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King Day of Service Signature Site Update Meeting - 10/30/09

Friday, October 30, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM (ET)

Philadelphia, PA

King Day of Service Signature Site Update Meeting - 10/30/09

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Event Details

15th Annual King Day of Service

Signature Site Countdown Meeting

October 30, 2009

Girard College

1st floor Library Building

9:00am-10:30am - Update Meeting & Facility Tour

Each year, the Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service selects a signature site, which serves as the hub of an expected 900 projects and more than 65,000 volunteers throughout the region. The signature site is expected to have several thousand volunteers and more than 100 projects. It will include a kids' carnival, civic engagement expo, and health fair. It is always the center of media focus and where volunteers are expected to include the mayor and other elected officials, sponsors, community leaders and students from throughout the region, including Girard College. 

Please RSVP by 10/28/09 by registering online at this link or or by contacting Alyssa Irving at 215-665-2506 or airving@globalcitizen.us.com.  Note that this registration is an RSVP for the countdown meeting and not the day of service.

 

For more information about this event please visit our website at http://www.mlkdayofservice.org/sigsite/sigsiteinfo.html.  We look forward to your participation in the 15th annual King Day of Service and seeing you on Friday, October 30th, for our countdown meeting.  Directions are listed below.

 15th Annual King Day of Service Logo

Directions to Girard College 

FROM 76   (The Schuylkill Expressway)

  • Take the expressway to 676 EAST and follow directions below

FROM 676 EAST & WEST (Vine Street Expressway)

Traveling on 676 East

  • Exit at 23rd Street (Ben Franklin Pkwy/Museum Area)
  • Stay to the left until you reach 22nd Street and turn left onto 22nd Street
  • Continue on 22nd Street until the dead end and make a right onto Fairmount Avenue
  • Left at first light onto Corinthian Avenue
  • Continue to light and cross Girard Avenue
  • Entrance is straight ahead

Traveling on 676 West

  • Exit at Ben Franklin Pkwy/Museum Area (22nd Street)
  • Turn right onto 22nd Street
  • Follow directions above from 'Continue on 22nd Street until the dead end…'

 

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

  • #15 bus runs East & West on Girard Avenue
  • #33 bus runs South on 19th Street and North on 20th Street

 

When & Where



Girard College
2101 South College Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19121

Friday, October 30, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM (ET)


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Global Citizen & MLK365



Global Citizen is non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting civic engagement, community volunteering, civic responsibility and sustained active citizenship among diverse groups, particularly young people.

Our issues of focus include poverty, homelessness, at-risk youth, education, public health, digital inclusion, energy and the environment.  Global Citizen is a weaver of community webs, bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds.  We work to build diverse partnerships through volunteer service, thus realizing how much more we have in common than our differences.

Global Citizen was founded by Todd Bernstein, who helped Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wofford and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis create the National Martin Luther King Day of Service in 1994.  Bernstein started the first local King Day of Service in Philadelphia in 1996.

MLK365 is a year-round program that promotes sustainable civic engagement and volunteer opportunities. 

The goal of MLK365 is to ensure that Dr. King's legacy and principles are embraced throughout the entire year.  The initiative emphasizes Dr. King's legacy of nonviolence, social justice, equality and excellence.

MLK365 serves as a year-round clearing house for continuing service opportunities, as well as supporting and designing volunteer programs for its partners.