Class of 2002-2003

Breakfast Buddies

Recognizing the Problem: 

• Drugs and lack of educational focus or opportunities seem to play a role in crime, poverty, and other long-term concerns

Action Plan: Breakfast Buddies Program

• Goal is to give adults and children time to develop relationships
  • Identify students
  • School cafeteria agrees to prepare food
  • Strive for weekly meetings throughout the school year
  • 20 mentors and students target for initial program
  • 30 week test run for program
  • Review and reassess program results
  • Assess additional marketing and expansion potential – go to implement County Wide program
• Identify a group to organize administration of the program
  • Spoke with Ministerial Association
  • 37 letters written to Greenfield Churches
• • Would work with pilot run through May 2003
    Community wide committee was headed by group from Trinity Park United Methodist Church 

Group Members:

• Paul C. Enyart – Friends Church
• Mary Legan – Hancock Hope House
• Debbie Shipp – Greenfield Banking Company
• Leslee Wheatley – Alliance for Community Education
• Christopher York – Bingham McHale, LLP

Volunteer Hancock County

Labeling of Issue: 

• No central avenue for connecting volunteers with organizations
• No central avenue for connecting organizations with volunteers
• No central avenue for “advertising” volunteer opportunities
• Overall low volunteerisn in Hancock County

Solution: www.volunteerhancockcounty.org created

• Creates a central avenue for organizations to post their volunteer opportunities
• Creates a central avenue for volunteers to connect with organizations in need
• Cost effective for both organizations and volunteers
• Saves time for organizations and volunteers

   

Group Members:

• Amber Baker
• Brandee Bastin
• David Beal
• Janice Cassell
• Jodi Gilman
• Paula Jarrett
• Stephanie Jones
• Carolyn Muegge
• David Muegge
• Don Pearson
• Jim Roberts