Akron Law Cares looks a little different this year for its 17th iteration. Rather than a single day of service, incoming first year students were given a variety of options to get out into the community to give back throughout orientation week. Here are some of the community partners they helped yesterday and today:

• Packaged 8,414 pounds of food into 6,784 meals at the Akron Canton Food Bank with Professor Cindy Mast and Director Julia Meyers of Academic Success Programs.
• Volunteered at One of a Kind Pets with Professors Ben Cohen and Mike Doane.
• Assisted The Good Samaritan Hunger Center with Professor Thomas Stevens and Assistant Dean Andy Costigan.
• Students packed 300 boxes for the Community Baby Shower with Professors Joann Sahl and Julie Cortez and Angie Smith at Open M.
• Volunteered at Bright Star Books with the library team including Dean Kerry Lohmeier and Professors Brian Cassidy, Amelia Landenberger, and Sarah Starnes.
• Assisted the Akron Zoo with holiday light preparation for their annual Wild Lights event with the Career Services Team of Dean Alisa Benedict O'Brien, Director Alecia Bencze, and Coordinator Pleshae McPhee.
• Volunteered at Gennesaret with Professor Sue Altmeyer.
• Worked at a Habitat for Humanity build site with Professor Ashley Keith.
• Assisted the Akron Rotary Summer Camp with Professor Mike Doane.
• Volunteered at Hope & Healing Survivor Resource Center with Director Melissa Kress.
• Volunteered at First Tee of Greater Akron with Associate Dean Mike Gentithes.
• Volunteered at ACCESS, Inc. with Professors Bernadette Genetin and Rachael Hancock.
• Volunteered at the Richfield Heritage Preserve with Professor Heather Zirke.
• Made 100+ beds at Haven of Rest Ministries with Professor Gary Spring.
  Thank you to all who volunteered!