2019 Community Project Dashboard

—placing T-shirts on the lawn for “Heeding God’s Call” in memory of victims of gun violence in the city of Philadelphia. Volunteers are needed to write names on the T-shirts and also to place them on the lawn on wooden stands.

– nonperishables: canned fruit, flour, sugar, canned beans
(kidney, black, white), boxed scalloped potatoes, rice, canned tuna or chicken,
jelly, oatmeal, cereal, canned meat soups or stews, spaghetti sauce, pasta,
cooking oil, Chef Boyardee canned products, peanut butter, & condiments (mayo,
ketchup, mustard). Needn’t be kosher but must not be expired!

Youth workshops focusing on service and outreach.

Youth students from Riverstone Church will help clean and organize clothing and donations at Sunday Breakfast Thrift Store in Penndel.

Workshop on careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine) for high school students interested in healthcare, science, engineering, technology, or math careers. A STEM panel (made of up university faculty and staff) will discuss their personal journey, and offer advice for the next generation. This program is especially intended for minority and first-generation, low-income students, but all are welcome to attend. Registration required at: https://tinyurl.com/ybdc9pab

Workshop focusing on adults as it relates to services and outreach

Won Community Service Center volunteers will help a house of worship for an immigrant community to be maintained for promotion of community fellowship; WCSC volunteers will help the neighborhood sidewalks and streets to be litter-free; WCSC volunteers will advocate community fellowship and environmental stewardship. Breakfast will be offered to early arriving volunteers.

With the Philly Farm Crew, groups of volunteers will visit local urban farms (most likely in West Philly) to lend a much-needed hand with one of various farming/gardening projects; people will get their hands dirty in doing several hours of manual work

Will work for an agency that serves homeless or senior citizens the students will assemble packages or help with thrift store. tbd

Will partner with "Sisterhood" & "What About Our Daughters" to donate shoes and clothing.

WILL BE PAINTING, CLEAN UP , EDUCATIONAL GAMES. SINGING EDUCATING ABOUT M L K AND WHAT THE DAY IS ALL ABOUT

While listening to iconic speeches by Dr. King, volunteers will be create no sew blankets for the Project Linus to be donated to children with cancer.

We're hosting a volunteer park cleanup in Tacony Creek Park for Martin Luther King Day of Service. We will spend time cleaning up trash and clearing debris from the trails. Dress warmly, work gloves will be provided.

At 11:00am, volunteers will join us at Olney Christian School for a free lunch and watershed environmental games. Bring the family and friends!

Contact doryan@ttfwatershed.org or 215-744-1853 for questions or to register.

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/

We would like to celebrate your service by offering you this opportunity to gather with other volunteers and see the award-winning documentary film, PERSONAL STATEMENT. The film will be followed by a powerful discussion led by student organizers and school counselors from the School District of Philadelphia. Members of the film's cast & crew will also be in attendance. The discussion will focus on educational equity and the critical need for more college and career counseling to enable all stude

We will stuff teddy bears for children living at Laurel House

We will show the TED talk Women at the Negotiating Table: The Missing Piece in Peacebuilding and then have a discussion about it.

We will provide information to senior citizen and the community at large on services available to them provided by our local government and providing food for those in need and to follow up with services where we find the need.

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.)

We will package food for their clients.

We will make valentines for residents at VA hospital

We will make homemade cards for hospitalized kids

We will make and wrap 200 sandwiches for Holsey Temple's Feeding Ministry and Convenant House

We will have the pleasure of experiencing the Rev. angel Kyodo williams as our keynote speaker. Once called “the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, and “one of our wisest voices on social evolution” by Krista Tippett, Rev. angel Kyodo williams Sensei, is an author, maverick spiritual teacher, master trainer and founder of Center for Transformative Change. She has been bridging the worlds of personal transformation and justice since the publication of her critically-ac

We will have Martin Luther King Alumni, Germantown Alumni, The men of Kappa Alpha Psi,. Philadelphia Police, Representatives from The VA, Representatives and Resources from Congressman Dwight Evans office, State Representative Stephen Kinsey and Administration, Senator Art Haywood and Administration, Representative Helen Gym and Administration local Elementary schools and Junior High Schools, Philabundance, Artists, Workshop Partcipants, Health providers.

We will gather for continental breakfast. We will pass out gloves, brooms,heavy duty bags to each volunteer. They will be given a designated location to clean.
We are expecting at least 30 persons from the church. Normally one other organization or school partners with us (it varies from year to year).
This is our first external project. The last three years the projects were internal.

We will discuss fire safety tips and topics with the community and distribute fire prevention materials.

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

We will conduct an indoor cleanup of the New Fellowship Baptist Church

We will collect toiletries to donate to the Philly Committee for Homeless Youth.

We will clean up trash and debris on the outside grounds.

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.

We will be working with the Philadelphia Goat Project cleaning stalls, training the goats, and walking the goats through the neighborhood and arboretum. The goats visit schools and perform at various community events and we support their training so they can do these projects. (Prinnie)

We will be spending the afternoon visiting with residents of Maplewood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. We play games, tell stories, and spend time with the residents. Kids and babies of all ages are welcome. There is a piano and plenty of space for other instruments if you would like to come share any musical talents. It's a wonderful day to share with the residents of the Germantown center!

We will be providing parent workshops for families to introduce and/or develop specific skills. The focus of the workshops is TBD based on parent request and partner availability.

We will be painting part of the second floor at Lankenau Environmental Science Magnet High School. We will be inviting students, staff and parents to come out on MLK day to help beautify our school. Our students will have the opportunity to earn Community Service Hours. We have been in touch with a representative with the Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Service
who is currently looking for a group of volunteers to help with our project.

We will be meeting with residents of the facility engaging in conversations and activities.

We will be making fleece tie blankets and packaging toiletries and winter clothing items for another organization that hand delivers items to people who are homeless and living on the streets of Center City.

We will be leading a litter clean-up at a site on the refuge that gets used heavily for fishing. This area accumulates litter from some visitors but mostly it is litter that flows down the Darby Creek from different parts of Philadelphia.

We will be having a panel discussion hearing from formerly incarcerated individuals and a prison care kit assembly, where we will be assembling donated hygiene items to be distributed in prison.

We will be feeding the homeless, less fortunate and seniors. Delivering to houses in the community that cannot come out. Giving out food packages to the community to disabled and less fortunate. Donations will be collected for the food give away divided, packaged and given out.

We will be creating 500 breakfast bags for Aid for Friends.

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

We will be cleaning around the park.

We will be cleaning a local church in the community with children and
adults

We will be assembling meal packages at the direction of Rise Against Hunger

We will bake cookies for first responders

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

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

We host a Family Day of Service geared toward children of all ages and their parents/ adult caregivers. This year we will be preparing treat bags for our police officers; decorating t-shirts for youth attending Camp Dreamcatcher; assembling toiletry bags for homeless persons served by the Interfaith Hospitality Network of the Mainline and also persons at area Recovery Houses; making cards for deployed military and veterans; and making sandwiches for the Patrician Society in Norristown.

We host a Family Day of Service geared toward children of all ages and their parents/ adult caregivers. This year we will be making cards for deployed military and veterans; and making sandwiches for the Patrician Society in Norristown.

We host a Family Day of Service geared toward children of all ages and their parents/ adult caregivers. This year we will be assembling toiletry bags for homeless persons served by the Interfaith Hospitality Network of the Mainline and also persons at area Recovery Houses

We have corporate volunteers coming help package meals and assemble blizzard bags.

We are showing the movie "Hidden Figures" and afterward we are having a panel discussion
called "a Conversation with African American Women in STEM"

The panel will be comprise of African American women that work worked in the STEM field in the Philadelphia area.

Cookman beloved Baptist Church has recruited members of the community to be panel guest.

We are partnering with Northeast NORC to assist older adults in Philadelphia with the clean up and maintenance of their homes. We are inviting current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the college to join us for this event.

We are making Valentines Days cards for Meals on Wheels recipients.

We are hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive

We are cleaning up, painting and renovating a space to be used for various community eduction projects and workshops.

We are cleaning and painting our church, the members and community will help.

We are a Christian group helping in the neighborhood recruiting youth of all ages to support nonviolence. A year march from our church grounds to West mill creek then over to 40th Lancaster Ave. Were we have speaker leaders and veterans speak to the group about Martin Luther King Jr. also walking to 40th walnut to the Rotunda where we serve lunch and allow the youth to perform their talents.

Walkers will join the Annual Candlelight Vigil led by the Distinguished Gentlemen of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Mighty Psi Chapter. The vigil will begin outside of Du Bois College House and proceed with songs and quotes from Dr. King. The walk will end at the College Green.

Contact: Rev. Charles Howard @ 215.898.8456

Volunteers, students, and families will write letters to Veterans, Policeman, and Firefighters to thank them for their service.

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

Volunteers, students, and families will put together toiletry bags that are being given to the homeless.

Volunteers, students, and families will join together to paint murals throughout the school.

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

Volunteers will work with Interim House clients organizing and sorting their donations closet.
Ages: 18+.

Volunteers will take inventory of supplies; stock/replenish supplies; set up space for families that will be visiting; tidy/sanitize common used areas

Volunteers will prepare sandwhiches and soup for seniros and hoemelss in Camden.

Volunteers will participate in a letter writing workshop re: gun control, immigration, economic and other social justice issues.
Ages 14+

Volunteers will make soup and brownies for local soup kitchen. Ages 14+

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.

Volunteers will make ceramic bowls to be used at PIHN Empty Bowl Dinner fundraiser.
All ages. $5 donation per participant.

Volunteers will help put together literacy, math, and english language learner kits for use in our school.

We will use adult and adolescent volunteers to oversee the project and student and adult volunteers to do the work.

Volunteers will help clean-up Pleasant Playground. AGES 3 +

Volunteers will donate, sort and package personal care items for men, women and children in homeless shelters.
Volunteers will also package "Keep It Warm" packs for seniors in a senior living facility.

Volunteers will donate, sort and package literacy items for children in homeless shelters and teachers in a local school.
Items to collected and packaged include paper, pens, pencils, crayons, coloring books, notebooks, book bags and K-6 reading books.

Volunteers will decorate lunch bags. All ages

Volunteers will crochet, knit and donate scarves for Operation Gratitude. In addition, attendees will share stories regarding Dr. King.

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.

Volunteers will come and help to spruce outside of the facility.

Volunteers will come and help to spruce inside the facility.

Volunteers will clean up the interior and exterior of Pleasant Playground. This event is open to volunteers of all ages.

Volunteers will be working to paint the third floor and upgrade decor in the student restrooms

Volunteers will be phone/text banking to support Soil Generation on their Threatened Gardens campaign. Soil Generation is a Black & Brown-led coalition of gardeners, farmers, individuals, and community-based organizations working to ensure people of color regain community control of land and food, to secure access to the resources necessary to determine how the land is used, address community health concerns, grow food and improve the environment.

Volunteers will be making toys and collecting food to be donated to a local cat shelter.

Volunteers will be making cards to be donated to TBD.

Volunteers will be helping to clean up inside and around the Skate House.

Volunteers will be gathering and sorting donated shoes on the King Day of Service.

Volunteers will be gathering and donated shoes on the King Day of Service.

Volunteers will be engaging in a thorough clean up of the West Market Corridor. Starting from 63rd and Market, volunteers will pick up trash, debris, and litter using a rolling trash can. At the end, volunteers will drop off the bags of collected trash at 62nd and Market for pickup.
Volunteers will break at 12 PM for a lunch provided for by Whole Foods Market and West Phillie Produce.

Volunteers will be doing arts and crafts, bingo, dancing, Karaoke, and reading stories about Martin Luther King

Volunteers will be cleaning up at the park. They will pick up trash in the
park and the three blocks surrounding the park itself.

Volunteers will be assisting in the kitchen to provide meals for MANNA's population.

Volunteers will be assisting in beautifying in the building and its grounds.

Volunteers will assist with making PB & J sandwiches for ACRM.

volunteers will assist our Therapeutic Recreation staff facility programs for our residents and visit residents 1:1. A social opportunity.

Volunteers will assemble trail mix bags for delivery to local boys and girls club.
Ages 5+

Volunteers will also support the St. Jude's hospital by creating mask straps for young patients.

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.

Volunteers from Temple University will be cleaning the inside of the convent and church.

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

Volunteers assisting with food packing event

Volunteers assisting with food packing event

Volunteers are needed from 9am-10am for street clean up

Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley is partnering with Valley Youth House (VYH). VYH is looking for groups (6-10 people) to paint living rooms and bedrooms at our Maternity Group Home and Lehigh Valley Shelter, on MLK Day. Group volunteering only. VYH Maternity Group Home is a program for pregnant and parenting mothers ages 16-22 and their children, which focuses on providing community supportive transitional living support, life skills, and parenting/individual therapy.

Vision Board Creation workshop for youth and adults

Valentine's Day wreaths for Spring Village.

Troop 98010 invites you to join us for a day ON as we strive to give back to our community by celebrating Martin Luther King Day of Service. This year we ask you to bring donations in the form of can goods, feminine hygiene products and gently used children books that we will be donating to local women's shelters. During the day the girls will work together to organize and pack these items for delivery.

Various stations will be set for the girls to sort donated items.

Trash cleanup, removing invasive and woody species, mulching trees

Touch up paint of rooms. All ages

Together with AmeriHealth partners, we are working towards continued school facility improvements. With the assistance of many volunteers, we will tackle larger projects including:
painting doors, door-frames and hallway touch-ups
paint touch-ups for murals
closet clean-outs
materials distribution
classroom cleaning (desks, chairs, floors)

To do a deep cleaning of the Church, offices and Windows

To do a deep cleaning of the Church, offices and Windows

This year, City Year Philly will be at Kensington High School on a mission to help create a more bright and welcoming space for more than 600 students. Accompany City Year AmeriCorps members and staff, community leaders, neighbors, and friends on a full day of community service painting 100 murals to help beautify the school’s interior. This event is for all ages. Snack, water, and a light lunch will be provided to all. Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes and clothing to paint in.

This project will involve Germantown Friends School members and their families making signs against gun violence.

This project will happening at Germantown Friends School (GFS). GFS members will be viewing the short documentary and having a discussion about it afterwards.

This project will be at Germantown Friends School. The aim is to have Germantown Friends School members discuss gun violence in a civil way, including implications for the future and ways we can stand up and speak out for a more peaceful world.

This project will be at Germantown Friends School. The aim is to have a few volunteers helping pass out t-shirts to the other volunteers.

This project involves shelf weeding at the West Chester Public Library.

This project focuses on providing food for local community institutions that feed the hungry, homeless and less fortunate. Items from various food drives are received, packed and loaded on delivery trucks to stock the West Chester Food Cupboard.

This project focuses on literacy. Volunteers visit community day care centers, schools and shelters to read books, do arts and crafts activities and reflect on Dr. King with children and residents. Birthday cake and refreshments may be served. Each child and mother receive a brand new book.

This project focuses on literacy. Children and youth are allowed to explore, discover and understand the life, teaching and philosophy of Dr. King.

This project allows children and youth volunteers to use their talents and skills to create posters depicting Dr. King's legacy. Posters are displayed via onsite gallery and posted on website.

This project allows volunteers to use their craft skills to give care for others by making cards for soldiers, veterans and first responders using scrap-booking techniques.

This moving opening ceremony engages area choirs, youth performers
and brings together members of the inner-faith community as we honor
the revolutionary spirit of Martin Luther King.

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.

This event will honor the life & legacy of Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Through character Interpretation and performing arts. A musical
tribute to honor his life, and legacy. Partnering organizations include Inspiration & Co. , The Philadelphia Street Performers
Collaboration, Fire Blazing Records, The Strawberry Mansion Faith-Based Coalition, and a host of other Churches, and friends of
Keep The Dream Alive Community Development Corp. There will be volunteer opportunities at this event.

This event is open to the public on Monday, January 15th and Wednesday January 17th, 2019. Volunteers will be assigned on a rotating basis to collect shoe donations and share information about the HVC Shoe Drive Campaign. This is community service for the MLK Jr. Day of Service prior to January 21st, 2019.

This event is Linconia's annual event that we (B3T) and the community have been invited to be a part of for approx. 14 years.
So their service includes clergy from The Bensalem-Feasterville Minusterium, and community participation.

This event has two parts. The first part is an open community disscusion and information session with activities that will foster talking about racism and the need to bridge the gap by starting on the individual level with each one of us. The second part is a collection of non-perishables for our neghborhood food bank "King's Kitchen" located at Holmesburg United Methodist Church.

This active senior community in Glendora needs helpful hands to clean sliding doors of the residences.

There will be multiple tables in which service activities will be taking place. Each table will focus on a certain aspect of service. The event will be hosted by Cheyney alum, Kyle "JR" Morris and there will also be poets and various artists displaying talent in support of Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy.

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 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.