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Projects for October 21, 2025

sign-up for a 2025 project To participate in a project on October 21st, 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

Carl Perkins Center

Cleaning and organizing

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 10
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Community Montessori School

Campus clean up

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 20
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Denmark Elementary

1. Cleaning exterior windows and doors 2. Setting out equipment for our Fall Carnival 3. Small painting project

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 4
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Hands Up! Preschool

We will need help with putting equipment on playground. Dig holes, using cement, putting outdoor tiles, using drill to fix equipment.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 15
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
JCM Early College High

Laying pavers, raking, mulching, trimming shrubs, landscaping

  • Length: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 20
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
JMCSS

School improvements - organization and cleaning. More details to come. We are asking our teachers for our greatest needs and will plan from there.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 10
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Local Church Projects

All Saints Anglican Church

We would like help to mulch our newly landscaped garden beds.

  • Length: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Max Size: 30
  • Team Leader: Dr. Jay Beavers (jbeavers@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Northbrook Church

Yard work and building maintenance

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 12
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Non-profit Organization Projects

Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Tennessee-Humboldt Unit

Finish painting gym, paint the trim in the building, paint the outside equipment, replace basketball nets on tennis court, and clean off tennis court, cut and trim bushes and remove debris.

  • Length: 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 20
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Carl Perkins Center Child Advocacy Center

Interior deep cleaning and outside refresh of landscaping

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 8
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Jackson City Parks

Cleaning up and maintaining city parks. Reserved for Honors Community.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 30
  • Team Leader: Anna Tobler (atobler@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Jackson-Madison County Schools-Malesus STEM Innovation Center

Bring Science to Life

  • Length: 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  • Max Size: 80
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Keep My Hood Good

Painting at the Garden

  • Length: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 15
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Madison County Foster Parent Association

Sorting the foster closet donations

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  • Max Size: 12
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
RIFA

Various opps throughout the building including Soup Kitchen, Thrift Store, Donations Processing, Food Sorting, etc.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 55
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
RIFA (Heritage ResLife)

The Heritage RA team will serve food at the RIFA soup kitchen.

  • Length: 10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m
  • Max Size: 12
  • Team Leader: Dylan Runions & Gailey Hollingsworth (ghollingsworth@uu.edu; drunions@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Shift 1: The Center for Just & Caring Communities (CJCC) & Helping Professionals Reaching Out (HPRO)

Shift 1: The Jackson chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) will host a "Bed Build" day. Their mission is that "no child sleeps on the floor in our town." It has been decided that the bed build activities will take place on campus, in the North parking lot of Hammons Hall (side nearest Starbucks). We will be building twin-sized beds for children in West TN who do not have a bed. SHP works with DCS, foster agencies, etc. to identify the families in need and then deliver the beds to them. We will only be assembling the beds. Water and snacks will be provided.

  • Length: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
  • Max Size: 50
  • Team Leader: Meghan Larson/Leia Meadows (mlarson@uu.edu; leia.meadows@my.uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: North parking lot of Hammons Hall (side nearest Starbucks). 
Shift 2: The Center for Just & Caring Communities (CJCC) & Helping Professionals Reaching Out (HPRO)

Shift 2: The Jackson chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) will host a "Bed Build" day. Their mission is that "no child sleeps on the floor in our town." It has been decided that the bed build activities will take place on campus, but the exact location has not been determined yet. We will be building twin-sized beds for children in West TN who do not have a bed. SHP works with DCS, foster agencies, etc. to identify the families in need and then deliver the beds to them. We will only be assembling the beds. Water and snacks will be provided.

  • Length: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 50
  • Team Leader: Meghan Larson (mlarson@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: North parking lot of Hammons Hall (side nearest Starbucks). 
WRAP

Re-arranging and organizing various donations.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 6
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Other Projects

BIOME

Cypress Grove Nature Park, trash pick-up

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 30
  • Team Leader: Mackenzie Cooper (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
History Department and Phi Alpha Theta

Liberty Garden Park Landscaping

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 25
  • Team Leader: Keith Bates (dkbates@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Jennings Hall Beautification

Jennings Beautification

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  • Max Size: 25
  • Team Leader: Justin Wainscott (jwainscott@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Union Arboretum

We plan to transplant a couple of trees, plant some new trees, work on teaching garden maintenance and mulch arboretum trees.

  • Length: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 15
  • Team Leader: Michael Schiebout and Mark Bolyard (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Union University Library

Mrs. Angela Womack cleans the Logos Mondays-Fridays, but she is stretched very thin in our 53,616 square feet of space. We would love some volunteers to come to the Logos that day and do some cleaning: dusting around ceiling vents and on top of the shelving units, cleaning the white boards in the study rooms, removing writing utensils from the ceiling fixtures, and possibly straightening book shelves. Angela never has the opportunity to get to these needs.

  • Length: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  • Max Size: 6
  • Team Leader: Amber Owrey (aowrey@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

If you have any questions, please contact us at campusandcommunity@uu.edu.