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Global Youth Service Day

Hosted with support by Youth Service America, Sodexo Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative University, and GOOD, our team joined with the Rebuild Foundation: Hyde Park to get neighbors engaging through creative service and canvassing for creative youth entrepreneurship throughout the community.

What: Neighborday in Hyde Park Where: 1415 Mallinkrodt Ave, St. Louis, MO 63107 When: Saturday, April 27 (10:00am-6:00pm)

10:00am-6:00pm Volunteer Activities with Rebuild around Hyde Park

10:00pm-1:00pm Door-to-Door Neighbor Engagement

1:00pm-3:00pm Preparation for Family Dinner

3:00pm-6:00pm Family Fun + Music + Dinner

Results: Design Serves Neighborday and Global Youth Service Day

On April 27th, our team at Catalysts by Design kicked off the Design Serves (D*Serve) venture through service in affiliation with Global Youth Service Day and GOOD's Neighborday holidays. 

Partnering with the Rebuild Foundation in the Hyde Park community of St. Louis, MO, our team canvassed neighbors for a social gathering and conducted various service activities with Rebuild's developing art space.

The efforts of the day were supported by 36 volunteers, including neighbors of the Hyde Park community and volunteers of the following partner organizations and groups: Brown School of Social Work graduate students, Community Arts Initiative, International Leadership Training Program, Roper's Barbecue, InspireSTL, and Most Holy Trinity School youth. Our team was most grateful for the support of the International Leadership Training Program volunteers, who traveled from Indiana to serve with us and represented 8 international countries. Amongst the group, 7 youth aged 9-15 volunteered with service activities. 

Service projects on-site included:

Storage clearing: Volunteers cleared a basement of wood to create space for the storage of art and program supplies for the arts space.

Yard beautification: Volunteers composted wood, organized yard brick stacks, and removed discarded large-sized items from the yard.

Painting: Volunteers painted a chalk wall in the entry of the Rebuild art space as well as primed the walls of the building's social space and exhibition area.

Gardening: Volunteers cleared garden beds and planted various produce, including tomatoes, cilantro, and basil.

Canvassing: Youth volunteers canvassed door-to-door to recruit neighbors and invite them to the Neighborday barbecue social event that proceeded the service day. 

The Design Serves Neighborday event was executed successfully with the support of the following sponsors and partners:

Civic Creatives

Rebuild Foundation

Sodexo Foundation

Clinton Global Initiative University

Youth Service America

GOOD (Neighborday)

Brown School of Social Work-Student Coordinating Committee

Brown School of Social Work-Community Arts Initiative

The video recap of the 2013 Design Serves Global Youth Service Day project took place in Hyde Park community of St. Louis, MO. Featured footage in this video was filmed by one of the youth participants, Erica, and edited by the Civic Creatives team. The featured song was created as a collaboration by teens at the Institute for Contemporary Art Boston and sound artists, Beatrix Jar.

good:

#NeighbordayCountdown Day 3: A design service day in the Hyde Park community hosted by @designserves from Civic Creatives in St. Louis, MO. Send us your Neighborday invite to [email protected]! #goodstagram #neighborday #designserves

Press: STL Beacon

Sherraden moderates panel discussion on poverty alleviation at Clinton Global Initiative University