National Student Day Celebrates Your Volunteerism
High schools and college campuses stress the importance of volunteering, giving students ample opportunities to use their time and talents serving their communities.
This volunteerism will be recognized when approximately 2,000 college and high school campus stores across North America celebrate the fourth annual National Student Day on Oct. 9, according to this press release.
All about recognizing, celebrating and promoting students’ social responsibility, American and Canadian stores will hold events ranging from flash sales and free food to contests, games and live music.
National Student Day is sponsored by the National Association of College Stores (NACS), the professional trade association representing the $10 billion collegiate retailing industry by representing nearly 3,000 collegiate retailers and approximately 1,000 associate members who supply books and other products to college stores.
In addition to celebrating students, some stores will take the day one step further by involving local charitable organizations or businesses in volunteer fairs or food or supply drives.
Stores around Valencia College in California, for example, will work with national charity Move For Hunger on a campus-wide food drive to benefit local families by picking up unwanted, unopened food from those who are relocating and delivering it to local food banks.
Another campus, Cape Fear Community College, in Wilmington, N.C., is co-sponsoring a “Keep Warm, Stay Warm” coat drive with a local TV station.
In addition, an all-new photo sharing contest for National Student Day will take place this year from now until Oct. 23. Students like you can post photos of yourself doing volunteer work or a random act of kindness on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #NSDvolunteer. This will enter you to win a $1,000 prize and a $1,000 donation to the 501(c)(3) charity of your choice.
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For more information, visit www.nationalstudentday.com or find it on Facebook and Twitter.