Other Active Sites

California Wilderness Coalition
4065 Mission Inn Ave.
Riverside, CA 92501

Contact: Byron Kahr
Tel: (951) 781-1336
www.calwild.org

Key Issues: Wilderness Conservation

Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
CCAEJ is a nonprofit of united communities who find common interest in demanding environmental change for their afflicted communities. CCAEJ and students volunteering there are involved in grassroots organizing around environmental crises in San Bernardino and Riverside, including issues of air quality, land use, toxic dumping, perchlorate poisoning and others.

Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe
Looking for volunteers to assist with policy change, research, college mentorship, and more. This tribe is part of the Ohlone Nation and is a non-profit organization devoted to fighting for the rights (and federal recognition) of this American Indian Tribe. Students are involved in research and activism around legal rights, health care access and cultural or historical research projects. Students may also get involved in community outreach and advocacy through college mentorship as well as policy and lobbying work. Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Tricia Morgan.

Foundations Class at Claremont High School Looking for volunteers to help at risk freshman high school students. Volunteers needed Thursdays 10am-12pm this time/day may be negotiable. The students would be working with two sets of students on content area concepts and reading. Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Tricia Morgan. Within walking distance.

Garey High School
Looking for mentors and facilitators. This Pomona public high school has extremely high drop-out rates, teen pregnancy rates, domestic violence rates and a lack of mentors or support programs. Pitzer students work at Garey as mentors and college counselors. Students founded and facilitate a unique program called “Girl Talk” for teen girls to create safe space to talk about issues of peer-pressure, relationships, family crises and abuse or violence. Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Urban Fellow Debbie Lieberman. Pitzer Vans available.

Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facilty (HGSYCF)
Looking for volunteers to implement programming!!! Interested in music, writing, art, something else? Stark needs dedicated self starters with a lot of patience and compassion to work with 18-25 year old incarcerated men. Volunteers must be 21 or older, complete a Live-Scan fingerprinting process, background check, and TB test. Due to the nature of this site, gaining entry can take up to three months - so get the process started ASAP. Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Carmen Uriarte.

Hermandad Mexicana Nacional Ontario (HMN)
615 North Euclid Ave.
Suite 100
Ontario, CA 91762

Contact: Sarai Ferrer
Tel: (909) 391-0067
Fax: (909) 988-3106
hmnont@yahoo.com

Key Issues: Immigrant's Issues

Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC)
Through community organizing, youth leaders are making change around issues of violence and racism among youth in the Inland Empire. ICUC has been successful in uniting schools, neighborhoods, religious congregations and others to mobilize for change. Pitzer students have been involved in community organizing, conducting ongoing research and organizing actions for social change. Inland Empire youth serviced by ICUC are in need of college mentorship! Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Tricia Morgan or Pitzer in Ontario faculty Tom Dolan.

Leadership in Environmental Education Program (LEEP)
2080 N. Mountain Ave.
Claremont CA 91711

Contact: Paul Faulstich, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Tel: (909) 398-0609 or (909) 621-8818
LEEP homepage

Key Issues: ecology, environmental awareness

The Leadership in Environmental Education Partnership (LEEP) provides college students with the opportunity to teach elementary school children from diverse backgrounds about ecology and environmental concerns in the community. Developed in partnership with educators from the Pomona and Claremont Unified School Districts, LEEP provides hands-on lessons in environmental awareness and appreciation, ecological diversity, habitat restoration and pollution prevention. By engaging children in the understanding and appreciation of their local environment, LEEP fosters values of citizenship and social responsibility. In working closely with college students and faculty, the children also gain exposure to positive role models and mentors.
 
LEEP's relationship with the Pomona and Claremont Unified School Districts began in 1996. Over the next two years, LEEP anticipates reaching approximately 260 additional school children (above the 400 already participating) with the involvement of at least 40 college students.

Montessori
Exciting opportunity to design and run your own programs with pre-school children. Montessori in Montclair (near the mall) is looking for a minimum of four volunteers to implement a 1) Dance and Movement class, 2) Art class, 3) Music and Song class, 4) Science Lab. Work alone or team up with friends! Each program is for 2-6 year olds and will run twice a week (Mon and Wed) from 2:30-4:15pm. Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Tricia Morgan. Within biking distance.

Para Los Niños
845 East 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Tel: (213) 623-8446
Fax: (213) 623-8716
www.paralosninos.org

Key Issues: Los Angeles youth, child development, mental health research, family services

Reading Company
Looking for tutors - all ages, all subjects. Possibility of paid positions in the future. Tutors have two options: tutor at a Reading Company Center where clients pay a small fee for each visit - OR tutor/run a program at a Reading Company location sponsored by the No Child Left Behind Act working with underserved/ at risk communities. Complete training session provided as well as all materials. Volunteers required to complete Live-Scan fingerprinting, TB test, and drug test. Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Urban Fellow Carmen Uriarte. Pitzer vans available.

SOAR
Looking for tutors and mentors. SOAR, a new community school run by the Ontario-Montclair school district helps students ages 11– 14 who are at risk of dropping out or of expulsion from school. This alternative school provides rigorous academic assistance and skill building. Pitzer students will tutor and mentor, hours 10am-3pm (one hour minimum). Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Carmen Uriarte. Pitzer vans available.

Study Buddies
Looking for twenty tutors and two recruiters. Initially, Study Buddies' tutoring program served only homeless children. They now tutor underprivileged children in various subject matters, students from schools in Ontario, Montclair and Pomona. We need two student recruiters to attend recruitment fairs sponsored by the school districts to recruit families to the program. We also need approximately twenty tutors. Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Tricia Morgan. Within walking distance.

Uncommon Good
435 Berkeley Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711

Contact: Nancy Mintie or Sue Kieth
Tel: (909) 625 - 2248
uncommongood@uncommongood.org

Key Issues: youth outreach, tutoring and mentoring
This nonprofit works to provide fair access to education, health-care and legal services in underprivileged communities and populations. Students are involved in mentoring programs to help break the cycle of poverty through education. Students can also be involved in UC's Teen Green program (a youth environmental group to raise community awareness and work for environmental justice locally). Interested parties should contact CCCSI's Tricia Morgan. Within walking distance.

Vina Danks Middle School
1020 N. Vine Ave.
Ontario, CA 91762

Contact: Mark Lim
Tel: (909) 459-2947, (909) 983-2691
Fax: (909) 459-2959

Key Issues: school success, youth outreach