Park & Playground Stewardship
Sunday, October 18
2:00–4:00 pm
Eastern Prom Playground (Cutter Street, Portland)
Capacity: 100 volunteers; Ages 5+ with a guardian
Spend the afternoon in community with Portland Parks Conservancy! Volunteers will roll up their sleeves to assist with:
Forest stewardship: invasive plant removal and live staking with Maine Audubon
Playground visioning: give design input on the upcoming new Eastern Prom Playground
Portland Lantern Walk prep: help assemble lantern-making kits with LoveLab for Portland's upcoming lantern walk!
Come ready to work outside and help shape one of Portland's most beloved public spaces.
BYO:
Reusable waterbottles
Workgloves (or borrow ours)
Sun and tick prevention
Nonprofit partner: Portland Parks Conservancy
Event partners: Maine Audubon, LoveLab Studio
Paint It Forward Warehouse Party with Furniture Friends x Rachel Gloria Adams
Sunday, November 15
Time: TBA
Furniture Friends Warehouse, 5 Saunders Way, Westbrook
Join us for a warehouse makeover party to celebrate 14 years of Furniture Friends helping Maine neighbors turn empty spaces into homes! Volunteers will:
Assist local mural artist Rachel Gloria Adams in painting 2 new murals to brighten the warehouse and tell the story of Furniture Friends’ mission
Furniture Friends stations TBA: help sort incoming donations, paint dressers, and build elevated bed frames alongside the Furniture Friends team
Come ready to get a little paint on your hands and help bring Furniture Friends’ work to a broader audience. Visual elements from the murals will next appear on Furniture Friends vans as they criss-cross our Southern Maine community with donations!
BYO:
Clothes you don't mind getting paint on
Reusable water bottle
Reusable work gloves - or borrow ours
Optional donation at the door: Bring any furniture donations (beds, dressers, lamps, chairs, nightstands, etc.) that you may have on hand when you arrive for our service event!
Benefiting Partner: Furniture Friends
Event Partners: RGA Studio (Rachel Gloria Adams)
Holiday Bash at the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine
Date: TBA
Capacity for 50 volunteers, ages 10+
Please leave time for street parking!
Join us for a super-duper, extra-festive winter holiday party for the 150 kids who come to the Boys & Girls Club! Together we will:
⛄ Decorate the Club for the season
🥕 Make and serve a yummy homemade dinner
💌 Lead a craft holiday photo card station
☕ Whip up a hot cocoa and marshmallow bar
🍩 Create reindeer or snowmen donuts with sweet decorations
🏀 Play fun holiday games
🎁 Hand out presents from the Club's wishlist!
BRING YOUR OWN:
*Reusable water bottles
Warmth & Sustainability with WindowDressers
Date: TBA
Join Chickadeeds for a fun and productive event with WindowDressers, a nonprofit that builds custom insulating window inserts to help conserve energy and keep local homes warm in the coming winter.
We’ll roll up our sleeves to help make WindowDressers’ inserts and much needed teaching tools, sample inserts that are used to train volunteers and show others how it all works! No experience needed, just come ready to learn, build, and make a difference!
BYO: Reusable water bottle
Non-Profit Partner: WindowDressers
Nourishing Neighbors with Preble Street
Preble Street currently cooks and distributes 2,800 meals per day and is working toward a goal of stockpiling 50,000 frozen emergency meals. During this event at their newly expanded Food Security Hub in South Portland, volunteers will divide into stations to help with all aspects of Preble Street’s operations:
🧑🍳 Help with Kitchen Prep
👝 Stuff brown bag mobile snacks
🥪 Make PB&Js
🥜 Prep bags of Trail Mix
🍪Make sandwich cookies
🧦 Bundle donated socks for distribution
🍲Take a tour of the newly expanded Food Security Hub
BRING YOUR OWN:
• Reusable water bottles for hydration
• Optional donations at check-in from Preble St’s pantry list:
- Trail mix ingredients such as M&Ms, chocolate chips, pretzels, and other fun mixings. We have nuts and dried fruits covered!
- Pasta, pasta sauce, jams or jellys
Nonprofit Partner: @preblestreet
