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March 2021 - Seattle
Street To Beach Cleanups - Earth Heroes Needed in Seattle! 

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:
  1. Go on our website to sign the online waiver
  2. Grab your supplies (bucket, gloves, pick up sticks)
  3. Go outside near your home
  4. 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.

Provide Meals

Jublilee Women's Center

Date/Time: Email volunteer@jwcenter.org for available dates

Location: Email volunteer@jwcenter.org for delivery location. Gift cards can be mailed to:
Jubilee Women's Center
620 18th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112

Ages: Everyone can help

Time Commitment: Varies

Jubilee Women's Center supports women experiencing poverty to build stable and fulfilling futures, one extraordinary woman at a time. Following the recommendations of the King County Public Health Department, we have temporarily suspended home prepared community meals for our residents. However, we're currently accepting meals ordered from and prepared by a commercial kitchen or restaurant. Here are the details for ordering and delivering meals to Jubilee:
  • 30 meals
  • 5 vegetarian or vegan meals
  • Please schedule delivery by 4:30pm
  • A provided list of general ingredients such as dairy, nuts, meat, and gluten would be greatly appreciated for those who have dietary restrictions. 
  • Families can also help by donating gift cards, making financial donations, and purchasing Amazon wishlist items.

Contact: Email the volunteer services manager, volunteer@jwcenter.org, for available meal dates and delivery information. Check this page for a suggested list of restaurants.
Virtual Food Drive

Food Lifeline

Date/Time: Ongoing need

Location: Online

Ages: Everyone can participate

Time Commitment: Varies

Hosting a virtual food drive saves you the hassle of moving heavy food drive boxes and allows Food Lifeline to save on resources and get the most-needed items to people facing hunger. But more importantly, when you raise cash instead of cans, Food Lifeline is able to provide the equivalent of five complete meals for what it would cost you to purchase one can of food. Your family can make a difference by creating your own virtual food drive. Set up a challenge for your friends, family, and classmates. Maybe you like to run, walk, or dance. Ask your "crowd" to sponsor you by the minute, and feed thousands of people with just one activity. Challenges are only limited by your imagination!

BAM! Bring a Meal

Seattle Union Gospel Mission

Date/Time: Meals are served 7 days a week- lunch at noon, dinner at 5pm

Location: Three shelter locations:
Men’s shelter - 318 2nd Ave Ext S., Seattle, 98104. Feeds 300 guests for lunch and 80 residents for dinner.
Hope Place - 3802 S. Othello St., Seattle, 98118. Feeds 80 residents each meal.
Riverton - 3020 S. 128th St., Burien, 98168. Feeds 50 residents each meal.
Search and Rescue - 800 sandwiches served per day (peanut butter and jelly or meat and cheese) Any amount of sandwiches donated toward these efforts is appreciated. Drop off location is either at Riverton shelter or Administration building at 3800 S. Othello St., Seattle, 98118 (delivery depends on preferred location and time of delivery)

Ages: Everyone can help

Time Commitment: Varies depending on whether food is ordered and delivered or prepared by donor

At Seattle Union Gospel Mission we work to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. It all starts with dignity - in the form of a blanket, a hot shower, a home-cooked meal, a warm place to sleep, and friendship. It continues with addiction recovery, one-on-one counseling, and long-term solutions. Food can be ordered from a local restaurant and delivered or the donor can prepare food in sheet pans and deliver to a shelter. Food prepared by a donor must be prepared in a “donor kitchen.” A DONOR KITCHEN is a publicly available kitchen in a faith-based organization, community center, or other site. The donor kitchen does not need to have a health permit, but must have basic facilities such as adequate handwashing, dishwashing, refrigeration, and cooking equipment. It must have a safe water supply, be protected from weather and animals, and be cleaned before food preparation starts. The BAM coordinator can help in arranging the best options for your group.

Contact: Lori Schupbach (BAM coordinator) at lschupbach@ugm.org or 206.556.5912 to make arrangements
Donate Basic Needs Items

Imagine Housing

Date/Time: Drop-off any day Monday through Friday from 9am until 5pm. Our office is secure so donors will need to call upon arrival to be allowed entrance to the building. Please call our Office Manager, Hester, at 425.521.5210.

Location: 10604 NE 38th Place, Suite 215, Kirkland

Ages: Everyone can help

Time Commitment: Varies

The mission of Imagine Housing is to develop affordable housing, build welcoming communities, and foster vibrant futures. Our vision is an Eastside with interconnected and welcoming communities where all people can live, learn, work and play. We provide basic needs supplies (e.g. soap & hygiene supplies, toilet paper, cleaning supplies) so that residents can focus on their goals such as finding stable employment, continuing their education, spending time with their kids and addressing health care needs. With the recent lack of supply at stores for essential items and increased concerns around use of bacteria-reducing products (hand sanitizer, cleaning wipes, etc.) we have seen a substantial increase in demand for these products from our residents. On average, we distribute 2,000 items monthly at our 15 properties. The demand for these items has increased substantially at our communities as a response to COVID-19 and we assume this level of increased demand will remain constant for the foreseeable future. Your family can help by hosting a drive to collect these vital items for our most vulnerable community members! For a full list, please sign-up first.

Contact: Riley Medeiros, rileym@imaginehousing.org, 425.576.5190
Celebrating Birthdays!

Birthday Dreams

Date/Time: Varies depending on project

Location: Varies depending on project

Ages: Everyone can help

Time Commitment: Varies depending on project

Birthday Dreams is dedicated to bringing hope, joy and sense of self-worth to homeless children with the gift of a birthday party. There are a number of ways that you and your family can help:

  • Donate Birthday-in-a-Box items. A Birthday-in-a-Box is a complete party kit which includes everything needed for a fun, joyful experience. Items needed typically include birthday gifts, juice, birthday cakes and party supplies. Check the online calendar for needed Birthday-in-a-Box items
  • Deliver Birthday Boxes - Check the online calendar for available delivery dates.
  • Host a Gift Drive or a Party Supply Drive.

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.
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.

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!

Volunteer Work Parties

Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA)

Date/Time: Check the volunteer page for upcoming event dates and times

Location: Varies depending on dates

Ages: Families with children ages five and older are welcome to volunteer. Youth waiver form signed by parent/guardian if under 18 (available on our website www.dnda.org/nature)

Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours

Volunteering with DNDA’s Nature Programs can be a fun, rewarding experience allowing you to get outside, improve the health of a local natural area, and give back to your community.
Volunteers will participate in fun, hands-on conservation work led by staff from DNDA's Nature Team. Restoration work includes removing invasive plants, planting native species, and mulching new plantings, depending on the restoration progress in each site. Working out in the elements requires the right apparel. Long pants and closed-toed shoes are required, even in the summer.
  • Bring a face covering to the event. If you forget a face covering, the event lead will have extras for you.
  • Bring any water or snacks you might want during the volunteer event. For safety reasons, we will not be able to provide any refreshments.
  • If you have your own pair of work gloves you are encouraged to bring them. If you don’t that’s okay, we will have some for you.
  • All volunteers under 18 participating without a parent, are required to bring a completed Youth Waiver Form.

Please note: Due to COVID-19 restrictions, most sites will not have a bathroom present.

Contact: Caroline Borsenik, DNDA's Environmental Programs Director, caroline@dnda.org. Registration is available online. Each event will be limited to a maximum of 5 volunteers. As a result, volunteer spots may not be available on all dates. After you submit a volunteer inquiry, our staff will contact you directly to confirm your spot.
Food Bank Distribution

North Helpline Emergency Services and Food Bank

Date/Time(s):
  • Wednesdays, 9am to 1:30pm
  • Thursdays, 3:30 – 7pm
  • Saturdays, 9am - 1:30pm

Location: 12736 33rd Ave NE, Seattle

Ages: Children ages 12 and older are welcome to volunteer with an adult; youth 14 and older can volunteer on their own.

Time Commitment: Three to four hours

Volunteers helping with food distributions will generally be assigned to roles that include check-in, line direction/greeting, distributing food to clients, helping to stock the distribution lines, and assisting clients with carts. Volunteers will be assigned to their positions during the distribution based upon the needs of the food bank.

Contact: Lara-Ashley Monroe, volunteers@northhelpline.org, 206.367.3477

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