MLK Joint Day of Service
Saturday, January 14, 2023 | 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Cal Turner Family Center, on the campus of Meharry Medical College
Volunteers must be 18+ in age
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Volunteers from American Baptist College, Belmont, Fisk, Lipscomb, Meharry, Nashville State, Tennessee State University, Trevecca and Vanderbilt, as well as other area colleges and universities will join in honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by volunteering together for the 12th Annual MLK Joint Day of service!
Schedule
| 10:30 - 11:45 AM | Event Sign-In/Registration and Lunch |
| 12 PM - 12:45 PM: | General Program with Video & Speaker |
| 1:00 PM | Depart for Service Sites |
| 1:30 - 3:30 PM: | Service at Community Partner Sites |
| 4:00 - 4:30 PM: | Closing Reflection and Prize Drawings |
Projects
(list is not exhaustive and is subject to change)
| Organization | Project |
|
Feed the Children |
Packing Food and Personal Care Items for Families in Need |
|
Heartbound Ministries |
Cards of encouragement for incarcerated individuals, prison chaplains and bookmarks for children of incarcerated individuals |
|
Hope Kids |
Equipment Inventory |
|
Community ALERT |
Create Care Packages for Nashville General Hospital Patients |
|
Kipp Academy |
Organize closets, storage and supply rooms |
|
Trevecca University Urban Farm |
Tree Planting |
|
Harvest Hands |
Playground cleaning, adjacent storage cleaning, painting classrooms |
|
Greater Nashville Regional Council |
Valentines Letters to Seniors |
|
STARS Nashville |
Plan and Record Social Media Campaign regarding top mental/physical/emotional concerns or young adults |
|
Pass the Beauty |
Handpainting ceiling tiles with words of encouragement. |
|
Project Transformation |
Helping with book coding and event preparation |
|
Nashville Zoo |
Stream Clean-up (waterproof shoes a must!) |
|
Preston Taylor Ministries |
Outdoor and/or indoor cleaning and organizing |
|
Hope on the Row |
Notes of Encouragement for Nashville's homeless |
|
Nashville Chess Center |
Facilitate MLK Day Youth Chess Tournament |
If your agency would like to submit a service project for this day, click here.
For more information, contact Tim Stewart, tim.stewart@belmont.edu, 615-460-5431.