Welcome to the University of Maryland’s volunteer opportunity website. Our goal is to connect students, faculty, and staff at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and employees at the University of Maryland Medical Center with volunteer projects in our area. It’s a place for you to sign up for service activities, and a place to post service activities that need volunteers.
By creating an account on this site, you can also indicate your areas of interest and your availability to volunteer, and someone from the Community Engagement team will contact you when opportunities arise that fit your profile. If you have questions about this website, please contact us.
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Mentor with Higher Acheivement
From HA website: At Higher Achievement, we call our middle school students “scholars.” Why? Because they are motivated, inspired, and looking to bridge the opportunity gap in their communities. Our scholars enter Higher Achievement with a range of academic performance levels and with varied levels of support inside and outside of their school. But all of our scholars leave our program with a strong belief in our four social justice pillars: voice, freedom, justice, and solidarity. Our organization commitment to…
Find out more »Supporting k-12 Campus Visits for Career Development
The UMB Office of Community Engagement (OCE) fields numerous requests annually from local schools requesting field trips to the UMB campus to learn about careers in health, law and human services. To meet this need, OCE challenges UMB administrative departments and student organizations with developing creative and fun events that inform our k-12 partners about your chosen career! If your student or staff group would like assistance in developing such activities, please contact Brian Sturdivant, Director for Strategic Initiatives and…
Find out more »Pop! Farm Volunteer Day
Pop! Farm is a community garden and outdoor classroom in Poppleton, just 1 block away from the BioPark. Volunteers will join community members in improving and maintaining this formerly vacant lot. Many student volunteers have described tasks at Pop! Farm as therapeutic. Volunteer duties include: • Weeding and mulching garden plots • Planting flowers and maintaining flower beds • Watering and mulching fruit trees • Building, filling, planting and maintaining raised garden beds • Mowing and trimming grassy areas •…
Find out more »Get Involved and Help the Community – A Bridge to Academic Excellence (ABAE)
ABAE is an organization dedicated to giving back to Baltimore City by tutoring students from Baltimore City Schools. ABAE offers tutoring in Algebra I and II, Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English/Writing, SAT Math, and SAT Verbal. We are currently recruiting tutors from different schools in UMB. Want to learn more about our organization, visit our website at https://studentorg.rx.umaryland.edu/abae/ or Contact Prudence Wong (prudencewong@umaryland.edu). Sign up here to be a tutor https://goo.gl/forms/NTHP2KM5bm8sQAg22 Tutoring starts promptly at 10am and ends…
Find out more »Thanksgiving Meal Assembly
Come help Staff Senate as we assemble thanksgiving baskets for our neighbors in West Baltimore. Last year, Staff Senate provided thanksgiving meals to 120 local residents including families of students participating in UMB sponsored STEM and Community Engagement Center programming and many other families who reside in neighborhoods adjacent to the UMB campus. This year, we hope to exceed that number! Please consider helping us to sort and stuff bags in the Invent and Advance rooms on the first floor…
Find out more »29th Annual Project Feast Thanksgiving Meal
Project Feast is a student organization at the UMSOM that puts together an annual Thanksgiving meal at Booker T. Washington Middle School for the homeless and underserved population of West Baltimore. In addition to providing a meal, we also connect our guests with a variety of community resources and offer a large array of donated clothing, blankets, toiletries, and non-perishable foods. For the past 28 years, this event has been held on Thanksgiving Day at Booker T. Washington Middle School…
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