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Thistle Farms ProjectDate:Tuesday, 4/9/19Time: 11:30am – 4:30pmLocation:Thistle Farms5122 Charlotte PikeNashville, TN 37209Project Description:Thistle Farms is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to helping women survivors recover and heal from prostitution, trafficking, and addiction. Thistle Farms does this by providing a safe place to live, a meaningful job, and a lifelong sisterhood of support. Thistle Farms Residential Program consists of four dwellings that together house up to 29 women. Residents experience transformative, sustainable change through two years of rent-free housing, physical and mental health treatment, case-management, education, and cast volunteers will be providing spring cleaning including landscaping and garden prep at the residences. Volunteer Sign Up Link: for Humanity- ReStore Clean UpDate:Wednesday, 4/10/19Time: 9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:Habitat ReStore414 Harding PlaceNashville, TN 37211Project Description:Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville runs three ReStores that sell used and new home and office furnishings and building supplies at a fraction of retail prices. Sales at these stores support the mission of the Habitat for Humanity- bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville serves four counties: Davidson, Wilson, Dickson, and Cheatham. Since it was established in 1985, they have built or recycled more than 1,090 homes and served more than 2,789 family members.Volunteer projects at the ReStore include receiving donations, loading sales, setting up displays, organizing the warehouse, and special projects. This will allow the ReStore to keep up with the influx of donations, keep the sales floor clean and presentable, and help their customers have a great experience.Volunteer Sign Up Link: Cares Day at Second Harvest Food Bank – Morning ShiftDate:Thursday, 4/11/19Time:8:00am – 12:00pmLocation:Second Harvest Food Bank331 Great Circle RoadNashville, TN 37228Project Description:Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee provides a central distribution center for companies, groups and individuals who wish to help provide food for hungry people in Middle Tennessee. Last year,?Second Harvest distributed more than 29 million pounds of food to over 450 Partner Agencies, providing more than 24 million meals of food to hungry children, families and cast employee and community volunteer projects include: evaluating, sorting, and boxing non-perishable food donations; assembling food boxes and bags for school and senior feeding programs; evaluating, sorting, and boxing frozen or perishable food donations; and bagging bulk produce into family-sized portions.Volunteer Sign Up Link: Cares Day at Second Harvest Food Bank – Afternoon ShiftDate:Thursday, 4/11/19Time:12:00pm – 4:00pmLocation:Second Harvest Food Bank331 Great Circle RoadNashville, TN 37228Project Description:Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee provides a central distribution center for companies, groups and individuals who wish to help provide food for hungry people in Middle Tennessee. Last year,?Second Harvest distributed more than 29 million pounds of food to over 450 Partner Agencies, providing more than 24 million meals of food to hungry children, families and cast employee and community volunteer projects include: evaluating, sorting, and boxing non-perishable food donations; assembling food boxes and bags for school and senior feeding programs; evaluating, sorting, and boxing frozen or perishable food donations; and bagging bulk produce into family-sized portions.Volunteer Sign Up Link: Box ProjectDate:Thursday, 4/11/19Time:9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:LP PENCIL Box7199 Cockrill Bend BlvdNashville, TN 37209Project Description:PENCIL is the premier organization linking community resources to Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). PENCIL’s primary vision is to connect MNPS to community resources to fill education gaps and remove social and economic barriers that can impede a child’s academic success. Our Comcast Cares Day project will serve the community and address these barriers by putting school supplies into the hands of the students who families cannot afford them.Through the LP PENCIL Box, volunteers will pack backpacks for pre-school graduates and upcoming kindergartners. Volunteers will form assemble lines and fill 650 backpacks with tools for educational success: pencils, crayons, rulers, glue, and more! Complete with a note of encouragement, the backpacks will be delivered to early learning centers throughout Nashville.Volunteer Sign Up Link: Leven Farm Clean UpDate:Friday, 4/12/19Time:9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:Glen Leven Farm4000 Franklin PikeNashville, TN 37204Project Description:Glen Leven Farm sits on 65 acres of historically significant urban agricultural land and contains the 1857 Thompson family mansion and is part of the site of the Battle of Nashville Civil War battlefield. The Land Trust for Tennessee maintains and conserves Glen Leven Farm, and it is the site of their Nature Classroom Field Trip Program that serves students in grades K-4. Glen Leven Farm is a perfect outdoor classroom with resources unlike any in our area including an educational garden, a certified arboretum, miniature donkeys, and a historic home. Glen Leven Farm is not regularly open to the public, so this is a great opportunity to learn about the farm as well as give back to the community.Volunteers will join with The Land Trust for Tennessee’s specialists to remove invasive bush honeysuckle as part of a property-wide fence project and in support of sustainable agricultural practices.Volunteer Sign Up Link: Players Theatre Clean UpDate:Saturday, 4/13/19Time:9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:Madison Town Center901 Madison SquareMadison, TN 37115Project Description:Circle Players is a volunteer-based theatre group that is now in its seventh decade of providing artistic and creative forums for all Nashvillians. Circle Players’ mission is to promote public instruction, appreciation, and enjoyment of dramatic literature, stagecraft, fine arts and the theatre through the production of plays and by conducting other related cast volunteers will help to organize the rehearsal space to help provide a cleaner, safer environment for artistic collaboration for the performances and potentially allowing for additional usage for the space. Volunteer tasks will include organizing costumes and sets, general cleaning, and repairing and painting of the stage area.Volunteer Sign Up Link: & Girls Club of Middle TN Great Futures Gala PrepDate:Saturday, 4/13/19Time:10:00am – 2:00pmLocation:Omni Hotel250 5th Avenue SNashville, TN 37203Project Description:For more than 115 years, Boys & Girls Club of Middle Tennessee (BGCMT) has enabled all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. Annually, more than 4,300 youth are served at nine Middle Tennessee clubs and through community outreach cast will support BGCMT as they prepare for their largest annual fundraiser- Great Futures Gala. BGCMT will host an anticipated 575 guests. Comcast volunteers will support with day-of preparations including: setting up the silent and super silent auction; setting up registration; and setting up other aspects of the event.Volunteer Sign Up Link: Thrift Store ProjectDate:Monday, 4/15/19Time:8:00am – 12:00pmLocation:GraceWorks Thrift Store104 Southeast Parkway Franklin, TN 37064Project Description:GraceWorks Ministries, Inc. was founded in 1995, when concerned citizens and faith leaders came together and decided Williamson County needed a central place to send people who needed help with food, clothing and financial assistance. Today, GraceWorks partners with agencies to provide help for immediate needs and long-term resources including family support, instructional programs, seasonal needs, and hunger cast volunteers will help with the GraceWorks Thrift Store by sorting donations, pricing donations, refilling racks and stocking shelves. Volunteer Sign Up Link: Center for the Arts Spring CleanDate:Wednesday, 4/17/19Time:10:00am – 2:00pmLocation:Murfreesboro Center for the Arts110 West College StreetMurfreesboro, TN 37130Project Description:The Center for the Arts enhances the quality of the Murfreesboro community by provide a variety of arts opportunities that educate and entertain people of all demographics, ages, and income levels. Their mission is to advance art awareness through quality theatrical productions, musical performances, art exhibits, educational programs, life-long learning opportunities, and community activities.Volunteers will be assisting in stuff and addressing mailers to community partners, painting, and general cleaning of the facility.Volunteer Sign Up Link: State Community College Greenhouse ProjectDate:Thursday, 4/18/19Time:9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:Nashville State Community College120 White Bridge RoadNashville, TN 37209Project Description:The Nashville State Community College Foundation supports students at Nashville State Community College and helps to provide quality education, remove financial barriers, and empower students to achieve their dreams for a brighter future.Volunteers will restore a greenhouse at the West Nashville Campus that has been dormant for several years. Comcast volunteers will help with general clean up, landscaping, building raised beds, and assembling picnic tables.Once revitalized, the greenhouse will serve as a transplant garden for seedlings that will, when ready, be moved to outdoor plots at the Nashville Food Project. This partnership is an opportunity for Nashville State students to support work that addresses food insecurity and participate in academically beneficial experiential learning activities.Volunteer Sign Up Link:’em Sort ProjectDate:Wednesday, 4/24/19Time:9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:Book’em161 Rans AvenueNashville, TN 37203Project Description:Book’em is a local, nonprofit, children’s literacy organization founded in 1989 in Nashville. The organization helps create a more literate Nashville and ignites children’s passion for reading through book ownership and enthusiastic volunteers. In 2018, Book’em distributed just over 100,000 books and provided 230 reading role models in Davidson cast volunteers will help organize, sort, clean, shelve, box, and count books donated to Book’em. This will help Book’em be able to get more books into the hands of children at a faster rate.Volunteer Sign Up Link: House ProjectDate:Friday, 4/26/19Time:9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:Dismas House1513 16th Avenue SNashville, TN 37212Project Description:The mission of Dismas House is to bring mutual reconciliation between former offenders and society through the development of a supportive community characterized by students and former offenders living together in a family setting, active involvement of volunteers from the larger community, and a spirit of open and participative decision-making with an emphasis on the common good.Volunteers will participate in booth indoor and outdoor projects. Indoor projects include computer maintenance and data entry, organizing donation closets, and deep house cleaning. Outdoor projects will include planting a garden, landscaping, staining the deck, and cleaning the porch.Volunteer Sign Up Link: in the Inn ProjectDate:Tuesday, 4/30/19Time:3:00pm – 7:00pmLocation:Room in the Inn 705 Drexel StreetNashville, TN 37203Project Description:Room in the Inn is a single site of services providing emergency and long-term support for individuals who are experiencing homelessness in Middle cast volunteers will assist with general facility cleaning as well as helping to prepare, serve, and participate in a community meal night. Volunteer Sign Up Link: Citizens Center of Hendersonville Paint ProjectDate:Tuesday, 4/30/19Time:9:00am – 1:00pmLocation:Senior Citizen Center197 Campus DriveHendersonville, TN 37075Project Description:The mission of Senior Citizens Center of Hendersonville is to provide the facility, equipment, and programming necessary to enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of persons age fifty (50) years and over in the Hendersonville community, and to provide a network for seniors to enjoy the company of their peers; sharing similar interests, developing new ones, and making new friends. In addition, to provide the stimulus to assist older adults in remaining as active and vibrant as possible, for as long as possible. Further, to help provide transportation for senior day trips to a variety of venues.Volunteers will help paint the main center location after recent renovations, move furniture and equipment that was moved during renovations, and assist with organizing.Volunteer Sign Up Link: LGBT Chamber Business in Excellence Awards PrepDate:Thursday, 5/2/19Time:12:00pm – 4:00pmLocation:JW Marriott201 8th Avenue SNashville, TN 37203Project Description:The Nashville LGBT Chamber Foundation educates, inspires, and empowers LGBT business professionals. Founded in 2015, the Foundation assists the LGBT Chamber of Commerce fund its education programming and allows the Chamber of Commerce to concentrate on being a membership association.Volunteers will help set up for the Excellence in Business Awards which is a high-energy lunch best known for its diverse attendees, powerful presentations, and inspiration acceptance speeches. Volunteers will prep registration tables, assist with decorations, and any other preparation needs.Volunteer Sign Up Link: of La Vergne Clean UpDate:Saturday, 5/4/19Time:8:00am – 12:00pmLocation:La Verge Greenway- Hurricane Creek Trail5093 Murfreesboro RoadLa Verge, TN 37086Project Description:Join with the City of La Verge for a clean up of the area near Hurricane Creek, a tributary to Percy Priest Lake. Volunteers will help with litter removal, rain barrel workshops, planting a rain garden and educational presentations.Volunteer Sign Up Link: Cares Day North Nashville Clean UpDate:Saturday, 5/4/19Time:8:30am – 12:30pmLocation:Pearl Cohn High School904 26th Avenue NorthNashville, TN 37208Project Description:Comcast will join with volunteers from the Mayor’s office, Metro Nashville Public Works, Cornerstone Church, and other community groups to beautify North Nashville. Volunteer projects will include:Landscaping, cleaning, and painting at Pearl Cohn High SchoolLandscaping and litter removal at Hadley Park and Hadley Park Community CenterProjects at Robert Churchwell Elementary SchoolLandscaping, litter removal and cleaning at Nashville Public Library’s North BranchVolunteer Sign Up Link: ................
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