Know the community with whom you are serving:

• Logan Neighborhood demographics and history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan,_Philadelphia#Geography
   
• Cooke Middle School (http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/jaycooke/middle.html)
   
• National Student Partnerships (http://www.nspnet.org/offices/philly_w.htm)
   
• Urban Bridges Adult Literacy Program (http://www.volunteersolutions.org/volunteerway/org/215567.html)
   
• Building Community Partnerships (http://www.nydic.org/nydic/toolkits/index.htm and http://www.nydic.org/nydic/images/pdfs/PrincipEffectPartnersCBO.pdf)
   
• VESTED program (http://www.villanova.edu/engineering/service/vested_mentor.htm)
  If you are an Engineering student your service placements will be with the schools who participate in the VESTED program.