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Season of Service FAQs

Click on the questions below to find the answers.

What is the Season of Service?

What is a Season of Service project?

What are the Season of Service emphasis areas?

Why Officially Register your Project?

How do I get my church / organization/ business involved?

How do I recruit volunteers?

What is the Season of Service?

Yakima Valley churches, businesses, and civic agencies have been serving their communities for years. The Season of Service is a historic partnership of these entities to serve at the same time through a season to show their neighbors an unprecedented display of love.

What is a Season of Service project?

Partnership projects and volunteer opportunities for the Season of Service must meet a tangible need in the community. Projects are for the purpose of improving the life of another person or group of people in a physical or emotional way.

Yakima Valley CityFest, the Season of Service, and the Luis Palau Association do not allow opportunities to be posted that are primarily focused on fundraising, public and private advocacy for or demonstrations against specific moral and/or religious political positions, organizations, political parties and/or political candidates. Posted projects of this nature will be flagged as inappropriate and removed.

What are the Season of Service emphasis areas?

Yakima Valley CityFest has several Season of Service project emphasis areas. They’ll get you thinking creatively about where and how you can serve. Previous festival cities have focused on:

• Education
• Families in Need
• Health and Wellness
• Homelessness
• Neighborhood Revitalization

For more information on Yakima Valley’s specific areas download the Yakima Valley SOS Emphasis Sheet

Why Officially Register your Project?

Registering your project allows all the Yakima Valley to see how your church or organization is serving our community through the Season of Service. It also offers a simple way for people to contact you if they want to get involved.

By registering, you:
• Provide crucial information to your project volunteers (date, location, time, etc.)
• Publicize your project for FREE
• Recruit even more volunteers without lifting a finger (until the project itself, of course).

Register your project(s) NOW!  

How do I get my church / organization/ business involved?

1. Investigate different project / service ideas that your group can organize and carry out.
2. Download the SOS Emphasis Sheet for ideas and opportunities. Yakima Valley SOS Emphasis Sheet
3. Identify a project coordinator to facilitate your project(s).
4. Register your project online. 

Are you a group leader who is having a hard time identifying a project. Click here to see a list of projects that need to be adopted by a group.

How do I recruit volunteers?

Register your project. (See "Why Officially  Register your Project?"above) Other ideas to help promote your project and recruit volunteers:

• Announce your project in person at your church or organization
• Post the opportunity on a community bulletin board in your church or organization
• Send an email blast
• Link to your project plan on this website from your church/organization’s website
• Pass out flyers in your neighborhood or near the project site
• Offer an incentive for volunteering, like a free T-shirt (see above), a potluck/picnic/barbeque before or after the project, give-aways throughout the service project (like bottles of sunscreen, chap stick, gift certificates, Frisbees, etc.), and more.  Be creative!

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