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Harvest Carnival Supports Foot Drive

680 Admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:26:03 +0000

Come out to First Covenant Church’s ”Harvest Carnival” on Sunday October 30 from 5-8pm. We are so excited to have their support for the Foot Drive. They’ve invited us to be a charity recipient for this event. So come on by, have some fun and drop off socks at our table. Thank you First Covenant!!

FREE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

ferris wheel
giant yellow slide
rock wall
surfing booth
train rides
jump houses
laser tag arena
trunk-n-treat
carnival games
preschool area
cupcake walk
live band
dance arena
much, much more!

First Convenant Church
10933 Progress Court
Rancho Cordova, California 95670

Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Holiday Inn & Project 680

680 Admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:05:21 +0000

What do Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, the Holiday Inn in Rancho Cordova and Project 680 have in common? Yep, “networking for charity” on December 3, 2010. See the image below for details. We hope you can come do a little mingling with local business people, get your name out there, and support some great charities while you’re at it. Thank you!!!

Celebration of Faith benefits Project 680

680 Admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:11:16 +0000

This is cool event tomorrow hosted by the Cordova Community Counciland we’re excited that the organizers chose to help benefit local homeless students. The faith community in Rancho Cordova has been a big factor with our efforts. We’re thankful to be a team together.

Project 680 in the News

680 Admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:51:24 +0000

We were excited to get together with Deirdre Fitzpatrick of KCRA news this morning and film our “sock raiding” party. A group of locals got together to empty the aisle of our local Target. The story will go live in a few weeks, and we’ll post links when it does. Thanks everyone for coming out and thanks Deirdre for your time. Let’s keep moving forward with the sock drive!!!!

See photos from today HERE and follow Deirdre on Twitter at @fitztweeter

Download a Sock Drive / Bike Ride Flier

680 Admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:35:06 +0000

You may have woken up this morning and thought, “wow, it sure is a beautiful day to download the Project 680 Sock Drive / Bike Ride flier”. But even if you didn’t arise and think such thoughts, we figured it’d be handy to post the flier anyway.

DOWNLOAD an Sock Drive / Bike Ride Flier HERE (pdf)

Want to be a drop-off location???

680 Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:51:10 +0000

We are looking for about a dozen locations to be a “drop-off” for the Project 680 Sock Drive (“Biking for Socks”). Between now and the end of our sock drive on May 8, 2010 we’d love to see households, businesses and churches serve as locations where people in the community can drop off donations of new socks. If you’re interested, please contact us at 916-595-3735 or on the form below (please include your address).

We are planning to begin posting drop-off locations on our website next week, so let us know soon. Also, we’ve found that the best results usually occur at your location when you let friends, neighbors and co-workers know that you are serving as a drop-off place.

Thank you for your support.

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Volunteer Opportunities for “Biking for Socks”

680 Admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:39:37 +0000

We are very excited about our upcoming “Biking for Socks” event on May 8, 2010. We are doing a community bike ride in order to accomplish three things: 1) Bring awareness to the problem of student homelessness in the FCUSD; 2) Collect socks for homeless kids in the FCUSD; and 3) Gather up a few bucks to be able to give to the District Liaison for Homeless Services so she can meet the needs of students on an “as needed” basis – meaning that when the neediest of students come to her, she can simply take care of some of the things they need – whether clothing, deodarant, shoes, study materials, etc….

There will be two bike rides – a short 20 minute ride (one way) and then a more experienced 30 mile ride. Anyone can participate. You can sign up below or on Facebook. Beyond the bike ride, there will be other ways to get involved (in case you are not a bike person). We invite you to consider some of the following. Or let us know an idea you have.

Become a “drop off” location for socks. We’d like to see about a dozen locations in the community where socks can be collected and/or dropped off between now and the bike ride. We’ll keep a list online as volunteers step forward.
Get a “Bike Team” togther. Maybe you could gather some friends, co-workers or people at your church to come out to the ride. If you are a business, then wear company shirts or get really creative somehow if you’d like.
Help make signs and set out signage on the day of the bike ride (so that riders know where to stop).
Work with Starbucks or another local coffee shop to get coffee provided for the morning of the ride. It would be great to have some bagles or OJ too.
Volunteer at the sign-in table on the morning of the ride.
Take photos or video on the day of the ride.
Be a business sponsor.
Pass on the word about this community emphasis on Facebook, Twitter, Email, YouTube or however you can. The more people that know, the better.
Help get some media exposure for the event. Got media contacts?
Other logistics.
Maybe you have another creative idea or way to advocate for local homeless students. We are open ears and we’d love to see your creativity in motion.

Please comment on this post, email us, sign up on Facebook or fill in the form below to let us know how you’d like to get involved or if you have any questions or ideas. We’ll update the categories above as people volunteer so that you know what is available. Thank you so much.

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What does brainstorming sound like?

680 Admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:11:54 +0000

Next Wednesday, February 17, 2010, we will have a Project 680 brainstorming session at Starbucks in Rancho Cordova (off of Olson Drive & Zinfandel – across from Target). We’ll hash out some details for an upcoming “Riding for Leaders” emphasis. Our big idea is to do a community bike ride fundraiser at some point within the next few months to empower a couple local kids to attend a leadership camp. The idea of giving life and leadership tools to deserving students (who show promise), is really thrilling. If you have any resources that would be a benefit, we are open ears.

All are welcome, but if you can, let us know you’re coming so we can plan best. We’ll meet for 60-90 minutes. Thanks everyone!!!

Handing Over the Checks

680 Admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:54:39 +0000

Thank you to Bonnie for the images below from today’s media event at Payless Shoe Source. It was really nice to get together with a group of community members to hand over the checks and celebrate an extremely succesful shoe drive. Thank you also to the Rancho Cordova Post and Grapevine for covering this event.

Bike Ride Photos by JoAnna Bueno-Williams

680 Admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:54:59 +0000

We were graced to have photographer JoAnna Bueno-Williams come to the Project 680 Community Bike Ride today. She snapped some incredible shots in the album below, and we are so grateful to have these images. Press play below and let us know what you think. The pictures are in chronological order from meeting at Hagan Park to riding to River Bend Park and then back. As you can tell, we had a great turn-out and we sure did have fun. Great work everyone!!! We will announce soon the final tally of money raised!!! You can also view the slideshow online.