Available Projects for Day of Caring
Please check back often as this list is updated on a daily basis
If you are interested in signing up to help with one of these projects or would like more details about any of the projects listed,
please contact
Susan McQuaid: susan@unitedwaynwmi.org or 231-947-3200 x 205
Agency Sign Up Form
Business Sign Up Form
| AGENCY | PROJECT DETAILS | ADOPTED BY |
| Third Level Crisis Center | Painting Pete's Place - entry & main living area | |
| Moving air conditioners to the basement | ||
| Window Washing | Global Marine Insurance | |
| Interior Painting (6 rooms) | Global Marine Insurance | |
| Michael's Place | Event Set-up 9/11/2010 | |
| Preparing materials for Event (anytime) | Faith Reformed Church | |
| Event Volunteers: Valet, bussers, greeters | ||
| Cedar Area Community Foundation | Roadside Clean-up | Scenic Trails Boy Scouts Council |
| GT Regional Land Conservancy | Land Stewardship Project | Consumers Energy Takeda Pharma. |
| Mowing, tree trimming, raking, hauling branches, general yardwork at Maple Bay Preserve just north of Acme | Intelligence Agency | |
| Communities in schools of Mancelona | Stuff the bus - school supply drive | Hagerty |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | Beach clean-up | Best Buy |
| TART Trails | walk, bike, play cards with residents (Orchard Creek Assisited Living) | |
| weed garden, paint logo (Sculpture plaza) | Blue Cross Blue Shield | |
| spread woodchips, weed garden, install kiosk (vasa pathway) |
Emergency Consultants Inc. (ECI) | |
| trim overgrowth on trail, landscape (Suttons Bay Leelanau trail) |
Disability Determination Svc. | |
| Paint caboose, install garden, assemble picnic table |
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| Women's Resource Center | Scrape & paint doorways at office | WKLT |
| Stain fence at Helen's House | WKLT | |
| Clear & weed garden area in front of Art Center | WKLT | |
| Scrape and seal deck at Sara's House | WKLT | |
| Clean and organize racks at the thrift shop | La Senorita | |
| Traverse Bay Children's Advocacy Center | Setting up Donor Database using Giftworks | |
| Foundation for Mental Health | Stain Fence at Bay Front Apartments | Huntington |
| Install rain gutter on building | ||
| United Way of NW Michigan | Food Drive (NWMI Food Coalition) | Morse Moving & Storage |
| Photographers for Day of Caring | ||
Michigan Blood |
Blood Drive | Wells Fargo |
Sunrise Rotary |
School Supply Drive | NMC |
| Entertainment at Kickoff breakfast | TC West HS Band | |
| Pancake Breakfast | TC Northstars |
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| House of Hope | Cutting, splitting, and stacking wood | The Hilt Family |
| GT Habitat for Humanity | Fakken Family Home, construction | Young Professionals |
| Habitat Restore Expansion project | The Arbors of TC | |
| Durand Family Home - womens build | ||
| GT Convservation District | Kids Creek property clean-up and repair | Great Wolf Lodge |
| Disability Network | Disability Audit | |
| Andres Place | Construction of free standing walls for art displays | Traverse Legal |
| Disassembling, moving, and reassembling shelving units | Traverse Legal | |
| HelpLink | Interior Painting - would like someone to serve as point person for entire project. | Tom Emling |
| Blair Township | Community Family Day - help with games for kids, dunk tank, book sale, music, food. etc.(Sept 11) | |
| Foster Grandparents/Senior Companions | Luncheon for senior training. Oct. 5th, noon, 30 seniors. | Reynolds Jonkhoff |
| Pregnancy Care Center | Gardening & Pruning Shrubs | UPS |
| GT Community Living Center | Baking cookies and packaging them for sub sandwich sale | Faith Reformed Church |
| TCAPS - STEP program | Personal Hygiene Drive | Meijer |
| TC Senior Center | Senior Games - (Sept 15 & 16) | RSVP |
| Maritime Heritage Alliance | Schooner Festival Volunteers (Sept 10-12) | RSVP |
| Kids Games Saturday 9/11 | ||
| Mt. Holiday | Various computer work, transfering of information into a database |
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| Cleaning up building and ski hill | Sara Lee | |
| Traverse Health Clinic | Sort and count through boxes of donated toothbrushes, toothpaste and flosses from month long donation drive | Northwest Michigan Works! |
| GT Family Court Juvenile Division | Provide "Goodie Bags for children with crayons, coloring books, pencils, snacks, ersers |
TCAPS |
| GT County Civic Center | Spreading woodchips at Kids Cove | GT Industries |
| Painting the Civic Center fence | Cherryland Electric | |
| Angel Day Care | Painting 1 large pre-school room and half wall | NMC Dorms |
| Bay Area Recycling for Charities | Construction and painting of wooden recycling bins. Will take place at the power plant on the State Hospital grounds. | Viktor Incentives |
| Boy Scouts Scenic Trail Council | Removal of weeds, grass and shubbery on both sides of office. |
The Larkin Group |
| Removal of roof shingles on Family Cabin | US Coast Guard | |
| Father Fred Foundation | Garage sale set up assistance. Moving materials, cleaning parking lot, setting up tents, etc | |
| Girl Scouts Shore to Shore | Re-wheeling dining tables, cleaning health center | TC Rotary |
| Painting troop house | TC Rotary | |
| Building steps to lakefront - erosion control | ||
| Clearing Trails | ||
| Great Lakes Childrens Museum | Wash windows, wipe down & wash water fingers | Dennis, Gartland & Niergarth |
| Pull weeds | Dennis, Gartland & Niergarth | |
| Parking lot striping | Dennis, Gartland & Niergarth | |
| Interior paint touch up, paint sloop and inside of row boat, | Dennis, Gartland & Niergarth | |
| GT Heritage Center | Pack and load moving truck. Moving museum exhibit items stored in Bldg 50. | Heritage Center Board of Directors |
| Interlochen State Park | Picking up litter | |
| Tying and trimming trees for winter, planting trees | ||
| Staining tables | ||
| Spreading woodchips | ||
| Removal of tents | ||
| City of Traverse City | Riverside Cleanup | |
| Womens Cancer Fund | Preparing Sub sandwiches for the cancer fund benefit 9/9 | |
| Delivering sub sandwiches for the cancer fund benefit 9/10 | Tony Ryan - DHS | |
| Traverse Heights Elementary | Gardening and fall planting | |
| Goodwill Inn | Repainting storage sheds and picnic tables | |
| Repainting hallways, lobby, and cafeteria | Painting & Decorating contractors of America | |
| Exterior TLC, windows and landscaping maint. | H&R Block | |
| American Red Cross | Clean 2 emergency vehicles, inside and out | Bob Eichenlaub's Class |
| Grand Traverse Pavillions | Cleaning courtyards for winter | Faith Reformed Church |