Spark the Wave

That’s a wrap. Thank you to all the delegates and staff for an incredible week. We miss our delegates so much already. Can’t wait to see everyone for Wave Week 2025!

Friday’s Wave Week 2024 highlights: Today we started off the day by going to our Service Fair. A huge thank you to the incredible organizations who attended Spark the Wave’s 2024 Service Fair. Spark the Wave appreciates you taking the time out of your day to talk to our delegates about what you do and inspire them to get involved in your incredible organizations. We are very grateful that all of you could come and help us make it a success!

Thursday’s Wave Week 2024 highlight is our Farewell Party! We had an awesome night filled with dancing and games. We all had a blast. A huge shout out to our amazing dj . We are so sad Wave Week 2024 is almost over, hope to see everyone back for Wave Week 2025!

Wednesday’s Wave Week 2024 highlights are full of our delegates talents and creative abilities. Today, during our Mini CSP (Mini Community Service Project), our incredible delegates made inspirational rocks and picture frames. The rocks and picture frames were decorated and included inspiring words and messages. They will be donated to Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse and to Ronald Mcdonald House Families. To end our night, we had our Stage Night. Our delegates showed their amazing talents; we are so proud of all the amazing work they are doing! They truly are change markers in our world.

Tuesday’s Wave Week 2024 highlights are full of action packed CSP’s (Community Service Projects). We started off our day going off campus to our CSP’s at Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse and Royal Gardens Association! At Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse our delegates cleaned the patio decks, cleaned up trash around the playgrounds and cleaned the windows! At the Royal Gardens Association, our delegates cleaned up leaves and trash around the park and fields. Our Awesome delegates collected 10 bags of leaves and 8 bags of trash at the Royal Gardens Association! To end our day, we had our Night of Service, our delegates sort clothes, food, and books. We will be donating a grand total of 2894 items to the Mitzvah pantry! These delegates are truly making a huge impact in the world!

Wave Week 2024 is officially underway! We had a fun-filled day and loved meeting our awesome delegates! We are kicking off the Wave Week 2024 highlights with our Mini CSP (Mini Community Service Project).Today for our Mini CSP, We made over 400 jelly and fluff sandwiches! These sandwiches were donated to Our Mother of Good Counsel’s Food Pantry! Then Our Mother of Good Counsel will hand out the sandwiches to people in need and other food banks! These delegates are truly Doing Something Awesome !!!

We are so excited to welcome our delegates for Wave Week 2024 tomorrow! Our Staff is working hard to make this an AWESOME week!

Knock out your service hours while having fun at Wave Week. Register early to save $$$.

Friends of Spark the Wave,

WE MADE IT EVEN BETTER IN 2023! We need your HELP this holiday season to be able to serve every young service star we can in 2024.

I am very pleased to say that through the combined efforts of more than 50 volunteers and an
enormous number of community supporters, Spark the Wave was not only able to weather the Covid storm, but re-build a new and expand on our mission in 2023. Our new Summer of Service is more robust than ever. Wave Week remains our linchpin while still offering our virtual programs: Change Maker
Challenge (an asynchronous service, project-based program) and Ignite Academy (a virtual, week-long program in which every participant designs and completes a service project by week’s end). SUMMER OF SERVICE ’23 with a new and improved Wave Week at Villanova University was not only 3D after 3 years on hiatus BUT growing and even more connected with all of our community partners

ARE YOU READY FOR STW’S SUMMER OF SERVICE 2024?

As one of those supporters, thank you for your continued commitment and your belief that young people can change the world through service. This year, we focused on engaging teenagers from across the United States at our Summer of Service programs. We trained scores of learners aged 11– 22 who each over the course of one week, with STW trainers, planned and executed service projects that ranged from virtual 5k’s to homeless advocacy campaigns. These individuals show us that the future of Spark the Wave is in the hands of incredibly capable, passionate, and community-centric young people.

We ask you to continue your support and invest in these individuals by making acontribution to Spark the Wave and our next group of future community leaders.

Young people are more engaged now than ever. They see their peers develop movements that
have captivated the world. Not only do today’s young change-makers recognize the various issues
facing their communities, they are prepared to change them. During this crucial time, STW provides
future leaders with the confidence and tools to know that they can—and will—make a difference.
With your gift, we can introduce the next Change Agent to a lifelong commitment to community
service. Checks can be made payable to “Spark the Wave” and mailed to Spark the Wave, PO Box
40038, Washington, DC, 20016 or go to https://secure.givelively.org/donate/spark-the-wave to make a secure, online gift.

I am always eager to hear from you and can be reached at [email protected] with any thoughts
or ideas you might have to help Spark the Wave in the new year. I stand alongside an incredible team
of motivated volunteers who worked incredibly hard through COVID times so that Spark the Wave can
now make the world a better place by investing in our future leaders. I hope you’ll consider joining us
on this quest in 2024.

Wishing you a Happy and Healthy Holidays & 2024,

William Gallagher, President and Founder

Donate Now | Spark the Wave The mission of Spark the Wave is to empower, train, and mentor the next generation of leaders who will impact the world through a lifelong commitment to community serv...

Have you heard the news? First Year Staff Applications are now open for Wave Week 2023! Come join our amazing team of volunteers and help us empower the next generation of leaders! Click the link in our bio and get your application in by February 24! 🌊 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that Early Bird Registration for Wave Week 2023 is NOW OPEN! Join us at Villanova University from July 24-28 for a week of hands-on service, community building, and a whole lot of fun. Don't wait because Early Bird Registration ends on January 1st, so register now to secure your spot for the best week of the summer!

For today’s Wave Week 2022 highlight, we’re looking back at our incredible Farewell Party! Delegates dressed up and had an incredible night filled with games, dancing, and even cake! Everyone had a blast thanks to the legendary 🎉

We’re kicking off our Wave Week 2022 highlights by looking back at our first Mini CSP (mini community service project) of the week! Our delegates made Back to School Cards and Birthday Wrapping Paper for . This project is a great way for everyone to get to know each other at the beginning of Wave Week. We are proud to say this was just the beginning of an incredible service journey for this group of service stars 🤩

We miss you, delegates! Wave Week 2022 was the best week of the summer, and that is all thanks to you! This week, we will be posting YOUR favorite moments from Wave Week so comment your favorites down below! 🌊

So great to be back at Smith Playhouse. Always love our time there.

Thank you Spark the Wave volunteers for cleaning up and rearranging equipment on Smith's Playground and in the Playhouse! Spark the Wave is a group of high school students from Pennsylvania and other states, as well as folks from as far away as Paris, France, who are paired with college volunteer mentors from across the US. The group's goal is to empower, train, and mentor the next generation of leaders with a commitment to community service. Smith has been working with Spark the Wave volunteers for over a decade. This is their first time at Smith since 2019 due to Covid-19 restrictions - we are so happy to have them back!

Wave Week 2022 has officially begun! Our delegates are putting the FUN in FUNSTIVAL! We can’t wait for the week ahead 🌊

Wave Week 2022 is just around the corner! If you haven’t signed up yet, you can save 75 dollars on your Wave Week tuition if you register before July 10th. Sign up now at www.sparkthewave.org/register and enter the discount code “SUMMER”. Then you can get ready for an incredible week where you’ll earn 40 hours of community service!