Community Service
Student Opportunities

Reminder...
2023-2024 school year...
We will be hosting Crosby Community Service Days at various locations in our county! Be on the lookout for the dates to serve beside your fellow Crosby Scholars and our staff!
Please be sure to submit your hours via the Online Community Service Form to receive credit. All community service must be submitted by April 1st for 6th-11th graders and January 31 for 12th graders. If you are a high school student and choose an option after the due date, please email us at the email below.
Questions? Contact mwaller@crosbyscholarsrowan.org
Community Service Student Panel
Watch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qejH0ZIf6PbvO-ECMMWpsOZNSgXIg8gr/view?usp=sharing
Current Community Service Projects
Concordia Lutheran Packathon
A Packathon is a hands-on service event where participants team together to produce thousands of life-saving meals for hungry children both here and around the world. People ages 5-105 work to assemble together four ingredients: rice, soy protein or pinto beans, dehydrated vegetables, and vitamin powder. These ingredients are repeatedly bagged, weighed, sealed and boxed during a two-hour shift. Feed one child for up to an entire school year in just two hours!
To register: Call Sarah at 704-640-1971
or email sarahbrandt@gmail.com
Friday, Oct 6, 2023, 06:30 PM
185 Concordia Church Road, China Grove, NC, USA
Ellis Fire Department Haunted House Volunteers Needed
October 27 & 28, a meal will be provided.
5pm-11pm
Contact Lauren Kepley at 704-239-7982 if you are interested.
Friday, Oct 27, 2023, 04:30 PM
The Pedal Factory
The Pedal Factory is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit community bike shop in downtown Salisbury, NC.
Their mission is to make bicycles accessible for everyone and to encourage and promote the use of the bike for transportation, recreation, and health.
Students can volunteer with them through their no-cost Earn A Bike program: Participants may exchange volunteer service for a refurbished bike.
The Pedal Factory also provides bicycle riding lessons and classes to help children and adults learn to safely and confidently ride. Facilitating fun team-building events for groups, organizations, families, and businesses. They host regular community bike rides, bike rodeos, and safety events.
Located at: 311 E. Council Street, Salisbury, NC, 28144
Website: www.thepedalfactory.org
Phone: (704)- 870-7145
Email: info@thepedalfactory.org
Volunteers needed at the Rowan Public Library!
The project for which RPL needs volunteers is the Salisbury Post Morgue Preservation Project (SPMPP for short). The library has been given the opportunity to preserve this local history resource in its original form!
Helpers are needed for scanning material. Volunteers create digital folders and then scan items into those. This is a repetitive task that requires good concentration and although not difficult work, it needs to be accurate.
Students must be 16+, & must complete Volunteer Form
Scanning stations in 3 locations: Main (Salisbury) branch, South (China Grove) branch, and our West (Cleveland) branch.
Our Community Partners that have opportunities for students!
Rowan Helping Ministries
Rowan Helping Ministries is seeking Food Pantry, Food Packing, Clothing Center, and Meal Service volunteers.
For more information, visit the Rowan Helping Ministries website or email Monica Seamon mseamon@rowanhelpingministries.org
Oak Park Retirement
Oak Park Retirement Community is looking for a few volunteers to work one on one
showing their residents the basic operating functions of a smartphone.
The date is flexible with volunteer's schedules.
Please Contact Gina Grubb for more information at:
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
Students are also encouraged to explore virtual service options, including:
- Creating thank you cards for first-responders
- Writing letters to nursing home residents
- Transcribe and review Smithsonian documents
- Virtual Volunteering with Ronald McDonald House Charities
- https://www.dosomething.org/us
Meals on Wheels Rowan
We can use volunteers in the areas of East Rowan, South Rowan, and Cleveland or Mt Ulla in particular.
Grocery Shoppers can be after school but meal delivery would be for m-f pick up at 10:30-11:00 am. It takes about one hour to deliver. Total of 2 hours including orientation. For questions, contact Sandy Combs at 705-633-0352 or scombs@mowowan.org.
Happy Roots
Power Cross
Power Cross is in need of volunteers to help serve the young men of Salisbury. Volunteers are needed to help prepare and serve meals daily. We also are always in need of volunteer coaches for football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling. During the school year we need occasional volunteers to help our boys with homework as well. Stop by for a tour or visit the website to learn more.
Rufty-Holmes Senior Center
Rufty-Holmes Senior CenterRufty-Holmes Senior Center
Rufty-Holmes Senior Center is a non-profit organization. We provide a focal point for aging resources for Seniors in our community. Volunteers are the heart of our center! The Center seeks volunteers of all ages to work on various projects, programs, outreach, and activities, which usually occur between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Beginning in September 2023, there will be some Monday evening activities. Contact Rufty-Holmes Senior Center to learn more about volunteering opportunities for you!
704-216-7703
Saving Grace Farm, Inc
Saving Grace Farm always has opportunities for ongoing volunteers who are interested in horses, helping with children, and helping people with special needs. Volunteers typically do a 1.5-hour training and then help 1 or more hours a week for 8 weeks, continuing if they so choose. These are great opportunities for students to learn about compassion, helping others, giving back. Horses are also great teachers of respect, trust, leadership, and other valuable life skills. If volunteers are looking for a one-time opportunity, we may have options to help do cleaning or organizing projects around the farm. Please contact office@savinggracefarm.com or 704-209-6577 for more information. Volunteer forms can be found on our website at www.savinggracefarm.com.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_2fe7hxf1s&authuser=0
Girls on the Run
Watch this video on the program: https://youtu.be/ekS2lM9lTLU
Volunteer opportunities:
Fall 2023 updated seasons dates for the newsletter below. Also, our link below for our 5k volunteers. Never too early! https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/NC/Salisbury/GirlsontheRunoftheGreaterPiedmont5k
Our Season Dates for Fall 2023:
Coach Training: Saturday, August 29 from 8-12pm
Season start date: The week of September 4
End of the Season 5k: Sunday, November 12 at Salisbury Community Park at 2pm
They can choose which site works best for them by visiting the locations grid on our website (below). This grid will continue to update as we receive applications from schools/parks:
https://www.gotrgreaterpiedmont.org/locations
If you are interested in volunteering with GOTR, please contact lindsay.peiffer@girlsontherun.org
CS HS Staff contact: Melissa Waller mwaller@crosbyscholarsrowan.org
Downtown Salisbury Inc
Mark your Calendars for these events! Click link to view and sign up!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18bHV4FC1Odwxmg8-4DZMcsApVhmjZIiT/view?usp=sharing
Contact info is at the bottom.
Click for a video!
Latoya S. Price
Events Coordinator
Downtown Salisbury, Inc.
City of Salisbury—Downtown Development Dept.
217 S. Main St., Salisbury, NC 28144
Main: (704) 637-7814 || Office: (704) 638-5238
Crosby Scholars Rowan
Email: info@crosbyscholarsrowan.org
Website: www.crosbyscholarsrowan.org
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