Service Learning Proposal

1. Ford Hanour, Conner Ascher, Allison Blanning, Nickie Shojaee, Maddie Culberson, Robbe Simon.
2. We are interested in helping the homeless and working poor have access to living essentials, specifically foods. We wish to work with an organization known as Share Ourselves, which provides underpriveledged citizens with medical care, childcare, supplemental food bags, and even legal help. We will be primarily focusing on providing food by helping with the bagging and distribution of donated foods to the clients of SOS.
3. We are affiliated with an organization known as Share Ourselves. "Founded in 1970 by a group of concerned individuals, primarily members of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Costa Mesa, Share Our Selves (SOS) has grown to become a model nonprofit organization providing the highest quality comprehensive safety net services to the homeless and low-income populations in Orange County." -www.shareourselves.org/about/
4. The needes that will be addressed are helping underprivleged citizens of Orange County have access to food, shelter, resources for jobs, and educational opportunities. Efforts to help the clients of SOS gain access to living essentials are vital because the state of the economy has rendered many people unable to access such goods.
5. There are a number of ways we can help SOS, specfically by doing office work and packaging food.
6. We hope to strengthen our connection to the organization.
7. Every Service Learning date, we will be assigned specific jobs such as working in the kitchen and doing secretarial work.
8. We will measure success by creating deeper connections between the Sage community and SOS.