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Ages 12+ (no guardian required) Join TSC and Erika from Chop Cook Cake to help bake Valentines
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Ages 12+ (no guardian required)
Join TSC and Erika from Chop Cook Cake to help bake Valentines Day cookies for a great cause! You’ll help roll out dough, cut cookies, and bake cookies. We will also be making Valentines for our neighbors. As always, everyone will help clean up. All of the baked goods will be decorated by volunteers on 2/12 to be donated to our partners at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s Food Pantry.
The Swinging Sixties Adult Day Care provides a structured setting for older adults with a functional impairment to socialize, build life skills, exercise and engage in artistic and culturally stimulating activities. They provide personal care, freshly prepared meals, recreational activities, socialization and transportation to and from the center.
The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Food Pantry provides nutritious pantry bags for our neighbors in need in North Brooklyn.
Suggested donation is a minimum of $30 per participant. Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of ability to pay. Please select the amount you are able to donate per volunteer upon registration.
Time
Location
Chop Cook Cake
11 Meserole St.
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Ages 8-14 Suggested donation: $35 per participant* Meet your friends and neighbors to help prep easy meals, package
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Ages 8-14
Suggested donation: $35 per participant*
Meet your friends and neighbors to help prep easy meals, package them, and deliver them to the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge. Keeping the fridge clean and stocked with easy, healthy meals helps ensure all our neighbors get enough nutritious food to eat.
This project is for independent youth ages 8-14. Parents/guardians may be present (if desired), but will not participate or instruct in food prep, packing, or meal delivery.
*Your donation helps cover expenses of this project and keeps TSC’s volunteer programs free and accessible for all Brooklyn youth
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
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All Ages! Come together with your family and friends to pitch in ensure our community is clean for all to enjoy.
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All Ages!
Come together with your family and friends to pitch in ensure our community is clean for all to enjoy. We will meet at St. Ann’s Church (157 Montague St.) in Brooklyn Heights and clean several designated square blocks together. Clean up supplies will be included!
Want to organize clean up crew in your neighborhood? Email info@theservicecollective.org and we can help!
Suggested donation of $5 per volunteer to help us keep this service going! Add a donation in any amount upon registration.
Time
Location
Clinton St. and Livingston St.
feb
28Run for Good: A Community Run with Ruth's RefugeSUNDAY ALL AGES 10AGrand Army Plaza
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ALL AGES Run For Good is a run club created to foster community and raise money for causes in
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ALL AGES
Run For Good is a run club created to foster community and raise money for causes in Brooklyn. This January 25th we’re running for Ruth’s Refuge an organization dedicated Ruth’s Refuge provides home furnishings and essentials to refugees, asylees and asylum seekers in New York City. We will meet at Grand Army Plaza, hear a bit from an ambassador about what Ruth’s Refuge does, and then run an easy 5k through Prospect Park as a group.
Suggested donation of $20 per participant. 100% of all funds donated to this program on January 25 go to Ruth’s Refuge. Please add a donation in any amount upon registration.
All ages and levels welcome!
Time
Location
Grand Army Plaza
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High Schoolers Ages 13+ Suggested donation is $20/volunteer Join seniors at Cobble Hill
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High Schoolers Ages 13+
Suggested donation is $20/volunteer
Join seniors at Cobble Hill Health Center to play an all abilities game of volleyball, basketball, tennis, and more! We’ll also have a selection of fun board games and cards and plan to do a walk (or roll!) around the block.
This program is for responsible High Schoolers interested in working with seniors.
Cobble Hill Health Center, located in Brooklyn, NY, is a 364-bed, not-for-profit facility providing specialized long-term care and short-term rehabilitation for over 30 years. Part of the Cobble Hill LifeCare system, it specializes in care for the frail elderly, disabled, and those with Alzheimer’s or dementia.
Time
Location
Cobble Hill Health Center
380 Henry St
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For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community,
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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
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
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Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!) Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in
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Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)
Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in need to be served 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.
About Next Step:
A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vunerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.
Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer to support this service
Time
Location
Next Step CC
360 Schermerhorn St
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Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!) Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)
Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in need to be served 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.
About Next Step:
A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vunerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.
Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer to support this service
Time
Location
Next Step CC
360 Schermerhorn St
Event Details
For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community,
Event Details
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
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!) Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)
Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in need to be served 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.
About Next Step:
A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vunerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.
Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer to support this service
Time
Location
Next Step CC
360 Schermerhorn St
Event Details
For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community,
Event Details
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
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
ALL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Listed here are FULL projects + OPEN projects listed again (highlighted in yellow). If we get a cancellation for one of our full projects, we’ll open spots and move to the OPEN section above!
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Ages 9+ No knitting experience required! The crafting geniuses at Bond Craft Studio
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Ages 9+
No knitting experience required!
The crafting geniuses at Bond Craft Studio will show you how to knit a hat using a nifty knitting machine. We’ll package each up beautifully and make a card to gift to homeless mothers and babies currently living in shelters. Everyone deserves a homemade gift made with love, especially one that will keep them warm during these long winter months.
Suggested donation of $40/volunteer to pay for supplies and instruction. Please donate any amount upon registration.
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Time
Location
Bond Craft Studio
372 Bond St, Brooklyn, NY
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Ages 12+ (no guardian required) Join TSC and Erika from Chop Cook Cake to help bake Valentines
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Ages 12+ (no guardian required)
Join TSC and Erika from Chop Cook Cake to help bake Valentines Day cookies for a great cause! You’ll help roll out dough, cut cookies, and bake cookies. We will also be making Valentines for our neighbors. As always, everyone will help clean up. All of the baked goods will be decorated by volunteers on 2/12 to be donated to our partners at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s Food Pantry.
The Swinging Sixties Adult Day Care provides a structured setting for older adults with a functional impairment to socialize, build life skills, exercise and engage in artistic and culturally stimulating activities. They provide personal care, freshly prepared meals, recreational activities, socialization and transportation to and from the center.
The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Food Pantry provides nutritious pantry bags for our neighbors in need in North Brooklyn.
Suggested donation is a minimum of $30 per participant. Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of ability to pay. Please select the amount you are able to donate per volunteer upon registration.
Time
Location
Chop Cook Cake
11 Meserole St.
Event Details
Ages 8-14 Suggested donation: $35 per participant* Meet your friends and neighbors to help prep easy meals, package
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Ages 8-14
Suggested donation: $35 per participant*
Meet your friends and neighbors to help prep easy meals, package them, and deliver them to the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge. Keeping the fridge clean and stocked with easy, healthy meals helps ensure all our neighbors get enough nutritious food to eat.
This project is for independent youth ages 8-14. Parents/guardians may be present (if desired), but will not participate or instruct in food prep, packing, or meal delivery.
*Your donation helps cover expenses of this project and keeps TSC’s volunteer programs free and accessible for all Brooklyn youth
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Event Details
All Ages! Come together with your family and friends to pitch in ensure our community is clean for all to enjoy.
Event Details
All Ages!
Come together with your family and friends to pitch in ensure our community is clean for all to enjoy. We will meet at St. Ann’s Church (157 Montague St.) in Brooklyn Heights and clean several designated square blocks together. Clean up supplies will be included!
Want to organize clean up crew in your neighborhood? Email info@theservicecollective.org and we can help!
Suggested donation of $5 per volunteer to help us keep this service going! Add a donation in any amount upon registration.
Time
Location
Clinton St. and Livingston St.
Event Details
All Ages! Ages 13+ may come without a guardian. Stop by to share some love with our community’s senior
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All Ages! Ages 13+ may come without a guardian.
Stop by to share some love with our community’s senior citizens through meaningful, family-friendly volunteering.
Join The Service Collective at El Puente’s Community Center at Williams Plaza to decorate Valentine’s Day cookies and create cards (while supplies last). All cookies and cards will be donated to the Swinging Sixties Senior Center and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Food Pantry.
The Swinging Sixties Senior Center The Swinging Sixties Adult Day Care provides a structured setting for older adults with a functional impairment to socialize, build life skills, exercise and engage in artistic and culturally stimulating activities. They provide personal care, freshly prepared meals, recreational activities, socialization and transportation to and from the center.
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Food Pantry provides seniors (ages 60+) with educational and recreational activities, health and social service referrals, and daily congregate lunch.
El Puente’s Cornerstones at Williams Plaza operates year-round after school and in summer, serving 415 young people and their families. Programs respond directly to youth and family needs and include academic support, social-emotional learning, arts, physical activity, youth leadership, civic engagement, technology access, nutrition and food support, and referrals for immigration, health, workforce, and education services.
Suggested donation of $20 upon registration to help pay for supplies, staff, and keep TSC projects going!
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Time
Location
El Puente at Williams Plaza
323 Roebling St.
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Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!) Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in
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Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)
Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in need to be served 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.
About Next Step:
A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vunerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.
Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer to support this service
Volunteer
Time
Location
Next Step CC
360 Schermerhorn St
feb
21Serve at the TSC Treat Stand at CHiPSSATURDAY, Ages 10+ w/o guardianCHiPS, 200 4th Ave
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Ages 10+ w/o guardian Join us at the TSC Treat Stand! Lunch guests at the CHiPS soup
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Ages 10+ w/o guardian
Join us at the TSC Treat Stand! Lunch guests at the CHiPS soup kitchen on 4th Avenue love to get something a bit extra with their meal, especially the warm greetings and smiles from our youth volunteers.
Volunteers will be asked to bake at home or buy hearty snacks and bring them to serve at our treat stand. Each volunteer is required to bring enough food to feed 50 guests. Some favorite treats include bags of fruit, trail mix, banana bread, muffins, cookies, granola bars. We will also have water and coffee.
This volunteer project is for youth 10+ and is drop off only. If you are a family that would like to volunteer together, please reach out to info@theservicecollective.org
Can’t make it, but would like to contribute directly to the TSC treat stand? Please DONATE HERE
Volunteer
Time
Location
CHiPS
200 4th Ave
Event Details
For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community,
Event Details
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
Volunteer
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Event Details
ALL AGES! Youth 12+ may volunteer without a guardian. Grocery shop for neighbors who are homebound, experiencing hardship, elderly, or
Event Details
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.
Volunteer
Time
Location
Wegman's
21 Flushing Ave
feb
28Run for Good: A Community Run with Ruth's RefugeSUNDAY ALL AGES 10AGrand Army Plaza
Event Details
ALL AGES Run For Good is a run club created to foster community and raise money for causes in
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ALL AGES
Run For Good is a run club created to foster community and raise money for causes in Brooklyn. This January 25th we’re running for Ruth’s Refuge an organization dedicated Ruth’s Refuge provides home furnishings and essentials to refugees, asylees and asylum seekers in New York City. We will meet at Grand Army Plaza, hear a bit from an ambassador about what Ruth’s Refuge does, and then run an easy 5k through Prospect Park as a group.
Suggested donation of $20 per participant. 100% of all funds donated to this program on January 25 go to Ruth’s Refuge. Please add a donation in any amount upon registration.
All ages and levels welcome!
Time
Location
Grand Army Plaza
Event Details
High Schoolers Ages 13+ Suggested donation is $20/volunteer Join seniors at Cobble Hill
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High Schoolers Ages 13+
Suggested donation is $20/volunteer
Join seniors at Cobble Hill Health Center to play an all abilities game of volleyball, basketball, tennis, and more! We’ll also have a selection of fun board games and cards and plan to do a walk (or roll!) around the block.
This program is for responsible High Schoolers interested in working with seniors.
Cobble Hill Health Center, located in Brooklyn, NY, is a 364-bed, not-for-profit facility providing specialized long-term care and short-term rehabilitation for over 30 years. Part of the Cobble Hill LifeCare system, it specializes in care for the frail elderly, disabled, and those with Alzheimer’s or dementia.
Time
Location
Cobble Hill Health Center
380 Henry St
mar
1Help in the CHiPS KitchenSUNDAY, 10:30AM - 12PM, Ages 8-16CHiPS Soup Kitchen, 200 4th Avenue
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Ages 8-16 without guardian Suggested Donation: $20/volunteer supports CHiPS and The Service Collective in our missions to engage youth in volunteer service
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Ages 8-16 without guardian
Suggested Donation: $20/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.
Volunteer
Time
Location
CHiPS Soup Kitchen
200 4th Avenue
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Family edition! Welcoming our youngest chefs and their guardians! Suggested donation: $35 per participant* Meet your friends and
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Family edition! Welcoming our youngest chefs and their guardians!
Suggested donation: $35 per participant*
Meet your friends and neighbors to help prep easy meals, package them, and deliver them to the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge. Keeping the fridge clean and stocked with easy, healthy meals helps ensure all our neighbors get enough nutritious food to eat.
This project is for kids ages 4-8 with a guardian. Older siblings welcome!
*Your donation helps cover expenses of this project and keeps TSC’s volunteer programs free and accessible for all Brooklyn youth
Volunteer
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
mar
7Serve at the TSC Treat Stand at CHiPSSATURDAY, Ages 10+ w/o guardianCHiPS, 200 4th Ave
Event Details
Ages 10+ w/o guardian Join us at the TSC Treat Stand! Lunch guests at the CHiPS soup
Event Details
Ages 10+ w/o guardian
Join us at the TSC Treat Stand! Lunch guests at the CHiPS soup kitchen on 4th Avenue love to get something a bit extra with their meal, especially the warm greetings and smiles from our youth volunteers.
Volunteers will be asked to bake at home or buy hearty snacks and bring them to serve at our treat stand. Each volunteer is required to bring enough food to feed 50 guests. Some favorite treats include bags of fruit, trail mix, banana bread, muffins, cookies, granola bars. We will also have water and coffee.
This volunteer project is for youth 10+ and is drop off only. If you are a family that would like to volunteer together, please reach out to info@theservicecollective.org
Can’t make it, but would like to contribute directly to the TSC treat stand? Please DONATE HERE
Volunteer
Time
Location
CHiPS
200 4th Ave
Event Details
For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community,
Event Details
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
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!) Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)
Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in need to be served 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.
About Next Step:
A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vunerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.
Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer to support this service
Time
Location
Next Step CC
360 Schermerhorn St
Event Details
ALL AGES! Youth 12+ may volunteer without a guardian. Grocery shop for neighbors who are homebound, experiencing hardship, elderly, or
Event Details
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.
Volunteer
Time
Location
Wegman's
21 Flushing Ave
apr
11Serve at the TSC Treat Stand at CHiPSSATURDAY, Ages 10+ w/o guardianCHiPS, 200 4th Ave
Event Details
Ages 10+ w/o guardian Join us at the TSC Treat Stand! Lunch guests at the CHiPS soup
Event Details
Ages 10+ w/o guardian
Join us at the TSC Treat Stand! Lunch guests at the CHiPS soup kitchen on 4th Avenue love to get something a bit extra with their meal, especially the warm greetings and smiles from our youth volunteers.
Volunteers will be asked to bake at home or buy hearty snacks and bring them to serve at our treat stand. Each volunteer is required to bring enough food to feed 50 guests. Some favorite treats include bags of fruit, trail mix, banana bread, muffins, cookies, granola bars. We will also have water and coffee.
This volunteer project is for youth 10+ and is drop off only. If you are a family that would like to volunteer together, please reach out to info@theservicecollective.org
Can’t make it, but would like to contribute directly to the TSC treat stand? Please DONATE HERE
Volunteer
Time
Location
CHiPS
200 4th Ave
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!) Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)
Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in need to be served 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.
About Next Step:
A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vunerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.
Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer to support this service
Time
Location
Next Step CC
360 Schermerhorn St
Event Details
For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community,
Event Details
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
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Event Details
ALL AGES! Youth 12+ may volunteer without a guardian. Grocery shop for neighbors who are homebound, experiencing hardship, elderly, or
Event Details
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.
Volunteer
Time
Location
Wegman's
21 Flushing Ave
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!) Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in
Event Details
Ages 14+ (Parents welcome to join your teen!)
Join Chef Pedro to help prep a meal for neighbors in need to be served 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.
About Next Step:
A church located in Downtown Brooklyn, Next Step provides essential services to our most vunerable community members including weekly meals, Saturday pantry, mothers support, weekly shower service and much more.
Suggested donation of $10 per volunteer to support this service
Time
Location
Next Step CC
360 Schermerhorn St
Event Details
For Families, Kids 13+ may come without a guardian Join us for our monthly Community Dinner and share community,
Event Details
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
Time
Location
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Support
Spread the word. Share a project with a friend and ask them to join you. We can never have too many volunteers.
Partners
The Service Collective highlights the extraordinary leadership of our Brooklyn non-profit partners who everyday commit to building a better, brighter Brooklyn for all of us. We thank you for your partnership and dedication to our community.
Curriculum
Every engagement includes an orientation to the TSC service approach <link to curriculum – what is the link?> as well as an introduction to the mission of the TSC non-profit partner you sign up to help.
The Service Collective engages and empowers youth to take action in their community through volunteer service. Driven by the needs of our Brooklyn nonprofit partners, we provide meaningful service opportunities for the benefit of all in our community.
STORIES
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“I feel helpful”
“I like volunteering for The Service Collective because it makes me happy to help people out and I feel helpful.”
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“Everyone is really nice”
“I think other kids would like volunteering because it’s super simple and straightforward to volunteer and everyone is really nice.”
“I like volunteering because it is a good way to help the community.” -
“Help is needed”
“There are many New Yorkers who need food donations like the sandwiches I delivered, the line wrapped around the block. Spending an afternoon making 200 sandwiches and then delivering them and feeling like it was hardly enough has taught me that more help is needed to those who can not pay for all their meals.”
LEADERSHIP
Amanda Jones
Executive Director
After a career in marketing and advertising, Amanda decided to make her passion for helping her community through volunteering and service her full time pursuit. She is active in her neighborhood, including as a member of community grant giving collective, Brooklyn Branches which is supported by The Brooklyn Community Foundation. She has led numerous fundraising and community building initiatives on behalf of schools and local non-profits, almost exclusively with a focus on engaging children and families. Amanda is a graduate of Ithaca College. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
Board of Directors
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FAQS
Events can vary based on our partners needs. In some cases, we work out of our hub, Saint Ann’s Church. Other times, we work at our partner’s site. In either case, we will begin the project with an introductary grounding: Why have we all gathered? Why is this work important? What need does it address? Sometimes this education might take place prior to an event (via a short zoom meeting) and sometimes it will be facilitated by an educator on site prior to the project beginning.
Service projects will vary in length and type of work. Most of our time we will be actively working on the identified project. At the end of the session, volunteers will be asked to help clean up, and we will reflect on the work and what we learned.
All of our opportunities are one-time events. You can sign up for one activity or multiple depending on your interest and schedule.
Your commitment is important to our partners. We are counting on you. If you do have to cancel, please do 24 hours in advance via email info@theservicecollective.org. Subject of email should include “Cancel + Name of Project” In email, include name(s) of volunteers cancelling.
We work with Brooklyn nonprofits that need help and can welcome youth volunteers. No job is too big or too small. We love getting creative requests and finding ways for kids of all ages to engage in service.
- Show up. Be on time and don’t leave early
- Come ready to listen, learn, and work hard
- Trust that our partners know what they need better than we do
- Respect our TSC staff, facilities, fellow volunteers, and partners
- Possess patience and positivity
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