Project Leaders: Liv Yang ([email protected]) and Suthi Navaratnam-Tomayko ([email protected])

Community Partner: Girls on the Run New Jersey East

Project Description: Volunteers go to a local elementary school once or twice a week to coach regularly scheduled Girls on the Run practice, a program designed to empower girls through running.

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected: Once or twice a week, depending on volunteer schedule. Practices are twice a week but coaches can volunteer once a week if their schedule does not permit 2x, although 2x is preferred.

Mode of communication: Groupme

Link to a google sign-up form

https://forms.gle/ALQXQhZSKLWQgf316

Project Leaders: Nadia Makuc ([email protected]) and Elijah Patterson ([email protected])

Community Partner: YoungLives

Project Description: Volunteers get to know young mothers and their children by sharing dinner with them, and then spend two hours babysitting the children with other volunteers while the mothers have social support activities. Childrens range in age from newborn to five years old, and there are plenty of other volunteers - so whether you have lots of experience with kids or none at all, there’s a way for you to help out! 

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected: 5:30-9:30 2nd Friday of each month: 9/13, 10/11, 11/8, 12/13

Mode of communication: Email and GroupMe

Link to a google sign-up form: https://forms.gle/Btgys5ENw2qgjrAx9

Project Leaders: Kelly Kim ([email protected]), Christopher Li ([email protected]), Andy Zhang ([email protected])

Community Partner: Mount Carmel Guild, ArminArm, Franklin Food Bank, Raritan Pantry

Project Description: every month, students have the opportunity to volunteer at a certain partner food bank on a certain date. Food Bank Express transports these volunteers to the food bank via Lyft, and students are expected to help the food bank with their needs. These responsibilities include: packing grocery bags, cleaning up the pantry, assisting with office needs, moving boxes, organizing food items, and more.

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected: one day per month, for approximately seven or less hours. Members are not expected to attend all trips: there is no minimum or maximum. This is why we create new volunteer sign-ups every month.

Mode of communication): email.

We use a new form (with the same format) for each monthly trip. https://forms.gle/5UxPCapBvybXUVmU8 

Project Leaders: Inwoo Shin ([email protected]), Lina Lyssia Abtouche ([email protected])

Community Partner: Habitat for Humanity

Project Description: 

Volunteers help to provide affordable housing opportunities for families in need by helping to build houses on-site or participating in donation efforts to expand Habitat for Humanity’s efforts. 

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected: 

• once or twice a month for half a day if working on-site
• otherwise, 1-2 hours/week if helping to organize donation events on campus
• Perhaps a gathering of community actors to foster engagement between university students and organizations (Conference)

Mode of communication:

• Slack
• Email (mailchimp)

Link to a google sign-up form: 

https://forms.gle/gKKjYF2wvdpAQuZK6 

Project Leaders: Ingrid Nilsson ([email protected]), Kiran Biddinger ([email protected])

Community Partner: Arm in Arm

Project Description: Students will volunteer at the food pantry in the basement of 61 Nassau St (i.e., on campus!). Typical volunteering activities include assembling bags of food for those in need, assisting with logistics, and engaging with food recipients. 

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected: Volunteer slots are one hour each and can be done with friends. Students can volunteer as frequently or infrequently as they would like!

Mode of communication: We primarily use GroupMe, and secondarily use gmail.

Link to a google sign-up form: Princeton AiA Sign-Up Sheet

Project Leaders: Isabelle Embden ([email protected])

Community Partner: WorkWell

Project Description:

Workwell works with previously incarcerated individuals to equip them with job and life skills, assisting them in their journey as returning citizens. The vision is to provide participants with mentorship and support to strengthen our community. Hopefully, participants can leave the program with a steady job and life. 

Volunteers go to the community partner location in Trenton once or twice a week (depending on the volunteers availability) to help community members complete resumes, prepare them for interviews, and more. 

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected:

Volunteers are asked to attend at least one of these a week:

Saturdays: 8:30am-12:30pm

Tuesdays: 9:30am-12:30pm

(These times include travel time)

Mode of communication: 

Email, WhatsApp

Link to sign-up form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFKZkXSmzO5Uy-EDJ-jx_nE6Lwftp4mqyG-1sg44610GHkyg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Project: Compassus 

Project Leaders:    Avery Fuller [email protected] 

                              Trixie Okeye [email protected] 

Community Partner:  Compassus

Project Description:

• Perform service through fulfilling the needs of the hospice community at Compassus facilities
• Consistent communication with the Community Partner to allow a safe and respectful environment for hospice patients, hospice faculty, and service providers.
• Complete safety protocols, training, and activities that reflect the integrity of the Compassus facility along with the hospice patients and faculty present.
• Service includes but is not limited to:
  • Activities of leisure (arts, crafts, journaling, engaging in shared common interests, etc.)
  • Communication (stories, lending an ear, etc.)
  • Engaging in physical activities (leisurely stroll, games, etc.)

*There is also a Veterans' Cohort, which has internal recruitment

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected: Expected to be weekly visits, scheduled by PLs, about three hour commitment per week

Mode of communication: GroupMe

Link to a google sign-up form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYPrstav-vHSCdk_4LmzPsovB2PW8mvB-U7y74e9RtN6KiGg/viewform?usp=sf_link 

Project: Solidaridad Central Jersey Student Wing

Project Leaders: Annie Kim ([email protected]), Isabelle Embden ([email protected])

Community Partner: Solidaridad Central Jersey Pro Se Clinic

Project Description: 

Volunteers with the Solidaridad Pro Se Clinic are committed to the fight for and advancement of immigrant rights in collaboration with Solidaridad Central Jersey. Volunteers will be tasked with supporting the mission and efforts of Solidaridad mainly through research and writing skills. Tasks will depend on the needs of the community partner, emphasizing our personalized approach. As an example, volunteers have previously worked on creating country condition indexes on locations where many asylum seekers (“neighbors”) we have worked with originated. These reports will assist Solidaridad in their compilation of supporting documents in asylum applications.

The first few meetings of the Solidaridad Student Wing will be focused around volunteer recruitment. The first session will host members of the Solidaridad board who will explain the work that Solidaridad does. Those who are interested in becoming volunteers in addition to being Student Wing members will join the second session, which will be a detailed training session on how to be a notetaker in asylum case teams so that they can start working on cases as soon as possible. Solidaridad representatives will be present at both sessions. Afterwards, the Student Wing will serve as a support group for student volunteers as well as answering questions about asylum and immigration.

Members of the Solidaridad Student Wing can choose from a variety of tasks to help Solidaridad:

• accompanying clinic coordinators on Trenton visits to obtain application signatures from neighbors
• carrying out admin tasks in the Solidaridad office which is at a 10 minute walk from campus (printing/copying/scanning applications, following up with work permits, other assignments as needed)
• serving as mentors for new student volunteers, answering questions, checking in during their shadowing period, and providing advice/support when a new student is assigned to a team
• training new notetakers before volunteering and educating them on the process of taking notes and completing I-589s

For fluent Spanish speakers who do not have enough time to commit to working on a single case weekly for about a month, there are short-term, single-session activities they could choose from:

• acting as interpreters to complete the demographics pages of I-589
• translating Spanish documents into English to supplement asylum applications

In addition to deepening connections to asylum seekers, the group will also deepen connections with a community organization in Princeton, breaking down the wall between the university and the Princeton community. The group will also strengthen the community within Princeton’s student body, allowing for students to come together through a passion for immigrant rights. It will create a space dedicated to doing social good and living in alignment with one’s values, and it will create a space dedicated to raising awareness about current immigration events on campus. 

Frequency/Time Commitment Expected:

The student wing will meet for an hour each week to complete tasks set by Solidaridad. Some members may also choose to join the Solidaridad Pro Se Clinic as volunteers, which would be a separate time commitment.

Mode of communication: listserv email through my.princeton.edu

whatsapp group

Link to a google sign-up form: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSw94l_osc_h_yqu7tL6fYSAgjIPpvhYhkz3llIGBql4d6Dw/viewform?usp=sf_link