Preparing for MLK Day

Youth Service America is encouraging individuals and communities to start planning now for the MLK Day of Service, January 17th. In response to national challenges from the pandemic to the climate crisis to racial inequity, the initiative features and underlying goal to help #CracktheCrises ASAP through Awareness, Service, Advocacy, and Philanthropy projects. Awareness: Youth are … Read more

Last Minute MLK Day Ideas!

Youth Service America just posted these fantastic last minute ideas for honor the MLK Day of Service holiday! It’s not too late to volunteer in your community. Check out opportunities at http://www.allforgood.org/join/find-organization and make the holiday a day of service! 6 Last Minute Ideas for MLK Day of Service 2017 Sign up to receive daily … Read more

What Are You Doing for MLK Day?

The Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, January 16, is a perfect opportunity for all of us to honor Dr. King’s legacy through service. How can you serve? Identify military families in your community in need of yard sprucing, home repairs, etc., and organize a day of work. Organize a canned food drive for your local … Read more

Annual Fairfax Give Together in January

Save the Date! The 8th Annual Give Together in Fairfax in January 16, 2017! Families with school-age children are invited to give together on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service, on Monday, January 16. Give Together is a family volunteer event with service projects specially designed for young people and little hands. … Read more

Sixth Grader Honors Dr. King

Serious Clydarius Pinchback, a sixth-grader at OT Bonner Danville Middle school, has a dream. He dreams of a world where we “will live in peace and harmony and respect each other” and we “will not have to feel the pain and anguish of war.” Showing wisdom and compassion beyond his 11 years, Serious was awarded … Read more