Fall Clean Up > Off-Campus Life

Fall Clean Up 2022 is expected to be on November 5th, and Fall Clean Up 2022 registration is expected to open September 6th.

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.

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 2022 event, including a register-by-mail form, please call Off-Campus Life at 970-491-2248.

Fall Clean Up 2022 will take place on Saturday, November 5, 10:00am-2:00pm.

Neighbor registration will be open September 6th – October 14th, 2022.

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 6th at 9:00 a.m.

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VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION

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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.

NEIGHBOR TESTIMONIALS

“Everyone who helped in my yard clean-up was very friendly, courteous and hardworking... This helped make it much easier for me to prepare for winter. Much thanks.”

“The Fall Clean-Up program readies my home for the winter, doing what I am not able to because of health/financial constraints. The crew did a beautiful job, including their 4-legged helper Glory – she “picked up” sticks. All are wonderful people, it was a pleasure to meet and for whom I am very grateful! Thank you!”

“I found this was an inspiring experience: they were all eager to help and take my direction on the proper way to do it, and I learned from their suggestions as well…I feel they are each outstanding individuals and CSU will be proud of them.”

“The students were amazing! So cheerful and hard workers. This program definitely creates good feelings in the community. Thanks!”

“The students were terrific, hard-working, taking initiative, working well together, giving me suggestions and getting more done than I could have accomplished all year. They were very friendly and happy to be helping – I appreciate everything SO VERY much! Many, many thanks!”

Watch our informational video on Fall Clean Up below!