December 2021 - San Diego |
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Saturday Stewardship Events
San Diego Canyonlands
Date/Time(s): Saturday, December 4, 11, or 18. Times are either 8 – 11am or 9am - noon
Location(s):
December 4:
- Swan Canyon - 8 to 11am - the nearest address is 4480 Maple Street, San Diego
- Ruffin Canyon - 9am to noon - meeting location TBD
December 11:
- Manzanita Canyon - 8 to 11am - Meet in the Azalea Park Parking lot at 2596 Violet Street, San Diego
- Tierrasanta Canyons - 8 to 11am - meeting location TBD
December 18:
- Oliva Canyon - 8 to 11am - Meet at the intersection of 47th Street and Thorn Street
- Navajo Canyon - 9am to noon - meeting location TBD
For events with a "TBD location", an email will be sent out the week of the event with those details for those who have registered.
Ages: Families with children of all ages are welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Three hours
Help us create a healthy habitat for wildlife and a safe place for recreation in the City Heights community and the San Diego River watershed communities. All ages are welcome! Volunteers will care for our native plantings, remove invasive plants, and remove trash from our restoration areas. Be sure to wear comfy clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, closed-toe shoes or boots, and a positive get-it-done attitude! Wear sun protection and bring a reusable water bottle. Water, tools and gloves provided. Community service hours documentation provided to those who need it. Volunteers under 18 must have a parent or guardian sign a youth waiver to participate in our events.
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Annual Sock Drive 2021
San Diego River Park Foundation
Date/Time: Sunday, December 5, 3 – 5pm. If you’re not available on December 5, please drop off at our office, Tuesday through Friday, from 9am - noon
Location: 4891 Pacific Highway Parking Lot (look for signs). There will be a contactless drop-off. Our staff and volunteer board of directors will be present to say hi. Sarah, our Chief Associate Director, has also made some cookies to share while supplies last!
Ages: Everyone can help
Time Commitment: Stop by anytime between 3 – 5pm
We just completed a detailed census of people living in the San Diego Riverbed in the cities of San Diego and Santee. There are 320 people living in the riverbed! The count has dramatically increased since the start of the pandemic. We invite you to join us to help others in need, so hopefully they too will have a roof over their heads and a solid floor below them. People living in the riverbed can be the hardest to reach and when approached by public agencies often refuse services. Working with these agencies and homeless service provides like PATH San Diego, we know one of the first steps is building a relationship. One way of doing this is by creating care packages to distribute. Over several contacts some individuals will be ready to accept housing and other available services. Our goal is for no one to be living in the riverbed. When it rains, their lives are at risk as their encampments will be underwater. With cooler temperatures, the #1 need is socks. Will you join with us to donate 1 pair or more of adult socks? We will be collecting adult socks for any gender. We can also accept toiletries. If you are unable to drop off socks please consider making a $10+ donation and we will buy the socks for you, or buy socks on Amazon and have them delivered to our office. Learn more here.
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Family Volunteers for Peace Festival
Global Peace Women
Date/Time: Sunday, December 5, 10am PT, 12 pm CT, 1 pm ET
Location: Online
Ages: All ages! We welcome you to attend as a family!
Time Commitment: Two-hour program
On December 5, International Volunteer Day, join family volunteers from all over the world to celebrate the power of volunteerism!
Festivities include:
- Family Volunteers Story Telling
- Performances
- Story Contest winners!
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Holiday Blanket Drive
PATH San Diego
Date/Time: Blankets can be delivered to PATH anytime up until December 11. There is 24-hour security so you can drop-off blankets at any time. You may also email Sigrid if you'd like to schedule a drop-off.
Location: Blankets can be delivered to 1250 6th Avenue, San Diego
Ages: Everyone can help
Time Commitment: Varies
PATH San Diego is hosting a blanket drive between now and December 11. The holidays are fast approaching, and they are excited to have been able to house so many people the last few months. PATH San Diego wants their clients to have a very special (and warm) holiday season by providing each of them with a new adult-size fleece throw blanket, and they would love support from all of you. Providing 1, 5, 10, or more blankets will help them get closer to their goal of 600 fleece blankets. Purchase new adult-size fleece throw blankets or make your own no-sew fleece blankets following instructions like these using two pieces of fleece (2 yards long each).
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Jingle Bell Run 2021 San Diego
Arthritis Foundation
Date/Time: Saturday, December 11:
- 7am - Event Day Registration Opens
- 8am - Jingle Bell Run & Walk Starts - Walkers report to the back of the line
- 8:45am - 1k Kids Run
- 10am - Post Event Bash, Awards & Prizes
- 11:30am - Event Concludes
Location: NTC Park at Liberty Station, 2455 Cushing Road, San Diego
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Varies
The Jingle Bell Run is an event where you can strut your stuff in your favorite holiday costume and feel good about helping to make a difference. Together, we'll jingle all the way to a cure - and have a fantastic time with every step we take! Bring a team of friends, family and co-workers to run or walk. Learn more here.
- All participants and volunteers are asked to wear a mask at the event
- We are encouraging social distancing
- There will be hand sanitizing stations throughout the event area
- Please bring your own water bottle
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I Love a Clean San Diego In-Person or Remote Cleanups
I Love a Clean San Diego
Ages: Everyone can participate
Time Commitment: Varies
Join I Love A Clean San Diego! We will divert litter from traveling through the San Diego Bay watershed. Volunteers can participate in two ways: In-person with us at our meeting locations, or remotely in your own neighborhood.
In-Person Cleanups: Our staff will be set up with a check-in table, disposable supplies, and plenty of hand sanitizer at the cleanup meeting location.
- Begin your event with a brief kick-off, sign a liability waiver, grab some disposable supplies, and help us clean up the area!
- We can sort, weigh, and dispose of the litter you collect, and when you are finished, you can request a Letter of Appreciation through your Community Hub dashboard.
- In-person cleanups are limited to 50 volunteers, and we ask that you give other volunteers 6+ ft. of space and wear a mask if you are unvaccinated.
Remote Cleanups: If you are not able to join us in person, join us remotely! Pick up litter around your neighborhood and report your totals online.
- We will email you resources when you sign-up so you can watch our kick-off video before you start your cleanup.
- Grab some reusable gloves and a bucket from around your house and go for a walk somewhere you want to make an impact.
- Invite some friends to make it a neighborhood effort, and sort and dispose of litter in your household bins. Take a few photos and write down your litter totals.
- When you are done, report your litter totals in our Volunteer Impact Map so we can verify your service, and go to your Community Hub dashboard to receive a Letter of Appreciation.
- Please give other volunteers 6+ ft. of space and wear a mask if you are unvaccinated
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Meals on Wheels - Meal Delivery
Meals on Wheels San Diego County
Date/Time: Monday - Saturday; approximately 10:30am - 1:30pm (timing varies slightly by location)
Location: San Diego County
Ages: The driver must be 18 years of age or older. Members of the same household are welcome to volunteer together, regardless of age.
Time Commitment: Approximately one to three hours per shift, a minimum of once per month
Meals on Wheels San Diego County serves seniors and disabled veterans nutritious meals to support their independence and well-being. Our caring volunteers not only deliver critical meals but also do safety checks on the seniors they visit. Frequently, the volunteer may be the only person the senior sees all day, providing human contact and a safety net, particularly for those seniors living alone. To protect our volunteers and seniors, we are doing contactless meal delivery and have strict safety measures.
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Donate "We Care" Packages for Seniors
Meals on Wheels San Diego County
Date/Time: Office hours vary. Please call any one of our regional offices.
Ages: Everyone can participate
Time Commitment: Varies
We could not accomplish serving thousands of seniors every year without the help of our devoted volunteers. Sometimes a volunteer is the only person our clients see all day. During the holidays and for every birthday, Meals on Wheels and our community of generous volunteers provide our seniors with a special gift bag to say, "We Care." We Care Packages are small gift bags filled with useful and fun items. Bags can be assembled with a male or female in mind and can include a personal note of well-wishes. Click here for a list of suggested items to include in your gift bags. Volunteers are also welcome to create hand-written cards for our San Diego County seniors. Please refrain from making any religious and/or political messages in your cards. Your cards can be dropped off or mailed to any San Diego County service center.
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Make-A-Wish
Macy's Believe Campaign
Date/Time: Now through December 24
Location: Online or at any Macy's retail store
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Varies
This is the 13th year of Macy's Believe campaign benefiting Make-A-Wish. Your family can help make a child's wish come true! For every letter you send online or postcard you download and drop in a big red letterbox in-store, Macy's will donate $1 to Make-A-Wish, up to $1 million, to create magical, life-changing experiences for terminally ill children and their families. During National Believe Week (November 28-December 4), Macy's is doubling their donation, giving $2 per letter, up to an additional $1 million. This brings the total campaign goal to $2 million! Since 2003, Macy's has donated over $157 million and helped grant over 16,000 wishes. With Macy's support, Make-A-Wish is committed to ensuring that no child waits even one unnecessary day to experience how a wish can encourage the belief in the impossible.
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Distribution Center Food Sorting
Feeding San Diego
Date/Time(s): There are a variety of shift times Monday through Saturday. Please note that due to the high level of interest and a limited number of spaces available, group volunteer shifts may require 1 to 2-month notice.
Location: 9477 Waples St., Ste. 100, San Diego
Ages: Families with children ages six and older are welcome to volunteer. All volunteers under 15 years require supervision by a parent or guardian at all times while volunteering. Families need to live in the same household to apply together. Those interested in volunteering for Together Tour, our drive-through food distribution events, must be age 16 or older.
Time Commitment: Two-hour shifts
Volunteers are critical to the mission of Feeding San Diego. We rely on support from individuals, corporations, and the community to fund our critical programs for children, families, and seniors in need. Whether you give funds, give food, give time or give voice — you can make an immediate impact on hunger in San Diego County. Your family can help by sorting food at our Distribution Center.
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Greet Deliveries with Gratitude |
EXPLORE our growing list of at-home projects you can do whenever you're ready, each with conversation starters, book ideas, and more! Follow along on social media as other families tackle this month's project and share their stories! Simply join our Facebook group or find us on Instagram ( @doinggoodtogether and #sharekindness). |
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Add kindness to your holiday shopping experience. (And support a big-hearted nonprofit too!)
Our newly updated Shop Kind online store has gifts, games, books, apparel, kindness kits and more. Great for gift giving or for yourself! Visit often as we add items through Bookshop, the Amazon Associates program, and from independent vendors. The passive income we receive from sales, along with the small ad cost to DGT chosen vendors, helps our nonprofit as we in turn help busy browsers and buyers find goods that "do good" as well. (Disclaimer: we receive affiliate dollars and a small fee from the vendors to help support DGT.) Thank you!
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Mailing Address:
755 Medina Rd
Wayzata, MN 55391
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This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)
When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project.
Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.
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