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Be a part of HandsOn Greater Richmond Day!

On Saturday, October 16th, join over 1,000 of your friends & neighbors for the third annual HandsOn Day. Transform our community by volunteering at one of over 40 nonprofits, city parks, and schools. Projects include park clean-up and restoration, housing rehab for elderly citizens, arts and crafts with children, and many, many more.

Seeking projects for HandsOn Day 2010

HandsOn Greater Richmond is looking for projects to include in HandsOn Day 2010. The deadline for submissions is July 19, 2010. Last year HandsOn Day attracted over 1000 volunteers to assist with 42 projects, and we’re planning on the same response this fall. We will connect your organization to a volunteer team ready to paint, [...]

Today was a great HandsOn Greater Richmond Day

More than 1,000 volunteers signed up for 40 service projects that all took place today as part of HandsOn Greater Richmond 2009, including projects at Armstrong High School and Bellevue Elementary. RVA Tweets has a running commentary from the day. The HandsOn Youtube page will be collecting video from the day and the HandsOn Flickr [...]

Can you give 5 hours next weekend?

The 2nd HandsOn Greater Richmond Day is just over a week out and the volunteer opportunity at Armstrong High School still needs 13 volunteers. Can you give 5 hours towards a project that will have a daily positive impact on the students at the school?

HandsOn Day at Armstrong still needs volunteers

Hands on Greater Richmond Day, a day of volunteer action across the city, will be held on Saturday, October 17. One of the local projects, cafeteria beautification at Armstrong High School, still needs volunteers. Please consider signing up for this or one of the other 40+ projects scheduled for that day.

Volunteer locally for HandsOn Day 2009

One of the more than 40 service projects set for HandsOn Day 2009 will be Cafeteria Beautification at Armstrong High School. Volunteer now to help out on Saturday, October 17, 2009. Much thanks to everyone that has already filled out the crew that’ll be working at Bellevue Elementary!

Be the change.

Vanessa “Big Momma” Diamond was on wtvr recently talking about HandsOn Greater Richmond, the site that hooks folks up with all sorts of volunteer opportunities. HandsOn Day 2009 is Saturday, October 17, 2009 — will you be one of the 1000 volunteers?

Get involved on MLK Day

Hands On Greater Richmond is working to make MLK Day a ‘Day On’ instead of a day off. A wide range of service projects will take place in the Richmond area on the weekend of MLK Day of Service, from Saturday, January 17th, through Monday, January 19th, including a project helping to cut, transport, and [...]

Hands On Greater Richmond Day will benefit Chimborazo Park

Hands On Greater Richmond, which challenges individuals to “Be the Change,” has chosen Chimborazo Park as its signature project for its first Hands On Greater Richmond Day, Oct. 18. The park, which recently became home to the City’s newest dog park, will now benefit from the help of approximately 100 volunteers from Target department stores [...]

Hands On Richmond seeking volunteers for Chimbo

On Saturday the 18th of October, Hands On Richmond will be partnering with Friends of Chimborazo for a work day in Chimborazo Park. Hands On is bringing between 80 to 100 volunteers from Target stores to the park to perform clean up projects and are hoping that at least 25 volunteers from the neighborhood come [...]

Hands On Greater Richmond sets day of action

Hands On Greater Richmond is organizing a day of community action on Saturday, October 18th and wants you to “imagine how much better Richmond could be if we all spent just 5 hours doing something together for the community.”

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