The Original Action Team

Action Team was originally founded in 2002 to encourage high school students to get involved in their communities and help those in need. It was proudly associated with Volunteers of America as well as the Major League Baseball Players Trust Foundation.

 

Student Leaders

Select students would be chosen to be leaders in each Team per participating school district throughout the country. The leaders, or Captains, of each team would be chosen based upon their love for volunteering, and their love for their community. These Action Team Captains would send out the greatest message to their teams: that volunteering is exciting, fun, and extremely rewarding.

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Expanding

Throughout the years, Action Team became larger and larger, expanding the love for volunteering throughout the United States. It had then come to spread nationally, going from America, to Japan, and even to Puerto Rico!

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Bringing the Team to Manatee County

Now that Action Team was a large non-profit association, word had spread to a local school in Manatee County: Manatee School For the Arts in Palmetto. 2015 graduate, Gabrielle Jarmoszko, had been looking for an opportunity to begin a volunteer team with her high school. In 2013, she discovered Action Team and had introduced it to Manatee School For the Arts. She would later become the head Captain, or Chief, 

 

Sudden Disperse

In late 2017 to early 2018, Action Team’s two organization founders had separated, claiming their own volunteer organizations along the way. All Teams received the notification that the National Action Team would be no more; the main reason for this action is unknown.

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The Effects on Students at Manatee School For the Arts

Action Team had changed many students’ lives for the better while it was still in affect. It had left each individual with a beautiful attitude about caring for their local environment. It had also initiated a domino effect of love onward the earlier generations of Manatee School For the Arts’ students- whom had eagerly wished to be on Action Team. This school that took on Manatee County’s Team in Florida would end up making a difference in their community, and without this volunteer club in the lives of students who knows how many individuals would have gone without knowing the joys of what the team brings?

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Making A Comeback

Now, in the new school year of 2018 to 2019, former Chiefs and Captains of Action Team Manatee have decided to come together once again to form a similar group on their own, because they have realized what this volunteer team has done for them, they believe in continuing the domino effect! The team has learned from this that once the domino stops falling, just pick it back up, and try again. Hopefully, all future generations will learn that, too.

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A New Face

The design of the new Action Team Manatee logo has tells its own portion of the story. First, there is a child-like figure in the design. The child is to represent all of the children that the team effects as well as the new faces of the children, or students, that join us. The domino effect of love also comes to play as the figure is creating a physical representation of the metaphor. On the first domino there are numbers one and three to symbolize the year 2013, or the year that Action Team was introduced to Manatee School for the Arts. The goal behind spreading the new face of the team is not to promote or solicit, but to spread the sense that even if one domino falls, it doesn't mean the end. It means another beginning. And possibly a brighter one.