Serving Stories – Episode 06 – Around the World
For the year 2020, Serve the City chose as their theme, "Kindness Starts with Me." Little did they know how the events of this year would draw of the creativity on volunteers in showing kindness! [...]
COVID Kindness – Episode 03 – Compassion, Courage and Coronavirus
It's been a more than a good idea to stay inside during the COVID outbreak in Brussels— it's the law. But some residents have found that there are some important humanitarian reasons to venture [...]
Global Volunteer Day 2020: A Review
On Saturday May 9th, Serve the City had its third annual Global Volunteer Day. Serve the City is a global movement of volunteers showing kindness in personal ways to people in need. Every year, [...]
COVID Kindness – Episode 02 – Do What You Do Best.
As we revisit the first four cities in Season 1 — Lisbon, Chesapeake, Berlin and Tallinn — we find out that agility is everything. In each city, we discover how the expertise, partnerships, and [...]
COVID Kindness – Episode 01 – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Serve the City Dublin team members tell stories of volunteers welcoming and comforting people at a COVID testing site, and delivering groceries and prescriptions to vulnerable people isolated in [...]
Kindness Challenge 2020
STCi Social Media Challenge #KindnessStartsWithMe let it #GoThrival! Hello Serve the City the globe over, Challenge the world in with our social media challenge! In these days of isolation and [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 5.2 – Brussels, BE
In this episode (part 2 of 2), a simple project serving breakfast to migrants in a park turns into a city-wide humanitarian effort. And in the process, it changes not only the lives of migrants [...]
COVID Kindness – Kindness Will Not Be Cancelled
Kindness will not be cancelled! Events are cancelled, meetings are cancelled, but Serve the City believes that kindness is open for business and the shelves are stocked floor to ceiling with [...]
Kindness will not be cancelled
All over the world meetings are cancelled. Events are cancelled. Trips are cancelled. But a virus, even a pandemic, cannot cancel the most important stuff of life. Kindness is open for business [...]
Volunteer Voices: Stories from our Volunteers
We at Serve the City are so happy to have many hard-working volunteers from various walks of life with quite a few amazing stories! As we face a period when serving and volunteering is starting [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 5.1 – Brussels, BE
In this episode (part one of two), we travel to Brussels, Belgium to see how a simple, early-morning project—serving breakfast to irregular migrants and asylum seekers—draws on compassion to cut [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 4 – Tallinn, EE
In this episode, we travel to Tallinn, Estonia to meet secret agents of a serving revolution: the Serve the City Tallinn Blackshirts. No, they are not members of a fascist paramilitary group, but [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 3 Bonus – Berlin, DE
This month Serving Stories travels to Berlin, Germany. Berlin is known for being the techno capital of the world, the site of a dance revolution. But in a gym located in the Berlin suburbs, [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 3 – Berlin, DE
This month Serving Stories travels to Berlin, Germany. Berlin is known for being the techno capital of the world, the site of a dance revolution. But in a gym located in the Berlin suburbs, [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 2 – Chesapeake, VA, USA
If you drive around Chesapeake, a suburban city on the eastern coast of Virginia (USA), you will find yourself constantly crossing bridges. But bridges of a different kind are being built in [...]
International Forum 2019 Recap
After the 2019 International Forum, we reached out to a few Forum participants to hear about their experience and takeaways. Below are their stories – Christine Thumm What’s [...]
