8th Dimension

PUBLIC SERVICE & ACTION EXPO

Gap Year Adventures to Shape Your Career

Thursday November 5, 2009
11:30am – 1:30pm, HC, Dining Center Suken Lounge
2:30pm – 4:30pm, BMC, Campus Center Main Lounge

Attendees As of 10/21/09
AmeriCorps VISTA; AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps; ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships; City Year Greater Philadelphia; Coro Center for Civic Leadership; EducationWorks; Haverford House; HealthCorps; LanguageCorps; Peace Corps; Philadelphia Teacher Residency; Philly Fellows; Quaker United Nations Office; Teach For America

City Year

City Year is currently hiring 17-24 year olds to serve as tutors, mentors, and role models in schools and neighborhoods across Philadelphia.

Join City Year for an Open House on November 4th any time between 2:00-7:00pm.

For more information or to apply, please visit cityyear.org or call 267.386.7035

Stitch ‘n’ Bitch is Haverford’s knitting and crochet charity group.  We meet on Tuesday nights in James House and work on handmade projects for people in need.  We create handknit love to keep Philadelphia warm.

Field Trip to Philly

On October 3rd, we took a field trip into Philadelphia for bonding and yarn buying at Loop on South Street and Rosie’s Yarn Cellar on Locust Street.  If you’re interested in coming by to just sit and knit with us, feel free to bring your own projects!, or we can provide needles and yarn  It’s a very casual hang-out-and-eat-cookies kind of group.  We can also teach you how to knit or crochet, if you’ve got an itch to learn!
For more information, email Elinor (ehickey@haverford.edu).

Hey all,

There is an opportunity to work on Weavers Way’s Saul CSA this Wednesday, October 21st from 4:00 to 6:00pm. This is a great chance to get outside while the weather is still good and experience a functioning production urban farm. For more information about this farm and Weavers Way go to http://weaversway.coop/index.php?page=saul-csa. There is room for about 3-6 people, so let me know as soon as possible.

I know that this is late notice, but please email me (asanes@hc) by tomorrow morning if you would like to go. Also let me know if you have a car and would be willing to carpool because the farm isn’t very SEPTA accessible.

Heston is an elementary school on Lancaster Ave in Philly.  Once a week, we head down to Heston for two hours.  Each person tutors two or three students, one at a time, for 45 or 30 mins, respectively.  We tutor the same students every week to establish a relationship.  The students are mostly kids from first to fourth grade whose teachers think they need little extra help with math or reading.

Our first week of tutoring will be this week, starting October 19th!

For more information, email Amy Labar (alabar@hc)

Upcoming Fall Break Events!
Staying here for fall break?  Volunteer!

Help at a Halloween themed movie to benefit Freedom Playground on Saturday
October 17 from 5-9pm !  Freedom Playground seeks to build playgrounds accessible to children of all abilities.  They are currently trying to build one in Havertown.

Breast Cancer Walk
Cheer on the walkers from the Three Day Breast Cancer Walk!  Saturday October 17th.

Campus Book Drive
Bring your old books from home to donate Better World Books!  The donated books will be sold online to generate funding for a non-profit literacy group.

Philly Aids Walk
On Saturday October 18th the Philly Aids walk needs your help!  Volunteers are needed to help with anything ranging from crowd control to manning tents.
For more info. Email jdubow@hc or khoskins@hc
Upcoming Events After Fall Break!

Boo at the Zoo!
Help with Halloween themed games and arts and crafts at the Philadelphia
Zoo! Saturday or Sunday October 24, 25.  Shifts from 10-4.

Halloween Dance with Don Guanella!
On October 28th from 6-9 Don Guanella, a school for boys with special
needs, need volunteers to help out with its Halloween dance.

As always, if you have any questions or are interested email  8dstaff at haverford.edu

1-on-1 tutoring will hold an informal orientation this Wednesday in Ryan Gym at 9pm. We will be talking about the logistics of the program and answering any questions. If you can’t make it but would like to be part of the program, please e-mail Katie (kengland@hc) or Sam (spermutt@hc)

There is an opportunity to work on Weavers Way’s Saul CSA this Wednesday, October 6th from 4:00 to 6:00pm. This is a great chance to get outside while the weather is still good and experience a functioning production urban farm. You would be helping with the potatoes mainly, and just helping out in general. For more information about this farm and Weavers Way go to http://weaversway.coop/index.php?page=saul-csa.

I know that this is late notice, but please email me by midnight tonight if you would like to go. Also let me know if you have a car and would be willing to carpool because the farm isn’t very SEPTA accessible.

What: Restoring trails, removing invasive plant species, and planting trees, while learning about the importance of preserving the Cobbs Creek watershed to the Greater Philadelphia ecosystem.

When: This Saturday, October 3rd from 10:00am-12:00pm

Where: Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center in Philadelphia

About Cobbs Creek: Cobbs Creek’s mission is to help community members establish a personal connection to local ecology by giving them the skills to understand and influence both their immediate environment and the global ecology. Cobbs Creek promotes environmental education in urban schools through hands-on activities, research, and teacher training, and provides a point of entry to rewarding careers in science and the environment, especially for people of color.

Interested? Email  rdillon at haverford.edu.

One-on-One Tutoring is a unique program designed to provide local K-12 students with free opportunities to receive weekly tutoring from Haverford College student volunteers.  Volunteers are paired with students for tutoring in any subject, and once paired they meet on campus at a convenient time on a weekly basis.  Once a pair is made, the fun begins! The fundamental idea behind the program is that putting students in one-on-one situations with an older student can have tremendous benefits for the both the student and the volunteer.  Working one-on-one fosters learning, but also builds relationships which support growth both academically and socially.

For more information email Katie Englander or Sam Permutt

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, Philadelphia’s premiere Arab arts and culture organization, seeks college volunteers this Fall Semester!

Mentoring Opportunities:

Al-Bustan seeks mentors for students enrolled in after-school programs at Moffet Elementary School in Northeast Philadelphia (a five-minute walk from the Market-Frankford train). We need students with availability at least one afternoon every week, from 2:30-4:30.  Moffet Elementary is a fantastic school, but these students need homework help!  Many of these students families are recent immigrants, from Latino, African-American, and Palestinian families, and they need homework help and college role models.

Interested students should contact Chloe Tucker:ctucker@albustanseeds.org