2019 Community Project Dashboard

Volunteers, students, and families will create "I Have a Dream" vision boards to be displayed throughout the school building.

Please join Mayor David Mayer, Township Council, Gloucester Township Public Schools, and Friends and Neighbors on January 21st by volunteering your time to fulfill Dr. King’s dream of helping others. As Dr. King once said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?” Be a part of fun and worthwhile service projects that have a lasting impact on our entire community.

In commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, guided tours focus on African-American vocalists and Civil Rights activists Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson, accompanied by 78-rpm recordings of those artists played on authentic Victor Talking Machines.

We will be cleaning outside ( weather pending) the recreation facility.

We will be cleaning inside the recreation facility. We are inviting adults and children at least 5yrs. old & up from the Community.

South Orange Maplewood Community Coalition on Race presents the 18th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Monday, January 21, 2019 at 2:00 pm, at Columbia High School, 17 Parker Ave, Maplewood. The event is free and open to all. Hundreds of SOMA residents and friends from neighboring communities gather to honor Dr. King through music, a sharing of interfaith readings, and an affirmation of Dr. King’s call to action and service.

We would like to invite our surrounding community (Society Hill) to watch the documentary about the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker Strike entitled, "At The River I Stand." From there we would like to have a representative from AFSME talk to the group about the role of unions. We would also like to ask attendees to bring donations of school supplies for Nebinger Elementary School which is in our community. Here is a link to the film's IMBd is here https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230010/

All are welcome to the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, on January 21st at Second Baptist Church of Doylestown. Join us for the opening ceremonies at 8:30am where members of our community will share reflections on Dr. King’s legacy. At 9:30am we will transition to several service activities, which have been chosen based on the needs of our community, break for lunch (provided free) and complete our projects together.

Students and staff will be participating in multiple community clean-ups of the Woodland Avenue Corridor.

Part of our goal for this year's MLK Day of Service is to provide access to high school-aged students to critical information related to self-expression opportunities such as a spoken word competition etc., creating buttons as a memento of the day and their school's namesake.

The East Stroudsburg University Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Breakfast was initiated by former President Robert Dillman and other dedicated individuals including Leslie Antonette and Mel Gillespie in 1997.
This celebration is a significant and symbolic event in the East Stroudsburg Community as it is the largest program in the area honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Student and adult volunteers will help to pick u trash on the school grounds with a focus on the Nature Trail

We will sort and organize collected hygiene items for donation to Face to Face in Germantown.

Neighborhood clean up and beautifulcation

Assisting in coat distribution to those in need

We will assist a community group in cleaning up a city block that is often neglected. We will also distribute fire prevention materials.

The children of Gaudenzia Centro will do a program to honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King.
Refreshments will be served.

Volunteers will construct a "Making Life Kinder" bag and fill them with personal toiletries specifically geared toward women. Volunteers will also decorate and personalize individual cards that will accompany each bag. These bags will be donated to area shelters. Registration for this project is required @ https://tinyurl.com/ycysbq85. If additional information is needed contact AARC @ 215.898.0104.

There will be more than 25 projects organized by Abington Friends School allowing for in excess of 600 participants. Projects offered are for all skill and age levels and we partner with 15 different organizations.

At the animal shelter, volunteers will help with cleaning, laundry, dishes, outdoor garbage pickup, and creating enrichment items for our animals within the facility.”

We are hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive

For AAMP's 2019 Martin Luther King Day of Service project, we will be creating care packages for families at the Woodstock Family Center that will include books, handwritten cards, toiletries, winter/cosmetic essentials and no-sew fleece blankets/pillows. This program will be free and open to the public.

We will pack breakfast bags for the elderly who are served by AID for Friends.

Coats received from members and donors will be organized by male/female/adult/child and prepared for distribution to the Community starting at 11:00AM. Participants will be comprised of Alliance of Social Workers, Inc. members, family, friends, advocates and National Association of Black Social Workers student chapters from various schools such as Widener University, West Chester University.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Join the American Red Cross at Nolan Painting, Inc.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Join the American Red Cross at St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Calling all blood donors – your donation is needed today to help patients in need.

Clean up around the school . Projects in classroom requested by teachers. Our staff , volunteers in the community, and students .

Interfaith Day of Service.
All ages welcome, something for everyone. In addition to hands-on projects, we'll also have spoken word and dialogue activities.
Brunch will be served!

Volunteers, students, and families will work together to organize, clean, and decorate the OEC annex.

PARX hosts our 'kick off Breakfast Celebration' for our Bensalem community. All Bensalem houses of worship clergy and congregants and community organizations and businesses etc. are invited to RSVP and take part in this event.

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The NO STADIUM NO DEAL COALITION is supporting the Concerned Citizens of Point Breeze, Anti-Gentrification & Displacement Forum. Discussion topics will reveal disproportionate city planning threatens to affordable housing availability in communities historically occupied by people of color: Removal of African American Communities, Redlining - PBS National Report, Rental/Tenant Issues, Housing Conformity (4-5 story mansions), Sheriff Sales – Delinquent Property Taxes, 10 year Tax Abatement.

Vision Board Creation workshop for youth and adults

Finance Literacy workshop for youth

Anti-Gun Violence Project: creation of dream booth (3) African American Author Reading for youth

Arboretum Project – create tree care and conservation posters for community display

SPRING CLEANING Wiping down classroom furniture, mopping hallways and stairs.

From 9-noon we invite volunteers to join us at our office in the Bok Building (5th floor) to Prep Art Projects for Preschool Art Projects for our Free Art Workshops for Underserved Youth. Volunteers can learn how to make ASI crafts and cut fabric and paper projects, use a sewing machine, use glue guns google eyes and pompoms to make puppets. Volunteers are also welcomed to prep or make Valentine's Day cards which we distribute to homeless veterans and senior citizens.

This project focuses on providing food for institutions that feed the hungry by providing food to developing countries all over the world to eradicate hunger.

The Assemble Prenatal Food Boxes project prepares nutritious kits of food for Chester County Hospital to be distributed to pregnant low-income women who are treated in clinics.

Athletic Recreation Center is a beautiful, historical center that requires a lot of support to keep it in a safe, clean, working condition. During the Day of Service, we are hoping to garner the support of every organizations to give this building a good clean up and to de-clutter from the previous year. We have neighbors who will come out to support our endeavor and also community partners such as The Brewerytown NAC and Habitat for Humanity to name a few. Lunch will be provided.

Before Service Day we are collecting diapers, wipes, baby shampoo, baby wash, and baby lotion. On Service Day members of the St. Andrew's parish and guests will package these items into kits for parents in need. The kits are going to the Bucks County Housing Group homeless shelter.

Bake Cookies to be decorated on Monday for Whosoever Gospel Mission

At this event, we will be building bat boxes and partnering with The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed. The bat boxes will be placed on Manor College's Campus. We are inviting current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the college to join us for this event.

Each house of worship does a a thirty-minute service with a message about their faith, traditions and beliefs, followed by fellowship meal or refreshments.

The Office of Community Relations is partnering with Berean Presbyterian Church to manage indoor cleanup projects.

Donations of clothing and books to distribute.

We will cooking homemade vegetables soup, pack soup cups, make sandwiches, fill toiletries bags, sort coats, prepare snack bags.

Community Awards Ceremony recognizing those within this community that have served to make this community and more a better place for all.

Blanket Making for Mitzvah Circle

Blanket Making at Home for Mitzvah Circle

Help the men and women of the Fire Department with firehouse duties.

The activities will include workshops, resources, 1 on 1 consults, networking, and vendors. Anticipated speakers include Kenneth English with Jeanette Tennant and the Get It, Live It, Be It panel. All ages welcome. Continental breakfast and lunch served. Hosted by Philadelphia Housing Authority, Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center, Roses Clubhouse, People's Emergency Center, Mill Creek Advisory Council and Mill Creek Community Partnership.

Book Collection and Sorting for Philadelphia Schools

We will be making blankets for Children who are in Foster Care - distributed thru Fleece For Keeps.
We will also be asking for books to be donated and doing volunteer reading activities throughout the morning.

Come support One Art Community Center in making bricks out of recycled materials for their sustainable building projects! Dress warmly, we may be going inside and outside to gather and move materials around.

A day for activities, food and fun with boys and their fathers.

We will also host a clothing drive to benefit the St. Patrick's Association.

Assemble breakfast bags. All ages

Bridle Path Elementary School in Lansdale, PA is honored to participate again this year in the MLK Day of Service. The entire school will help fill bags with food and self care items to be donated to a local charitable organization (ie: Manna on Main, Mitzvah Circle) for distribution to those in need.
We are requesting T-shirts via the lottery system.

Animal Supplies Collection for Burlington County Animal Shelter:
Caring for our animals requires a lot of time, love, money, and supplies. Below is our “Wish List.” Donating the following items help us with the day-to-day care of our animals and support our operational needs. Thank You!

Food collection

Volunteers will be collecting food donation and packing them to be donated to a local shelter.

Volunteers can make toys that will be donated to Pets House at local Animal Shelters

Collaborating with the Enterprise Center in order to bring financial awareness about investment opportunities relating to small business and investing.

Help Calvary Center get spruced up for 2019! As a busy community center in a historical building, all of our spaces are in constant use and could use some love. Projects will happen in a morning and an afternoon shift, and you'll be able to choose your project when you arrive. In the morning, our friends from Kol Tzedek Synagogue will lead a children's project, open to all ages. Lunch is provided!

Assist in the care of sheltered animals

RVCC Children Campus Center will host a day of multicultural activities with 30 pre-school children. Activities will include 20 volunteers leading reading, multicultural artwork, puppet creation to celebrate the life and legacy of MLK.

Due to forecasts of dangerously cold weather, winds and potential snow or ice, we will no longer be holding this volunteer event on Monday, January 21st from 10am-12pm at Pennypack on the
Delaware. We will reschedule this same cleanup event for Saturday, February 2nd from 10am-12pm at the same location (Pennypack on the Delaware) with the same volunteer tasks. Please email info@riverfrontnorth.org if interested in the February 2nd event. Thank you!

Students and staff will be participating in multiple community clean-up, catering to shut in individuals.

Volunteers will make non-personalized BIRTHDAY CARDS only for seniors at a local service agency.
Ages 5+. This is appropriate for children with a supervising adult.

Creating cards to send to our brave men and women a card of hope and thanks.

Create cards for Veterans for Valentine's Day

Members of the Association of Alumnae will collect professional attire that will be donated to Career Wardrobe for women/men reentering the workforce. Donations must be gently worn and clean. Preferable: Dresses, suits, pants, blazers, shirts, blouses, ties, and shoes. To register your donations for this project follow the link @ https://tinyurl.com/y8umfkvtFor more information contact: Hong-Mei Li @hongmei258@gmail.com

Casserole Making at home for Face to Face

We will prepare the meal and dining room to welcome our guests. We will serve dinner to our guests. Then we will clean the dining room and kitchen after the meal. We will have volunteers help with the meal service. Project Hope will send a NP to do screenings for our guests (blood pressure, HIV, glucose, etc.)

It is the mission of CBNC to serve our community by maintaining a clean and safe environment for all. Volunteers and Neighbors will participate in a community clean up that can include the removing of trash/debris, painting and more in local area vacant lots, parks, and streets.

Students, family members, and staff will be making flashcards for incoming kindergarten families.

Students, family members, and staff will be assembling sock and snack rolls for local homeless shelters.

We will be cleaning around the park.

Habitat for Humanity Chester County is taking gently used home wear and furniture for donations

Woodchipping the trail and clearing various plants around the trail.

There will be multiple tables in which service activities will be taking place. Each table will focus on a certain aspect of service.

There will be multiple tables in which service activities will be taking place. Each table will focus on a certain aspect of service. Specifically, students will have a self care(self-esteem photo booth), in order to discuss positive self-perceptions.

Celebrate the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with your West Philadelphia friends and neighbors at the new Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center! Activities will include arts, crafts, games, and reading One Book, One Philadelphia youth companion titles Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña. READING WILL BE AT 11AM.

Children of all ages will paint commemorative banners while listening to stories and songs about Dr. King's life. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Contact AARC @ 215.898.0104

We will be spending the day cleaning and painting the church's educational wing.

The church will be sponsoring our yearly clean-up inside the church which include: painting, small renovations, etc. Weather permitting we will also clean the street behind the church.

Carnegie International artist Tavares Strachan illuminates the museum's exterior with the names of some of history's less visible figures. Through dialogue with an expert docent, celebrate these individuals and their contributions to humanity.

Our organization will be in two places on Jan. 16th, 2017. We will be holding two community service projects to help families
who are unable to purchase basic human needs for their children. Our volunteers will participate in activities honoring Martin
Luther King, Jr., and how in the light of a new Presidential election, our families need information, knowledge to become
empowered in their daily lives .Families who are not able to buy diapers may lose a job be absent from school or daycare.

Clean up after MLK Day of Service at 1:30 PM @ St. Paul’s Baptist Church.

Join Independence Seaport Museum, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, and United by Blue for a day full of service and fun as volunteers and staffers will clean up portions of Christopher Columbus Blvd. Directly adjacent to the Delaware River, this is a key area to keep the Delaware River clean.

As a thank-you for participating, enjoy full-day access to the Museum, snacks prior to the cleanup starting, and discounted pricing to skate at Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest that evening.

We will work with a organization. More information will follow.

Clothes and shoes for all ages, all genders will be given away. Coats, boots hats, scarfs included. Collect toiletries and hygiene products, package and give away along with the clothing give away. The drive begins December 1 for collections of items

Interfaith Day of Service.
All ages welcome, something for everyone. In addition to hands-on projects, we'll also have spoken word and dialogue activities.
Brunch will be served!

• Care Crew will sort and assemble professional clothing.
• Distribute needed to items to any onsite community members interested.
• Distribute remaining clothing items to various nonprofits in need of such items (Veteran’s multicenter, Career Wardrobe, United Way, Project Home).
• Philadelphia Reads and Beyond School Walls mentors to read and provide craft activity to children in children’s area.
• Human Resources will provide information on line job fair opportunities as well as resume ass

Clothing Sale Clean-up on Monday

Gently used clothing collection from GA will be donated.

Coat Donation Drive. All coats will be given to One Warm Coat.

Students and staff will collect and donate various school supplies. These supplies will be given to a local charity organization called "Kids Cupboard". The supplies will be distributed to schools with limited resources and to students will low income.

Volunteers should come dressed appropriately to clean and paint designated areas of the school. All volunteers will need to sign a "waiver" on site. Light refreshments will be served. Volunteers can meet at Houston Hall on UPenn's campus for transportation to and from this site. For more information contact: Diane Leslie @ uofpmlk@gmail.com or 215.898.0105.

MLK Day will be the kick off of an ongoing Rejuvenation Project at the Cecil B. Moore Village Community in North Philadelphia. On MLK Day we will be cleaning up litter, cutting the grass, and trimming shrubs. We will have college students from Temple University volunteering as well as members of the community support this project.

Community fire prevention discussion at 2789 Castor Ave. (Home Depot)

Get a good read on your health at the University of the Sciences’ annual Martin Luther King Jr. Health Fair at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Faculty, staff, and students from USciences will be on hand to conduct health screenings and discuss relevant health issues. They will be performing vital signs evaluations, grip and pinch strength tests, determining balance and fall risks, and conducting individual medication reviews. The fair will be free and open to the public from 1 -3pm.

Hosted by the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race for the sixth year, on the evening of January 21st beginning at 5 pm, we ask families to light up the outside of their homes with Luminaries–white bags with votive candles inside that can be decorated with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision. The goal is for 2000 homes in SOMA to be lit up as a sign of hope, sanctuary, peace, and solidarity with Dr. King’s vision of the Beloved Community.

Participants will join together for a march to the Martin Luther King
Statue and then to the Rotunda from the volunteer site for a program in
honor of the day.

Cleaning, book give away,

Monday’s project will include preparing a classroom for transformation into a new calming room for Conwell. The project will also include refreshing the cafeteria and other common areas, and assembling recreation equipment for Conwell’s after-school program. The majority of the work will be cleaning and painting, with some organization and equipment assembly as well.

We will bake cookies for first responders

Bake chocolate chip cookies, bag them and add a special message for the Cathedral Kitchen.

This is an invasive plants removal and litter clean up. Most of the ivy we'll be addressing is English ivy, but there is some poison ivy too. We will have protective gloves and Tecnu scrub for clean up. But volunteers can opt to pick up trash too and stay away from the plants. No problem. See more details above.

Gideon Elementary will be focusing on topics of stress and trauma, in order to understand how to cope effectively--specifically, through art or therapeutic recreation.

In commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, guided tours will focus on three compelling stories of courageous Delawareans whose fight for freedom and equality began at The Old State House.

**Program will lead with the opening remarks and light refreshments. Participants will have the opportunity to create posters and banners depicting a world of nonviolence. Participants can engage in child friendly activities followed by a peace march around the immediate neighborhood and ending with lunch.

Participants will be CPS parents, students, alumni, community members, etc.

Cradles To Crayons is dedicating the month of January to Martin Luther, Jr., celebrating his legacy of service in the community.

The YMCA in partnership with Cradles to Crayons will hold a collection here at the Abington Branch.

Donations collected on MLK Day will include a wide range of new and like new items for children ages newborn to 12.

The West Philadelphia Alliance for Children is now seeking volunteers to help with shelving, cateloging and organizing books to prepare for the opening of our newst school library...Harrington Elementary school! Volunteering in a WePAC library means being part of a team of caring people, passionate about sharing the love of reading with the children of Philadelphia.

During this event...We are in the process of creating a library at William Kelley School. Volunteers are needed to sort through books, add call numbers and barcodes, and shelve books.

Decorating cupcakes to be donated.

At the National Constitution Center’s story corner, Center staff will engage the day’s youngest visitors by reading beloved books about Martin Luther King Jr. Day, like Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

We will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in partnership with One Village Alliance in order to create a family-friendly event focusing on civic engagement, social justice, and the arts.