Prince Of Petworth » Any Suggestions for MLK Day Volunteering?

Any Suggestions for MLK Day Volunteering?

“Dear PoP,

I’m wondering if maybe you could ask your readers to send in potential projects for MLK Day of Service (unless you’re already collecting info). Most of the city has the day off, and a lot of projects I know are always set up for people to go and help out within their community. For instance, a few years back I volunteered @ Roosevelt doing cleanup, and spent a few hours with a ton of people cleaning out their field house. I’d love to see a good list of where I (and others) could donate some time on Monday.

Oh, and here’s 2 sites I found:
http://dc.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=dc&cdn=citiestowns&tm=11&f=10&su=p554.12.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//app.cncs.dc.gov/mlkday/viewprojects.asp

http://www.serve.gov/recruit.asp”

Here are some opportunities from Thanksgiving but if anyone has some MLK specific recs please leave in comments.

Category: volunteers

By: Prince Of Petworth | 14 January 2010 3:30 PM | 8 Comments

Neener

Many DCPS PTAs are having volunteer days for parents, but not my kid’s school. I will look for something to post.

January 14, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Allison

Here are a number of options:

http://app.cncs.dc.gov/mlkday/viewprojects.asp

January 14, 2010 at 4:03 pm
anon

I wrote Greater DC Cares b/c I couldn’t find anything on their site, and got this back:

Thanks for your email! Most of our projects for Monday are currently full, but you can still sign up to volunteer at TC Williams HS in Alexandria at http://mlktcwilliams.kintera.org. That website will give you more information about the project and how to sign up!

January 14, 2010 at 4:29 pm
m.e.

i think the teenagers should volunteer to stay home, clean up the house, and cook their family a decent meal rather than driving everyone else nuts by hanging out in CH downtown.

January 14, 2010 at 7:03 pm
saf

http://www.nationalcathedral.org/events/mlk2010.shtml

The Cathedral is doing projects in the morning and a program in the afternoon.

January 14, 2010 at 8:35 pm
CPO

We’ve got a special MLK Day project at Ferebee Hope Dream Complex in SE… http://washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer

January 15, 2010 at 8:13 am
Sadie

I just read about an opportunity in Rock Creek Park with Friends of RCP. They will be cutting out invasive English Ivy.

http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp632319.jsp

January 15, 2010 at 2:34 pm
CCCA Prez

Learn how to build a compost bin for Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service

11am-1pm, Monday, January 18
Common Good City Farm, Access from 300 block of W Street NW

Join Common Good City Farm and DC Cares to build 8 pallet compost bins and do some spring farm prep. New volunteers welcome. More info and to register online at http://www.commongoodcityfarm.org/events.

Contact, Liz Falk, (202) 441-9678

Common Good City Farm is a productive community farm that increases fresh food access to low income DC residents. Participants learn to grow, cook and market produce.

(Need Food? DCfoodfinder.org)

January 17, 2010 at 11:05 am