Suggested Projects
Successful service projects and events have been held across the country. Here is a sampling of projects from over the years to give you ideas for your club's Cavaliers Care initiative.
"Class challenges" create a fun, competitive atmosphere among volunteers of different graduation years. Consider designating "class captains" for each year or decade to motivate peers and win a trophy or gift certificate.
♦ = easy for any age
UVaClub of Atlanta
Event Title: Happy Hour Charitable Fundraiser at Food 101
Event Title: Good Samaritan Center Service at Cafe 458
Description: We are seeking 7-8 volunteers for serving brunch 8-12 noon shift
and another 7-8 volunteers for serving brunch from 11:45-3 shift
Event Title: Trees Atlanta Event
UVaClub of Blandy Farm
Event Title: Arboretum Workday
Description: Workday at the State Arboretum of Virginia at U.Va’s Blandy Experimental Farm. Help weed a section of the Arboretum collection. Bring work gloves and wear clothes you can get dirty! Juice and muffins will be available. All ages and abilities welcome.
UVaClub of Central Indiana
Event Title: Coburn Place Safe Haven ♦
Description: The mission of Coburn Place is “to provide safe, affordable housing and supportive services to women and children who are homeless because of leaving abusive situations.” Visit the website at www.coburnplace.org for more information.
The volunteer staff will have two projects lined up: one if the weather is fair, one if the weather is not. The staff will also do a brief intro and tour of this transitional housing shelter. Friends and family members are welcome to volunteer.
UVaClub of Charlottesville
Event Title: Cavaliers Care & Camp Holiday Trails
Description: Join Cavaliers across the globe for a week of service. This year’s Cavaliers Care will benefit Camp Holiday Trails. Charlottesville alumni, families, and friends will work to help keep summer camp available for children with special health needs on Saturday, April 15 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Founded in 1973, Camp Holiday Trails is a year-round camping facility on the outskirts of Charlottesville that provides a traditional camping experience for children who cannot attend a regular summer camp because of their severe medical conditions. The camp brings together medical professionals, children’s education specialists, and volunteers who just enjoy helping. In addition to medical facilities and outdoor activities, the camp provides counseling, education, and programs for the families of sick children, in order to improve the support network. On Saturday, April 15, the camp will host its workday to keep the grounds in good condition, and all U.Va. alumni, families, and friends are invited to volunteer as part of Cavaliers Care.
UVaClub of Chicago
Event Title: Pizza Party at Marcello's: A Father and Son Restaurant ♦
Description: The UVaClub of Chicago will be supporting the Bakongo baseball team, one of 12 teams in the little league serving Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project. The Near North Little League provides youth in the area an opportunity to play baseball throughout the summer. Each team is named after an African tribe. The league is completely run by volunteers and was the subject of a book and movie titled “Hardball.”
Sponsor the team: The Bakongos need new uniforms, bats, mitts, and balls. Please donate using our online form.
UVaClub of Cincinnati
Event Title: Cavaliers Care
Description: The UVaClub is returning this year to the Family Nurturing Center in Florence, KY for landscaping and other outdoor maintenance. This non-profit agency helps prevent child abuse and works to encourage healthy families.
UVaClub of Dallas / Fort Worth
Event Title: Bike Rodeo! At the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
Description: Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children provides free orthopedic care to children, specializing in neurological disorders and learning disorders. Volunteers will assist with the Bike Rodeo & Child Safety Day, and lunch will be provided. Friends and family are welcome to volunteer, but please, no volunteers under age 14.
UVaClub of Greater Orlando
Event Title: Cavaliers Care about A Gift for Teaching ♦
Description: Between April 1 and April 13, Wahoos will donate needed supplies and financial support to A Gift for Teaching. The mission of A Gift For Teaching is to ensure that children in Central Florida have the basic tools for learning by transferring, at no cost, the community’s surplus supplies and merchandise into the hands of teachers and school children in need. The schools participating are from the most impoverished areas, based on the percentage of students enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program. The UVaClub of Greater Orlando will encourage cash gifts directly to A Gift for Teaching and also will organize, collect, and deliver in-kind donations. A Gift for Teaching’s website, www.agiftforteaching.org, contains more information regarding the types of supplies needed by the organization, and provides a secure online donation service.
UVaClub of Los Angeles
Event Title: Senior Social ♦
Description: The seniors of Culver Village Retirement Assisted Living want you! The elderly citizens of this charming seniors home love to receive visitors, but don’t often get them. Here’s your chance to make a difference and develop a rewarding relationship with someone who will deeply value your company. There is a party at the Village, where you have the opportunity to meet and talk with a number of the residents. It is a lot of fun, and hopefully you’ll make a new pal whom you’ll want to visit on a regular basis. Please join us and see what a little friendship can do for a life... yours and someone else’s!
UVaClub of Maryland
Event Title: Cavaliers Care Linwood Center Revitalization
Description: Once again, the Maryland Chapter is volunteering to help the Linwood Center, a local organization in Ellicott City, MD, that provides homes for adults and children with special needs. For the last five years, we have volunteered during Cavaliers Care week for a day of landscaping and indoor/outdoor painting at different house locations. We generally work from 9 am to 3 pm. Even stopping by for a couple of hours would be helpful if you can’t spend the whole day. This is a great way to get to know other alumni, families, and friends in the area and have fun helping a very appreciative organization!
UVaClub of Memphis
Event Title: Target House of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ♦
Description: Decorate cookies and play games with the children staying at the Target House while receiving long-term treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Friends and family over 16 years old are welcome to volunteer. We are limited to 25 volunteers. The evening will be a lot of fun for kids and ‘Hoos alike! If you are interested in making a gift to St. Jude’s research efforts, visit: www.stjude.org/donate.
UVaClub of Mobile
Event Title: Penelope House Family Violence Center ♦
Description: We will be providing carseats, strollers, and backpacks for the families. The non-profit organization provides assistance for victims of domestic violence.
You can learn more about this wonderful organization at www.penelopehouse.org.
We will gather at the home of Cathy and Jeff McGowin on April 28. Lunch will be served at 12:00 and all items will be taken to the Penelope House Office following lunch.
UVaClub of New York City
Event Title: Thomas Jefferson Park Clean-up
Description: Help alumni, friends, and families to clean up TJ’s park.
UVaClub of NE Ohio
Event Title: Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless ♦
Description: We will spend the day providing administrative support to the office and writing and editing “The Grapevine,” Cleveland’s homeless street newspaper. The more volunteers, the better: if enough people register, we will send volunteers to their west side office as well. Feel free to bring friends and family members to help!
UVaClub of Oregon
Event Title: Oregon Food Bank Work Project
Description: packaging a variety of bulk food goods
UVaClub of the Red Hills
Event Title: America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend
Description: Let's roll up our sleeves and help America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend sort non-perishable food for distribution to area residents who are at risk of hunger as well as assemble brown bags of groceries for senior adults. If you are not able to join us, but would still like to make a donation of non-perishable food items, you may drop off your donations the week before.
UVaClub of Richmond
Event Title: Hoos at CVFB
Description: Follow up on the Cavaliers’ big win during February’s 3rd Annual “Hokies vs. Hoos Food Fight” by volunteering to help pack and sort donations.
Event Title: Hoos with Habitat
Description: Want to hone your home improvement skills? Working with Habitat for Humanity is a great way to learn secrets of the construction trade and help a deserving family fulfill their dream of homeownership. To view publicity for the Hokies/Hoos Challenge, select this link: http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-08-25-0131.html
Event Title: Hoos Got Spirit? ♦
Description: Come out and cheer on runners in the Monument Avenue 10K as we participate in the Hirschler Fleischer Spirit Contest. Any proceeds our group may win will be donated to charity.
Event Title: Hospital Hospitality House ♦
Description: Join us as we cook and entertain visitors to the Hospital Hospitality House, which provides lodging and non-medical services to families and individuals in medical crisis.
Event Title: The Virginia Home - Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden ♦
Description: Enjoy “Garden Week” at Lewis Ginter with some of the wonderful residents of The Virginia Home, a nonprofit facility providing care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities.
UVaClub of the Roanoke Valley
Event Title: Blood Drive
Description: Encourage alumni in the region to donate blood to the ARC during April.
Event Title: Literacy Drive
Description: We will be working with local groups to collect books in a literacy effort.
UVaClub of the Triangle
Event Title: Volunteering for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC ♦
Description: Join Triangle Hoos in helping the local Food Bank sort food for distribution to area residents who are at risk of hunger. Almost half of those served by the Food Bank are children. For more information about the NC Food Bank, go to www.foodbanknc.org
Event Title: IMAGINE
Description: Join us in supporting IMAGINE (Increased Mobility and Greater Independence Equipment) by helping to build modular wheelchair ramps for disabled residents in and around the Triangle. Include which shift you plan to attend and your contact phone number. Children of any age are welcome as long as they are supervised by an adult. Children 12 and older may help with construction with parental permission.
UVaClub of Washington
Event Title: 2nd Annual Founders Day Gala ♦
Description: This year the UVaClub of Washington chose AccessUVa as our charity for Cavaliers Care. Please click here if you'd like to make a donation of any size and help low income prospective students afford a good education. Our signature event during Cavaliers Care will be a black-tie Gala in Georgetown to celebrate Founders Day. It will be a memorable evening of mingling, drinking, and dancing.
UVaClub of Washington
Event Title: Cavaliers Care Pep Rally! ♦
Description: Come out to Whitlows for a Cavaliers Care Pep Rally! We're getting revved up for Cavaliers Care Week and you should too! Cavaliers Care Week is a week long of community service events in tribute to Thomas Jefferson's ideals such as citizenship. Virginia alumni, families, and friends across the nation participate in this volunteerism effort. Come, See, Learn, Participate and get excited! Wahoo Wa Wahoo Wa, Uni-V, Virginia, Hoo Ray Ray, Hoo Ray Ray, Ray Ray UVA!
Event Title: Jefferson Memorial Sing ♦
Description: Sing! Sing! Sing! We're kicking Cavs Care week off with a bang this year! Come downtown to hear some of your favorite A Cappella groups from UVa sing at the Jefferson Memorial! The New Dominions, the Virginia Belles, The Whethermen, and The Academical Village People will be all the way up from Charlottesville singing to benefit AccessUVa. We'll be collecting donations of any size to benefit AccessUVa. What better way to celebrate the ideals of our founder and his birthday than to give back to the community. Jefferson wouldn't have it any other way!
Event Title: PB & J Sandwich Making ♦
Description: Join fellow Wahoos at the JCC of Greater Washington in Rockville for a fun time preparing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. All sandwiches will be given to DC Central Kitchen, so they can distribute them to those most in need.
Event Title: Shelter House Game Night ♦
Description: Get in touch with your inner child for a night of fun and games with the children at Shelter House. Chutes & Ladders, Candy Land and playground games are a few of the planned activities for the event.
Event Title: Bingo and Crumpets ♦
Description: Come out and play Bingo with the elderly at Burke Nursing Home. Well be playing the British way: with a hot spot of tea and crumpets. Cheerio!
Event Title: Everybody Clean Up!
Description: Come help clean apartments for less fortunate women. We’ll be vacuuming and dusting the residential apartments provided by N Street Village for homeless and low-income women of DC.
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