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Community Partners for Service LearningService Learning Faculty: If you need assistance finding service learning placements for your students, please contact Cynthia Kaufman at kaufmancynthia@deanza.edu To find out how to make your course into a service learning course, see Faculty Resources. Service Learning Community Partners for 2013
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Mentors for Youth Empowerment |
Mentor high school student through community engagement projects and preparation for higher education |
web: http://deanza.edu/communityengagement/
Vince Mendoza, Outreach Coordinator vincemendoza86@gmail.com
Kevin Nguyen, Assistant Coordinator chukkalos@gmail.com
Claudia Barajas, Assistant Coordinator cbarajas56@yahoo.com |
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Transition |
Transition is a student group that advocates for better transportation options to De Anza College, including Bus Rapid Transit; a faster, frequent, and reliable form of public transportation. Our goal is to provide viable alternatives to the automobile so more students can get an education without wasting time on slow bus service or stuck in traffic. |
Chris Lepe - CLepe@TransFormCA.org (408) 406-807448 South 7th St. Suite #103 San Jose, CA 95113 www.transformca.org
Mounia O'Neal (De Anza) mouniaoneal@gmail.com |
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Latino/a Empowerment at De Anza (LEAD) |
¡LEAD! started in 2005, and aims to help students find a connection to our college and their communities and understand how powerful they can be as agents for positive social change. |
Dr. Marc Coronado coranadomarc@fhda.edu
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Higher Education for AB540 Students at De Anza College(HEFAS) |
HEFAS is an institutional and educational program that will provide resources, reduce financial stress, and create a safe learning environment for all students with an emphasis/including on undocumented/AB540. We are dedicated to empower students, build leadership skills, promote social justice, and advocate for higher education. |
Shaila Ramos 408-564-2752
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Integral Movement for AB540 Student Success(I.M.A.S.S.) |
Our purpose is to promote understanding of the circumstances and rights of all AB540 students in a respectful and safe environment. Our weekly meetings will be a forum for sharing our life experiences, resources, and information as it pertains to current immigration issues. |
Shaila Ramos 408-564-2752 DeAnzaAB540@yahoo.com |
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California History Center Silicon Valley Documentation Project - oral histories |
The California History Center and Foundation present exhibits, offer classes with De Anza College, publish books and a periodical, and operate a library and archives. Special events including lectures, panel discussions and workshops are also featured |
Tom Izuizutom@deanza.edu Website:download here |
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Asian Pacific American Students for Leadership(APASL) |
Our goal is to promote Asian Pacific American student empowerment and leadership through community awareness and involvement. |
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/apasldeanza Flier:download here |
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Women Empowered |
Women Empowered is a club designed to provide support for one another. One of the most important ways we do this is to raise awareness about women’s issues, and to celebrate women and their accomplishments. |
Women Empowered Email: DeAnzaWomenEmpowered@gmail.com
Help organize a women's conference in spring 2013! |
Off-Campus
| Community Partner | Mission Statement | Contact Information |
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| AVID at Sunnyvale Middle School |
AVID is an academic elective for college-driven students in the academic middle. AVID is designed to prepare students who are underrepresented at 4-year universities for rigorous college-prep courses. At Sunnyvale Middle School, we have 7th and 8th grade classes looking for college-age tutors to work with our AVID students on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays from 8:30-9:30am. No tutoring experience required |
Alexa Watrous alexa.watrous@sesd.org |
| Asian Law Alliance, Poll Monitoring Project |
ALA’s poll monitoring project was developed to assess county compliance with Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act, which requires jurisdictions to provide assistance to voters in a number of Asian languages, including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. Students are trained as observers, monitoring polling places on Election Day for the provision of both written and oral assistance in required Asian languages. |
Nick Kuwada, staff attorney
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| Alum Rock Counseling Center |
Mission: To foster healthy communities by increasing family cohesiveness, school success and personal development through counseling, mentoring, and life skills education amoung high-risk youth in Santa Clara County. ARCC has 12 programs serving 3,000 families in Santa Clara County. One of those programs is the Ocala Mentoring Program, working with students who attend Ocala Middle School (2800 Ocala Ave). Mentors provide their middle school aged mentees (11-14 yrs.) with a postive role model who supports them by being a great listener, showing their mentee's new & fun activities and being their advocate through this transitional phase. Mentors & mentees do a wide range of activites together ranging from museum visits to hiking outdoors. Mentoring is a year-long commitment of spending at least six hours a month with their mentee. |
Contact Person: Courtney Groszhans, Volunteer Coordinator Phone: 408-910-0446 or 408-294-0500 ext. 193 |
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CHAC/ FIRST 5 Santa Clara County |
Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by helping them make the most out of the first five years of a child’s life. We offer a variety of services such as parenting classes, family events, arts enrichment events, family field trips, and Medi-Cal application assistance, in addition to our 4 family resource centers in Santa Clara County. |
Nancy Doan, Volunteer Coordinator 650-967-4813
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Filipino Youth Coalition |
To build a stronger, healthier community with youth-based programs through an asset-building and culture-competency. |
Mark Serrano 408-391-1688 |
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Kinship, Adoptive and Foster Parent Association of Santa Clara County |
Working together to provide resources and advocate for the needs of kinship, adoptive and foster families in Santa Clara County. |
Adriana Garcia 408-975-5309
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Remit for Change |
This is a project of Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action. Students will help the director set up a pilot program to help people who send money to their home countries(remit) get a better deal when they remit than the main wire services offer and to help those making remissions become powerful global citizens in the process of making remittances. |
Lisa Castellanos 510-338-4923 lcastellanos@transnationalaction.org
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Sunnyvale Community Services |
Founded in 1970, Sunnyvale Community Services is an independent, nonprofit emergency assistance agency. Our mission is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income families and seniors facing temporary crises. We provide financial aid, food, and other support that prevents larger problems with more expensive solutions. |
My-Dung Tran mtran@svcommunityservices.org |
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(MAIZ) Movimiento de Accion Inspirando Servicio |
To develop leaders and use cultural advocacy in order to increase political participation in the San Jose Mexican community specifically among Women, Youth, LGBTQQI. |
Yolanda Aguirre 408-250-9245
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(YUCA) Youth United for Community Action
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Youth United for Community Action, a grassroots community-organization created, led, and run by young people of color, majority from low-income communities, provides a safe space for young people to empower ourselves and work on environmental and social justice issues to establish positive systemic change through grassroots community organizing. |
Charisse Domingo 650-322-9165
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Bring Me A Book Foundation |
To provide easy access to the best children's books and inspire reading aloud to children.
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Carmina d. Littlefield |
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Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County |
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County serves and advocates for families and individuals in need, especially those living in poverty. Rooted in gospel values, we work to create a more just and compassionate community in which people of all cultures and beliefs can participate. |
Juniel Butler jbutler@catholiccharitiesscc.org volunteer@catholiccharitiesscc.org
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CET-Immigration and Citizenship Program Internships |
The Center for Employment Training’s Immigration and Citizenship Program (ICP) serves immigrant, minority, and low-income residents in Santa Clara County and beyond. With more than 20 years of experience, ICP offers immigration, citizenship, immigration legal assistance, and ESL services to individuals and families. |
For more information about volunteer opportunities please visit their website
Sandra K. Guzman, Volunteer Coordinator
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Silicon Valley De-Bug |
Silicon Valley De-Bug is a collective of writers, artists, organizers, and workers based in San Jose, California. We are a project of Pacific News Service, a national news service located in San Francisco. Our current projects are: Conducting Surveys for the new incoming police chief of San Jose and supporting families who have loved ones experiencing the criminal justice system. |
Raj Jayadev 408-453-2517
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Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay, Inc. |
JA Worldwide is a partnership between the business community, educators and volunteers — all working together to inspire young people to dream big and reach their potential. JA’s hands-on, experiential programs teach the key concepts of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to young people all over the world. |
Jennifer Mendoza 408.988.9815 x 2 jmendoza837@siliconvalley.ja.org
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MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana |
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and community transformation. |
Pali Nijjar 408-938-3594
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Our City Forest |
The mission of Our City Forest is to cultivate a greener, healthier urban environment and a renewed sense of community by involving Silicon Valley residents in the understanding, planting and care of the urban forest. |
Monica Nanez (408) 998-7337
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Reading Partners |
Help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results. |
Salleha Chaudhry 510-444-9800
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Sacred Heart Community Service |
Our mission is to change lives and impact poverty by providing essential services, offering tools for self-sufficiency, and ministering with dignity, compassion and respect. We engage the community and inspire volunteers to love, serve and share. |
Terri West 408-278-2189 volunteer@SacredHeart CommunityService.org |
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Teatro Vision |
Teatro Visión is a Chicano theater company that celebrates culture, nurtures community and inspires vision. Our art will move people to feel, think and act to create a better world. |
Carlos Velazquez
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TOUCCH (Tutor Outreach Uniting Communities for Change) |
A grassroots organization that was created by De Anza students. The mission of TOUCCh is to provide supplementary educational services to adults and children in the migrant farmworker community in Watsonville, and to help educate our community about the struggles migrant farmworkers face. |
Scott Hallgren (408) 799-1267
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Unite Here Local 19 |
Organizing the unorganized in our industries is the top priority for UNITE HERE. Over 50% of the new Union national budget will go toward organizing. Current major organizing campaigns are underway at Cintas, Hilton, H&M, and the gaming industry. In the past five years, the two unions have organized more than 100,000 new members. |
Elvis Mendez (408) 321-9019
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West Valley Community Services |
Encourage the sharing of community resources, to provide basic human needs in a caring and dignified environment, and to provide opportunities for volunteers to participate in West Valley Community Services' activities |
Paul Stanfield 408-255-8033
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Cupertino Union School District Middle School - College Students in the Middle School Classroom |
This placement gives you the opportunity to connect with seventh grade math students at a local middle school. You will work exclusively with one math class for one hour per school day and will be involved in a variety of classroom tasks, depending on your level of readiness and interest. |
Krystal Carter at 408-245-0303 x231 carter_krystal@cusdk8.org
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Team Up for Youth
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Is a nonprofit that uses sport as a tool for youth development in low income communities. We partner with a variety of after-school programs ranging from Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCAs to more sport specific nonprofits like First Tee (golf) and MASCA (soccer.) At TUFY we believe that sport is an effective and fun medium for youth to learn the life skills that are needed to succeed in life. |
Kristin Karcsh 650-646-6133
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| Full Circle Farm |
Full Circle Farm represents a shift toward food systems that are local, fresh, and sustainable.Through our stewardship of this land, we honor our rich agricultural past while demonstrating how powerfully abundant our agricultural future can and should be. A place of both beauty and purpose, Full Circle Farm serves a pivotal role in our community’s movement toward a food system that nourishes our bodies, the land, and the generations yet to come. |
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| Veggielution |
Veggielution empowers youth and adults from diverse backgrounds to create a sustainable food system in San Jose. Our urban farm engages the community by providing access to healthy and local food, crating youth leadership opportunities, and developing creative solutions to social and environmental justice issues. |
Mark Anthony Medeiros 408- 634-3276 info@veggielution.org
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| San Jose Peace and Justice Center |
The San Jose Peace Center was founded in 1957 by individuals profoundly concerned about peace and justice issues, especially the growth of nuclear arsenals and atmospheric nuclear testing. More than fifty years later, the Peace and Justice Center, along with our affiliated organizations, continues to educate and engage the South Bay community around critical issues of peace and justice, with a current focus on ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
Contact person: Shelby Minister
48 S. 7th Street, Suite 101
San Jose, CA 95112
They are currently working on developing a study guide on the Global Food Crisis and labeling genetically modified food. |
| Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center |
Our mission is to provide a broad array of opportunities and programs, a dedicated and caring staff, a corps of volunteers, and a spirit of community that celebrates the many facets of our broad-based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender constituency. |
Contact: Marcos Madeiros volunteer@defrank.org 938 The Alameda San Jose, CA 95126
Fill out a volunteer application online, e-mail Marcos, or visit the center to see about service opportunities. A minimum of 24 hour commitment per quarter is required. |
| Californians for Justice |
Californians for Justice is a statewide grassroots organization working for racial justice by building the power of youth, communities of color, immigrants, low-income families, and LGBTQ communities. Led by students, we organize to advance educational justice and improve our social, economic, and political conditions. |
Contact: Rosa phone: (408) 272-0236 e-mail: rosa@caljustice.org web: www.caljustice.org |
Institute of Community and Civic Engagement
Building: East Cottage Contact: Cynthia Kaufman
Phone: 408.864.5559
