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Service For Peace has announced next year’s MLK Day sub-grantees to receive funds for organizing projects on MLK Day this January, as well as throughout the Martin Luther King Jr. Season of Service.

Service For Peace has been a lead agency with the Corporation for National & Community Service for Martin Luther King Day of Service for 6 years. Service For Peace is one of the seven national organizations that were awarded the grant.

The sub-grantees that we have elected are:

•    City of Bloomington Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission
•    Community Connection of Northeast Georgia
•    Oshman Family Jewish Community Center
•    Pennsylvania Family Coalition
•    Service For Peace in Bridgeport
•    Service For Peace in Cincinnati
•    Service For Peace in Miami
•    Service For Peace in Seattle
•    Service For Peace Louisville
•    Service For Peace Oakland
•    United Way of the Greater Triangle of Morrisville
•    United Way of Utah County
•    Yavapai County VISTA Project

To join and/or support one of these projects, or look for an MLK project in your area, please go to our site specially designed for MLK 2010 at www.mlkchallenge.org and sign up!

Please do not forget to sign the peace pledge and download the 40 Peace Quotes from famous Peacemakers from around the world at www.40daysofpeace.org

Here is some information about the projects that SFP offices and sub-grantees are planning:

•    Prescott, Arizona: The Yavapai County VISTA Project will implement educational, infrastructure and food security projects. www.mlkchallenge.org/Prescott

•    Oakland, California: Service For Peace will improve the educational and public spaces of high schools in Oakland and Richmond. www.mlkchallenge.org/Oakland

•    Palo Alto, California: The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center will complete service projects focused on hunger, housing and homelessness, education, literacy, helping at-risk youth, aging, illness, and the environment. www.mlkchallenge.org/Paloalto

•    Bridgeport, Connecticut: Service For Peace will work with the City of Stamford Boys and Girls Club to provide workshops on citizen responsibility and peacemaking with children and adolescents. www.mlkchallenge.org/Bridgeport
 
•    Miami, Florida: Service For Peace in partnership with the American Association of Retired Person (AARP) and the Miami Parks and Recreation Department will beautify recreational public spaces in various city parks. www.mlkchallenge.org/Miami

•    Athens, Georgia: The Community Connection of Northeast Georgia will conduct service projects, which help educational, and community base organizations. www.mlkchallenge.org/Athens

•    Bloomington, Indiana: The Indiana’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commission will work to improve the education for disadvantaged youth. www.mlkchallenge.org/Bloomington

•    Louisville, Kentucky: Service For Peace will organize 15 community service projects that focus on health services for disadvantaged families, reducing hunger through the MLK Junior Food Drive and promoting peace and non-violence in schools and youth centers through the 40 Days of Peace campaign. www.mlkchallenge.org/Lousiville

•    Morrisville, North Carolina: The United Way of the Greater Triangle will host a senior life project and will collect winter clothes for the homeless. www.mlkchallenge.org/Morrisville

•    Cincinnati, Ohio: Service For Peace will lead projects focused on the improvement of youth centers, peace workshops with at risk youth and reducing hunger through the MLK Junior Food Drive. www.mlkchallenge.org/Cincinnati

•    Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania Family Coalition will host forty projects that promote artistic expression for children and youth as well as community empowerment workshops for youth and adults. www.mlkchallenge.org/Harrisburg

•    Provo, Utah: The United Way will host community service projects that provide arts and crafts for at risk youth, visits to nursing homes, recycling, literacy promotion in libraries, youth empowerment workshops and recreational activities for children. www.mlkchallenge.org/Utah
 
•    Seattle, Washington: Service For Peace will focus on environmental restoration and renewing of public parks. www.mlkchallenge.org/Seattle