This Week in Service
Department of Community Service
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Submit a quote or reflection to DCS!
We want to hear from you! Do you have a quote that you want to submit regarding your time with Waltham Group, being a part of a service club or working with the Department of Community Service?
Submit it
today and your quote might be featured on the DCS website! This is the best way for prospective students, community partners and alumni to learn more about our programs and hear about what is happening on campus!
Community Partner Thank You's
This week, DCS will be posting Community Partner spotlights from various Waltham Group programs and service clubs. Do you want to thank your community partner?
Fill out this form
! If you thanking community partner's on social media, be sure to tag us and we will re-share!
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Make sure to follow us on
Instagram
and
Facebook
to keep up with all the available opportunities and programs we are sharing!
Are you hosting virtual programs? Fill out
this form
to let us know!
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In this email:
- Virtual Volunteer Challenge Week 5: Advocacy
- Waltham's Response & Needs to COVID-19: A Perspective from Colleagues in Our Community
- Traditional Chinese Papercutting Workshop
- Virtual Stressbusters
- Denim Day
- Create@Brandeis: Living Room Fest - May 1 - 3
- Virtual Study Break with Spiritual Life
- Nominate an outstanding professor for a teaching award!
- Waltham Mutual Aid Network Volunteers Needed
- Recognizing students’ global leadership: Millennium Fellowship
- Virtual Volunteer Opportunity with Change for Kids
- Meals on Wheels Temporary Jobs & Volunteers Needed
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Brandeis Community Opportunities
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Virtual Volunteer Challenge Week 5: Advocacy
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This week the Department of Community Service is challenging you to step up and become an advocate for your local community! If you would like to participate in this challenge and discover new ways you can support our Waltham community, please join our Waltham's Response & Needs to COVID-19 event on Wednesday!
You can engage in this challenge by:
Please log your service hours for this challenge in CTSA under the program name "
Virtual Volunteer Challenge: Advocacy
".
Don't forget to document your participation in this challenge and tag @deis_dcs! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact
[email protected]
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Waltham's Response & Needs to COVID-19: A Perspective from Colleagues in Our Community
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Wednesday, April 29
12:00 p.m.
Join community leaders from Waltham to learn about how the city is coming together to support our local community through this pandemic. We will look at some of the most critical issues facing Waltham during this public health crisis and explore ways we as the Brandeis community can continue to engage. You will leave this session with ideas and opportunities of how you may be able to support our community now and in the upcoming months. Our guest speakers include:
- Suzi Solomon, WATCH CDC
- Kaytie Dowcett, Waltham Partnership for Youth
- Jonathan Goldman, Waltham Mutual Aid Network
Participants will be able to ask questions, offer suggestions, and share their ideas with professionals who are on the ground doing this important work. This event is open to all members of the Brandeis community. RSVP is not required but is preferred so that we have a headcount and can troubleshoot if we have technology challenges. Please register using
this link
and share questions that you would like our panelists to address.
Password: Waltham
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Traditional Chinese Papercutting Workshop
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May 1
12:00 p.m.
Decorate your windows with the traditional Chinese folk art of paper cutting. Amy Chen '22 will teach you 窗花 or "window flower" design, used to decorate the house and ward off evil spirits during the Spring Festival. This design is usually attached to the windows so that it can be viewed from both inside and outside of the house. All you need is paper and scissors. We will use red paper if you have it, to represent celebration, vitality, and good luck. Check out the
Community Service instagram
to watch the video!
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Keep an eye out for all the virtual stress busters that the Wellness Programers are putting on in the next few days! For more information, check out the
Health and Wellness Promotion website
!
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Wednesday, April 29
All Day
Denim Day is an international day of solidarity for those who have experienced sexual violence. Join us on April 29 for this virtual event.
How you can participate:
- Wear denim jeans, jackets, accessories or all of the above!
- Take a selfie
- Share on social media using the hashtag: #DEISDENIMDAY
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Create@Brandeis: Living Room Fest - May 1 - 3
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Since we can't hold the Festival of the Arts on campus this year, we're bringing it to you! The three-day
Create@Brandeis Living Room Fest
features a wide variety of online arts programs and activities presented by Brandeis students, alumni, faculty and staff, with special guests.
The complete schedule will be posted
online
on April 24. Follow us on
Facebook
and
Twitter
for updates. And we're sharing our community's creative moments of music, visual art, and more every day on our Instagram account,
@CreateAtBrandeis.
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Virtual Study Break with Spiritual Life
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April 29
12pm - 1pm
Join the Center for Spirtual Life for a virtual study break on April 29 from 12-1 p.m. Stay the whole time or stop by for 5 minutes. Bring your own cup of tea!
Tucker Time!
12:00-12:15 p.m. - Hang out with Tucker the dog as he plays tug of war with toys, fetch with his ball, performs tricks and chills in the grass. Your pets are very welcome to join!
Poetry and Prose Share
12:25 - 12:40 p.m. -Bring an original poem or an old stand-by that you love. Favorite short stories also welcome if there is time.
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Nominate an outstanding professor for a teaching award!
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Recognize Brandeis faculty who have made a difference in your lives!
Students are invited to nominate outstanding professors for teaching awards by completing a brief electronic nomination form found
here.
Prior recipients of an award are not eligible to receive the same award twice.
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Community Partner Opportunities
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Waltham Mutual Aid Network Volunteers Needed
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The
Waltham Mutual Aid Network
is seeking volunteers who help support the Waltham community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a particularly high need for volunteers who can help people navigate applying for social services and volunteers who speak multiple languages (particularly Spanish).
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Recognizing students’ global leadership: Millennium Fellowship
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The United Nations Academic Impact and MCN proudly present the
Millennium Fellowship
. This program convenes, challenges, and celebrates bold student leadership advancing the Sustainable Development Goals on campus and in communities. As a Millennium Fellow, you will hone skills, take concrete action, and earn a certificate of recognition from the United Nations Academic Impact and MCN.
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Virtual Volunteer Opportunity with Change for Kids
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Change for Kids, a youth development organization based out of NYC, has moved all programming to a digital platform: CFK | Digital. The platform is now live, free and open to the public. CFK | Digital includes a library section of recorded videos and activities and a place for students to sign-up for our live, interactive classes. Every week we are adding new content to the library. There are opportunities to pre-record reading a picture book or lesson for elementary school kids.
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Meals on Wheels Temporary Jobs & Volunteers Needed
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Meals on Wheels Drivers deliver nutritious meals to homebound seniors Monday - Friday. The Meals on Wheels Program is one of many programs Minuteman Senior Services offers to support seniors who want to age independently within their own homes and communities.
As a Meals on Wheels Driver, you will do much more than deliver a meal -- you will provide a friendly contact that will brighten the lives of homebound seniors. Drivers serve as our eyes and ears, often reporting health and well-being concerns before they become a crisis.
You will see many smiling, grateful faces among the seniors on your route.
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Department of Community Service
Shapiro Campus Center, Room 203
P: 781-736-3237
Want to submit your event or volunteer request in an upcoming This Week in Service email? Fill out this
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