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2020 SOS Trips Info Session
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Tuesday, November 13
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Girl Scouts Headquarters
811 N Coker Loop, San Antonio, TX 78216
We are excited to announce our NEW 2020 SOS trips and open registration to join one of these unique and purposeful experiences.
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2019 Trip Scholarship Applications!
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2019 Trip Scholarship Applications are now open! The deadline to submit your application is November 19th, so start today! Applications require letters of recommendation, so please give your recommenders plenty of notice.
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Guide to Colleges in Texas
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Antonio is pleased to share A Working Guide to Universities in Texas. A Working Guide to Universities in Texas is a digital booklet designed to help students and families make more informed decisions with regard to college planning. It includes easy-to-read profiles of 29 in-state universities as well as information about paying for college and factors to consider when choosing a school. It's college research, simplified.
Using better information to make decisions will produce better outcomes. A Working Guide to Universities in Texas enables students to make more informed decisions regarding their college-going future in order to maximize their prospects of college completion.
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NEW "home" shirts fund scholarships!
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This shirt changes lives! This special edition SOS shirt is $30 and 100% of proceeds for the "Home" shirt will fund scholarships for our travel programs so our students can change their own lives, and others'. Just a reminder that we all call our planet home.
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Diwali - No tickets required!
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Community Event: Angst Documentary
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Angst Documentary - Award winning documentary on anxiety in youth.
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Community Event: Forced From Home
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Doctors Without Borders presents Forced From Home, a free interactive tour that takes you behind the headlines about the global refugee crisis. Guided by experienced Doctors Without Borders aid workers, you’ll travel through a 10,000-square-foot space designed to convey the challenges facing a person forced to flee. You’ll also learn about the humanitarian aid we provide along the way.
Visitors experience virtual reality and 360˚ video, and interact with materials gathered from refugee camps, sea rescue missions, and emergency medical projects around the world.
Forced From Home tours are free, fully accessible, and take roughly one hour to complete. Families are welcome, however the content is best suited to children ages 12+.
Learn more and share on their Facebook page.
General Public
November 4 - 11, 2018
326 Main Plaza
San Antonio, TX 78205
Walk up any time and join a guided tour:
Weekdays 9am - 1pm, 4pm - 8pm
Weekends 10am - 6pm
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Special SOS Meeting - Help for Heroes Care Packages for Troops
Monday, November 5th
5:00pm - 6:00 PM
SAMMinistries (Conference Room)
5922 Blanco Road
San Antonio, TX 78216
Site Leader: Amir Samandi
Come for a special kickoff meeting for Help for Heroes Care Packages for our troops service project!
- Wear your SOS T-shirt and comfortable clothing
- Indoor Event
- Volunteer Limit: 40 volunteers
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Volunteering with SOS at Colonial Hills UMC School Supply Drive
Saturday, November 10th
8:00am - 2:00 PM (Various Shifts)
Colonial Hills United Methodist Church
5247 Vance Jackson Rd
San Antonio, TX 78230
Site Leader: Ashli Andersen
Colonial Hills UMC is needing a few SOSers to help with a fundraiser for our school supply drive. Helpers are needed to set up booths for a craft fair, assist volunteers, and tear down the booth at the end of the event.
Wear your SOS shirt, close toed shoes, and church appropriate pants/shorts
Contact Mrs. Andersen (ashli@sossanantonio.org) if you have any questions.
Click here to sign up for the set up booths (8-10am)
Click here to sign up to be a runner (10am-12pm)
Click here to sign up to tear down booths (12-2pm)
- Wear your SOS T-shirt and comfortable clothing
- Indoor Event
- Volunteer Limit: 20 volunteers
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Volunteering with SOS - Writing Thank You notes to our donors
Saturday, November 10th
10:00am - 2:00 PM
Girl Scouts Headquarters
811 N Coker Loop, San Antonio, TX 78216
Site Supervisors: Ruwani Tapiador and Sherry Mathews
We are looking for volunteers to help write thank you notes and show gratitude to our donors. Adults and students are welcome to join. Let’s show appreciation for all the donors who are helping to raise funds for SOS Scholarships. Please join us and help write ‘Thank You” cards for these generous gifts.
- Wear your SOS T-shirt and comfortable clothing
- Indoor Event
- Volunteer Limit: 20 volunteers
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Volunteering with Taking it to the Streets
Saturday, November 10th
6:15PM - 8:30PM
724 Chestnut
San Antonio, TX 78202
Site Supervisor: Jennifer Humphrey
We will be helping Taking it to the Streets feed the homeless downtown. Students 15 and younger must have at least one parent or guardian come with them. This is a religious organization, but they are welcoming of all backgrounds and religions and just want to help the community. Volunteers will provide food directly to the homeless population.
Mrs. Humphrey will be leading a caravan LEAVING at exactly 6pm from the back parking lot of Nimitz Middle School by the science building. You can also meet her there. There are 10 spots available.
Wear your SOS shirt, shorts or jeans, and comfortable shoes.
- Outdoor event
- 10 Volunteers needed!
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America Recycles Day Fall Festival
Thursday, November 15th
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Nimitz Middle School
5426 Blanco Rd, San Antonio, TX 78216
Site Supervisor: Jennifer Humphrey
Volunteers needed for clean-up and tear down from 4:30pm - 6:30pm.
Students Offering Service is the school club affiliate of Summer of Service (SOS) at Nimitz MS. They will be hosting their annual America Recycles Day Fall Festival on Thursday, Nov. 15. There will be games, food, and prizes from 3:45 - 5:45. Most games and food cost $1, but there will also be free activities like face painting, crafts, and more! There are many chances to win gift cards, cupcakes, and more. The event is part of a national event to promote recycling to our community. They will also be hosting a recycling collection station for plastic, aluminum, metals, computers, and electronic equipment, and batteries. Everyone is welcome at this event!
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Volunteering with Girl Scouts Thanksgiving Dinner
Thursday, November 15th
5:30PM - 7:30PM
West Side Girl Scouts Leadership Center
5622 Cesar Chavez
San Antonio, TX 78237
Site Supervisor: Andrea Robbins
Indoor event
20 Volunteers needed!
Wear your SOS shirt, shorts or jeans, and comfortable shoes.
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SFAC Wounded Warrior Volunteering
Saturday, November 17
8:00AM - 12:00 PM
SFAC at Brooke Army Medical Center
Warrior Village, Ft. Sam Houston
3722 Binz-Engleman Rd, San Antonio, TX 78219
Site Supervisor: Leslie Love
Help out at The Soldier and Family Assistance Center, no equipment or experience needed.
Waivers are required and will be sent following registration.
Please complete these forms and bring them with you to the event.
Parental Permission
Liability Waiver
- Must wear: sneakers or work boots.
- We recommend: you bring a hat and gloves.
- Work gloves, bibs and other equipment will be provided.
- 20 volunteers are needed
- Please wear your SOS shirt
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San Antonio Food Bank
Monday, November 19
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
5200 Enrique M. Barrera Pkwy
San Antonio, TX 78227
Site Leader: Melissa Vasquez
- Wear close-toed shoes & SOS shirt
- Bring a jacket in case we are working in the cooler
- Maximum 30 volunteers
- Must be age 14 years or older
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Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Day Volunteering
Thursday, November 22
12:00PM - 2:00 PM
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E. Market Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205
Site Supervisor: Olivia Montalvo
During the holiday season, many senior citizens are alone and cannot afford to prepare a holiday meal for themselves. The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner will give these citizens a place to enjoy a hot turkey dinner with all the trimmings! We will be volunteering in the kitchen to help make this meal a success.
- 30 volunteers are needed
- Volunteers must be 14 and up
- Please wear your SOS shirt
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Japan America Society of SA Volunteering
Volunteer with JASSA and get SOS Hours
SOS will not have a site supervisor, volunteers will report directly to JASSA staff if they choose this event. Volunteers must be 15 and older.
Shifts Available:
- Sat. Nov 24 9am-1pm
- Sat Nov 24 12-4pm
- Sun Nov 25 6am-10am
- Sun Nov 25 10am-2pm
- Sun Nov 25 1:30p-5:30pm
All shifts will take place at the Mays Family Center Adjacent to the Witte Museum. There is free parking across the street at the corner of Groveland and Broadway in the open lot.
Shifts 1, 2 & 5 are strictly set-up (lifting, setting and arranging, etc); the event is not in session (yet).
Shifts 3, 4 will be during the event and will require attendance at an orientation the week of the event: time, date and location TBD.
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DoSeum Volunteering
Saturdays (Set up your own after training)
8:45 AM - 12:45 PM
2800 Broadway
Volunteering for trained volunteers only. If you have not been trained, there is a new volunteer orientation at the DoSeum every third Saturday of the month. You MUST attend one of these orientations before you can volunteer at the DoSeum. These shifts are not group events, but do count toward your SOS hours. You can schedule them at your own convenience.
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