A Day of Service Off the Hill

           On Friday February 25^th, Sun 3 traveled off the mountain down to Prescott, AZ for their first Day of Service.  The Corporation of National Community Service in Washington D.C. requires that all AmeriCorps NCCC teams perform two Days of Service over their ten month term.  So what is a Day of Service?  A Day of Service is where a team serves an organization other than the team’s sponsoring organization and recruits volunteers to assist that AmeriCorps team with the service work.   

Sun 3’s sponsoring organization for the Day of Service was Open Inn/Turning Point Youth Crisis Center.  The center provides outreach, crisis intervention, emergency shelter and transitional housing for runaway, homeless and at-risk youth and young adults. 

The assignment for the Day of Service was to deconstruct the previously standing garden and construct three separate garden beds in addition to building a compost pile container.  Building the gardens and compost container was a blast!  It was a nice break from the daily fuels reduction grind and really felt good to see the final completed product at the end of the day.  Open Inn/Turning point was an extremely hospitable Day of Service sponsor and our team hopes to work with the center in the future. 

The volunteers recruited for the event all had AmeriCorps backgrounds including current AmeriCorps VISTA’s and AmeriCorps NCCC alumni.  Everyone enjoyed bagels donated by Einstein Bagels and snacks provided by Open Inn/Turning Point.  

 

In my opinion, the Day of Service was excellent.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the work and it feels great to have a positive impact on a very deserving organization such as Open Inn/Turning Point.  Hopefully our next Day of Service will go just as well if not better and have a helpful impact on a deserving organization and those who choose to serve with Sun 3. 





 








-Nick