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Brian Estrada was awarded the Laura Rendón Community Service Scholarship during the 2009 Youth Leadership Summit for GEAR UP participants hosted in San Francisco last month! The $1,000 scholarship is given on the basis of a written essay and the recipient’s contributions during the national summit. Only two scholarships were awarded. Congratulations, Brian!

On June 24, students from the High School Crusade Advisory Board delivered a check for $2,500 to The Tomorrow Fund, which provides daily financial and emotional support to children with cancer and their families receiving treatment at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. The High School CAB raised the funds as a community service project by [...]

Middle School Crusade Advisory Board members Melissa Roberts and Santiago Nino chose the topic of obesity as a focus for their community service project this year at Esek Hopkins Middle School. They did research online and produced a pamphlet on what causes obesity and how to prevent it. Their publication, called “Obesity in America and [...]

Shamika Fletcher, College Crusade Advisor at Gilbert Stuart Middle School, reports: “Our community service project this year was a mural created from the vision of the students at Gilbert Stuart. This inspiration was derived from the students’ everyday encounters with one another. The students decided to do a mural to enhance the beauty of their [...]

As a farewell to the end of school year 2007-2008, Ms. Ginny, College Crusade Advisor for Springfield Middle School in Providence, gathered a few 7th and 8th grade Crusaders as volunteer readers at West Broadway Elementary. During the free period for 2nd graders in the afternoon, project leaders Adeliris Sanabria and Julio Tenas organized a [...]

This spring Crusaders at Woonsocket Middle School took part in a clothing drive to benefit the Salvation Army of Woonsocket. The collection drive started on May 19, and all the contributions were dropped off at the Salvation Army on May 29. Crusaders and school staff participated.

For Bridgham Middle School’s community project, leaders Karina Santos and Nicole Johnson created a pamphlet advising Crusaders and schoolmates to make healthy choices during the summer. Their advice covered three categories: healthy eating, exercising, and appropriate behavior. Here are some great ideas from their handout:

Try not to eat foods that are high in sugar and [...]

Bake sales, smoothies and ice cream sales, and ballroom dances are a popular outcome for Times² Academy! Astonishingly, nothing beats a candy sale! As a community service project, Middle School Crusade Advisory Board representative Edward Pena gathered other Crusaders to volunteer for the candy sale. Given $25 as a head start, these enterprising Crusaders sold [...]

This year the community service learning project for Joseph Jenks Junior High School was a shoe and clothing drive. We asked the faculty and students to bring in any clothing or shoes that they did not use. All of the clothes and shoes were then donated to a nonprofit agency called Kiducation. This agency turns [...]

The community service learning project for Samuel Slater Junior High School this year was a coin drive in which all money raised was donated to “Slater’s Safety Fund.” Middle School Crusade Advisory Board members Emily Teixeira and Elizangela Santos organized the project, and all the school staff and students participated. The homeroom that donated the [...]