PROJECTS
AGENCIES CLICK HERE for Project Registration Form
DAY OF CARING PROJECTS:
NOTE: We always need in-kind donations of the following: Paint, stain, mulch, flowers, etc. . . . Please call Zena at 253-2264 or email [email protected] for more details. Scroll down for other ideas of projects and projects not happening on Day of Caring.
Agencies that are able to provide lunch and/or refreshments have noted that on their project information. All volunteers will be provided with water and healthy snacks sponsored by the Williamsburg Community Health Foundation and Pepsi.
AGENCIES CLICK HERE for Project Registration Form
1. Agency - York River State Park, 5526 Riverview Road, WIlliamsburg. Project: Trail Maintenance. Wear gloves, long pants, closed toe shoes. All equipment will be supplied. Water will be provided, but no lunch. Need up to 30 volunteers. Assigned to: 8 volunteers from Williamsburg James City County Library, 2 individual volunteers.
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2. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency, 312 Waller Mill Road. Project: Spray grass with weed killer and spread playground mulch on playground area. Need 6 volunteers for half the day to spread mulch. Wear gloves, bring rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows and gloves. Need 4 to 6 volunteers for half a day. Assigned to: 2 volunteers with Williams Landscape & Design.
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3. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start. Project: Back to School Supply Drive. If you are unable to physically work a project site, this project involves collecting school supplies for the Head Start children whose parents cannot always afford to provide the necessary tools for Head Start classes. Please contact Zena for the complete detailed list of supplies (includes pens, pencils, markers, composition notebooks and supplies for the classrooms to include paper towels, napkins, etc.). If items can be collected and delivered the first week of September, that would be great - and a photo shoot Assigned to: LeClair Ryan (10 employees).
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4. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start, 312 Waller Mill Road location. Project: Reading to children in the Head Start Classrooms and helping with lunch. Wear closed toe shoes and no big hoop earrings. lunch will be provided. Need 8 to 16 volunteers. Assigned to: 7 volunteers with Chesapeake Payment Systems, 1 individual
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5. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start, 8901 Pocahontas Trail location. Project: Reading to children in the Head Start Classrooms
and helping with lunch. Wear closed toe shoes and no big hoop earrings. lunch
will be provided. Assigned to: 6 individuals and 12 volunteers from the Forum at The College of William & Mary
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6. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start, 7311 Richmond Road location. Project: Reading to children in the Head Start Classrooms
and helping with lunch. Wear closed toe shoes and no big hoop earrings. lunch
will be provided. Need 8 to 16 volunteers. Assigned to: 8 volunteers from New Town Dental Arts
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7. Agency - Hospice House and Support Care of Williamsburg - Painting Florida room walls and porch rockers. Please bring paint rollers. Assigned to: 6 volunteers with Men's Charity Tennis Groupl.
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8. Agency - Hospice House and Support Care of Williamsburg - Property Landscaping to include work around new addition, redefine butterfly garden, refurbish iris bed, create playground entrance, embellish nature trail entrance, improve lower shade garden, and clean up property perimeter. Please bring paint rollers. Assigned to: 7 volunteers with Men's Charity Tennis Group.
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9. Agency - Early Childhood Music School of Williamsburg United Methodist Church, 500 Jamestown Road. Project - painting classrooms and restrooms. All materials provided, please wear painting clothes. Need 6 to 8 volunteers for 1/2 day. Snacks and Drinks provided. Assigned to: 2 volunteers from the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance and 4 from James City county.
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10. Agency - Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast, Camp Skimino. Project: Maintenance at Camp Skimino, paint, clear trails and minor repairs. Need 10 to 15 volunteers all day. Lunch and refreshments will be served. Assigned to: 10 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and 2 from James City County.
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11. Agency - Community Services Coalition, 312 Waller Mill Road, Williamsburg (Historic Triangle Community Services Building). Project: paint large conference room. Paint will be provided. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Assigned to: 4 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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12. Agency - Community Services Coalition, 312 Waller Mill Road, Williamsburg (Historic Triangle Community Services Building). Project: Landscape around the building and parking lot. Assigned to: 10 volunteers with Williams Landscape and Design.
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13. Agency - Williamsburg Botanical Gardens at Freedom Park. Project: Autumn Garden Chores - weeding, pruning and spreading mulch. Possible help with installation of new trellis/arbor/gate and possible help to clean up debris from hurricane. Need 10 to 20 volunteers. Assigned to: 14 volunteers from James City County and 5 volunteers from James City County Lions Club.
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14. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg. Letter stuffing events at Williamsburg Landing. Folding, stuffing and mailing aprox. 8,000 letters to local citizens. 2-day event on September 8th and September 15th. Assigned to: Bob and Linda Mandella and aprox. 90 residents of Williamsburg Landing:
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15. Agency - Meals on Wheels. Project: Assist with delivery of hot meals to the home-bound residents of Greater Williamsburg. Prepare Emergency Meal Packs Assigned to: 22 employees from Townebank
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16. Agency - Williamsburg Area Faith in Action. Project: Clean gutters, trim tree branches and haul away and paint shed at home on Carriage Road. Requirements - Need at least one truck to haul away branches, ladder to clean gutters, saws for trimming treas, paint brushes (paint will be supplied). Lunch will not be provided. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Owens Brockway
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17. Agency - Child Development Resources. Project: outdoor work (details to come soon). Room for 5 to 8 more volunteers. - Assigned to: 17 volunteers from Anheuser Busch
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18. Agency - Child Development Resources. Project: Inside work - a. remove carpet and install laminate wood flooring in parent meeting room (more details to come soon). Assigned to 10 volunteers from Anheuser Busch. b. Lafayette High School location - playing with children during parent/child playground. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Williamsburg Community Health Foundation.
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19. Agency - Avalon. Project: Landscaping work. (details to come soon) . Assigned to: 5 volunteers from Greg Garrett Realty and 8 from Intelligent Decisions Systems.
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20. Agency - Avalon. Project: Possible painting, cleaning, some exterior some interior work. (details to come soon). Assigned to: 5 volunteers from Greg Garrett Realty and 7 volunteers from Intelligent Decisions Systems.
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21. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg Community Resource Center. Project: Food/Diaper/School Supply Drive. Donations of canned and boxed food items, baby diapers in all sizes and wipes, as well as basic school supplies - notebooks, pens/pencils/markers/backpacks. Any number of businesses and individuals can assist with donations. Assigned to: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, York County Schools, 2 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (to assist with sorting and stocking). Anthem Health Keepers ran a diaper drive. Avid Medical is running a baby supply drive in October as part of their United Way Campaign.
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22. Agency - Housing Partnerships. Project - Remodel a bathroom at home on Busch Springs Road to make it handicap accessible. Need 2 to 3 volunteers with plumbing experience. Assigned to: team who will work on this in the next few weeks.
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23. Agency - Housing Partnerships. Project - paint front porch of home on N. Boundary Street. Assigned to: 4 volunteers with New Town Dental Arts
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24. Agency - Housing Partnerships. Project: transferred to Barlow Road projects and Busch Gardens/Water Country USA volunteers
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25. Agency - Bay Aging Apartments, JCC Inc., - Parker View Apartments. Project: Weed out courtyard and plant fall flowers. Donation of flowers would be appreciated. Half day, refreshments will be provided. Assigned to: 3 volunteers from Henderson, Inc.
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26. Agency - Heritage Humane Society. Project: Weed, mulch, plant trees. Lunch & refreshments will be provided. Assigned to: 3 individuals and 4 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg
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27. Agency - Erase The Need Center - Backpack Program. Project: Help with stocking shelves with food donations and/or packing the backpacks to be given to homeless children on Friday, September 16th. Need 4 volunteers for half the day. Assigned to: 1 individual volunteer and 4 from James City County.
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28. Agency - New Town United Methodist Church - Prayer Garden. Project: Help to coordinate the renovation of the Prayer Garden. Have plans, need to order materials (church has funds to pay for materials) and coordinate different areas of the project for Day of Caring so it can be finished in one day. Professional landscapers and helpers needed. Assigned to: Aaron Williams with Williams Landscape & Design (10) and 8 Volunteers with "Action Jackson Team" and Bob Oller
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29. Agency - The Arc of Greater Williamsburg. Project: Help with assisting clients for the Self-Advocacy Class from 7pm to 9pm. Need 7 to 10 volunteers. Assigned to: William and Mary students.
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30. Agency - Faith in Action. Project: yard work at a home on Wythe Ave. Cut grass, pull out vines and trim bushes. Need 2 to 4 volunteers for 2 to 3 hours. Assigned to: 3 volunteers from the City of Williamsburg
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31. Agency - Grove Christian Outreach Center. Project: switch clothing closet from summer to winter clothes. From 9am to 3pm. Assigned to: 13 volunteers from Chesapeake Bank and 2 from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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32. Agency - YMCA. Project: Property maintenance. Assigned to: Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
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33. Agency - Red Cross. Project: Office Upgrade - to include painting office walls (each office can be a different neutral color), installing new blinds and window treatments (valances). Possibly moving furniture to clean carpets. Need donation of paint, blinds and window treatments. Need 4 to 6 volunteers. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Lowes - Williamsburg
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34. Agency - United Way Community Resource Center Client - home on Richmond Road. Project: Repair facing around mobile home, cover old well, general yard work, to include removing debris from property. Postponed at this time!
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35. Agency - Literacy for Life at the Rita Welsh Adult Learning Center. Project: Assemble 33 benches, prime, paint and deliver to storage location. Will be done in different levels, involving a number of volunteers. Those to construct the benches, those to prime them, and those the paint them on Day of Caring. Weather permitting, 2 coats of paint should be able to be applied on Day of Caring.
Need 4 to 6 volunteers to construct benches. Assigned to: 6 volunteers with Henderson, Inc.
Need 2 to 4 volunteers to apply primer paint. Assigned to: 4 volunteers with Henderson, Inc.
Need 4 to 6 volunteers to apply 2 coats of paint. Assigned to: 2 volunteers with Ball Metal, 2 volunteers with Colonial Williamsburg and 2 volunteers with Waller Mill Bible Church
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36. Agency - Multiple Agencies (UWGW, Catholic Charities, Children's Home Society & Fish). Project: Baby Shower - to collect new baby items to include diapers, wipes, powder, wash, etc. and new and gently used clothes, blankets and other baby items. Assigned to: 6 coordinators and many employees from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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37. Agency - Grove Christian Outreach Center. Project: Help with Bread Day on Wednesday, September 14th. Assigned to: 10 volunteers from SunTrust Bank.
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38. Agency - Dreamcatchers. Project: Property maintenance. Assigned to: 14 volunteers from the Rotary Club of the Historic Triangle, 1 individual and 1 volunteer from Colonial Williamsburg.
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39. Agency - Crossroads Community Youth Home, York County Juvenile Services. Project: Landscape Beautification. Need 3 to 4 volunteers for half day. Assigned to: 6 volunteers with Ball Metal
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40. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg/VDOT Adopt-A-Highway. Project: Pick up trash along Strawberry Plains Road. Team coordinator will need to pick up trash bags and vests from VDOT on Wednesday, the 15th. Need 4 to 10 volunteers for half day. Assigned to:
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41. Agency - City of Williamsburg. Project: Pick up yard debris from around the City from Hurricane Irene. Assigned to: 42 City of Williamsburg Employees
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42. Agency - James City County/United Way of Greater Williamsburg. Project: Greensprings Mobile Home Park - help JCC with resident assessments & pick up debris on Tuesday, August 27th. Assigned to: 8 volunteer students from William & Mary
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43. Agency - Housing Partnerships in partnership with York County. Project: Barlow Road Beautification Project. Working on homes along Barlow Road to do minor repairs, paint and general yard work to help spruce up the neighborhood. Assigned to: 18 volunteers from Busch Gardens/Water Country USA
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44. Agency - York County Parks and Recreation - Charles E. Brown Park (1950 Old Williamsburg Road, Lackey). Project: Picking/cutting invasive species from Charles Brown Park Wetlands Interpretive Sanctuary for Education (WISE) Nature Trail. CANCELLED AT THIS TIME - TOO MANY MOSQUITO'S DUE TO RAIN! Call Zena if Interested at a later date!
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45. Agency - Virginia Career Education Foundation. Project: Recycle old calendars (remove several pages and staple together and trim book covers to folder size). Location is yet to be determined (hopefully at Williamsburg Community Chapel), but this will be in an indoor project. 1 paper trimmer and electronic stapler are available, additional trimmers and/or staplers would be good. These materials will be shipped to schools all across the US as part of celebration of VA Career Week in October and Career and Technical Education Month in February. Need 5 more volunteers. Assigned to: 4 volunteers with James City County
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46. Back to School Celebration, Grove Christian Outreach Center - help with set up, help with
the games, rides and activities for the kids, help with the cotton candy and
popcorn machines and cooking/serving the hotdogs. This is a celebration for
the kids to usher in the new school year - prizes for all the games are school
supplies. Really need 2 clowns and a balloon maker. Thursday, September 8 from 3pm to 8pm, groups of 3 to 5 people to help man each station and help to clean up is essential. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Howell Creative Studio, 70 Jamestown High Students, 15 volunteers from Print Pak and 15 volunteers from Bruton Parish Church.
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47. Agency - York County Parks and Recreation - Quarter Path Park. Project: Picking up debris from the park on the paths, etc. Put into piles to be picked up by York County. Need 2 to 12 volunteers. Assigned to: 10 volunteers with Ball Metal Container Division
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48. Agency - YMCA Day Care Center. Project: General Property Maintenance. Assigned to: 10 volunteers with Ball Metal
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49. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg. Project: Paint 6 offices and all trim throughout main office. Assigned to: 15 volunteers with Dominion Power - worked on 3 different days the 3 weeks after Day of Caring.
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CLICK HERE for Business Team Volunteer sign-up form
CLICK HERE for Individual/Family Volunteer sign-up form
AGENCIES CLICK HERE for Project Registration Form
The following projects are not happening on Day of Caring but are
considered to be Day of Caring projects - scroll down for the projects
happening on Day of Caring. In the past, some of these have happened on day of
caring and volunteers who have helped in the past are invited to help again -
the events are just as important, they just didn't work out to be on the same
day as our official day of caring.
A. Food Drives for FISH - if your company is unable to participate on
Day of Caring, but would like to help out in another way, you can run a food
drive. Starting the week before and collect donations of non-perishable foods
through Day of Caring and bring them to the FISH office on September 15th,
and/or 16th and 17th. If you are planning a food drive, please let Zena know
so you can be counted as day of caring volunteers and given recognition for
your work - team leaders for the project are eligiable to receive day of caring
shirts. Assigned to: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
B. Supply Drive for Avalon - this works the same was as the food drive for
fish, Avalon is in desperate need of various household and office supplies to
include: Laundry detergents, dish detergent, soap, shampoo and other personal
hygene items, diapers and other items for infants, paper towels, toilet paper,
tissues, lysol spray, lysol cleaner, etc. Office supplies include white out,
paper clips, copy paper, construction paper, 2 pocket folders, etc. Assigned to:
C. Supply Drive for United Way - The United Way offices are always
trying to keep their costs down and donations of copy paper, computer CD and
DVD discs, ink jet (HP Photosmart C4280 & Kodak 7250) and laser address
label sheets, notepads, pens and other office supplies. Items for our
Community Resource Ceneter staff to give to clients would include baby diapers,
children's books, small personal hygiene items (like the travel size and
freebies from hotels). Assigned to: Target Stores - put together packages for our Community Resource Center to hand out to homeless clients.
D. Event Drives for the Arc of Greater Williamsburg - The Arc hosts an annual holiday
event each year for their clients, they give them all a "goody bag" at the end of the event which includes items such as a stuffed animal, candy, holiday ornament, toothbrush/toothpaste, hat, t-shirt, etc. Any donations that can be used for this event would be greatly appreciated, they put together aprox. 100 bags each year, but each bag does not have to be the same. They also use
donated prizes for their monthly bingo nights, donations of t-shirts, boxes of candy, picture frames, bath gift sets, etc. Donated items can be delivered to the United Way Office the week of Day of Caring and we will get them to the Arc.
Agencies interested in submitting a project, please contact Zena Myall or call 253-2264 or download this FORM. Deadline for projects to register is
September 1st.
DAY OF CARING PROJECTS:
NOTE: We always need in-kind donations of the following: Paint, stain, mulch, flowers, etc. . . . Please call Zena at 253-2264 or email [email protected] for more details. Scroll down for other ideas of projects and projects not happening on Day of Caring.
Agencies that are able to provide lunch and/or refreshments have noted that on their project information. All volunteers will be provided with water and healthy snacks sponsored by the Williamsburg Community Health Foundation and Pepsi.
AGENCIES CLICK HERE for Project Registration Form
1. Agency - York River State Park, 5526 Riverview Road, WIlliamsburg. Project: Trail Maintenance. Wear gloves, long pants, closed toe shoes. All equipment will be supplied. Water will be provided, but no lunch. Need up to 30 volunteers. Assigned to: 8 volunteers from Williamsburg James City County Library, 2 individual volunteers.
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2. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency, 312 Waller Mill Road. Project: Spray grass with weed killer and spread playground mulch on playground area. Need 6 volunteers for half the day to spread mulch. Wear gloves, bring rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows and gloves. Need 4 to 6 volunteers for half a day. Assigned to: 2 volunteers with Williams Landscape & Design.
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3. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start. Project: Back to School Supply Drive. If you are unable to physically work a project site, this project involves collecting school supplies for the Head Start children whose parents cannot always afford to provide the necessary tools for Head Start classes. Please contact Zena for the complete detailed list of supplies (includes pens, pencils, markers, composition notebooks and supplies for the classrooms to include paper towels, napkins, etc.). If items can be collected and delivered the first week of September, that would be great - and a photo shoot Assigned to: LeClair Ryan (10 employees).
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4. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start, 312 Waller Mill Road location. Project: Reading to children in the Head Start Classrooms and helping with lunch. Wear closed toe shoes and no big hoop earrings. lunch will be provided. Need 8 to 16 volunteers. Assigned to: 7 volunteers with Chesapeake Payment Systems, 1 individual
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5. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start, 8901 Pocahontas Trail location. Project: Reading to children in the Head Start Classrooms
and helping with lunch. Wear closed toe shoes and no big hoop earrings. lunch
will be provided. Assigned to: 6 individuals and 12 volunteers from the Forum at The College of William & Mary
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6. Agency - Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Head Start, 7311 Richmond Road location. Project: Reading to children in the Head Start Classrooms
and helping with lunch. Wear closed toe shoes and no big hoop earrings. lunch
will be provided. Need 8 to 16 volunteers. Assigned to: 8 volunteers from New Town Dental Arts
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7. Agency - Hospice House and Support Care of Williamsburg - Painting Florida room walls and porch rockers. Please bring paint rollers. Assigned to: 6 volunteers with Men's Charity Tennis Groupl.
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8. Agency - Hospice House and Support Care of Williamsburg - Property Landscaping to include work around new addition, redefine butterfly garden, refurbish iris bed, create playground entrance, embellish nature trail entrance, improve lower shade garden, and clean up property perimeter. Please bring paint rollers. Assigned to: 7 volunteers with Men's Charity Tennis Group.
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9. Agency - Early Childhood Music School of Williamsburg United Methodist Church, 500 Jamestown Road. Project - painting classrooms and restrooms. All materials provided, please wear painting clothes. Need 6 to 8 volunteers for 1/2 day. Snacks and Drinks provided. Assigned to: 2 volunteers from the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance and 4 from James City county.
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10. Agency - Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast, Camp Skimino. Project: Maintenance at Camp Skimino, paint, clear trails and minor repairs. Need 10 to 15 volunteers all day. Lunch and refreshments will be served. Assigned to: 10 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and 2 from James City County.
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11. Agency - Community Services Coalition, 312 Waller Mill Road, Williamsburg (Historic Triangle Community Services Building). Project: paint large conference room. Paint will be provided. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Assigned to: 4 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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12. Agency - Community Services Coalition, 312 Waller Mill Road, Williamsburg (Historic Triangle Community Services Building). Project: Landscape around the building and parking lot. Assigned to: 10 volunteers with Williams Landscape and Design.
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13. Agency - Williamsburg Botanical Gardens at Freedom Park. Project: Autumn Garden Chores - weeding, pruning and spreading mulch. Possible help with installation of new trellis/arbor/gate and possible help to clean up debris from hurricane. Need 10 to 20 volunteers. Assigned to: 14 volunteers from James City County and 5 volunteers from James City County Lions Club.
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14. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg. Letter stuffing events at Williamsburg Landing. Folding, stuffing and mailing aprox. 8,000 letters to local citizens. 2-day event on September 8th and September 15th. Assigned to: Bob and Linda Mandella and aprox. 90 residents of Williamsburg Landing:
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15. Agency - Meals on Wheels. Project: Assist with delivery of hot meals to the home-bound residents of Greater Williamsburg. Prepare Emergency Meal Packs Assigned to: 22 employees from Townebank
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16. Agency - Williamsburg Area Faith in Action. Project: Clean gutters, trim tree branches and haul away and paint shed at home on Carriage Road. Requirements - Need at least one truck to haul away branches, ladder to clean gutters, saws for trimming treas, paint brushes (paint will be supplied). Lunch will not be provided. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Owens Brockway
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17. Agency - Child Development Resources. Project: outdoor work (details to come soon). Room for 5 to 8 more volunteers. - Assigned to: 17 volunteers from Anheuser Busch
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18. Agency - Child Development Resources. Project: Inside work - a. remove carpet and install laminate wood flooring in parent meeting room (more details to come soon). Assigned to 10 volunteers from Anheuser Busch. b. Lafayette High School location - playing with children during parent/child playground. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Williamsburg Community Health Foundation.
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19. Agency - Avalon. Project: Landscaping work. (details to come soon) . Assigned to: 5 volunteers from Greg Garrett Realty and 8 from Intelligent Decisions Systems.
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20. Agency - Avalon. Project: Possible painting, cleaning, some exterior some interior work. (details to come soon). Assigned to: 5 volunteers from Greg Garrett Realty and 7 volunteers from Intelligent Decisions Systems.
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21. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg Community Resource Center. Project: Food/Diaper/School Supply Drive. Donations of canned and boxed food items, baby diapers in all sizes and wipes, as well as basic school supplies - notebooks, pens/pencils/markers/backpacks. Any number of businesses and individuals can assist with donations. Assigned to: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, York County Schools, 2 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (to assist with sorting and stocking). Anthem Health Keepers ran a diaper drive. Avid Medical is running a baby supply drive in October as part of their United Way Campaign.
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22. Agency - Housing Partnerships. Project - Remodel a bathroom at home on Busch Springs Road to make it handicap accessible. Need 2 to 3 volunteers with plumbing experience. Assigned to: team who will work on this in the next few weeks.
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23. Agency - Housing Partnerships. Project - paint front porch of home on N. Boundary Street. Assigned to: 4 volunteers with New Town Dental Arts
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24. Agency - Housing Partnerships. Project: transferred to Barlow Road projects and Busch Gardens/Water Country USA volunteers
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25. Agency - Bay Aging Apartments, JCC Inc., - Parker View Apartments. Project: Weed out courtyard and plant fall flowers. Donation of flowers would be appreciated. Half day, refreshments will be provided. Assigned to: 3 volunteers from Henderson, Inc.
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26. Agency - Heritage Humane Society. Project: Weed, mulch, plant trees. Lunch & refreshments will be provided. Assigned to: 3 individuals and 4 volunteers from Colonial Williamsburg
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27. Agency - Erase The Need Center - Backpack Program. Project: Help with stocking shelves with food donations and/or packing the backpacks to be given to homeless children on Friday, September 16th. Need 4 volunteers for half the day. Assigned to: 1 individual volunteer and 4 from James City County.
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28. Agency - New Town United Methodist Church - Prayer Garden. Project: Help to coordinate the renovation of the Prayer Garden. Have plans, need to order materials (church has funds to pay for materials) and coordinate different areas of the project for Day of Caring so it can be finished in one day. Professional landscapers and helpers needed. Assigned to: Aaron Williams with Williams Landscape & Design (10) and 8 Volunteers with "Action Jackson Team" and Bob Oller
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29. Agency - The Arc of Greater Williamsburg. Project: Help with assisting clients for the Self-Advocacy Class from 7pm to 9pm. Need 7 to 10 volunteers. Assigned to: William and Mary students.
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30. Agency - Faith in Action. Project: yard work at a home on Wythe Ave. Cut grass, pull out vines and trim bushes. Need 2 to 4 volunteers for 2 to 3 hours. Assigned to: 3 volunteers from the City of Williamsburg
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31. Agency - Grove Christian Outreach Center. Project: switch clothing closet from summer to winter clothes. From 9am to 3pm. Assigned to: 13 volunteers from Chesapeake Bank and 2 from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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32. Agency - YMCA. Project: Property maintenance. Assigned to: Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
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33. Agency - Red Cross. Project: Office Upgrade - to include painting office walls (each office can be a different neutral color), installing new blinds and window treatments (valances). Possibly moving furniture to clean carpets. Need donation of paint, blinds and window treatments. Need 4 to 6 volunteers. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Lowes - Williamsburg
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34. Agency - United Way Community Resource Center Client - home on Richmond Road. Project: Repair facing around mobile home, cover old well, general yard work, to include removing debris from property. Postponed at this time!
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35. Agency - Literacy for Life at the Rita Welsh Adult Learning Center. Project: Assemble 33 benches, prime, paint and deliver to storage location. Will be done in different levels, involving a number of volunteers. Those to construct the benches, those to prime them, and those the paint them on Day of Caring. Weather permitting, 2 coats of paint should be able to be applied on Day of Caring.
Need 4 to 6 volunteers to construct benches. Assigned to: 6 volunteers with Henderson, Inc.
Need 2 to 4 volunteers to apply primer paint. Assigned to: 4 volunteers with Henderson, Inc.
Need 4 to 6 volunteers to apply 2 coats of paint. Assigned to: 2 volunteers with Ball Metal, 2 volunteers with Colonial Williamsburg and 2 volunteers with Waller Mill Bible Church
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36. Agency - Multiple Agencies (UWGW, Catholic Charities, Children's Home Society & Fish). Project: Baby Shower - to collect new baby items to include diapers, wipes, powder, wash, etc. and new and gently used clothes, blankets and other baby items. Assigned to: 6 coordinators and many employees from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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37. Agency - Grove Christian Outreach Center. Project: Help with Bread Day on Wednesday, September 14th. Assigned to: 10 volunteers from SunTrust Bank.
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38. Agency - Dreamcatchers. Project: Property maintenance. Assigned to: 14 volunteers from the Rotary Club of the Historic Triangle, 1 individual and 1 volunteer from Colonial Williamsburg.
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39. Agency - Crossroads Community Youth Home, York County Juvenile Services. Project: Landscape Beautification. Need 3 to 4 volunteers for half day. Assigned to: 6 volunteers with Ball Metal
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40. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg/VDOT Adopt-A-Highway. Project: Pick up trash along Strawberry Plains Road. Team coordinator will need to pick up trash bags and vests from VDOT on Wednesday, the 15th. Need 4 to 10 volunteers for half day. Assigned to:
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41. Agency - City of Williamsburg. Project: Pick up yard debris from around the City from Hurricane Irene. Assigned to: 42 City of Williamsburg Employees
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42. Agency - James City County/United Way of Greater Williamsburg. Project: Greensprings Mobile Home Park - help JCC with resident assessments & pick up debris on Tuesday, August 27th. Assigned to: 8 volunteer students from William & Mary
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43. Agency - Housing Partnerships in partnership with York County. Project: Barlow Road Beautification Project. Working on homes along Barlow Road to do minor repairs, paint and general yard work to help spruce up the neighborhood. Assigned to: 18 volunteers from Busch Gardens/Water Country USA
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44. Agency - York County Parks and Recreation - Charles E. Brown Park (1950 Old Williamsburg Road, Lackey). Project: Picking/cutting invasive species from Charles Brown Park Wetlands Interpretive Sanctuary for Education (WISE) Nature Trail. CANCELLED AT THIS TIME - TOO MANY MOSQUITO'S DUE TO RAIN! Call Zena if Interested at a later date!
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45. Agency - Virginia Career Education Foundation. Project: Recycle old calendars (remove several pages and staple together and trim book covers to folder size). Location is yet to be determined (hopefully at Williamsburg Community Chapel), but this will be in an indoor project. 1 paper trimmer and electronic stapler are available, additional trimmers and/or staplers would be good. These materials will be shipped to schools all across the US as part of celebration of VA Career Week in October and Career and Technical Education Month in February. Need 5 more volunteers. Assigned to: 4 volunteers with James City County
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46. Back to School Celebration, Grove Christian Outreach Center - help with set up, help with
the games, rides and activities for the kids, help with the cotton candy and
popcorn machines and cooking/serving the hotdogs. This is a celebration for
the kids to usher in the new school year - prizes for all the games are school
supplies. Really need 2 clowns and a balloon maker. Thursday, September 8 from 3pm to 8pm, groups of 3 to 5 people to help man each station and help to clean up is essential. Assigned to: 6 volunteers from Howell Creative Studio, 70 Jamestown High Students, 15 volunteers from Print Pak and 15 volunteers from Bruton Parish Church.
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47. Agency - York County Parks and Recreation - Quarter Path Park. Project: Picking up debris from the park on the paths, etc. Put into piles to be picked up by York County. Need 2 to 12 volunteers. Assigned to: 10 volunteers with Ball Metal Container Division
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48. Agency - YMCA Day Care Center. Project: General Property Maintenance. Assigned to: 10 volunteers with Ball Metal
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49. Agency - United Way of Greater Williamsburg. Project: Paint 6 offices and all trim throughout main office. Assigned to: 15 volunteers with Dominion Power - worked on 3 different days the 3 weeks after Day of Caring.
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CLICK HERE for Business Team Volunteer sign-up form
CLICK HERE for Individual/Family Volunteer sign-up form
AGENCIES CLICK HERE for Project Registration Form
The following projects are not happening on Day of Caring but are
considered to be Day of Caring projects - scroll down for the projects
happening on Day of Caring. In the past, some of these have happened on day of
caring and volunteers who have helped in the past are invited to help again -
the events are just as important, they just didn't work out to be on the same
day as our official day of caring.
A. Food Drives for FISH - if your company is unable to participate on
Day of Caring, but would like to help out in another way, you can run a food
drive. Starting the week before and collect donations of non-perishable foods
through Day of Caring and bring them to the FISH office on September 15th,
and/or 16th and 17th. If you are planning a food drive, please let Zena know
so you can be counted as day of caring volunteers and given recognition for
your work - team leaders for the project are eligiable to receive day of caring
shirts. Assigned to: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
B. Supply Drive for Avalon - this works the same was as the food drive for
fish, Avalon is in desperate need of various household and office supplies to
include: Laundry detergents, dish detergent, soap, shampoo and other personal
hygene items, diapers and other items for infants, paper towels, toilet paper,
tissues, lysol spray, lysol cleaner, etc. Office supplies include white out,
paper clips, copy paper, construction paper, 2 pocket folders, etc. Assigned to:
C. Supply Drive for United Way - The United Way offices are always
trying to keep their costs down and donations of copy paper, computer CD and
DVD discs, ink jet (HP Photosmart C4280 & Kodak 7250) and laser address
label sheets, notepads, pens and other office supplies. Items for our
Community Resource Ceneter staff to give to clients would include baby diapers,
children's books, small personal hygiene items (like the travel size and
freebies from hotels). Assigned to: Target Stores - put together packages for our Community Resource Center to hand out to homeless clients.
D. Event Drives for the Arc of Greater Williamsburg - The Arc hosts an annual holiday
event each year for their clients, they give them all a "goody bag" at the end of the event which includes items such as a stuffed animal, candy, holiday ornament, toothbrush/toothpaste, hat, t-shirt, etc. Any donations that can be used for this event would be greatly appreciated, they put together aprox. 100 bags each year, but each bag does not have to be the same. They also use
donated prizes for their monthly bingo nights, donations of t-shirts, boxes of candy, picture frames, bath gift sets, etc. Donated items can be delivered to the United Way Office the week of Day of Caring and we will get them to the Arc.
Agencies interested in submitting a project, please contact Zena Myall or call 253-2264 or download this FORM. Deadline for projects to register is
September 1st.
