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Headline text against a brick wall background reads 'Bringing people in Greater Boston together for community service.' Six PMD volunteers in a candid photo are working on a community service project together, passing materials to each other down an assembly line that they formed. They are working hard, wearing work gloves, and smiling with each other. They are standing on a wooden platform with the PMD platform that reads: do something good, make new friends, learn something new.

Join PMD’s Next Volunteer Project(s)

Turn a day of tragedy into an evening of doing good on the 25th anniversary:
Team up to set up the evening BEFORE the 9/11 Day project packing 455,000 meals for Bostonians in need


Thursday 9/10/2026, 4:45-8pm or 5:45-9pm

Rain or shine.

Location: The TRACK at new balance, Brighton
MBTA Bus #86 and Framingham /Worcester Commuter Rail "Boston Landing" station are close by.
NEW! FREE parking at 15 Guest Street - You must request a chaser ticket when you check in.

Deadline: Register by 9/05

Join the Backup List if you can reserve this day/time.

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8 photos of volunteers participating in past 9/11 Day service projects in Boston

Help the free Boston Local Food Festival be zero waste, plus help break down/stack folding tables & chairs


Sunday 9/20/2026, 1:45pm-7:15pm

Rain Date: 09/27

Location: Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston

Deadline: Register by 9/10

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Five PMD volunteers wearing blue Boston Local Food Festival t-shirts staff a zero-waste station offering composting, recycling, and trash bins in 2025

Help with "Harvest Fest" children's activities


Sunday 9/27/2026, 12:15pm-5pm

Rain Date: 10/04
Any rain postponement will be decided and emailed to registered PMD volunteers by 10am on 9/27.

Location: Somerville Community Growing Center, Union Square

Deadline: Register by 9/21

~12 volunteers are still needed.

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5 PMD volunteers wipe dirt off of sugar pumpkins in preparation for the 2025 Harvest Fest at the Somerville Community Growing Center

Help test PMD's new Team Challenge Question (TCQ) software for NOSB's 2027 Virtual Sponge Bowl competition for high school students without in-person competitions nearby


Wednesday 9/30/2026, 8-9pm Eastern Time (ET)

Location: Virtual/Zoom

Note: We only shares zoom links, team assignments, etc. with registered volunteers since we cannot accommodate any observers or walk-ins, i.e., unregistered volunteers or teams

Deadline: Register by 9/27

~95 volunteers are still needed.

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Improve trails and increase biodiversity in Iroquois Woods urban wild on Boston's Mission Hill


Saturday 10/03/2026, 9:30am-12:30pm

Rain Date: 10/03
Sign up for both or either primary (9:30am-12:30pm) and/or rain postponement (1:30-4:30pm) shifts

Location: Iroquois Woods, Boston's Mission Hill Near Fenwood Rd. stop of "E" Green Line or #39

Deadline: Register by 9/26

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Neighbor Dennis P with five PMD volunteers holding tools after clearing trails and removing weeds and debris from Iroquois Woods urban wild on Boston's Mission Hill in October 2025

Officiate for the MIT Science Bowl, a high school invitational


Saturday 11/14/2026, 8am-1pm or 8am-5pm

Location: MIT, Cambridge

Deadline: Register by 10/25

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A team of four PMD volunteer MIT Science Bowl officials in matching red t-shirts in 2025

How We’ve Made a Difference

Three PMD volunteers in a cafeteria-style kitchen, preparing food on meal trays to serve to people in need. They are smiling and concentrating on the task. They are wearing PMD aprons, PMD name tags, and wearing disposable gloves for food service.
Meals for People in Need
Four PMD volunteers wearing PMD badges are sorting and packaging seed packets. They are fulfilling seed packet requests for Boston community gardens in order to help local gardeners. They are wearing PMD and gloves to handle items to follow covid-19 precautions.
Helping Community Gardens
Three PMD volunteers are carefully assembling Braille-embossed stickers onto children’s books and magnets, in order to help adults and children of all abilities read together. The volunteers are working together at a long table, wearing PMD volunteer badges, and appear focused on their work.
Assembling Print-Braille Children’s Books
A line of 8 PMD Volunteers are working hard to prune shrubbery that is lining the pond at Spy Pond Park, in order to help reveal the view of the pond and improve the urban green space. They are holding long gardening pruning devices, with their backs facing the camera.
Improving Urban Greenspaces
Five PMD volunteers are facing your direction, wearing face masks, PMD volunteer badges. They jointly carry a full box of packed ziploc bags that they finished assembling for the street outreach program with Pine Street Inn. Each individual bag includes items such as hand sanitizer, lip balm, lotion, facial tissue packs, and other toiletries.
Packing Street Outreach Supplies
6 PMD volunteers are seated at a table in the front of a classroom, with a blank projector screen behind them, and laptops, projectors, wires, papers, and a digital clock in front of them on the table. They are volunteering at a school science bowl event where they help run the rounds as moderators, science judges, rule judges, scorekeepers, time keepers.
Middle & High School Science Bowls
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Volunteer Personally

It’s easy to participate!
PMD only requires committing to one project at a time.

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Corporate Partnerships

PMD partners with businesses to offer their employees well-organized volunteer projects that make real differences.

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Charity Partnerships

PMD provides its charity partners with expert service project planning and volunteer management for high impact.

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4 PMD volunteers are hard at work together at a table while packing hand sanitizer, lip balm, lotion, facial tissue packs, and other toiletries. They are assembling the supplies into zip lock bags in order to help the street outreach program at Pine Street Inn. They are wearing PMD volunteer badges, face masks, and using gloves to handle the materials.
15 PMD volunteers are seen standing on the front steps at the National Braille Press in Boston Massachusetts. A large plaque at the front of the building displays the words “National Braille Press.” The PMD Volunteers are holding their completed projects for the day of embossing Braille stickers onto pages of children’s books and magnets, in order to help adults and children of all abilities read together.

“Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens,
can change the world. Indeed, it’s
the only thing that ever has.”

   Margaret Mead

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