Events Calendar

Spend a morning in the beautiful Catoctin Mountains helping Cunningham Falls State Park staff, park volunteers, and Friends of Cunningham Falls prepare for the summer season by participating in this annual spruce-up around the roadways and facilities found at the main park area near Hunting Creek Lake. It is a great opportunity to make a positive impact by helping out some of the hardest-working folks around--Maryland State Park staff.  

Please register using the link above by April 19.  We look forward to seeing you there.

What To Bring:

Dress for the weather.  Arrive prepared to work, wearing work boots, long pants, and long sleeves to protect your arms and legs.  Sturdy leather work gloves are also useful.  Be sure to bring water.  

For More Information:

For additional questions about the park, park events, or driving directions, please contact the CFSP volunteer coordinator Claudia Padilla.  

Who's Coming?

Contact: Karen Whitehair '91 MA

*This program has reached registration capacity. If you are registered and can no longer attend, please contact the host.*

Please join us on Earth Day to build an oyster shell bar, plant native grasses, and clean up the shoreline of Lassing Park! The oyster shell project involves shoveling fossilized shell into mesh bags, transporting the bags by boat and placing them on the shoreline to create a series of oyster bars. This project is an effort to restore lost habitat systems to the bay, prevent further erosion of the shoreline, and improve water quality through natural biological filtration. Additionally, we will be planting native grasses and picking up trash from the shoreline.

We will meet at 8:30 AM at the northern end of Lassing Park. 

Parking:
On the street along Beach Dr. It will be a busy morning, so you may have to park and walk a bit to get to the meeting location.

What to Wear/Bring:
Volunteers should wear long-sleeved shirts, clothing you don't mind getting wet and dirty, closed-toe shoes or water shoes, hat.  Please bring work gloves if you have them (they will provide used work gloves if needed), sunscreen, bugspray, and a water bottle (ice water will be provided to fill up your bottle). 

Who's Coming?

Contact: Anne Philpott Eason '86

Join other Yale alumni/ae for a Saturday morning outdoors, helping to upkeep the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park's location in Potomac, Maryland. 

Notes:

• Please register via the link provided and enter "Yale Day of Service" in the group/organization field.
• Once you have registered, email Henry Su to let him know.
• Volunteers should wear something comfortable for working outdoors (and getting dirty), including closed toe shoes
• All ages/abilities welcome. Children should come with an adult.

Volunteers are welcome to park in the Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center's parking lot.

Contact: Henry C. Su '87

Home fires claim seven lives every day, but you can help change that. Join other Yale alums for a local Sound the Alarm event in Cleveland's Edgewater neighborhood, sponsored by the American Red Cross of Northern Ohio, in partnership with the Cleveland Fire Department, to visit homes close to the Louisa May Alcott Elementary School to educate residents on fire safety and install smoke detectors where needed.

Parking should be available at the school at 10308 Baltic Road, between W. 103rd and W. 104th Streets, where teams will gather prior to the event start at 9:30 a.m.

No prior experience is necessary; the Red Cross and its Fire Department partners will provide all the training needed. Young people age 13-17 are welcome to participate with parental/guardian consent, but those age 13, 14 or 15 will also need the parent or guardian to be with them at the event.

This event will be held rain or shine on Saturday, April 22, 2023.

REGISTER

• Please register on the American Red Cross volunteer site AND also register with Yale Day of Service so we know who's coming and can keep Yale groups together at the event.

Who's Coming?

Contact: Betsy Sullivan '74, '76 MA

Co-Sponsored by: Yale CLE, Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland, AAAYA Northeast Ohio Chapter, Graduate School Alumni Association, Yale Black Alumni Association

*Registration for this event is closed. Please consider participating in another Service Project* 

On Earth Day, come and join other Yalies to clean up trails of Jamaica Pond Park in Boston, followed by an appreciation lunch hosted by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.

Trash bags, gloves, and trash grabbers (depending on site and availability) will be provided. All tools that have to be returned will be sanitized before and after the event. At the completion of the cleanup, volunteers will stack the trash, which will be collected by municipal public works departments or the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Each volunteer team will fill out a form reporting how many pounds of trash they collected and what items they found.

The clean up will be held 10am-noon, picnic afterwards. 

*Space is limited to 10 volunteers. If you register but can no longer attend, please contact Carolyn Yao asap so others can join*

Who's Coming?

Contact: Carolyn Yao '88 MS

In preparation for the flower themed 5K event, we want to make sure PATH400 is appropriately adorned to go with the theme! We invite students to come out & decorate PATH400 with chalk art flowers. We'll provide the chalk - you provide the art!

Contact: Connie Spencer '82 MArch

Join fellow Yalies and other members of the community to install free smoke alarms and share safety information in this at-risk community.  As volunteers, we first will get an orientation and training by the Red Cross over a continental breakfast. Then we will work in small groups--under the aegis of the Red Cross--to visit homes, install smoke alarms, and provide home fire safety education to residents. 

In any case we will be providing a valuable service to the community and helping to save lives--while volunteering alongside other Yalies and community members. Families welcome! Children under 13 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Did you know home fires claim seven lives every day--or thousands of lives per year?  Having working smoke alarms can cut the risk of death by half!

Note: The link provided will direct you to a login page where you can create a volunteer account on the ARC's portal or sign in if you already have an account.
 

Contact: Caroline Dewing '12

On Ann Arbor's Yale Day of Service, join our efforts to protect and restore Ann Arbor's natural areas. You will be joining other community members to remove non-native invasive plants. To register, please follow these steps:

Navigate to your groups registration calendar

Sign-in if you already have an account with us on VolunteerHub. If you don't please click "Create Account" and fill out our short form

Register for your workday! If you are prompted for a join code it is: yaleservice

When you arrive at the workday, you should see a big City of Ann Arbor vehicle and Yale alumna Tiffany Ng '05 wearing a white Yale Day of Service baseball hat. Please check in with the NAP workday leader. Once everyone is checked in, you will hear a brief orientation and schedule for the day.

Don't hesitate to ask us any questions. You can email us at NAPWorkdays@a2gov.org or give us a call at 734-794-6627. We look forward to seeing you out there!

Contact: Tiffany Ng '05 

Volunteers are given free use of a kayak to paddle the New River, the oldest river in North America, to clean up trash. The volunteer who brings back the most trash gets free fly fishing lessons. Whoever brings back the coolest piece of trash gets a free Rivergirl T-shirt!

Who's Coming?

Contact: Connie Spencer '82 M.Arch