#911 Lansing Eastside Day of Service
ORGANIZATION: Michigan Community Service Commission
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Our project focuses on environmental stewardship, education, and healthy futures, with a focus on combating food insecurity and fostering a strong community. This multi day, multi pronged project, will tackle this issue in many different areas. Project 1: BreadBasket Food Pantry Support The overarching goal of the Breadbasket Food Pantry is to offer emergency food assistance to neighbors who are experiencing hunger. More than this, Breadbasket offers a welcoming environment in which neighbors can become involved in other programs. ANC provides information, referral and advocacy services, ensuring access to health, housing, and human services (e.g., Ingham Health Plan coverage for uninsured, MIChild, SNAP, Medicaid, Plan First, foreclosure counseling, credit repair and financial literacy, and healthy parenting programs and classes). They also connect residents to neighborhood watches and associations, youth programs, and cooking classes---building connectivity and social capital in this richly diverse area of the city. We strongly believe that everyone should have access to nutritionally dense food, especially those who experience poverty and food insecurity. On Monday, September 9th, 30 volunteers will support the BreadBasket Food Pantry…
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About Michigan Community Service Commission
Location:
222 N. Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48933, US
Mission Statement
The Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC) utilizes service as a strategy to address the state’s most pressing issues and empowers volunteers to strengthen communities.
Description
Since its founding in 1991, the MCSC has granted more than $100 million in public and private funds to community organizations enabling them to engage millions of Michigan citizens in volunteer service. This support has leveraged more than $85 million in local resources to further support these community volunteer initiatives.
Volunteerism doesn't just happen. Most social service and nonprofit organizations rely heavily on volunteers as a valuable human resource; that resource must be stewarded carefully and supported continuously. Volunteer recruitment, management, training, placement, and recognition require resources and attention. With continued public and private support, along with the necessary training, resources, and coordination needed to help people serve, volunteerism can become a way of life for all Michigan citizens.
It is our vision that all Michigan residents, beginning at an early age and continuing for a lifetime, meet community needs and find personal fulfillment through service-learning and volunteering. Michigan is an ideal place to live and is recognized nationally because its citizens believe so strongly in the value of service as a way of life.
CAUSE AREAS
Community,
Homeless & Housing,
Veterans & Military Families
WHEN
Fri Sep 06, 2024 - Sat Sep 14, 2024
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Weekend - Daytime
WHERE
49455
(43.60862 ,-86.36396 )
DATE POSTED
August 14, 2024
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- This is a Done in a Day opportunity and there is no prior training or ongoing commitment needed.