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Community gardens across Anchorage are calling for volunteer helpers to prepare growing spaces for summer planting season. The Parks and Recreation department is hosting quick cleanup events to get gardens ready after a long winter.
Volunteers in Owensboro let themselves get "locked up" to help people fighting addiction. The playful fundraiser brought in $5,000 more than expected for a life-changing recovery program.
Dozens of volunteers traveled to rural Arizona to rebuild ponds and create new wetlands for the endangered Chiricahua leopard frog. Their hands-on restoration work is giving these rare amphibians a fighting chance at survival.
A team of volunteers in Pennsylvania is keeping thousands of pounds of plastic boat wrap out of landfills and turning it into useful products instead. The Wallenpaupack Watershed Warriors have already rescued more than 8,700 pounds of shrink wrap since April.
Federal health workers are raising their hands to protect Americans by volunteering for Ebola screening duties at U.S. entry points. The response shows public health professionals stepping forward when their country needs them most.
Thirty-eight volunteers, including company employees and their families, planted trees in fire-damaged areas of Cyprus using innovative water-saving technology. All trees from a previous planting effort survived, proving the method works.
After six years of renovations, Salt Lake City's iconic temple will welcome public tours for the first time in 134 years. Thousands of volunteers needed to help share this historic moment with visitors from around the world.
A Scottish island community packed the local lifeboat station for the annual RNLI fundraiser, showing strong support for volunteer sea rescuers. The cake and coffee morning drew crowds who enjoyed sunshine, treats, and supporting a vital cause.
Every winter morning, volunteers scan Florida's coastline with binoculars, searching for one of Earth's rarest creatures. Their efforts are helping protect the last 380 North Atlantic right whales from extinction.
A Wisconsin wolf dog sanctuary just opened a special volunteer training room that's making it safer and easier for animal lovers to help. The "Last Legacy Room" gives volunteers hands-on experience before working with the powerful animals.
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A 180-foot medieval chalk figure of a naked warrior is getting a facelift in Dorset, England, thanks to 300 volunteers hand-packing 19 tons of chalk to make it glow white again. The Cerne Abbas Giant has been maintained the same way for centuries, but climate change is making the work harder than ever.
Southeast Raleigh High School football players are trading the gridiron for greens, joining 750+ volunteers making the UNC Health Championship possible. The experience is teaching them leadership lessons that stretch far beyond sports.
Since 1990, volunteers at Animal Adoptions of Flamborough have been giving abandoned cats and dogs a second chance at happiness. The no-kill shelter runs entirely on donations and depends on community volunteers to keep its doors open.
The Grand Canyon Synod is calling for volunteers to help set up and tear down their June assembly space. Small acts of service are making this gathering of faith communities possible.
At Seattle's airport, 300 volunteers create a home away from home for young service members heading overseas—many just 18 and traveling alone for the first time. Their round-the-clock dedication ensures no soldier waits alone in an empty terminal.
A small town in Saskatchewan is rallying behind families affected by cystic fibrosis, with youth bakers and community volunteers kicking off a week of heartfelt fundraising. Their efforts are building connections that organizers say matter just as much as the dollars raised.
Volunteers served free hot dogs, coffee, and kindness to hundreds of residents at Midland's town dock as part of a 14-year tradition celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Day. The community event, complete with live music and face painting, encourages residents to pay forward simple acts of goodwill.
After a holiday weekend left a beloved Shropshire valley buried in trash, dozens of volunteers stepped up to restore the natural beauty. Their quick response shows how community action can protect the places we love.
Hundreds of volunteers will spend two weeks building affordable homes in Spokane Valley, marking a quarter-century of community-powered construction. The milestone event shows how neighbors can come together to solve the housing crisis one family at a time.
Volunteers are giving Britain's famous 55-meter chalk figure a fresh coating after wetter winters started dulling its iconic outline. The National Trust raised £330,000 to protect the landmark and its surrounding wildlife habitat.
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