We are now Serve the City Peninsula! This change should be transparent to all of you (if we have done things correctly 😉) for all of our web and social media presences. Why the change and what does it mean? We are making the [...]
Three years ago Serve the City Newport News held its first event down at Newport Harbor Apartments and the surrounding area. Over 150 volunteers came out for that first event and since then we’ve held three Big [...]
Before the bloom fades on New Year’s resolutions we would like you to consider one more to add to your list: do an act of kindness each and every day for the next 30 days! Think of it as a “kindness starts with [...]
A video segment featuring Serve the City Newport News aired today on 13News Now (WVEC) during their morning news program and during their evening broadcast. Here is the link to the video on the 13News Now YouTube channel: [...]
It’s a wrap! The 3rd and best Big Volunteer Week! Thanks to fabulous Sue Grimes for all the job coordinating, our amazing project leaders, and our many, many wonderful volunteers. 135 individuals combined to volunteer over [...]
The Newport News Department of Human Services today named Serve the City Newport News the recipient of their Partner of the Year Award in recognition of our work in transforming two cold and sterile family visitation rooms [...]
Serve the City Global Volunteer Day (May 4th) in Newport News saw 23 volunteers making an impact on the elderly, disabled, and refugees. We painted, we cleaned, we played bingo, and we made craft kits for ESL camps this [...]
On Thursday February 7th, 2019 Serve the City partnered with Summit Christian Academy for a beautiful day of service! There was painting (of course), BINGO with the elderly, breakfast for the homeless, clearing out an [...]
It is so simple but has such a huge impact. BINGO is now a monthly event at Sprately House, a public-housing, assisted-living facility. These ladies (and gents) look forward to this time of fun, prizes, painted finger [...]
Hot summer days and church youth groups go together like hamburgers and hot dogs! Summer 2018 saw Serve the City host a special project week for youth groups from Parkview Baptist and Ivy Baptist Churches. A little porch [...]
They wanted a safe, welcoming environment where broken families could come together and maybe heal just a little bit. So this summer we partnered with Newport News Human Services to create such a space, transforming two cold [...]
The benefit of school gardens on student attitudes towards learning and healthy eating are well documented and thanks to some designated donations this year we had the opportunity to partner with Newsome Park Elementary to [...]
A big thanks to all of you who volunteered for the 2nd Annual Serve the City Newport News Big Volunteer Week. We added a sizeable chunk of the southeast community to our service area for home repair for the elderly and [...]
May 5th 2018 marked the first ever Serve the City Global Volunteer Day. Serve the City Newport News joined 19 other cities around the world, from Nepal to Honduras, in projects that day. We helped at the first 2018 [...]
From young to old we had 32 people participating in our Spring Serve Event, picking up trash in southeast Newport News. All together we picked up 20 large bags of trash in just 2 hours! Thank you Downing-Gross Cultural Arts [...]
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