National Volunteer Week Is Coming Up!

Hey Everyone!

National Volunteer Week is April 18th through the 24th. On this week, individuals receive honor and appreciation for volunteering. Here are two opportunities where you can volunteer locally !
Abigail, one of our student staff members, talks about Food Not Bombs and Eco-Cycle. Volunteering with Food Not Bombs,we pick up food donations, cook what we can, serve it at a park and give away the groceries. We do this every Wed. and Sat. The people that come to the park are homeless, broke, of all ages, and hungry. We serve anyone and anyone can volunteer. There is no paperwork or term of service, just come by and help. denverfnb@gmail.com

Another place to volunteer is at Eco Cycle. They are a recycling center and have drop off stations that need volunteers to sort. It is fun and I have several friends that work there.
At our Center, we have a binder that lists volunteer opportunities. If anyone has any suggestions or questions about volunteering please come into Tivoli 243. We would love to help you find places to volunteer in Denver!

Sustainability Fair on April 15th

Come out and support sustainability at our very own Auraria Campus. The Spring Sustainability Fair and enjoy live entertainment including student artwork, local vendors, bands and campus music groups. We'll be providing onsite education on sustainable living and the fair will include green jobs and demonstrations, an electric car, PRIZES, and a myriad of students and organizations who are passionate about sustainability in Denver!

This event is from 10 to 4 and will be a lot of fun! Our very own Auraria Composting and Auraria Garden Club will have a booth there so don't forget to stop by and say hi to them!
This event will bring an awareness to our campus! Check out all of the goodies and information that Auraria campus has to offer and help to make Auraria a green environment!

Save A Tree, Help Our Environment

Even though phone books are recycled in many communities, more than 660,000 tons still end up in the trash every year. This waste could be stemmed by first eliminating the delivery of unsolicited or unwanted phone books. Call the numbers below to remove your address from phone book delivery lists: DEX: 1-877-243-8339 Yellow Book: 1-800-929-3556 -- renew every two years Verizon: 1-888-266-5765. To become more aware about this please visit: https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/member/home.action

SAME Cafe

This is a core article for todays economic times and a business who is doing great things. SAME Cafe was founded by Libby and Brad Birky to help anyone who walks into their doors and to provide a "healthy community by providing a basic need of food".They use all organic food and the meals you receive at SAME Cafe are priced by what patrons think its worth.The philosophy of SAME Cafe is to treat all individuals with respect and make sure everyone has access to a healthy, organic meal. If someone does not have the funds to give a donation, they are asked to exchange an hour of their time to help at SAME Cafe. Please check out this article
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http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14727507?source=sb-facebook

Summer Service Grant Program

Are you involved in a student project?

Would you like to get 500 dollars of support for your community project in the summer?

If this interests you, please apply for the Center for Urban Connections Summer Service Grant Program! In our first year, we are giving out four grants to be completed by August 15th, 2010. All you have to do is fill out an application that is very similar to a professional-level grant application.It is well worth your time! This is great experience for individuals wanting to write a grant. Our Center would love to help you write this grant. If you have any questions or want to schedule an appointment with us please contact Alex Basse at abasse@mscd.edu as soon as possible! Applications are due on April 15th by 5pm!

We look forward to reading your application!

Another event that we are having in April, is our First Annual Center for Urban Connections Awards Ceremony. Stay tuned for more details!

Have a great spring break!

Purify and recycling water

Please welcome this post from our visiting high school student blogger, Destiny. She will be blogging with us for this week. We are very happy to have her writing for the Center for Urban Connections.


Over $659 million of water-purification and a recyling systems but will be completed before schedule and almost $100 million under budget. Water projects are a high tech; they purify water with 14 ultra-violent reactors and they are 15% more powerful than any of those other ones.
With the final tab to be closer to being $659 million dollars worth by the end of the year, $50 million gallons of water a day are being cleaned by the water-purification facility. The facility was really going to increase the water supply for our residents for the bad years.

Make Books Avaliable to Everyone!

Hey all!

Please read this article and let us know if you think this would work at Metro! All comments and feedback can go to mscd.urbanconnect@gmail.com or come into Tivoli 243 and let us know! Have a great weekend!

http://www.denverpost.com/perspective/ci_14429859