Service Day 2019

Under supervision, volunteers will sort and/or pack medical supplies for our international and local programs. 

Time of volunteer activity: 9:00 am - 11:30 am (Please note: 7:30 am - 1:00 pm time listed above allows for travel to and from the site)

Lunch is provided.

For questions, please contact Student Site Leads: Brandon Bond (bcbond@umich.edu) and Debbie Tan (dtann@umich.edu). 

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Volunteers will be sorting and processing food anywhere from but not limited to, dry box, cans, bread, produce, dairy, frozen meat and our clean room where we take bulk product and process down into smaller distribution size packaging.

Dress code: comfortable closed-toed shoes, no open-toed shoes. Jeans- no holes, rips or tears, no dangly jewelry; these are all for safety of our volunteers.

Volunteer activity is from 9:00 - 11:45 am (Please note: 7:30 am - 12:45 pm time listed above allows for travel time to and from the site)

Lunch is provided.

For questions, contact Student Site Lead: Clare Shanahan (cshan@umich.edu) and Amelia Schmid (samelia@umich.edu).

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Volunteers will assist clinic staff in an Annual Health Fair via one of the following three activities: 1) educating community members on various health topics including diabetes management, stress management, cancer screenings, healthy habits, etc. Each volunteer will select a health topic and educate participants at a booth with handouts and/or PowerPoint presentation prepared by our clinic. If volunteers are interested in creating the PowerPoint themselves, they will have to complete the presentation 1 month prior to the event in order for clinic staff to review 2) working as ushers to greet participants, introduce the health fair and structure of the event, and provide surveys to gather demographic information & areas of health interest 3) distribute food and water to participants.

Volunteer activity is from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm -- Setup and training from 9:00-10:00 am, Health Fair from 10:00 am-2:00 pm. Please note: the 7:30 am-3:00 pm time listed above allows for travel time to and from the site).

Lunch and snacks provided by Wayne County Healthy Communities.

There will be a photographer at the event. All volunteers should fill out a Photo Consent Form prior to the event if they authorize the use of those photos by Wayne County Health Communities.

For questions, please contact Site Leads: Tara Allendorfer (tallendo@umich.edu) and Janani Muthaiya (staff) mjanani@umich.edu.

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Volunteers will assist staff to remove invasive species in the natural areas of the Arb. Depending upon the weather, volunteers will either be removing invasive shrubs like honeysuckle or buckthorn, or invasive herbaceous plants if they have begun to sprout. This is physical outdoor work. Volunteers may be using loppers and hand saws. They will be cutting, pulling, dragging, and stacking plant material. The work involves bending, kneeling, and standing. Long pants and sturdy closed toe shoes are required. We recommend volunteers dress in layers to be comfortable outside for the duration of the workday. Refillable water bottles are encouraged.

Please arrive to the SPH I lobby between 8:15-8:30 am for a brief group welcome.

Volunteer activity is from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm 

Lunch is provided following volunteer activity.

For questions, please contact Student Site Leads: Olawunmi Oduyebo (ooduyebo@umich.edu) and Alextia Armstrong (alextiaa@umich.edu).

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

The Flint water crisis continues, with bottled water being the safest, trusted clean water option for Flint residents. Join us to distribute cases of bottled water to nearly 1,000 of Flint's most vulnerable, mobility-limited residents at housing complexes for low-income seniors and people with disabilities. Gain an insider view of the water crisis and its current dynamics, from on-the-ground resident organizers and residents who face barriers to accessing clean water.

Carpools will be arranged. Meet in SPH I lobby at 8:30 am for carpools to Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church (502 Leith St, Flint, MI 48505). Convene in the water storage shed across the street for the welcome/introductions and learning about the water crisis response/recovery context before traveling to water distribution sites.

Our community partners for this impactful service experience are water crisis first responders Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Salem Lutheran Church.

Volunteer activity is from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm (Please note: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm time listed above allows for travel time to and from the site)

Lunch is provided.

For questions, please contact Site Lead Mona Munroe-Younis at myounis@umich.edu.

For questions, please contact Student Site Leads: Emily Dejka (edejka@umich.edu) and Zechariah Attar (zattar@umich.edu).

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Tasks include gardening and grounds work on Growing Hope Urban Farm.

Volunteer activity is from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm (Please note: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm time listed above allows for travel time to and from the site). 

Lunch is provided. 

For questions, please contact student site lead: Brittany McQueer (bmcqueer@gmail.com)

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Volunteers will participate in spring yard cleanup for Ann Arbor Meals on Wheels clients who are homebound. Yard cleanup sites will be determined closer to Service Day. Volunteers will be assigned a residential home in Ann Arbor where yard clean up will take place. At 1:00 pm, volunteers will carpool to the Ann Arbor Meals on Wheels office for lunch (2025 Traverwood Drive, Suite F, Ann Arbor, MI 48105)

Yard cleanup will take place from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, followed by lunch from 1:15 - 2:00 pm at the Ann Arbor Meals on Wheels office (2025 Traverwood Drive, Suite F, Ann Arbor, MI 48105). The 9:00 am start time above allows for travel time to the volunteer site.

Lunch is provided.

For questions, please contact Student Site Lead: Rebecca Copeland (racope@umich.edu)

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Assisting with unloading new donations, taking new inventory and setting it up and displaying it throughout the ReStore, customer assistance and similar tasks.

What to wear: Closed-toed shoes for safety. Wear something you don’t mind getting dirty or dusty.

Volunteer activity is from 10:30 am - 2:30 pm (Please note: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm time listed above allows for travel time to and from the site).

Lunch is provided.

For questions, please contact Student Site Leads: Alex Fox (alexfox@umich.edu) and Kyle Busse (kybusse@umich.edu).

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Join U-M Public Health student organization La Salud and the Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) in supporting La Placita’s door-to-door delivery of health necessities to vulnerable families. The distribution will include clean water, lead-mitigating healthy food and water filter cartridges. We wish to extend a special thanks to La Salud for raising $750 in funding toward water and delivery needs in order to make this distribution possible. 

Volunteer activity is from: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm (Please note: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm time listed above allows for travel time to and from the site).

Lunch is provided.

Volunteers will need to be able to lift and/or carry the goods. ADA accessible sidewalks are, unfortunately, not guaranteed.

For questions, please contact Site Leads: Mona Munroe-Younis, U-M Public Health Flint Initiatives Program Manager (myounis@umich.edu) and Jennifer Gonzalez, student (gonzalje@umich.edu)

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).

Food Gatherers rescues several tons of food daily that volunteers help us process, inspect and sort. Since we depend on food donations from the community, we aren’t always sure what we’ll be getting from one day to the next. We receive various, last minute items, and though we often improvise, we have adequate work areas and will provide all necessary training. Volunteers  generally help us sort food (such as produce), stock our pantry with canned goods, repackage bulk items, help us salvage/wash damaged products (such as a case of juice boxes with one that is leaking), and work with us to keep the warehouse and trucks clean and food-safe.

Volunteer activity is from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Lunch will be served at Food Gatherers at 12:15 pm, followed by a brief volunteer training promptly at 1:00 pm. (Please note: 11:30 am - 4:00 pm time listed above allows for travel time to and from the site).

What to wear: Comfortable, casual attire -- No sleeveless shirts, non-slip, closed-toed shoes. It is recommended to bring a sweatshirt or jacket -- volunteers may be working in their Green Room (50 degrees) and the warehouse can be a bit chilly. Some jobs require a hat/hairnet. Food Gatherers will provide hairnets, but you may bring your own hat (baseball cap, knit hat, bandana) if you wish.

Lunch is provided. 

Each volunteer will need to complete a volunteer form and bring it with them on Service Day. Any volunteer who has not volunteered with Food Gatherers within the past two years needs to complete a form. Form

For questions, please contact Student Site Leads: Krystina Auble (auble@umich.edu) and Avonlea Rickerson (avonlear@umich.edu).  

To register any family members who are interested in joining you at your Service Day site, please email Whitney Vojtkofsky (whitdix@umich.edu).