2019 GEO Report

The project will bring children from the Fishtown and Kensignton Communities together to join in fellowship through soccer.
40 children from each neighborhood will be invited to play in a soccer tournament with no fees.
Each participant will be asked to donate one non-perishable item to be donated to St. Francis Inn, which is five clocks from the facility.
The children will be chosen from the Fishtown Soccer Club and the Kensington Soccer Club.

Girl Scouts of Troop 9362 will assist the elderly residents of the Gray Manor Apartments in creating greeting cards and 50 Jared boxes for Shriners Hospital as well as greeting cards for military service people. The scouts will deliver the Jared Boxes and mail the greetings cards to servicemembers.

The Common Place and Cornerstone Christian Academy are teaming up to clean up our campus! We will be working within our buildings to clean, maintain and fix our buildings. Our goal is to create a safe, and clean environment to help support the children and families we work with.

We will be painting the outdoor bathrooms floors, a wall by our multi-purpose field, and some maintenance to our turf field.

Various nonprofits will host volunteers for service projects to help with light maintenance, painting, packaging supplies, and more.

Creating a community-based project focusing on environmental cleanup of the North Philadelphia area

The Student Government Association invites individuals of the Raritan Valley community to share their favorite short work based on the theme “MLK: Live the Legacy”. The Read-In will focused upon multicultural works. The Read-In is a very unique event as it connects cultural and literary diversity between writers. In addition, emerging student writers are granted the opportunity to share their work amongst one another. Students, faculty and staff will participate in the Read-In.

Montclair State University students, faculty, staff, alumni, and local community members are invited to serve in the Montclair community and surrounding areas. Volunteers arrive at the Student Center Cafeteria and are dismissed to their service sites which are 13 off-campus sites and 3 on-campus sites. The off-campus service sites are Canterbury Village, Ceberal Palsy of North Jersey, CUMAC, Covenant House of Newark, Habitat for Humanity Paterson, Job Haines, KinderSmile Foundation, and more!

Students will package frozen meals for the sick/shut-in.

The plan is to clean the floors of the gymnasium, main hallways, the areas of the facility that are heavily used. Paint areas that have been neglected over a period of time.

We will be spending the day cleaning and painting the church's educational wing.

Students will engage in increasing knowledge and skills to be active social justice advocates in their local communities. Various workshops will provide participates with Cognitive: Critical thinking, Openness to diversity and challenge, Knowledge about different racial/ethnic groups; Socio-Cognitive: Cultural awareness, Intellectual and social self-confidence, Leadership;
Citizenship: Interest in equity and social justice; Values/Attitudes: Civic values, Commonality of values with others.

6-12 grade Girl Scouts will be creating backpacks to be delivered through Lehigh Valley hospital’s street doctors program. The bags will be given to the homeless.

The Office of Community Relations is partnering with Berean Presbyterian Church to manage indoor cleanup projects.

Temple University's Office of Community Relations will partner with the Beckett Life Center to create a workshop that will engage children and youth on the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. The agencies will work with the students to create vision boards.

The Food Bank of Delaware’s Backpack Program volunteers will be packing food in bags for the student. the goal is to pack 1200 means.

Clean up and mural painting project in-conjunction with All In The Family and Dobbins High School.

This project will be at Germantown Friends School. The aim is to have a few volunteers helping people register for the other projects that will be happening at Germantown Friends School during MLK Day.

This project will be at Germantown Friends School. The aim is to have a few volunteers helping out with any supplies that need to be distributed to other MLK Day projects at Germantown Friends School.

This project will happening around Germantown. The idea is that the leader of Philly One Love Guns Down, Keith Schenck, will lead MLK volunteers from Germantown Friends School in picking up litter in Germantown to make it a safer and more beautiful place.

This project will involve Germantown Friends School members and their families making signs against gun violence.

At this event, we will be building bat boxes and partnering with The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed. The bat boxes will be placed on Manor College's Campus. We are inviting current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the college to join us for this event.

Employees from the First Judicial District will partner with the Philadelphia Mural Arts program and Strawberry Mansion Alumni to design new murals for their cafeteria, and paint their pal center. We also plan to refresh some of the classrooms by painting window panes and doors.

We will show a documentary about Martin Luther King and then have a discussion about it.

Germantown Friends School students and families will assemble snack bags for the afterschool programs at Happy Hollow Playground.