The Traveling Stories
Emily Moberly started Traveling Stories as a basis to invest in kids’ imaginations. To fuel their minds with stories the same way Ms. Moberly’s Library fueled her students’ minds in Honduras. At Traveling Stories, we believe that books not only strengthen minds and inspire dreams, but they also help people overcome the obstacles preventing them from becoming the best version of themselves.
We have great hopes for what Traveling Stories will accomplish but we can only accomplish so much by ourselves. Like the African Proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
Our great friends at SCHAP –
SCHAP believes that extreme poverty as we know it today has a limited lifespan and that the collaboration and commitment of impassioned organizations and individuals across the world will help to usher in an age free of such human injustice.
They recognized that a major barrier of progress in this effort is the lack of accessible and appropriate training available to organizations and volunteers in the most correct principles of community development work.
Girl Talk
Each year, Girl Talk Foundation, Incorporated reaches approximately 700 girls through our programs.
Because of Girl Talk:
• 61% of girls plan to attend college because of college tour
• 600 prom dresses collected, resulting in 95% of girls receiving dresses
• 400 girls and boys attended teen summits
• 1% asked for help in leaving gang activity
• 42% now include exercise in their daily routine
• 46% improved academically
• 73% expressed giving back boosted their self-esteem
Wartburg Alliance
The purpose of Alliance is to provide a supportive and accepting environment for students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and to educate and provide resources to the Wartburg community to encourage open discussion about diverse issues pertaining to sexuality.
Honduras Medical Mission 2011
Each year the team physician’s see approximately 2,900 to 3,500 patients in the five day clinic. Everyone who comes to the medical clinic is given free medicine and most are treated for intestinal parasites. The dentists pull about 750 to 1,000 teeth. The vets see hundreds of horses, cows, pigs, dogs and cats. These activities and numbers have been relatively constant since at least 1985.
Sister Connection
Sister Connection is a Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to the healing of Burundian war widows and orphans, restoring their dignity, and offering hope for their futures. We provide assistance through monthly sponsorships, the building of homes, and special funding in emergency situations. Sponsorship monies are provided directly to the widows with a personal, self-help approach. Sister Connection is for all widows, regardless of ethnicity or religious affiliation.
The Berkeley Project
The Berkeley Project will build a legacy of service and a strong, sustainable partnership between the students of Cal and the city and residents of Berkeley. To this end, the Berkeley Project’s foremost endeavor is to host an annual event during which thousands from the Cal campus unite on one day and work to positively impact the community through a network of service projects in and around the City of Berkeley. Fully student operated and supported, the Berkeley Project not only provides powerful assistance to the public, but aims to create a lasting culture of service-learning among its participants.
Using Gradients & Transparency In Screen Printing
If you have a design with gradients or transparency, this cannot simply be burned onto screens for printing. The transparency will be ignored, and the print will look like a silhouette of your design. This tutorial will explain how you can use a Halftone effect to get the look of transparency, or to print gradient colors.
Creating and adapting designs for print. Pt 2
This is part two of the “Creating and Adapting Designs for Print” tutorial. Part one focused on finding the right imagery, font, and getting the basic elements of the image completed. Part two will focus on finishing the image and preparing it for the screens to print onto the shirt.
Choosing the right custom shirt for your organization matters.
The introductory focus when it comes to choosing anything in this world properly, is first identifying the reason why you are making the purchase in the first place. In the case of a Student Organization, the president is making the purchase of custom apparel to publicly represent their organization, build moral throughout the organization community, and improve the quality of the event, gathering or meeting. It’s amazing how connected a group of people feel towards each other when they are all simply wearing the same apparel. Football teams, business floors, jack in the box employees, construction workers, police officers, festival security, tennis clubs, you name it, all wear coordinated uniforms to be visually synchronized.
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