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Site Listings

When you sign up for Project SERVE, you will need to have three sites chosen.

Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association (Outdoor landscaping and/or trail maintenance)

Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association, established in 1980, identifies and advocates for the needs of one of the oldest neighborhoods in the Charlottesville area. The association has been successful in making neighborhood repairs to local schools, sidewalks, park equipment, and drainage systems. It also has helped establish neighborhood watch programs and clean-up programs.

Blue Ridge Commons Neighborhood Networks (Help set up and run a field day)

Blue Ridge Commons is a low-income housing community with a diverse population including refugee and immigrant families from around the world. We are holding a Community Day to connect our residents to community resources, celebrate our diversity, and have a good time.

Charlottesville Housing Office (Outdoor maintenance including painting, landscaping, and clean up)

This office manages over 376 units for the exclusive use of low income families, seniors, and disabled individuals. Another 300 units of privately owned homes are available by the CRHA through the Housing Choice Voucher Program, with the goal of assisting low to moderate-income families with viable housing options.

Jefferson Area Board for the Aging (JABA) (Outdoor landscaping)

JABA’s mission is to develop and maintain communities for healthy aging. In order to do this, JABA provides adult care centers for health and personal care activities, affordable and high-quality assisted living, community centers, health insurance counseling, health services, home care, home-delivered meals, a variety of at-home services, among other services.

McIntire Park (Outdoor maintenance and trail clean up)

McIntire Park is the second-largest park in the City, with almost 136 acres of land. Located in the center of the city, this popular park was made possible by Paul Goodloe McIntire who purchased land from 1926 to 1941 and then donated it as as one park to the City of Charlottesville. McIntire features rolling land with magnificent views of the mountains to the east, a heavily wooded area with steep and varied topography and winding streams.

Parks and Recreation (Outdoor landscaping and trail clean up)

Parks and Recreation maintain local parks, trails, school grounds, and cemeteries.

Rivanna Trails Foundation (Outdoor landscaping and trail clean up)

The mission of the Rivanna Trails Foundation is to create and protect natural footpaths, which follow the Rivanna River and its tributaries, for the enjoyment of all. The foundation incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1992, and to date has completed more than 18 miles of hiking trails.

Ronald McDonald House (Outdoor landscaping and painting)

The Ronald McDonald House is a low cost lodging facility for pediatric patients and/or their families who live beyond Charlottesville and Albemarle County and are being treated at local hospitals.

Venable Elementary School (Outdoor landscaping)

Venable School is an elementary school for children in Kindergarten through 4th grade. It is a school rich in a tradition of community participation and volunteerism. Located near the University of Virginia, Venable brings together a heterogeneous group of families from the surrounding neighborhoods that view the school as the focal point for their children's education and socialization. It is in a large part through these families' interest and involvement in Venable that it has been able to provide a breadth of experience from art enrichment to after-school computer instruction and community picnics.