Dates, prices and ages from each venue's own site. Check there before you go: weather closes these.
An early turkey trot: a chip-timed 5K and a 1-mile fun run around the school where every finisher gets a medal, for a local Girl Scout troop's projects.
A flat, chip-timed 5K run/walk finishing in Veterans Park, with a medal for every finisher 7 and under; it funds Bordentown's community events.
A Camden City School District 5K run/walk on the waterfront, open to everyone, paying for the seniors' Project Graduation celebration.
The Home and School Association's 17th annual trot, with a 5K, a walk and a kids' mile, raising money for the Jeffrey Clark and Samuel Mickle schools.
The schools' first Unified Turkey Trot, raising money for the district's Unified program, which brings students with and without disabilities together.
A neighborhood 5K capped at 200 runners, with a Toys for Tots collection; it pays for children's activities in Kings Grant.
A 5-mile run along Forbidden Drive and a 1-mile walk, for Face to Face's meals and services in Germantown; park at Chestnut Hill College, a 10-minute walk away.
A chip-timed 5K and a free 1-mile fun run in Crows Woods, with turkeys and pies for winners and cider, cocoa and muffins at the field house.
A chip-timed Thanksgiving 5K with a long-sleeve shirt for everyone; runners can add a donation to the Evesham Township Police Foundation.
The 53rd annual 5K run/walk through Medford Lakes; it pays for accessible borough buildings and beaches, and the Lions collect food for their food bank.
A low-key, untimed 5K and fun run on the high school's cross-country trails, with free snacks and a collection of breakfast foods for local students.
A family 5K in Chestnut Branch Park raising money for a local 12-and-under girls' team.
A chip-timed 5K and a 2-mile walk from the RiverWinds Community Center, with a food drive for the Greater Woodbury Cooperative Ministries food bank.
A trail 5K over dirt, grass and sand at Autumn Lake Winery, with part of the profit going to All Mutts Matter Rescue.
A timed 5K that starts and finishes at the park's gazebo, with free parking at the park.
The Greater Philadelphia YMCA's Thanksgiving race on its Navy Yard course: a chip-timed riverfront 5K and an untimed family walk, for Y financial aid.
A new 5K and 1-mile walk on Locke Ave Park's paved paths, raising money for the Walter Hill School program that rewards students' effort.
A chip-timed 5K on Wenonah's tree-lined streets and an untimed fun run, for the Children's Home Society of New Jersey; bring a canned good for the pantry.
A chip-timed 5K and 1-mile fun run in Westmont, with finisher medals and a Thanksgiving costume contest.
A chip-timed 5K through historic downtown Mount Holly, plus a family mile and a kids' mile, raising money for the town's youth recreation programs.
Philadelphia's 107th Thanksgiving parade, the country's oldest: giant balloons, floats and marching bands through Center City, live on 6abc.
A Bucks County farm festival with a wagon ride, a five-acre corn maze, farm animals, slides and a pumpkin patch.
The closing stretch of Linvilla's fall pumpkin grounds, with weekend corn and straw-bale mazes and a closing weekend of food trucks.
A hayride out to the fields to dig your own sweet potatoes and pick popcorn.
An extra closing weekend of the farm's fall festival, with corn and hay-bale mazes, pumpkin painting, barnyard animals and wagon rides.
Take a turn on the farm's hand-cranked cider press and apple peeler, and get fresh cider for helping.
Thanksgiving weekend on a working 1900-style farm: pick corn by hand and earn a hay-wagon ride with food for the donation wagon.
Philadelphia's fall park cleanup: tend gardens and flower beds, care for trees and pick up litter, with tools, gloves and materials provided. Pick a park near you on the sign-up page.
Pack the month's food boxes for families in need around Philadelphia; volunteer drivers then pick them up, Sunday to Tuesday, and deliver them.
The Volunteer Center of South Jersey's Family Volunteer Day: meet local nonprofits, then do hands-on service projects for the community right there.
Volunteers smoke the turkeys and get ready the night before, then cook, pack and deliver Thanksgiving meals to people who are homeless or in need. Join the volunteer network to get the details by email.
A Cherry Hill accounting firm's holiday drive matches you, through partner agencies, with one of more than 50 South Jersey families in need, and you shop from the family's wish list: toys, or ShopRite and Walmart gift cards. Pick a family size, from one or two children to five or more.
Serve the daily meal restaurant-style, to guests seated at tables, or sort mail for the more than 5,000 people who use Broad Street Love as their address. Expect to be on your feet the whole shift.
Help in the kitchen or pack snack bags and Caring Bags for neighbors in need. Make an account in the volunteer portal, then pick a shift.
Help serve meals in Camden, or bring in a family project: decorated placemats or centerpieces for the dining room, utensil packets or sandwiches for to-go meals. Email before dropping projects off.
Gifts for children, teens and young adults in Center For Family Services' group homes and shelters, and for families it serves. It asks first for money, so its staff can shop from each child's list and wrap; you or your company can sponsor the wish list of a whole safe home's children through the address on its page.
Sort and pack donated essentials into bundles for kids in need. Register in the volunteer portal first: only pre-registered volunteers get in.
Pack and sort donated food in the warehouse, from assembling food boxes to repacking donations for the food bank's partner pantries in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties. Closed-toe shoes required.
Prepare and serve breakfast or dinner at Camden's shelter for people who are homeless, and stay for coffee and conversation with guests if you like. Groups can bring a casserole ready to heat, though food isn't required.
Prepare food and pack meals in MANNA's kitchen, or drive meals to people's doorsteps around Philadelphia.
Serve lunch or dinner to people who are homeless or hungry, then sit down and share the meal with a guest. Wear closed-toe shoes, long pants and a shirt with sleeves, tie long hair back, and take no photos of guests.
Seat, serve and bus tables at the Kensington meal that feeds about 300 people a day. Sign up through the volunteer email or group form on its page.
Gallery talks, artifact highlights and hands-on activities on Native American history, including a weekend workshop making a Wampanoag-style corn-husk doll.
Longwood's fall flower show: conservatories full of chrysanthemums trained into shapes, cascades and thousand-bloom plants.
Living history for the fort's 1777 siege: Revolutionary War soldiers and civilians, musket and cannon demonstrations, and 18th-century toys for kids to try.
A session for young children on Native dance traditions, built around the picture book Jingle Dancer, with a gallery walk and music and movement.
An evening of Lenape culture, drumming and storytelling from the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, at Woodmere in Chestnut Hill.
A drop-in family session over Thanksgiving break: design and test your own marble run.
Free drop-in art-making: a box modeled on the museum's birch-bark boxes on Friday, a painted cardboard owl on Saturday.
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