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Activity Station Leader Needed for Jane's Walk
ORGANIZATION: Focus: HOPE
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Event Description:
What is Jane's Walk? Anyone can lead a Jane’s Walk because everyone is an expert on the places they live, work, and play. Jane Jacobs believed that the people best equipped to understand cities and make decisions about them are "ordinary, interested citizens". She intuited that getting to know our neighborhoods and each other is the foundation of city-building.
Jane’s Walk Leaders help people get to know their communities by gathering people outside of their homes, offices, and cars to exchange knowledge, tell stories, and share experiences. Jane’s Walk Leaders help people get to know their communities by gathering people outside of their homes, offices, and cars to exchange knowledge, tell stories, and share experiences.
Volunteers will be:
- Guiding activities at each stop
- Placemaking by educating and interaction with others
- There may be some painting, wear clothes you don't mind getting paint on.
Jane's Walk Stations & Volunteer Assignments:
- Event Set-Up
- Facilitate Seed Planting & Sign painting (Parkside Garden) Planting Seed Plants at Butterfly Garden (Ron Matten's Garden)
- Lead Community Listening Session (Parkman Library)
- Organize Park cleanup & Basketball rim and pole painting (Ford LaSalle Park)
- Distribute & Collect Pictures, Serve Food & Clean-up (James Smith Farmhouse)
Attire: Comfortable clothes (painting may be involved)
This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY volunteer activity.
Meeting Location: In front of Focus: HOPE's Resource Center building 1355 Oakman Blvd. (see map below)
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About Focus: HOPE
Location:
1200 Oakman Blvd., Building B. (Central Warehouse), Detroit, MI 48238, US
Mission Statement
Recognizing the dignity and beauty of every person, we pledge intelligent and practical action to overcome racism, poverty and injustice; and to build a metropolitan community where all people may live in freedom, harmony, trust, and affection; black and white, yellow, brown, and red, from Detroit and its suburbs, of every economic status, national origin, and religious persuasion. We join in this covenant.
Description
Focus: HOPE is a human service organization. Founded in 1968 in the wake of the 1967 Detroit riots by Father Willam T. Cunningham (1930-1997) and co-founder Eleanor M. Josaitis (1931-2011), Focus: HOPE unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony. Over the years, Focus: HOPE has initiated practical solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education, and racial divisiveness. Answers can be found in Focus: HOPE's technology training programs, educational and corporate partnerships, and food programs.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1355 Oakman BoulevardDetroit, MI 48238
DATE POSTED
April 6, 2018
SKILLS
- Networking
- Literacy / Reading
- People Skills
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 12
- 3 to 6 hours
- Comfortable working with the public, comfortable being outdoors