Please share this with your volunteers as a development opportunity!
Want to develop your leadership skills and get more people involved in building our community?
Volunteer and Mentor Center projects & teams are led by our amazing Volunteer Leaders. Attend our free training and learn how to develop and manage every aspect of our projects, from agency contact and volunteer sign-ups to project management and follow-up. As our strongest link to the community, Volunteer Leaders ensure that every volunteer has a positive experience and that the real needs of the agencies are being met.
Volunteer Leader Training is also very valuable to volunteers active within any of our Partner Agencies. Having a trained Volunteer Leader volunteering at any of our Partner Agencies helps to facilitate the process when the Center sets up a project at an agency for an employee day of service, a national day of service, or just a group volunteer project.
Volunteer managers, consider having a volunteer that works on setting up and facilitating group projects within your agency. One less thing on your plate :o)
Date: December 4 from 6-8pm
Location: United Way MWV (455 Bliler Ave. NE Salem 97301)
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Still Need Projects for Willamette Valley FBLA!!!!
The Volunteer & Mentor Center is excited to organize a large-scale service project for the Willamette Valley Region of Future Business leaders of America (FBLA)!!
These 100 high school students (freshman-senior) from around the valley will be at a conference, convened at Chemeketa Community College, on January 31st, and are available to complete service projects. The project can be anything, as long as they can complete it on the college campus.
Examples might include assembling a mailing or information packets, sorting donations such as books or clothing, or creating toys for animals. We are looking for 10 projects for students broken into groups of 10.
We must have agency commitment by December 1st!
If you are interested, please contact Khela (ksinger-adams@unitedwaymwv.org, 503-363-1651) and provide the following information:
1) Agency name
2) Project contact information
3) General project idea (we will finalize details later, just need general idea and commitment)
As a note we will take care of picking up materials and returning completed projects to your agency. We hope you will join us as it is a great opportunity to help high school students learn about the mission of your organization and ways they can get involved in the community.
These 100 high school students (freshman-senior) from around the valley will be at a conference, convened at Chemeketa Community College, on January 31st, and are available to complete service projects. The project can be anything, as long as they can complete it on the college campus.
Examples might include assembling a mailing or information packets, sorting donations such as books or clothing, or creating toys for animals. We are looking for 10 projects for students broken into groups of 10.
We must have agency commitment by December 1st!
If you are interested, please contact Khela (ksinger-adams@unitedwaymwv.org, 503-363-1651) and provide the following information:
1) Agency name
2) Project contact information
3) General project idea (we will finalize details later, just need general idea and commitment)
As a note we will take care of picking up materials and returning completed projects to your agency. We hope you will join us as it is a great opportunity to help high school students learn about the mission of your organization and ways they can get involved in the community.
42 Volunteers Participated in Family Volunteer Day!
42 volunteers participated in the Volunteer & Mentor Center's first annual Family Volunteer Day! Projects included volunteering at Mission Mill Museum decorating for the Mill's annual Magic at the Mill event and creating crafts for kids to complete at the event, working in a community garden for Marion-Polk Food Share, and tagging clothing donations at the Willamette Humane Society's thrift store.
All volunteers were provided with an Incredible's DVD and Incredible's merchandise - all provided by Disney VoluntEARS, the official sponsor of Family Volunteer Day. But more than that, the families had an opportunity to volunteer together, spending time as a family while serving our community!
We'll be rolling out more national Days of Service over the next year, so stay posted and be thinking about what projects your agency needs to complete. The next day of service will be Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Into the Streets in January!
All volunteers were provided with an Incredible's DVD and Incredible's merchandise - all provided by Disney VoluntEARS, the official sponsor of Family Volunteer Day. But more than that, the families had an opportunity to volunteer together, spending time as a family while serving our community!
We'll be rolling out more national Days of Service over the next year, so stay posted and be thinking about what projects your agency needs to complete. The next day of service will be Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Into the Streets in January!
Training Opportunities for our VISTA
We are working on developing our onsite orientation and training for our AmeriCorps VISTA that will be coming on board in early February. As part of our VISTA's training, we want to get her out into the community and interacting with a number of our partners.
We are requesting Partner Agencies that will be willing to meet with our VISTA for about 1 to 2 hours sometime in early February to do the following:
- introduce your organization
- talk about the issues facing our community in your respective service area
- talk about the resources facing our community in your respective service area
- talk about how the power of volunteerism can make an impact in your agency and service area
Please let us know if you are interested by responding to this post.
We are requesting Partner Agencies that will be willing to meet with our VISTA for about 1 to 2 hours sometime in early February to do the following:
- introduce your organization
- talk about the issues facing our community in your respective service area
- talk about the resources facing our community in your respective service area
- talk about how the power of volunteerism can make an impact in your agency and service area
Please let us know if you are interested by responding to this post.
Call for Off-Site Projects
Thank you to all of our Partner Agencies that have stepped up and provided us projects for the young woman with community service hours due to a prior felony. She still has over 30 hours to complete in the next two weeks. We are looking for the following:
1) Projects in your office that can be completed sometime over the next two weeks.
1) If someone with a felony cannot volunteer in your office, then any projects that can be completed off-site in our United Way office over the next two weeks.
Some examples: putting together mailings, stuffing hand-outs, folding brochures, wrapping presents, etc. She does excellent work!
Please help us in assisting this young woman complete her hours!!!
1) Projects in your office that can be completed sometime over the next two weeks.
1) If someone with a felony cannot volunteer in your office, then any projects that can be completed off-site in our United Way office over the next two weeks.
Some examples: putting together mailings, stuffing hand-outs, folding brochures, wrapping presents, etc. She does excellent work!
Please help us in assisting this young woman complete her hours!!!
Next Quarterly Training Topic
Our next quarterly training for Partner Agencies will be held in late January. The topic we are currently considering is incorporating volunteer opportunities for individuals transitioning out of the prison system at your organization.
If you are excited about this training topic - or have something else in mind, just let us know! We want to make sure that these trainings address topics of interest and value to your organization.
If you are excited about this training topic - or have something else in mind, just let us know! We want to make sure that these trainings address topics of interest and value to your organization.
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