Austin AmeriCorps

AAA Week Schedule

2010-04-27T13:44:00.000-07:00

Here's the official schedule for AAA Week:

Austin AmeriCorps Week of Awareness & Day of Service Events

Sunday, May 9 Open to Community

o Booth at HOPE Farmer’s Market on the Eastside of Austin, 11am-3pm, 414 Waller Street, ATX 78702

o It’s all about going local – Speak to current and past AmeriCorps members and enjoy a cup of coffee and some conversation at this popular Eastside farmer’s market!

Monday, May 10 Open to the Community

· Austin AmeriCorps Alums Happy Hour @ Red’s Porch, 6p-8p, 3508 South Lamar Blvd., ATX 78704

o The Austin AmeriCorps Alums group will host this special night at Red’s Porch. Join us for an extended happy hour and to learn more about what we provide to the Austin community.

Tuesday, May 11 Open to Community

· Austin AmeriCorps Trivia Night @ Spider House, 7p-9p, 500 W. 29^th Street, ATX 78705

o Try your luck at trivia with some current and past AmeriCorps members! Come out and enjoy the Spider House and take a chance at winning some fantastic swag.

Wednesday, May 12 Open to Community (both events)

· Booth at Triangle Farmer’s Market, 4p-8p, 46^th and Lamar, ATX 78751

· Austin AmeriCorps Ultimate Frisbee Tournament @ “The Rock” at Zilker Park, 6p-9p (near the volleyball courts)

o Think you have what it takes to play ultimate Frisbee with some hardcore AmeriCorps members? Come on out and enjoy the game, some friendly competition and, of course, fabulous prizes.

Thursday, May 13 Members and Alumni Only

· Austin AmeriCorps Basketball Tournament @ South Austin Boys & Girls Club, 6p-8p

o Current and past AmeriCorps members hit the hoops with Boys & Girls Club members at their South Congress location.

· Happy Hour @ Freddie’s Place, 8:30p-10:30p, 1703 South First Street, ATX 78704

o Celebrate Austin AmeriCorps Awareness week and extended happy hour deals at Freddie’s.

Friday, May 14 Open to Community

· Open House (Learn more about VISTA and AmeriCorps) - CNCS (Corporation for National and Community Service) Staff, 11a-2pm, 300 E. 8th Street, Ste. G-169, [photo id is required to enter bldg.]

· Open House (Learn more about OneStar and AmeriCorps) - OneStar, 11a-2p, 816 Congress Avenue, Suite 900 ATX 78702

· AmeriCorps Awareness @ State Capitol, Congress Walk for Change! (including alumni and current members) – Alumni will advocate for a variety of policies directly related to public service, details forthcoming

Saturday, May 15 Open to Community, Alumni, and Members

· Day of Service, 11am Registration for Volunteers: 12pm-1:30pm Rally at State Capitol Lawn (open to all) & 1:30pm-4pm Service Projects in Greater Austin (open to all who RSVP for service)

o Join us for a brunch and speeches from local community leaders, State Capitol Lawn, 12-1:30pm – A Celebration of 45 Years of Service in Your Community!

o RSVP for a service project at a local homeless shelter, elementary school, public green space, or other sites, TBD. When you RSVP, you are committing to a 2 hour service project where you will work with current members and Alumni to better your community. RSVP to Charlotte Benbenek-Price, cebenbenek-price@ag.tamu.edu.

-Matt

The Push Begins!

2010-04-26T11:12:00.000-07:00

AAA week is in 2 weeks! It's time to start getting the word out. Here's some of the things the committee has started to do:

1. Public Service Announcements

We've sent these out to FOX, KUT, The Statesman, The Chronicle and others. It's always a gamble when trying to get well cir

culated news sources to get back to you and promote your cause, however FOX seemed excited and eager to cover AmeriCorps' MLK day event back in January. We have a couple of contacts and hopefully they will come through for us again this time.

2. Mass Postcard Distribution

These are being sent out the community to spread the word and get people excited about the upcoming events during the week.

3. Hanging fliers around town. This is what they look like.

4. Social Media

This blog. Follow it.

Facebook

Twitter

Join/Follow them too.

5. Word of mouth. There's never enough things you can do to promote an event. You can help out too by spreading the word to fellow AmeriCorps members, your friends and your community.

Next I will post some promotional photos that have been released. More soon.

-Matt

Hello.

2010-04-20T22:43:00.000-07:00

Hello, my name is Matt. I'm an AmeriCorps volunteer and I'm helping plan a huge event called Austin AmeriCorps Awareness Week. Let's go ahead and call it AAA ("triple A") Week. I was asked to join the AAA Committee a few weeks ago, and up until that point, my experience with AmeriCorps had been primarily service related. I saw this as a great opportunity to get a little more closely involved with the administrative side of things.

I've been assigned to keep the world of the internet up to date on the happenings of the forthcoming week. Here goes.

Let me bring you up to speed on what's been going on so far:

Who: The AAA Committee

The Committee consists of reps and AmeriCorps members from each program. It's been divided into subcommittees to tackle this event from all angles and aspects. Here's the berakdown:

Food & Donations

Saturday Day of Service

Week of Awareness

Marketing & Promotions

Each of these subcommittees have their own specific goals to complete, and it appears they are right on track.

As the week approaches, I will highlight what these groups are doing and how things are going!

For more information on AAA Week, visit www.utdanacenter.org/austinamericorps/

-Matt