Several service projects and volunteer opportunities are planned for the Philadelphia area on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here are a few of the options for volunteers across the region.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Parks & Recreation MLK Day of Service<\/p>\n
Various parks<\/p>\n
Several Philadelphia parks will host service events. The signature event is at MLK Recreation Center (2101 Cecil B. Moore Avenue) at 10 a.m. See the full list of events online<\/a>. (Weather<\/a>\u00a0may affect these events; please check with local organizers.)<\/p>\n Food Bank of South Jersey “Stuff the Truck”\u00a0<\/p>\n 1501 John Tipton Blvd., Pennsauken, New Jersey, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.<\/p>\n Community members can drop off non-perishable food, monetary donations and essentials including hygiene and baby products. Learn more on the Food Bank of South Jersey’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brandywine Valley SPCA<\/p>\n Brandywine Valley SPCA locations in West Chester (8:30 a.m), New Castle (8:30 a.m.) and Georgetown (9 a.m.).<\/p>\n Volunteers will help with cleaning, organizing donations, preparing enrichment for shelter animals and more. Learn more and register on Brandywine Valley SPCA’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n African American Museum in Philadelphia<\/p>\n 701 Arch Street, Philadelphia<\/p>\n Admission to the African American Museum in Philadelphia is free on Monday, and the museum is planning special programming, including a plant-based lunch from The Nile Cafe, a screening of “Selma” and more. Learn more on the museum’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several service projects and volunteer opportunities are planned for the Philadelphia area on Monday for Martin Luther King…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37743,69,71,70,8091,2404],"class_list":["post-90635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mlk-day","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-jersey","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}