- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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18 people are interested
Community Harvest Event Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: Washington Parks & People
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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18 people are interested
Washington Parks & People's annual Community Harvest event is around the corner! Join us at the wonderful Josephine Butler Parks Center on Wednesday, November 20 at 6 pm to raise awareness of our parks and our communities while supporting the Think Outside campaign. There will be free food, drinks, scavenger hunts, music, interactive art exhibits, and awards given out to incredible activists, community members, and partners. Now more than ever do we need people like you to advocate for our parks and our people.
Volunteers are needed to help run the event (setup and breakdown as well)! They will serve food, welcome guests, run activity tables, and much more. This is a great chance to meet your local community, get involved with great DC Non-profits, and help raise awareness of our parks and our people.
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About Washington Parks & People
Location:
2437 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, US
Mission Statement
To grow city-wide park-based community health, equity, and justice through innnovation and partnerships across DC.
Description
Parks & People is DC's award-winning city-wide community parks partnership. Founded in 1990 to reclaim Meridian Hill/ Malcolm X Park, the organization led the transformation of that park from the most crime-ridden national park in the area to one of the safest. Parks & People has now helped advance over 250 parks, trails, streams, playgrounds, schoolyards, and community gardens and farms. Our facilities include the Josephine Butler Parks Center, an award-winning 40-room "greenhouse" for revitalizing DC greenspaces; the historic Riverside Healthy Living Center, providing park programming, youth development, and healthy park-based business incubation; the Marvin Gaye Community Greening Center, a year-round community farm, native reforestation hub, and base of park reclamation and job training through our DC Green Corps; the Piney Spring Green; and the North Columbia Heights Green, a once-blighted vacant lot that serves as a hands-on outdoor classroom for year-round healthy food production. Parks & People has led the community reclamation and transformation of Marvin Gaye Park, DC's longest municipal park, for 23 years. It also helps the Escarpment Ridge and Fort Circle network of parks, Walter Pierce Park (where 8,428 African Americans were buried after the Civil War), the east side of Rock Creek park, and numerous schoolyards. Since its founding a generation ago, Parks & People has mobilized over 300,000 volunteers for parks and green spaces of all kinds. Parks & People volunteers work hard, have fun, and make a massive difference.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Josephine Butler Parks Center2437 15th St. NWWashington DC, DC 20009
DATE POSTED
November 1, 2019
SKILLS
- Event Management
- Food & Beverage Services
- Fundraising
- Event Planning / Management
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 4 hours