COOP • Community Outreach
and Opportunity Project

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Community Partner Profiles

Students work with a wide range of non-profit agencies and community service programs. Our volunteers aide the following types of projects:

• after school tutoring and mentoring
• homeless shelters
• soup kitchens and food banks
• senior homes
• disabled assistance
• outdoor education
• job training
• college preparation
• low-income housing
• refugee resettlement
• animal shelters and therapy
• addiction recovery
• correctional facilities

our Volunteer Community

• 2 entire classes of Hamilton students (classes of 2012, 2013), or half of the student body, who have participated in the Hamilton Serves! project

• 5 one-day service events each year

• 9 Alternative Spring Break trips with 107 participants in 2009

• 24 weekly/monthly volunteer projects

• 40+ employee volunteers for Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Day

• 60+ student leaders

• 410+ student volunteers registered through HAVOC

• 900+ hours of work donated through the Outreach Adventure (OA) pre-orientation program in 2009

• 3300 hours of work donated for one-day service events in academic year 2008/2009

• 4280 hours of work donated by ASB participants in 2009

Local Impact

• 7 schools receiving volunteers

• 17 tutoring and mentoring programs supported

• 30+ local agencies and projects served

• 200+ low-income or at-risk individuals served by tutoring/mentoring programs

• 500+ gifts donated to those in need by students and staff during the holiday season

Local Need - Oneida County

• 11.3% of families living below the poverty level

• 15% of individuals living below poverty level

• 44,000+ people with disabilities