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Act! Speak! Build! Week
0Want to learn more about poverty and hunger around the world? Maybe you’re already aware and just want to see what you can do to help in your own community?
Well join COAR for our Act! Speak! Build! Week, an entire week dedicated to bringing awareness and action to Mary Wash’s campus about poverty and hunger. If any of these events interest you, please email coarumw@gmail.com or send us a message for more details or to sign up.
Here’s our events:
… Wed, April 10th:
Come serve a Micah dinner at a local church! (Two shifts: 3:45-5, 5-6:30)
Join IV and COAR at the Hunger Banquet at 6-7 in the Great Hall
Thursday, April 11th:
Habitat for Humanity Picnic Table Build in front of Lee from 1-4 pm
Sign up as a team or an individual!
THE WEEKEND- AWARENESS WALK- see how we transform campus walk into a walk of facts about poverty and hunger around the world
Monday, April 15th-
Stop by and make a snack pack for needy kids in the local area from 11-2 in front of Lee Hall
Monday night- come see “A Place at the Table” in Lee 411 at 7:30PM
Tuesday, April 16th-
A Day without Shoes- Join us for your favorite Toms day by stopping by the front of Lee between 12 and 5so that you can learn more about children’s poverty around the world!
Then join the Dance Walk Crew to show our Mary Wash spirit, as
we dance walk barefoot down Awareness walk at noon!
Volunteer at the local Food Bank- pick up at the bell tower at 3:20 and volunteer until 5. Please sign up!
Spring Forward Festival STILL ON!
0Hello,
Despite the weather, Spring Forward Festival is still on. This event is so fun we couldn’t let a little weather stop us! However, the location has been moved to Woodard Campus Center–Great Hall. This is the same location as Pumpkin Palooza. Parking is in the Visitor’s Parking Deck. Please call us at 540-654-1802 for any questions.
See you today starting at 1!
Spring Forward Festival
0Hello All!!!
What a great success our Variety Show was this past weekend–thank you to all that came out to support us and a big thank you to our performers. You were great!! We were able to raise a sufficient amount for our Alternative Spring Break program and for Habitat for Humanity.
On to our next event..
Spring Forward Festival! This Sunday, March 24th, 1-4 PM will be our Spring Forward Festival. We are looking forward to our second to last big event this semester and hope everyone from the community can come! This event is open to all of the community and is geared towards children. There is a large egg hunt (one for older kids and one for younger children.) There is food, crafts, and games. And the best part: it’s free! We are crossing our fingers for great sunny weather this Sunday.
So, come on out this Sunday at Brompton–the President’s residence–for some spring fun and even see our bunny! If you have any questions about it, feel free to call us at (540) 654-1802.
Our last event of the semester will be Act! Speak! Build! Week! More information on that will be here shortly. See you all Sunday!
Update
0Hello Volunteers!
To let everyone know, all of our programs have officially started for this semester and if you want to volunteer with any of these programs just go to the programs link at the top of the page and email the coordinator!
Our next big event will be the Variety Show on March 16th at 7:30 in the Great Hall! This is to raise awareness and funds for the Alternative Spring Break Program. Admittance is free but you can buy raffle tickets for a dollar and win prizes, such as movie baskets, restaurant gift cards, home improvement things, etc. It will star some of UMW’s own performers, such as Bella Acapella, One Note Stand, UMW Dance Team, Alter Egos, etc.
Well look forward to seeing everyone there! 
COAR Staff
Welcome Back UMW Students!!!
0We hope all of you have had a great Winter Break and are as excited as us to begin the 2013 Spring Semester! As you all know, COAR has three big events during the Spring Semester. They are:
- Variety Show in March
- Spring Forward Festival in March
- Act! Speak! Build! Week in April
We hope all of you will be able to participate and we will have more information shortly. Also, please come out to Club Carnival on Wednesday, January 16th from 4-6 on Ball Circle!
Look forward to seeing all of you this coming semester,
COAR Staff
Head Start Wrapping Party!
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Getting in the holiday spirit as December quickly approaches? Love to wrap presents? Every year, COAR sends over 700 shoe boxes of toys and clothes to at-risk children at the Head Start preschools. But each box needs to be wrapped to be exciting and pretty for the kids when they open the box to find all the presents! Join COAR in the Dome Room of Seacobeck on Friday, November 16 from 5-8 for wrapping boxes, cookies, hot chocolate and good holiday cheer! If you would like to wrap and fill your own box email coarumw@gmail.com or stop by our office under Seaco to sign a box! We look forward to seeing you there!
Pumpkin Palooza
1Do you love working with kids?
Come out to one of COAR’s annual events Pumpkin Palooza this Sunday, October 28, from 1-4pm in the Great Hall! You can help out by being a trick-or-treat guide and leading the children around campus to the different residence halls or doing crafts and games with the kids in the Great Hall. Get in the Halloween spirit, come out and see all the neighborhood kids dressed up in their little costumes!!! Hope to see you there!
Any questions just email coarumw@gmail.com! We look forward to hear from all of you!
Into The Streets
0Are you interested in spending one Saturday helping out the community? Come to the COAR’s annual Into The Streets event on September 29, 2012 from 10:00 am-noon! You can volunteer to help with one of four projects:
Alzheimer’s Walk
Help out with the Alzheimer’s walk by handing out water and cheering on the walkers, distributing pinwheels and setting up the Memory Garden or signing in walkers!
Habitat for Humanity
Help out Habitat for Humanity by building picnic tables with your peers that will be donated to families in need!
Micah
Help out Micah, a local homeless shelter, by going to the shelter to organize materials to get them ready for the cold weather!
Friends of the Rappahannock
Help the Friends of the Rappahannock by going to our local Rappahannock River to clean up and keep the Rappahannock beautiful!
These all count as volunteer hours and all transportation will be provided by COAR. If you would like to volunteer or get more information just email COAR at coarumw@gmail.com. We hope to see you there!! J
-COAR Staff
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can” –Arthur Ashe
Welcome Back!!
0Hello and welcome back!
Community Outreach and Resources is really looking forward to this semester and we hope you are too. We have excellent events this semester we are excited to share with you!
We will be starting off this semester with our first interest meeting of the semester on Tuesday, September 4 at 5pm in Lee Hall 411. Please come out and show your support for COAR.
Please be on the lookout for information about Into The Streets which will be on Saturday, September 29. This event will consist of tree planting, the Alzheimer’s Walk, and a picnic table build with Habitat for Humanity!
Also this semester we will be doing Pumpkin Palooza, which should be sometime in October, more info to come, and also the Head Start Gift Box Drive which will be in November and December, also with more info to come.
Spring Forward Festival
0Our Spring Forward Festival was a GREAT SUCCESS!
Thank you to all our volunteers who came out to help with craft tables, games, and take down. We couldn’t have done this without any of you!
If you came, we hope you had a fantastic time! Spring Forward Festival is one of our most favorite and best events of the year and we hope next year is as great as this year’s!
Here is one of our favorite pictures of the day! When the big kids were allowed to start hunting for eggs…
