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Building Hope at United Missionary Baptist Church is a ServeOhio Day initiative focused on improving and expanding the church’s childcare and pantry spaces to better serve families throughout the Dayton View and West Dayton communities. Volunteers will assist with painting, organizing, flooring installation, hauling materials, labeling pantry inventory, and building small furnishings to create welcoming, functional spaces for community support services.

Building Hope at United Missionary Baptist Church is a ServeOhio Day initiative focused on improving and expanding the church’s childcare and pantry spaces to better serve families throughout the Dayton View and West Dayton communities. Volunteers will assist with painting, organizing, flooring installation, hauling materials, labeling pantry inventory, and building small furnishings to create welcoming, functional spaces for community support services.

The United Missionary Baptist Church Community Renewal Project is a ServeOhio Day initiative focused on improving and expanding the church’s childcare and pantry spaces to better serve families throughout the Dayton View and West Dayton communities. Volunteers will assist with painting, organizing, flooring installation, hauling materials, labeling pantry inventory, and building small furnishings to create welcoming, functional spaces for community support services.

Our students and staff will participate in two primary service activities focused on supporting food access in our community. On the first day, students will volunteer at the Freestore Foodbank warehouse, where they will assist with sorting, packing, and organizing food donations. During this experience, participants will also learn more about how the Freestore Foodbank serves the region and addresses food insecurity. On the second day, our students and staff will work together to pack food and donations purchased through this grant. These items will then be donated to the Freestore Foodbank to support their ongoing distribution efforts. This project is especially meaningful because of our longstanding partnership with the Freestore Foodbank, which consistently supports GRAD Cincinnati and our schools by providing food for our pantries and meals for our after-school programs. Through this initiative, volunteers will not only give their time and service but also contribute tangible resources, allowing us to give back to an organization that has had a significant impact on our students and community.

Where we will need additional volunteers is delivering the boxes to the Freestore Foodbank and this is where your help comes in.

The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes (NCSL) is continually increasing our community tree canopy.  We plant trees for habitat restoration - we remove invasive trees and plant native trees.  This major project will plant 25 trees at one time with volunteer help.  NCSL instructors will spend time with each volunteer to train them in the proper steps for planting trees.

Volunteer activities will include the following: planting the native trees, constructing and securing protective cages around the trees using wire fencing, and mulching trees afterwards for moisture retention.  Volunteers will gain valuable skills and firsthand experience in proper tree planting, as well as a sense of accomplishment in participating in an important and lasting habitat restoration project at the Nature Center. 

The Village of Lakemore is working with SuperLearning Center to build a greenhouse where native aquatic plants will be grown.  These plants will be used to create more floating wetlands to place in Springfield Lake.  These floating wetlands will absorb high nutrient stormwater to reduce harmful runoff entering Springfield Lake.

We had landscaping done in May to the front of the building (North) and will need help in landscaping on the sides (East and West). We will provide the flowers, mulch, paint, gloves, and lunch. Planned on 6/20 with rain date 6/27

For this project, volunteers will assemble summer activity kits by organizing, sorting, and packing items such as jump ropes, sidewalk chalk, books, and other play materials into individual take-home bags. This project is important because children experiencing food insecurity may lack access to summer activities that promote physical, mental, and developmental health. For many low-income families with young children, the summer months create added hardship. As the school year ends, households lose access to free and reduced meal programs, structured learning environments, and dependable full-day childcare, increasing both financial strain and caregiving challenges. Volunteers will work collaboratively to create a list of possible games and activities that can be performed with the kit contents. The kits and activity lists will be distributed to the Pantry's youngest neighbors during the first week of June. 

Please help us with inside renovations (including painting) and outside cleanup at the Resurrection Center!

We are looking for volunteers to prep the site for a new inclusive playground at Alexander Elementary School. This will involve removing old equipment, shoveling dirt, filling holes with dirt, hauling equipment and lots of fun!