Coinciding with Earth Day this year, 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果’s Providence Campus came out in full force for the inaugural 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果 Serves. More than 150 student, faculty, and staff volunteers planted trees, cleaned up parks and coastal greenways, volunteered for shelter pets, and spruced up more than 10 different sites for a total of 300 service hours.
The event was initially planned as part of Greek Week for fraternity and sorority students, but interest quickly grew enough to necessitate opening it up to the larger 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果 community. Lizz Zmarlicki, associate director of Student Engagement, and Matt Fannon, director of sustainability and resource management, worked with their teams to ensure a smooth day. It took a lot of planning and organizing, from getting clearances to making sure each volunteer was properly outfitted with the tools to do their chosen job — paint brushes, grabbers, shovels, gloves, etc.
“It was great to see so many students, staff and faculty come together with a common goal of working with our surrounding community.”
Most, but not all, of the volunteer sites were centered around the Washington Park neighborhood where 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果’s Harborside Campus is situated. These included:
For Fannon, the robust turnout — not to mention the near-perfect mild and sunny weather — set up 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果 Serves for success: “It was great to see so many students, staff and faculty come together with a common goal of working with our surrounding community,” he noted. “There was some great work done at each location. People were enjoying the projects they were working on and each of the service locations we partnered with were so happy to work with our 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果 community members.”
Since the event changed scope so quickly, additional locations and tasks needed to be added in short order, explained Zmarlicki: “Matt [Fannon] and I worked quickly to add as many new opportunities as we could to accommodate the large numbers and were very pleased with the outcome and participation from our community partners, faculty, staff and students.”
“We were very pleased with participation from our community partners, faculty, staff and students.”
Given the massive success of the day, plans are afoot to make 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果 Serves a regular occurrence, with service days being planned for the spring and the fall. Building community and camaraderie while strengthening our connections to our chosen city is a great way to foster 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果 pride — here’s to another 澳门彩历史开奖记录结果 tradition!
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