Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

2009 National Partners

NC Campus Compact is pleased to partner with six national organizations to promote MLK Day of Service efforts for 2009.  Below is a summary of their proposed activites as found in the Corporation for National and Community Service July 2008 press release.  The full press release can be accessed here. We invite you to visit each organization's website to learn more about them!

Press Release, 7/24/08 excerpt:

A total of $700,000 will go to the seven grantees to support 2009 activities, the first year of a three-year grant cycle.  While each of the grantees brings a different approach, they share the goals of expanding overall participation, engaging more disadvantaged youth; incorporating reflections on Dr. King’s life and teachings, and using the holiday as a gateway for ongoing service.  As part of their grant, each will reach out to organizations inside and outside their network to carry out service projects on the day. 

The grantees are:

• The Points of Light Institute will receive $150,000 to fund sub-grant projects focused on increasing support for youth in disadvantaged circumstances by combining with their Hands on Schools, Neighboring Initiative, Kids Care Clubs, and Earned Income Tax Credit sites.
  
  
• The Corps Network will receive $100,000 to support sub-grantees and affiliates, sustaining their broader work by expanding outreach and community presence and capitalizing on the King Day of Service as a time to recruit new partners and volunteers for that day and for activities throughout the year.

• The North Carolina Campus Compact will receive $100,000 to engage students in project planning, connect them with local communities, and expand the MLK Day of Service by enhancing the students’ sense of responsibility, citizenship, leadership, and awareness, while reinvigorating higher education’s concern for improving the quality of life.

• Youth Service America will receive $100,000 to engage up to 15 lead agencies in YSA’s Semester of Service, which is designed to engage 25,000 students between the ages of 5 and 25 to serve at least 70 hours during the school semester. These lead agencies will also be invited to participate in YSA’s Global Youth Service Day training institute to prepare for Semester of Service activities.
  

• Service for Peace will receive $97,500 to mobilize volunteers from new populations and organizations that have not previously served on the King Holiday. To accomplish this, they have established a “40 Days of Peace” program that will leverage the involvement of new partners.
  

• Campus Kitchens will receive $77,500 to bring college students and the community together to address issues surrounding hunger by engaging youth in leading hunger relief programs to share on-campus kitchen space, recover unused food from campus cafeterias, and deliver meals to low-income neighborhoods.
  

• The National Alliance of Faith and Justice will receive $75,000 to fund sub-grantees that support efforts to engage youth in service by giving them the opportunity to apply the teachings of non-violent social change to issues in the communities and schools.