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NIU Cares Day is celebrating its 12th anniversary and needs alumni, staff, faculty and graduate assistants to help celebrate by making it the best NIU Cares Day to date! If you are looking to work alongside students who are doing great things for the community, then consider volunteering for NIU Cares Day. “NIU Cares Day...
NIU Cares Day is celebrating its 11th anniversary and needs alumni, staff, faculty and graduate assistants to help make it the best NIU Cares Day to date! If you are looking to work alongside students who are doing great things for the community, then please consider volunteering for NIU Cares Day. Student Involvement & Leadership Development (SILD)...
Northern Illinois University has hundreds of helping hands looking for meaningful projects to tackle on NIU Cares Day, Saturday, April 22, 2017, from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. The event is sponsored by Student Involvement and Leadership Development (SILD). This will be the eleventh year of this special NIU and DeKalb tradition! NIU Cares Day was created...
Communiversity Gardens
It is said that gardens are the first sign of commitment to a community, and that to plant a garden is to plant a hope. The NIU Communiversity Gardens couldn’t hold more truth to these expressions. Since the garden’s ground breaking in 2014, students, faculty, staff and community members have successfully worked together to produce...
NIU is looking for alumni to serve as project site leaders from 8 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16, for NIU Cares Day. Students volunteer each spring in the DeKalb area to help with community service projects, such as painting, lawn service, planting, helping at soup kitchens and working at animal shelters. Now in...
NIU Cares Day
Volunteers from the NIU family come together every spring to thank members of the university community for their support of the institution and its mission. NIU Cares Day, scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 16, benefits DeKalb County’s not-for-profit organizations and community agencies through planting, painting, cleaning, sorting, assisting with events and...
Communiversity Gardens
Last summer, NIU students helped to grow, harvest and donate more than 500 pounds of vegetables from the NIU Communiversity Gardens. This year is on target to easily surpass that total. By bringing the community and university together, lead volunteer Michael Payne says he hopes to help lead that charge. “The gardens help the community...
NIU Cares Day 2014
If the greater DeKalb and Sycamore communities look a little spiffier than normal next week, thank the 800 NIU students who will participate Saturday, April 18, in NIU Cares Day. The students will roll out of bed early and head to 80 different work sites across the county. Many will report to schools across DeKalb...
Randiss Hopkins and NIU President Doug Baker
NIU senior Randiss Hopkins has been honored among the 2015 class of Newman Civic Fellows. Hopkins, who is majoring in jazz performance with a minor in Community Leadership and Civic Engagement, cited a legendary civil rights leaders as an inspiration behind his passion for giving back and paying it forward. “Dr. Martin Luther King once...
NIU Cares Day
Are you a staff member, faculty member, or graduate assistant looking to work alongside students who are doing great things for the community? Consider volunteering for NIU Cares Day, which takes place Saturday, April 18. Student Involvement & Leadership Development is currently looking for individuals to serve as project site leaders (PSL) from 7:45 a.m....
NIU Cares Day 2014
More than 1,200 NIU students were up with the sun Saturday morning, which was appropriate since they spent the day spreading sunshine across DeKalb County as part of the annual NIU Cares Day. The early start was worth it, said Kaitlyn Fritz, a member of the Sigma Lambda Sigma service sorority, which spent the morning...
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