MLK Day of Service

Embrace the Spirit of MLK Day of Service 2025!

From January 20-31, Johns Hopkins employees can seize the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community. If you are eager to contribute your time and talent, you are invited to sign up and volunteer with one of our community partners listed below. Join us in creating positive change and fostering a sense of unity. Sign up using the links below to be part of this inspiring initiative!

Bea Gaddy Family Centers

  • Contact:  Ms. Cynthia Brooks beagaddy@bea-gaddy.org, Phone: 410.563.2749, Address: 425 N. Chester Street Baltimore, MD 21231
  • Number of Volunteers Needed:  7
  • Tasks: Cleaning, organizing canned goods, sorting and arranging cookware and serving items.
  • Number of people needed:  7 people needed
  • Dates: January 21 – 30
  • Time:  10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  • Click Here to Register

The Franciscan Center

  • Contact: Rev. Angela Hall AHall@fcbmore.org, Phone: 410.467.5340 X113, Address: 101 W. 23rd St. Baltimore, MD 21218
  • Number of Volunteers Needed: 20
  • Tasks: Help serve guests healthy hot meals. We serve as many as 300 meals per day. Volunteers will be interacting with guests, staff, and other volunteers indoors.
  • Dates: January 21-25 and 27-31
  • Time:  9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  • Click to Register
  • Anyone interested must register using the link above. Membership has to be approved before opportunities are unlocked.

Junior Achievement

  • Contact: Liz Stoll lstoll@jamaryland.org, Phone: 443-884-5066, Address: 1725 Twin Springs Road Baltimore, MD 21227
  • Number of Volunteers Needed:  Varies depending on the date you volunteer

  • Tasks: As a Junior Achievement volunteer, you will inspire kids to achieve a more fulfilling career and life by contributing your professional insights and personal experiences to the programs you teach.

  • Dates/Times: Jan. 27 from 8:15-1:30 and Jan. 28 8:30 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.

  • Click Here to Register

  • Volunteers will need to create a new user account if they do not already have one.

Moveable Feast

  • Contact: Mel Mputu mmputu@mfeast.org, Phone: 443-961-6452, Address: 901 N Milton Ave, Baltimore, MD 21205
  • Number of Volunteers Needed: Minimum for groups of volunteers is 5 and a maximum of 15 per group
  • Tasks: Washing, chopping, and seasoning produce; prepping and seasoning proteins, bagging produce, packing, wrapping and labeling meal trays, sorting meals by diet, lunch/dinner delivery, wiping tables, cleaning dishes, sweeping and mopping. 
  • Dates: January 30
  • Time: 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (12 volunteers)
  • Registration Info: Create an account using this link at VolunteerHub: mfeast.org/become-a-volunteer/

Helping Up Mission

  • Contact: Brian Murphy bmurphy@helpingup.org, Phone: 410-675-7500 ext. 1170, Address:1029 E. Baltimore St. Baltimore, MD 21202
  • Number of Volunteers Needed:  7
  • Tasks: TBD
  • Dates: January 21 - 30
  • Time: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
  • Attire: Casual and Warm
  • Click Here to Register - Select apply; Opportunities will populate

Maryland Food Bank

  • Contact: Gwen - volunteer@mdfoodbank.org, Address: 2200 Halethorpe Farms Road Baltimore, MD 21227
  • Number of Volunteers Needed:  varies depending on the date
  • Tasks: Help partners pic-up orders.
  • Dates: January 21-30
  • Time: Varies between 7:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  • Attire: Casual
  • Click Here to Register

2024 MLK Day of Service

In 2024, Johns Hopkins employees signed up and volunteered with one of these community partners. Please continue to support these organization throughout the year by volunteering or donating them them. 

2023 MLK Day of Service

On January 20, 2023, JHM resumed our annual MLK Day of Service with roughly 235 Hopkins members volunteer at 17 local charities. Our appreciation to those who took the time to support these organizations. Learn more about the organizations we partnered with this year below and please continue to support their efforts in the community. #HopkinsBetterTogether

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Volunteers sort through clothing donations.
A volunteer sits on the floor, sorting through donations.
A health care worker takes blood from a community member's finger.
Volunteers smile together behind an informational table.
Volunteers talk while taking a break.
A health care worker conducts a vision test.
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A volunteer smiles while talking with a community member.
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List of 2023 Community Partners

Photos from the 2020 Day of Service

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#HopkinsBetterTogether

Hopkins staff distributing cups of paint.
A woman painting a bathroom stall with positive graffiti.
A woman painting a wall with a paintbrush.
Two people painting a wall with paint rollerss.
A man concentrates while painting a doorframe.
A group of people make crafts together.
Hopkins staff break ground in an empty lot.
A woman works outdoors.
Two women work together to carry a heavy bucket.
A man helps a woman use a jackhammer.
A woman helps built a house.
Two woman stand together outside of a construction site.
A group of volunteers post together, smiling.
Volunteers move a bookshelf into place.
Volunteers sit on the floor, organizing children's books.
Volunteers pause their work to smile for a photo.
Volunteers clean the outside wall of a building.
Volunteers pause to talk while cleaning the outside of a building.
A group of smiling volunteers pose together while working outside.
Volunteers pose together in front of a mural.
A sign directs attendees to the health fair.
Volunteers prepare printed materials at a booth.
Volunteers pose together, smiling.
Volunteers sort through clothing donations.
A volunteer sits on the floor, sorting through donations.
A health care worker takes blood from a community member's finger.
Volunteers smile together behind an informational table.
Volunteers talk while taking a break.
A health care worker conducts a vision test.
A volunteer smiles while talking with a community member.

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