Community Service:
The South Jersey Bead Society’s Community Outreach efforts are primarily
three-fold:
1. Monetary grants and donations of books, beads and/or supplies to arts
organizations, schools or nonprofit organizations.
2. Direct contributions of time and talents by our members, such as member trips
to the Ronald McDonald House to work with clients there. The Bead Society
provides all the supplies.
3. Donation of beads by members for the BEADS for Education project benefiting
Masaai women and girls in Kenya. Go to
www.BeadsForEducation.org for more information on this nonprofit charity
and to see the Masaai beadwork for sale. Donated beads are collected at each
Bead Society meeting.
 At
Bead Binge 2007 (March), we provided a free table to Debby Rooney, with BEADS
for Education. Despite the bad weather and lower-than-normal attendance, Debby
said she sold $600 worth of beadwork by the Maasai women’s beading cooperative.
Two people also approached her about sponsoring a girl. A Bead Society member
asked Debby what supplies she needed and with that information, purchased about
$100 in materials for BEADS for Education. Debby also said she was approached by
the owner of a retail shop about selling the Maasai women’s beadwork. Finally,
Debby said that she received a large basket of seed beads and specialty beads,
all donated by Bead Society members. The value of the donations was about $250.
2008 Community Outreach Projects:
- SJBS members participate in Cancer Survivors Day.
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YOUR IDEAS ARE WELCOMED. Please e-mail as much information as you have to Lissa
Atkins at
communitychair@southjerseybeadsociety.org.
2007 Community Outreach Projects:
- $1,000 grant to Camden County’s Arts 4 Teens, a day-long arts festival
for 1,200 to 1,500 students 13 to 19. The event is March 14 at
Rutgers-Camden campus. The event is run by the Camden County Cultural &
Heritage Commission. For more information, e-mail Brother Dauod Bey at
Arts4TeensCamden@yahoo.com or call the commission at (856)
858-0040.
- We’re providing Debby Rooney a free table again at Bead Binge 2007.
She’ll be selling Masaai-crafted beadwork and educating the public about her
work.
- Continued correspondence with our Masaai girl, Ruth Shanka.
- Donations of jewelry to Image and Attitude.
Click here to find out how you can donate
some jewelry due at our October 2007 membership meeting.
http://www.imageiiboutique.org/
2006 Community Outreach Projects:
- BEADS for Education - $1,600 one-time grant to fund a Masaai girl’s high
school education, four years total. Our girl’s name is Ruth Shanka. She
interned as a ‘primary nursery teacher’ and is now studying management. We
will be writing her regularly, sending her pictures and a small gift each
year.
- Perkins Center for the Arts - $1,500 one-time grant for three Camden
children to participate in a summer arts camp.
- Boys and Girls Club of Camden - $1,500 one-time grant for summer arts
camp for children in Camden.
- Philadelphia Police Athletic League – $1,500 one-time grant for a girls’
self-esteem program.
- V-Foundation Cancer Foundation: Bead Society purchased materials which
our members used to make 21 bracelets that were auctioned off as a
fund-raiser. Total cost of the materials was $525.
- Ronald McDonald House, Camden – three trips by members with 15
volunteers total. We worked with about 50 clients total.
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