LINK: Click here to visit The Big Event's website
Applications for The Big Event 2011 are available today to students, faculty and staff.
Since its inception in 1999, The Big Event has been a student-led effort to promote volunteering, event chairman Taylor Krebs said.
“Our goal is to help volunteers make connections to the organizations, understand their meaning and to make it more than a one-day service project,” Krebs said.
More than 4,000 OU students, faculty and staff unite one day each spring to say thank you to the community for its support of the university, according to the event website.
In 2009, a record 4,992 volunteers signed up to work at 162 job sites, according to event’s website.
Volunteers work with city park departments, neighborhood organizations, school districts and any other group that plays a vital role in the community, Krebs said.
Big Event administrators provide volunteers most of the tools necessary for work including landscaping, making care packets, cleaning parks and other special projects, Krebs said.
In preparation for The Big Event, 102 nonprofit and community-based organizations have signed up to be job sites for this year’s event.
The deadline to apply as a job site is Friday.
The Big Event is a resource for those organizations that lack the tools and manpower to get projects done, Krebs said.
Health For Friends, which provides health services to low-income citizens, has participated in The Big Event since its inception.
The organization depends on The Big Event each year for help with its largest projects, Health For Friends CEO Brian Karnes said.
“We have a lot of needs that need to be met, and to have The Big Event come in for free is phenomenal,” Karnes said.
Volunteer applications are due March 4. Students can apply as individuals or as groups, according to the event website.
The Big Event 2011 will be held April 2.
Deadlines
» Job-site applications due Feb.11
» Volunteer applications due March 4
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saxman 1 year, 3 months ago
I like how it says they're available...but doesn't say where to get them...because they're definitely not on bigevent.ou.edu where you would assume they would be. Daily fail.
tyrr6356 1 year, 3 months ago
You can find them at bigevent.ou.edu under the Volunteer Applications tab!! Apply today!