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.
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. Donation amounts vary based on the size of group and the project supply costs.
We are thankful for our partner’s dedication and support 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:
Erika Lim at
ELim@citizensnyc.org
or 212-822-9568
New yorkers at work
Erica Christensen
Director, Community Affairs
CA Technologies
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.
Chris Ruggeri
Principal
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Volunteering Opportunities
Season
Project
Volunteers needed
Neighborhood
Winter 2019
P.S. 197 King Highway Academy
Reorganize and clean closets10-15
- Brooklyn
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
P.S. 197 Kings Highway Academy is enhancing its afterschool and weekend programs for underserved and immigrant families through music education. Students are taking part in a series of performances for their families and other community members. This project is improving educational outcomes and social emotional development of students who are challenged by language barriers.
Location:
1599 East 22 Street
Directions:
Take the B / Q train to Kings Highway, walk 9 minutes
Winter 2019
Lefferts Community Food Cooperative
Cleaning, and painting20-25
- Brooklyn
- Prospect Lefferts Gardens
The mission of Lefferts Community Food Cooperative is to sell fresh, wholesome foods and products of the highest quality for the lowest price possible through cooperative member work in Brooklyn, NY. It believes that high quality, fresh food should not be sold for profit and should be available to everyone for at the lowest price. By working together, Lefferts Community Food Cooperative believes the community can become more socially and economically invested in the neighborhood.
Location:
324 Empire Boulevard
Directions:
Take the 2 / 5 train to Sterling Street, walk 2 minutes
P. S. 97 The Highlawn School challenges students through its arts and technology infused cirriculum, which embraces a multicultural, multi-lingual community and allows its students to become world citizens and passionate leaders
Location:
1855 Stillwell Avenue
Directions:
Take the D train to 25th Avenue, walk 5 minutes
P.S. 23 is a Title I school in Bed-Stuy, serving many students who are currently homeless. The school used Citizens Committee's support to create a courtyard garden.
Location:
545 Willoughby Avenue
Directions:
Take the G train to Myrtle - Willoughby Avenue, walk 12 minutes
Winter 2019
P.S. 4K
Painting, organizing, remodeling20-40
- Brooklyn
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
P.S. 4K is a District 75 school which is comprised of students with various disabilities with the majority of the students being diagnosed with autism. Students who are diagnosed with autism have a variety of needs that need to be met throughout the school day. School teachers and paraprofessionals collaborate with the team of physical and occupational therapists here in order to help the children function independently. The needs of the student are individualized to each child and range from gross motor, vestibular, fine motor, and integrating senses appropriately for students to optimize their learning environment.
Location:
990 Dekalb Avenue
Directions:
Take the J / M / Z train to Myrtle Avenue, walk 6 minutes
Winter 2019
P 373K Brooklyn Transition Center
cleaning, organization, light construction30-40
- Brooklyn
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
P 373K Brooklyn Transition Center is a Title I public school dedicated to providing alternate education to students with developmental disabilities. Its mission is to create a community of life-long learners where students, parents and staff are actively engaged in developing essential skills for self-determination, independent living and employment in order to maximize the chances that each student will be able to successfully handle the multi-faceted demands of adulthood leading to higher degrees of personal fulfillment.
Location:
185 Ellery Street
Directions:
Take the J / M train to Flushing Avenue
Winter 2019
Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (Wheels NYC)
Mentoring students by providing interview tips10-30
- Manhattan
- Washington Heights
Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS NYC) is a public school serving pre-k to 3rd graders as well as 6th to 12th graders in Washington Heights. In previous years, it has received a grant from Citizens Committee to start a rock climbing after school program to encourage physical activity, as well as a grant to show a production of Hairspray to the greater community, which was a student-led project fostering leadership, management, and organizing skills and exposing students to the history of social movements and peaceful resistance. This year, WHEELS NYC is receiving a grant to involve high school students in research and awareness of organizing and community-building strategies from AfroLatino activists, educators, and community leaders in New York City and Lima (Peru), which they will teach to fellow teenage activists in New York City Latino communities.
Location:
511 West 182nd Street
Directions:
Take the 1 train to 181st Street, walk 3 minutes or take the A train to 181st Street, walk 9 minutes
P.S. 65's mission is to make all learners academically prepared, respectful and capable of using their learning to succeed in life and be positive contributors to their school and community. The school has approximately 430 students ranging from PreK – 5th grade. Unique to the school, they have a departmentalized instruction delivery model for students between 2nd and 5th grade where teachers teach only one or two content areas to the entire grade, allowing them to become subject matter experts. At the end of a content lesson, the students will physically change classrooms for another teacher to teacher a different content lesson.
Location:
677 East 141st Street
Directions:
Take the 6 train to Cypress Avenue, walk 4 minutes
Spring/Summer 2019
MYRTLE VILLAGE GREEN GARDEN
Planting, garden maintenance, installation15-20
- Brooklyn
- Clinton Hill
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:
638 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn
Directions:
Take the G train to Classon avenue, walk 8 minutes
