Stop and Serve Drop-In Volunteer Day

Visitors to Fusion 54 and Everwise Bank would find a certain change in the look of the first floor lobby. Coming off the heads of last September’s Day of Volunteering, last week’s event is the result of collaboration between the City of Crawfordsville, Wabash College, Crawfordsville – Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce and the Montgomery County Leadership Academy. 

Today’s activities were binding together strips of clothing from T-shirts from prior events to be made into chew toys for the Animal Welfare League of Montgomery Co. as well as another table for making Valentine’s Day cards for residents in senior living homes in the community. 

The Leadership Academy and aforementioned partners took the lead from a similar program that came out of ISU. Speaking with Sarah Sommer, Director of Communication for the City of Crawfordsville, she sees the goal of setting up projects like this to make it quick and easy and hopefully isn’t seen as daunting as a day of volunteering. 

Community members and Wabash students alike can come in, do an activity for as long as they’d like and leave knowing what they did was invested in the community. 

The goal for the future, according to Wabash College Community Partnership Coordinator Leanne Parrish, is to host the program quarterly with different organizations or businesses in the community.

Businesses interested in partnering or hosting a similar event at their location are encourage to contact the City, Chamber or the college.