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Projects for November 2, 2021

sign-up for a 2021 project To participate in a project on November 2nd, please view the projects below and complete the volunteer sign-up form. Only a limited number of volunteers are needed for each project, so make sure you sign-up early. Please note that some projects are reserved for specific classes and/or organizations.

Local School Projects

We would like to spruce up our building inside and out. We would like to touch up paint in areas inside and outside of the school. Clean-up trash , and just make our campus look beautiful. I would like to surprise our teachers with a Teacher Retreat. If you have an artist that could paint a mural on the wall in the designated room it would be great.

  • Length: 8-1
  • Max Size: 20
  • Meeting Location: Watters 1 Sidewalk

Landscaping at Aspiration Point between JCM and JCM-ECH - (overpass)

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 30
  • Reserved For: Baseball
  • Meeting Location: Coach Pitt's Office

We are cleaning up the flower beds and trimming hedges

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 11
  • Reserved For: Collegiate Exchange Club
  • Meeting Location: Dr. Ryan's Office

Campus Beautification- numerous areas on campus need grounds upkeep, hedges overgrown, weeds taking over where shrubbery and flowers should be, weeds taking over flower bed in front of school

  • Length: 8-1
  • Max Size: 18
  • Reserved For: Jillz
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Cut bushes in front, clean outside widows, clean outside of lockers, remove and marks or graffiti from our hallways and bathrooms.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 40
  • Meeting Location: Dodd Sidewalk

Landscaping around our Koi Pond and the front of building - Some bushes need to be shaped and weeds pulled around the Koi Pond in front of the building and up to the walkway. Maybe a few pumpkins or a Fall Theme around the Koi Pond for our Pre-K students to view.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 6
  • Meeting Location: Grace 2 Sidewalk

clean out the front flower bed and spruce it up

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 11
  • Reserved For: SERVE TEAM
  • Meeting Location: OUM Lobby

Clean up around campus

  • Length: 8-3
  • Max Size: 6
  • Meeting Location: Watters 4 Sidewalk

Open Prayer Time. Anybody can come and go at any time. People can come for prayer, or they can come to pray for the Jackson community, Union, Union employees, and Union students, and other topics that may arise.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 50
  • Meeting Location: D-3

Repaint maps at entryway doors

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: Women's Golf Team
  • Meeting Location: Coach Chandler's Office

Local Church Projects

Painting four rooms

  • Length: 9-1
  • Max Size: 16
  • Meeting Location: All Saints

Variety of projects including: painting our swing set, pulling weeds/yard care, organizing some closets, etc.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 7
  • Meeting Location: Pollard Sidewalk

Areas of exterior painting, light yard/brush clearing, interior organizing/clean-up, and furniture moving.

  • Length: 9-12
  • Max Size: 3
  • Meeting Location: Watters 2 Sidewalk

General cleaning, sorting, and organizing around the campus/inside the church.

  • Length: 8-2
  • Max Size: 13
  • Reserved For: Club Volleyball
  • Meeting Location: Bowld Front Stairs

Helping with Kids Ministry

  • Length: 9-12
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: Delight Ministries
  • Meeting Location: Bowld Patio

We are in need of one of our rooms in the youth area to be painted...someone began the project and was unable to finish it. We would like to have the room repainted.

  • Length: 9-3
  • Max Size: 4
  • Meeting Location: Hurt 3 Sidewalk

Repair ramp and deck on front building: removal of old wood, nailing down new planks Trim trees and bushes all around: use of trimmers, dragging cut material away Clean and paint picnic table

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: Men's Golf
  • Meeting Location: Coach Chandler's Office

Clean out a large room

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 4
  • Meeting Location: Ayers 1 Sidewalk

Packing boxes, organizing equipment, and other miscellaneous jobs.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 21
  • Reserved For: Volleyball
  • Meeting Location: Coach McClure's office

Non-profit Organization Projects

We need several students to help us prepare our newsletter and Christmas cards for mailing out. Tasks include stuffing envelopes, labeling, and applying stickers.

  • Length: 9-1
  • Max Size: 11
  • Meeting Location: In the Lex

Cleaning and trimming of the flower beds on side and the front side of the building.

  • Length: 9-11
  • Max Size: 10
  • Meeting Location: Prayer Chapel in the SUB

Trim weeds and small saplings off chain-link fence. Possibly, do some light cleaning - outside windows, brass on entrance door.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 8
  • Meeting Location: Watters 3 Sidewalk

Assist with painting and assembling furniture for new office space at the United Way office.

  • Length: 8-4
  • Max Size: 6
  • Reserved For: Financial Aid Staff
  • Meeting Location: Financial Aid Office

Cleaning and organizing at the Carl Perkins Center

  • Length: 9-12
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Kappa Delta
  • Meeting Location: KD House

Power washing the habitat for humanity building and repainting their parking lot

  • Length: 9-12
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Kappa Delta
  • Meeting Location: KD House

serve cooked food, hold signs and assist picking vegetables at the Garden

  • Length: 8:30-11:30
  • Max Size: 6
  • Meeting Location: Bowld Gym

  • Length: 1-4
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: Mallory Mathematics Club
  • Meeting Location: Dr. Hail's Office

Various projects including bell ringing and on site tasks.

  • Length: 8-4
  • Max Size: 21
  • Reserved For: Men's Soccer Team
  • Meeting Location: Coach Cox's Office

Packing snack backpacks or working in the soup kitchen

  • Length: 8-2
  • Max Size: 10
  • Meeting Location: Hurt 4 Sidewalk

Clean storage unit, paint playground equipment, remove items from the side of the building, clean and remove items from the balcony, and clean the garden(remove grass).

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 40
  • Reserved For: SAC
  • Meeting Location: The Hall outside Student Life Offices

Cleaning and Transporting trash

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 55
  • Reserved For: SAE
  • Meeting Location: SAE House

Clean the inside of the women's shelter.

  • Length: 9-1
  • Max Size: 22
  • Reserved For: Softball
  • Meeting Location: Coach Sher's Office

  • Length: 9-12
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: STM
  • Meeting Location: Jennings Parking Lot

WRAP has a donation closet at the Safe Hope Center for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault to receive clothing and other items they need. Those with a knack for organizing would be greatly appreciated to help make it easier for advocates and survivors to find the sizes they need for themselves and/or their children. Volunteers must be 18 or over and sign a confidentiality agreement, as well as wear a mask.

  • Length: 10-12
  • Max Size: 5
  • Meeting Location: Ayers 4 sidewalk

Other Projects

Travel to Saint Jude to donate blood and platelets

  • Length: 8-4
  • Max Size: 40
  • Reserved For: ATO
  • Meeting Location: ATO House

Union Campus Beautification: cleaning pampas grass up and mulching also.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 25
  • Meeting Location: Buster Statue

Assembling flower bouquets and delivering them to the nursing home.

  • Max Size: 93
  • Reserved For: Chi Omega
  • Meeting Location: Chi Omega House

We will help our understaffed City of Jackson Parks Department by performing whatever park maintenance will best help them prepare our city's public spaces for the winter. It can be hard work but is lots of fun. Traditionally, this has meant raking, weeding, and spreading mulch.

  • Length: 8-1
  • Max Size: 50
  • Meeting Location: Chapel Circle Drive

Union Trails clean up/ maintenance

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 30
  • Reserved For: Cross Country & Bike Recycling
  • Meeting Location: Bell Tower

Cleaning up trash and debris along the boardwalk at Cypress Grove Nature Park.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 30
  • Meeting Location: White Hall Parking Lot

Remove rocks and debris from Jennings fountain, in hopes to get it up and running again.

  • Length: 9-11
  • Max Size: 5
  • Meeting Location: Jennings Fountain

Aiding widows in outdoor household needs

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Men's Basketball
  • Meeting Location: Coach Bazzoli's Office

Cleanup and manicure work at Liberty Garden Park

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: Phi Alpha Theta & History Club
  • Meeting Location: C-17 in the PAC

The project involves inviting home school kids to campus for a demonstration show. The show will several scientific principles and it will be an educational experience for the kids.

  • Length: 10-12
  • Max Size: 50
  • Reserved For: SMACS
  • Meeting Location: White Hall 312

Planting trees on campus to add to the Union Arboretum and putting out signs and mulching current trees in the Arboretum.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 20
  • Meeting Location: White Hall Steps

Help in and around some of the flower beds around campus, primarily trimming back the decorative pompous grass we have growing in flower beds around the Great Lawn as well as at the PAC Fountain, and in some BAC flower beds.

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 15
  • Meeting Location: West End of the Great Lawn

paint resident windows, write cards for all of the patients, put together goodie bags for the winners of the Bingo game

  • Length: 8-12
  • Max Size: 75
  • Reserved For: ZTA
  • Meeting Location: ZTA House

If you have any questions, please contact Emily Shoemaker at eshoemaker@uu.edu.