| 1993 | 1767 | Tacony Creek Park | TTF Watershed and PowerCorps PHL will lead educational clean-up walks down the Tacony Creek Park trail. Volunteers will learn about Tacony Creek Park and urban stormwater issues while cleaning up trash in the park. Besides cleaning the park, the primary goal of this event is to familiarize the community with the park and trail, in order to bring healthy activity back into the park. Pizza lunch will be provided at 12:00.
| Robin Irizarry | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership | | | 2 |
| 1995 | 462 | | Cleanup Facility and Northwood Park
| Cynthia Young | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Simpson Recreation Center | | | 15 |
| 1996 | 910 | College Application Process Workshop | Open to high school juniors and maybe some seniors, they will learn and begin the college application process and begin their personal statement.
| Colleen Winn, Robert Carter | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | | | | 4 |
| 1997 | 1905 | McVeigh Rec Center | We will be doing indoor cleanup.
| Yani Williams CEO/Founder | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Your AOK Foundation | | | 1 |
| 1998 | 905 | | Children's banner painting while listening to music and stories about Dr. King.
| Colleen Winn, Robert Carter | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | University of Pennsylvania | | | 3 |
| 1999 | 460 | | Sweep and rake the grounds and inside the building, and general cleanup.
| Chris Windle | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Starr Garden | | | 1 |
| 2006 | 243 | Har Zion Temple | Cooking and packaging meals and making soup for seniors and the ill.
| Andrea (Andy) Coren - Tikkun Olam Committee Chair | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Har Zion Temple | | | 2 |
| 2012 | 906 | | Sock stuffing event; stuffing with personal toiletries of soap, toothpaste, and tooth brush etc.
| Colleen Winn, Robert Carter | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | University of Pennsylvania | | | 20 |
| 2013 | 1024 | Chosen 300 Homeless Meal at 3959 Lancaster Ave On Fri. 1/15 @ 5:30 | Serving Meals to homeless
| Victoria Bakey | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Chosen 300 Ministires | | | 10 |
| 2016 | 454 | Tabernacle Baptist Church | Various youth groups within the HYPE ministry will collect and package food for food pantry.
| Christine Livingston | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Tabernacle Baptist Church | | | 4 |
| 2019 | 100 | JRA Warehouse | Volunteers are needed to help deliver food to struggling families in the Greater Philadelphia area. Delivery is always our greatest need and is done using one’s own vehicle over a small geographic area. If you would like to volunteer on Monday instead of Sunday, it would be to deliver food only.This volunteer opportunity is great for people of all ages and abilities. Times are flexible! Groups welcome! Community service forms are available!
| Melissa Samen, Program Director | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | JRA | | | 5 |
| 2020 | 1026 | Chosen 300 Homeless Meal at 3959 Lancaster Ave On 1/18 @ 5:30 | Serving Meals to homeless
| Victoria Bakey | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Chosen 300 Ministries | | | 1 |
| 2025 | 334 | The Tom and Adrienne Jacoby Book Bank | Recording books on tape.Philadelphia READS will exclusively be hosting this volunteerism opportunity and expecting several partners such as various fraternal/sorority organization, law firms and business/organizations as well as individuals and their families. We will be recording books for youth, families and teachers in addition to sorting/labeling donations for the same population.
| Jason Clark - Director of Programs | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Philadelphia READS | | | 10 |
| 2026 | 1032 | Chosen 300 Homeless Meal at 3959 Lancaster Ave On 1/17 @ 8:00 AM | Serving Meals to homeless
| Victoria Bakey | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Chosen 300 Ministries | | | 1 |
| 2029 | 738 | University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation | MLK Day projects currently include:*Preparing vegetable soup for Cook for a Friend program*Preparing Cook for a Friend meals from frozeningredients
| John Eskate | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Klein JCC (Rhawnhurst NORC) | | | 1 |
| 2031 | 1621 | Cecil St Community Street/Garden | The day of the event we are planning to paint, work in the Cecil St Garden removing tree stumps, leveling the ground to lay stone dust, repair and replace a cyclone fence, erect a storage shed, cutting back trees, and anything else that will prepare the garden for the seniors and community summer enjoyment.
| Victoria Miles-Chambliss Program Coordinator | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Empowered Community Development Corporation | | | 1 |
| 2033 | 341 | The Tom and Adrienne Jacoby Book Bank | Project 2: Labeling and Sorting Book DonationsPhiladelphia READS will exclusively be hosting this volunteerism opportunity and expecting several partners such as various fraternal/sorority organization, law firms and business/organizations as well as individuals and their families. We will be recording books for youth, families and teachers in addition to sorting/labeling donations for the same population.
| Jason Clark - Director of Programs | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Philadelphia READS | | | 50 |
| 2035 | 130 | Mount Olivet Village | People will gather together to participate is a host of community activities, including: a mock voter registration drive, resource fair, disaster preparedness workshop, crime prevention workshop, and educational and children's activities.
| Rose Bryant | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Lucien E. Blackwell/Marshall Sheperd Resident Council | | | 1 |
| 2037 | 786 | Canaan Baptist Church and Facilities | We will be performing community service at our facilities by cleaning our two main kitchens, clean our multi-purpose room, clean out our lost and found room, paint an entire hallway where our daycare is located, and clean other designated areas. Possibly clean our Family Life Center building and the grounds surrounding the facilities.
| Valerie Johnson, President of CREAC | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Canaan Baptist Church | | | 20 |
| 2039 | 909 | Super Heroes and Fairy Princess | Volunteers will make tutus and capes for young children.
| Colleen Winn, Robert Carter | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | | | | 10 |
| 2041 | 169 | Lingelbach Elementary School | Cleaning, painting, organizing an elementary school. Students, staff, caregivers and community members will be participating in this project.
| Jeanelle Lawson, President | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Lingelbach HSA | | | 30 |
| 2048 | 1214 | | Volunteers will help pack lunch babies for low income seniors and homeless people in Camden.
| Falynn Milligan | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Camden Neighborhood Renaissance | | | 4 |
| 2049 | 1065 | Chosen 300 Homeless Cleanup at 3959 Lancaster Ave On 1/18 @ 10 AM | Preparing for the meal service that will be later that evening at our West Philadelphia Homeless Outreach Center at 3959 Lancaster Ave; Philadelphia, PA 19104 on Monday Jan. 18th at 10:00 AM. Children may volunteer but their individual parent MUST be present. Activities will include cleaning and lite painting.
| Victoria Bakey | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Chosen 300 Ministries | | | 6 |
| 2058 | 103 | Martin Luther King High School | On behalf of MLK Day of Service our king day project will take place on January 18, 2016 and our plans will be to paint, clean up and beautify our school at Martin L. King High School and all doors throughout the school. There will be students there completing their community services hours as well. The idea is to give the students a brighter feeling about the school by covering over the institutional grey doors and walls. The time will be from 9:30 A.M. until 4:00 P.M.The Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is an opportunity for the MLK High School community to make their "day off" a "day on" by completing a variety community service projects throughout the day. This is a significant and necessary day to help student to empower their vision of education and to take pride in their school mission. Some of our community partners will be Wawa Foundation Inc., Home Depot, State Representative Dwight Evans, Big Brother Big Sisters of Philadelphia, Concerned Black Men, and Representative Stephen Kinsey office, and Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.
| Delise Williams/ Parent and Student Liaison | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | Promise Academy@ Martin L. King High School | | | 7 |
| 2060 | 100 | JRA Warehouse | Volunteers are needed to help deliver food to struggling families in the Greater Philadelphia area. Delivery is always our greatest need and is done using one’s own vehicle over a small geographic area. If you would like to volunteer on Monday instead of Sunday, it would be to deliver food only.This volunteer opportunity is great for people of all ages and abilities. Times are flexible! Groups welcome! Community service forms are available!
| Melissa Samen, Program Director | Email hidden; Javascript is required. | JRA | | | 1 |
