Construct affordable housing for a local family with Habitat for Humanity of Merrimack Valley in Lawrence. Tools and gloves provided, just bring your enthusiasm and a bag lunch! All experience levels welcome. Directions.
Plant, mulch, weed, and garden at Waltham Fields Community Farm, a community farm distributing produce to local people in need. Ages 14 and up welcome. Directions.
Scrape and paint the outside trim of a Lifelinks group home. Lifelinks provides services for people with developmental disabilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Note: This is a two-day project, you can come out either on Thursday evening, June 16th, or Saturday morning, June 18th. When you sign up, please let us know which day you would like to attend.
Join more than 5,000 walkers to make a difference in the fight against cancer. TeamWalk enables Lowell General Hospital to continue with its efforts to instill hope to patients with cancer.
Help prepare local school gardens for Spring by pulling weeds, turning over soil and other gardening activities with CitySprouts. This is a great kid-friendly activity that is a learning experience for volunteers as well as the teachers and students who use the gardens.
Six convervancy organizations have teamed up to organize sites along the Charles River from Boston to Concord where volunteers can pick up trash and get the river ready for spring! Wherever is easiest for you and your family to volunteer, Building Impact can help you find a site. This event is open to all ages, and everyone who volunteers gets a free T shirt!
Join Building Impact and the Charles River Conservancy to clean up an area of the river near Harvard Square in Cambridge. To celebrate Earth Day, volunteers will cover the banks of the Charles River to pick up trash and get those green areas ready for spring! Everyone who comes out will get a free T-shirt, and kids of all ages are welcome.
Help Gaining Ground with the syrup boiling process and learn about maple sugaring. Gaining Ground distributes fresh produce to emergency food programs and pantries across the state. Directions.
Note: This event is weather contingent! Due to forces outside human control, the sap may or may not be running on March 12th. We will let you know as soon as we can if the event is cancelled.
The Lowell Wish Project provides basic home and baby goods to families in the Merrimack Valley. Inspect and sort donations at their warehouse to be distributed to people in need.
Make it a day on, not a day off! Bring your kids to the Mary Curley School in Jamaica Plain for a variety of fun volunteer activities throughout the day hosted by Boston Cares.
