iHelp
iHelp is a volunteer project
organized by the Student Alumni
Ambassadors that unites more than
1,000 graduate and undergraduate
students. iHelp participants meet
for a complimentary breakfast and
registration, then disperse to volunteer
at more than 40 sites in the surrounding
community.
This campus-wide
day of service allows students to:
- Collaborate to improve the societal
issues that are present in the
Champaign-Urbana community and
beyond
- Make a dramatically positive
change in the community environment
for a day
- Interact with a diverse student
body for invaluable life lessons
outside of the classroom
iHelp volunteer
efforts in 2007 included:
- Building a playground at Victory
Park
- Assisting workers at the Eastern
Illinois Foodbank
- Ushering at the Virginia Theatre
- Updating information for shamrock
season at the Muscular Dystrophy
Association
- Doing grounds work at Allerton
Park
- Cleaning up the Boneyard Creek
- Playing with special-needs
children at the Swann Special
Care Center
Over 1,000 students
volunteered at the following sites
during iHelp ’07:
A Woman’s Place
Allerton
Books to Prisoners
Care Center of Champaign
Care Center of Urbana
Center for Women in Transition
Champaign County Forest
Preserve
Champaign County Humane
Society
Champaign Public Library
Champaign YMCA
Crisis Nursery
Eastern Illinois Foodbank
Fall Field Day
Greater Community AIDS
Project Habitat
for Humanity
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Muscular Dystrophy Association
Restoration Urban Ministries
Salt and Light
Swann Special Care Center
The Reading Group
TIMES Center
UBA Beer and Chili Cook-off
UPD Environmental Work
Days Victory Park
Playground Build
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For further information, please contact Ellen Prentice at
eprenti2@uiuc.edu.
UI news report on the 2007 i-Help

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