generationOn Service Project Tracking
generationOn's new online project tracker is a free service created for all registered users to track and record service events and projects. It's easy to get started- simply follow these easy steps and start recording your impact today.
- Become a registered user of generationOn. Registering is free and easy to do! Have an account already? If so, all you need to do is log in!
- Use the link above to track your service projects. Once you have finished entering the details and saved the form, you will be able to view, edit, and print a record of your service.
The FACTS on the Benefits of Service Learning and Philanthropy Education
- Research show that service is more than a cultural value; it is an essential tool to the development of the next generation and a powerful lever for the education and life success of all children.
- Students do better when schools, families, and communities work together and strong school-family-community involvement are keys to addressing the school dropout crisis, fostering higher educational aspirations and more motivated students.
- Youth who volunteer just one hour or more a week are 50% less likely to abuse alcohol, cigarettes, become pregnant, or engage in other destructive behavior.
- Service strikes at the core issues of the dropout epidemic, yielding measureable outcomes including improved academic achievement, increased critical thinking and work skills, and reduction in risky behaviors, class failures, and suspensions.
- In a recent survey, more than 80% of students who dropped out of high school believed that opportunities for real-world learning such as service-learning, work study, and internships would improve their likelihood of graduating from high school.
- When kids learn at an early age that caring about others makes a real difference, the lesson lasts a lifetime. By serving others, kids connect with people from different cultures and different economic situations. With a wider, more tolerant view of the world they live in, kids grow into empowered adults, devoted to service and philanthropy. "Cultural Competency".
- The importance of children as volunteers include the following: promotes healthy lifestyle and choices, enhances development, teaches life skills, improves the community, and encourages a lifelong service ethic.
How generationOn Can HELP!!!
- With the support of a generous $5 million investment by the Hasbro Children's Fund nationally and the additional support of the Lilly Endowment in Indiana, generationOn is helping young people develop into healthy, empowered, creative problem-solvers and global leaders by experiencing their power and potential through service, service learning and giving back.
- Kids of ALL ages, K-12, will find ideas, tools, lessons, and hands-on opportunities on the website www.generationOn.org to help them get involved and understand the issues in their communities and become part of the solution.
- Educators, parents, families, and community organizations will find the resources needed on the website www.generationOn.org to ignite the power and potential of young people to become leaders and problem-solvers, successful students and active community members.
Help Your Students Make Their Mark on the World by becoming a generationOn School!!!
-Fully funded resources including "Learning to Give" Indiana common core and academic standards-based curriculum Lessons on service learning and philanthorpy education.
-Ideas for "Moments of Service" for each month that include Learning to Give Lessons and Projects.
-Kids of all ages will find ideas, tools and hands-on opportunities to help them get involved.
-Free "Grow Involved Kits" to introduce service learning.
-Grant opportunities for service projects.
"Free" Professional Development trainings for staff on service learning, generationOn, navigating the website, and "Learning to Give" Lessons and projects.
-Character Education mini-units and lessons.
-Professional Development on Service Learning Education.
-And much more on the web site below.
Visit www.generationOn.org
for this information and to register.
generationOn facilitated through Indiana Association of School Principalsand the Indiana Middle Level Education Association
For More information Contact:
Joan Belschwender, Co-Coordinator
317-891-9900 ext. 201
email: generationOn@iasp.org