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Community Service: StandUP SCC!

Teens meet with Shujaa Graham
Teens meet with Shujaa Graham
exonerated death row inmate and former Black Panther
Making bookmarks for foster children
Making bookmarks for foster children
Comfort Cases
Restocking the children’s showroom
Restocking the children’s showroom
A Wider Circle
Raising funds
Raising funds
Flint Child Health and Development Fund
Raising funds
Raising funds
Flint Child Health and Development Fund
Donating to Books 4 Kids
Donating to Books 4 Kids
Walter Reed Medical Center
Sorting essentials for foster children
Sorting essentials for foster children
Comfort Cases
Finishing backpacks for foster children
Finishing backpacks for foster children
Comfort Cases
Teens meet with Aline Magnoni
Teens meet with Aline Magnoni
Cultural Anthropologist and LGBTQI rights activist
Moving toys from showroom to warehouse
Moving toys from showroom to warehouse
A Wider Circle
Moving furnishings from warehouse to showroom
Moving furnishings from warehouse to showroom
A Wider Circle
Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline
Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline
Citibank
Working with residents in the Peace Garden and Community Room
Working with residents in the Peace Garden and Community Room
Sibley Plaza public housing

 

At SCC, “StandUP” community service activities are an integral part of co-op life.  Our StandUP Committee helps students and families find outreach opportunities that are right for them.  As a volunteer corps, we are poised to make real change and introduce our children to the rewards of social action. 

During the 2016-17 school year, we

  • Continued our monthly volunteer days at A Wider Circle, organizing donations in their warehouse and showroom

  • Raised funds for Star Gazing Farm Animal Sanctuary through the creation (sheep-to-shawl class) and sale (to co-op members) of hand-knitted bunnies

  • Raised funds for the Montgomery County Humane Society, by collecting shoes for Funds2Orgs

  • Raised funds for a homeschool robotics team-sponsored GoBabyGo Workshop, to retrofit toy ride-on cars for young children with significant mobility issues

  • Added signatures to the children’s butterfly parachute for the People's Climate March

  • Protested Citibank funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline

  • Packed Comfort Cases for foster children, contributing needed items and handmade bookmarks

Additional drives provided

  • The Essentials to those in need via A Wider Circle

  • Winter wear for Langley Park fire survivors and newly arrived immigrants

  • Holiday gifts for the children of teenage parents attending college, via Generation Hope’s “Adopt a Scholar for the Holidays” program

  • Music, used music players and computers to the Springvale Terrace Retirement Community

  • Supplies to animals in need through the Humane Rescue Alliance

During the 2015-16 school year, we

  • Raised funds for the Flint Child Health and Development Fund through an information / bake sale table at the Takoma Park farmer’s market

  • Organized donations at A Wider Circle’s warehouse and showroom

  • Worked with residents in the Peace Garden and Community Room at Sibley Plaza public housing

  • Made over 100 holiday cards for residents of the Armed Forces Retirement home

  • Offered gardening and other support to Tifereth Israel, where we rent space for our classes 

Further drives provided

  • Winter wear to those in need via the Takoma Park Police Department and A Wider Circle

  • Halloween candy to troops via Operation Gratitude

  • Non-perishable Thanksgiving food items to those in need via A Wider Circle

  • Holiday gifts to children via the Foster & Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center

  • Toys, games and books, mother/baby and personal care and household items to those in need via A Wider Circle's "mini North Pole"

  • Books to children through Books 4 Kids at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

  • Books to inmates at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup

  • Diapers to babies via the DC Diaper Bank

  • Bras to the braless via homeless shelters in Montgomery County and DC

In 2015-16, SCC teens also enjoyed a StandUP lecture series with calls to action, including

  • Shujaa Graham - exonerated death row inmate, exoneration advocate and former Black Panther

  • Aline Magnoni - Cultural Anthropologist and LGBTQI rights activist

  • Quinn Miller of HousingUP! - following his talk on homelessness in DC, teens volunteered with after-school tutoring, hosting a Play Day at a traditional housing facility, and working at HousingUP summer camp

  • Andrew Kutt - Founder and Director of Oneness Family School, on mindfulness and social responsibility