NOVA Serves: MLK Day of Service and Food Donations, Jan. 16
Happy New Year! Let’s start the semester in service to our community. NOVA is proud to again be partnering with Volunteer Fairfax for our annual commitment to service on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 16. Below, you will find information about donating food items and ways to sign up for serve.
Next week, in the week leading up to MLK Jr. Day, we will be collecting specific goods to be placed in Power Packs for approximately 3,500 children facing food insecurity outside of school. Approved donation details are listed below along with donation locations all across the college.
- Breakfast Items: oatmeal packets, cereal (individual sizes), granola bars, or Nutrigrain bars
- Lunch/Dinner Items: chili cups, mac and cheese cups (single servings), tuna/chicken salad kits with crackers, canned Ravioli
- Snacks: fruit cups (in juice or water, not syrup), cheese and crackers, granola bars, fruit snacks, dried fruits
- Drinks: 100% fruit juices, Capri Sun juice boxes, shelf-stable milk
Drop-Off Locations
| Campus / Office Building | Donation Location |
| Alexandria | Student Services Center , Bisdorf Building, AA-194 |
| Annandale | CA Main Info Desk |
| Brault | Main Info Desk |
| Loudoun | LR Main Info Desk |
| Manassas | Student Life Office MH 108 |
| MEC | Outside the Student Life Office Room 116 |
| Pender | Pender 3 Entryway |
| Woodbridge | WS Main Info Desk |
Volunteer Fairfax will host several community events as part of its MLK Day Weekend of Service Event
Held on the third Monday in January, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service is the only federal holiday observed as a National Day of Service — a “day on, not a day off.” This day of service helps to empower individuals through service, and it serves to strengthen communities.
Volunteer Fairfax will host several ways for the community to get involved, including their Give Together event with hands-on volunteer activities for kids (ages 5 through 12), the Valentine’s Challenge for adult volunteers to make hand-crafted cards and a new teen-only volunteer project. Plus, we’ll launch a Community Conversation with guest speaker Breauna Dorelus, from Connecting the Cause, who will host a panel discussion on developing engaging and transformational volunteering activities.
Registration for each of these activities can be found on the Volunteer Fairfax website.
NOVA Serves.
Submitted by:
Nigel Word, Director of Student Engagement, NWord@nvcc.edu