Metropolitan Volunteer Program

Oct 21 10:30 am

Cougar Cupboard

MVP is volunteering with Cougar Cupboard, which is an on campus food pantry available to all enrolled undergraduate or graduate students who may need access to additional food.

Oct 22 9:00 am

Rock the Campus

Rock The Campus is a campus-wide cleanup and beautification event during Homecoming week. We will be volunteering all around campus and then come back to the Student Center for a free t-shirt!

Oct 23 10:00 am

Friends of the Houston Public Library

The Friends processes and scans books culled from Houston Public Library branches and donated by the community. They sell these books at our affordable quarterly book sales and all year-long on our Amazon storefront. They also recycle any damaged books through Waste Management and offer others to local artists like the ever-creative Lee Steiner of Domestic Papers. They offer book donations to partner organizations all year long, and especially when we have a surplus of books.

Oct 24 10:00 am

The Beacon

MVP is volunteering at The Beacon, which is a non-profit organization that serves the Houston homeless community through daily services, civil legal aid, counseling and mentoring and access to housing. As volunteers we will be helping greet guests, lunch preparation and serving, and assisting with laundry.

Oct 25 12:30 pm

Kids’ Meals

Since 2006, Kids’ Meals has been making and delivering free, healthy meals directly to the homes of hungry children. Since its inception, they have given more than 8 million free meals to food-insecure children in 42 Houston-area zip codes. Kids’ Meals is a first-responder to children ages 5 and under facing debilitating hunger due to extreme poverty.

Oct 28 10:30 am

Cougar Cupboard

MVP is volunteering with Cougar Cupboard, which is an on campus food pantry available to all enrolled undergraduate or graduate students who may need access to additional food.