Cleaning is an excuse, friendship is wonderful 🙂 It’s 11 o’clock in the morning, and Jennifer, originally from Portland, Oregon, is handing out supplies to a group of volunteers. For the next two [...]

Amsterdam, 1 November – Serve the City is launching a new initiative to highlight the positive impact of expats in Amsterdam. On 21 February 2025, the very first Expat of the Year Award [...]

For Serve the City at Work, – corporate volunteering,  we’re looking for lively trash tour guides (yes, we’ll pay you!) to lead trash-picking adventures through Amsterdam’s beautiful parks [...]

EVERY CITY NEEDS A TINY 🙂 “Just walk straight ahead, Marck!” I yell to Marck, who is on his way to the Serve the City’s kick-off event with his white visually impaired cane. [...]

Where society sees a limitation, Ympact020 sees an opportunity! Juliette, Stine, Yasminah and Alexandra (14-17 years old) received their Europass, a certificate for young people, which they [...]

Pancakes are deeply ingrained in Dutch culture and you can find a Pannekoken huis in almost every town. They are a source of joy for both young and old. This cherished Dutch treat is embraced [...]

Serve the City is run by an eclectic mix of people from all backgrounds, ages and walks of life. Their common goal? To make Amsterdam just a little better, day by day. But who are they, and how [...]

Who’s on the receiving end of your Reversed Advent box? This thought may have crossed you mind while grabbing the ingredients from the calendar over the past few weeks. There are roughly 30.000 [...]

Did you know that Amsterdam is one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world with 180 nationalities? We couldn’t be happier that some of these non-Dutchies have also found their way to Serve [...]

The holidays are usually a time for giving but Nathan prefers to do the opposite. ‘Of course, it’s great to receive a beautiful gift but I already have plenty of stuff!’ So when he learned about [...]