December 09, 2005
Weekly Digest December 8
Welcome to the weekly University of Vermont Community Service Programs DIGEST
1. Service Opportunity: Vermont Cares Needs YOU NEXT WEEK!
2. Service Opportunity: Help Out with Operation Snow Shovel!
3. Service Opportunity: Help Rebuild New Orleans over holiday break!
4. Service Opportunity: United Way Volunteer Listings- Week of December-8
1. Service Opportunity: Vermont Cares Needs YOU NEXT WEEK
Vermont CARES is running a gift wrapping fundraiser at Burlington Town Center this weekend through next weekend. Try to find some time in your schedule to come down to the mall, wrap gifts, and help out a great organization!
Saturday, December 10 and Sunday, December 11
9am-12noon, 12noon-3pm, 3pm-6pm, 6pm-9pm
Monday-Friday, December 12-16
11am-2pm, 5pm-8pm
Saturday, December 17 and Sunday, December 18
9am-12noon, 12noon-3pm, 3pm-6pm, 6pm-9pm
Monday-Friday, December 19-23
11am-2pm, 5pm-8pm
Saturday, December 24
12noon-4pm
If anyone needs more information, has questions and/or wants to sign up, you can reach me, Anna, by email at anna@vtcares.org or by phone at (802) 863-2437
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2.Service Opportunity: Help Out with Operation Snow Shovel!
The City of Burlington's Operation Snow Shovel program coordinates
snow shoveling services for the elderly and disabled and we need your
help. We match requests for shoveling walkways for the elderly and
disabled with community volunteers when it snows 3 inches or more.
Prior to the snow we will let you know who needs this service and you show up when it snows! All you need is a good attitude, mittens and a shovel to brighten someone's day. Please contact me as soon as possible if you are interested. Thanks!
Kasia Bergeron
kbergeron@ci.burlington.vt.us
802-865-7548
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3. Service Opportunity: Help Rebuild New Orleans over holiday break!
CAN YOU SPARE 3 DAYS IN DECEMBER?
If so, then the Gulf Coast Needs Your Help!
WANTED: COLLEGE STUDENTS & CAMPUS COMPACT MEMBERS WITH BIG HEARTS LOOKING TO HELP REVITALIZE NEW ORLEANS
WHEN: Wednesday, December 28th - Friday, December 30th ----
Volunteer for (1) (2) or all (3) days!
WHERE: New Orleans
DOING WHAT: Clean up, landscape, paint and revitalize New Orleans Recreation Department parks & playgrounds (In partnership with Friends of New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) to refurbish up to 50 playgrounds and parks with the assistance of some corporate sponsors.)
OPTIONAL: Lodging for 4 days @ Hilton, plus buffet meals and transportation to service sites for $300/per person
HOW MANY: Limited to 1,000 volunteers
WHY PARKS & PLAYGROUNDS? Hundreds of thousands of New Orleanians are scattered around the country. Before returning, they want schools to reopen AND THEY WANT CLEAN PARKS & PLAYGROUNDS FOR THEIR KIDS TO PLAY AT AFTER SCHOOL
For more details and to sign up TODAY go to: www.hart4humanity.org
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4. Service Opportunity: United Way Volunteer Listings- Week of December 8
Finding a volunteer opportunity just got easier with the United Way of Chittenden County Volunteer Center?s NEW on-line searchable volunteer database. The listings below are a small sample of the more than 450 listings from 252 agencies you can find on-line by going to www.unitedwaycc.org, and clicking on "Volunteer." If you do not have computer access, or would like information about the volunteer opportunities below, call us at 860-1677 Mon.-Fri. from 8:30- 4:30.
ADOPT A FAMILY: Imani Youth & Family Center is looking for volunteer
individuals and businesses to provide gifts for low-income families for the holiday season. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!
TIED WITH A BOW?
Vermont CARES needs volunteers to staff their gift-wrapping
table at the Burlington Town Center for weekend shifts on Dec. 17 & 18; 4-hour shifts --9 a.m.-noon, noon-3 p.m., 3-6 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Volunteers are also needed for weekday shifts during the weeks of Dec. 12 & 19 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. or 5-8 p.m. A great individual or group opportunity.
DATA ENTRY ?
Howard Center for Human Services needs a volunteer to enter data
regarding Medicare Don a computer. The project should take about 40 hours and can be shared. Flexible weekday hours.
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ?
The American Red Cross will be training volunteers to
teach in their Youth Leadership After School Program for elementary school students which take place weekdays after school, evenings and weekend days.Help is especially needed during the after-school hours. Volunteers who are trained are asked to teach a minimum of 5 classes. Teaching experience is helpful, and all needed training and certifications will be provided.
SOUP AND SALAD
Champlain & Heineberg Senior Centers are seeking a founding
volunteer chef/cook to set up procedures and oversee food preparation for their new Soup & Salad Bars to be added as senior mealsite enhancements in 2006. Food preparation and safety experience is required. The chef/cook should be willing to recruit and supervise volunteers who prepare, serve, and clean-up in a commercial kitchen. Weekdays, 4 hour shifts.
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
Here's the place to start to fill all those "I
will volunteer" resolutions for 2006.
Heart Ball Auction: American Heart Association volunteers will collect items for the auction, make follow-up calls, help transport donated items, greet guests at auction, and help with auction purchases. Prep work in January for February 11 event.
Casey Family Services: Volunteer as a tax preparer for low to moderate income families and individuals or serve as a greeter or intake worker. Returns are prepared using computer software. Weekday, evening and weekend shifts from January to April in Winooski & Burlington.
Chittenden Community Action: Volunteers in Tax Assistance (VITA) volunteers help schedule tax appointments and prepare taxes for low income Chittenden County residents. Tax preparers may become IRS certified by completing training online or through a free 3-day training session. February through April 15.
Salvation Army:
Volunteer at the Friendly Kitchen Dinner on Jan. 2. A group is needed to prepare and cook a meal for 100 diners, either off-site or in the
Salvation Army kitchen, and serve guests between 5:15 and 6:30 p.m.
Women's Rape Crisis Center: Volunteer training begins in Jan. for crisis counselors on a 24-hour hotline as well as advocates for courts and at the hospital. Evening & weekend training sessions to help volunteers learn about issues of relationship violence and the skills to support survivors. Application and screening process required.
Artsamazing!
The Girl Scout Council of Vermont needs artists to share their
talents with budding female artists. Artsamazing combines a camp-in experience with workshops led by artists with expertise in several media on Jan. 28-29, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in Barre. Artsamazing is also looking for a volunteer coordinator for the program.
SafeSpace
Volunteer for the Phone-a-Thon and make calls to supporters, organize call sheets, and help staff with paperwork for this fundraiser Jan.
23, 26 & 30 from 5:30-9 p.m.
Burlington City Arts:
Volunteer writing partners in the "New Americans, New
Voices Project" will work one-on-one with refugees to tell their personal stories in written form. Partners will also meet on alternate weeks as a group to read their stories to each other and to community members. Training will be provided for writing partners. Volunteers are also needed for transportation and to set up the reading tour.
Laurie Dana
Staff Assistant, Volunteer Center/RSVP
United Way of Chittenden County Volunteer Center
95 St. Paul St. Suite 210, Burlington, VT 05401
Phone 860-1677, Fax 864-7401
laurie@unitedwaycc.org
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Posted by hearts at 02:30 PM
December 05, 2005
Box City comes to UVM
UVM Box City: Homelessness Awareness Project
Thursday, November 17th over 40 students participated in the Box City:
Homelessness Awareness Project which included poverty awareness workshops and a
mock soup kitchen. A film screening of The Red Wagon: Facing Hunger followed the
experience of sleeping outside overnight in cardboard boxes. This both
experiential and educational event attracted students from all walks of life
who came together for one purpose: to learn more about and make a statement
about the abundance of hunger and homelessness that exists in our country today.
Thanks to donations of sleeping bags from the Outing Club and a hot but modest
meal from resident directors in the Chittenden, Buckham, Wills complex, the students
were able to experience a night outside as so many of our homeless neighbors
experience every night.
The Box City left a mark on not only those who participated, but those who
witnessed the "city" when walking from their dorms to class, read
about it in the paper, and those community members who recieve the services of COTS
which received over $100 raised through pledges. It was an experience that will stick in the
minds of many and will hopefully become an annual event bringing awareness and
education to our UVM community.
Posted by hearts at 01:11 PM