Campus Outreach Opportunity League
- Campus Outreach Opportunity League
The Campus Outreach Opportunity League was a United States national, non-profit organization founded to promote and support college student involvement in community service and social action. It was founded in 1984 by Wayne Meisel. For twenty years COOL carried out a number of programs and strategies to fulfill its mission. However, due to a combination of factors, COOL often had difficulty securing enough financial resources. It faced near bankruptcy on a number of occasions. In 2004, the leadership of COOL entered agreed to have the organization be acquired by Action Without Borders/Idealist.org. Although it was characterized as a "merger," it was in fact, a full acquisition. Financially COOL had more debt than assets. It lived on as the Idealist On Campus program of Action Without Borders. In 2007, Action Without Borders decided to discontinue the program.
The COOL National Conference
The only COOL program that continued throughout its twenty year history was its National Conference on Student Community Service, more commonly known as "the COOL Conference." This program also continued as part of the Idealist on Campus program within Action Without Borders. After AWB/Idealist.org decided to discontinue the program, a group of volunteers stepped forward to continue the conference as an all-volunteer organized event. Heather Cronk, who had served on the staff of Idealist On Campus and planned a number of conference in that capacity, had been laid off when Idealist On Campus was discontinued. Along with Abby Kiesa, from CIRCLE, Heather led the volunteer organizing effort. John Sarvey, who had served as the National Conference Director for COOL from 1991 to 1994 joined the volunteer effort and arranged to have Northeastern University hosted the next conference. The planning committee re-branded it "IMPACT: National Student Conference on Community Service, Advocacy, and Social Action."
Other Significant Programs
* "Road Warriors"
* Mixing It Up
* Teaming Up
* Into the Streets
* Road Scholars Program
* COOL Leaders
Executive Directors of COOL
* Wayne Meisel
* Julia Scatliff
* Bill Hoogterp
* Kristen Parrish
* Jennifer Bastress
* Melissa
* Ariane Hoy
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