College Hill Needs...

VOLUNTEERS

Here's how you can help...

Become a Member

It’s easy to become a College Hill Forum member!  Individual memberships are just $5.00 per calendar year, or just $7 for the whole family. You can sign up at any Forum meeting at the registration table. Membership enables you to vote on issues before the Forum that impact College Hill and our residents. For just a few dollars a year, you can make your voice heard.  Forum members make it happen!

Volunteer Opportunities 

College Hill Forum and other community organizations are always looking for folks to join us in making our committees and our special events even more successful.  You are always welcome, and your time and efforts are greatly appreciated!  Find a group that sounds exciting to you and join the fun! Click here for Forum and other event committee chair email addresses.

Farm Market
Thursdays 3-7 p.m. May 10 through October
Corner of Llanfair and Hamilton

College Hill’s own open air farm market features same-day fresh produce, homemade pastries, jams and jellies, fresh flowers, fresh-ground coffee or fresh-roasted coffee beans by the pound from all over the world; handcrafted arts -- and more! Volunteers needed to coordinate sellers, to help staff booths and more.

Sponsored by the College Hill Gardeners

College Hill Rhythm Race
4^th Annual 5K Run/Walk
To benefit College Hill redevelopment
August 18, 2007

Volunteers needed for week of race to help distribute neighborhood fliers; day of race to help set up at Pleasant Hill School for the after-race Celebration Party; day of race to be stationed along the race route, as timers, working at registration desk, etc. etc.  It’s fun and all training is provided the week before the race. Plus you get a collectors Volunteer T-Shirt!
 

Pumpkin Patch
October 6

College Hill’s all-community, family-oriented salute to Fall! Be part of this festival of pumpkins, crafts, fine art, honey, children’s games, flowers, food – and more food! There’s an easy, fun job for everyone – and it’s an event you want to be a part of!

Sponsored by the College Hill Gardeners

Make a Difference Day
October 21

Join your friends and neighbors in a 3-hour sweep of cleaning up litter and trash in College Hill. Meet at 9:00 a.m. at the corner of Hamilton and Llanfair for a free breakfast, then go out with your team and make our community shine! Volunteer T-shirts, refreshments and door prizes!

Quality of Life Committee

The heart and soul of our community’s efforts to improve the appearance, maintenance and beauty of our homes, our streets and our neighborhood.  Adopt a street or a block to monitor adherence to city regulations, agree to keep your area litter-free, work with the committee to advise neighbors who need help keeping up their properties. Work with City departments to make sure owners are aware of building and property issues – and more. It’s a tireless, great group to belong to – and they have fun get-togethers, too!

Community Pot Luck
March every year

Help bring our entire community together over a communal home-cooked potluck meal at College Hill Presbyterian Church Everyone brings a dish to share and we have a wonderful time meeting new folks and kicking back with old friends. There’s entertainment, lots of great conversation, updates on community issues -- and an all-around good time.  Volunteers needed to get the word out, keep track of RSVPs, help set-up and decorate tables, clean up and staffing the overloaded food tables!

Working hand-in-hand with the Cincinnati Police Department, Citizens on Patrol walk our neighborhoods day and night identifying problem areas and assuring that our streets are friendly and safe for all. Contact Jim Bodmer  for information on how to join this volunteer group.

Light up College Hill Luminary Project
December

College Hill does its part to light up the holidays by selling luminaria kits at low, low prices.  It’s all part of the Holiday Bazaar at the Cincinnati Recreation Center on Belmont Ave. Help up make up the kits during the couple weeks before the sale or help sell the kits on the day of the Bazaar. Then, when every street is lined with light during the holidays, you can say you played a part!

College Hill Cooks! Cookbook Project

College Hill’s own cookbook filled with delicious recipes from our own community cooks – over 800 recipes!  All proceeds help College Hill community initiatives.  Help out by taking books from a central location to the local businesses that sell them throughout the year.

Historical Society

Help revitalize this important group in their efforts to preserve College Hill’s rich  heritage and our historical past. Volunteers needed to review and evaluate historical documents, monitor historical sites, refresh old cemetery and discuss ways to keep our rich past alive in the minds of our residents.

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Contact the Forum

Contact the Forum, the Community Council of College Hill
P.O. Box 24160; Cincinnati, OH 45224