PMD-organized community service projects enable first-time volunteers, experienced volunteers, and their friends, co-workers, and family members to participate in a highly motivated group that often transforms project sites. It is our hope that a positive, rewarding PMD volunteer experience will encourage further volunteer participation and recruitment.

To participate, please call or e-mail us to sign-up before the deadlines. You will receive confirmation and then the week before the project receive more specific information, such as what to wear and how to get there by public transportation (project sites are always public transportation accessible) and by car.

Note: when you sign-up, you must commit to participate for the full project day, enabling us to finish all the work we start, to leave a clean project site, to gather and clean our tools and materials, and to allow all volunteers to leave the project on-time.

Past PMD Projects have included:

• Planting native plants to restore the banks of Walden Pond
• Assessing street tree conditions in Somerville for the Eagle Eye Institute
• Preparing and serving tasty, nutritious meals for the Women's Lunch Place
• Salvaging and sorting food at the Greater Boston Food Bank
• Repairing paving stone path for Somerville's Community Growing Center
• Painting an apartment of a women's living skills program for Cambridge Family & Children's Services
• Collating, checking, binding, and boxing braille books for the National Braille Press
• Clearing trails at Belle Isle Marsh
• Removing invasive barberry plants from Mt. Washington in the Berkshires for The Nature Conservancy
• Helping families celebrate positive parenting at "Dads Make a Difference" event on the Boston Common
• Assisting community youth with positive, nature-themed crafts at the Neponset River Greenway Festival in Dorchester
• Helping children make wooden boats and other crafts as part of the Neponset River Greenway Festival.