Point Opportunities
This page will be updated whenever changes or new opportunities are made available.
Events are coordinated around central health issues such as AIDS/HIV, cancer, homelessness, and hunger targeting specifically populations of children and the elderly. AED is currently working on developing volunteer opportunities surrounding mental health so look forward to these events. If you may know of further areas and issue that AED can research for volunteer opportunities, please do not hesitate to contact the events coordinator, Tehmina Zarrin, of such requests at tzarrin@gmu.edu.
Dates of when the volunteer projects will occur are still in discussion with the organizations we will be partnering with, and once it has been finalized, these pages will be updated to reflect the changes.
Sign-up will occur during general body meetings and will be mostly restricted to a certain group size; therefore, it will be made available on a first come first serve basis. Some projects might need an interview and/or an application that the partner organization requires to be completed. Additionally, it is the student's responsibility to inform the events coordinator that he/she cannot make it 72 hours in advance of the event that he/she signed up for. Otherwise, in order to uphold the integrity of AED, points will be deducted for failure to show up.
October
October 2
- AIDS Walk: 4 points
- Volunteer or walk in Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
October 9
- Fall Fest
- SOME (So Others Might Eat) Dwelling Place Senior Center in partnership with Pennsylvania Ave Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. is holding a fall-themed festival to raise funds for the senior center.
- Volunteers will run booths and games such as sack race, 3 legged race, face painting, and water balloon fight.
- 1 point per hour
October 16
- Bingo @ Inova Commonwealth Care Center: 2 pts
- Volunteers are needed to
help set-up and run a bingo game for the elderly at the Inova Center
for approximately an hour and a half from 2:30 pm.
October 19
- Open Heart Surgery: 2 pts
- Inova Heart and Vascular Institute in Falls Church
- Surgery runs from 7:30 to 11:45 am.
October 27
- Halloween Party @ The Wright House in Washington, DC: 4 pts
- AED will hold a haunted house themed party for kids infected or affected by HIV/AIDS at the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Care's Wright House.
- Volunteers are needed to help plan, obtain party supplies, set-up and decorate, and attend the party which will run from 3-8:30 pm. Twenty students can sign up to attend the party, but if you wish to simply help out, then that would be greatly appreciated.
- Students have the opportunity to earn up to 4 AED points if they volunteer for at least four hours.
October 30
- Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk: 4 pts
November
November 11
- GMU Loves Haiti
- Volunteer to pack 100, 000 meals for Haitian orphans in SUB II Ballroom from 10 am to 6 pm, but whatever period of time you're able to contribute will be greatly appreciated.
November 16
- Open Heart Surgery: 2 pts
- Directions: Inova Heart and Vascular Institute in Falls Church
- Surgery runs from 7:30 to 11:45 am, but participants must arrive at 7:15 am.
- Reading packet
December
December 2
- Open Heart Surgery: 2 pts
- Inova Heart and Vascular Institute in Falls Church
- Surgery runs from 7:30 to 11:45 am.
- Reading packet
December 8
- Habitat for Humanity Team Builds: 4 pts
- "[The] mission is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness in the nation's capital by building affordable, energy- and resource-efficient homes for people in need."
- Work on home construction site in D.C. from 8:15 am to 4 pm
Upcoming TBA Events
December
- D.C. Candlelighters' Light Up the Holidays with Hope Gold Ribbon Tree
- "We believe no family should have to face the uncertain world of cancer alone, and therefore we provide emotional and educational support to families."
- Volunteers needed to help set-up/staff/take-down the tree in D.C.