It’s snowing holiday cards! Kristina DelSesto and Olivia Mansion from our Central Falls Community Advisory display beautiful cards and colorful snowflakes handmade by 6th and 7th graders at Calcutt Middle School for local people who are undergoing medical treatment during the holiday season. The cards were delivered to Women & Infants Breast Health Center and [...]

As school drew to a close and got busier than ever this spring, dozens of high school Crusaders dedicated their time and energy to creating successful community service projects. The Tomorrow Fund was one of the beneficiaries this year. Based at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, The Tomorrow Fund provides emotional and financial support to [...]

“I believe that Peace and Respect must first exist within myself and it is then my personal responsibility to help create a school and community safe from abuse and oppression.” (The Peace Pledge) This spring a team of Crusaders from Feinstein High School and Jorge Alvarez High School joined together to lead workshops on nonviolence. [...]

For their service learning project this spring, Crusaders at Hope High School led a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving. A team of 30 Crusaders and friends created a 16-foot banner to exhibit in the school cafeteria during prom season. Dozens of fellow students added tracings of their hands to [...]

Our creative and energetic high school Crusaders have outdone themselves this year with a huge variety of service-learning  projects on behalf of their communities. They are getting their entire schools involved with benefit events, collection drives, and teen awareness activities. Here is a quick summary of what’s going on: Central High School A basketball tournament [...]

The courts were hot last week at Providence Career & Tech Academy! On May 28, eight 3-on-3 basketball teams competed for prizes in Hoops for the Homeless, an event organized by Crusaders at Central High School to benefit Amos House. The tournament was part of an ongoing community service project that Crusaders are sponsoring at [...]

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 [...]