Volunteers are needed in our community 10/3/14

Good morning Prince William.

SERVE continues to have an urgent need for volunteers to drive 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.  800 households need you!  Please email Jan to learn more at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Brain Injury Services needs a volunteer who can visit a client from Kenya. What a nice way to share your interest in East African culture with another.  Please call Michelle at (703) 451-8881 ext. 232 to learn more.

Hogar Immigrant Services is looking for volunteers to help assist eligible legal residents complete their citizenship applications on Saturday mornings each month at their Manassas office.  Please call Sabra at (571) 208-1572 ext. 102 to learn more

Volunteer Prince William is sponsoring 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 its 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.

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.

If you are looking for other opportunities, remember to 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.  Go to http://www.volunteerprincewilliam.org for more information.  Thanks so much for all you do in our community.