Community Service Opportunities & Schedule

RefugeeOne Volunteer Project--Winter, 2012

The Yale Club of Chicago--in collaboration with the Yale Young Alumni and other Yale Shared Identity Groups ("SIGs") in Chicago--is launching a new community service project in partnership with the RefugeeOne organization. The goal is for participants to help prepare an apartment for an incoming refugee family. Participants can contribute in a variety of ways depending on their time availability and resources, including donating furniture or other home items for the apartment (the core of the project), greeting the family at the airport, and assisting the family in their first months in the United States. We will begin collecting donations for the apartment during January and February and hope to meet the family in the first week of March--more details to come! In the meantime, please contact Kate Bowden '10 (katherine.bowden@gmail.com) and Robbin Schoewe '85 (robbin@aya.yale.edu) for more information about this exciting project!

Young Alum Launch Party for RefugeeOne Project--Friday, February 10, 2012

The Yale Young Alumni group will be collecting donations to furnish the bathroom of the RefugeeOne apartment and will kick off this effort with a launch party to be held on Friday, February 10, from 6 to 8 pm at the D4 Irish Pub & Cafe, 345 E. Ohio Street (in the Streeter apartment building, entrance on Grand).

We are seeking donations of the following bathroom items at the launch party: *Towel sets *Shower curtain *Several bars of hand/body soap *Shampoo *Deodorant *Toothbrushes *Toothpaste *Dental floss *Disposable razors *Shaving cream/lotion *Feminine supplies *Toilet paper and facial tissue *First aid kit and oral thermometer *Waste basket *Disposable diapers *All purpose spray cleaner w/ bleach *Scouring cleanser, pads, sponges *Plunger *Toilet brush *Toiletry basket

Please RSVP for the launch party on Facebook , and please indicate on this Google doc what items you are donating.

Yale Day of Service--May 12, 2012

Are you involved with a nonprofit/charitable organization in the Chicagoland area? Please contact Robbin Schoewe '85 (robbin@aya.yale.edu) with ideas for volunteer sites and projects that are suitable for Yale Day of Service, a one-day event that brings together Yalies from all classes to engage in projects that positively affect our community. For information on Facebook about Yale Day of Service go to www.facebook.com/YaleDayofService.