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Red Tassel Community Service 

            Welcome back everyone!  I hope you are as excited as I am for this new semester!  We have a lot of great ideas for this semester, so we hope you can join in on the action.

 Possible Service Projects include:
            Habitat For Humanity
            Storytime at Children’s Museum (“Reading is Leading” related)
            Partners in Reading at Normal Public Library (“Reading is Leading” related)
            Clean up the Quad or Forest Preserve
            Visiting the Compassion Center and/or Claire House
            Visiting a nursing home

Possible Fundraisers for charities:
            Charity Run on ISU campus
            Eating contest

So far we have:
            Collected over $200 for The Babyfold by bagging-for-tips.
            Canned for donations at Wal-Mart for Habitat For Humanity.
            Collected $47 trick-or-treating for change for Habitat For Humanity.
            Helped build a Habitat For Humanity house.

NATIONAL PROJECT

A National Project was established in 1985 to promote many issues through activities on campus and in the community.  At the 2002 Mortar Board National Conference, the literacy project “Reading is Leading” was made the permanent National Project.  Past projects include: organ donor awareness, AIDS awareness, women’s issues and children’s issues.

Since our national project this year is “Reading is Leading”, anything that goes along with this theme will go towards your Red Tassel hours as well as other projects that we intend to do.  It is important to stimulate the minds of children and allow them to be creative- they are the future generations of the world!  Therefore, it is one of our main duties to promote literacy among children through service projects around the Bloomington-Normal area.

If you have any questions, email the community service chair (Amy) at alszyna@ilstu.edu or the president (Keith) at ktwojew@ilstu.edu