Service Providers (as in, local service-based, non-profit community agencies and University Departments with service events) are welcome to request volunteers for the day of CSUnity. With the date being at the end of National Volunteer Week and around Earth Day Weekend, CSUnity could be an ideal opportunity to connect with CSU Rams and fulfill some much-needed service projects for your organization. Typically, participating non-profits host yard work and clean-up projects around their facilities, while others host events directly tied to their missions. Though the theme of CSUnity is spring clean-up in nature, collective care and community connections are central to CSUnity. If you are unsure your service project meets our criteria, do not hesitate to contact the SLiCE Community Support Team at slice_communitysupport@colostate.edu.
To successfully register for CSUnity, submit Service Provider Registration form by Wednesday, March 27. Complete the online form, click the “NEXT” button at the bottom until all pages are complete, and click the “SUBMIT” button to ensure your registration is submitted correctly.
Approved Registrations: Projects are approved due to volunteer availability, scope, and content of the project, and cooperation with SLiCE. You will be assigned Volunteer Team Leader(s) who will contact you to ensure you are on the same page by Monday, April 8.
Waitlisted Projects: If SLiCE must waitlist your project due to reaching capacity, we will notify you in April.
If you want to participate in CSUnity as a local community agency, the following need to be acknowledged.
- Participation in CSUnity is not guaranteed, nor are volunteers.
- Registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis.
- A Community Agency representative must be present at the site when CSU Volunteers are present.
- Service Projects can be outside or inside (at your facility or a neutral location).
- CSUnity volunteers should not enter local resident/neighbor homes.
- Projects must be located within Fort Collins city limits.
- Service projects must be completable within 4 hours or less; projects may not fully be completed by CSU Volunteers and that is okay. If service project location is a decent drive from campus (must be within 30 minutes of the Lory Student Center), shorten the project length to make time for travel.
- You may request 5 or more volunteers. Please determine a suitable range of volunteers that would enable you to have a successful service project. (Please anticipate up to a 25% volunteer attrition rate, we apologize in advance if this happens.)
- SLiCE and CSU Volunteers will not remove items from your property, you are responsible for your own waste disposal.
- We cannot guarantee CSU volunteers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
- You must provide all necessary resources (i.e. garden/yard tools, cleaning supplies, trash bags, etc.) SLiCE provides gloves. .
- Volunteers are not experts or trained. Requested tasks should be quick to learn & teach (you are expected to train volunteers on what you need), and flexibility with results is asked.
- Volunteers cannot do construction work with chainsaws, nail guns, or any other power tool.
- If you wish to cancel your own project, please notify SLiCE and your Volunteer Team Leader. Volunteers are not required to make up the service project if there is severe winter weather and SLiCE must cancel the event. This is because the following weeks occur finals.
- Please spend the first 30 minutes of your service project: greeting all volunteers, sharing the value of their service work for you, building a meaningful connection, training them on your yard work projects, explaining your exact expectations, and being sure they understand your needs before starting.
