Category: Pro Bono / Community Service

East South Street Neighborhood Watch and Christ is the Answer Ministries sponsors a free community meal every Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at 379 E. South Street, Akron, Ohio 44311. Volunteers are needed to set up for the meal, serve food, and clean up after the meal. If you are interested, please contact Kathy Wilkins 330-376-1869 or kaw0727@yahoo.com.

The Federal Bar Association would love to have your help for one evening next week getting books from its book drive sorted and ready for distribution.   If you are interested and available to help, please send a quick email reply to Amanda Knapp at AKnapp@ralaw.com as soon as possible and let her know which evening(s) next week you are available.  It should just be for a few hours.  The possible evenings we are looking at are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week.

Volunteer and receive Community Service hours toward your graduation requirement!

 Based on the responses we get, we will schedule one or two evenings for sorting and send further information to participants.

2012 Pan Ohio Hope Ride- From Cleveland to Cincinnati

We are less than 12 weeks away and we are gearing up for our last recruitment push and moving in to logistics & volunteer recruitment/management!

April updates include:

•      392 riders, 16 virtual participants and 49 teams – We are at more than 75% capacity
•      97% of the riders signed up are Four-Day Riders!
•      16 States are represented and 2 riders from Saudi Arabia
•      Volunteer Recruitment Campaign is currently underway – we will need close to 1,000 volunteers!  Send any interested volunteers to http://www.panohiohoperide.org to sign up.
•      Rider Fundraising is at $169,560 which is $23,000 more than last year at this time!
•      Our final registration promotion is now running: Any rider who is signed up by May 15 will be entered in to a raffle for an Official POHR Merchandise Kit
•      The 2012 Preliminary Route is almost finished being designed.  In the next few days we will be emailing out the route information to the Staff and Volunteers and shortly thereafter publishing it for the riders to see some of the exciting new additions to our course
• In April we had six Networking Events across the state that were all successful with many new faces showing up.  We also had our first ever events in Toledo and Akron, which were both very well attended!
•      The fourth annual Research Rally will be taking place in Cleveland on Saturday, May 12.  For more details please visit the POHR website.  

AMHA is looking for 4-5 volunteers that could help with a clean-up day at one of our Senior buildings. Our Seniors are looking forward to continuing their garden, but they need a little help with cleaning it up. This should take about 4-5 hours and will need to be done during business hours. We are planning the clean-up day for Thursday, May 17^th, 9:30am-1:30pm. Please contact Rachel Braswell at 330-376-7980 or rbraswell@akronhousing.org for more information.

On May 2, 2012, the Akron Bar Association and Community Legal Aid Services will sponsor the annual Law Week free legal clinic from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Job Center, 1040 E. Tallmadge Avenue, Akron, OH.  Law students are needed to assist attorneys volunteering for this clinic. You may volunteer for the morning shift (8:30 a.m. to noon) the afternoon shift (noon to 4:00 p.m.) or both shifts. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. If you are interested please e-mail Professor Joann Sahl at jsahl1@uakron.edu.