March 2, 2010
The Red Knight Volunteer Corps’ second semester is in full swing! The students have built a great relationship with residents at Sholom nursing home in St. Louis Park with the volunteer coordinator calling them “experts”! We are also returning to two annual Special Olympics events, aquatics and basketball, this month. We have been helping the Sisters of St. Joseph to establish a new food shelf /clothing closet in Minneapolis and will be at the annual Empty Bowls event serving meals as well. As such, the established relationships are flourishing as new ones continue to spring up as well. Our meetings have been productive as well. We just completed our second annual St. Valentine’s Day card making for patients at Children’s Hospital of Minneapolis and will be hosting guests from Camp Friendship and the Minnesota Children’s Museum at our next two meetings as they seek summer volunteers.
Each applicant for this experience should understand that the following attitudes and expectations are essential to being a Red Knight Volunteer.
Student Expectations-a demonstrated interest in service work
-a willingness to develop leadership skills
-an understanding that although service opportunities will be provided through the Service Coordinator, participants are also responsible to seek out their own service opportunities within their own communities
-a willingness to accept, be sensitive to, and learn about people and cultures different from their own
-a commitment to attend all group meetings and participate in projects
-a commitment to meeting the basic hours of service requirement
-a willingness to take responsibility for filling out proper paperwork to keep track of hours of service for documentation on transcripts
**Participation in a minimum of four service activities is required per semester, two of which must be from postings on the RKVC board outside room 146 (the hub for all things RKVC). Students are required to attend at least 6 of the 8 first semester meetings and at least 5 of the 6 second semester meetings. If a student has an excused absence from school, s/he must simply notify Mr. Zeckser. Follow-through with commitments to service is essential. As such, a student who fails to show up at a service event for which s/he had signed up without contacting the site in advance of their absence, will be dismissed from the RKVC.
Parent Expectations
-a willingness to provide transportation and supervision for your child when necessary
-a willingness to support/help your child seek out their own volunteer opportunities, other than those provided by the school
-a willingness to help with the documentation of service hours for the co-curricular transcript
Schedule for 2009-2010
Applications and renewals available August 31
Applications and renewals due : 03 September
Corps member names posted : 08 September
(All meetings are in the chapel during homeroom unless noted. Please go directly to the meeting, and not to homeroom.)
2009-2010
| Semester 1 (Thursdays) |
Semester 2 (Thursdays) |
| 25 September - Introduction (Freshmen only) |
28 January - Reintroduction (Commons) |
| 08 October |
11 February |
| 22 October |
25 February |
| 05 November |
04 March |
| 19November |
25 March |
| 03 December |
15 April |
| 17 December (Commons) |
29 April |
| 14 January |
13 May - Celebration (Commons) |
For your convenience, you may click on the links below to open/print various RKVC documents.
(Note: All documentation must still be turned in as a hard copy to the RKVC cart.)
Volunteer Events 07-08
Volunteer Events 08-09
Volunteer Events 09-10
Fall Application 09-10
Fall Renewal 09-10
Calendar 09-10
Permission Slip
Documentation of Hours Form 09-10
Attendance Semester One 09-10
Attendance Semester Two 09-10
