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A program for children with physical and mental disabilities. Meets every Saturday for afternoon activities.

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Meets with local children every other Sunday on campus to engage in a variety of activities and build trusting relationships.

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Bowdoin Best Buddies seeks to foster friendships between peers with and without intellectual/developmental disabilities

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Volunteers work one-on-one as tutors and mentors with ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) students in the Brunswick School District K-12. We recruit as many new members as would like to join! Please reach out to jmolina@bowdoin.edu if you have any questions or are interested in joining.

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Students work one-on-one as mentors to Bowdoin Central Elementary School students.

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Bowdoin College Dance Marathon is a student-led fundraising organization supporting the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital--the only children's hospital in Maine! Join us in supporting this incredible hospital and all they do to help sick kids and their families!

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All year long, we will hold events to fundraise and engage with the families at the hospital.
These events will be a fun way to connect with different students and groups at Bowdoin! All our efforts will culminate sometime next semester in a multi-hour "marathon" of activities and dancing.

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Mentors provide free, virtual private lessons to young musicians in 2nd-12th grade. Mentors may teach flute, piano, strings, jazz, composition, etc. We are active this semester and will be accepting new mentors. Students should fill out an application at throughthestaff.org and write "Bowdoin Music Mentors" in the video submission section.

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The Bowdoin Emergency Medicine Club seeks to unite students around their interest in EMS and serve not only the Bowdoin community but the larger Brunswick and Maine communities as well. Our goal is to provide a platform for education and an opportunity for licensed students to use their skills and gain experience.

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The Bowdoin Public Health Club (BPHC) works to connect students with local public-health oriented community partner organizations for individual or group volunteering opportunities. Current community partners include Harpswell Aging at Home (HAH), MCHPP, SNAP Brunswick, Adaptive Outdoor Education, and Portland Free Clinic Community(PFCC).

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Bowdoin Rotaract Club aims to provide a diverse range of volunteering opportunities that are accessible to all Bowdoin students. To do so, BRC will foster positive relationships with community partners, raise awareness of local and global needs, and prioritize contributing towards sustainable solutions.

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no need to be a member to participate, but need to be an active member to vote and run for officer

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Bowdoin Votes is the McKeen Center's nonpartisan initiative to build a politically robust campus culture where every student develops the skills to participate fully in our democracy.

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Bowdoin Women in Science aims to encourage women to enter scientific fields and has the greater purpose to further the equality of women working in science. This club will give women the opportunity to explore different careers and fields in science as well as highlight the importance of women in male-dominated spaces. This club is also founded with the intent to provide a safe and supportive safe to discuss the challenges and hurdles of being a woman in a scientific field.
Membership is open to everyone regardless of gender identity.

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Brunswick High School (BHS) Mentoring is a one-on-one, social-based mentoring program that provides additional support, bonding, and friendship for local high school students who seek that extra connection beyond their schoolmates, teachers, or even family members. Such relationships have been shown to improve academic performance, socialization skills, and┬áconfidence levels—not to mention increase smile diameters. Plus, the longer a mentee-mentor relationship lasts, the larger the exponential┬ágains over time!

Partnerships have the freedom to meet flexibly during the week and to do a range of mutually agreed-upon activities, be that walking outside, playing sports, crafting art projects, learning a new hobby, playing board games, listening to music, tutoring for homework, speaking a foreign language, practicing musical instruments, dancing the night (or day) away, sharing in thoughtful conversations, teaching a topic about which you are passionate or knowledgeable, or simply just taking a break to relax! The choice is yours, but the enjoyment is for all.

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We run tech help sessions for the library! :D

A few times a semester, we hold open office hours in the library and help anyone who comes in with basic tasks and troubleshooting on their device. Our volunteer group increases digital literacy and connects Bowdoin students to community members. It also saves the library staff time and work!

No coding or CS knowledge is necessary. Come for a session to help out, hone your communication and teaching skills, or just to say hi to someone from Brunswick.

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Friends Fostering Leadership in Youth is a student organization that began in 2012 that organizes Bowdoin mentors who are gender non-confirming or identify as women to mentor Bath Middle Schoolers who are gender non-confirming or identify as women to foster leadership, confidence, and community.

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Have the opportunity to connect with Maine students and understand what it's like growing up in Bath. As young adults, we all have lessons we've learned with time and the different environments we've been exposed to. Come share those and apply them as fit to the students in your mentor role.

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Working with the nonprofit Girls Who Code, we teach the fundamentals of programming to girls at Brunswick High School (and hopefully other highschools in the area) to support and increase the number of women in computer science.

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Bowdoin volunteers working "to inform and inspire early aspirations, to empower the youth of rural Maine to build a brighter future for themselves and for their communities".

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We have weekly meetings to discuss various independent and group projects.

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Website: collegeanswers.weebly.com. We answer kids' questions about college
Newsletter: monthly page of college news/information sent out to schools
Videos: college promotional and fun videos to show what college life is like
Video-conferences: connect directly with rural educators and students
Visits: drive to a rural partner school to engage in a project with kids
Campus events (panels, discussions, etc.): bring light to issues of rural education at Bowdoin
College Knowledge Bowl: a yearly trivia tournament for students from our partner schools held on Bowdoin's campus
Future of Maine Scholarships: We read scholarship submitted by 3rd-5th graders focused on their aspirations for college.

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Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program Volunteers organizes students to work in Brunswick's local food bank, soup kitchen, and other programs offered through MCHPP. We also hope to have thought-provoking conversations on and bring awareness to food justice issues in Mid-Coast Maine and beyond.

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Multilingual Mainers is a learning partnership between Bowdoin College undergraduates and PreK-2 students and families in Brunswick, Maine. Through daily lunches and classroom visits, the program is designed to ignite a passion and enthusiasm for a lifetime of language learning. The curriculum promotes critical-thinking skills and provides age-appropriate tools to combat xenophobia, racism and intolerance. Visit our website to learn more: https://research.bowdoin.edu/multilingual-mainers/

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Partners with Brunswick High School guidance staff and the Chewonki Waypoint Program to support high school students navigating the process of postsecondary planning. We host students on campus two times a semester, including giving a campus tour and eating a meal in the dining halls.

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Oasis Free Clinics is a non-profit free clinic in Brunswick that serves low-income and uninsured individuals. Students support both non-clinical and clinical needs of the clinic.

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To provide Bowdoin College students the opportunity to support PWH’s mission to facilitate the collection and distribution of high quality medical supplies and equipment for the benefit of individuals and communities in need, both locally and internationally, within their communities.

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Students organize and recruit volunteers for a minimum of two campus-wide blood drives per year.

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Volunteers spend time with the residents of the Sunnybrook Village retirement and assisted-living community. In the past, we have played card games, listened to music, or just hung out. Our volunteers aim to create a warm and lively environment at Sunnybrook by socializing with residents.

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On a weekly basis, Tedford Housing volunteers play with children living in the family shelter of Tedford Housing. We hope to inspire creativity, build self-confidence, and generate relationships with the children through intentional arts and crafts activities and games.

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Members work with the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project in Portland, Bath, Wiscasset and Lewiston to provide legal options to people below the poverty line.
Note: Active, but currently not accepting new volunteers for the Spring 2021 semester. Volunteer capacity will be reevaluated at the beginning of the Fall 2021 semester.

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