NCC Community Service: an NC Connected, Inc. program

Programs - NCC Service

United Way MLK Day of Service

Meals on Wheels

Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.”
~ John Crosby

Programs Girls Connected TechCamp Boondocks Media School NCC Media Productions NCC Mentors NCC Service NC Connected Home

A substantial portion of the students' work is with community members and organizations that have limited resources to get on the Internet. As a result, the girls frequently act as teachers and technology evangelists for other community members. They also participate in community service throughout the year.

For the last 3 years NC Connected students have volunteered at the Triangle United Way to help refurbish computers and clean keyboards. These computers are then donated to local nonprofits to help them further their efforts in the community.

Chrystal and Jamillah count the meals before leaving to make deliveries During breaks from school, NC Connected students sometimes deliver meals for the Wake County Meals on Wheels program. Students find it rewarding to be able to make such a direct impact in the lives of the Meals on Wheels clients.

Along with delivering the much-needed meals, the girls do a good job greeting the clients and making them feel special because the girls realize that, for many of the people they serve, the Meals on Wheel delivery volunteer may be the only person that they get a visit from the entire day.

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.”
~ John Crosby

Programs Girls Connected TechCamp Boondocks Media School NCC Media Productions NCC Mentors NCC Service NC Connected Home

Programs - NCC Service

A substantial portion of the students' work is with community members and organizations that have limited resources to get on the Internet. As a result, the girls frequently act as teachers and technology evangelists for other community members. They also participate in community service throughout the year.

United Way MLK Day of Service
For the last 3 years NC Connected students have volunteered at the Triangle United Way to help refurbish computers and clean keyboards. These computers are then donated to local nonprofits to help them further their efforts in the community.
Meals on Wheels
During breaks from school, NC Connected students sometimes deliver meals for the Wake County Meals on Wheels program. Students find it rewarding to be able to make such a direct impact in the lives of the Meals on Wheels clients.

Along with delivering the much-needed meals, the girls do a good job greeting the clients and making them feel special because the girls realize that, for many of the people they serve, the Meals on Wheel delivery volunteer may be the only person that they get a visit from the entire day.

Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

In September 2005, the girls from NC Connected offered their services to the hurricane evacuees from New Orleans. Students worked at the Hurricane Relief Shelter on Corporate Center Drive in Raleigh, NC helping evacuees locate family members on the internet and registering evacuees in the Red Cross database.

NC Connected staffers went to the shelter to offer our services in any way we could. As we spoke to the residents, we found that though many of them were missing relatives, they had little computer experience and felt too intimidated to use the computers themselves.

We called girls in our programs and three of them were able to assist in this effort. For two weeks after school, these girls visited the shelter, performed searches, and placed phone calls to help evacuees find missing family members, some of them children.

Residents were delighted to have the help and the NC Connected girls learned up close and personally that they could indeed make a difference in the world just by being willing to help.

Special thanks to the girls who volunteered at the shelter and to the Wake County Human Services Department for allowing us to be of service.

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In September 2005, the girls from NC Connected offered their services to the hurricane evacuees from New Orleans. Students worked at the Hurricane Relief Shelter on Corporate Center Drive in Raleigh, NC helping evacuees locate family members on the internet and registering evacuees in the Red Cross database.

NC Connected staffers went to the shelter to offer our services in any way we could. As we spoke to the residents, we found that though many of them were missing relatives, they had little computer experience and felt too intimidated to use the computers themselves.

We called girls in our programs and three of them were able to assist in this effort. For two weeks after school, these girls visited the shelter, performed searches, and placed phone calls to help evacuees find missing family members, some of them children.

Residents were delighted to have the help and the NC Connected girls learned up close and personally that they could indeed make a difference in the world just by being willing to help.

Ms. Denise and girls taking a break from computer refurbishing Special thanks to the girls who volunteered at the shelter and to the Wake County Human Services Department for allowing us to be of service.