How Can I Help?
There are a variety of ways that you can carry forward Dr. King's legacy of service. After you've reviewed the opportunities below, please click on the Volunteer button above to sign up. If you are signing up you and your children for an activity, please fill in a separate volunteer entry for each participant. Specially designed Lexington MLK Day volunteer T-shirts will be provided to all youth and teens at no cost. They are also available for adults, though we are asking the adults to purchase them, to help defray the costs of running the day's program
Greeters/Ushers at Grace Chapel
Volunteers will arrive at Grace Chapel at 10:30 am, before the marchers arrive, to direct people as they enter Grace Chapel to locations for the presentation, the donations areas, the card-making activities and to hand out programs.
Drop Off Donations
In addition to the volunteer activities, we are endeavoring to provide food and personal care items for underserved populations in Lexington. Please consider bringing food and personal care items to donate when you come to volunteer. Or, if you are unable to volunteer, we will gladly accept your donations as your service! All items should be dropped off at Grace Chapel between the hours of 9 am and 4 pm.
Receive Donations
Help receive and sort the donated items to benefit three underserved communities: the food insecure families and vulnerable children of Lexington.
Food Collection and Delivery
We welcome volunteers with cars to help us pick up food for seniors' lunches and deliver to the senior residences, as well as volunteers to sort and organize donations of food, and deliver to our recipient partners, the Lexington Food Pantry and COMPASS for Kids.
Card Making
Family-friendly activity: volunteers will design and make Valentines Day and general greeting cards, which will be distributed to US veterans, hospitalized or nursing home residents, Ronald McDonald House patients and family members.
Lunch with Seniors
Adults, high school and middle school students will serve lunch and sit with senior residents at one of three locations in Lexington, to reflect on the legacy of Dr. King. Bilingual (Chinese-English) volunteers are especially invited to sign up.
Birthday Wishes
Birthday Wishes is a non-profit that provides birthday parties to homeless children in over 175 shelters and transitional living facilities in New England. This family-friendly activity will have volunteers meet at Cotting School to package party supplies and gifts within a wrapped birthday box for each birthday child, so they are able to celebrate their birthday with family and friends.
Community Day at the Waltham YMCA
Volunteers to participate in a day of sports, games, and activities for underserved families in Lexington, Bedford and Waltham. Appropriate for kids age 10 and up.
Cradles to Crayons
Cradles to Crayons provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive - at home, at school and at play. This is a family-friendly activity, but NO KIDS UNDER AGE 5 ARE ALLOWED.
Support Lexington MLK Day
Unable to join us, but would still like to help out? We are in need of charitable donations to help us defray the costs of the running the day's programs. Please make your check payable to the Town of Lexington, with MLK Day of Service in the memo line, and mail it to:
Selectmen's Office
Attn: Lynn Pease
Town of Lexington
1625 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington, MA 02420
There are a variety of ways that you can carry forward Dr. King's legacy of service. After you've reviewed the opportunities below, please click on the Volunteer button above to sign up. If you are signing up you and your children for an activity, please fill in a separate volunteer entry for each participant. Specially designed Lexington MLK Day volunteer T-shirts will be provided to all youth and teens at no cost. They are also available for adults, though we are asking the adults to purchase them, to help defray the costs of running the day's program
Greeters/Ushers at Grace Chapel
Volunteers will arrive at Grace Chapel at 10:30 am, before the marchers arrive, to direct people as they enter Grace Chapel to locations for the presentation, the donations areas, the card-making activities and to hand out programs.
Drop Off Donations
In addition to the volunteer activities, we are endeavoring to provide food and personal care items for underserved populations in Lexington. Please consider bringing food and personal care items to donate when you come to volunteer. Or, if you are unable to volunteer, we will gladly accept your donations as your service! All items should be dropped off at Grace Chapel between the hours of 9 am and 4 pm.
- The Lexington Food Pantry specifically requests: 15 oz cans of fruit, 16 oz cans of stews, chilis, and hashes.
- Compass for Kids is in need of: toilet paper, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, health and beauty aids.
Receive Donations
Help receive and sort the donated items to benefit three underserved communities: the food insecure families and vulnerable children of Lexington.
Food Collection and Delivery
We welcome volunteers with cars to help us pick up food for seniors' lunches and deliver to the senior residences, as well as volunteers to sort and organize donations of food, and deliver to our recipient partners, the Lexington Food Pantry and COMPASS for Kids.
Card Making
Family-friendly activity: volunteers will design and make Valentines Day and general greeting cards, which will be distributed to US veterans, hospitalized or nursing home residents, Ronald McDonald House patients and family members.
Lunch with Seniors
Adults, high school and middle school students will serve lunch and sit with senior residents at one of three locations in Lexington, to reflect on the legacy of Dr. King. Bilingual (Chinese-English) volunteers are especially invited to sign up.
Birthday Wishes
Birthday Wishes is a non-profit that provides birthday parties to homeless children in over 175 shelters and transitional living facilities in New England. This family-friendly activity will have volunteers meet at Cotting School to package party supplies and gifts within a wrapped birthday box for each birthday child, so they are able to celebrate their birthday with family and friends.
Community Day at the Waltham YMCA
Volunteers to participate in a day of sports, games, and activities for underserved families in Lexington, Bedford and Waltham. Appropriate for kids age 10 and up.
Cradles to Crayons
Cradles to Crayons provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive - at home, at school and at play. This is a family-friendly activity, but NO KIDS UNDER AGE 5 ARE ALLOWED.
Support Lexington MLK Day
Unable to join us, but would still like to help out? We are in need of charitable donations to help us defray the costs of the running the day's programs. Please make your check payable to the Town of Lexington, with MLK Day of Service in the memo line, and mail it to:
Selectmen's Office
Attn: Lynn Pease
Town of Lexington
1625 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington, MA 02420