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

We are planning to be active remotely for the Spring 2021 semester, but are not recruiting new members at this time.

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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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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 are recruiting as many new members as would like to join! Please reach out to thornbec@bowdoin.edu or ejacobs@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.
Note: We are not accepting new members for the Spring 2021 semester due to COVID-19 affecting the creation of new mentor-mentee relationships.

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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. Past community partners have included Harpswell Aging at Home (HAH) and Brunswick-Bath Respite Care.

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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 confidence levels—not to mention increase smile diameters. Plus, the longer a mentee-mentor relationship lasts, the larger the exponential gains 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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Volunteers receive training in tax preparation and financial resources and provide assistance to low and middle income people during tax season.

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Creating Compassionate Leadership in Maine Boys organizes Bowdoin men to mentor Bath Middle School boys, focusing on healthy masculinity, leadership, social and emotional competence, and community.

Note: CCLIMB will sadly not be operating for the spring 2021 semester, but we cannot wait to get back to in-person mentoring as soon as we can! If you have any questions about the group, please reach out to any of the members listed and we would be happy to chat!

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Works with College Guild to provide educational support for prisoners through the U.S. postal system and Long Creek Youth Development Center to provide in-person mentorship to incarcerated youth.

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Mentors students in 5th grade at Bowdoinham Community School. Will not be active during Spring 2021 semester.

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

-We do not plan to be active in spring 2021
-We plan to recruit new mentors
-Interested mentors can reach us via email: nnigro@bowdoin.edu, ztuna@bowdoin.edu, cnunley@bowdoin.edu
-The list of leaders is up to date

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**IMPORTANT NOTICE: At this time we are not accepting any new members for Spring 2021. Please contact us for more details. We hope to be back in action Fall 2021!

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Students provide information about and assistance on the college application process to juniors and seniors of Deering High School.

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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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What are the commitments?
We have weekly meetings, and we update our blog each week. We send out a monthly newsletter with a crossword. We will have occasional video conferences with partner schools, and will have one school visit each semester. We hope to set up a pen-pal system with our partner schools in which members will communicate with their mentees about once a week.

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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

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Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program Volunteers organizes students to work in Brunswick’s local food bank and soup kitchen. 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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Students work one-on-one as mentors to high school students.

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Students work one-on-one as mentors to middle school students.

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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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Students volunteer with seniors in respite care, or hospice patients while working alongside volunteers from CHANS Hospice, Mid Coast Hospital Spiritual Care, or Brunswick Area Respite Care.

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Students organize a weekly after school group for children who live at Perryman Village consisting of homework help and arts activities.

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Volunteers assist with English literacy and job preparation programs for adults living in the Portland area.

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Volunteers provide after-school tutoring for mainly immigrant and refugee children in grades 7-12 at the Portland Housing Authority education center.

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Volunteer as a tutor with Portland Community Squash's Rally Portland academic program. Volunteers are needed on a flexible daily basis Monday-Thursday.

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Students serve as teaching assistants and activity coordinators to teachers and students of the REAL School.

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Students organize and recruit volunteers for four 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 past visits, we've read King Arthur together, played ping pong, listened to music, and just hung out. Last year, we also participated in Sunnybrook's first ever Red Cross blood drive. Due to the pandemic, we are working with Sunnybrook to figure out what our remote involvement will look like during the Spring 2021 semester; we've discussed the possibility of connecting through Zoom calls, handwritten letters, and hopefully safely in person again in the future. We hope you'll join us!

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Volunteers help with general volunteer needs, particularly with youth at the family shelter, and organize special events.

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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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