Community

Service
Biomedical Scholars Association
Jennie Ruelas Castillo - Community Service Chair
jruelas1@jhmi.edu
February 23, 2021
Online and In-person Volunteering Opportunities
Moveable feast

Centro Sol

Mask Making Program

Art with a Heart

Hopkins Engage
 Moveable Feast
The mission of Moveable Feast is to foster a
community that cares for men, women and
children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other
life-threatening illnesses by preparing and
delivering nutritious meals and groceries and
providing nutritional counseling and other
services.

Moveable Feast serves 15 of the 24 counties in

Maryland.
https://www.mfeast.org/volunteer/ Moveable Feast is the only provider of medically
tailored meals free of charge- for people with
serious illnesses.
 Moveable Feast
In- Person Volunteering
Delivery Volunteer
Choose your delivery day and preferred
area of delivery, pick up meals from
Moveable Feast between 9-11am, and drop
meals off directly to clients.
*All meal pickups and drop-offs are no
contact, and Moveable Feast can provide
PPE.
Contact Angie Kelley at :
akelley@mfeast.org
https://www.mfeast.org/volunteer/delivery/
Online
Kindness Cards
Share caring messages of
encouragement with our critically ill
clients
https://www.mfeast.org/send-a-kindne
ss-card/
Amazon Smile and Moveable Feast
Donate items that are greatly needed by
the clients we currently serve who are
living with chronic illnesses.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/clpf/ref=smi_ge_uls_rd_cl?ie=UT
F8&orig=%2Fhz%2Fcharitylist%2Fls%2F22XLHNO6ESYMA%2F
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 Centro Sol

Our mission is to promote equity in health and

opportunity for Latinos by advancing clinical
care, research, education, and advocacy at
Johns Hopkins and beyond in active
partnership with our Latino neighbors.

https://www.jhcentrosol.org/
 Centro Sol
In-Person Volunteering
Southeast Baltimore Volunteering
Opportunities
Facilitating food delivery efforts for
the communities in Baltimore
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y1Tfsk7usCde
S23fat6N5SRKkKH9mQst_5bgOyeS9Jc/edit
Food Distribution
Facilitating food delivery efforts for
families in Southeast Baltimore on
Wednesday and Saturdays
https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/123
7034519982322064/false#/invitation
Online
Donate to A Community United
Donations help provide and distribute food
and household supplies to those in our
community who are most in need. 100% of
funds received will go directly to immigrant
families.
https://donorbox.org/comunidad-unida
Mentoring and Tutoring
Opportunities
Help provide the Latinx youth with yearlong
support throughout their secondary
education; in hopes of leveling the playing
field.
https://jhu.givepulse.com/group/436221-Centro-SOL-Mentors-and-Tutors
 Mask Making Program

Hopkins has partnered with the non-profit

organization Stitched Together, the IRONMAN
Foundation, and the Johns Hopkins Center for
Social Concern to create and donate face masks
to the following local Baltimore organizations:
elementary schools connected to Medicine for
the Greater Good, Baltimore Harm Reduction
Coalition, and Health Care for the Homeless.

https://jhu.givepulse.com/event/221707-Mask-Making-Program?referring_group_id=326481
 Mask Making Program
Remote Volunteering

No prior sewing experience is necessary to

It will cost no more than $5 to ship the masks
participate!
back to SHARE.
Volunteers will receive sewing kits with all
If shipping is a financial hardship, contact
the necessary supplies and instructions for
shareathopkins@gmail.com for support.
mask making. Each kit contains the supplies
Otherwise, if you are in Baltimore we will
to make 5 masks and are expected to be
arrange to have an in-person drop off day
shipped back to campus by the end of April.
towards the end of the semester.
For a beginner, each mask will take about an TikTok: overview of the mask making
hour to sew. process
https://shareathopkins.wordpress.com/mask-making-program/ https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJBJ9rYx/
 Art with a Heart
Art with a Heart’s mission is to enhance the lives
of people in need through visual art.

Art with a Heart provides hands-on, interactive,

and educational visual arts classes in schools,
community centers, group homes, shelters,
permanent housing facilities, veteran’s facilities,
hospitals, senior facilities, and more.

https://www.artwithaheart.net/
 Art with a Heart
In-Person Online
Service may include painting, ceramics, Remote:
cleaning, organizing, sorting, coloring, To volunteer from the comfort and
cutting, mosaic work, and grouting. safety of your homes contact
monica@artwithaheart.net for remote
You can volunteer in the classroom service
with students
Donations:
There is a teen service initiative, called https://www.artwithaheart.net/donate/
Heart Helpers. Heart Helpers are youth
volunteers ages 14-18. Heart Helpers
meet on Fridays, during the school
year, from 4:00pm – 6:00pm.
https://www.artwithaheart.net/getinvolved/volunteer/volunteer-application/
 Hopkins Engage
JHU offices have recently launched a new
online engagement platform, called Hopkins
Engage. The platform connects JHU students,
faculty, and staff directly with
Baltimore-based community partners and
community engagement efforts

Good way of tracking your contributions to the

community
https://jhu.givepulse.com/group/326481-Johns-H
opkins-University
 Questions?
jruelas1@jhmi.edu

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