2019 GEO Report

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

Families will gather to create personalized calendars and bookmarks to hand to residents of Wesley Enhanced Living.

The Key Club will volunteer at the Masonic Home assisting with caring for the elderly residents. We will help deliver the mail, laundry, water & ice containers. Take the residents to the lunch room or to have their hair done. Sit and talk to them or read.

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

Students, family members, and staff will be packing donated items for homeless teens, refugees, and those in disaster areas.

Students, family members, and staff will be making breakfast bags for the homeless.

Students, family members, and staff will be creating no-sew bags to hold care packages for the PA Workwear Program.

PAINTING WITH A PURPOSE is a project geared to beautifying W.C. Longstreth School in order to continue our efforts to create a warm inviting environment for scholars, families, staff and community members who wish to utilize our space to give back to the community. Our scholars deserve to walk into a clean building filled with color and a story. We not only want to paint we want to tell a story. At Longstreth our scholars learn the importance of legacy. This project will allow them to leave one!

Celebration of Dr. King's life and legacy. Panel discussion on 3-5 of Dr. King's quotes. Entertainments eg song, dance, instrumental and poetry performed by staff. This event is open to the public and employees of Pennsylvania Hospital and University of Pennsylvania Health System.

-church members are partnering with neighbors in beautifying the neighborhood; -we encourage all ages to be involve, no you is too young or old; -continuing creating a fellowship with the neighbors; -being able to demonstrate to the children the importance of working together to achieve the goal; -being reminded and introducing what the civil rights movement is about and why it is important (senior adults share their experiences); - viewed some videos of Dr. King and held discussions; -lunch

Approximately 100 middle school students and family members will make sandwiches and assemble 600 lunches to be distributed to various Bethesda Project supportive housing sites. The lunches contain a sandwich, apple and dessert. We also collect and bag donated toiletry items.

Join Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center on January, 21 for a One-on-One with an Entrepreneur. Our goal that day is to encourage community members to network with businesses owners, host workshops, and creating a dialog around being a minority, but not limited to, entrepreneur. We are currently looking for businesses to participate in empowering our community members. Please contact Rose Bryant through email at rosebryant711@gmail.com if you are interested in participating as a business owner.

We will provide care packages and hygiene kits to individuals in nursing homes, recovery houses, homeless teens and patients of Gift of Life.

There will be a community celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. There will be food, skits, a movie screening, and dance performances, as well as the regular church service.

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.

Students will be creating canned fruit-baskets and will be distributing baskets to families within the area.

Cleaning, vacuuming, wiping down walls, cleaning offices, sweeping the church front, fixing any broken items, cleaning rear of church, cleaning kitchen areas and other duties as needed

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

Members of the church and neighbors from the community will join together to clean up the church's facilities. This may include dusting, mopping, sweeping, cleaning out closets and rooms, thoroughly clean kitchens and bathrooms. May include some painting.

Cards for active military members.Cards for active military members.

Will be sending donate knitted blankets and items of need to individuals and families.

Collecting winter donations along the walk.

Young volunteers will be given the opportunity to make posters, learn about community service opportunities, demonstrate their
commitment to community involvement and earn community service hours.

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.

Neighborhood cleanups along with neighbors