Serve the City

Activities: Community Volunteer Projects
Location: Multiple Destinations

Serve the City is a global movement of volunteers  showing kindness in practical ways to people in need.

We partner with homeless shelters, refugee centers, orphanages, and other associations, offering help and support. Serve the City creates events that mobilize many volunteers to serve in simple ways – sports, music, arts and crafts, meals, friendship and more. We are the connection between the good intentions and talents of people who could volunteer and a meaningful opportunity to get involved.

And that’s where it starts. We cross the line from where we are and serve. But that’s just the beginning. The dream of Serve the City is everyone serving. As soon as possible we invite those we have met while serving to join us, because what we really want is to cross the line together.

Serve the City is for everyone. It’s a revolution, a serving revolution. And it’s going to change the world.

History

In 2005, Serve the City began in Brussels as weekly volunteering sessions. Now, Serve the City is active or starting up in 65 cities throughout the world (www.servethecity.net). Serve the City Madrid was created un 2012 thanks to Warren and Karen Batt, and it has not stopped growing since it started!

Serve the City aims to create a sense of community through serving the city, by organizing and facilitating volunteer projects to help the underprivileged in our society.

We work hard for STC to be a movement that is truly accepting, open, and welcoming of all people, without exception and that those people will not be asked or expected to agree or confirm to the beliefs of anyone else.

How do we go about it?

organizing and promoting volunteer projects
actively seeking and maintaining contact with local humanitarian/ social work organization
offering help to those in need, regardless of race, religion or social status
encouraging teamwork among individuals and uniting their individual strengths so that they can collectively help the society in which they live
stimulating individual initiatives and helping to develop such initiatives
providing a starting point for people who would like to do “volunteer work” – expressed in the broadest sense of the term

Our values

These virtues guide all of our decisions and we desire that all of our volunteers, team members and partners to adopt these attributes as their guiding principles:

Humility
Compassion
Respect
Courage
Love
Hope

Internships

An internship with Serve the City will provide you an experience that will change you forever! Whether you are interested in learning more about the nonprofit sector in general, about project management and fundraising, or about traditional business practices; Serve the City is the perfect platform to apply your skills in a real work setting.

We are an extremely entrepreneurial organization that values the unique talents and participation of every person who works with us. We encourage you to know yourself and your passions so you can learn to enjoy work and not just go to work! Serve the City treats interns as a vital part of our family and we ensure your work is both meaningful and productive.

You can choose among six different European cities: