News & Past Events

Join Serve the City as we celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2021.  We typically think of Serve the City as an organization that just meets the needs of people and maybe picks up some trash.  While environmental issues affect [...]

That’s right, 4 years ago today we held our very first event with over 150 volunteers.  Since then almost 3000 people have volunteered over 9000 hours doing small things to make a big difference on the Peninsula.

The team at Serve the City Peninsula is proud to share with you our 2020 Annual Report.  In a year of challenge it is amazing what was accomplished.  Whether you were a volunteer, a donor, or both we couldn’t have done [...]

March 1st was World Zero Discrimination Day.  Zero Discrimination Day is an annual day celebrated each year by the United Nations and other international organizations. The day aims to promote equality before the law and in [...]

Serve the City Peninsula has once again earned Guidestar’s Gold Seal of Transparency! GuideStar Seals of Transparency indicate that a nonprofit has provided key information to its GuideStar profile that shows commitment [...]

It was a sunny but cold morning for our volunteers who helped deliver food from the Peninsula Foodbank to the residents of Berkley Village. Your efforts were much appreciated by both the Foodbank and the residents!  Thanks [...]

Because of rain, and lots of it, it took two weekends but our February BVD is in the books.  We sorted good for those coming out of homelessness, wrote notes of encouragement, and moved a lot of debris (we filled 2 large [...]

On January 24th, 25 volunteers came out to help clean-up Elmerton Cemetery.  With teams lead by some of our intrepid CNU  students, STCP and all the other organizations that volunteer  here are one step closer to making it [...]

Thanks to Warwick Mechanical Group, STC Peninsula now has a truck worthy of pulling our trailer!  WMG saw our goal for Giving Tuesday to raise enough money to buy a used truck and decided they could fill that need directly by [...]

We have the best volunteers! After spending a couple hours out in the snow and cold of Berkley Village delivering food to residents for the Peninsula Foodbank, how do they respond after we thank them… [...]

It may be the shortest month but the global STC community is celebrating World Days twice in February!  On February 13th we will be celebrating the first ever STC World Day of Love in Action.  Coinciding with our BVD, you can [...]

Almost 90 people braved the chill January weather to volunteer for the Foodbank, our Big Volunteer Day (which was at Elmerton Cemetery), and our regular Elmerton Cemetery project – what a way to start off the New Year!! [...]

Because of your many gifts, both large and small, we more than doubled our goal of $15,000 and ended the year on a strong financial footing going into 2021. And to put a little icing on that cake we also received a donation [...]

We haven’t been able to play BINGO since February but we wanted to let our senior friends at Sprately House know that we are thinking about them. So, on sunny December afternoon we delivered some goodie Christmas bags [...]

On December 8th we once again visited Berkley Village to help the Peninsula Foodbank deliver boxes of food to some seniors in need.  Our many CNU volunteers were already home for the holidays so our own 50+ got out there on a [...]

December is a month for catching up on a few odd jobs.  Recently our youngest volunteer and some of our older ones wrapped up a little painting project at Operation Breaking Through.  Thanks for coming out on a sunny but cool [...]