Volunteer opportunities in our community 9/19/14

Good morning Prince William – Attention Garden Clubs! Rainbow Therapeutic Riding Program in Haymarket has a beautiful new perennial berm at the front of the property that needs care for a while. Come give your love of plants a little exercise until the garden becomes self-sufficient.  Please call Debi or Shane at (703) 754-6159 for more info.

Volunteer Prince William is delighted to sponsor the Volunteer Management Training series again this fall.  The course starts Wednesday October 15th 9am-11:30am and continues each Wednesday morning for 5 weeks.  This course is free but please register at: volunteerprincewilliam.org.  Topics include planning your program, recruiting and placing volunteers, training and orienting volunteers, supervision and evaluation of your program. Many thanks to the Manassas Park Rec Center for use of their class room.

Volunteer Prince William also invites you to Disaster Planning workshop for community organizations and small business on Friday October 24th in Woodbridge.  Come learn strategies to continue serving clients and customers if your employees can’t come to work or if you lose utilities or your facility is damaged.  You can register for this program at: volunteerprincewilliam.org and click on the events page or email Bonnie at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more info.

Birmingham Green is looking for a friendly visitor who speaks Vietnamese for one of their residents. Come offer your smile and conversation to another.  Please email Zach at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more info.

Beacon Adult Literacy needs volunteer tutors to teach conversation or computer literacy to ESL students in the Manassas area on Monday mornings.  Please call Caroline at (703) 368-7491 to learn more.

SERVE continues to have an urgent need for volunteers to help in the food pantry on weekdays. Volunteers age 16 and over are welcome.  This busy place needs help stocking shelves, packing food for families and especially drivers to travel to local grocery stores in an agency vehicle to pick up food donations.  You must be 21yrs old, have a good driving record and sign a driver’s agreement.  Some of the boxes may weigh up to 50 pounds.  Thousands of families benefit from this program every week.  Please email Jan to learn more at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

The Salvation Army needs to volunteers to help register families for their annual Christmas Toy program- yes I said Christmas! Volunteers are needed from September 29th to October 23rd mornings in Lake Ridge.  Please email Janus at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to learn more.  Training is provided and this is a fun short-term project that helps so many families.

If you are looking for other opportunities, call my wonderful team at Volunteer Prince William.  Coleen can help you with the Retired and Senior Volunteer (RSVP) opportunities at (703) 369-5292 ext. 207, Shelley can help with any individual or group project and send you weekly updates if you’d like.  Shelley is at (703) 369-5292 ext. 201, and Bonnie can help you with opportunities available in Disaster Preparedness at (703) 369-5292 ext. 202 or visit website at http://www.volunteerprincewilliam.org  Than.ks so much for all you do in our community.