b'Community Service Projects The HOT Student Community Service Program (p. 31) Community Service Program in the FSU (p. 32) The HOT Student Community Service Program gives college students the opportunity to use their initiative to design and implement community service projects.HOT providesthestart-upmoneyfortheprojectsandin some cases continual financing to match sweat equity. Additionally,wehavefundedmorethan$100,000of Alternative Breaks where college students at the Hillel chapters at the University of Florida (Gainesville) and at universities in Broward and Palm Beach counties spent their winter or spring breaks doing manual labor repairing blight caused by natural disasters or sheer poverty. We have partially funded trips to (i) El Salvador- poverty, (ii) Mexicopoverty,(iii)Nicaraguapoverty,(iv)New Orleans (several times)hurricane victims, (v) Iowafloodvictims,(vi)Ukrainepoverty,and(vii) Guatemalapoverty.Wecharteredabustotake44 students (Jewish and non-Jewish) with supplies we purchased, from Gainesville to New York CityfortwodayshelpingVictimsofSandy clearingdebris,sweeping,tearingdowndrywall, tearingdowndecks,etc.Additionally,we subsidized two college students summer trips, one workingasavolunteerphysiotherapistina Jerusalemhospitalandtheotherspendingtwo months working with a local organization working against poverty, hunger and disease in Uganda. We have also funded a Child Abuse Prevention Program (college students through various campus ministries, workingoneononewithyoungchildrenat-risk), andaCommunityLivingRenewal(collegestudentscleaningupblightedneighborhoods). Ourgoalisthattheseexperiences,inadditiontoservingthecommunitytoday,will resultinthestudentsbecomingcaringandphilanthropicmembersofsociety.Iam typing in blue because it is without doubt the most leveraged of our programs. Not only do the needy get help, but also the ongoing lesson to the young adults doing the work produces young adults experiencing what it is to help others. Now that is leverage. The items on the wish list for our Student Community Service Projects are:$25,000 to subsidize the costs of sending 50 - 60 students on Alternative Break programs, foregoing their vacation time to help others$15,000 for other projects students bring to us during the next 6 months31'