Ages 9-16 without guardian

This is for a 8-week series, 4/9 – 5/28

Youth volunteers ages 9-16 will work in the CHiPS kitchen to pitch in on various projects such as cooking, sandwich making, snack and lunch bag packing, clean up, cutlery packing and more. We will also provide support to the women and babies at the CHiPS shelter.

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!

This program has a suggested mininum donation of $400 per volunteer to support CHiPS and The Service Collective in our missions to engage youth in volunteer service to help fight food insecurity. Please donate any amount you are able per volunteer upon registration.

NOTE: This is an opportunity for youth volunteers ages 9-16 only. Weekly attendance is expected.

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. 

Ages 10 – 14

This is the registration for the 8 week after school series. Community Club will meet every Tuesday starting 4/14 through 6/2.

Every Tuesday The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: gardening at Cadman Plaza, supporting local seniors with Heights and Hills, pre-dinner hosting for newly arrived asylum seekers, cleaning and stocking the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge, street tree care and composting, and food pantry support among other projects.

NOTE: We will meet each week at St. Ann & Holy Trinity unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of St. Ann’s. Weekly attendance is expected.

Suggested donation is a minimum of $350 per participant for the 8 weeks. Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of ability to pay. Please select the amount you are able to donate per volunteer upon registration.

Ages 9 – 16

This is the registration for new 6 week garden club to support Cadman Plaza Conservancy. Club runs 4/15 – 5/20 from 4p – 5:15p.

Cadman Plaza Park is vital green space and crossroads of several communities. As community members, it’s important for us to contribute to the care and upkeep of this important resource. Each week we’ll be tasked with weeding, mulching, planting, cleaning, composting, and more. This program is for any volunteer, but would be especially great for youth interested in learning and discussing urban gardening, climate issues and impacts, community planning, and equality for physical and mental health in our city.

Suggested donation: $150 per participant for the 6 weeks series. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate during registration.

Ages 10 – 14

This is the registration for the 8 week after school series. Community Club that will meet every Thursday starting 4/16 through 6/4. 

Every Thursday 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. Weekly attendance is expected.

Suggested donation: $350 per participant for the 8 weeks series. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate any amount during registration.

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.

All Ages!

Come together with friends and neighbors to pitch in and ensure our community is clean for all to enjoy. We will meet at a designated Brooklyn Heights location (TBD) 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!

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 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. 

Ages 14+

Join us for a baby shower co-hosted with New Neighbors Partnerships. We will be celebrating 15 refugee mothers and their growing families, creating a space of joy and connection for our newest neighbors!

Volunteers will be tasked with setting up the party, decorating the space, welcoming our guests, replenishing food and assisting the children refugee families at an arts and crafts station, and cleaning up after the event has ended.

About New Neighbors:

New Neighbors Partnership helps refugee and asylum seeking families build a community support network by helping them forge positive social connections with local families who can provide emotional, informational, and concrete support as they resettle.

All Ages! 10+ without guardian

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 6+ with guardian, 12+ without

Join The Service Collective to brighten the day of the residents of Cobble Hill Health Center! We’ll come together to work on some fun and easy crafts and play games. We’ll also have a card making station for volunteers to write cards for residents and staff.

The Cobble Hill Health Center a not-for-profit long and short term care facility providing services to the disabled and elderly for over 30 years. Their mission is to provide exceptional care that enhances quality of life and respects individuality of every temporary and permanent resident in care.

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

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 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 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. 

Ages 9-16 without guardian

This is for a 8-week series, 4/9 – 5/28

Youth volunteers ages 9-16 will work in the CHiPS kitchen to pitch in on various projects such as cooking, sandwich making, snack and lunch bag packing, clean up, cutlery packing and more. We will also provide support to the women and babies at the CHiPS shelter.

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!

This program has a suggested mininum donation of $400 per volunteer to support CHiPS and The Service Collective in our missions to engage youth in volunteer service to help fight food insecurity. Please donate any amount you are able per volunteer upon registration.

NOTE: This is an opportunity for youth volunteers ages 9-16 only. Weekly attendance is expected.

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. 

Ages 13+

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.

Ages 10 – 14

This is the registration for the 8 week after-school series. Community Club will meet every Monday from 4 – 5:30 starting 4/13 through 6/8. No Community Club on 5/25.

Every Monday The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: gardening at Cadman Plaza, supporting local seniors with Heights and Hills, pre-dinner hosting for newly arrived asylum seekers, cleaning and stocking the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge, street tree care and composting, and food pantry support among other projects.

We will meet each week at St. Ann & Holy Trinity unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of St. Ann’s. Weekly attendance is expected.

Suggested donation is a minimum of $350 per participant for the 8 weeks. Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of ability to pay. Please select the amount you are able to donate per volunteer upon registration.

Ages 9-16 without guardian

This is for a 8-week series, 4/13 – 6/8. No Community Club on 5/25.

An exciting new program! Volunteers will help cook nutritious dishes from specially crafted recipes using fresh the fruits and vegetables that will be available to soup kitchen patrons in their weekly pantry bags. The dishes will be packaged to be served as inspiration for how to use the fresh pantry items and distributed on Saturdays at CHiPS Soup Kitchen. This program is in partnership with The Student Kitchen.

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

This program has a suggested mininum donation of $450 per volunteer to support CHiPS and The Service Collective in our missions to engage youth in volunteer service to help fight food insecurity. Please donate any amount you are able per volunteer upon registration.

NOTE: This is an opportunity for youth volunteers ages 9-16 only. Weekly attendance is expected.

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. 

Ages 10 – 14

This is the registration for the 8 week after school series. Community Club will meet every Tuesday from 3:45 – 5:15 starting 4/14 through 6/2.

Every Tuesday The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: gardening at Cadman Plaza, supporting local seniors with Heights and Hills, pre-dinner hosting for newly arrived asylum seekers, cleaning and stocking the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge, street tree care and composting, and food pantry support among other projects.

We will meet each week at St. Ann & Holy Trinity unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of St. Ann’s. Weekly attendance is expected.

Suggested donation is a minimum of $350 per participant for the 8 weeks. Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of ability to pay. Please select the amount you are able to donate per volunteer upon registration.

Ages 10 – 14

This is the registration for the 8 week after school series. Community Club will meet every Tuesday starting 4/14 through 6/2.

Every Tuesday The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: gardening at Cadman Plaza, supporting local seniors with Heights and Hills, pre-dinner hosting for newly arrived asylum seekers, cleaning and stocking the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge, street tree care and composting, and food pantry support among other projects.

NOTE: We will meet each week at St. Ann & Holy Trinity unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of St. Ann’s. Weekly attendance is expected.

Suggested donation is a minimum of $350 per participant for the 8 weeks. Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of ability to pay. Please select the amount you are able to donate per volunteer upon registration.

Ages 10 – 14

This is the registration for the 8 week after school series. Community Club will meet every Wednesday starting 4/15 – 6/3 from 3:45p – 5:15p.

Every Wednesday The Service Collective will partner with a local nonprofit to help support their mission. Projects will include: gardening at Cadman Plaza, supporting local seniors with Heights and Hills, pre-dinner hosting for newly arrived asylum seekers, cleaning and stocking the Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge, street tree care and composting, and food pantry support among other projects.

NOTE: We will meet each week at St. Ann & Holy Trinity unless otherwise notified (communicated a week in advance). All meeting locations will be within walking distance of St. Ann’s.

Suggested donation: $300 per participant for the 6 weeks series. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate during registration.

Volunteers may also choose to sign up for individual Wednesday projects. When available, they will be listed separately.

Ages 9 – 16

This is the registration for new 6 week garden club to support Cadman Plaza Conservancy. Club runs 4/15 – 5/20 from 4p – 5:15p.

Cadman Plaza Park is vital green space and crossroads of several communities. As community members, it’s important for us to contribute to the care and upkeep of this important resource. Each week we’ll be tasked with weeding, mulching, planting, cleaning, composting, and more. This program is for any volunteer, but would be especially great for youth interested in learning and discussing urban gardening, climate issues and impacts, community planning, and equality for physical and mental health in our city.

Suggested donation: $150 per participant for the 6 weeks series. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate during registration.

Ages 10 – 14

This is the registration for the 8 week after school series. Community Club that will meet every Thursday starting 4/16 through 6/4. 

Every Thursday 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. Weekly attendance is expected.

Suggested donation: $350 per participant for the 8 weeks series. Donations directly fund programming and help keep our projects free and accessible to all Brooklyn Youth. Please donate any amount during registration.

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 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

All Ages!

Come together with friends and neighbors to pitch in and ensure our community is clean for all to enjoy. We will meet at a designated Brooklyn Heights location (TBD) 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!

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 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. 

Ages 14+

Join us for a baby shower co-hosted with New Neighbors Partnerships. We will be celebrating 15 refugee mothers and their growing families, creating a space of joy and connection for our newest neighbors!

Volunteers will be tasked with setting up the party, decorating the space, welcoming our guests, replenishing food and assisting the children refugee families at an arts and crafts station, and cleaning up after the event has ended.

About New Neighbors:

New Neighbors Partnership helps refugee and asylum seeking families build a community support network by helping them forge positive social connections with local families who can provide emotional, informational, and concrete support as they resettle.

All Ages! 10+ without guardian

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 6+ with guardian, 12+ without

Join The Service Collective to brighten the day of the residents of Cobble Hill Health Center! We’ll come together to work on some fun and easy crafts and play games. We’ll also have a card making station for volunteers to write cards for residents and staff.

The Cobble Hill Health Center a not-for-profit long and short term care facility providing services to the disabled and elderly for over 30 years. Their mission is to provide exceptional care that enhances quality of life and respects individuality of every temporary and permanent resident in care.

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

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 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