Keeping YOU Connected to Community News
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TU Serves! is produced weekly to provide Tulane students, staff, faculty, friends, and alumni information relevant to being involved and living in the New Orleans area. Messages posted on this list will include upcoming events such as service/leadership opportunities, special campus events, and community events. Although this listserv is primarily for the Tulane community and our community partner agencies, all are welcome here.
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MLK Service Award 
The Martin Luther King Jr. Service Award application is due October 15th to Avery Brewton. The award is given to students dedicated to community service and who's character embodies the greatest aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For more information about the scholarship, click here.
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Join IWES and Sankofa Market for health and fitness events that benefit the whole family on October 19th! Come walk, run, or jog at the FREE Community Fun Run/Walk in the morning. Then join us for the Food and Fitness Fair where you can line dance, be consulted by a physician, participate in a healthy cooking demo, enter a smoothie contest, and MORE! For more information, please click the links!
Hours of Events:
Community Fun Run/Walk:
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Food and Fitness Fair
9:30 am - 2:00 pm
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Get involved and help out with the
Freret Halloween Festival on Tuesday, October 29th from 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm. The Freret Neighborhood Center is looking for residents to volunteer to help at the event, to donate candy and costumes, and to attend! There is a collection bin to donate Halloween candy and costumes in the CPS office. Some volunteering opportunities are to help out in the costume clinic, as a face painter, as a food server, or as a line-leader. Volunteer orientation is on October 23rd from 6:30-8PM. If you'd like to volunteer contact the Freret Neighborhood Center here!
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Volunteer Opportunities
Boo at the Zoo a family oriented Halloween event that benefits Audubon
Zoo and Children's Hospital is looking for volunteers! There are serveral opportunities third and/or fourth week in October, contact Nancy Willis.
The Tubman Charter School in Algiers is looking for volunteers to paint classrooms, packup classrooms, and clear out "junk" as they make their move into a new building! If interested, please contact Pat Carrier
The Good Shepherd School, a nonprofit K-7 school is looking for volunteers tutoring 5th graders with low math scores and other mentoring activities that involve everything from dance, sports, language, and much more. Volunteer hours are from 2:30-5:30 Monday through Thursday. If interested, please contact Scott Osborn at 504-598-9399.
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps is looking for year long volunteer commitments from individuals who wish to devote their life to service through God. If interested contact Maria Ibarra-Frayre.
Neighborhood Partnership Network is looking for students to distribute surveys in the Lakeview, Ponchartrain Park, and Holy Cross neighborhoods. Students must provide their own transportation and will be paid for completion. Contact Remeka Jones.
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Workshops, Discussions, and Lectures
The opportunity to become a Peer Ambassador for CHATNola starts on October 23rd. Students will learn leadership skills over this six week training program. If interested, please contact CHATNola here.
A memorial for Herman Wallace, a man placed in solitary confinement in 1972,maintained his innocence, appealed his case, and won his freedom last week before passing away. The service will start at 9:00 am and will be held at the Treme Center (900 N. Villere St.)
The annual "Widow's Ball" at Unity nursing home is a festive fall event where the residents get to dress up in costumes, listen to great music, and dance! This year, a group of volunteers from "Project Grandpeople" will be heading to Unity to help with the event and celebrate the Halloween season with the residents. This year's ball will be held October 23rd from 2:00-4:30pm at Unity (539 Delachaise street.)
Registration for SOAR's Undoing Racism Workshop is now open. The event will take place November 15th - 17th. To register, click here.
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"
- Joel A. Barker
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Grants, Awards, & Scholarships
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Pitch Nola is having a competition in which the individual with the best project "pitch" to benefit the residents of New Orleans receives help to make it happen! If you'd like to learn more about the project, click here! The application deadline is October 17th.
The application for the Class of 2015 National Urban Fellows Academic and Leadership Development Fellowship is now available online. Applicants must have Bachelors degree and 5-7 years work experience. Upon completion of the Intent Form, contact Mwape Trunel
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Community Connections
The Festiva de Drumsticks will be taking place at Casa Borenga on October 15th The festival will have wonderful music, Caribbean and Latin food, and an auction. All proceeds from the event will go to funding two orphanages in Haiti as well as arts related classes for young people in New Orleans. For more information on the event, click here.
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