Downtown Green Team

The Downtown Green Team helps keep downtown’s public spaces spruced-up and beautiful, while helping out with various events. Consisting of community volunteers, the group assists in downtown beautification efforts and local experiences. Examples of Green Team initiatives include planting and pruning, trimming, painting, litter removal, infrastructure audits, hospitality greeters, event volunteers, and more.

Have an hour to spare here, there, and throughout the year?

Join the Downtown Green Team e-mail list to receive updates on future volunteer opportunities. You can participate as often as you’d like, with no set commitment!

Upcoming Opportunities

  • Spruce Up the Square is an hour-long weekly volunteer series every Sunday morning at Public Square. Help beautify Cleveland's central gathering space by helping with a variety of tasks including pruning, trimming, weeding, litter removal, and more as necessary.

    Join us every Sunday, May-October, from 11am-12pm!*

    *No Spruce Up on Sunday, August 31st due to Labor Day Weekend and the Cars in Cleveland event.

    October Spruce Ups (10/5, 10/12, 10/19, and 10/26) will featuring holiday light installation to help transform Public Square for WinterLand!

    Sign up here!

  • Stirring Up Hope is a weekly, volunteer-run city-wide soup pantry in collaboration with EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute and Old Stone Church's Mission & Outreach committee.

    This program will feature EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute-crafted soup, straight from the kettle, available for free beginning at 11am. Soup will be served until it runs out (where your help is needed!), in front of Old Stone Church's Sanctuary steps across from Public Square.

    Stirring Up Hope will take place every Wednesday through the fall, beginning on September 24th.

    Sign up here!

Join the Green Team!

Want to help make our Downtown more beautiful? Want to get out and meet your neighbors? Join the Downtown Cleveland Green Team! Sign up below and we will contact you about upcoming opportunities!