Community Service Coordinators

Community Service Coordinators

The Community Service Coordinators (CSC) are MA students who lead various service-oriented activities, such as blood drives, warm clothing and canned food drives, and also fundraisers for nonprofits.

The students engage in the following activities:

• CREATE alliances with organizations that need volunteers
• PRESENT service opportunities to the rest of the student body
• EDUCATE the MA community about social issues and the state of the world and the local community
• ORGANIZE on-campus events and fundraisers around pressing social issues.

Initiatives during the 2007-2008 school year:

• During the fall of 2007, the CSC sponsored a blood drive.
  
• Right after Thanksgiving, the CSC led an Oxfam Hunger Banquet to raise awareness about hunger around the world. Please visit OXFAM to learn more about how they fight global hunger.
  
• To raise awareness of local hunger, Human Development teacher Charis Denison spoke about the Haight Ashbury Food Program (HAFP), a soup kitchen and job-training program for currently or formally homeless people. The HAFP has recently lost federal funding and is trying to keep its doors open. Please visit the Haight Ashbury Food Program to learn more about the crucial role they play in feeding their neighborhood. Please contact Charis Denison at cdenison@ma.org to learn how you can help to keep the HAFP open.

During the 2006-2007 school year, the CSC accomplished the following:

• The Fair Trade Fashion Show involved student fashion designers, models, and musicians and sold out the MA Theater, raising $1,000 for Free the Children.
  
• The annual Valentine's Candygrams sale raised over $500 for the Berkeley Free Clinic while raising awareness of access to health care.
  
• Bob Schleeter and Dartanyan Brown worked with the CSC to raise over $500 for the Ritter Center by donating a percentage of ticket costs from The American Roots Concert.

All students are encouraged to join CSC or to simply take part in their drives. Students who would like to take a leadership role in CSC can apply to the Executive Board. Please contact Kim Martin, Director of the Center for Community Action, at kmartin@ma.org, to request an application.