Help set-up our Facility for Children's Holiday Celebrations on Tuesday, 12/10/2024 from 12:00pm-5:0

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ORGANIZATION: Idealist.org

Recruiting Organization: The Actors Theatre Workshop, Inc.

Help set-up our facility in preparation for our Annual Holiday Party and Class for 40 children experiencing homelessness. Prepare the facility for our annual year-end celebrations of Builders of the New World, ATW's award-winning after-school theater-arts education program, which has been serving homeless and at-risk youth living in NYC's temporary housing facilities since 1995.

When: Tuesday, 12/10/2024 from 12:00pm-5:00pm

What you will do:

  • Assemble and hang fresh Christmas garlands throughout our lobby and hallways.
  • Repair and hang Christmas lights around our lobby, hallways, studios, and theater.
  • Do light cleaning - sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, cleaning windows and other surfaces, picking up and disposing of odd-shaped or odd-textured items that cannot be swept or vacuumed. Cleaning products used: Windex, Dirtex, Pine-Sol, Endust/Pledge, Goo Gone, and other similar products with different brand names.

Other possible tasks:

  • For volunteers comfortable using tools: small repairs include tightening screws, using a hammer and nails or a staple gun to fasten items.
  • Organizing on-site equipment and supplies to create space for storing Christmas supplies and donations. This would include lifting and moving boxes and furniture.
  • Moving furniture and equipment to set-up the Theatre and the other Studio rooms in preparation for the Holiday Class

Other important info:

  • The day’s events will be videotaped & photographed for our program documentation and communication purposes. Volunteers must be comfortable with this. We will distribute Video Releases to each volunteer when they arrive to review and sign.
  • Participants must dress comfortably: sneakers / flat shoes and clothes they can move around in.
  • Rooms can be crowded with furniture and people during this volunteer event.
  • Due to the popularity of these events, participants who sign-up should arrive PROMPTLY and stay for the whole event.
  • Participants with fir or pine tree pollen allergies should take allergy medication before arriving.
  • Participants will be split into smaller groups to complete the overall. Please bring a can-do attitude to the work for the day!

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Housing AvailableFalse

Language/Cultral Support AvailableFalse

Wheelchair AccessibleFalse

Fee RequiredFalse

Fee Amount: None

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Location:

389 5th Ave, 9th Floor, New York, NY 11109, US

Mission Statement

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Description

Idealist is a leading online global resource for finding jobs in the nonprofit sector, as well as volunteer opportunities and graduate school programs for social impact.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Politics
Children & Youth, Community, Politics

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

145 W. 28th Street3rd FloorNew York, NY 10001

(40.74714,-73.99242)
 

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REQUIREMENTS

  • WEEKDAYS, FEW_HOURS

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