Big Sunday happily welcomes you to Our Really Big Community Calendar.
We try to include all kinds of volunteering and helping opportunities for all kinds of interests, talents, passions, and ages! As you’ll see, these include volunteering opportunities (one-time and long-term) as well as the chance to support a nonprofit by attending fundraising events. Plus, of course, we include all of Big Sunday’s homegrown events, too! Whoever you are, and whatever you do, there is someone out there who could use your help.
If you have questions about our calendar, or would like to add a listing, please contact calendar@bigsunday.org or submit your event/opportunity via the button below.
We are hosting our annual Back 2 School Health & Resource Event on Saturday, August 4, 2018 from 11am-2pm. Our goal is to give every child – across each of our program areas – who resides in the Watts Willowbrook, Compton and South Los Angeles communities – a backpack filled with age-appropriate supplies, but we need your help! Please consider volunteering your time to help out at this event.
Drew Child Development Corporation, an organization that provides low income child care and mental health care to the Watts-Willowbrook, Compton, and South Los Angeles area. This year we are celebrating our 30th anniversary alongside our Back 2 School Health and Resource Fair on August 4th, 2018 from 11:ooam to 2:00 pm, located at 1770 E. 118th Street Los Angeles CA 90059 . We will be providing a host of services and activities to further accomplish our mission of creating successful children within our community. Our event is in need of volunteers to help out throughout the day with Sign In, Passing out of school supplies, set up of vendor tables and break down and many other things.
It's time for the annual transformation of Project Angel Food into a magical place filled with glamour, mouth-watering food, fantastic auction items, amazing entertainment and most of all – immeasurable heart and love! If you'd like to join us for a party highlighted with appearances by Debra Messing, Lisa Rinna and Chaz Dean. Check out our website to purchase ticketshttps://www.angelfood.org/event/angel-awards-2018/
If you'd like to join us as a volunteer, there are plenty of openings for you.
Read on to see the details for the various ways you can be part of this tradition…and then let me know where we can reserve a spot for you (and in this case you can be as greedy as you’d like.)
Day of set-up:
When: Saturday, Aug 18
12noon – 6PM — Set up the live auction & table settings
(Partial Shifts Welcome)
The Event:
What: Volunteer for the silent auction, as greeters and other fun event tasks.
We are also looking for people with a couple of specific skills
Stage/Event Management to help with the show.
Photographer
When: Saturday, Aug 18
4:30pm til 11:30pm (18 and over only please)
Where: Project Angel Food
922 Vine St
LA CA 90038
Thanks for considering being part of this great event. Hope to see you for at least one – and hopefully more – fun projects!
We are hosting a turnover day in the garden, this coming Sunday, Septmeber 9th, from 10-noon. We will supply all the tools, we’re going to compost our old summer crops and add in soil amendments to prepare for fall vegetables. We could use around 10 volunteers. The address is 905 Loma Vista Drive: enter off of Doheny Road around 100 feet west of Loma Vista: you will see an open gate, the greenhouse, and signs for the garden.
Join us on Sunday, October 7th, 2018, for our 6th Annual Carnival! Hosted by SPY Board Member Peter Micelli and his wife Jennifer Lang at their home. This family friendly event includes carnival games, food and drink, a raffle, and more! 100% of funds raised from Carnival will go towards SPY's programs that help homeless youth exit the streets.
Safe Place for Youth (SPY) provides life-saving support to homeless and at-risk youth ages 12-25 in West Los Angeles. Our mission is to inspire, nurture, and empower the resilient human spirit of homeless youth by providing immediate and lasting solutions, one young person at a time. We do this through a continuum of care including case management, education and employment support, health and wellness care, street outreach, and access to basic survival needs of food, showers and clothing. In 2017, SPY provided services to 1,171 individual homeless and at-risk youth.
Adult volunteers needed.
Our ceremonies at YOUR LA NATIONAL CEMETERY are always FREE and open to the public. Would love your help letting all know they are truly welcome. This year, for the very first time, we will feature the Randy Van Horne Singers in a marvelous tribute to WWI and WWII music as part of our ceremonies. Come join us as we honor veterans and active duty; ring those bells and sound those shofarot; and follow it all with a Town Hall with our 33rd District Congressman.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR OUR 2018 Holiday Party!
We look forward to working together in support of our agency's mission statement of empowering children, youth and adults to getting back on track to success and wellness – by spreading holiday cheer!
Volunteer Opportunity: Saturday, December 1, 2018
- Shift 1: 8:30am – 12:00pm
- Shift 2: 12:30pm – 4:00pm
Project Description: Join us for our celebration of Winter! The event will feature popcorn, arts & crafts, snow cones, beverages, and community resource vendors!
Directions: LACGC Exposition Park at the intersection Vermont/Exposition next to Arco: 3787 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90007
About LACGC: Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic empowers children, adolescents and young adults to get on track to success – to reach goals in school, build healthy relationships, and enjoy emotional well-being. Our team of compassionate professionals offers behavioral counseling, therapy, and support to individuals and families.
Join us the weekend of December 1 and 2, 2018 – RAIN OR SHINE!
The Giveaway is a single-day event that provides free, gently used clothing to more than 2,000 women, men, and children at the start of the holiday season.
We need 120 volunteers to help sort clothing, greet our guests, keep our giveaway tables freshly and fully stocked, and assist with event cleanup. Breakfast and lunch are provided for volunteers.
The Clothing Giveaway takes place at our headquarters in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles:
543 N Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036.
Parking restrictions in the area are eased for the event.
Volunteers must be at least 17 years-old. Community service credit/certificates will be given to all students.
I am happy to invite you and your community group to help plant 100 new street trees in the Ridgewood Cove neighborhood! At this tree planting, we will mark the planting of 4,000th tree planted through the I Dig Long Beach initiative.
Ridgewood Cove Neighborhood Association is committed to help plant, water and care for these trees for their first year.
Volunteers are welcome to come help plant the trees!
Up to 100 trees will be planted in the neighborhood bounded by:
52nd Street –- North
Silva Street –- South
Gardenia Avenue — East
Walnut Avenue -– West
Would your group like to be a volunteer partner for this event?
What can you expect on planting day? I thought you all would like to check out this awesome video from a recent tree planting event!
Volunteers of all ages are welcome at this event to help plant and water these young trees. No experience is needed, we will train you.
I am happy to share that new street trees are coming to the Alamitos Beach neighborhood!
Up to 100 trees will be planted in the neighborhood bounded by:
4th Street –- North
Broadway –- South
Orange Avenue — East
Alamitos Avenue -– West
Alamitos Beach Tree and Flower Garden Party Club is committed to help plant, water and care for these trees for their first year.
Come help plant the trees! The trees will be planted to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the firstAlamitos Beach Memorial Trees Project when neighbors began working together in 1994 to plant street trees to remember treasured neighbors who have passed away.
Alamitos Beach Memorial Trees – 25th Anniversary Neighborhood Tree Planting
Saturday, January 26, 2019
9 a.m. – noon
Meeting Location: Long Beach Senior Center
1150 E. 4th Street
(Meet at the Orange Avenue entrance to the parking lot)
Long Beach, CA 90802
Would your group like to be a volunteer partner for this event?
Volunteers of all ages are welcome at this event to help plant and water these young trees.
No experience is needed, we will train you.
I am happy to share that new street trees are coming to the Collins neighborhood!
Up to 100 trees will be planted in the neighborhood bounded by:
Harding Street — North
La Jara Street — South
Coke Avenue — East
Downey Avenue – West
Collins Neighborhood Association and Girl Scout Troop 1353/1363 are committed to help plant, water and care for these trees for their first year.
Come help plant the trees!
Volunteers of all ages are welcome at this event to help plant and water these young trees.
No experience is needed, we will train you.
Can you and/or your organization serve as Water Brigade volunteers to help water the newly planted trees on planting day?
Volunteers are needed to help make sure each tree is deep watered with 15 gallons on planting day to help them get off to a good start.
Would your group like to provide refreshments for the volunteers?
Can you and/or your organization assist with watering the trees during their first year?
Housing and Neighborhood Services Bureau staff will deliver all the trees and tools on planting day.
The Port of Long Beach and CAL FIRE have provided funding to plant 10,000 trees in Long Beach neighborhoods through 2022. Residents, businesses and community groups partner with Housing and Neighborhood Services Bureau to provide volunteers at the tree planting events.
Public Works will survey the neighborhood for tree planting locations and Housing and Neighborhood Services Bureau staff will mail letters to the property owners of all the adjacent sites to notify them that trees will be planted and to provide them with an opportunity to decline them.
Housing and Neighborhood Services Bureau staff will deliver all the trees and tools on planting day.
Please feel free to call me if you have any questions or would like additional information.
