We are a group of Bellevue High students working with local community non-profit organizations and within our neighborhood to help others in need during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
Pictured at left: Bags and notes decorated by the campers at our Sports and Service Camp. Bags were for senior citizens and used in delivery of meals for seniors. Scroll down for details about Sports and Service Camp.
Teens for Others is registered as a Charitable Organization in Washington State.
WHO WE ARE:
Meet Our Newest Members
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Vaughn Ederer, Sophomore, BHS
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Will O'Hara, Sophomore, BHS
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Rowan Gerron, Sophomore, BHS
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Duke Stauffer, Sophomore, BHS
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OUR 2022-23 BELLEVUE HIGH TEAM
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Graham Ederer
Founding Member and President
Hello, I’m Graham Ederer and I am a senior at Bellevue High School. I moved to Medina in kindergarten from San Francisco. I graduated from Medina Elementary and Chinook Middle School. I joined the Teens for Others team in the Spring of 2020. I am a member of the National League of Young Men, a high school community service group for young men and their moms where I have served as Treasurer and Philanthropy Chair. I have spent the last three summers volunteering at youth baseball camps. I am on the Bellevue High School baseball team. In my free time, I like to spend time with my friends, ski, and watch college sports.
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Jimmy Grieve
Vice-President
My name is Jimmy Grieve and I am a senior at Bellevue. Although I was born in the Seattle area, I moved away for a few years attending middle school in the Bay Area and Sophomore year at IMG Academy. I am really excited to be back at BHS and it was an easy place to come back to because of the friends I made on the Medina Elementary playground. I am a Varsity athlete in both Water Polo and Lacrosse. I’ve coached junior lacrosse camps for my club team ADVNC, did service work in Costa Rica, was a 3-year coach for kids with disabilities and am a member of the National League of Young Men. If you know me, you know that I really love being around young kids and helping them have fun and achieve their best.
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Ellie Quinn
Youth Events and Program Director
Hi! My name is Ellie Quinn and I am a junior at Bellevue High School. I have lived in Bellevue my whole life and attended Sacred Heart, Medina Elementary, and Chinook Middle School. I have previously done lots of volunteering through Jubilee Reach and have volunteered at youth soccer camps because I love working with kids! I’m currently playing lacrosse and soccer at Bellevue High School which are two of my favorite sports. In my free time, I like to spend time with my friends and family!
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Camille Grieve
Community Service and Partnerships Director
My name is Camille Grieve and I am a junior at Bellevue. Like my brother, I mixed up my schooling with 5 years in the Bay Area and my Covid year (Freshman) at IMG Academy. The change of schools and the moves made me appreciate community, friends, and familiarity. It also expanded my network of friends which are now all over the world. At IMG, I was part of the ‘girls empowerment club’ which was a great way to build community, I directed basketball and soccer programs for youth with disabilities, did service work in Costa Rica, and tutor for math and more. I am excited to be back at BHS and I play on the Soccer and Lacrosse team. I look forward to spending more time with all the kids in the community!
Outreach Activities
Twice Weekly Neighborhood Donation Drive and Delivery Drop for Jubilee’s Groceries For Families Program for families in need during the pandemic (2020-1) and currently participating in Jubilee Friends Grocery Sign Up Program (2022-23).
Jubilee’s Weekly Warm Meals delivery service to local seniors who are isolated and unable to leave their homes (2020).
Organizing monthly neighborhood donation drive for dinner for 100 men at sheltering at Congregations for the Homeless (2020-present).
Sports and Service Summer Camps for Neighborhood Children. For details about camps and registration, scroll down.
Seasonal school year youth volunteer events including:
Annual Spooktakular Community Service Event (October)
Annual Diaper Drive (December)
Annual Valentine’s Day Bag Decorating & Supplies Drive for Jubilee Reach (February)
Annual Planting & Decorating Spring Pots for Senior Citizens and members of the community (April)
Annual Field Days (June)
Fall Harvest Gratitude Event (November) Details for 2022 coming!
Ukraine Supplies Drive (March 2022, April 2022)
About Teens for Others Alumni Founders
Cole Ederer
Hello, I’m Cole Ederer and I graduated from Bellevue High School in June 2022. I am currently a freshman at University of Michigan studying Sports Management. I moved to Medina in first grade. I was a member of Brothers for Others, a community service group we started in 6th grade for middle school boys and also was an active member of National League of Young Men, a high school community service group for young men and their moms. Owen and I have been volunteering the last several summers at Outdoors for All, a local camp for kids with disabilities. I have also volunteered as a camp counselor for Bellevue Youth Lacrosse Camp and with the 7/8 lacrosse program. I played lacrosse at Bellevue High School. When I have free time, I like to hang out with friends, play sports, ski, and watch college football and basketball.
Ellie O’Hara
Hi! My name is Ellie O’Hara and I graduated from Bellevue High School in June 2022. I am currently a freshman at SMU. My family and I have lived in the Bellevue area for the past 11 years and I attended Medina Elementary and Chinook Middle School. I was a member of National Charity League – a mother/daughter service organization which is involved with many local charities. I also volunteered as camp counselor at KidsQuest Children’s Museum for two summers. In Fall 2019, I did a mission trip to Baja Mexico to build a house for a local family. I’m was also a cheerleader at Bellevue High School and on the Varsity Lacrosse team. In my free time, I like to hang out with friends, wake surf and ski.
Owen Mead
Hi my name is Owen Mead and I graduated from Bellevue High School in June 2022. I was a member of Brothers for Others, a community service group I joined in middle school. Cole and I have worked together for the past few summers at a camp called Outdoors For All where we worked with kids with disabilities and through our experiences there I believe we are able to run a safe and fun summer camp. I played basketball and lacrosse for the high school and I was a counselor for the Bellevue basketball camp. I like to hang out with my friends, play lots of different sports and games, ski, and wake surf in my free time.
Service Projects and School Year Events for Children in the Community
2020-23
Annual Halloween Service Project
Campers and Counselors enjoyed Covid safe music, fun and games with friends for a Halloween themed afternoon
Campers arrived in costumes and masks, ready for costume contest!
Counselors decorated mini pumpkins with the campers and then delivered to people in the community to cheer people up.
Excited costumed counselors Ellie O'Hara, Josie Quinn, Lexi Fredman, Owen Mead, Cole Ederer and Graham Ederer
Counselors and Campers decked out for Halloween
Even the 1970's had a presence at camp!
Mini pumpkins for people who needed a smile
Scoring a point on the Cat in the Hat!
Showing the Love for our Community
Valentine’s Day 2021 & 2022
For the month of February, the TFO’s Service Project involves campers and counselors making Valentine’s Day bags for Jubilee Reach and filling them with treats and messages of hope and love.
Decorating Valentine's Day bags for Jubilee Reach
Happy Valentine's Day to the Bellevue Community!
Springtime Teens for Others Event
New and former campers were invited to meet up to decorate pots and plant flowers in them. The pots were delivered to Jubilee Reach and were included in the weekly grocery delivery.
Everyone was very hard at work.
Campers decorate pots for Jubilee Families
Camp Counselors hard at work!
Add flowers!
Quick break for some Four Square
Designs were creative and cheerful!
Even the crazy spring weather couldn't slow the group down.
June Field Days
Sports and Service
Closing out a most unusual school year for the elementary school campers with a “normal” end of year activity - Field Day!
Historically, Field Day marks the celebration of school ending and summer beginning. Teens for Others wanted campers to have that feeling, so we invited campers for a day of games, music and arts and crafts.
Pictured here, campers paint kindness rocks to lay around the neighborhood so that while on their summer walks, people will see happy, thoughtful messages to remind them of the good things in the world.
Two happy campers work together to create the perfect color for their kindness rocks.
Teens for Others camps were developed based on activities the campers enjoyed most. Four-Square tournaments, basketball against the camp counselors, capture the flag games and arts and crafts were top of the list.
The campers always said how much they liked being a part of figuring out what activities they would do each day.
Holidays
Teens for Others selected Jubilee Reach as the charity to support with a diaper and wipe drive every holiday season.
Campers were invited to decorate bags used for dropping off the items at Jubilee Reach. They also wrote notes to families and learned more about serving others.
In total we collected in 2021:
15 packs of baby wipes
12 packages and boxes of diapers
decorated 18 bags
many holiday cards for families
Ellie organizes all of the donations!
Happy Holidays!
Owen packs up the diapers.
Summers
Sports & Service Camp
Introducing a new kind of summer camp experience for kids in our neighborhood where we combine our passion for sports and community service. Optional camp donations are 100% donated to local non-profits. We also include arts and craft projects, competitions and playground time. This is a picture from Week One of camp with our Camp Counselor team; Mia Michael, Josie Quinn, Ellie O’Hara, Nicole Hawk & Owen Mead (Cole Ederer taking the picture)
Pictures From Our Summer Camps
Camp Counselors getting ready for kids to arrive!
Hot Lava Monster on the playground is another favorite!
Four Square competition is a big hit with the campers.
Camp Registration
to register please send the following information to TeensForOthers2020@gmail.com
parent contact info (email and phone)
camper name
grade in fall of current year
camp sessions
Schedule TBD
all sessions take place from 9:30am-12:30pm at Medina Elementary
suggested camp donation is $80 per week ($20/day) 100% of camps fees donated to the following local charities: Jubilee Reach, The Sophia Way and Congregations for the Homeless. Donations are optional and all campers welcome regardless of donations.
allergies
Teens For Others follows current King County Covid-19 Safety guidelines
sports or interests that they may want to do during the week
specific friend grouping requests
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
— M. Gandhi