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Events & Projects
Please keep in contact with us about upcoming opportunities to
participate in volunteer projects, forums, events, and projects! For
a list of non-profit community organizations that are always looking
for volunteers, click here.
August 8-12
Bonner
Leader Orientation
The Bonners' first
outing will be in Nashville, Tennessee to study the homeless population
there.
September 11
Nettie Day!
All incoming Freshmen will participate
in this day of service. To participate in this event, contact Joyce Doughty as soon as
possible.
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Annual
Events
Nettie Day (article)
September
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 21
National Freedom Day
February 1
Alternative Spring Break
March
Oxfam Hunger Banquet (article)
April
Earth Day
April 22
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Ongoing Events & Volunteer
Opportunities
SOS!
(Service on Saturdays)
Each block a service opportunity will be offered on Saturday to
students, staff & faculty alike. A sign up table will be available
in Niswonger before each scheduled event, or you can email the Bonner Leaders Program Director for information. (Past
events included: helping to build a Habitat for Humanity house, singing
carols at Plaza Towers, playing basketball in the TC gym with kids from
the Boys & Girls Club.)
First
Book Initiative
The
CCA's Advisory Council also
serves as the Greeneville/Greene County Local Advisory Board for the First
Book national book grant program. The first grant recipient group
was the BackYard Learning Center. They were awarded enough money to
order 209 books, which were distributed to the children throughout the
year. The books then became the personal property of the children. We
are now working with Ottway Elementary School's 3rd graders. 
If you know of additional schools or groups of at-risk children that we
could begin to provide books for, please let us know. If you would like
to join the Greeneville/Greene County Local Advisory Board for First
Book, please contact us.
We are funded by corporations and service clubs such as Borders
Bookstore, Kidwell Appraisal Services, The Volunteer Center of
Greeneville/Greene County, International House of Pancakes, and
SunTrust, as well as by individual donors. If you know of other
service clubs or companies we might approach for funds, please let us
know. This will enable us to get more books into the hands of
children who otherwise may never know the pleasure of opening a brand
new book that belongs only to them.
The
Lunch Buddies program at Doak Elementary
One
day per block in the Spring, a group of Tusculum College football
players will eat lunch with designated students at Doak Elementary
School. Students are inspired to consider going to college as an
option after graduation.
News
Archives
Class
Projects & Trips
- Homeless Point-in-Time
Survey - Tusculum students helped the Appalachian
Regional Coalition on Homelessness (ARCH) conduct a Point-in-Time
survey of the homeless in Greene County in September 2007.
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