Complete cycle of service impacting local needs through giving
Local Campus Corps team impacts their community through a series of service projects. Team members geared up to delivery 1000 disaster preparedness bags to their community during March’s American Red Cross month in alignment with AmeriCorps Works week. Volunteers including AmeriCorps members, VISTA members, and local community members persevered through a late March snow storm that accumulated to over 6 inches of snow while walking the streets of their community delivering bags door to door educating citizens on the importance of being prepared for disasters that could strike at any given time. The team won a state wide competition and received a reward to have a celebration, instead of using funds for their achievements the members chose to turn the money around into a donation for the local campus community garden of which a Food Corps VISTA had diligently worked over her term of service to build the capacity of the garden forming partnerships with local schools and cafeterias. The donation was enough to purchase needed materials for summer education programs at the garden.

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