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Calling All Nonprofits!

On Saturday, February 11th, 2017, Volunteering Untapped will be hosting the biggest event in our history. We are thrilled to be putting on our Untapping Potential Conference and will have a variety of ways to connect Baltimore-area nonprofits to local volunteers through our “Charity Tinder” volunteer fair. We will have 500 attendees there for our conference from…

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November – Message of Hope and LCF Thanksgiving

With the holiday season and Thanksgiving upon us, November’s event gave us the opportunity to brighten someone’s day. For the first time, we partnered with the Message of Hope Foundation to help them fullfill their commitment of delivering “Happy Hope Bags” to hospitalized children nationwide. We began the event by watching a video from their…

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October – Baltimore Tree Trust and LEGO League

This fall we revisited old friends at the Baltimore Tree Trust and made new with FIRST LEGO League. We were out in full force to plant 110 trees with Baltimore Tree Trust on the east side of town at Joseph E Lee Park. Volunteers learned the nitty gritty from tree planting experts about how to…

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September – Druid Hill Park and Druid Heights CDC

Our annual Druid Hill Park event went down in typical VU fashion: cleaning and greening, epic #voluntbeering, a fall moonsoon, and hanging with Congressmen. For the third time, we came together at Druid Hill Park to beautify one of Baltimore’s most historic green spaces. Over 100 volunteers braved the heat to tackle invasive vines, remove…

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August – Second Chance/LCF/Audubon Society

For August’s event, we revisited two of our volunteer favorites, Second Chance, Inc. and the Living Classrooms Foundation.     As a refresher, Second Chance is a nonprofit organization that provides people, materials and the environment with a second chance. They create “green collar jobs” by reclaiming materials, furniture, and other donated goods and then…

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July – Cylburn Arboretum / Westport Community Space

In July our volunteers braved soaring temps to do some environmental beautification in our city. We planted, weeded, and mulched at Cylburn Arboretum and Westport Community Space. Both of these venues provide an invaluable resource to their communities and allow residents to work, live, and play in green spaces. Cylburn Arboretum has a long history…

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February 2017 Event Planning and Information Session

For our third birthday in February 2017, Volunteering Untapped is planning the biggest thing we have ever done. It will be ambitious, engaging, and truly impactful for Baltimore. To accomplish this, we are assembling a planning committee to help us. We will be hosting an information session on Tuesday, July 12th at 7 p.m. at 12 W Madison…

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June – Fun for Kids with Playworks and The Y

For June, the focus of our events was on creating fun for kids- it truly doesn’t get better than that! We again worked with our friends from the Y and Playworks to build, paint, and design games for their kids.   Our volunteers at the Y in Waverly, had camp headquarters looking snazzy and well-equipped…

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May – Section 1 Project/ Whitelock Community Farm/ Real Food Farm

May was a good month for us. We were thankful for a sunny day after three weeks of rain. We partnered with old friends at Section1 Project and made new connections with Whitelock Community Farm and Real Food Farm.   You may remember we volunteered with Section1 last May to clear 40,000 pounds of trash…

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April – Blue Water Baltimore

April is National Volunteer Month and in its honor Mother Nature showed us that we have some of the best volunteers in the business. On Saturday, April 9th we braved the wind, rain, and hail to beautify Baltimore’s shoreline with Blue Water Baltimore for their annual Project Clean Stream. Our volunteers navigated the shoreline by Harbor…

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