Rooting for Climate Resilience 🌱🌊
Saturday, September 12
(Rain date: Sun. Sept. 13)
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Woodward Point, Brunswick Maine
Capacity: 40 volunteers (ages 5+ and their guardian)
Meet us at Woodward Point for the unique opportunity to protect our coast and build climate resilience! Maine Coast Heritage Trust will lead volunteers in planting shrubs to strengthen shorelines and protect ecosystems from rising sea levels.
Together we will:
🌱 Plant for Shoreline Protection
🌊 Learn how conservation helps our communities adapt to a changing climate
🪴 Work together to care for Maine’s treasured natural places
BRING YOUR OWN:
• Reusable water bottle (for our refill station)
• Work gloves (or borrow ours!)
• Closed-toed shoes
• Sun and tick protection
• Shovel if you have one
• Picnic lunch if you’d like to stay and enjoy the Point’s picnic tables and vistas
Nonprofit Partner: Maine Coast Heritage Trust
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! Come ready to work outside and help shape one of Portland's most beloved public spaces. Volunteers will roll up their sleeves to assist with:
Trail maintenance: invasive plant removal and trash cleanup
Forest stewardship: tree planting and grafting with Maine Audubon
Playground visioning: give design input on the upcoming new Eastern Prom Playground
Portland Lantern Walk prep: join a lantern-making workshop with LoveLab for Portland's upcoming lantern walk!
BYO:
Reusable waterbottles
Workgloves (or borrow ours)
Sun and tick prevention
Nonprofit partner: Portland Parks Conservancy
Event partners: Maine Audubon, LoveLab Studio
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
