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Promoting Prematurity Awareness Day & Month in Your School
By Elizabeth Caudle
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As a March of Dimes Youth volunteer, you know that one in eight babies is born premature. You know that prematurity is a common, costly and serious problem. But do your friends know? What about your classmates? And your teachers?
Prematurity Awareness Day, November 14, gives you the perfect opportunity to educate people in your school about premature birth, the #1 cause of babies' deaths. The Team Youth Web site offers tons of ideas and suggestions for announcements, fundraisers, mission awareness activities and other materials for you to use in your school!
How YOU can get involved:
Light up Your School in Pink and Blue!
Talk to your principal about outfitting your schools outdoor lighting system with pink and blue bulbs. The pink and blue lights will remind your school community about prematurity all month!
Coinstar® Caravan!
Ask your school community to donate change during Prematurity Awareness week. You can make it into a competition between classes! At the end of the week caravan to your local Coinstar® location to deposit your change.
Pink and Blue Jeans for Babies!
Invite everyone in your school to wear Pink & Blue Jeans for Babies on November 14th. Your outfits will show your school’s support for the tiniest babies.
For more ideas, check out the Youth Planning Guide (pdf) and Two Week Fundraising Plan (pdf). Don’t limit yourself to November 14. Remember all of November is Prematurity Awareness month!
Post pictures of all of your Prematurity Awareness Month activities to flickr.com/groups/modpad2006/.
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What holds silver and is green and white all over? You guessed it, a Coinstar® Center! Decades ago, millions of dimes from concerned Americans helped us defeat polio. Today, we need all the change you can spare to fight an even bigger challenge — premature birth, the #1 killer of babies.
Collecting coins is an amazing fundraiser – gather change outside your school cafeteria, set up shop at the weekly football game, or even start a dime war between classes. Any way you slice it, the coins earned add up to big bucks! Visit the Activities section of the Team Youth Web site for a Coin Collection Campaign overview.
Coinstar's® network of more than 12,000 centers includes all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia. With such a widespread availability, there is bound to be a Coinstar® Center in your neighborhood.
Donate your spare change by contacting your local March of Dimes chapter or take it to a Coinstar® Center near you and enter code 1230 for the March of Dimes.
Estimates indicate that $10.5 billion in loose change is sitting in American households today. This change is crucial in funding our cause of preventing prematurity and birth defects in infants.
So TeamYouth, it’s time to get back to our roots! The March of Dimes began on the basis of coin collection and look how far we’ve come. Dig into those pockets and look under the couch cushions - it’s time to make dimes into dollars for babies, with Coinstar® !
Interested in starting a coin collecting campaign? Request a free kit online.
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Raise Money By Searching
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Visit goodsearch.com
Enter “March of Dimes ” in the box for “I’m supporting” and click "Verify."
Search the Internet from the search box.
Each time you search, revenue is generated for the March of Dimes!
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Nestle Very Best in Youth Program |
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The Nestlé Very Best in Youth Program honors young people who have excelled in school and who are making their community and the world a better place.
Twenty-five young people selected from nominations from volunteers, parents, and teachers will be featured in a special publication and honored at a ceremony in Los Angeles CA, during the summer of 2007.
Nestlé will cover all the expenses for the winners’ trips to Los Angeles, and will also donate $1,000 in the name of each winner to the charity of his or her choice.
Nominees should have a strong background in citizenship, school, community involvement, and reading. Legal residents of the U.S., between 10 and 18 years of age, are eligible for the program. Deadline is November 1, 2006.
For more information and to download an application, please visit Nestlé Very Best in Youth.
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State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant |
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Youth Service America and the State Farm Companies Foundation are offering the State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant for youth across the United States.
These grants of up to $1,000 support youth (ages 5-25), teachers, or school-based service-learning coordinators in implementing service-learning projects for National and Global Youth Service Day, April 20-22, 2007.
Postmark deadline: Monday, October 16, 2006. To learn more, download an application and grant guidelines at Youth Service America or e-mail GoodNeighbor@ysa.org.
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