2019 Global Days of Service
Walden’s annual Global Days of Service is an opportunity for the Walden community to make an impact in neighborhoods around the world and advance the university’s mission of positive social change.
Members of the Walden community generously donate their time and expertise to serve their neighbors in need, as they experience firsthand the impact they can make in the lives of others. Students, alumni, faculty, and staff contribute to community projects serving schools, food banks, community centers, and much more.
2019 Global Days of Service Recap
On October 18, employees from Walden and Walden University volunteered at Gwynns Falls Elementary School, a Title I school serving a predominately African-American population of scholars in Baltimore. Volunteers helped build a maker space to support STEM/robotics, created a Zen garden next to the playground, re-envisioned the teachers lounge, and more.
On October 17 and 18, Walden’s Columbia office packed comfort kits for the Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training and Baltimore Outreach Services. They also organized a clothing drive for Baltimore Outreach Services.
Volunteers assembled more than 1,000 comfort kits and 300 brown bag lunches. They also packed 21 extra-large boxes with clothing donations, and contributed diapers, toys, 90 bottles of laundry detergent, 600 bottles of shaving cream, and razors.
On October 19, Walden University Online employees in Gdansk and their families joined 900 others from local organizations to plant more than 59,000 saplings in a forest destroyed by a storm in 2017.
As Global Days of Service concluded, employees in Gdansk supported an animal shelter and two families in need. For the animal shelter, they donated money and supplies. For the families, they helped pay for a youth to get a drivers license and a family to get a refrigerator filled with food.
On October 22, Walden employees from the Minneapolis office volunteered at Second Harvest Heartland sorting and packing food to be donated to families who experience hunger.
On October 24, the Military Services Office organized Global Days of Service volunteers to beautify Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery in Owings Mills, Maryland, in preparation for Veterans Day.
Over several days in October during Global Days of Service, employees from Walden’s San Antonio office assembled care packages and completed landscaping projects for Haven for Hope. The nonprofit provides services to people experiencing homelessness in Bexar County.
On October 15, employees from Walden’s Tempe office volunteered for the International Rescue Committee at New Roots garden, which trains refugees to grow and sell their own food in the community. The volunteers pulled weeds, raked debris, and beautified the garden.
