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For seven days Baltimore was bathed in light and immersed in ideas as part of the first large-scale, international light festival in the U.S. celebrating art, music, and innovation. We were honored to be an integral part of the kick-off celebration. On Saturday, March 12th, our 200 VU volunteers joined forces with Creative Alliance to…

February has been another great month for Volunteering Untapped and we were able to hold events with three different nonprofits at three different locations this month. Everyone had a lot of fun and did a lot of good with three important Baltimore organizations. We were back with Living Classrooms Foundation at their center in Patterson…

To kick off the year, we joined forces with Second Chance to help them rearrange and sort the materials in their warehouses. Second Chance is a nonprofit that provides people, materials and the environment with a second chance.  They deconstruct buildings and homes in order to salvage usable materials, which are made available to the…

For the second year in a row, our December event was one to write home about- the main event sold out in 30 minutes! We had 90 volunteers at the Salvation Army’s warehouse serving as holiday elves to sort donated toys for families who may not have otherwise received gifts for the holidays. WBAL was…

Paint the Druid Hill Family Center Y…check. Donate canned goods to Living Classrooms Foundation Thanksgiving dinner drive…check. Party at Social Pub and Pie…check!   Our November event involved freshening up a building that has served the Druid Hill community since 1885. As one of the oldest YMCAs in the nation, the Druid Hill Family Center…

Our October event was one of our most successful to date because of the amount of work that we took on and the impact we had. We hosted “Baltimore’s Biggest Tree Planting Ever” and we hope to make this an annual event. We partnered with the Baltimore Tree Trust, Parks & People, Blue Water Baltimore…

This month we had our 2nd Annual Park Cleanup at Druid Hill Park and this one was even better than the one we had last year. Once again, the weather did not cooperate and everyone got rained on, yet once again, our volunteers showed up in strong numbers, with a great attitude and did a…

Our August events this year were just way too much fun. We volunteered with Playworks and Art With A Heart, two organizations we have helped out before and can’t wait to serve with again. We easily sold out both events and it is not surprising, given how much fun we had at both. Our Playworks…

This past Saturday we had volunteer events at three separate sites and we were able to offer three very different volunteer opportunities. Two of them were repeat events for us with organizations that we love volunteering with and the other one was with Gather Baltimore, an organization that collects unsold vegetables, fruit and bread and…

Our May event with Section1 Project was amazing and you should check out the incredible video that was put together from the event!