For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian

Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community, connection, and delicious food with recently arrived refugee families. Our new neighbors will cook the main part of a meal and you will contribute side dishes, salads and desserts. We will all listen to and learn from each others stories. This evening gives the refugee families the chance to earn extra money and meet community members. Hosts and attendees get to sample international cuisine and help make new connections with neighbors, new and old!

Kids can expect to have a blast running around and making art with their new friends. Everyone is expected to help clean up.

Closer to the date we will circulate a dinner theme and a way for you to sign up to bring a potluck dish to contribute. All ages are welcome so please bring the whole family!

Suggested Donation: $25 per person. Funds go to compensating the refugee families for cooking for our group

Ages 10 +

Every week in our North Brooklyn Community Club, The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: animal portraits and cat toys for an animal shelter, meals for local community partners and neighborhood cleanups, among other projects. 

We will meet each week at Chop Cook Cake unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of Chop Cook Cake.

Suggested donation: $40 per participant. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate any amount during registration.

Love playing with kids? Love the DUMBO Drop? We need your help! Sign up to play with kids at this annual event, which raises money for Title 1 public school PS307 Elementary + The Dock Street Middle School.

We’re coming together at the DUMBO Drop to do more than watch toy elephants fly. Every child playing in the Brooklyn Bridge Parents Kids Zone is helping a peer at PS 307 or Dock Street, which serve a high percentage of students from low-income families. By supporting this event, we are ensuring our local Title 1 schools have the funding they need to provide the technology, arts, and mentorship our neighbors deserve.

There will be 2 shifts of volunteers: Shift 1 from 3-5pm, setting up and playing Legos & Duplos with kids, and Shift 2 from 5-7pm, playing with kids, cleaning up, and dropping off the Legos & Duplos after the event has ended.

Love playing with kids? Love the DUMBO Drop? We need your help! Sign up to play with kids at this annual event, which raises money for Title 1 public school PS307 Elementary + The Dock Street Middle School.

We’re coming together at the DUMBO Drop to do more than watch toy elephants fly. Every child playing in the Brooklyn Bridge Parents Kids Zone is helping a peer at PS 307 or Dock Street, which serve a high percentage of students from low-income families. By supporting this event, we are ensuring our local Title 1 schools have the funding they need to provide the technology, arts, and mentorship our neighbors deserve.

There will be 2 shifts of volunteers: Shift 1 from 3-5pm, setting up and playing Legos & Duplos with kids, and Shift 2 from 5-7pm, playing with kids, cleaning up, and dropping off the Legos & Duplos after the event has ended.

Ages 14+ without guardian, ages 8+ with guardian. We need a mix of youth and adults!

Are you handy? Love building things? Can you lift 20+ lbs? The Service Collective needs your help!

Our partner, Ruth’s Refuge, provides home furnishings and essentials to refugees, asylees and asylum seekers in New York City. They are looking to restock their warehouse with 20 dining tables and several dressers, too. We’ll have the Ikea flat packs ready to go, just bring yourselves and maybe a few tools! This is a great project to sign up as a team of 2 or 3.

The furniture will be stored and go to newly arrived asylum seekers who have been granted an apartment, but don’t have any furniture to put in it. Help make a house a home. Come build with us!!!

After the build we will all help to package up the furniture and load it onto a moving van to take to Ruth’s Refuge storage unit.

We are also looking for donations to cover the cost of supplies, moving, and storage for this project. Suggested donation is $100 per participant, but donation should never be a barrier to coming to help! We need your time and talent, too! DONATE HERE

Know a business or group that would like to sponsor this project? Please email: info@theservicecollective.org

Ages 13+

CAN YOU LIFT 50 LBS? We need your help!

Help package up desktop computers for local families who otherwise wouldn’t have the technology they need in their homes to do school work and household functions. You can help level the playing field for these families by assisting in getting them the computers they need.

Our partners at TECHFin help narrow the digital divide by addressing a major hurdle to computer hardware ownership: its cost. By collecting PC-based laptops and desktop computers they are able to revitalize these machines and distribute them to low-income households at no cost to them. It’s sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective.

Very helpful if you can lift 50lbs as some of these boxes are very heavy. Thank you!

ALL AGES, 12P

Support Council Member Lincoln Restler and our community by showing up to rally local leaders to help turn Columbus Park into a public green space we all deserve. Sign making for all!

A message from Council Member Lincoln Restler

I wanted to invite THE SERVICE COLLECTIVE YOUTH to a rally we are organizing next Sunday, May 31 at 12pm at Columbus Park to send a strong message that our community supports finally converting the parking lot at Adams and Joralemon into a park for our community. We have secured $21M to renovate this parkland, but the judges have refused to give up their parking spots – despite having many alternative options.

No registration required. Bring friends!!

Ages 10 +

Every week in our North Brooklyn Community Club, The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: animal portraits and cat toys for an animal shelter, meals for local community partners and neighborhood cleanups, among other projects. 

We will meet each week at Chop Cook Cake unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of Chop Cook Cake.

Suggested donation: $40 per participant. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate any amount during registration.

All Ages! 10+ without guardian

Suggested donation: $10 per participant. Your donation helps cover expenses of this project and keeps TSC’s volunteer programs free and accessible for all Brooklyn youth. Please donate upon registration.

Come together with other families for a hands-on morning of caring for our local street trees! Participants will learn why street trees are vital to a healthy community and how to properly care for them. Together, we’ll tend to neighborhood street trees and help keep our neighborhood green and thriving. 

Each family will also have the chance to “adopt” one or two nearby street trees for the summer. You’ll receive simple guidance on how to monitor and care for your tree—and take home a decorated reusable gallon jug for watering.

Ages 8-16 without guardian

Suggested Donation: $30/volunteer supports CHiPS and The Service Collective in our missions to engage youth in volunteer service to help fight food insecurity. You can donate upon registration

Please join us in the CHiPS kitchen to pitch in on various projects such as sandwich making, snack and lunch bag packing, clean up, cutlery packing and more.

We’ll all learn a little bit about how CHiPS helps feed hundreds of people each day. We will learn new skills, gain confidence, and make new friends. Can’t wait to see you there!

NOTE: This is an opportunity for youth volunteers ages 8-16 only.

About CHiPS

Founded over 50 years ago, CHiPS is a soup kitchen, food pantry, and shelter for women with young children. Our building is on 4th Avenue, right between Park Slope and Gowanus in Brooklyn. Our mission is two fold: to ameliorate food insecurity and homelessness in New York City. With our soup kitchen and food pantry open six days a week, CHiPS  serves as a beacon of hope to thousands of our friends and neighbors in need, and our success comes from people like you. Our supporters and volunteers keep the doors open, the meals hot, and the food plenty. 

For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian

Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community, connection, and delicious food with recently arrived refugee families. Our new neighbors will cook the main part of a meal and you will contribute side dishes, salads and desserts. We will all listen to and learn from each others stories. This evening gives the refugee families the chance to earn extra money and meet community members. Hosts and attendees get to sample international cuisine and help make new connections with neighbors, new and old!

Kids can expect to have a blast running around and making art with their new friends. Everyone is expected to help clean up.

Closer to the date we will circulate a dinner theme and a way for you to sign up to bring a potluck dish to contribute. All ages are welcome so please bring the whole family!

Suggested Donation: $25 per person. Funds go to compensating the refugee families for cooking for our group

Ages 10 +

Every week in our North Brooklyn Community Club, The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: animal portraits and cat toys for an animal shelter, meals for local community partners and neighborhood cleanups, among other projects. 

We will meet each week at Chop Cook Cake unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of Chop Cook Cake.

Suggested donation: $40 per participant. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate any amount during registration.

Love playing with kids? Love the DUMBO Drop? We need your help! Sign up to play with kids at this annual event, which raises money for Title 1 public school PS307 Elementary + The Dock Street Middle School.

We’re coming together at the DUMBO Drop to do more than watch toy elephants fly. Every child playing in the Brooklyn Bridge Parents Kids Zone is helping a peer at PS 307 or Dock Street, which serve a high percentage of students from low-income families. By supporting this event, we are ensuring our local Title 1 schools have the funding they need to provide the technology, arts, and mentorship our neighbors deserve.

There will be 2 shifts of volunteers: Shift 1 from 3-5pm, setting up and playing Legos & Duplos with kids, and Shift 2 from 5-7pm, playing with kids, cleaning up, and dropping off the Legos & Duplos after the event has ended.

Love playing with kids? Love the DUMBO Drop? We need your help! Sign up to play with kids at this annual event, which raises money for Title 1 public school PS307 Elementary + The Dock Street Middle School.

We’re coming together at the DUMBO Drop to do more than watch toy elephants fly. Every child playing in the Brooklyn Bridge Parents Kids Zone is helping a peer at PS 307 or Dock Street, which serve a high percentage of students from low-income families. By supporting this event, we are ensuring our local Title 1 schools have the funding they need to provide the technology, arts, and mentorship our neighbors deserve.

There will be 2 shifts of volunteers: Shift 1 from 3-5pm, setting up and playing Legos & Duplos with kids, and Shift 2 from 5-7pm, playing with kids, cleaning up, and dropping off the Legos & Duplos after the event has ended.

Ages 14+ without guardian, ages 8+ with guardian. We need a mix of youth and adults!

Are you handy? Love building things? Can you lift 20+ lbs? The Service Collective needs your help!

Our partner, Ruth’s Refuge, provides home furnishings and essentials to refugees, asylees and asylum seekers in New York City. They are looking to restock their warehouse with 20 dining tables and several dressers, too. We’ll have the Ikea flat packs ready to go, just bring yourselves and maybe a few tools! This is a great project to sign up as a team of 2 or 3.

The furniture will be stored and go to newly arrived asylum seekers who have been granted an apartment, but don’t have any furniture to put in it. Help make a house a home. Come build with us!!!

After the build we will all help to package up the furniture and load it onto a moving van to take to Ruth’s Refuge storage unit.

We are also looking for donations to cover the cost of supplies, moving, and storage for this project. Suggested donation is $100 per participant, but donation should never be a barrier to coming to help! We need your time and talent, too! DONATE HERE

Know a business or group that would like to sponsor this project? Please email: info@theservicecollective.org

ALL AGES! Youth 12+ may volunteer without a guardian.

Grocery shop for neighbors who are homebound, experiencing hardship, elderly, or otherwise lacking time, resources, or ability to shop for groceries themselves.  

Volunteers will shop for items on a provided list(s) and attempt to stay within the budget assigned by our partner, West Brooklyn Waterfront Mutual Aid. A WBWMA veteran volunteer will be there to assist you should you have questions. WBWMA will pay for the groceries at check out and deliver them.

Parent/guardian required for volunteers under 12 years old. Volunteers 12+ may come without a guardian. Waiver required for every participant under 18. Waivers are located in your profile – you will be prompted to set up a profile upon registration. 

Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer helps support TSC’s programs.

About our Partner

West Brooklyn Waterfront Mutual Aid is a grassroots community collective created by neighbors, for neighbors. We aim to build solidarity in our neighborhoods by pooling resources, supporting each other’s needs and finding help for our most vulnerable neighbors. Donate to WBWMA HERE.

Ages 13+

CAN YOU LIFT 50 LBS? We need your help!

Help package up desktop computers for local families who otherwise wouldn’t have the technology they need in their homes to do school work and household functions. You can help level the playing field for these families by assisting in getting them the computers they need.

Our partners at TECHFin help narrow the digital divide by addressing a major hurdle to computer hardware ownership: its cost. By collecting PC-based laptops and desktop computers they are able to revitalize these machines and distribute them to low-income households at no cost to them. It’s sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective.

Very helpful if you can lift 50lbs as some of these boxes are very heavy. Thank you!

Ages 14+

Kindred Bakery is an inclusive bakery program for youth of all abilities. Volunteers will learn how to prep dough and assist youth bakers and staff with all baking duties and all kitchen duties, including set up and clean up.

About Kindred Bakery

Founded  by the parents of a young adult with autism, our inclusive culinary program brings together individuals of all abilities to learn and grow in a supportive environment. Participants engage in hands-on experiences in professional kitchen settings, focusing on baking, social-emotional learning, and STEAM-based activities. The program promotes skill-building, community inclusion, and personal development—empowering each individual to build confidence, foster independence, and actively participate in meaningful community life.

Suggested donation of $20/volunteer to help support The Service Collective and offset costs of organizing opportunities for youth to engage in volunteering our community. Add a donation upon sign up!

ALL AGES, 12P

Support Council Member Lincoln Restler and our community by showing up to rally local leaders to help turn Columbus Park into a public green space we all deserve. Sign making for all!

A message from Council Member Lincoln Restler

I wanted to invite THE SERVICE COLLECTIVE YOUTH to a rally we are organizing next Sunday, May 31 at 12pm at Columbus Park to send a strong message that our community supports finally converting the parking lot at Adams and Joralemon into a park for our community. We have secured $21M to renovate this parkland, but the judges have refused to give up their parking spots – despite having many alternative options.

No registration required. Bring friends!!

Ages 10 +

Every week in our North Brooklyn Community Club, The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: animal portraits and cat toys for an animal shelter, meals for local community partners and neighborhood cleanups, among other projects. 

We will meet each week at Chop Cook Cake unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of Chop Cook Cake.

Suggested donation: $40 per participant. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate any amount during registration.

All Ages! 10+ without guardian

Suggested donation: $10 per participant. Your donation helps cover expenses of this project and keeps TSC’s volunteer programs free and accessible for all Brooklyn youth. Please donate upon registration.

Come together with other families for a hands-on morning of caring for our local street trees! Participants will learn why street trees are vital to a healthy community and how to properly care for them. Together, we’ll tend to neighborhood street trees and help keep our neighborhood green and thriving. 

Each family will also have the chance to “adopt” one or two nearby street trees for the summer. You’ll receive simple guidance on how to monitor and care for your tree—and take home a decorated reusable gallon jug for watering.

Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)

Suggested donation: $25 per volunteer. Your donation helps cover expenses of this project and keeps TSC’s volunteer programs free and accessible for all Brooklyn youth. Please donate upon registration.

Join us in the kitchen of Next Step Community Church to help prepare hearty, nutritious meals that will be served to approximately 80 neighbors in need the following day. You’ll be tasked with chopping, peeling, butchering, and more. No experience? No problem! Chef Pedro is a professional chef (featured on Chopped) who can help guide you. His work feeding large groups of unhoused and hungry New Yorkers is legendary! We will also be helping to care for the kitchen by cleaning and organizing.

We are also excited to introduce themed menus and want your input! Once you are registered, we will reach out and ask you to suggest your favorite recipes; if selected, we will scale them up and credit you on the guest menus. We look forward to cooking with you!

About Next Step Community Church:

A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vulnerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.

Ages 8-16 without guardian

Suggested Donation: $30/volunteer supports CHiPS and The Service Collective in our missions to engage youth in volunteer service to help fight food insecurity. You can donate upon registration

Please join us in the CHiPS kitchen to pitch in on various projects such as sandwich making, snack and lunch bag packing, clean up, cutlery packing and more.

We’ll all learn a little bit about how CHiPS helps feed hundreds of people each day. We will learn new skills, gain confidence, and make new friends. Can’t wait to see you there!

NOTE: This is an opportunity for youth volunteers ages 8-16 only.

About CHiPS

Founded over 50 years ago, CHiPS is a soup kitchen, food pantry, and shelter for women with young children. Our building is on 4th Avenue, right between Park Slope and Gowanus in Brooklyn. Our mission is two fold: to ameliorate food insecurity and homelessness in New York City. With our soup kitchen and food pantry open six days a week, CHiPS  serves as a beacon of hope to thousands of our friends and neighbors in need, and our success comes from people like you. Our supporters and volunteers keep the doors open, the meals hot, and the food plenty.