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Local organization calls on students
Issue date: 10/4/07
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For 14 years, the Students Sharing Coalition has worked to lower societal boundaries and improve people's lives in Baltimore. The Coalition, which recruits Hopkins students, is centered in Charles Village.
The Coalition's first triumphs were moderate. In 1996, it started the Kids Teaching Kids program, and in 1998 it founded Operation AWARE, which aims to involve middle school students in civil services. These early accomplishments paved the way for the Coalition's more major events.
In 2003, during the Halloween for Hunger food drive, the Coalition gathered more than 2000 pounds of food. The coalition also holds an annual Spaghetti Dinner for the Homeless and the First Annual Lobby Day in Annapolis.
In 1997, the governor's Office of Service and Volunteerism selected the Coalition as a model community improvement organization due to the group's efforts in bettering the city and its youth.
The spring of 2004 brought even more honors to the Students Sharing Coalition when the Maryland Student Service Alliance and the State Superintendent of Schools honored the Students Sharing Coalition with the Community Organization Service-Learning Leadership Award.
"It's got a lot of vision," said Linda Federico Kohler, Executive Director and Founder, of the program.
The Coalition began in 1993 as a small community service organization aimed at multi-cultural, urban youth.
At the start, only Federico Kohler and Hopkins interns ran it. Ultimately the program wished to educate city students in order to make them more culturally accepting and upstanding urban citizens.
"Our mission is to provide meaningful service and civic engagement experiences to students from diverse backgrounds with the goal of developing these students into mature and knowledgeable citizens, who take responsibility for their communities and are committed to social justice."
"[The Coalition] wants to build the next generation of civic leaders," Federico Kohler said. "We train [the students] to affect change."
The Coalition's first triumphs were moderate. In 1996, it started the Kids Teaching Kids program, and in 1998 it founded Operation AWARE, which aims to involve middle school students in civil services. These early accomplishments paved the way for the Coalition's more major events.
In 2003, during the Halloween for Hunger food drive, the Coalition gathered more than 2000 pounds of food. The coalition also holds an annual Spaghetti Dinner for the Homeless and the First Annual Lobby Day in Annapolis.
In 1997, the governor's Office of Service and Volunteerism selected the Coalition as a model community improvement organization due to the group's efforts in bettering the city and its youth.
The spring of 2004 brought even more honors to the Students Sharing Coalition when the Maryland Student Service Alliance and the State Superintendent of Schools honored the Students Sharing Coalition with the Community Organization Service-Learning Leadership Award.
"It's got a lot of vision," said Linda Federico Kohler, Executive Director and Founder, of the program.
The Coalition began in 1993 as a small community service organization aimed at multi-cultural, urban youth.
At the start, only Federico Kohler and Hopkins interns ran it. Ultimately the program wished to educate city students in order to make them more culturally accepting and upstanding urban citizens.
"Our mission is to provide meaningful service and civic engagement experiences to students from diverse backgrounds with the goal of developing these students into mature and knowledgeable citizens, who take responsibility for their communities and are committed to social justice."
"[The Coalition] wants to build the next generation of civic leaders," Federico Kohler said. "We train [the students] to affect change."
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