Service-Learning Partner Agencies
Director of Service-Learning: Lynette Sandley, Samford University, 726-4046
Agape Baptist Tutoring Program (Shades Mt. Baptist Hispanic Mission)
Brighton Middle School
Contact: Margie Curry, Principal
Service Activity: Installing computers and programming with BASIC
Cahaba Valley Health Care, Inc.
5099 Caldwell Mill Road
Birmingham 35242
Contact: Edwina Taylor, Executive Director, 991-1877
Service Activity: Helping lower-income and education individuals fill out health care applications by translating from Spanish into English
Church of the Reconciler
312 18th St. North
Birmingham 35203
Service Activity: Serving meals, sorting donations, cleaning
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church’s ESL Program
Exceptional Foundation
1616 Oxmoor Road
Homewood 35209
Contact: Tricia Kirk, Executive Director, 870-0776
Service Activity: Interacting with mentally/physically disabled adults
Focus First Program
Impact Alabama: Alabama Student Service Initiative
1715 9th Ave. South
Birmingham 36294
Contact: Lindsay Helmbock, www.impactalabama.org
Service Activity: Screening children’s vision in daycares
Gate City Elementary
6910 Georgia Road
Birmingham 35213
Service Activity: Teaching science to 5th graders once a week and conducting simple science experiments
Gwin Elementary After-School Tutoring Program
Service Activity: Tutoring bilingual children Monday-Thursday, 3:00-5:00
Jefferson County Department of Health
Service Activity: Pharmacy students recorded patients’ pharmaceutical histories
The Lovelady Center
Service Activity: Children’s creative dramatics classes offered and a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
M-POWER Ministries
4022 4th Ave. South
Birmingham 35222
Contact: Ryan Hankins, 595-5959
Service Activity: Working with children in after-school tutoring, clerical work
New Beacon Hospice
2145 Highland Ave., Suite 110
Birmingham 35205
Contact: Dr. Janet Alexander, Samford 726-2494
Service Activity: Interacting with hospice patients and their caregivers
Pathways
409 21st St. North
Birmingham 35203
Service Activity: Sorting donations
P.E.E.R., Inc. (Promoting Empowerment and Enrichment Resources)
East Lake Community
Contact: Sally Allocca, East Lake United Methodist Church, 836-3201
Service Activities: Tutoring children, interacting with senior adults, community gardening, recycling, creative dramatics, and much more
Resident Council of Southtown
2520 Southtown Court
Birmingham 35205
Contact: Irene Johnson, 342-6004, 322-5975
Service Activity: Tutoring children K-8th in after-school program
Sowing Seeds of Hope and Perry County Department of Public Health
Marion, Alabama
Contact: Frances Ford, Executive Director, 334-683-4666
Service Activity: Building wheelchair ramps for families in need, blood pressure and other health services clinics