Good Work Partnership: BWORKS

December 17, 2014

BWORKS is one of our long-term Good Work partners.  Our students work in Soulard at BWORKS’ beautiful home site.  We move, sort, and disassemble donated bikes, as well as rebuild bikes to be given to local youth.  If you have an old bike looking for a new home, please consider donating to BWORKS. From the BWORKS website: Our volunteer-run programs...
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Good Work Partner: KidSmart

December 10, 2014

The mission of KidSmart is to ensure that children and their classrooms in the Greater Metropolitan Saint Louis Area have the basic tools for learning by transferring, at no cost, the community’s surplus supplies and merchandise into the hands of teachers for school children in need.* On Good Work days, our students prepare the KidSmart warehouse store for customers. When...
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World Pediatric Project and Good Work

November 25, 2014

The World Pediatric Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to heal critically ill children and build healthcare capacity in the world. Kate Corbett, parent of Riley (Class of 2013), DJ (Class of 2015) and Meg (Class of 2020) founded the St. Louis office in 2004 with a passion to connect children with life-changing surgical care they cannot obtain...
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What Is Good Work?

November 19, 2014

By good work, we are referring to the book of the same title that defines good work as “work of expert quality that benefits the broader society” (Gardner, Csikszentmihalyi, and Damon); we are referring to our service programs and to challenging our students to be smart and good. We will learn from our service organization partners – our Good Work...
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Good Work Day: 10/23

October 15, 2014

The first day of our Good Work program is Thursday, Oct. 23. All Upper School students will be away from school from 11:30 to 3:15 working with our Good Work Partners. Each year, Crossroads students contribute over 3,000 hours of service to the community through our various Good Work programs, including our week-long, Good Work trips. Our 2014-2015 Good Work...
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Join Us for Good Work at Home!

October 12, 2014

Volunteers Needed (a lot of them)! Help us beautify our Crossroads campus for Open House. Please bring power washers, shovels, rakes, large garden forks, or rock rakes if you have them. We hope to be done in a few hours, but stop by even if you just have a bit of time. Volunteer using VolunteerSpot in three easy steps: 1)...
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