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On Friday, August 31, 200 students, along with 125 student leaders, staff, alumni, and faculty, will fan out across the surrounding community for the third annual Moving Forward, Giving Back: ´ºÃÎÖ±²¥â€™s First Year Day of Service (MFGB).

MFGB is organized by ´ºÃÎÖ±²¥â€™s Center for Civic Engagement and its First Year Experience Office. About 30 community partners will welcome students for volunteer projects that include painting and building, preparing meals for shelters, registering people to vote, helping public schools prepare for the first day of school, and working on community gardens. The initiative is designed for students to become engaged with the greater Salem community, make connections with new classmates and the community, and create lasting commitment to civic engagement and social responsibility.

In addition to Salem State’s Center for Civic Engagement and its First Year Experience office, St. Jeans Credit Union, and the Rotary Club of Salem are sponsors of the event.                               

Volunteers will be serving the following community partners:

Salem: Bates Elementary School; Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem; Camp Fire North Shore; Carlton Innovation School; Children’s Friends and Family Services; Healing Abuse Working for Change (HAWC); Horace Mann Laboratory School; House of the Seven Gables; LEAP for Education, Inc.; Lifebridge; nAGLY; New England Aquarium’s live blue Service Corps; Open Door Immigration; PALS Animal Life Savers; Salem Community Childcare; Salem Council on Aging; Salem Parks and Recreation; Salem Maritime National Historic Site; Salem Y Greenspace; Salem YMCA

Lynn: Girls Incorporated of Lynn; Highlands Coalition; Lincoln Thomson Elementary School; Lynn Economic Opportunity

Beverly: Beverly Bootstraps; Cabot Theatre; Family Promise North Shore Boston, Inc.; Moraine Farm, The Trustees of Reservations

Peabody: Citizen’s Inn, Havens from Hunger; Northeast Arc Danvers and Peabody

Marblehead: Marblehead Little Theatre