More than 1,000 Bowling Green State University students, faculty and staff participated in the 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, an annual community service event on Monday.
“I am so very proud to see so many members of the BGSU family participate in this Day of Service,” said
BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey in a release. “Taking part in these activities teaches compassion and
civic responsibility and has an important and lasting impact on our communities.”
Volunteers assisted community partners at 48 sites during the event. Community partners designed service
projects for the volunteers to complete as a team. Projects included working alongside Owens Community
College students at the Toledo Zoo, painting bookcases for La Conexion to support childhood literacy,
painting the Lott Industries Shared Lives Studio and Gallery, designing meal-delivery bags for the Wood
County Committee on Aging and building and refurbishing picnic tables for the Wood County Park District.

Other service projects include cleaning, painting, canvassing, organizing files and other office items
and sorting donations.
In total, volunteers served more than 2,000 service hours during this year’s Day of Service.
This year, BGSU was a member of the inaugural MLK Jr. Season of Service Consortium of Northwest Ohio.
The consortium included BGSU, Lourdes University, Mercy College, Owens Community College, the University
of Toledo and the United Way of Greater Toledo.
According to the release, the group collaborated to organize MLK Jr.-related events, educational
programs, and volunteer activities in the northwest Ohio region.
As part of this effort, regional higher education partners sent more than 1,300 student, faculty and
staff volunteers to serve at 60 community sites providing needed services and assistance.