The best thing about volunteering with Citizens is seeing a neighborhood or a school transform before your eyes - and knowing that you helped make it happen.
Love Your City Corporate Volunteer Opportunities
Lend a hand.
Citizens Committee's corporate volunteer days are a great way to show your company’s love for New York City while strengthening bonds among staff. From painting school murals to harvesting the season’s crop on urban farms, volunteers do rewarding work, all of which:
- Facilitate collaboration and cooperation
- Amplify corporate commitment to NYC communities
- Provide excellent photo and media opportunities
- Offer unique opportunities to help transform a community
Each volunteer event is planned in partnership with a company, maximizing the opportunity for team-building and ensuring that all details can be based around the group’s specific needs. Citizens Committee’s staff coordinates all of the logistics, including water, lunch or snacks, and photography.
We are thankful for our partner’s dedication and their donations that make these events possible. Citizens Committee has planned volunteer days for:
| Aetna | Capalino | iStar Financial | Santander |
| Alliance Bernstein | Capital One | JP Morgan Chase | Service Corps |
| Allied World Assurance | Catalyst Group, Inc. | Liberty International | Syncora |
| American Express | Columbia SPS | Lowe's | TD Bank |
| Analytic Partners | Corbin Capital Partners | Moody's | Temple Emanu-El |
| Aon | Deloitte | Morgan Stanley | United Health |
| Ashurst LLP | Deutsche Bank | MUFG | Universum Global |
| Bank of America | FIRST | National Grid | Verizon |
| BlackRock | Global Tech | Neuberger Berman | Wells Fargo |
| Blackstone | Goldman Sachs | OutCast | |
| Bloomingdale's | Ralph Lauren | ||
| Bridgespan Group | HSBC | Salesforce |
For more information about organizing a volunteer day for your company, please contact:
Andrew Rohrberger at
ARohrberger@citizensnyc.org
or 212-822-9555
New yorkers at work
Chris Ruggeri
Principal
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Volunteering at CA is a huge part of our culture, and working with Citizens Committee was rewarding for us on so many levels: we teamed up with local school children to help build one of NYC's first urban farms and had a great time while helping improve their community and raising environmental awareness.
Erica Christensen
Director, Community Affairs
CA Technologies
Volunteering Opportunities
Season
Project
Volunteers needed
Neighborhood
Spring 2018
Tilden-Rogers-Veronica Community Garden
Light construction, painting10-15
- Flatbush
- Brooklyn
Tilden-Rodgers-Veronica Community Garden, located in the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn, has brought neighbors together through urban farming and gardening projects since 1973. Volunteers will reinforce and elevate the tool shed and paint fixtures.
Project Harmony uses community gardens and programming to provide environmental awareness initiatives, improvement, education, action and beautification in Harlem. Volunteers will refresh and beautify tree pits with mulch and flowers.
Project Harmony uses community gardens and programming to provide environmental awareness initiatives, improvement, education, action and beautification in Harlem. Volunteers will rehabilitate an 8x100 ft. strip of community garden with fresh soil, mulching, and planting, as well as set up benches.
Spring 2018
P.S. 97 The Highlawn School
Reading, tutoring30-50
- Bensonhurst
- Brooklyn
PS 97, The Highlawn School, challenges students through its arts and technology infused curriculum, which embraces a multicultural, multi-lingual community and allows its students to become world citizens and passionate leaders. In groups of two or three, volunteers will read to students as part of Project Citizens, a school program that uses books to teach students values.
Location:
1855 Stillwell Ave., Brooklyn
Directions:
Take the D/N/F train to Kings Highway, walk 4 minutes
The Mandela Community Garden was founded in December of 2013 to commemorate Nelson Mandela and to perpetuate his legacy as an advocate of peaceful evolution. Members work together to foster civic involvement and community pride. Volunteers will plant native North American fruit trees in the garden.
Location:
242 West 123rd St., Manhattan
Directions:
Take the D, B, A, 2, or 3 train to 125th St.
Spring 2018
Melrose New Generation Community Garden
Light construction, gardening10-30
- Melrose
- Bronx
Melrose New Generation Community Garden was founded in 2012 following recommendations of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-obesity taskforce. The group provide healthy food and green space for residents. Volunteers will create seating area for the seniors by building and painting wooden chairs, re-stone the garden path, and plant bulbs around the gazebo.
Location:
377 E 160th St., Bronx
Directions:
Take the D train to 3 Av - 149 St , walk 12 minutes
Spring 2018
La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez
Garden and compost maintenance , planting6-16
- East Village
- Manhattan
Formed from vacant neighborhood lots in 1976 by local residents and green space advocates, La Plaza has served this community for more than 35 years as an open green community space, community garden, wildlife refuge, open air theater, community composting site, urban farm/community supported agricul-ture site, environmental education venue, and center for community interaction. Volunteers will perform garden maintenance, compost maintenance, and planting.
Location:
9th Ave. and Avenue C, Manhattan
Directions:
Take the 6 train to Astor Pl., walk 15 minutes
Spring 2018
P 373K Brooklyn Transition Center
Construction, gardening30-50
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
- Brooklyn
P 373K Brooklyn Transition Center is a Title I public school dedicated to providing alternate education to students with developmental disabilities. The school partners with Citizens Committee to teach practical sustainability and gardening skills. Volunteers will complete greenhouse construction by installing a door and roof, improve the sensory area with fresh ground cover, and perform general garden maintenance.
Location:
1855 Ellery St., Brooklyn
Directions:
Take the M train to Flushing Ave., walk 6 minutes.
Spring 2018
Jardin La Roca Garden
Light construction, gardening10-35
- Melrose
- Bronx
Jardin La Roca Garden provides a green, restful, beautiful, safe and congenial space for gardeners to garden, and for the community and its children to enjoy. The group has grown hundreds of pounds of food for locals and hosts numerous community events per year. Volunteers will build a retaining wall cover it with flowers, plant throughout the garden, and re-build the garden ramp.
Location:
160 Elton Ave., Bronx
Directions:
Take the 2 or 5 train to 3 Av - 149 St , walk 16 minutes
Spring 2018
Eastside Outside
Light construction, gardening10-20
- East Village
- Manhattan
East Side Outside is a school garden serving East Side Community School, a diverse, Title 1, progressive public middle and high school. In 2016, the school used a Citizens Committee grant to revitalize and renovate its outdoor space, developing a compost system and greenhouse project in the garden. Volunteers will create foundations and build a garden shed and swing trellis.
Location:
415 E. 11th St., Manhattan
Directions:
Take the 2/3/N/Q Train to 14th St. and walk 13 minutes
Spring 2018
West 132nd Street Community Garden
Planting, garden maintenance, installation5-10
- Harlem
- Manhattan
Established in 1993, the West 132nd Street Community Garden holds annual community events such as art exhibits, container garden workshops, bulb and plant giveaways, and volunteer events for special needs adults and juvenile offenders. Volunteers will line the inside of raised beds with plexiglas before planting fruits and vegetables, install soaker hose in the garden, repair the edge of the pond, install a solar powered pump and filter, and plant bulbs and flowers throughout the space.
Location:
108-114 W. 132nd St. , Manhattan
Directions:
Take the 2/3 to 135th St. and walk 5 minutes
