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Panther Service Day


We need YOU to help make Panther Service Day a success! We will be sending over 200 Panthers out into the community to help complete 2-hour service projects for local non-profits like Ashmore Community, Douglas Hart Nature Preserve, and Hazel Anne Farms!! Help us make our community stronger! Register by April 5 to guarantee yourself a spot!

This annual day of volunteering and service began in 2003 when EIU Student Government initiated an effort to improve the relationship between EIU students and the citizens of Charleston through the encouragement of acts of volunteerism and service in the community.

PSD 2024 will take place on Saturday, April 13 in the morning. Check-in will be at 9:15 am in McAfee North Gym. All projects will be back on campus by 12:30 pm. Transportation will be provided for all participants. See descriptions of projects below. 

Individual Volunteers: CLICK HERE to register for all events! Just look for the projects that say “Panther Service Day.”

Group Volunteers (Teams of 5 volunteers or More): Please CLICK HERE to register your group today! 

Panther Service Day Volunteer Options

 

  • 5 Mile House: General clean-up in the yard, garden, house, and barn. Possibly some painting/paint scraping and spreading mulch.
  • Choices Pregnancy & Health: Spring cleaning inside, sorting through donations, outside work including painting, cleaning, and yard work.
  • Community Aid - Ashmore: Ashmore is a small and rural community located just east of Charleston.  Although small, Ashmore is full of hardworking, community-focused people.  You will be working outside planting flowers, cleaning up the local park, painting picnic benches, helping wash the fire trucks, and more!
  • Douglas Hart Nature Center: Volunteers are invited to join Douglas Hart in helping the Earth. Leaders will help you with trail cleanup, planting trees, removing invasive plants like honeysuckle bushes, and improving the forest at the Douglas Hart Nature Center. We recommend wearing long pants and closed-toed shoes as pending good weather, you will be working outdoors. 
  • Fit-2-Serve: Helping expand the garden to include a vine portion. This will require garden bed prep and cage installation for vine plants. Installing an irrigation system. At headquarters, creating a sensory garden. Closed-toed shoes and dirty clothes are recommended.
  • Hazel Anne Farm: is a local farm that helps support organizations dealing with hunger, and food insecurity, which is why we like to help them out when we can! Volunteers will be spreading mulch and prepping for the summer growing season. Closed-toed shoes and work/winter gloves are strongly recommended!
  • Whiteside Garden: Volunteers will be working in the garden doing weeding, spring garden prep, and other hands-on projects.

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Contact Information

Leadership & Engagement

Eastern Illinois University
MLK Jr. Union 3rd Floor
Charleston, IL 61920
217-581-3967
volunteer@eiu.edu


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