Livingston CARES’ mission is to help communities and individuals locally, regionally, statewide, nationwide, and globally in humanitarian projects including disaster relief and recovery efforts. CARES also provides a resource and information repository for individuals and organizations wishing to contribute to disaster recovery efforts. 
Livingston CARES Newsletter Issue 9
October 2021
News and Updates:
2022 Service Trips

Livingston CARES is coordinating five service trips to support communities that have been devastated by natural disasters, including regions in Puerto Rico and Louisiana.

There are five service trips planned for the spring of 2022. The three Puerto Rico trips will take place on January 15-22, March 12-19, and May 21-28. The two trips to Sulphur, Louisiana are planned for January 16-22 and March 12-19.

Livingston CARES is looking for interested students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members to volunteer their time to aid in the disaster recovery and rebuilding in these communities. There are six volunteer spots for each trip. The rates for Puerto Rico are $975 per person and Louisiana is $675 per person.

In order to make these service trips more affordable and accessible to all interested candidates, there are scholarships that are available through Livingston CARES. For more information on how to apply for these financial grants, please visit the Livingston CARES website.

The nonprofit organization ReHace will be leading volunteers on the Puerto Rico service trips. ReHace is an organization that supports social projects in search of aiding communities in disaster relief and education.

The Fuller Center is the organization that Livingston CARES will be working with in Sulphur, Louisiana to assist with rebuilding communities that have been severely affected by Hurricanes Laura, Delta, and Ida.

For more information on Livingston CARES mission or the service trips, contact cares@geneseo.edu or visit our website: https://www.geneseo.edu/livingston-cares.

How to Apply

Applications to apply to all service trips open on Monday Oct. 4 and will remain open until midnight on Monday Oct. 18. All applications are available here if you are interested in volunteering on any of the five service trips.

Livingston CARES has decided to implement a new application process for the service trips to Louisiana and Puerto Rico. The application process consists of a short essay explaining why you are interested in being a volunteer on a service trip.

Scholarships are available to support volunteers being able to access and afford service trips. To apply for a scholarship on the Livingston CARES website, please click here.

Applicants will be notified the week of Oct. 25 if they have been selected to participate on the trip, as well as if and how much financial support they are receiving if they applied for a scholarship. At the time of notification they will be given 48 hours to secure their spot with a $100 nonrefundable deposit.

For information on how to apply, please visit the Livingston CARES website.

Gumbo-to-Go

Are you interested in helping raise money to support Livingston CARES service trip scholarships, volunteering to help prepare and serve gumbo, or just want to eat delicious gumbo?

Livingston CARES will be hosting our semi-annual fundraiser Gumbo-to-Go on November 4, 2021 at the Central Presbyterian Church in the village of Geneseo. The address is 31 Center St. Geneseo, NY 14454.

We rely on volunteers to help prepare and serve gumbo to raise money to support student service trip scholarships. Volunteer jobs will include prepping food throughout the morning and afternoon, clean up throughout the day, packaging the meals, and serving/distributing meals during the evening hours.  Volunteer shifts are anywhere from 1 to 2 hours long from 9am to 7:30pm and participants are encouraged to sign up for multiple shifts if available - we need many hands to make this event a success!

If you are interested in supporting our cause, please consider signing up to volunteer for this event or purchasing a ticket for a gumbo dinner! To sign up to be a volunteer, click here. Tickets are $12 each and can be reserved here.
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