Service Sites
Thanks to all who attended Knights Give Back 2009!
Service sites for Knights Give Back 2010
Harvest Time International
Website: www.harvest-time.org
Project Description: Harvest Time is amissions-based organization that provides supplies to over 500 nonprofit organizations and ministries in the United States and throughout the world. Volunteers will be needed to sort out donations for international relief efforts.
Avian Reconditioning Center
Project Description: The Avian Reconditioning center is a non for profit birds of pretty rehabilitation and education facility. One of our main focuses is the physical reconditioning of raptors that have been inactive for an extended period of time while recovering from illness or injurty. Volunteers will be flight cages for the avian residents of the center.
Albin Polasek Museum
Website: www.polasek.org
Project Description: Founded in 1961, the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens holds an art collection focusing primarily on American representational sculpture, with over 200 works by Czech-born American sculptor Albin Polasek. The museum offers guided tours of the historic Polasek residence and chapel, an outdoor sculpture garden and a gift shop. Knights Give Back volunteers will be working at the outdoor garden and doing landscaping tasks to beautify the surroundings.
Keep Seminole Beautiful
Website: www.keepseminolebeautiful.org
Project Description: Keep Seminole Beautiful is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to engaging individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their local communities built & natural environments. Project for Knights Give Back volunteers will be announced shortly.
Quest's Camp Thunderbird
Project Description: Quest inspires and empowers Central Floridians with disabilities by offering choices and opportunities to learn, live, work and play. Volunteers will be needed for a variety of tasks including general maintenance, landscaping and cleaning.
Boys Town Central Florida [SITE FULL]
Website: www.boystowncentralflorida.org
Project Description: Boys Town serves children and families through locations ( http://www.boystown.org/locations )around the United States. A nonprofit, publicly-supported organization, they have impacted the lives of millions of people since 1917. Through compassion and a research-proven approach, Boys Town helps them find healing and hope. Volunteers will be conducting a field day with the youth at Boys Town.
City of Oviedo
Project Description: Formally incorporated as a City in 1925 with a population of 800, Oviedo has roots that date back to just after the Civil War in 1865 when homesteaders came to the area along the shores of Lake Jesup to begin new lives. Volunteers will be cleaning up a lake and re planting the area after hurricane damage. Be prepared to get wet!
UCF Arboretum
Website: www.arboretum.ucf.edu
Project Description: The UCF Arboretum provides UCF students, faculty, staff, and the greater community of Central Florida a comprehensive environmental and outdoor living laboratory for education, research, recreation, and human interaction with ecosystem functions. Volunteers will be working the organic garden as well as aiding in the preparations of their upcoming fundraiser.
A Gift for Teaching
Website: www.agiftforteaching.org
Project Description: Since 1998, A Giftfor Teaching(AGFT) has worked to improve public education by transferring our community's surplus materials and resources free to teachers for their students in need. Project for Knights Give Back volunteers will be announced shortly.
Mending Hearts Inc.
Project Description: Mending Hearts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing affordable housing to low income families and disabled individuals in Sanford and Holden Heights. Project for Knights Give Back volunteers will be announced shortly.
Project Description: The Society of St. Andrew is a grassroots, faith-based, hunger relief nonprofit organization working with all denominations to bridge the hunger gap between 96 billion pounds of food wasted every year in this country and the nearly 40 million Americans who live in poverty. We rely on support from donors, volunteers and farmers as we glean nutritious excess produce from farmers' fields and orchards after harvest and deliver it to people in need across the United States. Volunteers will be gleaning a local farm to help provide fresh produce to the hungry in Central Florida.
Habitat for Humanity for Southern Region Campus Students
Project Description: NOTICE this site will be meeting at the Cocoa Campus to carpool, no bus will be provided. Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing ministry. Habitat welcomes all people-regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or any other difference-to build simple, decent, affordable houses with those who lack adequate shelter. Volunteers will be working on a housing project with Habitat for Humanity.
