Sarah Lyman Day of Community Service

List of 7 items.

• BOSTON - Household Goods / Saturday, October 11, 2025 / 8:45 am - Noon

  Household Goods is a nonprofit organization that provides a full range of new and donated household items and furniture, free of charge, to people in need to make a home. Volunteers will help sort, organize, move small items and make sure items are stable and clean. Volunteers must wear closed-toe shoes.  There will be a mandatory 15-minute training (from 8:45 - 9:00 am) before the volunteer shift begins. 
  
  Household Goods
  530 Main Street
  Acton, MA 01720
  
  Chair: Liz Haas '85 • haas.joffe@gmail.com 
  
  Register: (Google Form)

• CHICAGO - Cradles to Crayons / Saturday, October 4, 2025 / 10:00 am - Noon

  Join fellow alums at Cradles to Crayons' Giving Factory warehouse and assist in processing and packaging donations of new and nearly new children's items and essentials for distribution to local disadvantaged children. We will have donuts at 9:30 am at Cradles to Crayons and then after our volunteer shift the camaraderie will continue (everyone pays for their own lunch) at Coalfire Pizza, 3707 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613 
  
  Cradles to Crayons
  https://www.cradlestocrayons.org/chicago/

  2500 W. Bradley Plaza, Chicago 60618 
  
  Chair: Erin Adelman Court ’00 • erin.c.court@gmail.com 

  
  REGISTER (Google Form)
  

• CLEVELAND - Two In-Person Projects / Saturday, October 4, 2025 / 11:00 am - 2:00 pm for Youth Challenge at Butler and 2:00 - 4:00 pm at McGregor Senior Living

  This year we are offering two in-person opportunities for local alums and their families to volunteer and support Sarah Lyman Day. 
  
  #1  We will host an activity day with Youth Challenge at our Butler Campus from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm.  Youth Challenge provides free adapted sports and recreational activities to young people with physical disabilities and their teen volunteer partners.  Volunteers will assist with running adaptive sports games and with arts and crafts projects.  
  
  #2 We will host an afternoon of fun games and activities with the residents of McGregor Senior Living from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. We will be in the Community Room. Anyone over age 5 is welcome to participate.  
  
  

  Youth Challenge at the Butler Campus
  7420 Fairmount Road
  Novelty, OH 44072
  
  McGregor Senior Living
  14900 Private Drive
  Cleveland, OH 44112
  
  Chairs: Meredith Stewart Reimer '95  meredithreimer@gmail.com and Leslie K Segal '95  lSegal@LaurelSchool.org
  
  REGISTER (Google Form)

• CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Kids Book Bank Drive / September 28 - October 10, 2025

  Live locally but can't join us to volunteer in person? We are hosting a book drive for the Cleveland Kids Book Bank. The mission of the Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank is to foster literacy and a love of reading by distributing free books to children through collaboration with community partners. Drop off new or good-quality, used children's books at Laurel's Lyman Campus between September 28 and October 10.  Books for early childhood through 3rd grade are especially needed. 
  
  Drop Off Location
  Laurel School
  1 Lyman Circle
  Shaker Heights, OH 44122
  
  Chairs: Meredith Stewart Reimer '95  meredithreimer@gmail.com and Leslie K. Segal '95  lSegal@LaurelSchool.org
  
  REGISTER: (Google Form) 

• COLUMBUS - Mid-Ohio Market Assistant / Saturday, September 27, 2025 / 9:00 am - Noon

  We will help support the various stations inside the Market, scanning groceries at the check-out stand, repackaging groceries into boxes after scanning, as well as helping deliver groceries to customer vehicles. Please wear weather-appropriate clothing. If there's a chance of rain, bring jackets and rainboots with you. Must be age 13 and up to participate.  

   

  Mid-Ohio Market Assistant (part of the Mid-Ohio Food Collective)

  https://mofc.org/ways-we-help/market/
  
  

  4041 Gantz Road

  Grove City, OH 43123

  Chair: Addair Levine • addairlevine4@gmail.com
  
  REGISTER (Google Form)

• NEW YORK CITY - Washington Square Park Community Clean Up / Saturday, October 11, 2025 / 9:30 -11:30 am

  Spend a Saturday morning giving back to the Park you love!
  
  

  We will weed, rake leaves, mulch, plant and do whatever is necessary to keep Washington Square Park clean, safe and beautiful. Please wear long pants, sturdy shoes, and gloves and bring a filled water bottle. Participants must be at least 14 years of age.  Anyone between 14 and 18 needs a guardian to sign the waiver. 

  
  Washington Square Park Community Clean Up
  https://washingtonsqpark.org/volunteer/
  Meet by the Park House, located by W. 4th St. and Sullivan St. (the south end of the park). There will be a table set up just east of the House. 

  
  Chair: Sara Hollabaugh Serbanoiu ‘13 • shollabaugh13@gmail.com

  
  REGISTER (Google Form)

• WASHINGTON, DC - Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens / Saturday, September 27, 2025 / 9:00 am - Noon

  Be a volunteer and help celebrate National Public Lands Day at the only national park site devoted to cultivated water-loving plants! 
  
  We will participate in a variety of park stewardship activities including invasive plant removal, litter collection, flower bed weeding, trail maintenance and more. Some activities involve working in shallow ponds (wear rain boots!). This event will happen rain or shine so please dress accordingly and plan to be outside. All ages, friends and family are welcome.
  
  Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
  https://kenaqgardens.org/
  1550 Anacostia Avenue Northeast
  Washington, DC 20019
  
  Register directly on the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens website
  

  https://kenaqgardens.org/get-involved/volunteer/

  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/927-natl-public-lands-day-volunteer-event-at-kenilworth-aquatic-gardens-registration-1549378275129

  
  Chair: Jen Beeson Gregory '88  beesonic55@gmail.com