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Season of Service FAQs
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What is the Season of Service?
What is a Season of Service project?
What are the Season of Service emphasis areas?
Why Officially Register your Project?
How do I get my church / organization/ business involved?
What is the Season of Service?
Arizona churches, businesses, and civic agencies have been serving their communities for years. The Season of Service is a historic partnership of these entities to serve at the same time through a season to show their neighbors an unprecedented display of love.
What is a Season of Service project?
Partnership projects and volunteer opportunities for the Season of Service must meet a tangible need in the community. Projects are for the purpose of improving the life of another person or group of people in a physical or emotional way.
Arizona CityFest, the Season of Service, and the Luis Palau Association do not allow opportunities to be posted that are primarily focused on fundraising, public and private advocacy for or demonstrations against specific moral and/or religious political positions, organizations, political parties and/or political candidates. Posted projects of this nature will be flagged as inappropriate and removed.
What are the Season of Service emphasis areas?
Arizona CityFest has several Season of Service project emphasis areas. They’ll get you thinking creatively about where and how you can serve.
- Hunger
- Homelessness
- Education
- Health Care
- Family Well-Being
- Neighborhood Revitalization
- Existing Projects
For more information on Arizona’s specific areas download the Arizona SOS Emphasis Sheet. More information coming soon!
Why Officially Register your Project?
Registering your project allows all of Greater Phoenix to see how your church or organization is serving our community through the Season of Service. It also offers a simple way for people to contact you if they want to get involved.
By registering, you:
• Provide crucial information to your project volunteers (date, location, time, etc.)
• Publicize your project for FREE
• Recruit even more volunteers without lifting a finger (until the project itself, of course).
Register your project(s) NOW!
How do I get my church / organization / business involved?
- Investigate different project / service ideas that your group can organize and carry out.
- Download the SOS Emphasis Sheet for ideas and opportunities.
- Identify a project coordinator to facilitate your project(s).
- Register your project here.
How do I recruit volunteers?
Register your project. (See "Why Officially Register your Project?" above) Other ideas to help promote your project and recruit volunteers:
- Announce your project in person at your church or organization
- Post the opportunity on a community bulletin board in your church or organization
- Send an email blast
- Link to your project plan on this website from your church/organization’s website
- Pass out flyers in your neighborhood or near the project site
- Offer an incentive for volunteering, like a free T-shirt, a potluck/picnic/barbeque before or after the project, give-aways throughout the service project (like bottles of sunscreen, chap stick, gift certificates, Frisbees, etc.), and more. Be creative!
