WALK WITH US! Chinese-American Planning Council Walkathon

WALK WITH US!

The Chinese-American Planning Council Walkathon will take place on Sunday, July 22, 2012, beginning at Columbus Park in Chinatown at Mulberry and Bayard Streets.

Visit www.tinyurl.com/CPCBerkeleyTeam to register and email me at NLL@berkeleycollege.edu to confirm that you are registered and to provide your t-shirt size.

Click here to RSVP and for more info!

Please meet us at 9:00 AM at the Berkeley College table, to be hosted by the Admissions Department.  Starting at 10:00 AM, the walk will proceed across the Brooklyn Bridge and return to Columbus Park for a Family Fair afterwards.

Berkeley College is a Silver Sponsor for this event. This is an excellent opportunity for us to learn about and celebrate Chinese culture and show our support for the Chinese-American community in New York City. We hope you can join us. Please encourage our students to participate as well!

Questions? Contact Nicole Luthman at NLL@berkeleycollege.edu or 212-986-4343 x4214

How to find Volunteer Opportunities

Curious about where to volunteer? Not seeing anything you like at Berkeley just yet? The world of volunteer opportunities is at your fingertips, people! 

Here are some of our favorite sites for searching volunteer opportunities:

GreatNonprofits is a place to find trustworthy nonprofits.
Their mission is to"inspire and inform donors and volunteers, enable nonprofits to show their impact, and promote greater feedback and transparency."

Volunteer Match helps you search volunteer opportunities by zip code. 

Sparked features online volunteering for busy professionals. Make a difference on your lunch break! 

NYC Service helps you search for NYC-area volunteer opportunities by borough and interest!

  

NYC Cares connects you to myriad opportunities throughout the city. You must participate in a training session to join.

Got a great resource? Share it with us! Leave a comment or go to our Facebook page and let us know!

Universities Fighting World Hunger

Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH) represents a campus best practice in international programming and sustainable human development.  It creates a learning environment where intellectual discovery and social responsibility converge in pursuit of a sustainable world – a world that protects our natural environment and enhances human health and well-being for present and future generations.

Vision
In partnership with the UN World Food Programme, Universities Fighting World Hunger will be the catalyst mobilizing universities across the nation and around the globe to make fighting hunger a core value of higher education institutions worldwide.

Mission
The mission is to create an academic hunger model that is suitable for replication or adaptation by universities in the US and abroad.

Goal
The founding goal is to develop and implement an action agenda for students and faculty that encompasses:

• hunger awareness and consciousness-raising
• fundraising
• advocacy
• academic initiatives

leading to a university community that is fully engaged in the effort to eliminate world hunger.

All of the above information is from their website. Click here to visit!

Follow them on Twitter!

Like them on Facebook!

Fighting Hunger in NYC

There are approximately 2.9 million New Yorkers who have trouble affording food. Here are some amazing organizations that are fighting hunger in our very own neighborhoods. Berkeley Cares has had the pleasure of volunteering with several of them. Read more to learn about how you can get involved!

This organization has rescued hundreds of millions of pounds of food and redistributed them to agencies that feed the hungry. To learn more visit their website.

 

A full-service agency for the elderly of New York City, this center provides Meals-on-Heels services as well as the Carter Burden Luncheon Program for seniors. Check out pictures of Berkeley students delivering meals in NYC. Click here to learn how you can volunteer.

Grace Church

Offering multiple locations with both food pantry and soup kitchen services, Grace Church does so much for New Yorkers in Need. Visit their website to learn more. 

Community Kitchen and Pantry of West Harlem (Food Bank of NYC)

Offers both soup kitchen and food pantry services. Click here and here for pics of NYC students volunteering! Visit their website to learn more.

This is just a small sampling of service organizations that feed the hungry in NYC. Nice to know! Like them on Facebook, volunteer with them, get to know what they are all about.

  

 Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions and do not reflect the views of Berkeley College.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Berkeley Cares Blog!

 

The Berkeley Cares Community Service Program is Berkeley College's social responsibility initiative that builds on the Berkeley’s long tradition of addressing important social issues. Through this program, students, faculty & staff are committed to donating hours of hands on service to the community and creating a community of care on each campus and within those neighborhoods that surround us.

As well as the following benefits to the communities which we serve:
- Help address large scale social, economic, and environmental issues
- Help people make a change in their lives

Interested in volunteering? Contact the Office of Student Development & Campus Life at your campus to see what they have planned, or suggest your own service activities!

Brooklyn:
Sherrille Shabazz: srh@berkeleycollege.edu

Middlesex:
Kevin Frey: kcf@berkeleycollege.edu

Newark:
Sandra Garcia: sdg@berkeleycollege.edu

NYC Midtown/Downtown:
Nicole Luthman: nll@berkeleycollege.edu

Paramus:
Jennifer Litvak: jrl@berkeleycollege.edu

White Plains:
Melissa Vidam: mav@berkeleycollege.edu

Woodland Park:
Ashante Barnes-Awe: aba@berkeleycollege.edu

A Sampling of Past Service Events and Projects:
City Year Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, Project Linus, Meals on Heels, The AFSP Overnight Out of the Darkness Walk, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, ALS Walk, Food Bank of NYC, Community Kitchen and Pantry of Harlem, Books for Africa, Covenant House, Be a Star, Harlem Hospital Toy Drive, Toys for Tots, NY Cares Coat Drive, American Cancer Society Walk, March for Babies, AIDS Walk, Riverside Park Cleanup, Junior Achievement, CUNY Citizenship Now!, Sanctuary for Families Holiday Helpers, Community Service Fair, World AIDS Day, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief (Fundraising and Folding Cranes for StudentsRebuild.org), Buy One, Give One to the American Red Cross (Bookstore)