Service For Peace

9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance

Honor the fallen heroes of 9/11 by participating in our service projects on Friday, September 11, 2015. You can: - Host a fundraiser or make a donation towards project supplies and materials - Volunteer on one of our service projects 9/11 Day is the non-profit movement to observe September 11 every year as a day of charitable service and doing good deeds. This event was created soon after 9/11 to provide a positive way to forever remember and pay tribute to the 9/11 victims, honor those that rose in service in response to the attacks, and remind people of the importance of working more closely together in peace to improve our world.

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40 Days of Peace

For 40 days, beginning with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday on January 17, 2011, national and local partners, individuals, families, communities, schools, communities of faith, community organizations and many others will focus on helping to start building a peaceful community. Make a difference in your own life and in the lives of others by acting peacefully during this period and help to create a community of peace. Like the civil rights movement, this is meant to be inclusive and all-encompassing. We seek participation from all individuals. Please post your 40 Days of Peace projects on this page, and encourage others across the nation to create communities of peace.

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Arizona Serve

Arizona Serve's mission is to help build and sustain the efforts of Yavapai County service providers and community members to continually improve the quality of life across the region. We work to support efforts in creating a just and healthy community. As a National Service project of Prescott College, Arizona Serve is an inherently volunteer-based program. We recruit, train and place AmeriCorps VISTA members to not only serve our community themselves but to also recruit community members to serve alongside them. On National Days of Service: Arizona Serve partners with the Yavapai County AmeriCorps Project, of Community Counts, to address community needs.

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City of Bloomington MLK, Jr. Commission

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission (MLK Commission) was established in 1993 for the purposes of celebrating Dr. King’s birthday and promoting the acceptance of diversity. The commission is part of the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department, which was created in 1983 as the Human Resources Department and renamed in 1997. The mission of the department is to serve as a resource to individuals, families and organizations in the Bloomington community. It coordinates services, programs and activities that promote an enhanced quality of life and help build a strong, vital community.

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Community Connection of Northeast Georgia

Community Connection of Northeast Georgia (est. 1983) strives to fulfill its mission to nurture, develop, and maintain information and systems which empower individuals and communities to access needed resources and services. HandsOn Northeast Georgia (HONEGA) a program of Community Connection provides a single entry point for volunteers to engage in service via an online database that lists volunteer needs for 133 agency partners. Over 14,000 users have registered with this database. HONEGA hosts several days of service each year, including the MLK Day of Service and events associated with our FamilyServe and SingleServe initiatives. In all, 13,223 hours of service were completed by HONEGA volunteers in the past year.

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Global Peace Makers Summer 2011

This group is made up of all the volunteers traveling abroad this summer participating on Global Peace Makers projects.

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Louisville

Service For Peace is an independent nonprofit organization providing service and learning opportunities through community projects which promote transformational and sustainable personal and community development around the world. What we do: We bring together people and partners of diverse faiths, ethnicities, nationalities, generations, and cultures to address profound social needs by discovering commonality and genuine appreciation for differences – all through service. What we believe in: We believe that peace begins with the inner peace fostered by service to others and that active cooperation provides the foundation and the real hope for peace.

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Miller Street Neighborhood Renewal, Inc.

Our Mission Statement: "To enhance the lives of low income citizens educationally, economically, socially, civically and spiritually."

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MLK Community Coalition of Lebanon

The mission of the MLK Community Coalition of Lebanon, Ohio is to honor Dr. King’s vision of justice by building an inclusive network of individuals and organizations that work toward empowerment for all people.

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MLK Day of Service - Bay Area

This will be the 12th year that Service For Peace has been a key organizer to promote the MLK Day of Service and organize projects in Oakland, and around the Bay Area. We continue to spread awareness by making it a day on, not a day off. Our mission for the MLK Season of Service is to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King by recruiting volunteers from diverse backgrounds to help organizations that help at risk youth and to involve those youth in community service.

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