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AIDS Walk: Held in early May, this walk collects funds for the St. Louis AIDS Foundation. Burroughs students attend in teams of their own or with a Montgomery Plan faculty sponsor.
Danna Drive: This activity is held in January and focuses on the needs of a  particular charitable agency chosen by the student committee. We visit the agency and learn about its focus, its clients, and its needs. For four weeks during the winter term, we collect specific items from our community members to donate to the chosen agency and educate the student body about the agency and about the broader social issues related to the agency. In past years, for example, we have collected videos for the Edgewood Children's Center and school supplies for a Salvation Army shelter. The Montgomery Plan Committee also sponsors an annual bake sale (during well-attended basketball games in January) and donates the proceeds to the chosen Danna Drive agency.
Gateway Greening: Gateway Greening sponsors many urban gardens in various neighborhoods in St. Louis. These gardens provide residents the opportunity to grow their own produce and flowers when they do not own property of their own. Also, schools and local agencies take advantage of the gardening opportunity. Burroughs volunteers help build, rebuild, or prepare raised beds at a gardening site chosen by Gateway Greening. Holiday Food Drive: The Holiday Food Drive,
Senior Prom: Held each year
SLARC Dances: At SLARC dances, Burroughs students serve as dance partners to the developmentally disabled citizens who attend the dances.
Special Olympics: Special Olympics provides athletic competition for physically and developmentally disabled citizens. . Our volunteers serve as buddies to the athletes, making sure each athlete participates in his/her events and entertaining the athlete between events. Volunteer Opportunities Fair: This fair, still in its developmental stages, invites representatives from local agencies seeking teenage volunteers for the summer to meet with students interested in finding volunteer work. Burroughs students who have had good experiences volunteering at particular agencies also help out at the fair by meeting with students who want to learn more about different summer opportunities and providing specific information about the agency for which they have volunteered.
Weather Stripping: EnergyCare is a local agency that assists the elderly and disabled with heating and cooling needs. Burroughs students who volunteer for this activity (usually in November) install weather-stripping for windows and doors in homes served by EnergyCare.
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Chouteau Island Clean-up: 
held during the weeks before winter break, generally provides many cans and nonperishable items for two local food pantries. Not only do we collect canned goods from Burroughs families, but we also are fortunate enough to be able to collect items at four local Straub's stores on a selected Saturday in December. During winter break, students deliver the items to a food pantry and then pack about a hundred and fifty holiday boxes for needy families.
Old Newsboys' Day: This popular St. Louis event collects donations on behalf of over 150 children's charities. Burroughs students collect at the corner of Clayton and Price Roads and at the corner of Ladue and Price Roads. Students also encourage members of the Burroughs community to save their donations for the Burroughs' corners and to send in donations if they are not able to drive by our corners on Old Newsboys' Day.
SLU Make a Difference Day: Saint Louis University sponsors the local Make a Difference Day, "the most encompassing national day of helping others -- a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors." Millions of Americans participate across the country in this annual event on the fourth Saturday of every October. Burroughs students traditionally help out at Campus Kitchens Project at SLU, an organization that seeks to stamp out hunger in our community. 
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