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Projects for October 21, 2025

sign-up for a 2025 project To participate in a project on October 22nd, please view the projects below and complete the volunteer sign-up form. Only a limited number of volunteers are needed for each project, so make sure you sign-up early. Please note that some projects are reserved for specific classes and/or organizations.

Local School Projects

Carl Perkins Center

Cleaning and organizing

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 10
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Community Montessori School

Campus clean up

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 20
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Hands Up! Preschool

We will need help with putting equipment on playground. Dig holes, using cement, putting outdoor tiles, using drill to fix equipment.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 15
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
JCM Early College High

Laying pavers, raking, mulching, trimming shrubs, landscaping

  • Length: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 20
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
JMCSS

School improvements - organization and cleaning. More details to come. We are asking our teachers for our greatest needs and will plan from there.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 10
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Local Church Projects

Northbrook Church

Yard work and building maintenance

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 12
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Non-profit Organization Projects

Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Tennessee-Humboldt Unit

Finish painting gym, paint the trim in the building, paint the outside equipment, replace basketball nets on tennis court, and clean off tennis court, cut and trim bushes and remove debris.

  • Length: 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 20
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Carl Perkins Center Child Advocacy Center

Interior deep cleaning and outside refresh of landscaping

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 8
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Madison County Foster Parent Association

Sorting the foster closet donations

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  • Max Size: 12
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
RIFA

Various opps throughout the building including Soup Kitchen, Thrift Store, Donations Processing, Food Sorting, etc.

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 55
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
The Center for Just and Caring Communities (CJCC) and Helping Professionals Reaching Out (HPRO)

The Jackson chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) will host a "Bed Build" day. Their mission is that "no child sleeps on the floor in our town." It has been decided that the bed build activities will take place on campus, but the exact location has not been determined yet. We will be building twin-sized beds for children in West TN who do not have a bed. SHP works with DCS, foster agencies, etc. to identify the families in need and then deliver the beds to them. We will only be assembling the beds. Water and snacks will be provided.

  • Length: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 100
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Other Projects

BIOME

Cypress Grove Nature Park, trash pick-up

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 30
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
History Department and Phi Alpha Theta

Liberty Garden Park Landscaping

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 25
  • Team Leader: Keith Bates (dkbates@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Jones Suite faculty

I'd like to power wash the mildew and discoloration off the brick on the outside of the PAC by the D hallway, J hallway

  • Length: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 8
  • Team Leader: Phil Davignon (pdavignon@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Union Arboretum

We plan to transplant a couple of trees, plant some new trees, work on teaching garden maintenance and mulch arboretum trees.

  • Length: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Max Size: 15
  • Team Leader: Pending (Pending)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio
Union University Library

Mrs. Angela Womack cleans the Logos Mondays-Fridays, but she is stretched very thin in our 53,616 square feet of space. We would love some volunteers to come to the Logos that day and do some cleaning: dusting around ceiling vents and on top of the shelving units, cleaning the white boards in the study rooms, removing writing utensils from the ceiling fixtures, and possibly straightening book shelves. Angela never has the opportunity to get to these needs.

  • Length: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  • Max Size: 6
  • Team Leader: Melissa Moore (mmoore@uu.edu)
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

If you have any questions, please contact us at campusandcommunity@uu.edu.