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A Chance to Help Your Neighbors

URDC Volunteer Service Days are sponsored by URDC congregations and local organizations where members of the community spend a day helping low-income and elderly homeowners with indoor repairs such as painting, sheet rock, cleaning, woodwork, plumbing, and landscaping. The days give volunteers a chance to personally make a difference to improve the safety, health, and quality of life for those in their community. The days are generally scheduled between May and October.

How A Volunteer Day Works

6A typical URDC volunteer day runs from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and volunteers can participate for as many hours as they like. No special skills are needed and lunch is provided. Tools, supplies, sanitizer, water, gloves, and masks are also available at each work site.

If you or your congregation wishes to volunteer to build a better community, please fill out the form below.

Volunteer Form

What participants are saying about URDC

When URDC called me to let me know they were bringing some volunteers to help fix my house, I sat down on my stairs and cried. I didn’t think people did that anymore

A. Pembleton, Germantown Homeowner

My thanks to URDC seems so small compared to all you do for everyone in our community and especially what you did for me. My thanks comes from the heart. I put lights up around the fence you fixed and they look great. Thanks again.

T. Thompson, Germantown Homeowner

Dear URDC, thank you so much for such a great opportunity to volunteer with your organization. Before we got your email, we didn’t even know URDC even existed, and we were so happy to be included. What a wonderful spirit of community! Please keep us in the loop for next year.

D. Gomez, Germantown Homeowner

URDC did a lot of fixing up around my house with problems that I didn’t have the income to deal with. And I am very grateful for that. I plan on living here for as long as I can live here on my own.

M. Wooten, Germantown Homeowner

Article: “Repairing the world takes all kinds of builders, including the ones with words” by URDC volunteer Anndee Hochman, Philadelphia’s Broad Street Review, August, 2021

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