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Student Community Service Conference
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Mon Nov 25 18:14:22 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:12:18 -0500
Reply-To: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
From: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
This might be of interest to some of you.
Y.I.S.
c.c.
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>From: homeoffice@COOL2SERVE.org (L. Jacobson)
>Newsgroups: soc.org.service-clubs.misc
>Subject: Student Community Service Conference
>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:26:57 -0500
>Organization: COOL - Campus Outreach Opportunity League
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>1997 COOL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE:
>What's Next? Putting Visions into Actions
>March 13-16, 1997
>Cleveland State
>University
>Cleveland, Ohio, USA
>
>
>Since 1984, Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) has led the way in
>inspiring and training students in service. In these 13 years, COOL has
>been the springboard for countless youth organizations and powerful
>leaders into the service field, both on and off college campuses.
>
>This year, the COOL National Conference on Student Community Service,
>makes it way to the urban campus of Cleveland State University in Ohio.
>Join us and 3,000 students, faculty and staff from across the country for
>three and a half intense days of sharing experiences, asking tough
>questions, and preparing to put visions into action.
>
>WHAT IS COOL?
>
>COOL is a national non-profit organization that promotes and supports
>student involvement in community service and social change by helping
>students start and strengthen campus-based community service programs. Our
>mission is to educate and empower college students to strengthen our
>nation through community service. For more information see the COOL
>HomePage. <http://www.COOL2SERVE.org>
>
>WHO COMES TO THE CONFERENCE?
>
>Students faculty, administators and others serving their communities
>attend the COOL Conference.People addressing illiteracy, homelessness,
>racism, hunger, health care, HIV/ AIDS, urban violence, drug abuse,
>domestic violence, and other pressing community issues. The conference is
>primarily a forum for students of differing political affiliations,
>cultural and ethnic backgrounds,
>sexual orientations, physical abilities, faiths, and socio-economic
>classes to come together in the challenge of creating and celebrating a
>new reality within our communities.
>
>WHY DO THEY COME?
>
>The COOL Conference is the premier gathering of students involved in
>Community Service.Participants come to: acquire critical technical skills,
>discover new models for organizing groups and programs, find new
>resources, teach each other, have new conversations, hear challenging
>ideas, opinions, and biases, share hopes, heroes, and plans for the
>future. The COOL Conference brings together a diverse pool of resources
>that are not found anywhere else.
>
> AT THE COOL CONFERENCE YOU'LL HAVE THE CHANCE TO:
>
>* Listen to speaches by some of the top national leaders in community and
>public service.
>
>* Join us for "Into The Streets", a one day service project based on
>COOL's highly successful national program of the same name. Participants
>will be teamed with local community organizations to give immediate and
>direct service.
>
>* Attend or lead one of the 150 workshops on issues and topics like
>coalition building, AIDS, recruiting volunteers, community service,
>advocacy, culture and diversity, service-learning, grant writing, federal
>funding and legislation, starting a service program, the environment, the
>critical elements of service, literacy, the arts, social change,
>homelessness and more.
>
>* Explore the Opportunities Fair featuring exhibits by over 70 regional,
>state, national, and international organizations. The Fair provides an
>opportunity to collect information and resources to help your campus
>programs, and to find out about graduate programs and job opportunities.
>
>* Attend Discussion Panels and Open Forums on contemporary and
>controversial issues focusing on developing and maintaining innovative and
>effective service programs in our complex society.
>
>* Take part in the OXFAM America Hunger Banquet, a dramatic illustration of the
>inequitable distribution of resources worldwide. "Draw" a fate determining
>whether you will be one of the 15% enjoying a gourmet meal, the 25% eating
>rice and beans, or the 60% waiting for plain rice and water. It's an
>unusual experience which you can recreate on your own campus. (limited
>space available)
>
>FOR MORE INFORMATION:
>
>Visit the COOL Conference Page at
><http://www.COOL2SERVE.org/conference.html> for more details on how to
>register; how to get discounts on housing; how to present a workshop of
>your own; and much more.
>
>You can request that a complete conference brochure be mailed to you by
>contacting the 1997 COOL Conference Office at (216)523-7515 or E-Mail them
>at COOLmtgs@aol.com.
>
>1997 COOL National Conference on Student Community Service
>Cleveland State University
>2227 Prospect Ave., MH #301a
>Cleveland, OH 44115
>
>Phone: (216)523-7515
>Fax: (216)523-7520
>E-Mail: COOLmtgs@aol.com
>
