Tag Archives: art

Palooza Activity Center, Inc.

Palooza Activity Center  P.O.Box 302 Spring House, PA 19477 Contact:  Jackie Mullock, Program Director, 267.644.6372, jmullock.palooza@gmail.com Palooza Activity Center, Inc. is a community-based, not-for-profit organization serving adults with disabilities.  Our mission is to create an environment in which these exceptional adults have the opportunity to form and foster friendships, build community connections, share their talents, and develop skills that will enrich and support their adulthood.  Our focus has been on creating and maintaining programs in the arts, literacy, life skills, and recreation. We have a great need from our younger volunteers, ages 12+ to help stock our library, art room & kitchen! […]

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Fusing Turkeys and Dreidels

Dreidels and turkeys?  Menorahs and cornucopias? Latkes and sweet potato pie? What’s happening this year? On November 28, 2013, Hannukah and Thanksgiving coincide.  That’s the perfect opportunity to merge the concepts of giving, appreciating and celebrating!  Can you think of 8 opportunities to share with your community where you get to make miracles happen and give thanks? Here are just a few ideas but we would love to hear your suggestions too!  Send them to:  Info@themitzvahbowl.com. 1.  Enjoy playing games? Go to a senior facility and organize a dreidel game with chocolate gelt.  It will be a sweet treat for […]

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Boys & Girls Club of Trenton/Mercer County

Boys & Girls Club of Trenton/Mercer County 212 Centre Street Trenton, NJ 08611 Contact: Debra Wachspress, Director of Community Engagement 609-392-3191 dwachspress@bgctrenton.org The mission of the Boys & Girls Club is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. Volunteer opportunities for a community service project: Youth are needed to assist with homework help, sports, art and other activities in our after school programs. We also encourage collection drives of books or gifts during the holiday season for a mitzvah project. Monday – Friday, […]

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A Student’s Clothesline Art Sale Benefits Even More Students

For Raquel Dunoff’s mitzvah project she will be having a clothesline art sale to benefit Fresh Artists. Fresh Artists provides art supplies and art programs to inner city schools with little-to-no art budget. The art sale will be held at Whitemarsh Township Day on April 28th, 2012 form noon til 5. It is open to the community and we welcome you to come. There are two ways that you can help with Raquel’s project. First, is to donate children’s art for the sale. We are collecting both ceramics and paintings/drawings. There is a drop box for art in the lobby […]

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Do you believe in living colorfully?

The Colored Pencil Project Children and their world in color, a global project How do you express yourself? Do you tweet, post, or blog? Maybe you love to sing, write, or draw? At The Colored Pencil Project, we believe in coloring. For children in developing countries, self expression is a priceless tool that few have access to in even the simplest forms. The Colored Pencil Project believes that self expression is an integral part of childhood development, and that every child deserves the opportunity to find their voice. We believe that art is the foundation of self expression, and our […]

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