Watertown Helps Out (WHO), is a month of community service in May organized by the Watertown Community Foundation.  WHO helps connect corporate and community volunteers to non-profits which have projects they need help with. 

Get involved! Become a sponsor, request a project or volunteer.

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When you support WHO and become a funding partner, your company invests in a community-wide public service effort. You help reach all parts of Watertown AND your employees participate in a team-building, community service project.

Are you a Watertown nonprofit organization that needs some volunteer help? Identify a task you need help with (typically 2-3 hours).

Register your project/request volunteers using this form.

Get involved during the month of May and sign up to help in our community. The VOLUNTEER SIGN UP SHEET is live and updated weekly. Look up our past nonprofit participants and contact them any time of the year to volunteer.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

Check out our WHO Communications Toolkit.

Learn about the Annual Watertown Helps Out
FOOD DRIVE

May 26-June 9, 2026

WHO 2026 SPONSORS

CATALYZING COMMUNITY

STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONS
Logo for LifeScience at Arsenal Yards

 WHO 2025 PHOTO GALLERY

  • LIfe Science/Arsenal Yards volunteers cleaned up along the Charles River.

  • Life Science/Arsenal Yards volunteers found lots of interesting trash along the Charles River during their clean up

  • Despite the rain, Life Science/Arsenal Yards volunteers came out in force to clean up along the Charles River.

  • The Watertown Public Library was one of many donation sites for the WHO Food Drive.

  • WHO Food Drive sponsor, ButcherBox, helped to sort and deliver donations to the Food Pantries.

  • C-4 Therapeutics joins staff and residents at the Watertown Housing Authority.

  • C-4 Therapeutics helps with landscaping.

  • C-4 Therapeutics helps out backstage at the Mosesian.

  • C-4 Therapeutics applies a fresh coat of paint at the Watertown Boys and Girls Club.

  • Community volunteers help clear the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway path, guided by Watertown Community Gardens.

  • Volunteers removing invasive plants along the Greenway.

  • Volunteers painting decorations for the Watertown Community Gardens Shed at Arsenal Yards.

  • Putting the final touches on the newly decorated Watertown Community Gardens storage shed.

  • Volunteers clean up the Sculpture Walk Community Path.

  • Volunteering for the Watertown Community Fridge.

  • The whole family came out to help distribute flyers in Coolidge Square.

  • Helping out at the Miyawaki Forest.

  • Kymera employees donated food and helped sort community donations at the Watertown Food Pantry.

  • Priming flowers for the public art project at Pride.

  • Event Volunteers at Perkins School for the Blind take a break.

  • A volunteer greets concert attendees at Perkins School for the Blind.

  • Volunteers at Perkins School for the Blind concert.

  • Miyawaki Forest volunteer helps to stake trees.

  • A Life Science/Arsenal Yards volunteer excavates a foxhole of footwear along the Charles River!

  • Volunteers gather at cemetery to plant flags in honor of veterans.