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  • Saturday 4/20/24

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, Llano - 3rd Annual #storiesandstewardship

      Apr 20
      9:00AM – 1:00PM
      Llano del Rio Silo
      Add to Calendar 2024-04-20T09:00:00 2024-04-20T13:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, Llano - 3rd Annual #storiesandstewardship Join us at the fascinating ruins of an early 20th-century Utopian experiment in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. We'll discuss the endeavor during our conservation efforts. A historic walking tour is optional. Dress in work clothes, wear a hat, sunscreen, and closed-toed shoes. Bring plenty of drinking water and we will enjoy lunch together after our collective work. Llano del Rio Silo — 165th Street West false

  • Saturday 5/4/24

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, San Diego - Ocean Beach Clean Up

      May 4
      9:00AM – 11:00AM
      Ocean Beach
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-04T09:00:00 2024-05-04T11:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, San Diego - Ocean Beach Clean Up

      Join YCSD and the Surfrider Foundation for a beach and street cleanup at Ocean Beach Pier! You need to register with Surfrider directly - but let us know you're coming so we look for you on the day as well!

      Meet at Ocean Beach Veterans' Plaza, just south of the lifeguard station where Abbot St. meets Newport Ave. If another event is on the grass, we'll be on the beach nearby. Just look for the blue Surfrider tent!

      Weather Cancellation Policy
      If it is lightly raining, we will hold the cleanup. If there are heavy rains, we will cancel the cleanup. To check the status of a cleanup, please see the Surfrider San Diego County events calendar or visit us on social media.

      Contact: Megan Schirmacher '93

       Ocean Beach — 1950 Abbott Street false

  • Sunday 5/5/24

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, Tiburon - Outdoor workday at historic Immigration Station in Angel Island State Park

      May 5, 2024
      All day
      Angel Island State Park
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-05T00:00:00 2024-05-05T00:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, Tiburon - Outdoor workday at historic Immigration Station in Angel Island State Park For the tenth time, Yale alumni will be helping clean up the grounds of the immigration station on Angel Island. After a one-mile hike (including about 100 stairsteps), volunteers will perform weeding and cleaning onsite. The location is the grounds of the historic station where about one million immigrants were processed between 1910 and 1940. After a lunch break, Grant Din '79, former staff at the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, will lead a tour of the former barracks, mess hall, and hospital including new exhibits in the latter two spaces. Bring a lunch and water; tools will be provided (if you have favorite gloves, tools, etc. feel free to bring them). We plan to take the 7:30 a.m. staff ferry and work from about 8:30 to 12 noon and tour around 1-3. Return ferries leave around 5. Affordable ($5) parking is down the street next to the CVS - put in 1599 Tiburon Blvd., Tiburon into your GPS. Breakfast and lunches you can take to the island are available from 7 a.m. on at Cafe Acri next to the ferry dock, but allow enough time to order and get your food. Angel Island State Park — Tiburon Blvd. and Main Street true

  • Thursday 5/9/24

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, San Francisco - Project Open Hand

      May 9
      12:15PM – 3:30PM
      Project Open Hand
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-09T12:15:00 2024-05-09T15:30:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, San Francisco - Project Open Hand Founded in 1985, Project Open Hand is a nonprofit organization that provides meals with love to critically ill neighbors and seniors. Their food is like medicine, helping clients recover from illness, get stronger, and lead healthier lives. Every day, they prepare 2,500 nutritious meals and provide 200 bags of healthy groceries to help sustain their clients as they battle serious illnesses, isolation, or the health challenges of aging. They serve San Francisco and Oakland, engaging more than 125 volunteers daily to nourish our community. Volunteer tasks include preparing, sorting and bagging food items and/or assembling meal packages for our clients. Tasks vary depending on the needs of the day. Please note that these volunteer opportunities often involve handling meat, nut and dairy products. Project Open Hand — 730 Polk St. false

  • Saturday 5/11/24

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, Culver City - Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Restoration

      May 11, 2024
      9:00am-12noon
      Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-11T00:00:00 2024-05-11T00:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, Culver City - Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Restoration Join us and the Nature Nexus Institute (formerly part of the Los Angeles Audubon organization) at your local state park--the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City! This has been one of our most popular service sites for the Yale Day of Service, so sign up early! We will continue helping to restore and maintain one of the last coastal sage scrub communities in the area. We will be weeding and planting native plants; tools will be provided including gloves, shovel, trowel etc. Children with parental supervision are welcome (release form to be sent to registered participants in advance and/or provided onsite). We will be joined by representatives from the Waseda University (Japan) and the Nature Nexus Institute. Please join us for lunch after the event…details will be emailed upon completion of registration. All are welcome. Recommended attire: Wear long pants, a hat, sunscreen, closed-toed shoes, bring your own reusable water bottle (pre-filled), gardening gloves if you have them, No single-use plastic water bottles – let’s do our part to eliminate plastic pollution. Meet outside the visitor center (by the parking lot all the way at the top of the hill). ** Free parking passes will be provided for volunteers when you arrive at check-in. Space/Capacity Limit - approx. 30 people. Park Website: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22790 Nature Nexus Institute Website: https://www.naturenexusinstitute.org/ Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook — 6300 Hetzler Rd. true

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, Oakland - The Gardens at Lake Merritt

      May 11, 2024
      9:45 am to Noon
      The Gardens at Lake Merritt in Oakland
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-11T00:00:00 2024-05-11T00:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, Oakland - The Gardens at Lake Merritt The Gardens at Lake Merritt, a seven-acre collection of themed gardens, honored as one of California's top five Gardens by VIA Magazine, is conveniently located in the heart of Oakland at Lakeside Park, our nation’s first wildlife refuge. Established more than a half-century ago, the Gardens at Lake Merritt serve as a source of great regional pride, a cultural and educational center and a place to enjoy tranquility in the heart of the city of Oakland. The Gardens are poised to serve as an example of the highest standards of horticulture and historic preservation while providing enriching public programs. Lend a hand gardening, weeding, pruning, planting, or spreading mulch and compost. The exact project will be determined by the Gardens staff on the day of the event. All ages and skills welcome! The Gardens at Lake Merritt in Oakland — 666 Bellevue Avenue true

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, San Francisco - Glide Free Meals Program

      May 11, 2024
      9:30 am to 11:30 am
      Glide Foundation
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-11T00:00:00 2024-05-11T00:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, San Francisco - Glide Free Meals Program GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through their integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, they empower individuals, families and children to achieve stability and thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE is a leading social services organization in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood as well as a social justice movement and spiritual community, dedicated to strengthening and transforming lives. GLIDE welcomes all in need of care and community. Our Daily Free Meals program serves a diverse cross-section of homeless and insecurely housed individuals and families as well as low-income working people, and senior citizens and differently abled folks on small fixed incomes. GLIDE’s Daily Free Meals Program prepares and distributes bag lunches and dinners for community members who may not be able to make it to our meal times. Volunteers will help assemble sandwiches and bag them up with other goodies like fruits, vegetables and snacks. Glide Foundation — 330 Ellis Street true

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, San Francisco - With Honey in the Heart

      May 11, 2024
      10 am to 1 pm
      With Honey in the Heart
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-11T00:00:00 2024-05-11T00:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, San Francisco - With Honey in the Heart With Honey in the Heart focuses on connecting people to their surrounding environment, educating about the benefits of pollinators, creating healthy habitat for all pollinators and elevating the status of bees as the divine beings that they are and their crucial role in pollination and our well being through policy and advocacy. With Honey in the Heart worked with the community and stakeholders to create a beautiful, drought tolerant pollinator garden in the first block of Dolores at Market Street in San Francisco. Widespread, careless use of pesticides in both urban and agricultural habitats have created an environment less hospitable to pollinators. They committed to combat these harsh conditions with carefully selected low water, pesticide-free, pollinator friendly plants that will bloom in an unbroken relay all year long. Vivid California Poppies, Sages, spiky Spider Aloe, and other bright, drought tolerant, and pollinator friendly plants can create a much needed habitat for our bees and pollinators. Come help maintain, clean, and plant the Dolores Pollinator Boulevard. No experience or special skills needed. With Honey in the Heart — 2001 Market Street true

    • Yale Day of Service: CA, Los Angeles - Reading to Kids

      May 11
      8:30AM – 12:00PM
      Los Angeles Elementary Schools
      Add to Calendar 2024-05-11T08:30:00 2024-05-11T12:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: CA, Los Angeles - Reading to Kids

      Reading to Kids is a grassroots organization that works with the Los Angeles School District in 8 schools to inspire a love of reading for K-5 students. On the 2nd Saturday of each month, students participate in reading clubs with a monthly theme.

      • Volunteers are paired together to read a designated book and then do arts & crafts (materials are supplied).
      • Volunteers will be provided with training that morning; each grade has a Grade Level Coordinator who will provide additional tips and information.
      • No preparation is necessary; a tip sheet with suggested (not mandatory) discussion questions, vocabulary, and arts & crafts is provided.  

      Minimum Age: 18

      Registration for the May 11 program will open on or shortly after April 14. Once you register, you can pick any school you like. After you pick a school there is a drop down menu to select "Yale University" in the group section.

      Meet other Reading to Kids volunteers after the Clubs at El Cholo Restaurant, 1121 S. Western Ave.

      Contact: Karen Green '78 (Los Angeles Elementary) ; Emily Sandersfeld '79 (Politi Elementary) 

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