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Below are a few Maryland Park and Planning Suggested Virtual Activities During COVID-19:

Blood Donor - American Red Cross: Give Blood. Donating blood makes a big difference in the lives of others.https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html
Click here to visit the American Red Cross and learn more. 

 

Maryland Responds Medical Reserve Corps Volunteer: Willing to provide services during a disaster or emergency situation? Register today at Maryland Responds. https://mdresponds.health.maryland.gov/

Maryland Unites Opportunities: Governor Larry Hogan has shared how Marylanders can help during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to learn more.https://governor.maryland.gov/marylandunites/

Virtual Volunteer Opportunity - Library of Congress Volunteer online at By the People, the Library of
Congress's crowdsourcing project. By the People invites you to make documents more searchable for everyone
by transcribing, reviewing, and tagging digitized images of manuscripts and typed materials from the Library's
collections. This work improves search and discovery of this important content. Click here to read more or get
started now!https://crowd.loc.gov/

Virtual Volunteer Opportunity - Join Zooniverse.org and become part of a global community of people-
powered research. The main ways of volunteering are helping with classifications on data, being a beta tester on projects yet to launch, and being a moderator for a project. Click here for more information and to sign up to
volunteer. https://www.zooniverse.org/get-involved

 

COVID 19 Service Learning Projects: Click here.
Learning Ally: Students can help Learning Ally create audio books. Volunteer opportunities include narrators (reading stories),
listeners (listening to stories), or quality assurance (listen to books and provide feedback about their experience). Students
must complete an application, watch an orientation video, and complete a quiz to determine their fit with Learning Ally. This
opportunity is for students 16 or older. Students can register here.

Smithsonian Institute: Students can become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help make historical documents and
biodiversity data more accessible. You will have access to field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo
albums, manuscripts, and more. If you want to learn how to transcribe, start here. After you review the instruction, you can start
transcribing documents here.

Teens Give
Students tutor one 4th-10th grade student one hour per week. Students deliver sessions via laptops and phones. Students must
complete an application, provide a school reference, and submit a photo ID. Students must report their hours so TeensGive can
verify them for DCPS. Students can register here

Online Service-Learning Project Ideas:
The Do Good From Home Challenge - https://leadasap.ysa.org/dogoodfromhome/
How Youth Can Help Communities Respond To & Recover From the Coronavirus Pandemic - https://ysa.org/covid/
WE Schools @ Home - https://www.we.org/en-US/our-work/we-schools/
Soldiers Angels – Virtual Opportunities - https://soldiersangels.org/

Smithsonian Institution Digital Volunteering -