Student Life

Events Calendar

Upcoming CSC Events

To sign up for an event, click on the event title.

Other Upcoming Service Events

These events are coordinated by other groups on campus. To learn more about an event, contact information is listed in the event details.

Past Events

• "The Final Inch" movie screening  (Sep 10, 2009)
  Come see a FREE screening of the Oscar-nominated film on polio eradication.
  Screening followed by Q&A panel. No ticket required.
  
  Event sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Thousand Oaks and Moorpark.
  
  
• 3-ON-3 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT  (Apr 28, 2011)
  Come play in a 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament to support soldiers, veterans and their families. The entry fee is $10 per team, and all proceeds will go to the non-profit organization, Operation Interdependence. The winners of the tournament will receive free CSC shirts and In-In-Out gift cards!! Prizes will also be raffled off throughout the evening as well! Hope to see you there ready to play!!
  
  To sign up, have your team captain sign up here, and the rest of the team can come with and check in the night of the event!
  
  
• Adopt a Family  (Dec 7, 2011)
  Come and join in the holiday celebration as we prepare for the Adopt a Family Drop Off Party!! Watch the excitement as people bring in a bunch of gifts for families and children! Help set-up for the event, run the card making station, and transport the gifts to Buth Park! The event will be a lot of fun and volunteers will potentially get a reward for their help.
  
  Also on Saturday, December 10th, it would be great if we could have 2 people who have vans drive to LA to bring the gifts down to the organization Padres Contra El Cancer.
  
  
• Adopt a Family  (Nov 1, 2008)
  The holidays are just around the corner and there are many families in the local community who cannot afford to celebrate Christmas. The Community Service Center in conjunction with Lutheran Social Services and Beyond Shelter are participating in a program called “Adopt-A-Family”. This program helps to provide a special holiday season to families in need.
  
  A group of students/staff such as an office, club or dorm room can adopt a family and provide the children and family with clothing, toys, food, gift cards, etc
  
  HERES HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
  1. Get a group together
  2. Appoint a group leader
  3. Contact the Community Service Center (csc@clunet.edu) with the following information by Friday November 7th at 5pm
  • Group Leaders name:
  • Group Leader email address:
  • Group Leaders Phone Number:
  • Number of families you can adopt (a family is considered three people at approximately $50 a person)
  4. The CSC will provide your group with the families’ information (children’s ages, clothing size, etc) by November 17th
  Help make this a special holiday for a family!
  5. Turn in your gifts to the CSC Dec 15 through the 19.
  
  
• Adopt a Family 2010  (Nov 8, 2010)
  Adopt a family or a child…make this holiday season special for a child or a family.
  You can sign up yourself, with a club, a peer group, an office, your roommates, your family etc.
  
  Sign ups were from Nov. 8-17.
  Pick up wish lists and info Mon. Nov. 22 from 4:30-6:30 pm in the SUB
  Gifts DUE Weds. Dec. 8, 4:00-6:00 pm at GUMBY for the Drop-off Celebration! (Crafts, snacks, pictures w/Santa, and more...)
  
  Budget tight? Adopt one kiddo! Have more funds to work with? Adopt a family of four! Don’t wait—sign up soon with one of our 3 agencies:
  
  Casa Pacifica:
  Casa Pacifica works with abused, neglected and emotionally disturbed children that were removed from their homes by Child Protective Services. Casa Pacifica offers residential treatment, emergency shelter care, assessments, educational programs, family support, medical services, and psychiatric/psychological treatment for those children.
  Sponsor a child for approx. $150
  
  Lutheran Social Services (LSS):
  LSS is a non-profit agency that provides social services through its ministry. LSS’ ministry reaches those in need of counseling, emergency services, job training, transitional housing, utility assistance, helps the elderly, and more.
  Sponsor a family of up to 2-4, approx. $200-250
  
  Padres Contra El Cancer:
  Padres Contra El Cancer is a nonprofit organization that works with Latino children with cancer and their families. Padres, tries to provide a better understanding of childhood cancer and other blood disorders as well as effective methods for their treatment. Padres is centered around helping the Latino community, but it serves patients from different races and ethnic groups.
  Sponsor a family of up to 3-5, approx. $250-300
  
  
• Adopt-a-family  (Jan 1, 2008)
  This program is back!
  
  Dates are currently being set as we work with local non-profits to set timelines.
  Check back with us in early November for official deadlines.
  
  Thank you!
  
  
• Adopt-a-Family 09  (Nov 20, 2009)
  Help a family in need this holiday season!
  - Sign Up by Friday November 13th
  - Information on families released by November 19
  - Gifts due Friday, December 11th
  - Gifts loaded & delivered Saturday, December 12th
  
  PLEASE NOTE that to sign up for this event, we need you to visit a separate page at: http://www.callutheran.edu/student_life/community_service_center/adopt_a_family.php
  
  Thank you!
  
  
• Adopt-a-family deliveries- going into LA  (Dec 13, 2008)
  We will have the truck loaded-- we need people to join our staff as we head to the agency(ies) to unload the gifts the many CLU sponsors have adopted! We will drive into downtown LA, unload the gifts, and then head back to CLU. Meet us at 172 Facult (two houses down from the campus pastors) at 9:45 AM.
  
  Tasks will include lifting and carrying, as well as taking photos of the experience. We will stop on the way home and enjoy In N Out! :)
  
  
• Adopt-a-family deliveries- loading the truck  (Dec 13, 2008)
  We need help loading the gifts for the 63 families CLU has adopted!
  We will have a U-Haul at 172 Faculty Drive and gladly accept willing hands to help our staff load these donations with care.
  
  *If you would like to make the delivery with us and go into LA, there is a separate sign-up!*
  
  
• Adopt-A-Grandparent Day  (Apr 8, 2011)
  Invite your Grandparents to spend a day at CLU for our service event! It will be a day full of activities along with a service experience for grandparents. Come and join the service experience with your grandparents as they engage in making cards for soldiers and veterans to support their commitment to protecting our country, as well as making blankets for Binky Patrol to support children in need of comfort. Hope to see you there!
  
  
• Alternative Spring Break - Mexico City  (Mar 7, 2009)
  EVENT HAS CLOSED
  
  An Immersion Program follows what is referred to as a “reverse mission” process rather than the work projects that often come to mind when people think of a church-related trip abroad. Instead of coming with all the tools, resources and solutions to overcome poverty and injustice our participants are invited to enter into a partnership of mutuality that calls us to hear, learn and grow through dialog and relationship with those on the margins of life. We go out into the city streets, local “barrios”, and rural villages to hear the stories of families and organizations struggling against the very real systems of poverty and injustice that impact their daily lives.
  
  This year, we are spending a week in Mexico City. The cost is $721 for the week-- lodging, in-country transportation and food included. Airfare will be approximately $300, depending on how soon you join the group and lock in the lower fare (join now!).
  
  
• Alternative Spring Break interest meeting  (Feb 3, 2009)
  Learn about the trip to Mexico City March 7-15, 2009.
  
  We'll discuss costs, fundraising ideas, and possible grants available. We will also run through the schedule and philosophy of the week!
  
  
• Alternative Spring Break interest meeting  (Jan 26, 2009)
  Learn about the trip to Mexico City March 7-15, 2009.
  
  We'll discuss costs, fundraising ideas, and possible grants available. We will also run through the schedule and philosophy of the week!
  
  
• Alternative Spring Break interest meeting  (Jan 31, 2011)
  Learn about the trip we will be taking to El Salvador March 12-19
  
  We will discuss cost, fundraising ideas, and grants we have available. We will also run through the philosophy of the week!
  
  
• Alternative Spring Break interest meeting  (Jan 20, 2011)
  Learn about the trip we will be taking to El Salvador March 12-19
  
  We will discuss cost, fundraising ideas, and grants we have available. We will also run through the philosophy of the week!
  
  
• Alternative Spring Break interest meeting  (Jan 28, 2011)
  Learn about the trip we will be taking to El Salvador March 12-19
  
  We will discuss cost, fundraising ideas, and grants we have available. We will also run through the philosophy of the week!
  
  
• Alternative Spring Break: El Salvador  (Mar 12, 2011)
  Volunteer your Spring Break by traveling with us to El Salvador to participate in an unforgettable service learning opportunity from March 12-19.
  
  We will begin with an introduction to the history of El Salvador when we arrive in the capital of San Salvador. We will be visiting various sites including those related to martyrs such as Monsenor Romero, which includes traveling to the chapel where he was assassinated. We will then be spending three full days in the eastern side of El Salvador visiting communities with a variety of sustainable and community projects. These are “repopulated” communities where inhabitants are those that had fled the city during the civil war to find refugee camps. We will be entering into the reality of these people, perform a critical analysis and discern our call to act in solidarity with those organizing to create a more just and humane world. In addition to the knowledge we will be gaining of social justice in this region, we will also enjoy the Salvadoran culture, experience papusas and participate in a local recreation activity!
  
  For more info on grants, fundraising, and how to join the trip, visit the Alternative Spring Break page at http://www.callutheran.edu/student_life/community_service_center/AlternativeSpringBreak.php
  
  
• Athletic Food Drive  (Feb 7, 2009)
  Do you know your ABC’s? AthleticsBasketballCommunity Service! Come and Support our Women’s basketball team at their game against Claremont and support the Athletics Food Drive, by bringing two non-perishable items and receive a FREE Chipotle Burrito!
  
  Volunteers needed:
  Come help out at the Athletic Food Drive table and enjoy the Regals Basketball Game
  
  
• Athletics Food Drive  (Feb 7, 2009)
  Do you know your ABC’s? Athletics+Basketball=Community Service!
  
  Come support our Regals basketball team at their game against Claremont and support the Athletics Food Drive, by bringing non-perishable food items.
  
  Bring TWO nonperishable food items, and receive a FREE coupon for a Chipotle burrito!
  (first 100 attendees, one per person)
  
  See you there!
  
  
• Back to the Roots  (Mar 19, 2010)
  Come for a day of restoration in the Santa Monica Moutains! We will be planting, weeding, and learning about the importance of native plant restoration.
  
  Project details are likely to change, please visit the site regularly for updates.
  
  
• Beautifying McGrath State Beach  (Jun 8, 2012)
  Come participate in a painting beautification project to help prepare McGrath State Beach in Oxnard for it's grand re-opening! Saved by Friends of Channel Coast State Park from no longer being a state beach, McGrath State Beach will re-open in late June!
  
  For more information about McGrath and it's journey, visit:
  http://www.friendsofccsp.org
  http://www.facebook.com/SaveMcGrathStateBeach
  
  
• Better World BooksText Book Drive  (Dec 10, 2008)
  Can't sell back your textbooks to the bookstore? Donate them!
  Club Teach and the Literary Society are putting on a textbook drive through Better World Books.
  
  All of the proceeds will be donated to Books for Africa. Both Better World Books and Books for Africa are non-profit organizations that raise money for programs within third-world countries and/or inner cities.
  
  Bins are in Library and SUB.
  
  Also: look for a table will be set up by the flagpole, where students can win raffle prizes like Chipotle and Jamba Juice for donating a book!
  
  Contact Person: Rachael Manzo 805-488-4689
  
  
• Biloxi Boomerang  (Jan 8, 2009)
  Spend nine days working with Project REHAB. We'll be rebuilding homes in Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina devastated the local communities.
  
  The cost is approx $750.00 and includes: airfare, ground transportation, food, and lodging. Bring money for meals in transit and for personal spending. *** Trip participants will be doing a variety of reconstruction, including: painting, hanging sheetrock, tiling, etc. No previous knowledge is required, but it certainly can help! All abilities are welcome as there are diverse needs on the build sites. ***Lifestyle is simple while in the Gulf Coast: clean, comfortable housing (you bring a sleeping bag) with decent meals... and great company! *** We ask participants to spend group time on a nightly basis (max. 1 hour). *** We will spend some time touring the local communities to see the devastation and the progress toward rebuilding—how much has been done and how much remains.
  
  We have approx. 40 spaces reserved this year, but they will fill fast! (Please note that there are limited spaces available to faculty/staff/alumni to ensure students can participate; registration via the website does NOT reserve you a space.)
  
  Contact Melissa Maxwell-Doherty at revmmmd@callutheran.edu or Stine Odegard at kodegard@callutheran.edu with questions.
  For more information, please visit the website at: http://www.callutheran.edu/student_life/community_service_center/BiloxiBoomerang.php
  
  
• Biloxi Boomerang (Texas Style) and Alternative Spring Break Trip Interest Meeting  (Oct 5, 2009)
  Come learn about the various opportunities open to you during winter break and spring break! Volunteer a week of service helping to rebuild houses after Hurricane Ike in Orange, Texas or spend your spring break helping international communities in need!
  Biloxi Boomerang (Texas Style): Jan. 7-15
  Alternative Spring Break: March 28- Apr 4
  
  
• Biloxi Boomerang (Texas Style) and Alternative Spring Break Trip Interest Meeting  (Sep 22, 2009)
  Come learn about the various opportunities open to you during winter break and spring break! Volunteer a week of service helping to rebuild houses after Hurricane Ike in Orange, Texas or spend your spring break helping international communities in need!
  Biloxi Boomerang (Texas Style): Jan. 7-15
  Alternative Spring Break: March 28- Apr 4
  
  
• Biloxi Boomerang - Texas Style  (Jan 7, 2009)
  Join us as we help rebuild houses in Orange, Tx after Hurricane Ike!
  
  
• Biloxi Boomerang- Texas style!  (Jan 7, 2010)
  
  
  
• Blood Drive  (Oct 28, 2010)
  As you are able, stop by the Bloodmobile to donate blood to support our local hospitals. All types are welcome. You can donate at an interval of 6 weeks, so please help keep our blood banks stocked.
  
  If you would like to make your appointment online, please visit
  www.blood4life.org and enter the sponsor code: CalLu.
  
  
• Blood Drive  (Oct 10, 2012)
  Did you know, that donating a pint of blood can save at least 3 lives?!
  
  This year the Community Service Center is partnering with United Blood Services in bringing a Blood Drive on October 10th and 11th to the CLU campus!
  
  On Wednesday October 10th, there will be a blood mobile from 9am-1pm on the north-side of Memorial Parkway near Kingsmen Park. On Thursday October 11th, the blood mobile will be at the same location from 1pm-5pm.
  
  
  Insert this link in your address bar: https://www.blood4life.org/index.cfm?group=op&hlc=callu
  or
  Sign up at the Flag Pole on Tuesday October 9th between 10am-12pm
  
  We hope to see you at the Blood Drive next week!
  
  DO NOT TRY TO SIGN UP AT THE CSC HOMEPAGE!!
  
  
• Bowl Painting and Pizza  (Jul 8, 2010)
  Do you like being creative? Do you want to make something that gives others hope?
  
  Come join us! We will be painting bowls for the Bowls of Hope Project being put on by Many Mansions, an organization that helps find community members affordable housing. No matter what artistic ability you have, every bowl is unique!
  
  Stay for pizza and ice cream afterwards as a thank-you for all of you artists contributing your skills to this project!
  
  
• Bowls of Hope  (Jul 27, 2011)
  Come and join in on the fun, get creative and enjoy the free pizza! Help paint a bowl for the Many Mansions organization that provides affordable housing for the members of their community.
  
  By painting a bowl, you are helping spread the awareness and importance of having affordable housing, No artistic level is required, everyone is welcome to come and help out.
  
  
• Bowls of Hope  (Aug 9, 2012)
  Come paint a bowl and help those in need! When you paint a bowl, it will then be donated to Many Mansions, an organization that helps provide housing for limited-income individuals and families in the Conejo Valley, Ventura County and surrounding areas.
  
  The bowls will be given out during a fundraising event that raises awareness about housing hardships and raises funds for Many Mansions and it's mission.
  
  Cost is free!
  
  
• Buy Local, Eat Fresh!  (Mar 24, 2011)
  Join us as we learn about the impact that buying produce from local farmers has on the economy and the environment. We will be meeting in the Grace Hall Lounge at 4:30 pm. Then we will be heading to the local farmers market in TO to pick up some fresh fruits and vegetables. We will then return to CLU where we will learn about the economic and environmental impact of buying locally, followed by taste testing and comparing locally versus industrially grown produce, and finally making and eating dinner with food from the farmers market!
  
  ** Important** There is a $3 commitment fee to participate. For $3 you get taste testing and a fresh dinner!
  
  
• CA Coastal Cleanup  (Sep 20, 2008)
  Come to a worldwide, community-based event where volunteers work together to beautify our creeks and beaches, while protecting wildlife habitat.
  
  Collect litter that would otherwise be washed to the gutter, creeks, and ocean to present an ingestion and entanglement hazard to wildlife. *We will be at Borchard Park in Newbury park, removing and preventing tons of trash from washing downstream into the coastal areas!
  
  Meet in the SUB-- look for Ms. Meghan Hernandez, who will be your hostess for the day and check you in! Don't forget, please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, a hat and gloves if you have them.
  
  
• CA Coastal Cleanup  (Sep 19, 2009)
  Head to Borchard Park in Newbury Park to help with local and statewide efforts as part of the 25th annual CA Coastal Cleanup. Volunteers will spend the morning cleaning and picking up garbage from water ways and run-off creeks that line the park.
  
  If not collected upstream, the garbage would make its way to the coast, which also makes of the majority of contaminants in the ocean.
  
  FREE BBQ afterwards from noon to 1 (vegetarian options available). If you stick it out to the end, our group will go to Golden Spoon and the CSC will treat you to a mini fro yo.
  
  
• Calabasas Classic 5K  (Nov 8, 2009)
  Serve and get healthier! Run the race to support a cause (race fees support the Talbert Family Foundation) or volunteer your time (help run a water station).
  
  This event sees over 500 runners annually. Join the CLU team to run, walk, or volunteer at the water table. Entry fee to run in the 5K is $20; runners will receive a medal and t-shirt for participating. Students need to pay this fee to Clark Cripps by Monday, October 19; his office is located in the Forrest Fitness Center.
  
  The first meeting will be on October 7th at 8:00pm in the Pavilion. Information regarding the event will be discussed and schedules will be passed out during this meeting.
  
  Final training session for everyone running the 5k/10k on Saturday, November 7th at 9:00am. It will be a final info meeting and a slow, short run.
  
  There are opportunities to train for the run with groups on campus if you are interested.
  Arturo and Sam are going to be holding training sessions starting the week of October 12th at these times:
  Mondays at 7:00am (Sam)
  Tuesdays at 9:00am (Arturo)
  Thursdays at 8:00pm (Sam)
  Saturdays at 9:00am (Arturo)
  *Meet them outside the GSFC main entrance, either on the patio or in the foyer.*
  
  
• California Coastal Horse Rescue  (Apr 13, 2013)
  Do you like helping horses? Then join the CSC as we help horses at California Coastal Horse Rescue! We will be doing facility maintenance work as well as interacting with the horses!
  Meet up time: 8:30am
  Work time: 10:00am-12:00pm
  Be back on campus by 2:00pm
  
  
• Call to Service  (Sep 16, 2009)
  Join us at the NEED as we learn and discuss the importance of service to the local community! There will be live performances, Fair Trade Coffee, various small service projects to work on, service day sign ups and information on Community Service opportunities throughout the year!
  
  
• Call+Response  (Nov 20, 2008)
  CLU students, faculty and staff are invited to see CALL+RESPONSE for FREE!
  
  Call+Response is a "rockumentary" film that reveals the world's 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. C+R goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving, to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined! Come check out the film to learn more about human trafficking and slavery, and be empowered by learning what you can do to stop it!
  
  For more information, please check out www.callandresponse.com
  If you have questions, please contact Amy Brown at aebrown@callutheran.edu or 360-320-1117.
  
  There is an RSVP deadline, so act now!
  
  **DRIVERS ARE NEEDED-- PLEASE come forward if you have a acr and can drive so everyone can make it to this great event. If you are hitching a ride with someone, consider sharing a few dollars with them to help cover gas.
  Parking costs money, as does gas. If you can carpool, please do so-- if you have room in your car and are willing to meet new people to carpool, please plan to meet in the SUB at 6:00 to head to Santa Monica.**
  
  
• CANstruct it  (Oct 16, 2012)
  CANstruct will take place on Tuesday October 16th. It is a canned food drive with a local non-profit called MANNA. Clubs and organizations participating will collect canned foods in advance and on that day make their planned sculptures to be judged before a panel. Students, as they pass by, will be able to check in and vote for their favorite sculpture.
  
  There will be one panel favorite and a student's choice sculpture. Contact the CSC with any questions regarding rules and regulations.
  
  Students, clubs and orgs. must be going into this event as a team. ONE representative may sign-up for the group, but this is in fact a team event of every group member pulling together cans and contributing to the overall CLU themed piece!
  
  
• Catalina Excursion  (Nov 9, 2012)
  Join us as we camp out on Catalina Island and help out the Catalina Island Conservancy with their Eco-Marathon while also learning about the ecosystems of the island!
  
  Only currently enrolled undergraduate CLU students may attend- any guests included in your website registration will NOT be considered. All students must register themselves.
  
  The cost is $50; must be paid to the CSC by November 5th in order to reserve your spot.
  
  Mandatory pre-trip meeting on November 7th in the SLP mod at 5:30 pm.
  
  
• Catalina Excursion WAITLIST  (Nov 9, 2012)
  This is the Catalina wait list, DO NOT register here until the Catalina registration is full!
  
  Info to know about Catalina:
  
  Only currently enrolled undergraduate CLU students may attend- any guests included in your website registration will NOT be considered. All students must register themselves.
  
  The cost is $50; must be paid to the CSC by November 5th in order to reserve your spot.
  
  
• Catalina Excursion with the CSC & Outdoor Rec!  (Mar 9, 2012)
  Join the CSC & Outdoor Rec to Catalina Island to work with the Catalina Island Conservancy! We will learn about the conservation efforts that are being set forth by the conservancy and participate in some rugged outdoor work removing fennel, so come prepared to work hard!
  
  Participants are required to engage in work throughout the day and expected to help cook and clean in the mornings and evenings.
  
  In addition to the hard labor we will be doing, we will also be exploring Catalina and the beach. Participants will be with the group the duration of the trip.
  
  There is a MANDATORY orientation meeting for all participants on Wednesday, March 7th at 5:30pm in the SUB.
  
  **To reserve your spot on the trip you MUST pay the $50 nonrefundable program fee (towards transportation and food) by 5pm on MONDAY 2/27 in the SUB at the CSC**
  After this time, the trip will be filled through the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
  
  
• Celebration of Service  (Apr 29, 2008)
  An evening recognizing anyone and everyone who has engaged in service this past year...
  
  Please come help us honor the many ways our CLU community makes our mission statement a living commitment: faculty who have implemented service-learning, globetrotters who studied abroad and volunteered, staff and administration who took time out of the office to build Habitat homes, and all the students who gave of their time talents and volunteered this year. We want to celebrate the great work done by all!
  
  Sign up to attend this dinner online at https://www.callutheran.edu/CSC or via email at csc@clunet.edu. The RSVP deadline will be included on the invitation, so please double-check that for further details.
  
  
• Celebration of Service  (May 4, 2010)
  CELEBRATION OF SERVICE... ISLAND STYLE
  
  1. A (free) Hawaiian dinner
  2. Good company(Your peers, faculty and staff)
  and
  3. Celebrating your great volunteer work over the past academic year.
  
  ENOUGH SAID!
  
  Keynote Speaker: Kalena Lanuza with Heifer International
  
  Dress: Island style...IT IS A LUAU!
  
  
• Celebration of Service  (May 5, 2009)
  Join us for dinner as we celebrate the many ways the CLU community engages in service, sowing the seeds of love peace and justice in this world! From academics to clubs, athletics teams to study abroad students, Community Service Center program volunteers and individuals... CLU is engaging our world in many ways, and we want to honor the various gifts!
  
  
• Celebration of Service: Who is a Volunteer?  (May 3, 2011)
  Join us for a casual black and white masquerade in the Pepper Grove in front of the Pearson Library! This will be an evening to remember and reflect on the numerous service projects that have been undertaken in the past year and to thank all of the volunteers who participated in these events! Appetizers will be provided. Sign up and reserve your spot today!
  
  
• Change the Status Quo Conference  (Feb 27, 2009)
  Change the Status Quo is designed to educate and network activists on multiple issues, bringing together people who share a passion for making a difference in their community and the world. The conference encourages participants to challenge stereotypes, demand solutions, and use education to make lasting changes. The theme—Educate, Motivate and then Activate—aims to give participants tangible tools to be effective advocates for social change
  
  
• CLU Habitat student-staff build  (Sep 20, 2008)
  The Habitat Club and Lord of Life are co-sponsoring a build with Habitat
  for Humanity on Saturday, September 20th. We would like to make this a
  student-faculty build, so we need your help! If you are interested in
  spending the day working side by side with students and other members of
  the CLU community to help a worthy organization, please let us know. You
  can contact either Danielle Mohr (dmohr@clunet.edu) or Tyler DeGroot
  (tdegroot@clunet.edu).
  We will be meeting the students in front of the SUB at 7:30 that morning
  to carpool. If you are interested in carpooling you are welcome to meet
  us then. If you can drive students or other faculty members to the site
  please let us know. You are also more than welcome to meet us at the
  site at any point throughout the day (please let us know and we will give
  you directions to the site). Also, remember to wear closed-toed shoes,
  comfortable clothes, and don’t be afraid to workup an appetite because
  lunch is included. Your help is greatly appreciated so that we can make
  this one of Habitat Club’s best builds ever. Thank you!
  
  Sincerely,
  Danielle Mohr
  Tyler DeGroot
  
  
• Community Service Center Retreat  (Sep 11, 2009)
  The Community Service Center office staff will be heading out for a weekend to University of Concordia Irvine. Program planning, logistics, and office protocol will be discussed while getting to know your fellow employees and employers.
  
  
• Crafts with Women at Prototypes  (Apr 2, 2011)
  All students welcome- this event is NOT limited to female students.
  
  Hobbies are an important part of the recovery process for women at Prototypes: when people recovering from addiction are bored they are likely to revert back to old habits. Thus teaching art and crafts provides an outlet for women that will ideally empower them to take control of their lives and break free from the controls of alcohol or drugs. Join the CSC for an afternoon of coffee and crafts with women at the center. There will probably also be an opportunity to work with children, as the women will likely have their kids with them. *If there are sufficient supplies, you will be welcomed to make a craft, but the priority is that the women make crafts and not have restrictions on materials.*
  
  We will be making bracelets and earrings with the women, and simpler crafts with the children.
  
  We will be carpooling to the Prototypes Center in Oxnard.
  
  
• CSC Focus Group  (Apr 13, 2010)
  What programs should we keep? What new ones should we create? What should we get rid of?
  
  Make your voice heard. Come eat pizza and answer our questions about the Community Service Center so we can create better programs for CLU and for you in the coming year.
  
  Register or just drop in.
  
  
• CSC Intern Interviews  (Jan 18, 2011)
  All interested applicants for 1 of the 2 positions of CSC intern for the spring semester of 2011 must do the following:
  - Have Federal Work Study
  - Fill out the student employment application by 5 pm on Friday January 14, 2011 at http://www.callutheran.edu/student_employment/search.php?cat_id=5
  - Fill out the CSC Application by 5 pm on Friday January 14, 2011 and email it to kodegard@clunet.edu (The application can be found on the home page of the CSC website).
  - Sign up for an interview by 12 pm on Monday January 17, 2011.
  - Create a facilitation activity for your interview between January 18-21, 2011 (Instructions can be found in the CSC application on the home page of the CSC website).
  - Bring your availability the week of January 24-27 after 4pm to your interview. New intern training will be on January 24-27, 2011; times and dates TBA based on intern availability.
  - Notification of intern selection will be on Friday January 21, 2011.
  
  
  Tuesday January 18th - the first 2 interviews listed (10:30-11, 11-11:30)
  Wednesday January 19th - the next 3 listed (3-3:30, 5-5:30, 5:30-6)
  Thursday January 20th - the next 6 listed (3-3:30, 3:30-4, 4-4:30, 4:30-5, 5-5:30, 5:30-6)
  Friday January 21st - last 3 listed (3:30-4, 4-4:30, 4:30-5)
  
  
• Delaying the Real World  (Oct 28, 2010)
  Are you ready to graduate but not ready for the monotonous 9-5?
  Come learn about the many alternative options to volunteer and travel that are available to you!
  
  We will host reps from the Peace Corps, Lutheran Volunteer Corps, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and City Year (an Ameri Corps program). Blake from Career Services will come in to give tips and best practices for how to market this on your resume and how to use these experiences to your advantage when applying for jobs and grad school. Make sure to stay after and connect with one of the agency representatives!
  
  Dessert from Nothing Bundt Cakes to follow!
  
  
• Delaying the Real World  (Nov 10, 2011)
  Learn about service opportunities after graduation from representatives from Lutheran Volunteer Corps, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Global Volunteers, City Year, and Peace Corps. You will have the chance to meet with the representatives and get infomation from other organizations. Also hear from Career Services about the benefits and best way to include service on your resume.
  
  
• Disabilities Awareness Week  (Oct 18, 2011)
  CLU has a variety of programs planned to help promote Disabilities Awareness. The CSC and a few student organizations are working in partnership with CAAR and we want to encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities on campus:
  
  TUESDAY: CSC table @ the Flagpoles 10am-12pm and the Food Challenge from 11am-1pm in the Centrum.
  
  WEDNESDAY: Lord of Life will be making blankets for a local agency at the Flagpoles 9am- 2pm and again starting at 8:30pm in the Chapel.
  
  THURSDAY: MYLife and the CSC will be at the flagpoles encouraging you to put an end to the "R-Word". Come by and take a pledge to "Spread the Word to End the Word". Also join us for "A Real Man" comedy night with Mike Guido at 7pm in Lundring.
  
  
• Disability Awareness Week service project  (Nov 3, 2010)
  Disability Awareness Week has many great events-- and this is just one of them!
  
  Come drop in as you are able and help make:
  - cards for disabled and injured veterans
  - paper bag puppets for kids in local and regional hospitals
  - stuffed turtles for kids at a camp for children with serious and life-threatening illnesses.
  
  
• Documentary screening: "Invisible Children"  (Mar 3, 2009)
  The Action Abroad Alliance will be showing the documentary "Invisible Children" Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm in Nygreen 1. This film is about the plight of child soldiers and night commutes of the children as they try to escape the rebel armies in northern Uganda.
  
  If desired, students can bring along their dinner and we will provide refreshments and dessert.
  
  After the documentary, we will touch on an exciting volunteer opportunity for students this coming summer in Uganda to assist in building a school and teaching classes to elementary school children!
  
  Have additional questions? Contact Melissa Harbison at mharbiso@callutheran.edu.
  
  
• Donation Delivery and Site Tour  (Mar 29, 2009)
  H2O is heading up a service program and doing something fun as a club afterwards!
  Come and help deliver donated goods to the Downtown Los Angeles Womens Shelter. This is a great time to take a break from your studies and experience a different side of L.A. We will also be taking a tour of the womens shelter and will return with a broadened perspective of the urban issues that are present in L.A.
  More info on the after-event from H2O club leaders...
  
  
• Earth Week Kick-Off  (Apr 18, 2010)
  Come and join in the kick-off event for Earth Week.
  Hear some great speakers, participate in sustainable/earth-friendly projects, and learn about other organizations you can serve with that ground themselves in sustainable practices.
  
  
• El Salvador Emersion @ the NEED  (Apr 21, 2010)
  Join us in the SUB on Wednesday, April 21st from 10-11 pm where we will be learning about the culture, housing issues, political atmosphere etc. of El Salvador from CLU students returning from the Alternative Spring Break Trip. There will be cultural food, music, and a building craft. If you are interested in attending a winter break or spring break trip in the year to come, this is a great way to discover what they are all about!
  
  
• Fair Trade Fair  (Nov 30, 2011)
  Want to volunteer at this event? Sign up above!
  
  Come by the Fair Trade Fair to learn about Fair Trade and how to be a smarter consumer. There will be FREE Fair Trade coffee and samples of Fair Trade chocolate. We will be selling Fair Trade products (early Christmas shopping!) and will have interactive games and activities. Come learn about this important movement sweeping across the nation and what you can do to get involved!
  
  
• Fall Blood Drive  (Oct 28, 2009)
  United Blood Services will have the Bloodmobile on campus for our semi-annual blood drive. Save a life- donate between classes or meetings! CLU community members donated 80 pints of blood last fall... can we beat our record?
  
  Sign up at the Bloodmobile during the event to donate with United Blood Services. Sign up with us if you want reminders about this event.
  
  The general public is welcome to participate alongside CLU community members. The sign-up procedures will be the same as for students: you are welcome to come to the Bloodmobile during the event to make an appointmenton or on a walk-up basis .
  
  
• Fall Excursion: Catalina Island  (Nov 13, 2009)
  Join us for a rugged weekend on Catalina Island where we will be volunteering with the Conservancy and staying in the on-site volunteer camp on hte island interior. During our stay, we will be learning about the importance of conservation and we will get to see the bald eagle and fox exhibits. Participants are expected to engage fully with volunteer work during the day and with cooking and cleaning responsibilities in the mornings and evenings at camp. We will be arriving in Catalina mid-day Friday (depart in the morning) and returning Sunday night; you are responsible for communicating with your professors about missing time from class.
  
  Due to the partial subsidy of trip costs by student fee monies, this trip is only open to current CLU students.
  
  Your space on this trip is held by your payment. The cost of this trip is $50 (make payment in the SUB at the CSC) and, please note, is nonrefundable after October 1.
  
  Packing lists and additional information about waivers, fees, and coordinating your own transportation to the docks in Orange County will be sent out in early-mid October.
  
  
• Fall Excursion: Catalina Island  (Nov 13, 2009)
  Join us for a rugged weekend on Catalina Island where we will be volunteering with the Conservancy and staying in the on-site volunteer camp on hte island interior. During our stay, we will learn about the importance of conservation and we will get to see the bald eagle and fox exhibits. Participants are expected to engage fully with volunteer work during the day and with cooking and cleaning responsibilities in the mornings and evenings at camp. We will arrive in Catalina mid-day Friday (depart in the morning) and return Sunday night; you are responsible for communicating with your professors about missing time from class.
  
  Due to the partial subsidy of trip costs by student fee monies, this trip is only open to current CLU students.
  
  Your space on this trip is held by your payment. The cost of this trip is $40 (make payment in the SUB at the CSC) and, please note, is nonrefundable after October 1.
  
  MANDATORY MEETING Tuesday, November 10 5:30-6:30 in the SUB to go over packing lists and additional information about waivers, fees, and coordinating your own transportation to the docks in Orange County.
  
  
• Fall Excursion: CSC and Rec Sports to Catalina Island  (Oct 8, 2010)
  **Please note: sign-ups will begin on Weds. 9/22 (not Weds 9/15 as originally stated). Participants who make the list will need to be ready to submit their monies by Friday 9/24 or their place on the trip will be opened to the next people on the waiting list via an email invitation.**
  
  Come with us to Catalina Island to work with the Catalina Island Conservancy! We will learn about the conservation efforts that are being set forth by the conservancy and participate in some rugged outdoor work removing fennel, so come prepared to work hard!
  
  Participants are required to engage in work throughout the day and expected to help cook and clean in the mornings and evenings.
  
  In addition to the hard labor we will be doing, we will also be going ocean kayaking! Participants will be with the group the duration of the trip.
  
  There is a MANDATORY orientation meeting for all participants on Tuesday October 5 in the SUB at 5:30.
  
  
• Fall Excursion: Justice at the Border  (Nov 7, 2008)
  Spend a weekend in San Diego and Tijuana exploring the issues of immigration. Experience first-hand the situation on both sides of the border with visits to the Estuary and Border Control in San Diego, along with a women's co-op and house for deported immigrants in Tijuana. As a weekend of scheduled service learning, it will be a great opportunity to grow together as a group through your learning and time together. Contact us if you are in need of scholarships. *There will be no free time during this trip as we have scheduled a full day's experience; all participants are required to be with the CLU group at all times.*
  
  ***Registration is no longer online!!! 9 more spots are available, but due to popularity, a specific date and time for registration will open:
  
  October 15th, at 8:30 am in the SUB
  
  If you arrive at that time, with $40 and a copy of your passport, you can complete registration. This is a first come, first serve basis, so be early!***
  
  PROXY SYSTEM FOR SIGN-UPS: If you are unable to stand in line when registration opens, please use the proxy system:
  Designate a person who is your proxy who will hold your place in line, have your money and your passport in hand, and will sign you up for the trip. The designated proxy can only sign up for one person on the trip. (ex: they cannot sign you up while they sign themselves up or sign up themselves and you for the trip)
  
  *Your official passport (not a copy) is mandatory to have during the forms and fees process. If you have any questions about this, here is the website about the passport requirements:
  http://mexico.usembassy.gov/eng/eacs_public_announcement_entry.html
  
  More information about the international aspect of this trip
  *Tourist Travel: U.S. citizens do not require a visa or a tourist card for tourist stays of 72 hours or less within "the border zone," defined as an area between 20 to 30 kilometers of the border with the U.S., depending on the location.
  
  
• Fall Food Drive - Football Game  (Oct 3, 2009)
  Join us for the Kingsmen Football Game and bring your canned goods and nonperishables to donate to those in need. CLU Spirit Day is happening before the game and during halftime, so come on out, get decorated, DONATE, and support both the CLU team and our local community.
  
  We start collecting at 12:30 (the game starts at 1:00) and end collections right before halftime. The first 120 CLU student get a 2-for-1 Golden Spoon coupon for donating 2 nonperishable items!!! Stay for the halftime fun and games...!
  
  
• Food Drive at the Football Game!  (Nov 14, 2009)
  Donate food to support Food Share! TWO FOR TWO: Bring two nonperishable items and get a 2-for-1 coupon to Golden Spoon!
  
  Find the blue tent to donate and help us reach our goal of 400 items to donate to our local food bank.
  
  
• Food for the Soul  (Nov 20, 2011)
  We will be heading to the Midnight Mission in Downtown Los Angeles to learn more about homelessness in particular nutrition. It is the weekend prior to Thanksgiving so it will also be an opportunity for students to give back to the community.
  
  
• Food Share and In N Out  (Jun 23, 2010)
  Come join us sort food at the Ventura County Food Share! We will be sorting food into different groups so that they're organized to put into bags for community members. Then, we'll heading over to In-N-Out for dinner on us!
  
  Please be ready to help us carpool to Oxnard (we'll be happily covering mileage one-way for you!).
  
  *Make sure to wear appropriate clothing, long pants and closed-toe shoes-- it may be cold in the warehouse we will be working in.
  
  
• Fruitanthropy  (Jul 7, 2012)
  Come join and pick fresh citrus from a local orchard in Moorpark! We will be going to In-N-Out after our service!
  
  Sign up online at: www.callutheran.edu/csc
  If you have any questions email: csc@callutheran.edu
  
  
• Fruitanthropy  (Mar 11, 2012)
  Fruitanthropy: the collecting, picking, dispensing or receiving of fruit for humanitarian purposes.
  
  Did you know that between 40-50% of food produced in the US each year goes to waste??
  Food Forward is volunteer-powered organization that collects and distributes extra fruit from local orchards to people in need. Join us for a few hours of picking citrus with this organization for a good cause! Come experience the orchards where food is grown and the food banks we will be donating them to. Together we will learn about the problems of food waste and hunger in our country and do our part to combat it!
  
  
• Going Coastal 2011  (Jan 9, 2011)
  Volunteer one week of your winter break to help rebuild houses with the Fuller Center Disaster Rebuilders from Jan. 9-15.
  
  Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana is the new home for Fuller Center Disaster Rebuilders. Work on constructing new (stilted!) homes on the "toe of the boot" of Louisiana. The trip will have group learning and reflection time built in. On the last day, participants will get to spend a few hours in the Big Easy-- New Orleans-- before flying home, enjoying some coffee with chicory and beignets! Laissez les bons temps roulez!
  
  
• Grace-Full Table  (Sep 15, 2011)
  SPONSORED BY: CEJ (Center for Equality and Justice)
  
  ***The Center for Equality and Justice will facilitate a discussion about food justice, including the economics of healthy food, farm worker safety issues, and environmental sustainability.***
  
  Come and join the Grace-Full Table, an event filled with food and interesting discussions! Learn about different programs on campus and Join the Farm, a non-profit organization who will be joining together to facilitate a cooking class each month.
  
  Each month, a different CLU program will facilitate the event along with Alise Echele from Join the Farm who will be facilitating a food cooking class using organic, seasonal vegetables from Join the Farm.
  
  Be ready to learn new recipes, work as a team to prepare a delicious meal, and engage in the group discussions. Come ready to share in the abundance!
  
  
  
  
  *Want to know more about Join the Farm:
  Join the Farm! Partners with The Abundant Table, a non-for-profit, to grow and provide organic vegetables for our community through Community Supported Agriculture, periodic farmer's markets, and wholesale including farm-to-school vegetable sourcing. The Abundant Table, a land-based ministry, also connects the community to local, organic agriculture by engaging others in experiential farm-based education and nutrition programming with hope for building healthy community.
  
  
• Grace-Full Table  (Oct 13, 2011)
  SPONSORED BY: LOL (Lord of Life)
  
  ***The Office of Campus Ministry along with LOL, will be hosting a meal around the topic of “The Welcoming Table” (community development through shared meals).***
  
  Come and join the Grace-Full Table, an event filled with food and interesting discussions! Learn about different programs on campus and Join the Farm, a non-profit organization who will be joining together to facilitate a cooking class each month.
  
  Each month, a different CLU program will facilitate the event along with Alise Echele from Join the Farm who will be facilitating a food cooking class using organic, seasonal vegetables from Join the Farm.
  
  Be ready to learn new recipes, work as a team to prepare a delicious meal, and engage in the group discussions. Come ready to share in the abundance!
  
  
  
  
  *Want to know more about Join the Farm:
  Join the Farm! Partners with The Abundant Table, a non-for-profit, to grow and provide organic vegetables for our community through Community Supported Agriculture, periodic farmer's markets, and wholesale including farm-to-school vegetable sourcing. The Abundant Table, a land-based ministry, also connects the community to local, organic agriculture by engaging others in experiential farm-based education and nutrition programming with hope for building healthy community.
  
  
• Grace-Full Table  (Feb 22, 2012)
  SPONSORED BY: SAGE
  
  
  
  Come and join the Grace-Full Table, an event filled with food and interesting discussions! Learn about different programs on campus and Join the Farm, a non-profit organization who will be joining together to facilitate a cooking class each month.
  
  Each month, a different CLU program will facilitate the event along with Alise Echele from Join the Farm who will be facilitating a food cooking class using organic, seasonal vegetables from Join the Farm.
  
  
• Grace-Full Table  (Feb 9, 2012)
  SPONSORED BY: SAGE (Students for A Green Environment)
  
  ***SAGE will lead a discussion on the topic of “Eat Local and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.”.***
  
  Come and join the Grace-Full Table, an event filled with food and interesting discussions! Learn about different programs on campus and Join the Farm, a non-profit organization who will be joining together to facilitate a cooking class each month.
  
  Each month, a different CLU program will facilitate the event along with Alise Echele from Join the Farm who will be facilitating a food cooking class using organic, seasonal vegetables from Join the Farm.
  
  Be ready to learn new recipes, work as a team to prepare a delicious meal, and engage in the group discussions. Come ready to share in the abundance!
  
  
  *There will be a $3-5 suggested donation for all participants to go to Join the Farm*
  
  
  Learn more about Join the Farm:
  Join the Farm! Partners with The Abundant Table, a non-for-profit, to grow and provide organic vegetables for our community through Community Supported Agriculture, periodic farmer's markets, and wholesale including farm-to-school vegetable sourcing. The Abundant Table, a land-based ministry, also connects the community to local, organic agriculture by engaging others in experiential farm-based education and nutrition programming with hope for building healthy community.
  
  
• Grace-Full Table  (Mar 15, 2012)
  SPONSORED BY: THE CSC (Community Service Center)
  
  
  
  Come and join the Grace-Full Table, an event filled with food and interesting discussions! Learn about different programs on campus and Join the Farm, a non-profit organization who will be joining together to facilitate a cooking class each month.
  
  Each month, a different CLU program will facilitate the event along with Alise Echele from Join the Farm who will be facilitating a food cooking class using organic, seasonal vegetables from Join the Farm.
  
  Be ready to learn new recipes, work as a team to prepare a delicious meal, and engage in the group discussions. Come ready to share in the abundance!
  
  
  *There will be a $3-5 suggested donation for all participants to go to Join the Farm*
  
  
  Learn more about Join the Farm:
  Join the Farm! Partners with The Abundant Table, a non-for-profit, to grow and provide organic vegetables for our community through Community Supported Agriculture, periodic farmer's markets, and wholesale including farm-to-school vegetable sourcing. The Abundant Table, a land-based ministry, also connects the community to local, organic agriculture by engaging others in experiential farm-based education and nutrition programming with hope for building healthy community.
  
  
• Grace-Full Table Finale!  (Apr 12, 2012)
  SPONSORED BY: CEJ, The CSC, LOL, SAGE, and Wellnes.
  
  *** All the sponsors will get together to host the final event***
  
  Come and join the Last Grace-Full Table! An event filled with food and interesting discussions! Learn about different programs on campus and Join the Farm, a non-profit organization who will be joining together to facilitate a cooking class each month.
  
  Each month, a different CLU program will facilitate the event along with Alise Echele from Join the Farm who will be facilitating a food cooking class using organic, seasonal vegetables from Join the Farm.
  
  Be ready to learn new recipes, work as a team to prepare a delicious meal, and engage in the group discussions. Come ready to share in the abundance!
  
  
  *There will be a $3-5 suggested donation for all participants to go to Join the Farm*
  
  Learn more about Join the Farm:
  Join the Farm! Partners with The Abundant Table, a non-for-profit, to grow and provide organic vegetables for our community through Community Supported Agriculture, periodic farmer's markets, and wholesale including farm-to-school vegetable sourcing. The Abundant Table, a land-based ministry, also connects the community to local, organic agriculture by engaging others in experiential farm-based education and nutrition programming with hope for building healthy community.
  
  
• Habitat for Humanity build  (Nov 21, 2009)
  THIS Saturday, 11/21 in Santa Paula, they are in desperate need of volunteers!
  
  It’s important that anyone willing to volunteer be committed to a full-day (8am – 3pm)…losing volunteers mid-day would slow down the work flow.
  
  Should be a good, fun day of work!
  
  
• Habitat for Humanity Playhouse Build  (Apr 25, 2009)
  Come join us for a Habitat build ON CAMPUS! As a part of the President's Inaugural Weekend, we are building a playhouse with the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. And it's only a 10-minute walk from your res hall!
  
  There will be 4 shifts to choose from while we incorporate some green building techniques in this modern playhouse.
  
  If build shifts are full, please drop by anyways-- we will have snacks on hand, music in the background and projects for you to work on for local nonprofits, including:
  writing letters to servicewomen and servicemen,
  making brown bag puppets for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and
  painting suncatchers for CLU students to deliver to local nursing homes.
  
  
• Heal the Bay  (Mar 21, 2009)
  Nothin’ But Sand (NBS) cleanups are hands-on opportunities for volunteers to directly improve the condition of Santa Monica Bay beaches while enjoying the great outdoors.
  
  The cleanup is from 10am-12pm at Dockweiler Beach @ Imperial Avenue: 11401 Vista Del Mar Playa del Rey, CA 90293. We will be meeting at the SUB at 8:15 to arrange carpools. There will be a picnic lunch and reflection on the beach following the cleanup with a plan to leave the beach around 1pm.
  
  Supplies are provided by Heal the Bay. Please wear closed toe shoes and bring flip flops for the beach after if you would like!
  
  For more information and waiver link check out Heal the Bay's Website.
  http://www.healthebay.org/volunteer/htbcleanup/default.asp
  
  
• Help out with a 5k!  (Sep 8, 2012)
  The Chronic Disease Prevention and the Nutrition Education Programs of the Ventura County Public Health Department have been putting on "The Biggest Loser in Waistline Inches" throughout August and September - a challenge to the community to get inspired and lose weight.
  
  Participants have been tracking their progress and gearing up for the final measurement and culmination event: a 5k during the 4th Annual Colonia Community Walk.
  
  Volunteers are needed to be guides during the 5k and ushers during the waistline measurements! Meet at the basketball courts at the address listed above at 6:30 a.m. on September 8th!
  
  Sign up here and also click "attending" on the Facebook event page to help out in our effort to create a healthier Ventura County!
  
  
• Homeless Shelter Overnight Winter 2013  (Feb 8, 2013)
  The Community Service Center will be partnering with the United Methodist Church next Friday, February 8th, for our annual Homeless Shelter Overnight. We will be assisting with the evening and morning meals, and sleeping arrangements. Get ready to have a chance to make conversation right before we watch a movie. Come join in on a good cause with your CSC family. We will be meeting at Module #1 at 5:00pm before we make the trip over.
  
  Please sign-up online at the CSC event homepage at callutheran.edu/csc on the Event Calender. You must register for a spot online to participate.
  
  
• Homelessness Awareness Week  (Jan 26, 2011)
  Promote activism and awareness of the homeless population in Ventura County!
  
  *Click on the events below to learn more*
  
  
• Homelessness Awareness Week (HAW)  (Jan 25, 2012)
  Homelessness Awareness Week is a weeklong event that raises awareness of the homeless population in Ventura County. There will be three separate events taking place the entire week.
  
  
  Wed. January 25th- The Human Experience Documentary
  
  Thurs. January 26th- Sleep out.
  
  Fri. - Sat. January 27th -28th- Shelter overnight.
  
  
• Hot Topic and a Sweet Treat  (Mar 16, 2010)
  Come and learned about foster care and child abuse along with a sweet treat.
  FREE ice cream sundaes!!!!
  
  The Community Service Center (CSC) will have lots of activities going on during this event.
  
  Speaker John Andersen from the non-profit agency Olive Crest, will share about foster care and child abuse, and the resources Olive Crest offers foster care children. Q & A time will be available for those interested in getting more informed on the topic.
  
  After the speaker, we will be putting together Easter baskets. Our goal is to at least make 6-10 Easter baskets for foster care children in Olive Crest.
  
  *If you have spare change laying around, please bring it with you to this event. There will be collection jars for Haiti.
  
  
• Humane Society of Ventura County  (Feb 26, 2010)
  We will be learning about the Humane Society and the work that they do. Plus we are going to play with animals! Who can say "No" to puppies and kittens?
  
  There will be a tasty frozen treat afterwards......
  
  What to wear/bring:
  -You MUST wear long pants and closed-toed shoes!!!
  -Bring a water bottle
  -Come with lots of love and energy for the animals
  
  
• Humane Society Trip  (Nov 21, 2009)
  Come spend a day of service playing with animals!
  
  
• Immigration: A Lawyer's Perspective  (Nov 14, 2008)
  Please join us in a discussion about Immigration law with renowned attorney at law, Jessica Dominguez..
  Pizza dinner will be served.
  
  
• Impact Overnight  (Oct 8, 2009)
  Come join us learn about the impact war has on the transition of Veterans as they return home.
  
  We will head down to San Diego Thursday night to stay on a church floor overnight. Friday morning we will volunteer a couple of hours to work at the Veteran's Hospital. Afterwards we will go to the Veteran's Museum where we will get a tour of the Museaum, eat lunch, and talk to a panel of Veterans. We will return to CLU Friday night, so you will still have the rest of your Fall Holiday weekend to relax! The cost of this trip is only $15.
  
  
• Internship Interviews: Summer 11/ Fall 11-Spring 12  (Mar 9, 2011)
  If you have been contacted by Stine about setting up an interview, please sign up for a time slot below.
  
  *If there are any open positions in the fall, we will notify the listserv over the summer, and interested persons can apply at the Federal Work Study Job Fair in the first week of school.
  
  
• Java, Jive and Service  (Sep 21, 2011)
  Students will have an opportunity to participate in small service projects while enjoying coffee, snacks and listening to live music. Sign-ups for Service Day will also be available. Come and join us for a lovely evening.
  To sign up go to the CSC website: www.clunet.edu/csc
  If you have any questions or concerns email us at csc@callutheran.edu
  
  
• Java, Jive, & Service  (Sep 15, 2010)
  Stop by the Centrum Patio and participate in small service project, enjoy coffee and tea, and sign up for Service Day projects while enjoying live music. We'll have fixings for S'mores over the fire pit!
  
  No need to sign up-- just come join us for some fun and some service!
  
  
• Ket Wangi Benefit Pancake Feed and Concert  (Apr 28, 2011)
  Come savor delicious chocolate chip pancakes (2 for $2) while enjoying an hour of live music by Nick Wallin and Christian Polus. All donations will go directly to the Ket Wangi Orphanage in Kenya. Come learn about the orphanage and how your donations can help! If you're interested in volunteering at or before the event click "sign up" above!
  
  
• Kids Caf  (Nov 19, 2008)
  Going away for Thanksgiving break? Donate an unused meal from your meal plan to support meal and food programs for local kids.
  
  The donations will go to a program through World Hunger that supports daytime and after school meal and snack programs for local youth.
  
  Look for the clipboards outside the Caf and Centrum and sign up.(You can donate up to 5 meals beginning with Wednesday's dinner)
  
  
• Lunch with LVC  (Oct 2, 2008)
  We welcome you to join Pastor Melissa, Coordinator for Community Service Stine Odegard, and Lutheran Volunteer Corps representative Connor Cole for lunch on the Centrum patio from 12:00-1:00. Come to learn more about the program or to learn more about Connor's experiences last year as a volunteer.
  
  Speak with Connor Cole, a recruiter with the Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) about how you can live out your passion for social justice with LVC. Connor will be tabling at the Centrum Building from 10:00 – 5:00 and sharing lunch with interested students in the Centrum from 12:00 – 1:30 on Thursday, Oct. 2nd. LVC is a year-long national service program with a social justice focus. Volunteers in LVC work full-time, paid jobs with various non-profits and community-based organizations committed to social justice, live together with other volunteers in intentional community, and practice simple and environmentally sustainable living. LVC volunteers do work that varies from direct service, like working with homeless people in shelters, to indirect service, like organizing volunteers for after-school programs, to community organizing and public policy advocacy. LVC is welcoming of all people who would like to be involved in the work of LVC, including people of all faiths and no faith.
  
  Connor was an LVC volunteer this last year in San Francisco, where he worked at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights as a paralegal and outreach coordinator for an initiative named the Education Equity Project. He will share some of his own experiences as well as talk with visitors about what a year with LVC can do for them.
  
  
• Make pillows for The Painted Turtle camp  (Nov 4, 2009)
  As part of Disability Awareness Week, you are invited to come make a pillow for the campers at this wonderful camp for seriously ill children and their families. It only takes about 15 minutes to stuff and sew these turtles that will be sent home with campers so they can carry the memories and support of camp with them throughout their time.
  
  Stop in and make a turtle with us, learn about the camp and volunteering, and enjoy some snacks!
  You can join late and leave early.
  
  Co-sponsored by the CAAR Office and the Community Service Center.
  
  
• Meal for the homeless  (Nov 17, 2008)
  Make simple side dishes for a traditional thanksgiving meal for the homeless. We will meet up in Thompson Hall lounge to cook at 4:30 and will walk the dishes over to Holy Trinity Church after.
  
  
• Midnight Madness: Food Drive  (Oct 14, 2010)
  CLU is taking a stand to support those who are hungry in Ventura County by making entry into Midnight Madness two cans or two dollars. That's right-- EVERYONE must make sure to bring 2 cans of food to Midnight Madness this year! That's the ONLY way you get in!!
  
  ***If you'd like to sign up to help us run the food collection before the event, please sign up below. We'll be using volunteers from 9:40-11:10 PM and then you'll be released to go to Midnight Madness and enjoy the fun. And we'll reward you handsomely!
  
  
• Midnight Madness: Food Drive  (Oct 15, 2011)
  Students must donate 2 cans or $2 in order to attend Midnight Madness. This will be an opportunity for students to donate their nonperishable foods or $2 to the organization FOOD Share in order to feed and advocate a reduction of the root causes of hunger. If you would like to help set-up for the event or be apart of collecting cans and cash please sign up today! The event will be a lot of fun!! All volunteers will receive a free Midnight Madness t-shirt! There will also be reserved seating in the gym for all of the volunteers for the event if they wish to sit there!! Also, volunteers must bring in 2 cans or $2 to enter in the event as well. Thank you and look forward to seeing all of you!
  
  
• Midnight Mission  (Apr 17, 2011)
  We will be heading to Downtown Los Angeles to the Midnight Mission to learn about mission works to do. We will be getting a tour of the facility and learning about the programs they provide for the homeless people who arrive at these doors. In addition, we will serving food as well to the people here for dinner.
  MUST wear appropriate attire:
  -Long pants/jeans
  -Closed toed shoes
  It is also advised not to bring any valuables to the facilities.
  
  
• Non-Profit Speaker Panel  (Oct 15, 2008)
  This event is coordinated by Career Services on campus and is a great opportunity to learn about the non-profit world.
  
  PANEL MEMBERS include:
  Moriah Harris-Rodger, The Guitar Center Music Foundation-Executive Director
  Lyn Sylva, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County, Inc.-Program Director
  Melissa Thompson-Jinariu, Inner Circle Foster Care and Adoption Services-Social Worker
  Lindsey Garner, Many Mansions-Senior Development Associate
  Corliss Porter, Turning Point Foundation-Clinical Director
  Susan Englund, United Way of Ventura County-Vice President, Community Impact
  Terry Marcellino, Woodcraft Rangers-Corporate Outreach
  
  **To register, go to www.clupostings.com (Events) or email Cynthia Smith at csmith@clunet.edu**
  
  
• Nuru- Be Hope to Her  (Feb 16, 2010)
  A common problem in Africa is that young girls often times miss school or drop out completely in order fetch the water needed to run their households.
  What if instead of having to choose between an education and fulfilling household chores, a young girl could choose both? What if the wells the community needs were placed at the schools where they could be maintained, cared for and accessed by the community, making an educational institution the center of it all?
  
  As Nuru put its best thinking on strategic ways to end the cycle of extreme poverty in our partner communities, we came up with Water For Schools to couple the importance water sanitation and education through a single initiative. After conducting a series of hydro geological surveys in January 2009, Nuru was able to identify four viable sites - all at primary schools - where wells will be drilled as Nuru works to attract funding for these projects. Water For Schools is what BH2O+ has made possible. Learn more below about what you can do.
  
  Nuru is sponsoring an experiential event called BH2O+ at colleges and universities across the United States in April 2010. The name BH2O+ is an acronym that stands for “Be Hope to Her.” Through BH2O+ students will
  become advocates, creating awareness on their campuses about the need for clean water access in the developing world.
  
  For more info or questions please contact Olivia Hancock ohancock@callutheran.edu.
  
  
• Nuru- Be Hope to Her  (Apr 15, 2010)
  Walk a mile in her shoes getting water like our global neighbors...
  
  Water accessibility is taken for granted in most societies in the developed world. Imagine if – just to get a cup of water – you had to walk for 25 minutes; or better yet, if, to have enough water for cooking, laundry and bathing, you had to carry a bucket of water for 25 minutes. Wouldn’t that drastically change your life?
  
  Walk on a designated route through the CLU campus: with empty bucket for 15 minutes, then walk with buckets filled with water for 15 minutes.
  
  Registration is $8 per person ($10 after April 5) – register online only at: http://www.nuruinternational.org/takeaction/bh2olocations.html
  For more info contact Olivia Hancock at x 3209
  
  On behalf of the women and girls in the developing world, Nuru asks you to “take a walk in her shoes” – by carrying her bucket of water on your head.
  
  
  Be Hope To Her (BH2O+) is an experiential event designed by Nuru International for colleges, universities and city centers across the United States, including Cal Lutheran University this year! Through BH2O+, thousands of men and women will carry buckets of water on their heads like women and children in the developing world do everyday due to the lack of nearby clean water sources in their communities; BH2O+ participants, acting as advocates, will create change by spreading awareness and raising funds for sustainable projects in Nuru’s partner communities.
  
  
• One Day Without Shoes  (Apr 5, 2011)
  Join campuses across the nation for One Day Without Shoes, sponsored by the CSC and the CLU Toms Club. Help us raise awareness of the millions of children across the world who go without shoes even at the risk of infection and disease.
  
  Come to the flagpole to check your shoes in at the "shoe parking lot," enter into the drawing for a TOMs gift card and learn more about the TOMs mission!
  
  
• One Day Without Shoes T-Shirt Decorating Party  (Mar 31, 2011)
  Bring along a T-shirt you'd like to decorate and wear on April 5 for One Day Without Shoes! We'll be showing the TOMs documentary and making sundaes!
  
  
• Overnight at Prototypes  (Feb 1, 2011)
  FOR FEMALE STUDENTS ONLY.
  Join the CSC and spend the night at Prototypes residential treatment center. Perform community service with a personal connection as you gain a glimpse of the lives of women undergoing treatment and recovery.
  
  
• Oxfam film screening: Sisters of the Planet  (Oct 28, 2008)
  Come join the Environmental Club in the SUB to screen Oxfam's new film: Sisters of the Planet. Look at the changing global climate, whether human actions play a role and how scientists project this changing climate will affect our human population in the years to come.
  
  Pizza dinner provided by the Environmental Club.
  
  
• Paramount Ranch Cleanup  (Apr 2, 2011)
  We will be going to Paramount Ranch, a landmark of movie history, to help clean the area. We will help to maintain the habitat healthy for the native plants and animals who inhabit the area. This cleanup is one of many that will be occurring across the country; so there will be other people volunteering to accomplish the same goal, that is to maintain and beautify the area.
  We will have breakfast here at the SUB and we will be having a picnic lunch at the Ranch after we are done!
  
  
• PAWS for a cause  (Nov 3, 2012)
  PAWS LA is dedicated to preserving the loving bond between people and their companion animals. To that end, PAWS LA provides services to assist low-income seniors and people disabled by a life-threatening illness keep and care for their pets.
  
  If you have a passion for animals, join us Saturday, November 3rd for a day of service with PAWS LA.
  FREE lunch will be provided!!!
  
  
• Prototypes  (Feb 13, 2009)
  Female students are invited to spend the night with the women in the Prototypes overnight residential treatment center. Hearing these women share the stories of their lives is an integral part of this experience, as well as service components. Friday evening will include sharing their dinner, and helping with various chores or playing with their kids, as well as clean up after the meal and help with breakfast the next morning. Come hear incredible stories and open your eyes to a different type of shelter experience.
  
  **Sleeping bags are required, but bring only the BARE minimum of tolietries, clothing, etc.
  
  
• Prototypes Day Visit Sign-Ups  (Feb 11, 2012)
  The CSC will be taking a group of students for a day visit to Prototypes: A shelter where women and their children can live together while working towards recovery from substance abuse, domestic violence and/or mental illness.
  
  The visit may include sitting in on a 12-step meeting or AA meeting, helping residents with chores, playing with the children, and participating in an activity or service project with the women. Students will have the chance to engage in casual conversation with the women there and experience the rehabilitation processes of individuals in a personal atmosphere.
  
  Expect to have some fun and gain new insight on the lives of these women and the challenges that they face in their recovery.
  
  
• Prototypes Overnight  (Apr 18, 2008)
  Spend the night with the women in this local residential treatment center. We arrive Friday evening for dinner and help out with various projects as needed: sometimes just entertaining children and holding babies so that women can finish chores. Yard work, children’s crafts and child care are all projects that we have worked with before, but who knows what it will be this time! We will return Saturday afternoon.
  
  Great for fields involving sociology, psychology and for anyone looking to broaden their horizons and change your world, this is a weekend to participate in!
  
  Make sure you bring a sleeping bag, pillow, essential items, etc.
  
  
• Prototypes Overnight  (Mar 5, 2010)
  Students (Ladies Only) will be spending the night in an all female residential treatment center to experience the rehabilitation processes of individuals in a personal atmosphere.
  
  
• Prototypes Treatment Center Visit  (Mar 4, 2011)
  We'll be visiting Prototypes, a shelter that focuses on helping women to become self-sufficient. The women bring their children to the shelter and live together while working towards recovery from substance abuse, domestic violence and/or mental illness.
  
  During our visit we will be sitting in on an Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous group meeting to learn more about substance abuse. Other possibilities of activities include crafts with the kids, games, snacks and a movie with the women!
  
  This trip will help participants to understand the challenges that come with such complex issues as substance abuse and the role that gender plays. Expect to have some fun and gain new insight into the lives of these special women!
  
  
• Prototypes Treatment Center Visit Waitlist  (Mar 4, 2011)
  If you are interested in attending the shelter trip, sign up here and we will let you know if any spots open up! It will be first come, first served.
  
  There will be another trip to Prototypes on Saturday, April 2, so keep an eye out for sign-ups!
  
  
• Prototypes~ Waitlist  (Feb 11, 2012)
  The CSC will be taking a group of students for a day visit to Prototypes: A shelter where women and their children can live together while working towards recovery from substance abuse, domestic violence and/or mental illness.
  
  There is still a possibility that we may be able to take more students than expected. Please add your name to the waitlist if you are interested in attending the trip in the event that more spots become available.
  
  For those of you who have already signed up for the Prototypes Day Visit we have your names down.
  
  
• RA Service Day- Training 09  (Aug 22, 2009)
  Resident Assistants-- sign up for your favorite project below as part of your training weeks of fun. You must participate in one of the events, so sign up early since it is first come, first serve!
  
  
• RA Service Project- Training 2010  (Aug 21, 2010)
  Resident Assistants-- sign up for your favorite project below as part of your training weeks-of-fun.
  You must participate in one of the events, so sign up early since it is first come, first serve!
  
  
• Random Acts of Kindness Week  (Apr 21, 2010)
  Spread Love and Joy! Show others that you care:
  
  Wednesday through Friday of April 21-23 the Community Service Center will be sponsoring various events and activities that promote local, communal, and global acts of kindness.
  
  - On Wednesday we will be at the flagpole from 9 am to 2 pm making ‘You Rock’ cards to send to friends, faculty, and staff that are in need of some encouragement. We will also be distributing treats and ideas for acts of kindness that can be completed during the week.
  
  - On Thursday there will be a movie and craft night in the SUB from 7-9 pm. Come watch ‘Pay It Forward’ while making crafts and cards for children in need and snacking on some yummy treats!
  
  - On Friday we will be at the flagpole from 9 am to 2 pm passing out flowers to individuals who share their favorite RAK of the week and to those in need of a boost. Also, coffee and muffins will be distributed to students who have early classes.
  
  - During all three days there will be a chance for students, faculty and staff to donate blood as an act of kindness to save the lives of others.
  
  
• Red Hands Day  (Feb 3, 2009)
  Come by the Flagpole to learn about the use of child soldiers worldwide. Take the time to learn about a specific country and you can get a treat!
  
  10AM- 2 PM Each Day
  
  
• Relay for Life  (Feb 25, 2012)
  Come and help with Relay for Life!! The 24 hour event helps communities across the globe celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remembered loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease. There will be many fun games at the event as well as an inspiring Luminaria ceremony. Help with set-up for the event is needed as well as clean-up of the event.
  
  Saturday, February 25 at 7am -- Volunteer to set-up for the event
  
  Sunday, February 26 at 9:15am --Volunteer to clean-up for the event
  
  
• Relay for Life- Registration  (Feb 25, 2012)
  CLU will be hosting American Cancer Society's Relay for Life for the FIRST TIME this February. If you are interested in registering for the event by making a team or joining an already existing team, please visit the website below:
  
  www.RelayForLife.org/CaliforniaLutheranUniversityca
  
  Thank you!
  
  
• Restaurant night at CPK ASAP  (Oct 27, 2009)
  Help support CLU students traveling with the Biloxi Boomerang and the Alternative Spring Break!
  
  On either Tuesday, October 27 or Wednesday, November 4, bring the flier, have dinner at California Pizza Kitchen ASAP in the Westlake Promenade and have 20% of your bill go to the CLU travel grant fund supporting students who want to travel and do service and learning.
  
  Please bring the flier with to have your meal support CLU students. Fliers can be found at: http://www.callutheran.edu/student_life/community_service_center/volunteer_opportunities.php
  
  Join us for delicious food and a great cause!
  
  
• Ronald McDonald House  (Mar 12, 2010)
  Come spend an evening cooking! Volunteers will be preparing a meal for, and baking with the residents of the LA Ronald McDonald house. Students are needed to both cook in the kitchen and play games with the kids! The LA Ronald McDonald House is a place for whole families to stay while their child receives treatment at nearby hospitals. Be ready to have fun!
  
  
• Santa Barbara Zoo Restoration and Exploration  (Jul 16, 2011)
  Help restore a bird habitat at the Santa Barbara Zoo. You will have the opportunity to explore the zoo at no cost after we are done volunteering. For those who choose to stay and explore the zoo we will be providing you lunch at the zoo. You are welcome to bring friends and family (kids over 13).
  
  
• Senior Buddies!  (Feb 21, 2013)
  Hello my friends!
  
  The Senior Buddies Initiative is up in running again for its second semester! Those of you that missed your chance last semester to be involved, now's your chance!
  
  We are looking for a group of committed volunteers that express a zeal and passion for Senior service (sorry CLU Seniors not you this time). Our program is relatively fresh and new, that being said there are many ways to get involved. In Senior art classes, fitness classes, rehab, pool fitness, the list goes on and on. Or if your more layed back and would rather sit back and relax with a Senior and converse that option is available to!
  
  We plan to visit The Reserve on February 21st at 5:30 pm. Hope to see you there! Bring a friend.
  
  You will also need to sign-up on the CSC event page, and fill out a TB and fingerprinting form if you wish to volunteer at The Reserve as well!
  
  
• Serve after college!  (Oct 1, 2008)
  Looking for a way to serve after you are finished with your education at CLU?
  
  Two great domestic programs, Lutheran Volunteer Corps and Jesuit Volunteer Corps will be here on campus in the first week of October. Come to Common Ground if you would like to learn more!
  
  
• Service Day 08  (Sep 27, 2008)
  A campus-wide, day of service throughout Ventura County.
  
  Come serve with your friends and help out those in need within your community . Projects include work with children and the elderly, animal rescue, trail and beach beautifications, and much more!
  
  Browse our list of projects, read about the activities and choose which one you and any friends will sign up for. We are partnering with the United Way's Day of Caring, so some projects will give you the chance to work with the larger community.
  
  Free t-shirt to each participant!
  
  
• Service Day 09  (Sep 26, 2009)
  Volunteer at various sites throughout Ventura County doing a variety of projects!
  
  
• Service Day 2012  (Sep 29, 2012)
  Join the CSC as we serve in our local community and on campus. We have 13 different sites and over 250 spots available!
  
  Sign ups are NOW CLOSED! Missed your chance? Email Karen at kschomak@callutheran.edu to see if there are any last minute spots available.
  
  
• Service Day Fall 11  (Oct 1, 2011)
  ***Sign-ups will launch on Wednesday September 21 at 10 PM at our Java, Jive and Service event at the Centrum Patio. For now the sign ups are shown as not open yet, after 10 PM on Weds 9/21, they will open up and be first come, first served.***
  
  Over 250 students will participate in 15-20 projects. Projects vary, from working with animals, building houses, to garden projects and many more. Project time and length will vary.
  
  Everyone should wear closed-toe shoes and bring a water bottle, please.
  A few projects require students to pack a lunch. More specifics to follow as agencies inform us; you will get a final confirmation the day before the event-- check your email!
  
  First come, first served for project availability.
  ALL students will meet in the SUB prior to the event, and ALL participants get a FREE Tshirt!
  
  
• Service Day Fall 2010  (Sep 25, 2010)
  **Please note that sign-ups will launch on Wednesday September 15 at 10 PM at our Java, Jive and Service event at the Centrum Patio. For now the sign ups are shown as not open yet, after 10 PM on Weds 9/15, they will open up and be first come, first served.**
  
  Over 250 students participate in 15-20 projects. Projects vary, from working with animals, building houses, to garden projects and many more. Project time and length will vary.
  
  Everyone should wear closed-toe shoes and bring a water bottle, please.
  A few projects require students to pack a lunch. More specifics to follow as agencies inform us; you will get a final confirmation the day before the event-- check your email!
  
  First come, first served for project availability.
  ALL students will meet in the SUB prior to the event, and ALL participants get a FREE Tshirt!
  
  
• Shaping the Sanctuary  (Feb 18, 2012)
  The Kitten Rescue Sanctuary is a shelter and boarding facility that can house up to 150 cats. The Sanctuary has a full-time staff as well as numerous volunteers who provide care, love and socialization for the cats housed there.
  
  Students will be working on the painting aspect of the projects the sanctuary has to refurbish itself.
  
  The first day (the 18th) will be primer
  The Second day (the 19th) will be continuing the first day's work and be adding the finishing coat.
  
  The events times frame includes travel back to CLU
  
  Also students will be able to interact with the animals!
  
  ALLERGY NOTE: (masks will be provided upon request) For those with cat, bleach or other allergies related to what would be at the center.
  
  
• Shelter Overnight  (Jan 1, 2008)
  
  
  
• Shelter Overnight  (Jan 30, 2009)
  Come spend a night at a winter homeless shelter right here in T.O. Learn about this issue within our own community, and serve this shelter for a night by setting up and cleaning, as well as setting out breakfast the next morning. Beyond serving in the shelter, the group will socialize and hear stories first hand of experiencing economic hardship or homelessness in our area. Connect personally, serve your local community, and experience for yourself what homelessness is!
  
  An optional breakfast the next morning with the group will be provided by the CSC.
  
  
• Shelter Overnight  (Jan 29, 2010)
  Come stay the night at a local shelter and serve the local homeless community. Help with setting up and cleaning up of the overnight shelter and learn about homelessness first-hand through interaction with local individuals.
  
  
• Social Justice Conference at Cal Poly SLO: Change the Status Quo  (Feb 25, 2011)
  The CSC will bring a group of 20 CLU students to Cal Pol San Luis Obispo, to attend a social justice conference, called Change the Status Quo. We will meet in the SUB on Friday at 1:30 PM, drive up and stay overnight at a local church, attend the conference Saturday, and return that evening, by 9 PM. The workshops cover a variety of topics, and are intended to educate and empower participants to lead lives of service and compassion.
  
  Feel free to check out Cal Poly's website on the event:
  http://studentlife.calpoly.edu/scs/quo/index.asp
  
  WE REALLY NEED DRIVERS FOR THIS EVENT. We will cover your gas and provide directions.
  
  PLEASE NOTE:
  You will be expected to pay your $10 nonrefundable conference registration fee before departure. You can drop off your payment with the CSC (CASH ONLY), which is located in the offices in the back of the SUB. We ask this with the hope that there won't be last minute canceling, which would prevent anyone else from taking the open spot. ***PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PAYMENT BY TUES FEB 22!!***
  
  You will need:
  -Insurance Card (primary and/or CLU student insurance)
  -a sleeping bag (we do have some, as long as you let us know in advance)
  -a reusable water bottle
  -snacks (recommended- we will be stopping for dinner Friday, but if you tend to get the munchies in the evening it might a good thing to consider).
  -$$$ for dinner Saturday (we will cover dinner Friday, and breakfast and lunch are covered Saturday at the conference).
  
  We are carpooling, and the CSC will cover mileage one way, as long as the car is full. The $10 covers your registration fee, breakfast and lunch Saturday at the conference, and a conference Tshirt. THIS IS A GREAT DEAL!!!
  
  We will be leaving Friday afternoon, so if you will need to miss class, it is your responsibility to get permission from your professors.
  
  
• Speaker Series: Hot Pizza and a Hot Topic-- Addiction and Recovery  (Feb 20, 2009)
  Come and enjoy hot pizza and listen to a speaker talk about drug addiction and recovery-- and hear from the volunteers who went on the Prototypes Overnight talk about their experience.
  
  
• Speaker: the first Habitat volunteer  (Oct 27, 2008)
  Clive Rainey, first Habitat for Humanity volunteer and longtime staff member, knows firsthand what commitment to service means. Rainey frequently speaks about Habitat on college campuses, for affiliate gatherings and before service organizations all over the world, inspiring affiliates to build more houses faster.
  
  Along the way, he has built houses in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; helped construct the first building in Uganda after the fall of the Idi Amin regime, a two-room house for a widow; and spent time as Habitat’s first area director for Africa. Building homes with Habitat is a way to make hope tangible.
  
  Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian housing ministry that works both to eliminate poverty housing around the world and to make adequate housing a matter of conscience and action. Habitat welcomes to the table partners from any faith – or from no faith – who are willing to pick up a hammer to help improve the lives of families needing decent shelter. The organization started in the United States in 1976, and today its work reaches around the globe.
  
  Admission is free.
  
  Co-sponsored by Campus Ministries and the Community Service Center.
  
  
• Special Olympics Track and Field Tournament  (Apr 25, 2009)
  Come help facilitate the track and field tournament for the county's Special Olympics team. Volunteers might supervise a bocci field or help run the awards ceremonies. Set-up starts at 7:00 AM to be ready for these dedicated athletes and their fans. Lunch will be provided.
  
  *This event is sponsored by the Rotaract Club; if you have additional questions, please contact the club president, Logan Paris at lparis@callutheran.edu.
  
  
• Spring Blood Drive  (Feb 15, 2011)
  The Blood Drive is back! Drop by or feel free to make an appointment online with United Blood Services at www.blood4life.org and sponsor code: CalLu.
  
  Feb 15= 1PM -6 PM
  Feb 16= 9 AM-2 PM
  
  
• Spring Blood Drive '10  (Feb 23, 2010)
  You are cleared to donate again after a 6-week break between your last donation, so come on down to where the Bloodmobile will be parked on Memorial Parkway. Spring of '09 yielded 65 pints donated-- let's see if we can up our numbers!
  
  
• Spring Service Day  (Apr 5, 2008)
  There is a project for every skill level and interest. Past projects have included beach clean-ups, Habitat for Humanity builds, sorting at a food bank, habitat restorations for endangered birds, tree plantings, and much more.
  
  We have a wide variety of projects available as well as family-friendly projects for alumni, faculty and staff that may want to include their families.
  
  Sign-up online! The event is free, and participants get a famous free t-shirt!
  
  
• Study Buddy  (Jan 30, 2010)
  Do you want to make a difference in a child's life? Then volunteer to tutor local first and fifth graders in this after-school program! Tutoring takes place select Saturdays from 11:45-3 PM at the United Methodist Chruch of Thousand Oaks. A majoprity of the students are English language learners, so a basic knowledge of Spanish is great, but not necessary. This is a continual program, and not faith-based.
  
  Hope you can join us!
  
  
• Study Buddy  (Nov 18, 2008)
  Spend an afternoon tutoring elementary English learners! CLU students will be participating with Study Buddy at United Methodist Church, incorporating a game, music, and special craft into the regular program . Through making holiday cards, the children will have the opportunity to learn the importance of service. Cards will be mailed overseas for men and women in the military.
  
  
• Summer Service Habitat Build  (Jan 1, 2009)
  The University is living our mission by supporting the 3rd annual Summer Service, which facilitates employees taking time out of the office to serve with our local Habitat affiliate this summer. Coordinate with your supervisor, get a team together, and come swing a hammer in the summer sun! Nothing like a little sweat and construction to bond with your colleagues and those from other offices.
  
  Dates: Wednesdays June 3, 10, 17, 24 and July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
  Carpool: please coordinate within how you will arrive at the site. Building begins in Santa Paula at 8 AM-- be as on-time as you can, please, since they divvy jobs and orient people starting around 8.
  Tips: Bring a water bottle and hydrate; if you're staying all day (work ends around 2:30 or 3:00), pack a lunch or have a team member research restaurants en route; please wear closed toe shoes and long pants as you will be on a build site and those are necessary to be allowed to work; you will fill out a waiver for Habitat on-site.
  
  
• Summer Service Project  (Jul 17, 2008)
  Build dates run from June 11- August 13!
  
  CLU values our students taking time out of their schedules to serve—and it values letting staff and administrators take that same opportunity to give back!
  
  Come with your office as a team or come by yourself and network with other CLU personnel you may not already know. Please remember to secure your supervisor's approval for your participation prior to signing up.
  
  *Remember that if you are signing up for a whole day of work, please sign up separately for BOTH shifts-- AM and PM-- thanks!*
  
  
• Summer Service- Habitat builds  (Jan 1, 2009)
  
  
  
• Summer Service- Habitat builds  (Jun 1, 2009)
  Summer is here-- which means it is time for the third annual Summer Service Habitat builds! CLU's President and Cabinet support their employees taking time out of the office to participate in Summer Service- Habitat builds, so act now to assemble a team. Get a group of CLU-ers (colleagues from your office, friends from another office, or even another team/staff you want to get to know), select a date, get it approved with your supervisor, sign up online, and read the important information included in this online registration system carefully. You will be responsible for carpooling and making lunch plans, so feel free to plan for your group's needs. Have fun!
  
  If you would like to take an 15 minute online course in volunteer safety at a Habitat site, please go to www.hfhvolunteerinsurance.com. Click on "Take Volunteer Course Now". The access code is w8naebtg. You will learn about what it is like to work on a HFH building site safely.
  
  
• Team In Training  (Jan 26, 2010)
  Come and meet a representative from The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team In Training (TNT) program. TNT is the world's first, best and largest charity sports training program - and the only one to offer a full complement of exciting, sports training options. See if this program is a fit for you!
  
  For more info on TNT, please visit www.teamintraining.org.
  
  
• The Great Race of Agoura Hills  (Mar 26, 2009)
  PLEASE READ! DO NOT SIGN UP ON THIS SITE!!!
  
  The Great Race is a 24th annual series of races that benefits local elementary schools with 100% of the entry fees. There are three days of events, ending on Saturday with two half marathons, and other races.
  
  There are opportunities to do everything from race monitoring on mountain bike, to handing out bibs and information at pre-event expos. Thursday, Friday or Saturday after spring break, this race event is incredible, and its local! Explore working with an athletics event of this magnitude, and of course, receive a free t-shirt!
  
  Please DO NOT sign up on this website: the race has its own volunteer website with the times and dates as well as amount of volunteers needed.
  
  http://www.doitsports.com/volunteer2/jobs-by-date.tcl?event_id=199229
  
  Grab a friend, teammates, or even your intermural teams and sign up!
  
  
• The Journey Home-Serving Those Who Serve Our Country  (Apr 28, 2011)
  Come and Join a Presentation put on by Naval Veteran Dr. Gillies on the life of a Veteran and a Soldier. There will also be another speaker from body boot camp at CLU who was in the Marine Corps and will be giving his perspective on the life of a soldier and Veteran as well. Both will touch on the aspects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how it affects the soldier and the family, learning the different struggles and benefits that come from life in service, as well as the different rights veterans/soldiers receive from the government. There will be snacks provided, and after the presentation, there will be time to write letters to soldiers and send them to the organization, Operation Interdependence. Hope to see you there!!
  
  
• The Senior Buddies Initiative  (Nov 14, 2012)
  Be the first group to take part in a recurring service project with senior citizens at a nearby retirement community that's within walking distance!
  
  Want to do some service work before Thanksgiving? Come with the CSC to The Reserve on Wednesday November 14th. We will be able to join in with the Seniors in their daily activities like fitness programs, gardening, gaming or just sitting down and having a good old conversation with them. The Reserve will also be providing a FREE dinner for all that come.
  
  The Senior Buddies Initiative is a service project designed to last more than just one day, we are hoping to make this a recurrent event throughout the academic year. It will be part of a service project called The Legacy Project. See you at orientation!
  
  We will be begin our walk from the Centrum at 5:15pm.
  
  
• The Senior Buddies Initiative  (Jan 1, 2012)
  Be the first group to take part in a recurring service project with senior citizens at a nearby retirement community!
  
  Take some time out of your busy schedule, before Thanksgiving, to spend some time with some senior citizens at The Reserve! We will be able to join in with their daily activities: fitness programs, gardening, gaming or just sitting down and having a good old conversation. The Reserve will also be providing a FREE dinner for all that come.
  
  The Senior Buddies Initiative is a service project designed to last more than just one day, we are hoping to make this a recurrent event throughout the academic year. It will be a part of a service project called The Legacy Project. We are hoping to get a few dedicated volunteers that would like to be a part. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we do. See you at orientation!
  
  
• Topanga Canyon Trail Clean-Up  (Nov 8, 2008)
  Join the Adventure Club on a trail maintenance day at the a beautiful California state park, located between LA and Malibu in the heart of the Topanga Canyon. The Santa Monica Mountain Trail Council hosts trail maintenance days for this and other trails regularly, so join them and fellow students in keeping these trails clean and ready to use. The work will involve clearing branches, raking trails, and general outdoorsy fun!
  
  Bring water and gloves if you have them. Sensible shoes (No flip flops) and long pants are recommended for poison oak. Lunch will be provided, you may need to give a meal from your meal plan or bonus points.
  
  
• Trash to Treasure  (May 15, 2013)
  Come help pick up some treasure! We are collecting books, food cans, and clothing in the residence halls and will be picking them up to donate to Foodshare and Goodwill.
  
  
• Trash to Treasure  (May 16, 2013)
  Come help pick up some treasure! We are collecting books, food cans, and clothing in the residence halls and will be picking them up to donate to Foodshare and Goodwill.
  
  
• Trash to Treasure  (May 17, 2013)
  Come help pick up some treasure! We are collecting books, food cans, and clothing in the residence halls and will be picking them up to donate to Foodshare and Goodwill.
  
  
• Trash to Treasure  (May 10, 2010)
  Don't let your useable goods end up in the trash as you move out for the summer!
  
  CLU will be collecting the following goods for local nonprofits:
  
  BOOKS (Better World Books)
  Boxes will be up in your res hall lounge and in the SUB
  
  HOUSEHOLD ITEMS in good condition (Goodwill Industries)
  Clothing, small furniture, other items. Donate items in good condition AT THE TRUCK during open hours on your side of campus (times and specific sites to be announced as we get closer). Do NOT leave items in res hall lounges.
  
  NONPERISHABLE FOOD (Food Share)
  Find the yellow bins in your res hall lounge or the SUB and make sure your food goes to people who can use it.
  
  
  
  
  VOLUNTEER AN HOUR
  The CSC needs your help! We are looking for volunteers who are willing to volunteer one hour during finals week. During that hour we will be loading donations from Trash to Treasure into loading trucks That will be going toward the Goodwill organization.
  
  INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING PLEASE SIGN UP BELOW
  
  
• Trash to Treasure  (May 11, 2009)
  Donate all your unwanted goods at our annual TRASH TO TREASURE, during finals week. Food and books will be collected in your hall lounges daily. Appliances (even if they don't work!!), clothes, and other items can be donated to GOODWILL. Look for their truck Monday-Friday until 5pm: Freshmen (out be the Pederson basketball courts) Upper classmen: near facilities. *SENIORS: Special donation day on Sunday morning until 12 pm*
  
  
• Trash to Treasure  (May 9, 2012)
  The CSC will be collecting goods from students as they move out at the end of the spring semester and donating them to local nonprofits. Instead of piling up trash, donate your unwanted books, household items, non-perishable food, and more. There will be bins for non-perishable, packaged food and large boxes for books in each Residence Hall lounge.
  
  Volunteers will be needed to help collect items at the end of the event. If you're interested in volunteering, please sign up!
  
  Volunteers will be provided delicious ice-cream treats after collecting the items!!!
  
  
• Trash to Treasure  (May 11, 2011)
  The CSC will be collecting goods from students as they move out at the end of the spring semester and donating them to local nonprofits. Instead of piling up trash, donate your unwanted books, household items, non-perishable food, and more. There will be bins for non-perishable, packaged food and large boxes for lightly used books in each Residence Hall lounge. Items such as clothing, furniture, and household objects must be brought out to the Goodwill trucks parked by the Admissions Building and Peterson volleyball courts. Goodwill donations will only be accepted when there are workers stationed at the trucks. Please do not leave your Goodwill donations in the Res Hall lounges or parking lot.
  
  Volunteers will be needed to help collect items at the end of the event and load them onto the trucks. If you're interested in volunteering, please sign up for one or more of the collection dates below!! Volunteers will receive ice cream for helping out with the event!! :)
  
  
• Urban Exchange  (Apr 17, 2009)
  Join us for a weekend in downtown Los Angeles. We will be exploring social justice issues and their affects on the people of L.A. This is a time to reflect and gain awareness of the important human rights and justice issues that are going on in today's world.
  
  
• Urban Exchange Waitlist  (Apr 8, 2011)
  This is the waitlist for Urban Exchange. It is on a first come, first served basis. You will be contacted asap if there is an open spot!
  
  
• Urban Exchange: Gangs  (Apr 16, 2010)
  Power, money, belonging... Gangs exist in society to fulfill needs (both real and perceived). Come explore with us the cycle of gang banging, how to break the cycle, and what it is like to be a part of this world.
  
  This weekend is dependent on participant contribution. We'll be visiting or working with several LA agencies, potentially including Cry No More, Homeboy Industries, and an alum who is a member of one of LAPD's Gang Units. Speak with panels, visit vocational rehab centers, and debrief with the group.
  
  A trip to Roscoe's might be included in the overnight!
  
  *Please note that this experience is all day on Friday. If you have class that day, it is your responsibility to communicate with your professors to secure permission to miss class and to complete any assignments.*
  
  * Participants will be asked to contribute $5 to help cover the cost of meals for two days.*
  
  
• Urban Exchange: Immigration  (Apr 8, 2011)
  We'll be heading down to the border to learn about various immigration issues. The activities we will be taking part in include:
  
  -A tour of a detention facility
  -Speaking with a human rights activist
  -Working with an artist on a mural
  -Lots more fun!
  
  The cost will be $20 per person to cover food and other expenses for the trip. Grants are available.
  
  Please be aware that we will be leaving Friday, April 8th in the afternoon, which could mean missing classes. You will need to make individual arrangements with your professors if you have to miss class.
  
  Stay tuned for more information!
  
  **Registrations will open March 21st!
  
  
• Urban Excursion  (Nov 1, 2009)
  Come spend a few hours exploring Skid Row in small safe groups and serve dinner at a local shelter. Wear pants and closed toed shoes. Eat lunch before you come as we will not be having lunch together. Meet in the SUB at 12:00 PM and be ready to have a great time! See you Sunday!
  
  
• Urban Excursion  (Nov 13, 2010)
  Join us in going to downtown LA and learn about issues relating to urban homelessness.
  
  Our first stop will be at the skid row LAPD headquarters...
  
  From there we will explore the world of homelessness in and around Los Angeles, and examine the paths to survival and recovery by visiting a faith based transitional housing center.
  
  We are asking that everyone please pack a lunch, as dinner will be provided.
  
  
  Signups will open at 12:00 a.m. on November 1st, 2010 and close at 12:00 a.m. on November 11th, 2010.
  
  
• Urban Excursion  (Nov 16, 2008)
  Spend a day in Urban Los Angeles learning and experiencing issues pertaining to homelessness and poverty. Exploring Skid Row in small safe groups and volunteering at a local mission are just some of the things we will be doing!
  
  Co-sponsored with CLU Rotaract Club
  
  Note: The event meet up time has been changed from the marketing. We will now be meeting at 9:30 in the SUB.
  
  
• Urban Excursion - Homelessness  (Jul 23, 2011)
  An urban experience exploring the facts, fictions and stereotypes about homelessness. Students will be touring a local shelter to gain a better understanding of the transitional phase of homeless rehabilitation as well as learn about the facilities that provide care. The group will also have the opportunity to take time gaining a better understanding of life on Skid Row. Through group discussion and interactive tasks the facilitators will present information in hopes that students will to start too understand some of the multiple contributing factors to homelessness.
  
  
• Urban Excursion - Homelessness  (Jun 18, 2011)
  An urban experience exploring the facts, fictions and stereotypes about homelessness. The hands-on experience of serving meals at the Union Rescue Mission will provide students the ability to interact with individuals that are in the transitional phase of homeless rehabilitation as well as learn about the facilities that provide care. Through group discussion and interactive tasks the facilitators will present information in hopes that students will to start too understand some of the multiple contributing factors to homelessness.
  
  
• Yam Yad  (Apr 30, 2011)
  WANT TO SIGN UP? GO TO www.callutheran.edu/yamyad
  
  The CLU tradition is back!
  
  Campus beautification in the morning (re-plant areas on campus with native, drought-tolerant plants/get a chance to work on the community garden), then gathering at the Swenson Center in the afternoon (eat Chiptole and enjoy the after-party)!
  
  We invite families to participate, but ask that children be over the age of 11 to participate in the service project of planting on-campus.
  
  Free t-shirts to the first 150 participants, as well as a lunch ticket for Chipotle!
  
  
• Yam Yad  (Apr 28, 2012)
  The CLU tradition is back!
  
  Yam Yad is an event dedicated to Campus beautification. CLU students and Alumni have come together each spring to re-plant areas on campus with native, drought-tolerant plants and to work in the community garden.
  
  This year, the event will be three events in one: a day of service, education, and recreational fun. Come and join the CSC with campus beautification projects from 9am-11:30pm. Afterwards join Programs Board from 12pm-3pm at Zuma beach to soak up some sun or attend the author talk regarding bees and pollination from 1pm-2pm with Dr. Reese Halter in the Pepper Grove (near the library).
  
  Sign up to help with campus beautification from 9:00 - 11:30am at the Official YamYad Website!
  
  
• Yamyad  (May 1, 2010)
  WANT TO SIGN UP? GO TO www.callutheran.edu/yamyad
  
  The CLU tradition is back (with a twist)!
  
  Service to community in the morning (get ready to dig some holes and replant areas on campus with native, drought-tolerant plants), and then a community gathering at the pool in the afternoon (complete with the In N Out truck, music, crafts, bounce-houses and more).
  
  We invite families to participate, but ask that children be over the age of 11 to participate in the service project of planting on-campus.
  
  Free t-shirts to participants, as well as a lunch ticket for the In N Out truck.
  
  
• YMCA Healthy Kids Day  (Apr 12, 2008)
  Come spend this Saturday helping make exercise fun for children by introducing them to YMCA programs. Sign up for either the morning (9:30-12:00) or afternoon shift (12-2:30).
  
  
• You Got Served: Ventura River Clean-up  (Aug 31, 2010)
  For faculty, staff and administrators, this is the place to sign up to join You Got Served 2010.
  (STAFF, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS ONLY, PLEASE)
  
  Join your peer group or have us assign you to a group to work for the afternoon.
  
  You MUST wear long pants, closed-toe shoes and long sleeves (poison oak, animals, and object hazards on-site).
  Please bring a water bottle, as we are trying to be green-er and encourage everyone to refill reusable bottles (refill stations on-site).
  
  The week of the event, you will be emailed a waiver to print out, complete, and bring with you to the work site.
  
  We are asking people to participate in one of two options:
  1. Travel on busses with students OR
  2. Drive yourself and come at our late arrival time (2:00 PM).
  This allows us to safely and efficiently orient you and get you to your work space. With 600-700 people on-site, you can imagine we have a lot of details we are juggling. We want you to have a good experience, and we want to keep everyone safe!!
  
  Ice cream will be served on the way to the beach for reflection-- please enjoy some with the students.
  We strongly encourage you to stay after the work as we celebrate and reflect on the beach; students enjoy you reflecting with them!
  
  

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