YAVA - Connecting People Through Volunteering

This morning I was on the T when a gentleman came on asking for spare change. He walked up and down the car asking for spare change until a woman came up to him and handed him some. After that, others followed with more money. But as he walked by a college aged girl she reached into her bag and gave him some food. He thanked her and even stopped to chat.

I hate to read too much into this situation, but it seemed almost too representative of how many people deal with the bigger issues in society (throwing money at them). You can try throwing money at something until it disappears... but you're not addressing the underlying issue. This girl went straight for the problem. In a way she was just like a YAVA-er.

YAVAers don't sit on their couch and write checks to charity, they go out and do something! In fact just earlier today six YAVA volunteers went over to Saturday's Bread to help fight hunger first hand. Remember, it can be a food pantry, visiting with the elderly, or even leaf raking, your small contributions add up to a large difference. So check out the calendar and sign up to do something.

Cheers to you!

Sam

Director
YAVA

What: CBS Early Show!
When: Tomorrow morning, November 9th, 6:30am
Where: Boston Children's Museum, 300 Congress Street, Fort Point across from South Station
How: South Station on the Red Line, Silver Line and Commuter Rail.
Why: Represent your city and ONEin3 and get on national TV!
RSVP: Drop us a line here at ONEin3 at ONEin3Boston@CityofBoston.gov if you can make it.

CBS’s Early Show is filming in Boston on Friday. They need about 200 young people to fill out the crowd. Tell all your friends about it so we can get them a solid group. This is a HUGE opportunity for our friends at ONEin3 because they’re going to get some national coverage, and the local affiliate will be there so they should get some serious local coverage as well.

Hey Everyone!

MSNBC is asking everyone to VOTE on their favorite
elevator pitch from 2006!

Its VERY CLEAR that two of the companies have
been sending people to the website to vote for
THEIR elevator pitch!

SO, we thought we'd ask you to help our friend!

Go Here

THEN at the bottom of the video when it asks who WHO you think was the best -- pick
"Calendar Girl" aka Morgan! That is, if you really think it was good ;)

It would REALLY mean SO MUCH TO HER!

Thanks!!

~The YAVA Team

Hey Everyone!!
Thanks for those of you that made it on Thursday night! The party was awesome. So many happy faces drinking Harpoon beer, playing pool, and meeting cool new people.

We've teamed up with Yelp.com!!
Click below to keep the momentum going! Post your own photos and leave comments!!

Want more photos? Check out our photos page! Photo page... more photos... get it?
Have your own photos, please email yava@yavaonline.org?

Special thanks to our sponsors: Harpoon, MAP Boston and Felt, for making it possible.

See everyone in December!!

~The YAVA Team

WGBH loves us!!

Did you try to sign up for the WGBH pledge drive this weekend and it was full?  Well now you can!  WGBH just gave us 15 more volunteering spots.  That means 15 more YAVA faces on TV and 15 more of you can get a free year-long membership to WGBH.

If you were RSVP'd for an event for this coming weekend, you must RSVP again! We apologize for the inconvenience.

Saturday, October 27th:
Rosie's Place / Equator
Franklin Park Clean Up / Doyle's

Sunday, October 28th:
WGBH Pledge Drive / The Stockyard
Franklin Park Zoo's Zoo Howl / Dogwood Cafe

See the Calendar for more info!

We love Harpoon, and they love what we do. So as a special "Thank You" for doing what we do, they're offering a free beer to everyone that RSVPs for our October Social @ FELT, Thursday October 25th - 8pm. RSVP below.

We invite you to join YAVA at Felt Boston on Thurs 10/25 at 8pm for our monthly bash. Reconnect with old friends, make new ones, all while enjoying tasty appetizers, free pool, fun prizes, great drinks and dancing. If you missed our last party at Felt, it was a blast! We had over a 100 members attend and we expect even more people this time around!!

SPECIAL PROMOTION: Bring 3 friends and you get in for free!!

Member's Corner - This is a place to post comments, your own events, parties, YAVA props, er....feedback etc...
New Event Management System -  Eventbrite, our new event management system will enable you to see who is coming, send you automatic remnders and confirmation emails, needless to say it is much better than our old system!
Pics with Flickr -  We have added Flickr slideshows to our homepage and pics page so that you can see whats been happening  in YAVA. Have pics you want to post? Contact Rohit or Sam.

Ideas for Improvements? Reply to this thread or send us an email.

Dear YAVA,
We apologize for changing the website format so suddenly. We experienced some major technical issues but are working around the clock to restore all the old functionality.On the upside, this gives us a chance to re-examine the way our old website was created, and make YAVA 2.0 the most user friendly website possible! In the mean time, please bear with us.

All YAVA events are happening as planned. Any questions? Please contact Deb.
Any other questions should be directed to either Rohit or Sam.

~The YAVA Team