The Disneyland® Resort Show Your Character Community Outreach Program is designed to foster effective partnerships between your students and Orange County based nonprofit organizations to implement comprehensive programs to improve the lives of children in the local community.
Curriculum design experts at the Volunteer Center of Orange County have lent their expertise to this Program to ensure that these community service projects will also help to meet educational standards in your classroom.
This site provides concrete examples for incorporating these projects into your daily classroom curriculum, creating projects that meet the standards for service-learning initiatives.
Your time and expertise will be critical to the success of these projects. In recognition of your efforts, instructors who successfully lead their students in implementing their projects will receive a $1,000 - $1,250 (including "seed money") award specifically earmarked for your classroom. This award will help you to continue to enrich the lives of your students by enhancing your classroom’s learning environment.
A total of 25 projects will be selected to be a part of the 2007 Disneyland Resort Show Your Character Community Outreach program. All of these projects will fall into one of the following two categories.
10 projects will be selected as “Gold Level Projects.” These projects will:
Be provided a Disney VoluntEARS Project Leader assigned to serve as a mentor for the project.
Receive $250 “seed money” for the teacher to use towards the project with an additional $1,000 to be awarded to the classroom if the project is successfully completed and all materials are submitted by April 6th, 2007.
Receive $7,500 to the nonprofit organization at the conclusion of the project, if project is completed and all materials are submitted by April 6th, 2007
Be eligible to receive the $20,000 Excellence Award for the 2007 program
15 projects will be selected as “Silver Level Projects.” These projects will:
Receive $250 “seed money” for the teacher to use towards the project with an additional $750 to be given to the classroom if the project is successfully completed and all materials are submitted by April 6th, 2007
Receive $5,000 to the nonprofit organization at the conclusion of the project if project is completed and all materials submitted in by April 6th, 2007
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