Volunteer Today

At UHCA, volunteers are the beating heart that keeps our neighborhood thriving. As a volunteer-run organization, every event, cleanup, garden, newsletter, and neighborhood improvement is powered by people who care enough to pitch in. Our incredible volunteer community steps up day after day to make University Heights the vibrant, connected, and welcoming place we all love to call home.

Want to be a part of the fun? We’d love to have you!

There’s no experience needed—just a willingness to show up for your neighbors. 

For Current Volunteers

To log your volunteer hours, use this form.

  • Advertising is the ultimate win-win: your contributions help fund UH News and other UHCA programs, and you get your message out to our highly desireable audience in mediums that they know and trust. Find out more here!

  • The Beautification team is exceptionally well organized and effective, yet there is always much more to do. We need volunteers to keep UH clean of trash, remove graffiti, and water trees. But we also need people who can manage cleanups, twist arms to get things done at the city, and come up with entirely new ways to make our community better.

  • Do you like to walk? If you missed delivering papers as a kid, it’s not too late to enjoy the satisfaction of being in charge of your own paper route. Ten months a year over 60 block walkers deliver over 5,300 copies of UHCA News to nearly every household and business. Whether you want a dedicated route or just want to fill in, we can always use more blockwalkers!

  • We can always use good communicators with social media skills and techies who can manage our website and content. Writing skills, good judgment, and knowledge of Facebook, Instagram, Squarespace and similar platforms and technologies is what we are looking for.

  • Whether you’ve always wanted to be (or already are) an urban planner, or just like to keep up with what’s happening to the built environment in your neighborhood, there are plenty of opportunities to learn and make a difference. If you like research and don’t mind long meetings, we need you! UHCA has representatives on both the Uptown Community Planning Group and North Park Planning Committee.

  • Help us plan and execute great events like Party on Park, Movies in the Park, and more! Whether you are an energetic, detail-oriented event planner or just want to help with setup and booth duty, let us know. It’s a great way to get out and make new friends.

  • Membership pays the bills and gives us clout. If you’re one of those people who knows everyone on your street and loves to talk about UH, help us grow our membership. Marketing skills or interest would also be a great help.

  • Whether you have a background in retail and/or awesome design skills, UHCA ihas an amazing platform that can offer nearly any kind of merchandise you can dream up! We need folks who can help with design, customer service, and keeping our online store looking fresh and promoting it.

  • Represent UH at meetings with neighborhood businesses and social groups to discuss and share ideas for keeping UH safe. Bring neighbors together in your Zone to keep an eye on things. Our Zone Watch program was one of the first of its kind and has been highly effective for decades.

  • The Meetings Committee arranges for speakers at our monthly meetings. Help us reach out to movers and shakers or just plain interesting people that our membership might want to hear from. Or, just help us set up chairs and the audio/video system. We also need folks who can help us record and post our meetings online!

  • Our community newspaper is read and respected by thousands every month. It’s also a lot of work! If you have writing or copy-editing skills, are an experienced photographer, have a background in publishing, or are good at managing projects and meeting deadlines, let’s talk.

  • Do you know products like Squarespace, MailChimp, Canva, Adobe Express, Google Workspace, and Monday.com? If you do (or want to learn), you can help us leverage our impressive technology stack (most of which is donated!to deliver more value to our community.

Volunteer Sign-Up

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