Join New Students for the Nazareth Orientation Day of Service, FRIDAY August 24

Rochester, NY (08/22/2018) — At Nazareth College, Orientation for new students includes a community service component. Nazareth's Day of Service will be held on Friday, August 24th. More than 700 students (first year, transfer and international students) along with student orientation leaders, faculty and staff travel to one of 32 service sites within the community. Students are on-site of their service projects from 2 - 4 p.m. Media contact: Adam Lewandowski, Associate Director for the Center for Civic Engagement | alewand8@naz.edu, (585)389-2307 office | (585)451-4996 cell

Nazareth College students, faculty and staff will work at several of the community service sites throughout the event. The following sites have approved on-site press coverage.

Sites Approved for Media Coverage:

Nazareth College Arts Center Project Kick Off, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester NY 14618.

Penfield Recreation Community Garden, 1748 Five Mile Line Rd, Penfield, NY 14526

Jewish Family Services-Pencils and Paper, 1099 Jay Street Building N, Rochester NY 14611

Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St Paul St, Rochester, NY 14621

Gilda's Club, 255 Alexander St, Rochester, NY 14607

Girl Scouts of Western NY: Camp Piperwood, 2222 Turk Hill Rd., Fairport, NY 14450

EquiCenter, 247 Rush Mendon Road, Honeoye Falls New York 14472

Foodlink, 1999 Mt. Read Blvd. Rochester, NY 14615

Never Say Never Stables, 906 Maple Dr, Webster, NY 14580

Imagine It!, LLC 565 Blossom Rd, Rochester, NY 14610

The Nazareth College Orientation Day of Service has several goals:

• To introduce new students to the core value of service at Nazareth College and explore the relevance of service to the college's mission.
• To introduce new students to the community which they are now a member of. To help students identify some of the assets and strengths as well as the challenges present in the community.
• To meet some of the community challenges.
• To introduce new students to the concept of Civic Engagement.
• To introduce students to a variety of careers and job experiences that support the public good.
• To give students an opportunity to get to know each other.