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FUSION is the University of Kentucky's largest day of service. It takes place each year during K Week and is designed to connect incoming students with each other, the Lexington community, and the University of Kentucky. This year, FUSION will be held on Friday, August 23rd from 8:00am until 12:30pm. Food will be provided as well as transportation to and from service sites.
Online event registration closes, Wednesday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. EST. On-site registration is available the day of starting at 8:00 a.m. outside of the Gatton Student Center Ballroom
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| Shift | Start Time | End Time | Address | Description | Registrants Needed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Cemetery No. 2, Inc. | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: General landscaping (weeding, trimming, pruning, debris hauling). African Cemetery No. 2 is located on East Seventh Street. The cemetery is approximately eight acres in size and contains over 5,000 graves and approximately 1,200 markers. There have been no burials since 1974. The cemetery and its care is under the... | 5/15 | Over |
| American Cancer Society Hope Lodge | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: It is our hope to have several projects available. One main component will be washing our vans, weather permitting. Baking may be an option. There will be cleaning and re-organizing of our kitchen and common areas. Finally, I hope to have the resources to make goody bags for our... | 11/11 | Over |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Event preparation for an upcoming fundraiser. Site: The Mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washtenaw County is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. | 6/6 | Over |
| Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: General cleaning and organizing of the building. Site: The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning empowers people to explore and express their voices through imaginative learning and the literary arts. | 11/11 | Over |
| Children's Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | The Center’s mission is to reduce the trauma experienced by sexually abused children by providing services to them in a nurturing, friendly and safe environment. Additionally, the Center strives to improve the procedures by which child sexual abuse cases are handled in our 17-county Bluegrass Region. Our goal is to... | 7/6 | Over |
| E7 Kids Cafe | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: The project may consist of cleaning/organizing our space, or may consist of activity planning, fundraising idea planning, etc. Mission:E7 Kids Cafe is a community center and safe space for children in the East End of Lexington, KY. At E7, we strive to inspire curiosity and make reading and learning... | 5/5 | Over |
| Easter Seals Cardinal Hill | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Volunteer coordinators Mission: Easter Seals Cardinal Hill is driven by a tireless passion to champion people of all ages, ensuring that everyone, regardless of ability or life challenge, has the opportunity to live, learn, work and play in our communities. | 7/7 | Over |
| Family Care Center | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | The Family Care Center provides services to families with young children. Service: landscaping enhancements; raking, weeding, mulching, pressure washing, collecting yard waste into yard waste bags, etc. | 10/10 | Over |
| God's Pantry Food Bank | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, Kentucky 40508 GPFB Lexington Warehouse | Service: Volunteers will work in the warehouse repacking food that will later be distributed to those in need in 50 counties in Central and Eastern Kentucky. | 45/44 | Over |
| Hope Center | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Washing mattresses at the men's emergency shelter Site: The Hope Center, in Lexington, Kentucky, provides a wide array of services to persons who are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless. These services include food, shelter, clothing, recovery from addiction, mental health diagnosis and treatment, transitional housing, permanent... | 4/15 | Over |
| International Book Project | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Sorting and packing books for upcoming shipments to partners around the world! Mission: Our mission is to promote education and literacy while broadening Americans’ understanding of their neighbors, which we achieve by annually sending more than 300,000 books to schools, libraries, churches, and Peace Corps volunteers throughout the developing... | 18/18 | Over |
| Jarrett's Joy Cart, Inc. | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Requires some lifting, moving storage tubs of toys. Sorting and labelling toys. Mission: Jarrett’s Joy Cart mission is to positively impact children in various crisis situations, providing for a joyous moment or experience and/or assisting organizations caring for children in crises through various forms of donations. | 7/7 | Over |
| Kentucky Horse Park | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Assisting with Mounted Police, Maintenance and Landscaping Mission: The mission of the Kentucky Horse Park is to celebrate the history of our relationship with horse through education, exhibition, engagement and competition. | 54/53 | Over |
| LexArts | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service:Gallery preparation, painting, cleaning chairs and tables Mission: LexArts promotes high quality arts experiences for the benefit of all the people of central Kentucky through funding, advocacy, technical assistance, communication and programming initiatives | 10/10 | Over |
| Lexington hearing and Speech Center | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Determined once close to the event dependent on weather. Site: he mission of Lexington Hearing & Speech Center is to teach children with hearing, speech, and language impairments to listen and talk. We do this by providing high-quality educational, clinical, and family support services. | 7/6 | Over |
| Lexington Rescue Mission | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Wrapping cookies and silverware, deep cleaning the mission, making folders for mission tours, any other indoor projects that might arise that day of higher importance. Site: Since 2001, Lexington Rescue Mission has worked to rebuild lives that have been broken by poverty. Poverty steals peace. It crushes dignity. It... | 7/7 | Over |
| Love The Hungry | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | We are excited to be partnering with Love The Hungry, a nonprofit based out of Louisville that is dedicated to packing meals to distribute locally and globally. Love the Hungry’s nutrient-rich meals are donated to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) worldwide with an emphasis on reaching the world’s most vulnerable children. Although... | 154/250 | Over |
| Maker's Mark Secretariat Center | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: One or more of any of the following: repairing/painting fences; repairing/painting jumps and standards; landscaping and gardening; clearing riding trail; scrubbing interior of the barn; reorganizing/cleaning out storage building. Site: Our premier reschooling facility showcases adoptable Thoroughbreds. Founded in 2004, the MMSC uses its illustrious location to herald the... | 33/33 | Over |
| Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Helping PCAK prepare for our annual Kids Are Worth It! conference - putting T-shirts in participant bags, sorting other conference materials, etc. Site: To prevent the abuse and neglect of Kentucky’s children through advocacy, education, awareness and training. | 8/8 | Over |
| The Living Arts and Science Center | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Outdoors: Gardening projects, lower tree limb thinning, weeding, leveling the ground Indoors: Painting, assisting with the Discovery Exhibit, switching the Theme Room with the Recyclables Room (General Reorganization) Mission: Our mission is accomplished through hands-on and interactive instruction in arts and science directly from professional educators and active artists... | 15/20 | Over |
| The Nest: Center for Women, Children, and Families | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: We will be sorting clothing donations (by size, season, & gender) and doing some light cleaning around the building. Donation sorting will be outside pending weather. Site: The Nest provides a safe place for education, healing, counseling, and support to women, children and families in crisis. We focus on... | 12/12 | Over |
| UKY Arboretum | 8:00am (ET) | 11:00am (ET) | 160 Avenue of Champions Lexington, KY 40506-0676 Located in the Gatton Student Center Ballrooms | Service: Weeding, tree cutting, tidying up grounds, watering Mission: to showcase Kentucky landscapes and serve as a resource center for environmental and horticultural education, research and conservation. | 11/11 | Over |
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