Community Service

Fitchburg Volunteer Directory

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I’m often asked “How can I get more involved and volunteer in the City?”…and rather than come up with ideas on the fly—- I figured I’d create this volunteer directory to direct residents to :)
Scroll down for the directory.
If you have an organization or suggestion to add… please email me using this form below:


Fitchburg Volunteer Directory

 

City Cleanups / Litter Cleanups / Garden Cleanups

Gateway Park Community Garden is Fitchburg’s first and only public community garden open to all Fitchburg residents. Created in 2012, the garden serves as an open area for local residents to grow their own vegetables and flowers, and for visitors to enjoy.

19 Sheldon St, Fitchburg

Would you like a garden bed or want to volunteer for a clenaup? Contact Josiah Richards at josiahwr@gmail.com or 617-306-3840

Take Action to Prevent and Clean Up Litter in Our Community.

Email Keepfitchburgbeautiful@gmail.com to be added to the email volunteer list or go to keepfitchburgbeautiful.com for more info & to donate to the cause.


Food


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https://lasagnalove.org/volunteer/

Feed families, spread kindness, strengthen communities

Put Your Cooking Skills to Use: If you love to cook and want to support your families in your community, consider becoming a lasagna chef. You can get the whole family involved and join our kindness project.

 

Pets / Animals / Dogs

Fitchburg Dog Park

The Friends of Fitchburg DOGS, Inc is a 501c3 nonprofit that supports regional animal welfare and our dog park in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
We assist with local Therapy Pets organizations, help organize low-cost vaccine and microchip clinics, and host fun community events for our pet parents around the Fitchburg and Leominster Mass area. Our organization is 100% volunteer run.

fitchburgdogpark@gmail.com


Disaster Services

The American Red Cross, through its strong network of volunteers, donors and partners, is always there in times of need.

https://www.redcross.org/local/massachusetts.html

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Civil Air Patrol

Gocivilairpatrol.com Volunteer within emergency management services, search and rescues, and more.


Worcester Squadron

https://worcestercadetsquadron.weebly.com/

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The Fitchburg Emergency Management Agency is the city agency responsible for coordinating state, local, volunteer, and private resources during emergencies and disasters as well as assist both the fire and police departments in the City of Fitchburg

fitchburgema@gmail.com

 

Kids

The Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster engages youth, ages 8-18 in innovative educational and recreational programming.

Volunteer as a tutor!
Interested applicants must complete a CORI, SORI, and First Advantage National Background check.

For additional information, please contact Kelly Hartnett at khartnett@bgcfl.org.

 

Media

FATV's mission is to provide equipment, training and channel time to members of the Fitchburg community for the purpose of building community, empowering the individual, and ensuring First Amendment expression through the utilization of television/media technology.

Join FATV and Volunteer on a show or live events as a camera operator, director, audio engineer, video editor etc!
FATV staff will teach you the skills you need for volunteering or even starting a career in multimedia.
Email: contact@fatv.org

 

Education

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Literacy Volunteers of the Montachusett Area

There are many ways to volunteer with Literacy Volunteers of the Montachusett Area: you can become a tutor, help in a citizenship class, help in a conversation class, serve on a committee, or become a member of the board of directors.

Devereux CARES COOKIE Inauguration

On Friday Councilor Walsh & myself attended the Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health CARES MA CARES Cookie Inauguration to swear in the newly elected school cookie.

The students did an election and voting for their School Cookie--- CHOCOLATE CHIP FOR THE WIN! Sugar Cookie came in second They even got Chocolate Chip cookies from the new Pammy’s Place on Airport Rd near Legends Grille & Sports Bar to give to all the students---and I ate one and it was amazing by the way...huge chocolate chunks and chewy.

Meaningful and fun learning experience for all of the students. Thank you CARES Team!

Franklin Road Community meeting

👋 Just got out of our 2 hr Franklin Road Community meeting; had 45 attendees including the Chief of Police, Lt Howe, Traffic Sergeant Boudreau, DPW Commissioner Bosenetto, Councilors Beauchemin & DiNatale, and 3 of the 4 candidates for Ward 3 councilor.
📢 With so many residents of the area; we were able to have great discussions on concerns and potential solutions...with the DPW and FPD weighing in on solutions and issues as well. Here are some of the data:
🚧 On Franklin Rd between Depot and Fifth Mass Tpke, the yearly traffic count is estimated at 884k cars
🚌 The 85th pct for speed is between 38 and 40 mph...generally speaking.
🚧 on Franklin from Hurd to Fifth Mass, within the past 5 years there have been 105 traffic accidents...most of which were not weather related (though many are).
➡️ The Chief noted this was the largest community meeting he's attended in his 5 years as chief :) ... and they urged the residents that they are actively making the speeding concerns on Franklin a focus.
We have a number of suggestions and potential solutions to work through... and I'll report back here with any updates.
👍 A big thank you to Great Wolf Lodge for accommodating our meeting so close to our residents, and thank you to the residents for helping get the word out to their neighbors!

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Mount Wachusett Community College's Career panel

Great to join in again this year for Mount Wachusett Community College's Career panel event today... I joined as one of 20 professionals representing a variety of career pathways....mine being Architectural Building Design & Engineering. 🏗🏘🕋
More than fifty Gateway to College students were in attendance and we got to speak to many on 8 minute speed dating esque rotations 😂. Great format. Thanks David Thibault-muñoz for putting this together to share our stories with students in your program 📚

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BF Brown topping off ceremony - Fitchburg Arts Community

So excited to attend the BF Brown topping off ceremony this morning at Fitchburg Art Museum! They installed the first roof truss---ready to rebuild into the new Fitchburg Arts Community with NewVue Communities!
The Police Chief and I compared our BF Yearbooks.... & we were both on Student Council =D
Incredible showing of community support...including our outgoing Congresswoman Niki Tsongas! I'm so excited to see this project transform and yet preserve my Alma mater.

FHS at LHS Thanksgiving Game

Our rivalry game was featured on WBZ | CBS Boston 11pm news  :) 
Here's my favorite D 'Fence' crew and I on the news!
Watch the segment here: https://boston.cbslocal.com/video/3982396-another-large-high-school-rivalry-football-game-played-wednesday-night/?fbclid=IwAR0oXIgM_5MXndp0L6sKc2Yt2WMREkS4R6DXEbdt-nx2KP9Z9PXzdBzw-8c

Congrats to Leominster on their Thanksgiving game victory 36-0...