Green Lawn Cemetery is the only cemetery in Central Ohio to have an active corps of volunteers.

These people offer special programs and projects and perform services that allow the staff to do their jobs more effectively and efficiently.

First Saturday at Green Lawn: This program is presented the first Saturday of every month. This program, free and open to the public, celebrates the life of people interred at Green Lawn who had an impact on Franklin County. Volunteers are needed to help do research into people to be recognized at the program, obtain speakers for this program, make the programs to hand out to visitors, greet the visitors, help with traffic on the day of the program, set up and take down the room for the program, and help provide refreshments for the program.

Photo Contest: This is an annual contest open to all Franklin County residents. Volunteers administer this contest, create the flyer with the rules and guidelines, distribute this flyer throughout the community. Volunteers can also help select judges, and help set up displays using these photos in libraries, senior centers, and art galleries throughout Franklin County.

ARTIST, Art Contest: This is a newly created annual contest open to all. Any medium, such as oil painting, watercolor, sculpture, photograph, acrylic, ink, and or pencil sketches, fabric, found objects, collage, color or black/white is permitted. Volunteers administer this contest, create the flyer with the rules and guidelines, distribute this flyer throughout the community. Volunteers can also help select judges, and help set up displays using these Art pieces in libraries, senior centers, and art galleries throughout Franklin County.

Adopt-a-Lot: Adopt a forgotten lot and give it care throughout the year. Assist the project coordinator with administration of this project.

Birders Breakfast: Help obtain food and utensils for this annual project, set up the breakfast tables, greet visitors, provide directions for them upon request.

Office projects: Sort through boxes of newspaper clippings and other materials gathered over the years and file for use in current programs and projects; enter interment records into a computer database; enter information about the trees into a computer database; maintain a publicity notebook; scan section books into the computer; repair section books or copy and assemble new books.

Genealogy assistance: Call Green Lawn once a week to see if any requests have been received by e-mail or in the regular mail to look up where people are buried. If such requests have been received, go to Green Lawn, look up the interment records and compile for a staff member to mail out.

National Registry: Research and compile information to nominate Green Lawn for inclusion on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Birds: Maintain the kiosk at the west end of the pond with interesting articles and information related to the cemetery, birding, and other wildlife. Build, install, and maintain birdhouses.

Horticulture: Maintain any of the flower and perennial beds at Cremation Garden, Old Garden, New Garden, Chapel Mausoleum, Office, and new road. Plant and maintain flowers in vases and urns that are no longer maintained by original lot owners or their families. There are several of these scattered throughout the cemetery. Remove undesirable brush at various locations.

Clean-up: Clean up trash from both sides of Brown Road fence and around the north corner of the fence where trash blows in from the shopping center. Clean up downed limbs and pile along roads for Green Lawn staff to remove. Sweep grass from monuments after workers mow.

Monuments and Markers: Cut sod to expose edges of veteran's markers in military sections; assist Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in cleaning veteran's monuments and markers.

Group projects: Straighten bars on iron fence along Brown Road, wire brush and wash to prepare for painting; paint the fence. Build a wheelchair ramp for the Huntington Chapel.

Public relations: Assist in presentations at community groups such as church groups, historical societies, senior centers. Assist in developing tours through the cemetery, using information collected for the first Saturday programs. Assist in drawing up tour routes and walking tours.

Special projects: Green Lawn participates in Make a Difference Day in October and Join Hands Day in May. Groups and individuals are welcome to come out to Green Lawn to participate in a variety of activities, those listed above or on a project drawn up by the individual participant or group.