Projects
The following projects are registered to participate in the 2010 Northland Semester of Service. Hosting a project? Register here.
| Organization | Project Title | Description | Lead Contact |
| Assumption School | Children Growing for the Community | Construct and care for organic garden | Liz Iammatteo |
| Bethany Crisis Shelter | Week of Giving | Window display to raise donations | Amy Moe |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Northland Superior Branch | Reading Across Generations | Write a theater piece and perform at a local senior center | Morgann Shanoff |
| Chester Bowl Park | Giving Back at the Bowl – The Chester Bowl ski cadet program | Involve students in grant writing for project of their choosing, then implement project | Michael Nordin |
| Churchill Elem Indian Ed | Project Pen Pal | Write letters between Fond Du Lac kids and another culture or tribe | Betsy Norman |
| Circles of Support | Peace Garden | Plant garden in the spring with Circles of Support children | Taeya Betts |
| Cloquet Middle School | Clothes Closet | Install and run clothes shelf for students | James Olson |
| Cloquet Youth Center | Cloquet Youth Center Bake Sale | Students make treats, sell them and donate the proceeds to charity of their choice | Trina Mankowski |
| Community Action Duluth’s Circles of Support Childcare | Painting Pucks for Pucks Against Poverty | Fundraiser for day to day expenses | Jodi Broadwell |
| Congdon Elem | Earth Day Awareness | Learn about recyclables, track environmental behavior, pizza party | Tara Hoban |
| Congdon Park Elem | Mitten Mania | School-wide competition to collect mittens for Kid’s Kloset of Duluth | Marci Douglas |
| Copeland Community and Valley Youth Centers | The Rainbow Connection | Youth connect with Rainbow Center | Nick Puchalski |
| Ded Poter and the FACTS Students | Birthday Party Boxes | Create pre-made birthday material boxes for shelter families/children | Chris Rubesch |
| Denfeld High School | The Power of Respect | Facilitate retreats for middle school students preparing to transition to high school. Encourage respect among students and staff. | Lana Peterson |
| Duluth Area YMCA | Community Cleanup | Community wide cleanup for Duluth Area families, organizations and community clubs around earth/arbor day (April) | Sarah Larson |
| Duluth Central H.S. | Gift Bags for CHUM | Learning about CHUM and their services and making and presenting gift bags to the center | Catherine Nachbar |
| Duluth YMCA | Kids Care for Camp | Various service projects for Camp Miller | Terra Hughes |
| Ely Community Resource | Green Team | Start up a Green Team of students who will implement environmental projects, the first being a recycling event | Adriane Morabito |
| Esko Community Education | Esko Go Green Garden Club | Students learn about gardening, present on topics, start gardening club | Chelsey Hemsworth= |
| Families in Transition Tutoring | Full Circle | Kids making books of hope (with pics and descriptions of things that give them hope at home) and selling books as fundraiser for Kid’s Closet | Ashley Hennes |
| Family Justice Center Children’s Program | Family Justice Center Youth Domestic Abuse Support Groups | Offer and facilitate support groups for youth victims of domestic abuse | Andrea Martin |
| Floodwood School | Age to Age Technology | Fundraise and purchase Wii for senior center | Holly Tardy |
| Grant Community School Collaborative/Lowell COMPASS | Got Worms? Bringing Environmental Commitment to the Community | Begin recycling and vermicomposting systems | Lacy Habdas |
| Grant Elementary School | Community Peacemakers | Recognize two community peacemakers at a school assembly where kiddos will be creatively involved= | Chris Rubesch |
| Grant Recreation Center | We Are All Supposed To Be Equal | Learn about gender equality, help with Winter Olympics | Andrew Larson |
| Hinckley Elementary | Tie Blankets for WINDOW | Make fleece blankets for shelter | Jessica Carlsen |
| Holy Rosary School | Random Acts of Service for Our Community | Perform acts of service in community as they are needed | Jackie Zimski |
| Homecroft Elementary School | Fun Family Fitness Fair | K and 5thlearn about fitness and nutrition, plan Family Fun Festival | Lana Peterson |
| Itasca County Family YMCA | Youth Unite | Kids become pen pals with Marines then create/send a care package | Melissa Applebee |
| Kinship of Aitkin County | Youth Teaching Youth | Leadership group teach ‘character counts’ group to build robot that will act out pillar of character | Amy Thompson |
| Laura MacArthur Elementary School | Past, Present, and Future of Laura MacArthur: In Pictures | Document old school building and new one being built across street | Monica Garrett |
| Laura MacArthur Elementary School | One for All and All for One: 3rd graders fighting child obesity | Monitor personal fitness, compare to national recommendations, set personal fitness goals, put on school health fair | Lana Peterson |
| Lester Park School’s Out | Student Centered Blankets for Charity | Make blankets for homeless, then work on other issue-related projects | April Makowski |
| Lincoln Park Boys and Girls Club | Love Your Earth Program | Learn about environmental issues, start recycling program, neighborhood cleanup, poster contest | Amanda Barras |
| Lincoln Piedmont School | Students Working Against Tobacco | Reflection on smoking, nurse as speaker, self portrait | Celina Nelson |
| Lowell Elementary | Penny Drive | Conduct penny drive and give to CHUM | David Bard |
| Marshall School | Youth Philanthropists | Child guest speaker, poverty focus, student driven | MaKenzie Jensen |
| Middle School Student Council | Food Drive | Host a dance for which the fee is canned goods, then go door to door to collect more donations | Courtney Blake |
| MN Reading Corps | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Kids Walk | Fundraise, then do the walk | Jerry Lotz |
| MN Reading Corps | Not titled | TBD | Jill Hillers |
| MN Reading Corps | Soles4Souls Shoe Drive | Collect shoes for donation | Lara Olsen |
| MN Reading Corps, Hinckley Finlayson School | Fostering the Forest | Clean up and maintain school forest | Lynn Vongroven |
| MN Reading Corps/East Central Elem | K-5 Elementary Food Drive | Learn about and conduct a food drive | Brent Henry |
| Neighborhood Youth Services | Science Club | Conduct experiments on water solubility, learn about pollution, visit local labs | Daniel Berryhill; |
| Nettleton Elem | Duluth Hillside Running Club | Self-monitoring of health, training for 5K run in spring, presentations | Lana Peterson |
| Nettleton Elementary Girl Scouts | Organic Hydroponics for Community Sustainability | Plan, construct, and maintain indoor organic hydroponic herb and vegetable garden | Jean Becker |
| North Shore Community School | School Community Waste Reduction | Involve students and staff in vermicomposting and education about school food waste | Molly Ciaccio |
| Norton Park Community Center | Norton Park Garden Regeneration Project | Plant seeds indoors and transplant to small garden/welcome sign in spring | Andrew Abramson |
| Reading Corps | Casting Cans | Collect cans and recycle for money. Develop a play in the meantime. Use can money to make cookies for nursing home residents, and present the play there. | Stacey Spry |
| Sarah Walker’s Head Start | Legacy of Service= | Create and donateart work on placemats for MLK day breakfast , create holiday and birthday cards for CHUM | Chris Rubesch |
| Sawtooth Mountain Elem | Wii for Seniors | Raise money through read-a-thon to buy Wii for senior center | Heather Kemp |
| SHARE class | Food Club Distribution Expansion | Establish Nonprofit food buying club in underserved Duluth area | Karen Arthur |
| Shawn Roed and Duluth East Sierra Club | Duluth East Sierra Campus Habitat Plan | Green campus efforts like bird/bat/butterfly/squirrel houses | Chris Rubesch |
| UMD | STEPS in the Right Direction: Student Teachers Engaged in Promoting Service Learning | Work with pre-service teachers at UMD to educate on quality service learning | Beth Olson |
| Unity High School | Unity Food Network | High school students partner with local chefs to learn about healthy eating and teach peers their skills | Lana Peterson |
| Valley Youth Center | Cause for the Paws | Raise money/supplies and volunteer for animal shelter | Amber Jacobson |
| Washington Elementary School/Indian Education Dept | Diabetes Among Native Americans | Educate kids about diabetes in Native Americans | Mary Pyawasit |
| Willow River After School Program | Giving with your Heart | Plan and implement a Valentine Dinner as a fundraiser | Deborah Dougherty |
| Woodland Community Center | Recycle Woodland | Art projects using recycled materials, implement recycling program | Kelly Lafferty |
| Woodland Hills Academy | Listening is an Act of Love: Untold Duluth Stories | Students will interview seniors and veterans in order to document their stories. Families will receive a copy. | Lana Peterson |
| Woodland Middle School | Freedom Songs | Choir sings at MLK Day breakfast | Chris Rubesch |
| YMCA Nettleton COMPASS | Warming the Hearts of Duluth | Make fleece blankets and scarves to donate | Hannah Pierre |
| YMCA’s School’s Out, Homecroft | Animal Shelter Helpers | Students help at shelter, visit, present to other students | Andrea Sweazy |
| YWCA Girl Power, Five Points | Empowering Women Within Our Community and Globally | Create products to sell at local businesses and organizations. Funds raised will be loaned to a woman in KIVA program | Katie Story |