Action Team Connects MLB Players with High School Students

High School Students Can Make a Difference

Bill Hanks
Major League Baseball players and high school students across the United States, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico, are working together to inspire and train the next generation of volunteers. This program started in 2003.
Once high school students join the Action team, they get the following.
1. Free step by step volunteer projects.
2. Free posters and brochures.
3. Free subscription to the Wall Street Journal ($200 value).
4. Monthly conference calls with major league players.
5. Scholarship opportunities.
6. Access to volunteer services.

There is no better feeling than make a difference in somebody's life. The Action Team does just that. It also teaches individual responsibility to young individuals.

There are more than 150 high schools already involved in this program. To date, it has served up assistance to more than 111,000 individuals in need. This program offers young people to make an impact on their local communities.

Action Team members have a captain that recruits young individuals to make a difference. These teams then do things like supplying man power for projects, cleaning up parks, highways and neighborhoods, helping street people, working with the elderly, collecting books for children to read and assisting other charities and organizations.

This is a very worthwhile organization to belong to. It is inexpensive and it proves that young people can take the lead and make a difference in other people's lives.

You can learn more at Action Team.

Published by Bill Hanks

Just an average Joe living in the Midwest. I am a retired High School teacher/coach. I work part time for a small college. I am president of our local Kiwanis club. I am also a city alderman. But, most of...  View profile

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  • Dina Sullivan3/25/2011

    Excellent.... :o)

  • Michael Segers3/25/2011

    Good article - good to hear that professional athletes are doing this.

  • L B Woodgate3/25/2011

    I hadn't heard of this before Hank. Thanks for sharing.

  • Patti Walden3/25/2011

    Very interesting!

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