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Green Seattle Day
Green Seattle Partnership
Date/Time: Saturday, November 3, events start at 9am
Location: Green Seattle Day events will be held at
15 parks across Seattle.
Green Seattle Day is our biggest party of the year, and we want you there! Join the fun and be one of hundreds of volunteers planting thousands of plants in parks throughout the Emerald City. Dig in and get out to your local neighborhood to help us kick off our planting season. All community members are welcome, and no experience is necessary! The event is family friendly and open to all ages. Volunteers will plant trees and other plants that will become the future forest of the park. We hope that you will all lend a hand in the neighborhoods you live in, and volunteer at the closest park near you!
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Most events are three hours
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Thanksgiving Meal Baskets for Families in Homeless Shelters
YWCA
Date/Time: Drop off baskets Tuesday, November 20 between 8am - noon
Location: 2301 S. Jackson Street, Seattle
Fall is in the air and the YWCA is gathering Thanksgiving meal baskets for homeless and low-income families who live in our shelter and housing programs. These programs are a safe haven for families working hard to move forward in their lives and build a better future for their children. You and your family can help out by filling a basket with all the fixings for a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Each basket will make a difference to a family in need. We need almost 1000 baskets! All baskets should have enough food to feed about 6 people, and should include the following:
1 Turkey around 10lbs
Foil roasting pan
5 lb bag of Potatoes
Yams/sweet potatoes
Mini marshmallows
Prepared stuffing (like stove top)
1 lb butter
1 gallon milk
FRESH pie (NOT frozen)
Sweet Potato, Pumpkin or Apple please!
Whip cream
Dinner rolls
Green beans
Instant turkey gravy
Flour/ sugar
Pre packed salad mix
Salad dressing
1 bottle sparkling apple cider
Salt & pepper
Cooking Oil
You can always add to this as the families are need of so much, but this should be your basic box. We call it a basket, because in the past lots of people brought the food in laundry baskets. Feel free to do the same, or to use anything that is easy to carry and strong. The families love the wicker baskets, Rubbermaid's, or even big boxes.
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Varies
Contact:
Nichelle Hilton, 206.375.1496, [email protected]. Email Nichelle by Tuesday, November 13 with the number of baskets you are planning on donating so she can plan accordingly.
www.ywcaworks.org/
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Seattle Turkey Trot
Ballard Food Bank
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 20 - Thursday, November 22. Choose a
volunteer date here that works best for you. Time will vary depending on volunteer position.
Location: NW 85th St and 32nd Ave NW, Seattle.
The Seattle Turkey Trot is a 5K jog, walk or run on the morning of Thanksgiving Day, November 22. This is the 12th year of the scenic run which starts in the Sunset Hill neighborhood near Ballard, and finishes at Golden Gardens Park. All proceeds from this race go to support the Ballard Food Bank. Not only will you have a great time at the race, you'll be helping to provide food for those in need during the crucial holiday season. There are many volunteer opportunities to choose from. Pick the one that is right for you and your family.
Ages: All children are welcomed when accompanied by adults.
Time Commitment: One to two hours depending on volunteer position
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Write a Letter!
Operation Gratitude
Date/Time: Ongoing
Location: All your cards and letters can be sent together in one large mailing envelope or box to:
Operation Gratitude
21100 Lassen Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311-4278
ATTN: Letter Writing Program
Please include a
donation form in your large mailing envelope or box.
Operation Gratitude annually sends 200,000+ Care Packages filled with food, entertainment, hygiene, and handmade items, plus personal letters of appreciation to Veterans, First Responders, New Recruits, Wounded Heroes, their Care Givers, and to individually named U.S. service members deployed overseas and their families waiting at home. Of all the items included in these packages, the most cherished are the personal letters of appreciation! Our goal is to include several letters and colorful drawings in every Care Package and tell our troops "WE CARE!" Writing a letter is a meaningful way for Americans to show support for our Military. It only takes five minutes of your day, but will bring lasting joy to our troops. Letters are accepted year-round. Right now, we have a special need for those specifically written to our New Recruits, Veterans, and First Responders. Holiday cards need to be received two to three months prior to the holidays in order for them to reach our service members on time. Once we receive letters it takes us time to screen, sort and assemble them into our care packages and then we have to factor in the shipping time. If your letters will arrive at a later date it will work well to make them general letters of appreciation so that they may be used year-round. Don't know where to start? Click
here for the Write a Letter flyer.
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Varies
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Kids Helping Kids
Wellspring Family Services
Date/Time: Children are invited to drop off their donations at Wellspring Family Services between 9am - 4pm, Monday - Friday. Wellspring is happy to provide age-appropriate tours of our agency so children can see the impact of their donations.
Location: 1900 Rainier Ave S, Seattle
Wellspring Family Services builds emotionally healthy, self-sufficient families within a safe, caring environment. Kids Helping Kids (KHK) is a youth philanthropy program that invites children to make a difference in the lives of their homeless peers by collecting coins for Wellspring Family Services. The first step is for children to either pick up a KHK jar from the Wellspring office or to create a coin jar on their own. The next step is to get creative and start filling the jar with change! Some children contribute a portion of their allowance money, others host a bake sale or lemonade stand, and some even offer to do extra chores around the house. For a list of age-and campaign-specific fundraising ideas for your children to start filling their jars,
click here.
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Varies
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Sponsor a Family
Family-to-Family
Date/Time: Ongoing, monthly donation
Location:
Family-to-Family will connect you with a family to sponsor.
Teach your children the importance of sharing your bounty with others by sponsoring a family in need with a monthly box of groceries. Choose one of the six options on the
Family-to Family website and your family can help ease the burden of hunger and poverty in one of America's poorest communities. Depending on the option you choose, you'll need to buy groceries and personal care items, along with a box and postage. Visit the
Doing Good Together Sponsor a Family project page for reflection questions and other ways your family can make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate
Time Commitment: Varies
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Shop Kind for the Holidays!
Whether you're shopping for birthday gifts, making your holiday gift list, or just looking for books, games, and activities for your family, be sure to keep kindness in mind. DGT has compiled a variety of "kind vendors," and we've found some fun Amazon products that could turn
online shopping into a big-hearted activity. Best of all, as an Amazon affiliate and having sponsored vendors, DGT benefits from these purchases as well. Want to become a Kind Vendor?
Contact us and tell us about your big-hearted product!
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| This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)
When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project.
Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.
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