b'HOT Student Community Service ProgramThe HOT Student Community Service Program gives college studentstheopportunitytousetheirinitiativetodesignand implement community service projects.HOT provides the start-up money for the projects and in some cases continual financing to match sweat equity. Additionally,wehavefundedalmost$150,000ofAlternative BreakswherecollegestudentsattheHillelchaptersatthe University of Florida (Gainesville) and at universities in Broward andPalmBeachcountiesspenttheirwinterorspringbreaks doing manual labor repairing blight caused by natural disasters or sheerpoverty.WehavepartiallyfundedtripstoElSalvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, New Orleanshurricane victims, Brooklyn, NY, Iowaflood victims, Ukraine, and Guatemala. We chartered a bus to take 44 students (Jewish and non-Jewish) with supplies we purchased, from Gainesville to New York City for two days helping Victims of Sandyclearing debris, sweeping, tearing down dry wall, tearing down decks, etc. Additionally, we subsidized two college students summer trips, one workingasavolunteerphysiotherapistinaJerusalem hospital and the other spending two months working with a local organization working against poverty, hunger and disease in Uganda. We have also funded a Child Abuse PreventionProgram(collegestudentsthroughvarious campusministries,workingoneononewithyoung childrenat-risk),andaCommunityLivingRenewal (collegestudentscleaningupblightedneighborhoods). Not only do the needy get help, but also the ongoing lessontotheyoungadultsdoingtheworkproduces young adults experiencing what it is like to help others. Now that is leverage. After years of funding these alternative breaks, HOT saw a glass very much half full and half empty.The fullness was the completion of a project helping the needy and imbuing in them a sense of responsibility that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. But the half empty was that there are 52 weeks in a year and their acts of kindness for onlyoneofthoseweeks.HOTthought,Whycanttherebeactsofkindnessevery week?AfterconversationswiththeHillel(ofBrowardandPalmBeach)staff,the problem of doing it more frequently was a staffing problem. HOT has made a grant of upto$50,000overatwo-yearperiodforaparttimecoordinatorwhosesole responsibility will be to develop projects with the students and then recruit students to participate in these new programs. As I said above, leverage, real leverage.The items on the wish list for our Student Community Service Projects are: $20,000 to fund programs created by the new coordinator$25,000 to subsidize the costs of sending 50 - 60 students on Alternative Break programs, foregoing their vacation time to help others22'