Unleash your inner scientist! Join the race organised as part of the NParks Community in Nature (CIN) initiative, to identify and count as many plants and animals that you can find in a park or nature reserve.

The intensive biodiversity activity, Nationwide BioBlitz cum Habitat Enhancement 2021, provides the opportunity for members of the public to work independently alongside volunteer scientists.

Head out to the park between 8am – 12pm on any day between 4 – 19 September and record down as many species of animals from a chosen survey taxa – birds, butterflies, dragonflies and bees – and submit the results in an online form.

A basic identification training recording will be shared with you prior to conducting the activities. Training is not compulsory if you are confident and comfortable enough to identify the animals from the taxa.

Click here to register for Nationwide BioBlitz!

For more information and registration for the Habitat Enhancement, visit www.nparks.gov.sg/bioblitz. Do note that limited slots are available, and will be assigned on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Campaign Period: 2 August to 11 October 2021

It's time to Move It again with 3M Moves @ South East! 3M aims to harness the community to exercise and “earn” 3M products for the underprivileged students in the South East District.

It's simple! For every 20 minutes of exercises, 3M will donate 1 stationery item. The exercises can be in any form (e.g. Running, Skipping, rackets sports etc.) except walking. Exercises can be done physically on your own or virtually through online exercise classes.

Clock your exercises directly to 3M Moves @ South East.

Link to submit exercise results:

http://go.gov.sg/3mmoves-submitresults

Link to sign up for online exercise class:

https://go.gov.sg/3mmoves-classes2021

For more info, see the campaign webpage at: https://go.gov.sg/3mmoves2021info or the PDF below.

Giving.sg is the one stop platform for you to donate, volunteer and fundraise.

As part of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre's continued effort to support the community for another year, there will be 0% TRANSACTION FEES on Giving.sg from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022. Therefore, 100% of your donations will go to charities – creating a 100% impact!

Together, we can emerge stronger as one City of Good ❤️

COVID-19 is turning our lives upside down, and some people may feel stressed and anxious. Here is some advice from gov.sg on how you can cope:

Tips for Battling Stress and Anxiety during COVID-19

Soles4Souls turns unwanted shoes and clothing into opportunity by keeping them from going to waste and putting them to good use.

Donate your shoes to Soles4Souls. Pre-loved shoes will be sold to entrepreneurs in developing countries like Haiti, Honduras, Sierra Leone and the Philippines to start roadside shoe shops or market stalls.  These micro-enterprises generate sustainable employment and income for local communities; a powerful way to lift individuals and their families out of poverty. Donating something which would otherwise have been thrown in the bin also helps to reduce landfill.

Clear out your cupboards and let’s make lots more happy feet! Help keep shoes out of landfills and help realise the power of a pair of shoes to thousands of people all over the world. Find a drop-off locaton near you or ship them for free.

Give shoes! 

ItsRainingRaincoats is collecting old laptops, handphones (in working condition please), cameras and shavers to bring about greater convenience to the lives of our migrant worker brothers.. They welcome new items too.

Please WhatsApp any of the numbers below:

Michelle 9689 1535

Kiran 9023 2930

Project Vidya is a giving project sponsored by the social enterprise Good Karma.

Help recycle Ewaste & Promote Education among the Needy! Laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones can donated and will be refurbished to give to needy families.

To participate, contact Project Vidya.

Call: 8613 4970 for more information.

Haze-Free Foodstand is a PM Haze campaign that promotes the use of sustainable or 'haze-free' palm oil.

Palm oil is used in 90% of eateries in Singapore and it is the most efficient crop in the world. But very few use certified palm oil that is cultivated using sustainable farming methods that preserve the environment and can say with certainty that they do not contribute to the haze.

Your food choice is your voice. Join with PM Haze and take a stand with sustainable palm oil, www.pmhaze.org/foodstand

Download the PDF below with a list of Singapore's Haze-Free Foodstands.

Looking for a way to empower fragile communtiies during these trying times? The organization Safe Water for Every Child has identified a need amongst their constituency, the indigenous Karen people on the Thai-Burma border region - improving English language skills. And they've come up with a creative way to address it - virtual tutoring via simple social media tools. If you are interested in using your post-CB time to engage in simple tutoring for young adults wanting to improve their English language skills, please register here.

For more information on Safe Water for Every Child's efforts to provide access to clean drinking water among at-risk communities, check out their Facebook page.

Thank you to the 40 FOM urban archaeologists who came out for the FOM Singapore Heritage Tile Tidy on Saturday 8 May in Bukit Brown Cemetery.

Special thank you to our leaders Cathie Chua, Clare Teo, Bukit Brown caretaker Ah Beng Soh, and Bukit Brown Brownies Claire Leow, Peter Pak and Raymond Goh, and working remotely from Australia, Singapore Heritage Tile Project Director Jennifer Lim.

Learn more about the Singapore Heritage Tile Project here.

Learn more about the History of Bukit Brown here.

Watch a video of our Tile Tidy morning here to see Bukit Brown's true colors emerge. They are beautiful like a rainbow!

For individual photographs, see the FOM Singapore Heritage Tile Tidy photo album on the FOM Members Care! public Facebook page.

By that I mean we have confirmed the dragonflies and damselflies we surveyed on Saturday 6 March, updated our data sheets, and uploaded the information onto the NParks data base.

With the data collected from survey transects from the various parks around Singapore during the designated survey periods, NParks can start piecing together information about where our dragonflies and damselflies are found and in what numbers. This information will contribute towards better park management and conservation measures. Thank you to FOM member Sim Chong Teck for suggesting this fun activity!

Results from the 2020 survey can be found in PDF form below. We will post 2021's survey results when they are available from NParks.

Thank you to everyone who voted for their favorite photograph in the Spring Equiox Photography Contest by "liking" it on Facebook. The "Fan Favorite" is Vince Kasten's photograph of "Love at First Sight" between a Common Amber Wing and a Common Scarlet. "Best in Show" was awarded to Jo Wright for her delightful Yellowbar Flutterer, both taken during the FOM NParks Dragonfly Watch @ GBTB on 6 March 2021.

All entered photographs can be found in the Spring Equinox Photography Contest photo album on the FOM Members Care! public Facebook page.

94 FOM Members and Friends walked 641 KM in the FOM Walk for Rice 2020 on 5 December 2020 in the Singapore Botanic Gardens and On Their Own!

With the Fair Price partnership, this translates to 2137 Bowls of White Rice, 2137 Bowls of Brown Rice, and 2137 Bowls of Oatmeal for the Needy.

Way to Go FOM!!!

Watch the video here.

For individual photos from the video, see the FOM Walk for Rice 2020 album on our FOM Members Care! Facebook group

For accumulated results from 2020 FairPrice Walk for Rice @ South East (as of 1 Dec 2020), download the numbers found below taken from the Jan-Apr 2021 Contact South East magazine.

FOM Members Care Events and Volunteer Opportunities:

1. Should meaningfully contribute to our mission: support for Singapore’s heritage, local health & human services, and/or Singapore’s environmental contribution to a healthy planet.

2. Ideally, should be partnered with a Singapore-registered charity. (Events in many cases introduce the charity to a new audience. Therefore, it should represent the charity in such a way that it will encourage continued volunteer support.)

3. Should not include a registration fee nor a mandatory financial contribution to participate.

4. Should promote FOM community bonding.

5. Should be inclusive (ideally held on weekends or in the evening or in conjunction with an FOM event, and should not require advanced training.)

6. Should be FUN!