VIP Special Projects: Volunteering events update!

[VIP Special Projects]

What up Volunteers!

Guess what? it's *National Volunteer Week! *Come out and Volunteer with VIP
sometime this week to celebrate! special projects has one event this week,
and we still have spots! please email me ASAP in interested!

Also, this awesome week ends with the *Sunshine Jubilee* on *Saturday (4/16)
*! It's from *12-3* in *illini grove*. Please come out and enjoy free food
and fun as a way to thank you for being a volunteer this past year.

finally, we still have some spots left in our future events. please let me
know ASAP if you would like to help out!
~Kate

Illinois Food Bank Fundraiser
When: Thursday 4/14 11pm-1am
Where: Green Street
This event is being organized along with the VIP Hunger and Homelessness
Project
Background: The Eastern Illinois food bank is looking to raise $13,000 for a
special event called Meals of Hope, which will will bring 55,000 meals to
need families in the C-U area.
To Volunteer: We will be collecting money on green street (aka canning)
Thursday and Friday of national Volunteering week. If you’ve never been
canning, I can assure you it is bound to be an entertaining experience.
Please let me know if you are interested in helping out!
Transportation: none provided
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and now for some other future events. Spots are still available!!

Locks of Love fundraiser
When: Wednesday 4/20, 11am-3pm
Where: Illinin Union, room 314 B
This event is being organized along with the VIP Blood project.
Background: Locks of Love is an organization that take hair donations to
make wigs for children who have lost their hair from cancer treatments.
There will be students from a beauty school coming to help out. Students can
choose to donate 10 inches to be made into a wig, or they can get a regular
hair cut for $10. all proceeds will go to Locks of Love.
To Volunteer: Volunteers for this event will be helping to staff the event
by collecting money, publicizing in the hall, and bagging hair donations to
be mailed in. Even if you only have an hour, we would love your help! If
interested, please email me when you are available that day and we can set
up a shift. * we are looking for people to take half hour shifts between 12
and 3*
Transportation: none provided

*Food Drive in the Dorms*
*When:from 9-11pm on dates TBD
Where: Dorms, TBD*
*Background:  *This is an event to collect donations for Cans Across the
Quad (Described below)
*To Volunteer:* Volunteers will be standing at a booth outside late night
for various dorms, asking students to spend some other their extra credits
on donations for the eastern Illinois Foodbank. Look for more details on
this event coming soon, and let me know if this interests you!
*Transportation: none provided*

Cans Across the Quad
When: Wednesday 4/27, all day
Where: Main Quad
Background: This event is U of I’s biggest canned food drive! campus groups
compete to see who can donate the most number of Cans, all of which will be
donated to Eastern Illinois Foodbank.

We will be collecting cans in the VIP office (room 285 in the union, by the
RSO office) from now until 4/27. Please stop by with donations, anytime!

To Volunteer: Specifically on the day of the event, volunteers will be
needed to help bring the cans down from the office onto the quad. this would
be a short event, less than an hour. If interested let me know when you are
free that day and I will coordinate the best time.
Transportation: none provided

Flower Planting Day
When: Friday 4/29, 3pm-5pm
Where: Champaign-Urbana Regional Rehab Center
This event is being organized along with the VIP Environmental project
Background: We will be helping to plant flower beds outside the
Champaign-Urbana Regional Rehab Center--a nursing home/rehabilitation
center.
To Volunteer: All supplies will be provided. Come relax and enjoy making the
center a more beautiful place at this fun event!
Transportation: provided

-- 
Kate Stephens  II  Special Projects Director 2011
Volunteer Illini Projects  II  University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
vip.special.projects at gmail.com
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