Get involved
Not as helpers to an adult-run charity — the actual work. Students watch the listings, make the phone calls, load the vans, carry the amplifier up the stairs, and sit down at the piano in the day room. If you want something on a college application that you can actually talk about for ten minutes, this is it.
Around twenty minutes of material, at a residence near you, a few times over a term. Any instrument. No audition — if you have had a year of lessons, you are ready.
Watching listings, writing to owners, checking an instrument over, and the unglamorous business of getting a piano down a set of front steps. You do not need to play anything.