Service Opportunities
Cutter Scout Reservation Restoration
Grassroots Ecology
https://www.grassrootsecology.org/volunteer
We offer hands-on ways to learn about the natural world while making a positive impact. Volunteer with us to improve local ecosystems, or join a naturalist or community science event to explore nature in open spaces and urban places. We offer opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds, everyone is welcome.
Canopy
https://canopy.org/get-involved/
Our volunteers further our work in many unique ways. They help lead tree plantings, support free neighborhood tree walks, prune and stake mature trees, carry out young tree checkups, help with school-based environmental education, and amplify Canopy’s message to all segments of our communities.
Audubon
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
Several scouts have done projects building birdhouses for a local chapter of Audubon.
Camp Cutter Cleanup
Work with the PacSky team helping cleanup Camp Cutter. Current focus is chipping slash piles made by professional loggers.
Contact Scoutmaster to see if there are any scout-appropriate projects available.
Access Books Bay Area
https://accessbooksbayarea.org/volunteer/
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley
Start a Food Drive or Volunteer
Second Harvest is committed to doing whatever it takes to build a hunger-free community. That means distributing nutritious food to nearly every neighborhood in Silicon Valley, leveraging every available food resource, and collaborating with organizations and people who share our belief that hunger is unacceptable.
Youth Community Service
https://youthcommunityservice.org/do-service/
Youth Community Service actively works with youth and community leaders to engage in a wide range of public service projects throughout the Mid-Peninsula region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Volunteer Match
https://www.volunteermatch.org/
With more volunteers and more volunteer opportunities than any other service, VolunteerMatch is how good people and good causes get connected.
Feeding America
https://www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/volunteer
Feeding America is the largest charity working to end hunger in the United States. We partner with food banks, food pantries, and local food programs to bring food to people facing hunger.
Annual Events
Memorial Day Grave Decoration: Memorial Day Weekend on Saturday
Come place flags at Golden Gate National Cemetery to pay tribute to the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country.
Each year, Scouts, Scouters, veterans, and other community groups from all over the Bay Area gather in tribute to these gallant men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country.
California Coastal Cleanup Day: 3rd Saturday in September
https://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd.html
California Coastal Cleanup is the third Saturday of September. The cleanup brings awareness to the marine litter problem and provides a community event for direct involvement.
It's a chance for Californians to join people around the world in expressing respect for our oceans and waterways, as well as an opportunity for the community to send a statement and demonstrate its desire for clean water and healthy marine life.
Troop 14 is a Scouts BSA boys troop sponsored by Covenant Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto, CA.