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Voluntary Action Center's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Community Project to benefit homeless shelters

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ORGANIZATION: Voluntary Action Center

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 15 people are interested
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Community Project

Please join The Voluntary Action Center in creating "Care Bags" to be donated to social service agencies that support the homeless in our community. Last year, 500 Care Bags were assembled and distributed to homeless shelters through a combined community effort in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2016, the Voluntary Action Center is asking schools, businesses and community service organizations to designate one item from a specified list to collect 500 of by January 12, 2016. These items will be organized and distributed on Monday, January 18, 2016 in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

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About Voluntary Action Center

Location:

541 Wyoming Ave., Scranton, PA 18509, US

Mission Statement

The Voluntary Action Center was built on, and continues to stand on the following goals: to encourage the local spirit of volunteerism by identifying community needs for volunteers, and offer recruitment, placement and recognition services; to strengthen regional information and referral resources: to expand the local growth of mutual-help and to explore the prospects of new human service projects in efforts to meet increased community needs.

Description

Dedicated to the concept of people helping people, the Voluntary Action Center is a contemporary human service organization, that through the goals and objectives of fifteen separate programs, today provides a vast wealth of heavily utilized and highly valued services to both Lackawanna County and the Northeastern Pennsylvania community.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Community

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

829 Jefferson Ave.\Scranton, PA 18510

SKILLS

  • Project Management
  • Organization

GOOD FOR

  • Kids
  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 12

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