Circle Project List 2009-2010
Adelphi University
Operation Get Ahead & Community Development Agency
Operation Get Ahead: ODK Members will provide a workshop on "College & the College Experience" to 10-15 High School Students from locally disadvantaged communities. This will also include lunch and a tour of the University.
Community Development Agency: ODK will lead about 50 students in a community service project at a local community park in a disadvantaged area where they will provide park clean-up and paint parking lines. Project 1: to provide inspiration and incentive to locally disadvantaged high school students. Project 2: to provide clean-up to neighborhood park. Project 1: The high school students Project 2: The community at large
Please contact Teresa Pisano for more information about this project.
Berry College
Relay for Life Team
Berry sponsors it's own Relay for Life every spring in support of the American Cancer Society. To support ACS, To raise funds for cancer research, To build community within our organization. ACS, Berry Community, ODK members
Please contact Betsy Bowers for more information about this project.
California Lutheran University
Walk for Multiple Sclerosis
We will be raising a minimum of $500 and be walking in a charity walk for MS. The MS foundation will benefit greatly from our fund raising, and they will use the money to continue to search for a cure for MS.
Please contact Mayan White for more information about this project.
Concordia University Irvine
Concordia ODK - Habitat for Humanity Alumni Build
In partnership with the alumni association, our ODK circle will participate in a Habitat for Humanity Build in San Juan Capistrano building homes for veterans. We hope to assist veterans and their families working toward completing their homes with Habitat for Humanity
Please contact Michael Bergler for more information about this project.
Creighton University
Creighton Campus Kitchen
We are going to be aiding Creighton University's campus kitchen by stocking food for the homeless and less privileged citizens in the greater Omaha metropolitan area and delivering the goods to the people who need them most. We hope to give back to the community that has given so much to us, as students of Creighton University. This will benefit not only those who participate in the event, but also those who receive the foods and services we dole out to them.
Please contact Will Nester for more information about this project.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Charity House at Embry-Riddle, (February 26-27, 2010)
Charity House is Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership Honors Organization)'s way of increasing Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's (ERAU) awareness of the problem of homelessness. It was surprising to me to learn that there are about 3000 homeless people in just the local Daytona Beach area. Participants are fed a BBQ dinner, pizza, and light breakfast with donations from sponsors. All proceeds are donated to the STAR Family Center, Homeless Assistance Corporation. During Charity House, student organizations get together to build a cardboard village on the west lawn and sleep outside under the stars. Houses are judged on creativity, structural integrity, appearance, and use of materials. Teams are only allowed to use cardboard, duct tape, and water based [spray] paints. Competitions and games are held to promote teamwork within each organization. We host guitar hero, poker, relay races, cardboard engineering challenges, and more! The biggest prizes include $150 for 1st place overall, $100 for 2nd place overall, and $50 for third place overall. Increase campus awareness about homelessness and promote teamwork within participating organizations. The project also helps project a good image of ERAU to the community. All proceeds are donated to the STAR Family Center, Homeless Assistance Corporation.
Please contact Christina Chu for more information about this project.
Grand Valley State University
Relay For Life Clean Up
Working with Colleges Against Cancer to clean up the Relay For Life event at Grand Valley State University. To provide help to students in need and to ease the workload of the students who had run the fundraiser all night. This project will benefit Colleges Against Cancer and the students, faculty and alumni of Grand Valley State University.
Please contact Branden Stewart for more information about this project.
Indiana State University
Pampered Pooch Project
We will be bathing and grooming dogs and cats for a donation. We will partner with our local Pet Smart to provide the facility to bathe and groom the animals. The donations will go to the local Humane Society. We hope to provide needed resources for the local unwanted and abandoned pets residing at the local Human Society.
Please contact Dawn Forsman for more information about this project.
Maryville University
Maryville University OΔK National Day of Service (campus-wide)
Maryville University's OΔK Circle will be organizing several different projects for all of our campus to participate in. Students will be encouraged to sign up to help beautify campus, participate in the local adopt-a-highway project, work at Haven House, help repair local properties, and more. After the afternoon of service, Maryville Students will be encouraged to reflect on their work. At the end of the day, we will have served a local food bank, done repairs and restorations on a Boys Hope home and other properties, provided service to the university, and assembled blankets for a local organization as well.
Please contact Joel Hermann for more information about this event.
Missouri Southern State University
Wildcat Glades
We will be working outdoors at Wildcat Glades Park in our local community. We will be washing windows, spreading mulch, working in flower beds, and other outdoor projects to benefit the park and Audubon center. The volunteers will be introduced to the park if they have never visited, and this will promote later volunteer opportunities for the group members. The group will be completing projects that will benefit the park, the Audubon center, the visitors, and the community. The project will benefit the park and Audubon center, which will in turn benefit the visitors and the surrounding community.
Please contact Kristen Hicks for more information about this project.
Morningside College
Into the Streets (March 23, 2010)
Over four hundred Morningside College students spent the morning volunteering at nearly 45 non-profit community organizations, on a day classes are canceled. The goals of this project were to give back to the community that supports our school and to do something productive on our day off from classes. Nearly 45 non-profit community organizations in our community benefited from the day of service.
Please contact Rebecca Anderson for more information about this project.
Pittsburg State University
The Big Event
The Big Event is a campus wide community service project. Different organizations are given job sites to go to in the community to provide maintenance assistance for residents. Our ODK circle did not plan this whole event. We are simply going to participate in it and provide able volunteers. It will benefit residents of Pittsburg who are elderly or disabled and unable to do their own yard work.
Please contact Roxanne Wallace for more information about this event.
Samford University
Samford Day of Service
More than 360 Samford students will arise Saturday morning and hit the town to volunteer as part of Omicron Delta Kappa's Samford Day of Service. Teams of up to 15 students led by ODK members will disperse to sites such as Habitat for Humanity, Birmingham House Renovation, the Ronald McDonald House of Central Alabama, Northstar Youth Ministries, and the Church at Brook Hills' Hispanic Clinic. The opportunities are synced with ODK's first annual National Day of Service. In planning this project we hope to serve Samford's surrounding community and to encourage students to get involved outside the campus. This will benefit not only those who participate in the event, but also those who receive the foods and services we provide.
Please contact Stephen Bailey for more information about this project.
SUNY Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh Campus-Community Service Partnership
More than 100 SUNY Plattsburgh students will volunteer at a number of important community agencies and organizations. These organizations include, but are not limited to, the Plattsburgh Interfaith Food Shelf, the Plattsburgh Corps of The Salvation Army, the Clinton County HeadStart program, Plattsburgh's Evergreen Valley Nursing Home, and the Plattsburgh Community Garden organization. In addition to the agencies, students will also be doing some basic household projects at the homes of individual senior citizens in our community who have come to us in response to our offer to assist them on this day. We hope to assist these valuable community agencies and these senior citizens residents in our community in the best possible way we can.
Please contact Benjamin Pomerance for more information about this event.
Susquehanna University
T&D Cats of the World - A Day in the Jungle
T&D's Cats of the World is one of the only and possibly the largest exotic wildlife rescue organization in Pennsylvania. As members of ODK, we plan on travelling to the facility and help with facility maintenance and cleaning.
1. Help out a truly wonderful (and unique) organization. 2. Begin interaction between old and new members. 3. Establish a potential annual service project for our chapter. The employees at T&D Cats and the organization as a whole.
Please contact Brian Gilbert for more information about this project.
Vanderbilt University
Purity Moosic City Dairy Dash 10K/5K
As race-day volunteers, we assisted with registration operations for the event: we helped direct runners to different registration stations, we passed out thousands of running t-shirts, and we helped answer questions for any of the visiting guests. Also, the Vanderbilt Circle of ODK will be making a charitable donation to the American Cancer Society, the official charity of the Purity Moosic City Dairy Dash. Ensure that everyone that seeks our help has their questions answered. These 5K and 10K races were held on behalf of the American Cancer Society.
Please contact Quinton Katler for more information about this project.
University of Akron
Boys and Girls Club Service Day
University of Baltimore
Community Service Day
The University of Baltimore holds an annual Community Service Day in April, where the entire campus community (students, staff and faculty) volunteers their time and efforts to the community of Baltimore city. Everyone gets put into a group and goes to a specific site (which includes but not limited to Maryland Zoo, Maryland SPCA, USS Constellation, Parks and People, and Village Learning Place) and provides a day of service specific to the location. Our ODK circle will form its own team so that we can work together for the day and reconnect with current members as well as get to know new members. Our goal was to work together as a team to accomplish a specific service learning project. We served the city of Baltimore and its citizens.
Please contact Mandy Wrobel for more information about this project.
University of Cincinnati
Gorman Heritage Farm "Shear Excitement"
The Gorman Heritage Farm, a 120-acre working and educational farm in the Greater Cincinnati community, is hosting a sheep-shearing festival entitled "Shear Excitement." Our ODK volunteers will assist with farm concessions, snacks, kids' crafts and potato planting during the festival. We want to give back to the community by assisting with volunteer needs for the Shear Excitement festival. This event serves youth from underprivileged communities across the Greater Cincinnati area.
Please contact Bradley Stephens for more information about this project.
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell National Historical Park Clean Up
We will be volunteering at Lowell National Historical Park by cleaning up their canal and doing some landscape work around their greenhouse in preparation for their upcoming Earth Day Festival. Our goal is to help the Lowell National Historical Park improve it's environment and look as clean and visitor-friendly as possible. This project will benefit anyone in the community of Lowell or nearby who visits and enjoys the park, and of course will help sustain the park's beauty.
Please contact Alayna Mender for more information about this event.
University of Mississippi
Ole Miss World Cup Soccer Tournament
We decided to cooperate with the efforts of our Associated Student Body Government and the International Student Organization towards their plans for a “World Cup Soccer Tournament” which will be modeled after the International Federation of Football Association’s World Cup Games in South Africa this year. We are working to find a reputable and fiscally responsible South African AIDS relief organization to be the recipient of the money raised from this campus-wide service event.
Please contact Mary Maher for more information about this event.
University of Nebraska Omaha
ODK at Open Door Mission
We will help the Open Door Mission organize and categorize donations. To engage ODK members into the Omaha community and volunteer our time to satisfy a need within our Metro. The homeless and poverty stricken families in the Omaha area shop for free food at the Mission.
Please contact Aundrea Hansen for more information about this project.
University of Texas at San Antonio
Adopt-a-Spot Clean-up
We will be picking up trash along the road near our campus. We hope to promote volunteerism in our ODK circle and to help make our campus a more beautiful place. The UTSA student body and community will benefit from this project.
Please contact Felicia Ruiz for more information about this event.
Washington and Lee University
Campus Garden/ODK National Service Day
ODK Alpha Circle members will dedicate their day of service to helping in our University's Campus Garden. ODK members will help the Campus Garden by contributing manpower during the crucial spring planting season. This will both promote the goals of the garden: to provide the most nutritious meals to clients of The Campus Kitchen Project possible and to educate students and community members on the importance of nutritious, fresh food. As well as promoting service involvement among the Alpha Circle members. The Campus Garden is student-run and provides fresh produce to the Campus Kitchen Project at Washington and Lee. The Campus Kitchen Project provides meals for members of our community who are in need.
Please contact Andrea Hanick for more information about this project.
Operation Get Ahead & Community Development Agency
Operation Get Ahead: ODK Members will provide a workshop on "College & the College Experience" to 10-15 High School Students from locally disadvantaged communities. This will also include lunch and a tour of the University.
Community Development Agency: ODK will lead about 50 students in a community service project at a local community park in a disadvantaged area where they will provide park clean-up and paint parking lines. Project 1: to provide inspiration and incentive to locally disadvantaged high school students. Project 2: to provide clean-up to neighborhood park. Project 1: The high school students Project 2: The community at large
Please contact Teresa Pisano for more information about this project.
Berry College
Relay for Life Team
Berry sponsors it's own Relay for Life every spring in support of the American Cancer Society. To support ACS, To raise funds for cancer research, To build community within our organization. ACS, Berry Community, ODK members
Please contact Betsy Bowers for more information about this project.
California Lutheran University
Walk for Multiple Sclerosis
We will be raising a minimum of $500 and be walking in a charity walk for MS. The MS foundation will benefit greatly from our fund raising, and they will use the money to continue to search for a cure for MS.
Please contact Mayan White for more information about this project.
Concordia University Irvine
Concordia ODK - Habitat for Humanity Alumni Build
In partnership with the alumni association, our ODK circle will participate in a Habitat for Humanity Build in San Juan Capistrano building homes for veterans. We hope to assist veterans and their families working toward completing their homes with Habitat for Humanity
Please contact Michael Bergler for more information about this project.
Creighton University
Creighton Campus Kitchen
We are going to be aiding Creighton University's campus kitchen by stocking food for the homeless and less privileged citizens in the greater Omaha metropolitan area and delivering the goods to the people who need them most. We hope to give back to the community that has given so much to us, as students of Creighton University. This will benefit not only those who participate in the event, but also those who receive the foods and services we dole out to them.
Please contact Will Nester for more information about this project.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Charity House at Embry-Riddle, (February 26-27, 2010)
Charity House is Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership Honors Organization)'s way of increasing Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's (ERAU) awareness of the problem of homelessness. It was surprising to me to learn that there are about 3000 homeless people in just the local Daytona Beach area. Participants are fed a BBQ dinner, pizza, and light breakfast with donations from sponsors. All proceeds are donated to the STAR Family Center, Homeless Assistance Corporation. During Charity House, student organizations get together to build a cardboard village on the west lawn and sleep outside under the stars. Houses are judged on creativity, structural integrity, appearance, and use of materials. Teams are only allowed to use cardboard, duct tape, and water based [spray] paints. Competitions and games are held to promote teamwork within each organization. We host guitar hero, poker, relay races, cardboard engineering challenges, and more! The biggest prizes include $150 for 1st place overall, $100 for 2nd place overall, and $50 for third place overall. Increase campus awareness about homelessness and promote teamwork within participating organizations. The project also helps project a good image of ERAU to the community. All proceeds are donated to the STAR Family Center, Homeless Assistance Corporation.
Please contact Christina Chu for more information about this project.
Grand Valley State University
Relay For Life Clean Up
Working with Colleges Against Cancer to clean up the Relay For Life event at Grand Valley State University. To provide help to students in need and to ease the workload of the students who had run the fundraiser all night. This project will benefit Colleges Against Cancer and the students, faculty and alumni of Grand Valley State University.
Please contact Branden Stewart for more information about this project.
Indiana State University
Pampered Pooch Project
We will be bathing and grooming dogs and cats for a donation. We will partner with our local Pet Smart to provide the facility to bathe and groom the animals. The donations will go to the local Humane Society. We hope to provide needed resources for the local unwanted and abandoned pets residing at the local Human Society.
Please contact Dawn Forsman for more information about this project.
Maryville University
Maryville University OΔK National Day of Service (campus-wide)
Maryville University's OΔK Circle will be organizing several different projects for all of our campus to participate in. Students will be encouraged to sign up to help beautify campus, participate in the local adopt-a-highway project, work at Haven House, help repair local properties, and more. After the afternoon of service, Maryville Students will be encouraged to reflect on their work. At the end of the day, we will have served a local food bank, done repairs and restorations on a Boys Hope home and other properties, provided service to the university, and assembled blankets for a local organization as well.
Please contact Joel Hermann for more information about this event.
Missouri Southern State University
Wildcat Glades
We will be working outdoors at Wildcat Glades Park in our local community. We will be washing windows, spreading mulch, working in flower beds, and other outdoor projects to benefit the park and Audubon center. The volunteers will be introduced to the park if they have never visited, and this will promote later volunteer opportunities for the group members. The group will be completing projects that will benefit the park, the Audubon center, the visitors, and the community. The project will benefit the park and Audubon center, which will in turn benefit the visitors and the surrounding community.
Please contact Kristen Hicks for more information about this project.
Morningside College
Into the Streets (March 23, 2010)
Over four hundred Morningside College students spent the morning volunteering at nearly 45 non-profit community organizations, on a day classes are canceled. The goals of this project were to give back to the community that supports our school and to do something productive on our day off from classes. Nearly 45 non-profit community organizations in our community benefited from the day of service.
Please contact Rebecca Anderson for more information about this project.
Pittsburg State University
The Big Event
The Big Event is a campus wide community service project. Different organizations are given job sites to go to in the community to provide maintenance assistance for residents. Our ODK circle did not plan this whole event. We are simply going to participate in it and provide able volunteers. It will benefit residents of Pittsburg who are elderly or disabled and unable to do their own yard work.
Please contact Roxanne Wallace for more information about this event.
Samford University
Samford Day of Service
More than 360 Samford students will arise Saturday morning and hit the town to volunteer as part of Omicron Delta Kappa's Samford Day of Service. Teams of up to 15 students led by ODK members will disperse to sites such as Habitat for Humanity, Birmingham House Renovation, the Ronald McDonald House of Central Alabama, Northstar Youth Ministries, and the Church at Brook Hills' Hispanic Clinic. The opportunities are synced with ODK's first annual National Day of Service. In planning this project we hope to serve Samford's surrounding community and to encourage students to get involved outside the campus. This will benefit not only those who participate in the event, but also those who receive the foods and services we provide.
Please contact Stephen Bailey for more information about this project.
SUNY Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh Campus-Community Service Partnership
More than 100 SUNY Plattsburgh students will volunteer at a number of important community agencies and organizations. These organizations include, but are not limited to, the Plattsburgh Interfaith Food Shelf, the Plattsburgh Corps of The Salvation Army, the Clinton County HeadStart program, Plattsburgh's Evergreen Valley Nursing Home, and the Plattsburgh Community Garden organization. In addition to the agencies, students will also be doing some basic household projects at the homes of individual senior citizens in our community who have come to us in response to our offer to assist them on this day. We hope to assist these valuable community agencies and these senior citizens residents in our community in the best possible way we can.
Please contact Benjamin Pomerance for more information about this event.
Susquehanna University
T&D Cats of the World - A Day in the Jungle
T&D's Cats of the World is one of the only and possibly the largest exotic wildlife rescue organization in Pennsylvania. As members of ODK, we plan on travelling to the facility and help with facility maintenance and cleaning.
1. Help out a truly wonderful (and unique) organization. 2. Begin interaction between old and new members. 3. Establish a potential annual service project for our chapter. The employees at T&D Cats and the organization as a whole.
Please contact Brian Gilbert for more information about this project.
Vanderbilt University
Purity Moosic City Dairy Dash 10K/5K
As race-day volunteers, we assisted with registration operations for the event: we helped direct runners to different registration stations, we passed out thousands of running t-shirts, and we helped answer questions for any of the visiting guests. Also, the Vanderbilt Circle of ODK will be making a charitable donation to the American Cancer Society, the official charity of the Purity Moosic City Dairy Dash. Ensure that everyone that seeks our help has their questions answered. These 5K and 10K races were held on behalf of the American Cancer Society.
Please contact Quinton Katler for more information about this project.
University of Akron
Boys and Girls Club Service Day
University of Baltimore
Community Service Day
The University of Baltimore holds an annual Community Service Day in April, where the entire campus community (students, staff and faculty) volunteers their time and efforts to the community of Baltimore city. Everyone gets put into a group and goes to a specific site (which includes but not limited to Maryland Zoo, Maryland SPCA, USS Constellation, Parks and People, and Village Learning Place) and provides a day of service specific to the location. Our ODK circle will form its own team so that we can work together for the day and reconnect with current members as well as get to know new members. Our goal was to work together as a team to accomplish a specific service learning project. We served the city of Baltimore and its citizens.
Please contact Mandy Wrobel for more information about this project.
University of Cincinnati
Gorman Heritage Farm "Shear Excitement"
The Gorman Heritage Farm, a 120-acre working and educational farm in the Greater Cincinnati community, is hosting a sheep-shearing festival entitled "Shear Excitement." Our ODK volunteers will assist with farm concessions, snacks, kids' crafts and potato planting during the festival. We want to give back to the community by assisting with volunteer needs for the Shear Excitement festival. This event serves youth from underprivileged communities across the Greater Cincinnati area.
Please contact Bradley Stephens for more information about this project.
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell National Historical Park Clean Up
We will be volunteering at Lowell National Historical Park by cleaning up their canal and doing some landscape work around their greenhouse in preparation for their upcoming Earth Day Festival. Our goal is to help the Lowell National Historical Park improve it's environment and look as clean and visitor-friendly as possible. This project will benefit anyone in the community of Lowell or nearby who visits and enjoys the park, and of course will help sustain the park's beauty.
Please contact Alayna Mender for more information about this event.
University of Mississippi
Ole Miss World Cup Soccer Tournament
We decided to cooperate with the efforts of our Associated Student Body Government and the International Student Organization towards their plans for a “World Cup Soccer Tournament” which will be modeled after the International Federation of Football Association’s World Cup Games in South Africa this year. We are working to find a reputable and fiscally responsible South African AIDS relief organization to be the recipient of the money raised from this campus-wide service event.
Please contact Mary Maher for more information about this event.
University of Nebraska Omaha
ODK at Open Door Mission
We will help the Open Door Mission organize and categorize donations. To engage ODK members into the Omaha community and volunteer our time to satisfy a need within our Metro. The homeless and poverty stricken families in the Omaha area shop for free food at the Mission.
Please contact Aundrea Hansen for more information about this project.
University of Texas at San Antonio
Adopt-a-Spot Clean-up
We will be picking up trash along the road near our campus. We hope to promote volunteerism in our ODK circle and to help make our campus a more beautiful place. The UTSA student body and community will benefit from this project.
Please contact Felicia Ruiz for more information about this event.
Washington and Lee University
Campus Garden/ODK National Service Day
ODK Alpha Circle members will dedicate their day of service to helping in our University's Campus Garden. ODK members will help the Campus Garden by contributing manpower during the crucial spring planting season. This will both promote the goals of the garden: to provide the most nutritious meals to clients of The Campus Kitchen Project possible and to educate students and community members on the importance of nutritious, fresh food. As well as promoting service involvement among the Alpha Circle members. The Campus Garden is student-run and provides fresh produce to the Campus Kitchen Project at Washington and Lee. The Campus Kitchen Project provides meals for members of our community who are in need.
Please contact Andrea Hanick for more information about this project.
