Helping Other People Everywhere

Helping Other People Everywhere
Topic(s)	Community Service
Abbrev.	HOPE
Advised	Yes
Execs	President: Jason Sha Vice President: Haasini Sunkavalli Secretary: Saanvi Gaddam Treasurer: Cooldish Bommineni Social Coordinator: Isabelle Ho
Event(s)	HOPE Auction
Website	https://www.tamshope.org/
Facebook	Link
Email	thehopeexecs@gmail.com

Helping Other People Everywhere (initialized as HOPE), is the largest student-led organization dedicated to community service at the TAMS. The organization provides year-round volunteering through its 16 committees and four blood drives in collaboration with Carter BloodCare throughout the year. They also host the annual HOPE Auction charity fundraiser toward the end of the year!

During 2019-2020, HOPE volunteers provided over 10,000 hours of community service throughout their 18 committees. Additionally, HOPE held 4 blood drives, donating 283 units of blood, and HOPE Auction, raising over $17,000 for the Rainforest Trust. HOPE Auction is typically ranked as the #1 Social Event of the Year at TAMS.

Every year, HOPE collabs with Research Organization and holds the biggest GA of the year.

Committees

HOPE provides volunteering opportunities through their committees.

Denton Nursing Home

Denton Nursing Home (DNH) is a joint committee, under both Helping Other People Everywhere (HOPE) and TAMS Medical Society (TMS). DNH provides students the opportunity to interact with the residents of the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home, twice a week. Our volunteering opportunities include making crafts, hosting parties, and, in general, playing games and spending time with the residents of the nursing home. We plan on holding a diverse array of events, such as holding a prom for the Nursing Home Residents and making gift boxes, in order to make an impact on the nursing home and the Denton community.

Committee Heads	Years
Aleena Mathai	2024-2025
Saanvi Muvva	2024-2025
Kelley Zhu	2023-2024
Harini Rajmohan	2023-2024
Advika Varadharajan	2022-2023
Sid Das	2022-2023
Vignesh Sanagala	2021-2022
Pavithra Gopalakrishnan	2021-2022
Kaitlin Sanders	2020-2021
Eric Roach II	2020-2021
Khyathi Thallapureddy	2019-2020
Chandana Chitralekha	2019-2020
Annie He	2015-2016
Veronica Zheng	2015-2016
Sarah Zbidi	2014-2015
Nina Kupra	2014-2015

Elm Fork

This is TAMS Elm Fork Education Center Volunteering, a committee of HOPE! Our mission is to implement environmental education programs that encourage responsible environmental decision making for students of all ages. We provide opportunities for TAMS students to help run field trips and homeschool labs. Volunteering with us is a very easy way to give back to UNT and to inspire children to be passionate about science.

Committee Heads	Years
Charlie Hu	2021-2022
Aadhunik Sundar	2021-2022
Michael Zhao	2020-2021
Elijah Nacar	2020-2021
Lela Lemke	2019-2020
Liu Copeland	2019-2020
Lily Nguyen	2017-2018
Smruthi Senthil	2017-2018
Michael Li	2016-2017
Vinit Shah	2016-2017
Ankita Rugi	2015-2016
Margaret Vakulenko
Benjamin Sterling Lunday

Food for Thought

Food for Thought is dedicated to providing those in the Denton area with a consistent means of obtaining food. Our volunteering includes programs at the UNT Food Pantry and other surrounding food bank and soup kitchen organizations.

Committee Heads	Years
Brianna Chan	2021-2022
Emily Chang	2021-2022
Kaitlin Sanders	2020-2021
Pardha Eluri	2020-2021

Friends Forever

Friends Forever focuses on fostering new relationships between children with special needs and TAMS students. In partnership with It’s A Sensory World, this program aims to provide students with the opportunity to develop friendships. Friends Forever will match 1 or 2 teens and a child with special needs based on similar interests and passions. This committee offers a unique opportunity for students to stay connected and create an inclusive community that nurtures a comfortable and welcoming environment for new friendships to form.

Committee Heads	Years
Krithi Meduri	2021-2022
Pranavi Garlapati	2021-2022

Gift of Words

Gift of Words is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging the educational gap created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the TAMS Chapter of Gift of Words, multiple volunteering opportunities are available for virtual tutoring across the nation in subjects such as math, science, and writing.

Committee Heads	Years
Veda Kolipakula	2024-now
Celine Chacon	2024-now

Habitat for Humanity

Every night, there are an estimated 553,742 people in the United States experiencing homelessness. Through Habitat for Humanity (HFH), a committee under Helping Other People Everywhere (HOPE), we have the power to help change that. We have multiple volunteering opportunities each month to give back to the Denton community, helping families in need of decent and affordable housing. Volunteering is hands-on, involving construction work such as landscaping, cleaning, and painting.

Committee Heads	Years
Eswar Gopalakrishnan	2021-2022
Sanjana Bolnedi	2021-2022
Naman Mehndiratta	2020-2021
Danny Zhang	2020-2021
Jessica Wu	2019-2020
Akshay Sharma	2019-2020
Surya Namboodiri	2016-2017
Samantha Boiser	2016-2017
Tony Liu	2015-2016
Victoria Koshevarova	2015-2016
Michelle Yang	2014-2015
Aaron Chao	2014-2015

Helping Hands

Helping Hands' goal is to give back to the community by serving the homeless and underprivileged. We will be providing volunteering opportunities with the Salvation Army in Denton throughout the year and would love for you guys to participate/volunteer with us in order to better the lives of the individuals we are serving. Volunteering might include food serving, cleaning, serving at the shelter, etc.

Committee Heads	Years
Subiksha Sankar	2021-2022
Omega Abera	2021-2022
Jahnavi Janjirala	2020-2021
Emily Zhou	2019-2020
Khyathi Reddy	2019-2020

High School Tutoring

High School Tutoring is a HOPExTAS committee focused on helping local Denton high school students with STEM-related curriculum. TAMS volunteers will each be paired with a student from one of these high schools and will work with them on whatever academic help they need.

Committee Heads	Years
Lavanya Vumma	2021-2022
Dolapo Ogunyemi	2021-2022
Shakthi Prabhakar	2020-2021
Mihir Khare	2020-2021

Hoofbeats

Hoofbeats aims to help engage students in the amazing healing process of equine therapy. We work with New Hope organization in Argyle, Texas where you will be able to aid in therapeutic horseback riding for young students with a variety of disabilities.

Committee Heads	Years
Anshu Dandu
Leah Cairns	2020-2021
Avery Walker	2020-2021
Thritha Anand	2019-2020
Shri Mathavan	2019-2020

Learning Through Borders

Learning Through Borders (LTB) strives to help you connect to students across the world. LTB is a project under the Worldwide Education Fund, who assists existing hostels, orphanages, schools and other institutions and organizations that are committed to educating underprivileged children who have limited access to a quality education because of poverty, religion, gender, or other factors.

Committee Heads	Years
Aurelia Wang	2021-2022
Carly Yang	2021-2022
Jalini Balasubramaniam	2020-2021
Grace Song	2020-2021

Library Committee

The overarching goal of the Library Committee (TLC) is to break down barriers in education and to provide all students with equal opportunities. Our main volunteering project throughout the year is with the Denton Public Library, where we help biweekly with anything the library needs. Libraries can be an oasis of information in areas that lack other resources. TLC works to facilitate the library’s operations in an effort to expand its reach, In addition, this year, we are looking to hold a book drive to collect books for students in third world countries that don’t have access to them.

Committee Heads	Years
Anshu Dandu	2021-2022
Ariel Ong	2021-2022
Harini Repaka	2020-2021
Yashvini Deva	2020-2021
Yashvini Deva	2019-2020
Braiden Aaronson	2019-2020

Little Leaps

Little Leaps’ mission is to serve local underprivileged daycares and youth centers, and support children (ages 1-5) so they can get quality care and education they deserve!

Committee Heads	Years
Anirudh Kaza	2021-2022
Anushka Haldankar
Kaylee Yu
Pranathi Pilla	2020-2021
Aiswarya Atluri
Subiksha Jayakumar

Revive

REVIVE provides students the opportunity to interact with children with special needs to allow for the parents to enjoy a night out. This is a committee under Helping Other People Everywhere (HOPE) and will occur every other Friday. REVIVE allows students to play board games, watch movies, make arts and crafts, and video games.

Committee Heads	Years
Joanne Liu	2021-2022
Jaishri Ramesh	2021-2022
Kate Adriaenssens	2020-2021
Mason Haynes	2020-2021
Tam Dang	2019-2020
Mayur Pabba	2019-2020

Pet Shelter

We are a volunteer group that visits Denton’s Pet Shelter every week. We usually help out with chores and also play with the animals there.

Committee Heads	Years
Vigna Lavu	2021-2022
Madhuran Selvaa	2021-2022
Hunter Anderson	2020-2021
Avishi Singh	2020-2021
Sofi Cavenaile	2019-2020
Lexie Kwon	2019-2020

Robotics Mentoring

We are the TAMS Robotics Mentoring, a committee in collaboration with HOPE and Robotics.We will be mentoring an FTC (First Tech Challenge) team at a local Denton middle school and teach them the basics of robotics. In addition to mentoring a team, we will also host a local FTC tournament and provide opportunities to volunteer at other events.

Committee Heads	Years
Rohit Rajan	2021-2022
Vidit Biyani
Sachin Kathiresan
Aryan Agarwal	2020-2021
Kaushik Akula
Jeongwoo Choi

SCRAP

SCRAP is a committee under HOPE that holds volunteering sessions every week (Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons) to help the local SCRAP store. SCRAP is a nonprofit organization that aims to reduce waste and encourage environmentally sustainable actions by providing affordable, reusable materials. Our goal is to aid the SCRAP store by sorting the merchandise and creating exciting crafts for the store to sell with the donated materials they give us.

Committee Heads	Years
Pramati Madugula	2019-2020
Tanvi Bobba	2019-2020

Shiloh Field

Shiloh Field Community Garden is this year's new joint committee under Hope and Naturally! Shiloh Field Community Garden provides students the opportunity once a week to grow fresh produce at Denton's very own Shiloh Field. At Shiloh Field volunteers serve the community by tending to the 152 individual plots, with fruit trees, blackberries, chickens, honey bees, a vineyard, composting, and more! This is a great opportunity to learn more about the food we eat and to feed those who are hungry.

Committee Heads	Years
Rohit Kandi	2021-2022
Neel Shanmugam	2021-2022
Daniel Li	2020-2021
Samuel McCaulley	2020-2021

Special Olympics

Special Olympics is a committee under HOPE that holds volunteering sessions every week in order to help out at our local Special Olympics team! Special Olympics is an organization that provides training and competition for various sports, to people with disabilities, throughout the year. Our goal is to aid the Special Olympics team by providing good coaching to the athletes and by being kind and empathetic volunteers.

Committee Heads	Years
Pranavi Garlapati	2021-2022
Devna Cherukuru	2021-2022
Shreya Billa	2020-2021
Ilina Jayal	2020-2021

Teen Court

Teen Court provides members of the TAMS community with opportunities to volunteer at the Denton Municipal Teen Court on the first and third Tuesday of every month. Volunteers can participate as attorneys or jury members in cases with other Denton teens. As a result, Teen Court volunteers are exposed to real-world settings and provide a great service to our city at large.

This year, we are in the process of creating a new program to address some of the systemic issues that we see within the community. The program will focus on providing an educated session on both the law and personal development. Our goal is to see less juvenile incarceration, see less recidivism, and instead see more prospering teens.

Committee Heads	Years
Ted Kwee-Bintoro	2021-2022
Tejas Alankar
Angelina Xu
Jeffrey Chuong	2020-2021
Raj Baweja	2020-2021
Smrithi Upadhyayula	2019-2020
Mohnish Pai
Connie Hu

UIL Volunteering

We host volunteering events at local UIL competitions, and help tutor students for UIL competitions at nearby schools. Our goal is to help these events run smoothly, and volunteering includes monitoring tests, grading exams, and running papers among other things.