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April Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
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April Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for April. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 9am - 3pm
Location: Daisy Park on Newstead Ave
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: Come help clean and beautify Daisy Park!
Call to Volunteer: (314) 305-0430
Friday, April 15, 2022
Time: 1 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Grand Center, Olive from Grand to Spring
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Grand Center Arts District invites you to the first of three cleanups we will have this year! All of our amazing neighbors and district organizations are welcome to help tidy up part of the neighborhood as we spring into warmer weather.
Email to Volunteer: shannon@grandcenter.org
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Time: 9:00 am- Noon
Location: 2700 N 13th Street
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: Litter and debris pickup along streets, alleys, and vacant properties, overgrowth clearing, tree planting, and community garden spring work in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood
Email to Volunteer: matt@onsl.org
Friday, April 22, 2022
Time: 12:30 - 2:30
Location: Hodiamont Track/ Sarah and Taylor
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Pick up litter along the Hodiamont Tracks to prepare for Green Way construction.
Email to Volunteer: nurseauby@mail.com
Friday, April 22, 2022
Time: 9 am to noon
Location: 3900 to 4200 Lafayette
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: We will be cleaning along Lafayette Ave and the highway right of way weeds trash and over growth.
Email to Volunteer: burkepatrick12@yahoo.com
Friday, April 22, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Tower Grove South
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Calling all Tower Grove South dwellers! Join Circa Properties on Earth Day 2022 for a neighborhood clean-up project.
Email to Volunteer: gennie@circastl.com
Friday, April 22, 2022
Time: 5-7PM
Location: Cherokee Street
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Pick up trash. Meet your neighbors. Clean up your community. Have some beer. Make some friends. Probably in that order.
Join Cherokee Street for Trashy Hour, an event that combines beautifying the streets and happy hour!
This special Earth Day edition of Trashy Hour will take place on Friday, April 22nd at 5:00PM and will start with a beautification walk through the Cherokee Street Commercial District. After we’ve picked up all that we can, we’ll meet up at Earthbound Beer for celebratory drinks.
Email to Volunteer: emily@cherokeestreet.com
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Time: 1:00pm-2:30
Location: Thomas Dunn Learning Center
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: We want to go around to help and make the area that we live around to make it look cleaner and nicer so that people can be happy to be living here and walk around here.
Email to Volunteer: peggy@tdunn.org
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Time: 9-12
Location: St. Louis Riverfront
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Volunteers are invited to join us to clean up the St. Louis Riverfront.
Come dressed ready for the weather in clothes that can get dirty.
Be sure to sign up here: https://archpark.volunteerhub.com/event/becde71a-3666-4950-9a0b-6d685b5cf7f8
Email to Volunteer: meagan.patterson@archpark.org
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Time: 8 am 12 pm
Location: 3200 Potomac St
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Please help clean up our alleys of the Gravois Park neighborhood. No tools need just bring yourself!
Email to Volunteer: kirstenpetty79@gmail.com
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Time: Fairground Neighborhood Annual Earth Day
Location: 3948 W Florissant
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: FNRO Annual Earth Day Cleanup and Beautification area alleys streets and Native Garden
Email to Volunteer: lillie.clay@att.net
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Time: 10-11am
Location: Lindenwood Park
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: There will be a Trash for Charity trash pick up in Lindenwood Park on Saturday, April 23, from 10-11am. For each person who attends, $10 will be given to the Ronald McDonald House of St. Louis, courtesy of Pietro's Restaurant.
Email to Volunteer: ajdxt4@yahoo.com
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Time: 4-7
Location: Mission: St. Louis 3108 N Grand Blvd
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: Not sure what that is yet.
Email to Volunteer: claudine.johnson@purina.nestle.com
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Time: 10-12
Location: 5570 South Broadway
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Please join in to spruce up the wonderful Bellerive & Sister Marie Charles Parks on the Mississippi River for the monthly COBS Parks Birders Club or other Community of Bellerive & Sister Marie Charles (COBS) Parks events and for all to enjoy!
To learn more: cobsparks2@gmail.com
Email to Volunteer: cobsparks2@gmail.com
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Time: 8:00am-12:00pm
Location: O'Fallon Park, Tucker Ave, Carondelet Park, Dakota Park, Germania Ave, Bike trails, Adelaide Ave
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: We will be picking up trash through a large swath of the city on a coordinated basis with State Reps Anderson and Butz. The goal is to start on the northside and on the southside finishing near downtown St. Louis.
Email to Volunteer: steve.butz@house.mo.gov
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