Through the Charles River Watershed Association’s Canoeing for Clean Water program, volunteers set out on the river in canoes and pull invasive water chestnuts for an extremely rewarding experience. Volunteers have a great time exploring the Charles while helping restore the river’s natural ecosystems.
Work with staff and community member volunteers to produce and record community events or studio productions by learning the teleprompter, camera, audio, editing, and lighting equipment.
Birthday Wishes Party Coordinators are the heart of our program and are vital to our mission to bring the joy of a birthday party to children experiencing homelessness. Volunteer Party Coordinators (PCs) are members of the community who make a one-year commitment to run monthly birthday parties for children at an assigned homeless shelter.
Birthday Wishes provides cupcakes for all of our On-Site Parties. We’re looking for bakers to join our Cupcake Program.
Birthday Wishes Party Volunteers play an important role in our mission to bring the joy of a birthday party to children experiencing homelessness. Party Volunteers are members of the community who make a one-year commitment to assist Party Coordinators in running monthly birthday parties for children at an assigned homeless shelter.
Birthday Wishes is looking for folks who want to “walk the walk” for Birthday Wishes by becoming a Community Ambassador. Create your team and invite friends, family, school, business and organizational contacts to join, or create their own team. ANYONE can be a Community Ambassador! And ANY community can become a team! Schools: Students can…
In our Serve & Grow farm work volunteer program, individuals and groups visit our farms to help tend the fields. We hold three-hour volunteer sessions on weekday and weekend mornings at our farms in the spring and fall. Volunteers learn about The Food Project and our mission, and help with tasks such as planting, weeding,…
For a span of about six weeks in February and March, we collect buckets of sap from sugar maple trees in Concord and boil it into syrup, donated at Thanksgiving to families seeking hunger relief. Space is limited and the schedule is variable.
From April through October, we depend upon thousands of helping hands working outside with us morning and afternoon. When you arrive, you walk out through the fields to our farm pavilion. You are welcomed and given an introduction to Gaining Ground and our hunger-relief role. Our farmers explain what’s going on at the farm and…
SHS continues to honor the agency’s longstanding commitment to address the needs and concerns of Holocaust survivors and their families as they change over time. The SHS Holiday Visitor program matches volunteers who are the children or grandchildren of Holocaust survivors with Holocaust survivors. Volunteers visit the survivor during the months of Rosh Hashanah, Chanukkah,…