Service Plunge - Make A Difference Day - National Youth Service Day - Co-Motion

Service Plunge

Saturday, August 26, 2006
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
East College Lawn

Plunge right into community service! Join your fellow First-Year students in a morning of service and learning. Meet leaders in the Putnam County area and connect with local service organizations. Volunteer at sites such as the Putnam County Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity, the Family, Youth, and Community Development Center, and many more. Don’t miss this opportunity to see what DePauw and Greencastle have to offer and how you can get involved.

Contact Jessica Weasner at 765-658-4870 or jweasner@depauw.edu with any questions.

Registration for the First-Year Service Plunge is now closed. All our service sites are full! Thanks First-Year Students for an amazing response and we'll see you all on Saturday morning!

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Make A Difference Day

Make A Difference Day is a national day of service that unites the DePauw campus and PutnamCounty in an effort to help those in need.

Make A Difference Day is the most encompassing national day of service -- a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. Make A Difference Day celebrates the power of cooperation and service along with an estimated 2 million other volunteers nation-wide. It is an annual event that takes place on the fourth Saturday of October. Each year a new project is planned by the Make A Difference Day Civic Intern. This Intern is encouraged to consider the mission of the event, community needs, and their personal interests and passions, among other things. An important element of Make A Difference Day is involving the entire community; both DePauw and Greencastle.

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National Youth Service Day

National Youth Service Day seeks to mobilize the youth of PutnamCounty to identify and address the needs of their communities through service.

National Youth Service Day, takes place the second or third weekend in April and is a public awareness and education campaign that highlights the positive contributions that young people make to their communities throughout. As the largest service event in the world, it mobilizes millions of young people to address the needs of their communities, and educates the public, the media, and policymakers about the year-round contributions of young people as community leaders. Young people around the world design and lead service-learning projects in areas ranging from literacy and the environment, to healthcare, hunger, and help for the elderly. At DePauw, a project is organized by the National Youth Service Day Civic Intern. This Intern is encouraged to consider the mission of the event, community needs, interests of the youth who will be participating in the event, and their personal interests and passions, among other things.

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Co-Motion

Co-Motion is a competition with Wabash College to raise awareness and funds to benefit local domestic violence shelters.

The Co-Motion project was developed by an alumnus of Wabash College who wanted to see the rivalry between Wabash and DePauw in a more positive light. DePauw’s Hartman House joins with Wabash ’s Community Taskforce to focus on performing service projects and raising funds for and awareness of domestic violence issues. The fundraiser also has a raffle at the Monon Bell football game, with half of the money going to the winning school and half to the Family Crisis Shelter of Crawfordsville and the Julian Center in Indianapolis.