Local volunteers invited to attend inaugural Arizona Summit

Arizona’s community and faith-based organizations, youth serving organizations, nonprofits, K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, local government, state government, businesses, community service organizations, service clubs, and national service programs are invited to participate in the inaugural Arizona Summit on Service and Volunteerism. 

The event is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 3, and Saturday, Dec. 4 at Central Arizona College’s Signal Peak campus in Coolidge.

The Arizona Summit on Volunteerism and Service Learning seeks to strengthen the service, volunteerism and service-learning community in Arizona as collaboration by:

• Energizing, mobilizing, and inspiring
• Bringing everyone together to talk about service
• Building partnerships to mobilize communities
• Providing volunteerism and service-learning professional development and best practices
• Providing a call to service for citizens of Arizona
• Making the Summit affordable and accessible to all

Summit Highlights include:

• Over 50 different best practice workshops led by important leaders in Arizona’s volunteerism and service-learning community.
• Inspiring keynote presentations by Arizona’s Official State Historian, Marshall Trimble, Director of ASU’s Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation, Dr. Robert F. Ashcraft and others.
• Issue forums organized by Maricopa Community Colleges’ Center for Civic Participation
• Networking and poster session reception
• Musical entertainment provided through Ear Candy Charity 
• The Summit Grant: Volunteer and Service-Learning project funding opportunity available to all participants.

Registration is open until Nov. 24.  The fee is $25 per person, and the online registration page is accessible through the Summit website at www.azsummit.org.
 
For further information, contact Ashley Miles by phone at 602- 542-3495 or by email at [email protected].