Projects will be continually submitted and the list updated.
If you don't see a particular project listed below, check often until you find the one you or your group is interested in completing. Register as an individual or group at that time. If you register before you see a project you want to do, you will not be able to come back to the website and select the project of your choice.
If you are willing to help where needed - don't wait, register today.
Projects that are currently Available:
Mud Run
Prep work for mud run course. Includes clearing trail and brush on
the race path to be held Summer 2011.
Number of volunteers requested: 20-30 - Full
Rustic Market
Sort clothing racks and bag clothes, spring cleaning inside store,
planting and light landscaping outside.
Number of volunteers requested: 6-12 - Full
Jaycee Park Clean Up
Rake leaves, clean up garbage, plant flowers, etc.
Number of volunteers requested: 25 - 30 FULL
Woodfield Community Center Clean Up
Landscaping, painting, organizing, planting, cleaning, minor repairs,
tent repair and assembly in and around the community center.
Number of volunteers requested: 20
Crystal Springs Assisted Living/LifeHouse
Yard clean up, flower planting, socializing with residents.
Number of volunteers requested: 12 to 20 - FULL
The Edge Urban Fellowship
Clean up, painting, lawn care, some repair and graffiti removal.
Number of volunteers requested: 30 FULL
World Mission Thrift- Wyoming Store
Rotating product, help customers with donations, organizing
shelves, general store clean up
Number of volunteers requested: 4 FULL
World Mission Thrift- Grandville Store
Organizing books, sorting clothes, organizing shelves, etc
Number of volunteers requested: 6 FULL
Hope Network Group Home - 1919 Gentian
Clean garage, yard work, plant flowers, trim bushes.
Number of volunteers requested: 4
Oak Crest Communities
Needs folks that are willing to sing/play instruments, play board games,
read scriptures/books to the residents.
Number of volunteers requested: 6 - Full
Lifewalk (Pregnacy Resouce Center) - Downtown (Catholic Central Plaza)
Need crossing guards, people to help with tearing down the equipment after the walk
begins, picking up any trash along the walk route as well as helping clean our building
after the walk is over beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Number of volunteers requested: 10 - 20 (Must be 18 or older). FULL
Kentwood Community Church
Sprucing up and cleaning up the church grounds. Raking, weeding and
hauling away brush.
Number of volunteers requested: 20 FULL
Townline School (Kentwood Public Schools)
Pull weeds and trim up stuff in courtyard.
Number of volunteers requested: 4- 6 FULL
Ascension Lutheran Church
Establishing a large community and refugee vegetable garden on the property of Ascension
Lutheran Church. Work alongside refugees to plant a much-needed vegetable garden
in Kentwood.
Number of volunteers requested: 12 - 20 FULL
Christie St. Location
Yard and lawn clean-up on property of disabled woman in Kentwood. Project includes
removal of stubborn vines at rear of property.
Number of volunteers requested: 6 - 10 FULL
Tree Swallow Drive Location
Paint inside and yardwork. The yard needs to be raked to remove dead grass. Paint
living room and hallway.
Number of volunteers requested: 2 - 4 FULL
Pioneer Club Rd Location
A disabled couple needs their apartment cleaned. It would be nice for a small group to
adopt them for a day, clean their apartment, purchase needed paper products and some
basic food products.
Number of volunteers requested: 3 - 4 FULL
Grand Rapids Home for Veterans
Several projects: Cutting back weeds and brush from our Nature Trail (Walking Path),
Raking and Spring Clean up of grounds, Painting benches and gazebos on 3 courtyards,
Painting benches throughout the grounds, Paint the inside of our Band Shell. FULL
Fields Project
Projects include sanding a porch patio and replacing some siding on her home.
Number of volunteers: FULL
Bowen School
General grounds clean-up, spread mulch, plant flowers (if donated).
Number of volunteers requested: 5-6 FULL
Tennyson Dr. Project
Deck needs to be built and yard cleaned.
Number of volunteers requested: 5 FULL
Almont St Project - Grand Rapids
House hold projects for single mom: yard work, putting up curtain rods, installing new toilet,
cut/paint/ install trimwork.
Number of volunteers requested: 3 FULL
Pine Rest
Spring Clean-up shrub bed areas.
Number of volunteers requested: 10 FULL
Hope Network-36th St. Home
Pick up trash around the home and clean inside and outside of windows.
Number of volunteers requested: 6-8 FULL
Hope Network - Bristol
General clean up of the yard, raking, pulling weeds in the garden areas,
(in both the front and the back of the home)the back drive needs to be
cleaned up and swept after a fallen tree, by the wooded area; washing all
the windows on the out side.
Number of volunteers requested: 4-5 FULL
Frost Project
General housekeeping and yard work.
Number of volunteers requested: 5
Burghgraef Project
Garage needs painting.
Numer of volunteers requested: 3-4 FULL
Weatherstone Ln Project
Rake frontlawn,weed/prune small ladnscape area, and lay mulch.
Number of volunteers requested: 5-6 FULL
Alger St Project
Need to dispose of lumber from a torn down fence: about 20 8' top &
bottom rails and 3 8' posts.
Number of volunteers requested: 2 FULL
Griggs/Kentridge Project
Tear Down a kids play fort, transport to another location and reassemble
play fort.
Number of volunteers requested: 3-5 FULL
Banner St
Laying wood chips (the wood chips are there already).
Number of volunteers requested: 3 FULL
Kentridge Project
Install an outdoor railing for steps. Posts are already in.
Other general yard/house work also.
Number of volunteers requested: 5 FULL
Fuller Ct Project
Clean up back yard and work with bare spots.
Number of volunteers needed: 2 - FULL