120 Years of Service, Leadership & Community Engagement

ENGAGE!

Ideas

• Attend 120 Years events
• Register to vote and vote on November 4, 2008
• Go to a City Council Meeting
• Read up on local immigration, education, zoning, or other policy issues.
• Find a local agency, school, or community agency to support financially or thorugh voluteer hours
• Give blood at the next Red Cross blood drive on campus
• Write a letter supporting a soldier in Iraq
• Volunteer with Special Olympics
• Participate in the Invisible Children walkathon
• Attend Hunger and Homelessness Week events

• Spend Martin Luther King Day as a "day on" for community involvment instead of a day off

Links

• ROCK THE VOTE
• Campus Voices (2008 Elections through college students' eyes)
• i-Vote 
• Map of Alamance County Commuity Agencies
• Learn & Serve Challenge, Oct. 6-12, 2008
• How to TAKE ACTION against modern slavery 
• Fair Trade Certified
• Oxfam America (fighting poverty, hunger & injustice) & Oxfam's Action Page
• Modern Slavery defined (by the Natl Underground Railroad Freedom Center)
• Long Distance Voter for absentee voters
• Free the Slaves
• National Campus Compact  
• 7 Ways to TAKE ACTION by International Justice Mission
• Millenials Talk Politics
• Clinton Global Initiative University
• Polaris Project against human trafficking
• The Red Cross 
• Sisters on the Planet (4 women fighting climate change across the globe)
• Change.org
• Invisible Children

Videos

• Rock the Vote
• What about Now?
• World on Fire
• Dreams Die Hard & other Free the Slaves videos

 send ideas about how to engage to cmcgayhey@elon.edu