By: Jonathan Szydlo/BBC Managing Editor
Finding a worthwhile cause at a commuter school isn’t the easiest of tasks when the amount of time spent on campus is limited to the duration of a class period. To fill in this void, the Center for Leadership and Service is bringing together 30 different non profit organizations to assist students in connecting with their cause of choice.
The Fall 2011 Volunteer Fair will take place on Sept. 1 at the Wolfe University Center’s Panther Square from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to recruit students who are interested in contributing their time and efforts to providing assistance to those in need.
The fair will bring together 30 non-profit organizations from the community at large, and from within the university.
“This is a really good chance for students that don’t have the time to travel, domestically or internationally, to get information on involvement opportunities throughout the community and abroad,” said Tiffany Bromfield, graduate assistant for the Center for Leadership and Services and main organizer of the Volunteer Fair.
The fair will feature a variety of organizations including, but not limited to, medical research foundations such as Florida Breast Cancer Foundation, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center; youth organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami, Girl Scout council of Tropical Florida, Inc. and the Miami Children’s Museum; and organizations for the advancement of the arts such as the Adrienne Arsht Center and Art Studio Inc.
Non-profit organization recruiters will be fielding students’ questions and concerns while showcasing the different positions and responsibilities that students can fill within the respective organizations.
Bromfield sees this fair as a way of getting both students and volunteer organizations to come together in a centralized location to see how the two can best work with each other towards the causes that they feel passionate about.
“I would like students to walk away with the impression that there is so much more that can be done in the world. Everyone has two hands that can contribute to the greater good,” said Bromfield. “Students coming to this realization is the main purpose of the fair.”
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