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Community Service
Opportunities
MBSA
Tippie Build
The Tippie Build Goal
-Help to build a home for a local family in need of safe and affordable
housing!
-Raise $50,000
The Tippie Build History
-First Tippie Build: 2006-2007 academic year
-Have raised more than $250,000 for Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity
-5 homes built
Tippie Build
-How does it work
• Time
• Starts on September and continues until the house was ready for
winter
• Resume in Spring
• Every Friday and Saturday
• Two shifts each building day
• 9am-noon ; 1pm-5pm
• 20 people each shift
• Sign up
• http://tippie.uiowa.edu/tippiebuild/volunteer/construction_sign
up.cfm
• Make sure you show up if registered
• If you need a ride, ask Tippie Build!
Ronald McDonald House
• Assist families during their time away from the hospital. The Ronald
McDonald House provides a haven where families can cook a meal,
do laundry, relax, share a laugh, and find comfort and support.
• Ronald McDonald House of Iowa City opened in 1985, volunteers
have helped make it possible for the doors to stay open for
thousands of families in need.
Ronald McDonald House
-Become a Volunteer
• In house, weekly volunteer
• Work one three-hour shift every week (shifts range from 9-12, 123, 3-6, 6-9, seven days a week)
• Perform many important duties at the House. Such
responsibilities include driving the Ronald McDonald House
shuttle van to and from the hospital, taking families shopping for
groceries, or helping clean rooms
• One-time prepare a meal
• Set-up, serve and clean up
• Healthy meal for 40-50 people
• Service project
• For volunteer groups
• Words such as dusting, sweeping, and cleaning all of the areas of
the House
Ronald McDonald House
• Application
• http://rmhc-eiwi.org/pages/how-to-help/volunteer/volunteerapplication.php
• Host to serve a meal for family
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Group not exceed 10 people
Dinner 5:30-6:00; Brunch 9:00-2:00
Tableware provided, but welcome to bring plasticware
The RMH serves 31 families with an average of at least 2 people
per room, serving 40-50 people
• Prepare a balanced, healthy meal for families
Adopt-A-Highway
• Developed by Iowa Department
of Transportation increase
public awareness of
environmental needs.
• This gives the adopting
individuals or groups
opportunities to improve the
appearance of our roadside
throughout the state.
• Picked up trashes, maintenance
of tree
University of Iowa Hospitals
and Clinics
• College student volunteers help serve faculty, staff, patients
and families in a variety of world-class care units here. Varying
degrees of patient contact are available.
• Orientations take place at the beginning of each semester
• Require a two semester commitment to weekly three hour
volunteer shifts
• Application Process
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http://www.uihealthcare.org/otherservices.aspx?id=1956
Registration
Interview
Training
Volunteer!
UIHC-Featured Programs
-All you can help
• Cherished Portraits
• Professional, private portrait sessions are offered to infants and
children with life-threatening illnesses who are facing the end of
life or for families who have lost a child.
• Email a Patient
• Use E-mail a Patient to send a personalized e-mail that's printed
out and delivered right to a patient's room by hospital volunteers.
• Furry Friends
• Allows patients to experience the joy of a visiting pet, either their
own or a dog certified for hospital visits.
• Memories Videos
• For patients battling life-threatening illness, a video scrapbook
filled with pictures, video footage and sound can be created as a
reflection of their life.
Dance Marathon
• About the Dance Marathon
• Provides year-round support to youth cancer victims and their
families
• Students plan and participate in Family Events and Mini-Dance
Marathons
• The Big Event is a 24-hour Dance Marathon where students
assemble to celebrate the children survivors and remember the
children who have passed away throughout the year.
Dance Marathon
-How to get involved
• Sign up to become a dancer
• http://dancemarathon.uiowa.edu
• Assigned a Morale Captain who will help make sure you are
able to raise you money, plan social activities for you and your
group to meet people, and help keep you informed of what's
happening with the organization
• To attend the Big Event dancers must raise $400 with a $50
registration fee
• After participating your first year, if you are interested, tons of
leadership opportunities
Dance Marathon
• No sitting, No caffeine, DANCE 24-hour
• Over 2 Million raised this year
Lots of other opportunities
• Pomerantz Career Center
• http://careers.uiowa.edu/students/volunteer
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• http://clas.uiowa.edu/socialwork/resources/volunteeropportunities
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
• https://www.uihealthcare.org/volunteers/
• Tippie College of Business
• http://tippie.uiowa.edu/tippiebuild/
• The University of Iowa
• http://www.iowalum.com/student/volunteer/