FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2008
News
"Sisters in Service" community plunge encourages volunteerism More than 200 Greek women at Otterbein College will volunteer approximately 400 hours of service at 15 Columbus-area community agencies as part of the "Sisters in Service" community plunge from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. on Saturday, February 16.
Some of the agencies the women will assist include Habitat for Humanity, Strategies Against Violence Everywhere, Holy Family Soup Kitchen, Columbus Literary Council, Hanby Arts Magnet School, and several churches and libraries.
The event will kick off at 9 a.m. with a keynote speech by Brianne Stewart Harman, communications director of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association in Columbus. The speech will take place in the Campus Center, 100 W. Home St., Westerville.
At recent Sisters in Service plunges, students volunteered to make crafts, send mailings and other necessary activities for community partners. Past organizations that collaborated with the Sisters in Service plunge include Choices, Children's Hunger Alliance, Keep Franklin County Beautiful, the Arthritis Foundation, and the Westerville Area Resource Ministries.
For more information and programming updates, visit the Center for Community Engagement Web site at www.otterbein.edu/cce. The Sisters in Service community plunge is funded in part by Learn and Serve America, administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, VISTA, and NCCC. The Corporation improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. For more information, visit www.nationalservice.gov.