March 2021 - Silicon Valley
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Street To Beach Cleanups - Earth Heroes Needed
Pacific Beach Coalition
Date/Time: Your neighborhood or community. It can be around your neighborhood, at the beach, in a needy area, or anywhere actually. You could even "adopt" a specific location in need and care for it on a regular basis.
Location: Your own location
Ages: Everyone can help
Time Commitment: Varies
Our goal is to get as many Earth Heroes as possible to clean up a location of their liking and inspire others, while staying safe and respecting County and State orders. Neighborhood and street cleanups are fun and rewarding outdoor activities for you and your family. Picking up litter from the streets keeps it from flowing into the ocean via our storm drains. We are now finding lots of litter, plastic bags, wrappers, disposable gloves, masks and food containers on our beaches and throughout the neighborhoods. It is very easy! Make sure you have all your supplies ready, and go out! Don’t forget to let us know how much trash you collected so that we can add it to our total. Remember every single piece counts!
How you can help:
Follow these 4 steps to have a safe and fun cleanup:
- Go on our website to sign the online waiver
- Grab your supplies (bucket, gloves, pick up sticks)
- Go outside near your home
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Record the trash you got via the Clean Swell app (or more ways to log the trash on our website)
If you do a cleanup, you are doing it on your own accord and personally accepting any and all risks.
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Dune’s Beach Trail Clean Up - DIY
Sea Hugger
Date/Time: At your convenience
Location: Dunes Beach, Half Moon Bay
Ages: Everyone can help
Time Commitment: Varies
Are you a sea hugger? Join us and the global community with Ocean Conservancy to clean up “together” with our do-it-yourself beach clean ups! Below you will find how it works, tools, and best practices. Community Service hours available! Please bring your own bucket and reusable gloves- we will provide extra gloves and buckets while supplies last. Sea Hugger focuses on microplastic and has a Nurdle Trommel cleaning device that makes our beach clean ups fun, different and educational. Learn more here.
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Create Your Own Cleanup Group in San Mateo!
City of San Mateo
Date/Time: Flexible
Location: The streets of San Mateo
Ages: Everyone can help
Time Commitment: Varies
Team Up to Clean Up is a program meant to bring San Mateo residents and neighborhoods together in a joint effort to eliminate litter in our streets, storm drains, parks and waterways. Litter is not only unsightly, but also unsafe and harmful to our natural environment. You can help by starting your own "Team Up to Clean Up" Group! Connect with friends and neighbors who want to keep our city litter-free. City staff will first meet with you to explore the possibilities of working together to keep our communities clean and safe. We will support your project by providing your team with safety gloves & vests, cleanup bags, cleaning supplies, and arrange for the free pickup of all the trash at the end of your event. Volunteers receive safety instructions and sign an Annual Waiver of Liability. Community Service reports are available for students who participate. Learn more here.
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BioBlitz on Guadalupe River at Blossom Hill
South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition
Date/Time: Saturday, March 20, 9 – 11am. Check in at 8:45am
Location: Park and Ride, Coleman Road, San Jose
Ages: Volunteers age eight and older welcome to participate with parental supervision.
Time Commitment: Two hours
‘Bio’ means life and ‘Blitz’ means to do something quickly and intensively. Together they make ‘BioBlitz’, a collaborative race against the clock to discover as many species of plants, animals and fungi as possible, within a set location, over a defined time period. This is a fun family event! Come out and see what we can find on the creek. We will be using the iNaturalist app on our phones to identify and catalog what we find. This will be a fun event for everyone! Please bring your cell phone for "touch-less sign in". We will be taking your temperature. Please do not participate if you don't feel well. Please bring your own water. Remember your mask too! Space is limited, so sign up today!
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Meal Serving @ Goodwill
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen
Location: Community Garden at Goodwill Site, 1080 North 7th Street, San Jose
(Back RIGHT corner behind the Goodwill truck parking lot)
Ages: Families with children age 10 and older are welcome to volunteer. Volunteers age 10 – 14 must have adult supervision.
Time Commitment: Two-hour shifts
The mission of Loaves & Fishes is to provide hot nutritious meals that are prepared, delivered and served to low-income families, disadvantaged individuals with a special concern for children, families, seniors, veterans, students, disabled, and the homeless. Be ready to help prep the food, serve our guests and help clean up
Contact: Registration is available online. If you need to cancel, please give us at least 3-business days before your scheduled service, either on Eventbrite, or call 408.922.9085, or email volunteer@loavesfishes.org
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Host a DIY Pajama and Book Drive
The Pajama Program
Date/Time: Ongoing
Location: Your home or community
Ages: Everyone can help
Time Commitment: Varies
The Pajama Program is a non-profit that provides new pajamas and new books to children in need through a nationwide network of service agencies. Snuggling up in cozy, new pajamas with their very own new book, gives these children a secure and nurturing "good night" at bedtime. We can never have enough pajamas and books! Your family can help by starting your own Pajama and Book Drive. Remember to be safe! Create a contactless drop-off area, and communicate with your donors via phone or email. Invite everyone to purchase pajamas and books online and have them delivered to you for collection or identify places in your community where people can safely drop-off or mail the new pajamas and books. Here are our pajama and book donation guidelines:
- Pajamas: Must be new and unused and a complete set; sizes through adult XXXL are welcome
- Books: Must be new; click here for details about the types of books we accept.
Once your drive is complete, report the donation through the online form to learn where to send your donation. The Pajama Project cannot provide pickup service for donations. We will contact you within 7 days to arrange a drop-off location. You will either be connected with a local Chapter President to make the arrangements, or receive drop-off or shipping instructions from the National Office.
Contact: info@pajamaprogram.org, 212.716.9757. Click here to find out if there is a local chapter near you.
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Warm Feet for Warriors
Soldiers' Angels
Date/Time: The sock collection will run from February 1 – April 30. (Don’t worry if your socks arrive a little before the 1st or a little after the 30th– we anticipate that most people will end their collections on the 30th and the socks will arrive in the 2-3 weeks following.)
Location: Please mail your collected socks to:
Soldiers Angels’ – Warm Feet for Warriors
2895 NE Loop 410, Suite 107
San Antonio, TX 78218
Ages: Everyone can participate
Time Commitment: Varies
One of the items that is most requested from service members and veterans is socks! Just think of how nice a brand-new pair of socks feel when you pull them on! Soldiers’ Angels wants to help keep our troops and veterans’ toes feeling toasty, and you can help! Start a sock collection drive and send us new socks in all colors and sizes in their original packaging. We will distribute the socks to veterans in VA Hospitals and include in our care packages to deployed service members. Our goal for 2021 is to collect 10,000 pairs of socks for our deployed service members and veterans. You can buy any adult size socks. We have service members and veterans of all sizes and genders, so as long as they are adult socks, we’ll find the right person for the sock after we have them! As you will see on our Amazon Wish List, black is preferred, but really any color is fine! These socks are not meant to be used as uniform socks by our deployed service members. The military has pretty strict regulations when it comes to military uniforms and every branch is different. These socks will be used by military for time out of uniform. For veterans in hospitals, the color doesn’t matter at all, but hospitals require that patients have non-skid socks. Check out the Soldiers Angels’ – Warm Feet for Warriors page for more information about how to participate.
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Create a Project
Good Deeds Day 2021
Date/Time(s):
- March 29, Project registration deadline
- April 11, International Good Deeds Day
Location: Your home or community
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Varies, depending on your project
Good Deeds Day is a global movement of doing good. Throughout the world families, neighbors, schools, clubs, companies, and communities come together to do a good deed project. Does your family have an idea of a Good Deeds Day project for your community? Or you can browse their project ideas page for ideas. We encourage individuals to recruit colleagues, friends and family, and plan a project as a group!
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Minneapolis, MN 55417
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