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…

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…

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…

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…