Fall Clean Up

9/18/23

Fall Clean Up

By: Sophie Emerson

 

Hello Rams! The weather is getting chilly, fall drinks are back, and soon leaves will start falling. Before we know it, campus will be covered with crunchy leaves, but so will the rest of the community, including people’s yards who can’t clean them up themselves. To help them out, we have Fall Clean Up! Fall Clean Up is an event hosted by our office, Off-Campus Life, to help people who can’t take care of their yards to get ready for the winter and keep their yard tidy. We offer services such as raking leaves, cleaning out first floor gutters, cleaning first floor windows, and more. Fall Clean Up started in 2005 and we originally had 50 volunteers helping 24 neighbors, and our program has grown to over 2,000 volunteers helping over 300 neighbors!

This incredible event is taking place on Saturday, November 4th from 10 am to 2 pm.. Our volunteers foster a sense of community with both other volunteers and the people whose yards they help clean up. If you are looking to get involved in your community, you can register to volunteer with a group of at least six online on our website. Register by October 13th to come out with us! Our neighbors greatly appreciate the work we do every year, and it is extremely gratifying to help them out. Fall Clean Up creates a strong, long-lasting bond between CSU students and staff, and the community.

If you are a part of the community and have trouble doing yardwork, please reach out to us by phone at (970) 491-2248 to be added to our mailing list, get information about the event, or to register. We look forward to seeing you November 4th!

Register to volunteer and more information: https://ocl.colostate.edu/volunteer/fall-clean-up/

Fall Clean Up 2023 is expected to be on November 4th, and Fall Clean Up 2023 registration is expected to open in early September.  More information to come soon!

Fall Clean Up is an opportunity for CSU students & staff to help Fort Collins neighbors in need.

The program is aimed at assisting elderly and/or physically limited neighbors in the Fort Collins area with outdoor yard work (raking leaves, trimming bushes, cleaning gutters, etc.) that they cannot complete themselves and cannot afford to pay someone to do. This program helps facilitate positive relations between the long-term residents in Fort Collins and CSU students and staff, while also helping the neighbors to maintain their properties and get their homes ready for the fall/winter seasons.

A fall clean-up group standing in front of a house they finished, smiling at the camera

Fall Clean Up was started in 2005 and has been growing ever since. In 2005 there were 24 neighbors helped by just over 50 student volunteers. In 2018, over 2,000 volunteers helped over 300 elderly and/or physically limited neighbors. Additionally, in 2009 leaf pick-up was added to the program at many long-term neighbors’ request. The Fall Clean Up program was happy to provide a much needed service for the neighbors, who were left with numerous bags of leaves and no way to dispose of them. Today, CSU partners with students, staff and local faith-based organizations to collect all bags of leaves filled as a result of the program and take them to a composting/recycle center. See if your project meets the leaf pick-up guidelines. In 2018, nearly 5,000 bags of leaves were collected and composted!

NEIGHBOR REGISTRATION

If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive information about the Fall Clean Up 2023 event, including a register-by-mail form, please call Off-Campus Life at 970-491-2248.

Fall Clean Up 2023 will take place on Saturday, November 4, 10:00am-2:00pm. 

Neighbor registration will be open early September, 2023.

If you would like to register for a group of volunteers to help you with your yard, please call Off-Campus Life at 970-491-2248 once registration opens. We cannot take your registration until September 5th at 9:00 a.m.

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VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION

A fall clean-up group standing in front of a house holding rakes

Fall Clean Up 2023 will take place on Saturday, November 4, 10:00am-2:00pm. 

Volunteer Signup (completed online) for groups of 6 or more is open from September 5, 2023 – October 13, 2023

Volunteer check-in will be in the Longs Peak room in the Lory Student Center at 9:00 am on November 4.

Volunteer Registration is found below. 

Watch our informational video on Fall Clean Up below!

A fall clean-up team standing in front of a pile of bags of leaves

Fall Clean Up 2020 will take place on Saturday, November 7, 9:00am-2:00pm 

Volunteer check-in is at 9:00 am in the Grey Rock room in the Lory Student Center on the CSU campus).

Volunteer signup (completed online) for groups of 6 or more will be open September 1 – October 16, 2020.