City Year’s MLK Day Of Service

Also, City Year Columbia is hosting an information session for other nonprofits, individual volunteers, service partners, fellow affiliates of AmeriCorps and The Corporation and all others interested in volunteering with the MLK Day of Service Carnival.

Some volunteer opportunities for the carnival include:

-          Working booths

-          Registering guests

-          Set up prior to the event

-          Break down after the event

-          Judging the art contest

-          Managing “events within the event” such as the hula-hoop contest, cake walk, etc.

-          Generally supporting City Year in ensuring a smooth day of service for other volunteers and guests of the carnival

If you cannot volunteer/attend, please let your parent friends about this great opportunity to get kids out of the house on their day off!  (MLK Day is a Day-ON!)  If you are interested in contributing supplies for this day, please let me know.  Examples would be balls, booths, small prizes, etc.

Thank you all so much for your commitment to the national service movement.

“The federal holiday marking the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday began in 1986, 18 years after his death in 1968. In an effort to encourage a day of turning community concerns into volunteer action, former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wofford and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis, both close colleagues of Dr. King's during the civil rights movement, co-authored the King Holiday and Service Act in 1994. President Clinton signed this legislation into law later that year on August 23. What officially started in 1996 as a project in Philadelphia has grown into a national movement that brings diverse groups of Americans together on the King Holiday to actively celebrate Dr. King's life of promoting social justice and helping others.” – MLK Day of Service, Greater Philadelphia