospital's Pediatric Unit. They are selecting picture books to read and record on CDs. The books and CDs will be donated to the hospital. Students are also collecting coloring books, crayons and stuffed animals to donate. In additiona, they will be creating an interactive journal with stories and poems for children to read and complete.

Our Americorps NCCC team will be volunteering at the Arkansas Earth Day Festival. Which is a free family friendly festival that will feature live local bands, food, informative booths and green products and services. The 2010 Arkansas Earth Day Festival theme this year is "Gateway to Green" because they wish it to be a spring board of inspiration for each attendee to become more environmentally conscious in their everyday choices.

Activity involves removing invasive, non-native plants in Highland Glen Park, a wilderness and nature park located in North Utah County. Dalmatian Toadflax and Bull Thistle will be targeted. Reason for project: Invasive, non-native plant are harmful to the environment several ways. Many of them are toxic to local wildlife. Others can secrete toxins into the soil and make it hard for native plants to grow. Because wildlife avoid eating non-native plants, it provides an opportunity for non-native plants to outgrow native species. In addition, many species of non-native plants dry out early in the summer and become fire hazards. Spring and early summer is the best time for non-native plant removal because they haven't gone to seed yet. They are also easier to remove because they are smaller.

Our service learning club, Torch Club, is going to plant tomato plants in buckets and donate them to local nursing homes.
The buckets and plants were all donated and spray painted by volunteers in the last week. Torch Club and other members at our organization have also worked further by decorating the buckets so that each one is unique in design. After all of the buckets are planted, we will personally deliver them.

Kick off Picnic and garden planning session with the Pathways Students at out school.

The Albion Volunteer Service Organization's VolunTEENS will be helping a classroom at Harrington Elementary with their playground cleanup and poster session in celebration of Earth Day.

The Robeson County Youth Leadership Cabinet is a great group of students from each of the 6 high schools of Robeson County, NC. In the past year they have served the communities of Robeson through civic duties and community service. Saturday, April 24, 2010 the Youth Leadership Cabinet plan to visit elderly and those who have been affected by the resession with energy efficient light bulbs to help reduce eletric bills and save energy. This will be a day to declare war against poverty and polution.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-Leadership-Cabinet/97215157667

We will be removing weeds from the garden. Cutting the grass in the garden area. We will also be planting new flowers in the garden.

A regional online women's publication - gulfcoastwomanonline.com - will feature community youth leaders who have been selected for service to their community. The 'shining stars' will be featured in the May online edition. An article about Global Youth Service Day will also be featured, talking about the impact that our youth have on a community, region and the world.

'Shining star' award certificates from the publisher will be presented to each community youth leader selected. The youth leaders will be selected from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas - from cities along the Gulf Coast Region.

We're seeking volunteers to help out around the barn at Happy Trails Therapeutic Riding Center during National Volunteer Week and Global Youth Service Day!

Looking for:

•Families
•Horse lovers
•Groups
Projects include:

•Cleaning bridles and saddles
•Assiting with electrical wiring in arena
•Shoveling and moving woodchips
•Trimming trees
•Digging ditches
•Painting
If you love being around horses or just want to volunteer for a good cause, come join us!

Sign up link http://burrittplanting.eventbrite.com/

Join us at Burritt on the Mountain for a special planting project. Celebrate Global Youth Service Day and the positive change we can make in our community.

Looking for groups, families, youth, nature lovers!

Over 60 Wilmington College students will be going to various locations throughout the community to perform several hours of community service for a variety of non-profits.