What are one-time projects?
Community Outreach plans a variety of on- and off-campus events intended to give interested students an entry point into service. There are two types of one-time service opportunities:
Community Service Days (CSD) are one time volunteer placements that occur primarily during the weekends at organizations surrounding the UConn campus. To reserve a Community Service Event for your Student Organization, please email our team at uconn.co.csd@gmail.com.
Campus Wide Initiatives are large-scale on-campus events hosted in partnership with community partners, such as Special Olympics, or other campus offices. Some special projects include, Smile Mile, MLK Day of Service, and Give and Go.
All transportation is provided for Community Service Day (CSD) events. Pick-ups and drop-offs all occur outside of the People's Bank on the side of the UConn Bookstore. All times listed for events include transportation! Transportation is not included in credited service hours. Service hours are in parentheses.
If you require an accommodation to participate in any Community Outreach events, please contact Jazmyn Matos at jmm10029work@uconn.edu at least five days prior to the event.
April 18
GROW Windham
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
GROW Windham cultivates relationships and creates space for youth, community members, and food system partners to work together to build a stronger community and local food system. Garden workdays at Lauter Park include planting, weeding, spreading garden materials like mulch and compost, and sometimes painting, building, or light demolition. Please wear outdoor clothes and close-toed shoes. Sign up here!
WAIM Loading Dock
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
WAIM receives household items from local donors who drop them off for us to give away to people who need the items. UConn volunteers will work inside accepting and sorting clothing and household goods at our redistribution center. This also includes cleaning, painting, and shelving the household, kitchen, and furniture items. Please wear appropriate clothing for cleaning and dealing with potentially dirty items. Sign up here!
WAIM Community Garden
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
The WAIM Community garden is a garden consisting of 53 raised garden beds that are planted with food crops for donation to the local food pantry and soup kitchen. Volunteers are needed to help weed, water, harvest crops, maintain weed-free paths, turn compost piles, spread woodchips, and general garden cleanup chores. Volunteers should dress for the weather and wear shoes that can get dirty. Sign up here!
Garden Club of Willimantic
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
Participants will help cleanup the garden on the bridge in Willimantic. Projects may include general landscape cleanup and some gardening tasks. Please dress for work, with clothes that can get dirty. Sign up here!
American Lung Association Fight for Air Stair Climb
6:50 am - 1:05 pm (5.5 service hours)
One of the American Lung Association's signature fundraising events, Fight For Air Climbs are stair climbs held in prominent skyscrapers around the country. Climbers join friends, family, co-workers or even fly solo, climbing the stairs of the building to the top! Volunteers will serve as elevator monitors (making sure only a certain amount of people in the elevators), cheering and assisting in the stairwells, floor monitors (making sure climbers and volunteers are being directed to the right place), bib number caller (help with the dj’s and make sure all climbers are told the numbers to line up) to name a few. Sign up here!
April 19
Garden Club of Willimantic
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
Participants will help cleanup the garden on the bridge in Willimantic. Projects may include general landscape cleanup and some gardening tasks. Please dress for work, with clothes that can get dirty. Sign up here!
Covenant Soup Kitchen
8:40 am - 2:20 pm (5 service hours)
Covenant is looking for helping hands to assist with daily meal services as well as some organization/spring cleaning projects inside and around the facility. Please dress comfortably and according to the weather. Sign up here!
Horizons
9:30 am - 3:30 pm (6 service hours)
Horizons, Inc. creates and sustains opportunities for people who have developmental disabilities and other special needs. This service project is aimed at helping the camp team set up for upcoming weekend programs. This includes making beds, leaf raking, making different Arts & Crafts templates, painting or taking and organizing inventory. Sign up here!
April 25
WAIM Community Garden
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
The WAIM Community garden is a garden consisting of 53 raised garden beds that are planted with food crops for donation to the local food pantry and soup kitchen. Volunteers are needed to help weed, water, harvest crops, maintain weed-free paths, turn compost piles, spread woodchips, and general garden cleanup chores. Volunteers should dress for the weather and wear shoes that can get dirty. Sign up here!
GROW Windham
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
GROW Windham cultivates relationships and creates space for youth, community members, and food system partners to work together to build a stronger community and local food system. Garden workdays at Lauter Park include planting, weeding, spreading garden materials like mulch and compost, and sometimes painting, building, or light demolition. Please wear outdoor clothes and close-toed shoes. Sign up here!
Garden Club of Windham
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
Volunteers will be assisting in planting large trees and shrubs and spreading dirt and mulch. Additionally, the team will work to dig and define edges of garden beds. Wear work clothes and covered shoes. Sign up here!
Willimantic Whitewater Partnership
8:40 am - 12:20 pm (3 service hours)
Volunteers will assist in trash cleanup at Whitewater Partk. Additionally, teams will work to improve the building by landscaping, painting, and prepping the building. Please wear appropriate clothing. Sign up here!
Holy Family Home and Shelter
9:40 am - 1:20 pm (3 service hours)
Holy Family Home and Shelter endeavors to serve those families whose circumstances have deprived them of an adequate lifestyle and housing. The Shelter's safe harbor allows for assistance in finding solutions to alleviate their own situation for those capable of living in harmony with others, while respecting their own mutual rights. Volunteers will help with a variety of indoor and/or outdoor projects which may include general maintenance, yard work, and other chores necessary to keep the building in clean, livable conditions. Sign up here!
Covenant Soup Kitchen
9:30 am - 2:20 pm (5 service hours)
Covenant is looking for helping hands to assist with daily meal services as well as some organization/spring cleaning projects inside and around the facility. Please dress comfortably and according to the weather. Sign up here!
Lutz Children's Museum
8:30 am - 2:30 pm (5 service hours)
Lutz Children's Museum provides a multi-faceted museum for children to explore culture, history, and the natural sciences through internal and external exhibits, programs, and experiences. Recently, the side of the museum has become quite overgrown with brush and weeds. Volunteers will be working to clean this up. This job will include brush removal, mowing, weeding, and some gardening. Volunteers should come prepared to work outdoors. Sign up here!
April 26
Covenant Soup Kitchen
8:40 am - 2:20 pm (5 service hours)
Covenant is looking for helping hands to assist with daily meal services as well as some organization/spring cleaning projects inside and around the facility. Please dress comfortably and according to the weather. Sign up here!