May 2017 Boston Family Volunteer Opportunities

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May 2017 - Boston Family Table Distribution with JF&CS Jewish Family and Children's Service   Date/Time: Sunday, May 14, 9am - 1:30pm, and Sunday, June 11, 9am - 1:30pm   Location: 1430 Main Street, Waltham Family Table provides healthy food on a monthly and emergency basis to individuals and families in need. Their mission is to offer food in a way that meets nutritional and spiritual needs. Family Table serves more than 100 towns across Greater Boston, the North Shore, and the South Area. Currently, Family Table is helping more than 450 families each month with groceries and connections to other services. Volunteers are needed to help with the following tasks: Setting up the pantry Packaging and delivering food orders to recipient families Ages: All ages are welcome and encouraged to volunteer when accompanied by an adult.   Time Commitment: One to four hours depending on the activity.   Contact: Email familytable@jfcsboston.org at least two weeks before distribution date to sign up. All adult volunteers must complete a JF&CS administered CORI background check. www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/Community-Services/Center-for-Basic-Needs-Assistance/Family-Table  Watertown Helps Out Watertown Community Foundation   Date/Time: Saturday, May 6. The Kick-off event will run from 8:30 - 9:30am; individual project times vary during the day.   Location: The Kick-Off event will be at The Arsenal Project, 500 Arsenal Street, Watertown. Volunteer projects are located in various locations around Watertown. Watertown Helps Out is an annual volunteer day organized by the Watertown Community Foundation. Light refreshments will be available at the Kick-Off Event as everyone fuels up for a day of helping out, meeting other volunteers, and talking about the work of WCF and the other organizations participating in Watertown Helps Out. Free T-shirts will be handed out to volunteers at the breakfast.  If you'd like to wear your T-Shirt from a prior year, please do! If you can't make it to the kick-off event, you can go directly to the site of your volunteer project.  We will try to have some spare T-shirts at each location for those who can't make it to the breakfast. After the kick-off event, volunteers will head out to help local organizations garden, paint, clean up, and more! Ages: Check individual projects for age requirements. There are several projects that are available for families with children of all ages.   Time Commitment: Most projects are between two to four hours.   Contact: All volunteers must register on SignUp.com: http://signup.com/go/rWLMPn More information can be found at www.watertownfoundation.org/who2017/ www.watertownfoundation.org   Container Days NuDay Syria   Date/Time: Saturday, May 6, 4 - 9pm   Location: 1 Chestnut Street, Nausha, NH Help Nuday Syria pack shipping containers with clothes, bedding, hospital and medical items, food, and hygiene products. Making a container and sending it off is extremely demanding and hard work, but each shipment contains actual aid that reaches the people and hospitals in need within 6-8 weeks of being loaded. The NuDay Syria community has found each container to be a very rewarding and beneficial project. Volunteers are needed to sort, box, and pack items for women and children on the outskirts of Syria who have lost everything. Wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty (we're in a warehouse and you'll sweat). Bring a smile, an open heart, and a work ethic! The fruits of your labor are tenfold. Ages: All ages are welcome. Children must be supervised in the warehouse.   Time Commitment: Two to four hours   Contact: info@NudaySyria.org www.NuDaySyria.org Mother's Day Walk For Peace Louis D. Brown Peace Institute   Date/Time: Sunday, May 14, 6am - 2pm (flexible timing for different volunteer positions) Day of Walk registration begins at 6am Opening remarks at 8am Walk begins at 8:30am Location: The walk has two starting points: Town Field Park, Fields Corner, 1520 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester (6.8 mile route) Madison Park High School, 75 Malcolm X Blvd, Roxbury Crossing (3.1 mile route) The walk ends at Boston City Hall. Click here for more walk day information   The Mother's Day Walk for Peace is a celebration of our potential to create more peaceful communities. Every year families from across the state and region walk together toward peace because in unity, there is healing! The Mother's Day Walk for Peace is an annual fundraiser for families across the region to honor the lives of our loved ones who have been killed, celebrate the courage of community, and sustain the Peace Institute's programs and services. The Walk benefits the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, a center of healing, teaching, and learning. Over the past twenty-one years, the Mother's Day Walk has become a time-honored tradition where families of homicide victims can honor the memory of their loved ones and neighbors can commit to creating more peaceful communities. Every year thousands of people participate including survivors, allies, business owners, elected officials, providers, the faith community, and law enforcement. We would love to have families come and volunteer for the walk. Families can help out by being "cheerleaders" along the walk to encourage and direct our walkers, or families can work at one of our tables handing out maps, buttons, flyers and fun swag!   Ages: Everyone is welcome!   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Ruby Sarron, Volunteer Coordinator,ruby@ldbpeaceinstitute.org, 617.435.7898 www.mothersdaywalk4peace.org,  www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/   Donation Sorting and Kitchen Help Daily Table   Date/Time: Monday - Saturday, 9:30am - 12:30pm, 1 - 4pm, 4:30 - 7:30pm; Sunday, 11am - 2pm   Location: 450 Washington St., Dorchester, 02124 The Daily Table is a not-for-profit retail store that offers a variety of tasty, convenient, and affordable foods. The store offers both "grab-n-go" ready to eat meals, and a selection of produce, bread, dairy and grocery items at prices designed to fit every budget. Daily Table receives donations of surplus produce that must be sorted and organized for quality assurance. Volunteers are needed to sort through donations and triage produce for use in the commissary kitchen, for sale on the floor, and for composting. Volunteers may also help in the kitchen with food preparation, packaging, and labeling, or preparing and distributing samples in our engagement zone. Plan to be busy and on your feet!  By volunteering, you and your family will be helping to address the wastefulness of our food system, and actively contributing to increasing food security and improving diets in Boston. Ages: Ages 16 and up; 12 and up with parental supervision   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Register at dailytable.org/get-involved/volunteer www.dailytable.org goCreate: Assemble Self-Care Kits for Kids! Boston Cares   Date/Time: Saturday, June 3, noon - 2pm   Location: Full opportunity address will be emailed to you once you are signed up GoCreate is an initiative to engage youth and families in service. Boston Cares offers a hands-on portable project on one Sunday each month for kids to get crafty while making an impact. Each month's project will meet a community need and the completed goods will be donated to local agencies to fulfill that need. In June, volunteers will be creating and assembling items that promote self-care, positive coping strategies, and overall mental health. The kit will include items such as 'calm down' glitter jars, coloring books, reflection journals, and more! The kits will be donated to kids in the Boston community.   Ages: This project is intended for families with young children, five and older. An adult 18 or older must accompany all volunteers under age 13.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Katie Edelman, kedelman@bostoncares.org, 617.422.0910, ext. 208. Registration is available online and an orientation with Boston Cares is required. Volunteer spots fill up quickly so sign-up soon! www.bostoncares.org   Make this a Summer of Kindness with DGT's Summer Bucket List Doing Good Together   Date/Time: All summer long   Location: Your home or community   Print and post one or both of DGT's two innovative Summer of Kindness bucket lists. These creative kindness projects will keep your family making big-hearted memories all summer long.    Ages: Preschool to teen   Time Commitment: 15 minutes to 1 hour per week depending upon the activities you choose to complete. Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   Let's multiply kindness! Thank you to everyone who attended our April 20th Celebration and helped us raise funds to empower families to raise children who care and contribute! If you weren't able to attend our event, here's your chance to make an impact. Every $25 raised helps DGT™ engage with a new family who wants to share more acts of kindness and service. Those big-hearted efforts have a multiplying effect: As families do more good for others, they start a family routine of giving that benefits others now and in the future. Whether you want to support one family or several, your donation helps us multiply kindness and extend DGT's reach to families across the nation. Click here to make your donation. And to instill a habit of kindness and service in your own family, be sure to join our Membership Circle if you haven't already.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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May 2017 NYC Family Volunteer Opportunities

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May 2017 - New York City Looking for a way to stay in touch with DGT™ in New York City? Join our DGT New York City Facebook page to learn about upcoming local volunteer activities and to find resources to help families raise caring and kind children. SandSational Riverside Park Conservancy   Date/Time: Saturday, May 6, 10am - 1pm   Location:  Multiple locations: Neufeld 'Elephant' Playground (76th Street) River Run Playground (83rd Street) Hippo Playground (91st Street) Dinosaur Playground (97th Street) 105th Street Tot Lot 110th Street Tot Lot 117th St Tot Lot Sakura Playground (122nd Street) Claremont 'Dolphin' Playground (124th St behind Grant's Tomb) Riverbank 'Camel' Playground (143rd Street) Fresh sand means one thing in Riverside Park: Spring! Help start the season off right by volunteering to help move new sand into your playground's sandbox. SandSational begins with a family bucket brigade, followed by parents and adults completing the job. Riverside Park Conservancy will provide pails and shovels for kids. Community volunteer events are rain or shine. Project details and meeting sites are determined two weeks before the project based on the weather and the needs of the park.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Kristin Meade, 212.870.3073, www.riversideparknyc.org/event/sandsational-2017  www.riversideparknyc.org Sort with Room to Grow Room to Grow   Date/Time: Saturday, May 6, 11am - 2pm and Saturday, May 20, 11am - 2pm Location: 7 West 30th St, 3rd Floor, NY Room to Grow is dedicated to enriching the lives of babies born into poverty throughout their critical first three years of development. Volunteers are needed to sort and fold baby clothes and organize an inventory of infant and toddler clothing, books, toys and equipment that will be given to children in poverty throughout their first three years of life.   Ages: New York Cares volunteers who have attended a New York Cares orientation can bring their children or legal wards, between the ages of 15 and 17, as long as youth volunteers have a signed waiver and are accompanied by their legal guardian at all times.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Allison Luciano, Site Coordinator, 212.620.7800. Sign up is available through the New York Cares website www.roomtogrow.org, www.newyorkcares.org/ Host a Birthday Party for Homeless Children Celebrate U   Date/Time: Thursday, May 11, 4 - 6pm   Location: Ittleson Center - 5050 Iselin Ave., Bronx Founded in 2014 in New York by two teens, Talia Eskenazi and Chase Kauder, Celebrate U is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to spread happiness by throwing birthday parties for disadvantaged children, living in underserved communities. The effect of these celebrations goes way beyond cake and party favors. Celebrate U believes that by showing children that their community truly cares about them, it can raise self-esteem, provide hope for a brighter future and empower children. A training session will take place one week prior to each event.   Ages: 5th grade and younger accompanied by an adult; 6th grade and older can attend by themselves   Time Commitment: Two hours, plus ½ hour training session   Contact: Alison Kauderr, alisonkauder@gmail.com www.celebrateu.org Soup Kitchen - Food Preparation and Service Manhattan Church of Christ   Date/Time: Saturday, May 13 and Saturday, May 27, 9am - 2pm   Location: Manhattan Church of Christ, 48 East 80th Street between Park and Madison Volunteers are needed to help set up, prepare and serve meals to members of the community who are homeless and/or live marginally.  Ages: Families with children of all ages are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: Full service is five hours, but volunteers are welcome any time during the day. Contact: Carl Garrison, carl@manhattanchurch.org www.manhattanchurch.org/  We Care Cards for Mother's Day Catholic Charities   Date/Time: At your convenience, from home   Location: After expressing interest, the volunteer coordinator will contact you to confirm participation and provide directions for this opportunity.   Throughout the year, volunteers are needed to help provide dignity to New Yorkers in need. Last year alone, Catholic Charities served over 356,000 individuals. Cards are a simple way of communicating with someone in need. When direct service is not possible, these cards let the people we serve know that they are loved and not forgotten. Your family can send cards around significant dates such as: Mother's Day, Father's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Cards can be also made around significant events, such as "Welcome to New York!" or "Good Luck on Your Interview!" Add a personal touch by including your own personal message of hope and cheer. The cards express love, support, and encouragement for those who are struggling. This is a great volunteer opportunity for young children. Ages: Children ages five and older   Time Commitment: Five   Contact: Staci-Jo Bruce, Director of Volunteer Services, ccvolunteer@archny.org or 212.371.1000 www.catholiccharitiesny.org Keeping It Green For Families Central Park Conservancy   Date/Time: Sunday, May 28 (registration opens May 1)   Location: Central Park Spend quality time with your family helping keep Central Park green by spreading mulch or raking leaves. Central Park Conservancy environmental educators lead stewardship projects throughout the Park during spring and fall. This program is for families; no groups. Space is LIMITED, advance registration is required. This program is made possible by the First Republic Bank Ages: Families with children age five and older are welcome to volunteer. An adult must accompany children.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: discovery@centralparknyc.org, 212.360.1461 www.centralparknyc.org/events/parent-events/keeping-it-green-for-families.html Hippo Playground Project Spring Fair 2017 Riverside Park Conservancy   Date/Time: Sunday May 7, 10am - 4pm. Shifts are 9:45am -1pm and 12:45 - 4pm   Location: Hippo Playground in Riverside Park at 91st Street VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED for this fun family volunteer opportunity, working at the Hippo Playground Project Spring Fair. Activities include helping children with cupcake decorating, ball tosses, bowling, serving burgers, face painting and much more. All proceeds from the Fair go to support the Hippo Playground Project which maintains Hippo Playground, provides free and low cost art and music classes at Hippo Playground, and provides seed monies for repairs and replacement equipment in playgrounds within northern Riverside Park. Ages: Children ages 9 through 13 accompanied by an adult are welcome to volunteer; teens 14 and older can volunteer by themselves.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Tali Etra, 917.414.3145, hippoplaygrounduws@gmail.com. Register for a volunteer time slot online. www.riversideparknyc.org/groups/hippo-playground/   Make this a Summer of Kindness with DGT's Summer Bucket List Doing Good Together   Date/Time: All summer long   Location: Your home or community   Print and post one or both of DGT's two innovative Summer of Kindness bucket lists. These creative kindness projects will keep your family making big-hearted memories all summer long.    Ages: Preschool to teen   Time Commitment: 15 minutes to 1 hour per week depending upon the activities you choose to complete. Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   Let's multiply kindness! Thank you to everyone who attended our April 20th Celebration and helped us raise funds to empower families to raise children who care and contribute! If you weren't able to attend our event, here's your chance to make an impact. Every $25 raised helps DGT™ engage with a new family who wants to share more acts of kindness and service. Those big-hearted efforts have a multiplying effect: As families do more good for others, they start a family routine of giving that benefits others now and in the future. Whether you want to support one family or several, your donation helps us multiply kindness and extend DGT's reach to families across the nation. Click here to make your donation. And to instill a habit of kindness and service in your own family, be sure to join our Membership Circle if you haven't already.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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May 2017 - Silicon Valley Family Opportunities

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May 2017  - Silicon Valley  Looking for a way to stay in touch with DGT™ in Silicon Valley? Join our DGT Silicon Valley Facebook page to learn more about upcoming local volunteer activities and to find resources to help families raise caring and kind children. Nature Journaling with the Citizen Science Team  Our City Forest Date/Time: Saturday May 6, 1 - 2pm Location: Ullistac Natural Area, 4901 Lick Mill Blvd, Santa Clara If you love nature, arts, science, writing, imagining and community, you'll love our Community Nursery Nature Journaling Events! Now more than ever, we need Citizen Scientists to chronicle our natural world. Together we share our curiosity and experience seeing our natural world in new ways. We'll explore the practice of nature journaling through the combined lens of artists, scientists, musicians, writers, multicultural visions, and naturalists. We will join the many Citizen Scientists who record the wonders of nature throughout the world for all to share in. No experience needed but is always appreciated. Please Bring: A pencil or pen and/or colored pencils, a journal or scratch paper and something hard to draw on (like a clipboard), reusable water bottle, close-toed shoes, sun or rain protection, a magnifying glass or binoculars, ruler, if you have them for close observations. Don't have any of this? No worries, we will provide art materials and paper.  Ages: All ages are encouraged to participate Time Commitment: One and one-half hours Contact: Libi Kavanah, volunteer@ourcityforest.org, 408.998.7337 x 123 www.ourcityforest.org/  I Care Classic Springtime Bike Tour  Almaden Super Lions Club Date/Time: May 13, 6am - 4pm Location: Paramit Corporation Campus, 18735 Madrone Parkway, Morgan Hill For 25 years, the Almaden Super Lions Club has sponsored the I CARE Classic Bike Tour to raise funds to provide eye exams and glasses for children and veterans in need. 100% of the event proceeds from rider registration are dedicated to that cause. The tour has courses for all skill levels: a 100-mile hilly course, a 100-kilometer course, a 50-kilometer course and a 20-mile course. This is a tour, not a race, and it makes for a great family outing! Ride through the spectacular spring scenery of Morgan Hill on well mapped, marked courses with great rest stops and SAG support along the way. All rest stops are well stocked with fresh fruit, home-baked cookies, trail mix, water, sports drinks and more. Refuel at the finish with a hearty barbecue chicken lunch and ice cream. Ages: All ages welcome to participate Time Commitment: Varies depending on route chosen Contact: info@icareclassic.org. To sign up, visit the Online Registration Page. www.almadenlions.org Help Out Sacred Heart Community Services Sacred Heart Community Services   Date/Time: Saturday, May 13, 9am - noon   Location: 1381 South 1st St, San Jose Since 1964 Sacred Heart Community Service has served Santa Clara County residents in need. They provide food, clothing, job training, legal services, housing assistance and educational classes free of charge to more than 1500 clients each day. Join us to support Sacred Heart's programs by building food baskets, sorting clothing and food donations, and preparing educational materials for the clients. Volunteers must wear appropriate clothing (pants, no bare midriff or low cut shirts) and closed-toed shoes. The parking lot is often available for volunteers on Saturdays, please do not park in Wendy's or Denny's. Ages: Kids ages 14 and under must have a parent or trusted adult present to volunteer   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Sergio Gonzalez, sergiog@sacredheartcs.org, 408.278.2171 www.sacredheartcs.org/ National River Clean Up Day at Vasona County Park Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department Date/Time: Saturday May 20, 9am - noon Location: Vasona County Park, 1250 Dell Avenue, Campbell. Volunteers will meet at the Los Gatos Creek Park Group Area at 9am Join millions of Americans on National River Cleanup Day to remove litter in our waterways. Litter found around the County parks and streets will eventually end up in our local creeks and rivers that flow out to the San Francisco Bay. You can make a difference in your community and for the whole Bay Area. Bring a friend and let's have some fun! No special skills are required for this event. Please bring a water bottle and sunscreen. Work gloves and pick up sticks are provided but you are welcome to wear your own. Ages: A parent or guardian must accompany volunteers age 14-15 throughout the event. Volunteers age 16-17 may participate without parent/guardian supervision but only if they present a completed volunteer application including a parent or guardian's signature. Application forms as available at the event but the parent or guardian must be present to sign. Time Commitment: Three hours Contact: To register for this event, please send an email to volunteer@prk.sccgov.org  www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/pages/parkfinder.aspx Silicon Valley Girls on the Run 5K Race Volunteer  Girls on the Run   Date/Time: Saturday May 20. The race begins at 8am Location: Vasona Lake County Park, 333 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos   Spend a morning in May with Girls on the Run of Silicon Valley! We need over 200 race day volunteers to help ensure that all our 5K participants successfully reach the finish line. Come join the fun and become a 5K Volunteer today! Pass out T-shirts at packet pick-up, hand out Mardi Gras beads and water to runners and walkers along the course, award ribbons to finishers, and more. For detailed information on the many 5K volunteer roles and to register to volunteer visit the website. Ages: All ages are welcome to participate Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Laura Krebs, Race Director, laura@gotrsv.org, 800.524.1925 x 103. Volunteers under the age of 18 have a separate registration form on the website. There are both individual volunteer opportunities and corporate/school/group volunteer opportunities available  www.girlsontherun.org Shoreline Trash Takers Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center   Date/Time: Sunday May 21, 12:30 - 2pm   Location: 4901 Breakwater Avenue, Hayward The Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, known locally as "H.A.R.D.,"is an independent special use district created to provide park and recreation services for over 280,000 residents. Since its creation, the District has provided residents with many beautiful facilities and parks, many of which have received national and state recognition for their design, innovation and beauty, as well as hundreds of educational and recreational classes and programs. Grab your work gloves and your goodwill; the salt marsh needs your help getting rid of the trash that has accumulated since our last cleanup. We will provide trash bags and have gloves to lend. Ages: All ages are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: One and one-half hours Contact: 510.670.7270, parkdept@haywardrec.org  To register visit the volunteer website and scroll down to Shoreline Trash Takers. www.haywardrec.org/ Park Beautification and Litter Clean Up at Vasona Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department   Date/Time: Saturday May 27, 9am - noon. Volunteers will meet at the Los Gatos Creek Park Group Area at 9am   Location: Vasona Lake County Park, 1250 Dell Avenue, Campbell There are many ways to keep your park beautiful! Litter is all around us. Soda cans, plastic bags, and cigarette butts litter the environment, harm wildlife, and threaten our local parks and the planet. Together we can make a difference one piece of litter at a time. No special skills are required for this event. Please bring a water bottle and sunscreen. Work gloves and pick up sticks are provided but you are welcome to wear your own. Ages: A parent or guardian must accompany volunteers age 10-15 throughout the event. Volunteers age 16-17 may participate without parent/guardian supervision but only if they present a completed volunteer application including a parent or guardian's signature. Application forms are available at the event but the parent or guardian must be present to sign.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: To register for this event, please send an email to volunteer@prk.sccgov.org www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/Pages/Welcome-to-Santa-Clara-County-Parks.aspx Relay For Life Events May 2017 American Cancer Society Family volunteer opportunities at local Relay for Life events can include, but are not limited to: Luminaria set up, trash pick up, track signs & general signage, set up/tear down, registration, and staffing the Fight Back Tent. Families are also welcome and encouraged to sign up to participate in the Relay For Life. If you are interested in walking as a family or with a team check out your local Relay For Life event sign up page. The following Relay for Life events are happening in May: Almaden Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday, May 6, 9am - 10pm Location: Almaden Lake Park, 6099 Winfield Blvd, San Jose Contact: Evan Frazer, evan.frazer@cancer.org, 408.688.0104 www.relayforlife.org/almadenca Mid-Peninsula Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday & Sunday, May 6 - 7, 10am - 8am Location: Sequoia High School, 1201 Brewster Ave, Redwood City Contact: Kate Atterbury, kate.atterbury@cancer.org, 510.464.8136 www.relayforlife.org/midpeninsulaca Willow Glen Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday & Sunday, May 6-7, 10am - 10am Location: Willow Glen High School, 2001 Cottle Ave San Jose Contact: Nick Pauliukonis, nick.pauliukonis@cancer.org, 408.688.0088 www.relayforlife.org/willowglenca Stanford University Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday & Sunday, May 13-14, 10am - 10am Location: Angell Track & Cobb Field, 295 Galvez Street, Stanford Contact: Alicia Ruiz, alicia.ruiz@cancer.org, 408.688.0114 www.relayforlife.org/stanfordca Blossom Valley Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday & Sunday, May 20 - 21, 10am - 10am Location: Santa Teresa High School, 6150 Snell Avenue, San Jose Contact: Kristi Cole, kristi.cole@cancer.org, 408.688.0089 www.RelayForLife.org/blossomvalleyca Morgan Hill Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday & Sunday, May 20 - 21, 10am - 10am Location: Morgan Hill Community Park, 171 E. Edmundoson Ave, Morgan Hill Contact: Natalie Edelman, natalie.edelman@cancer.org, 408.688.0126 www.RelayForLife.org/morganhillca Ages: All ages are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: Varies depending on volunteer role   Contact: Contact Event Managers listed above to sign up or ask questions www.RelayForLife.org Veggielution's Youth Garden Veggielution Community Farm   Date/Time: Every Saturday, 10am - 12:30pm   Location: 647 S. King Road, San Jose; located in the back of Emma Prusch Park Come join Veggielution farms for weekly Youth Garden Activities. Every Saturday the whole family can enjoy gardening, crafting, and learning together in the Youth Garden. Participating in our Youth Garden activities is a great way to spend time with your children while exploring the garden, learning about healthy lifestyle choices, and discovering the exciting processes of the natural world - not to mention making new friends. This is a unique opportunity to get your hands dirty and become better stewards of the environment as a family. Veggielution volunteer activities encourage exploration and play-based learning for the whole family.   Ages: Families with children ages three and up are welcome to volunteer. Families visiting the Youth Garden should have a 2:1 child to adult ratio for ages 3-6, and a 3:1 ratio for ages 7 and up.   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours   Contact: Jennifer Aguilar, jena@veggielution.org or Dana Shinners, danas@veggielution.org. To sign up visit their Youth Garden web page. www.veggielution.org Sunday Friends' Programs for Very Low-Income Families  Sunday Friends   Date/Time: Sundays: Shifts available between 10:30am and 5:30pm. Also, there are some after-school shifts on weekdays at our special store.   Location(s): Santee Elementary, 1313 Audubon Dr., San Jose, on the 2nd Sunday of every month Lowell Elementary, 625 South 7th St., San Jose, on the 4th Sunday of every month. In November and December this will be on the 3rd Sunday of the month due to holidays Also, a special store, 730 Story Rd. Ste. 3, San Jose, open weekdays from 4 - 7pm Volunteers are needed to work directly with children, and maybe also their parents, to facilitate service and learning projects, including: craft gift making, healthy food preparation, letter and essay writing, hands-on science projects, math and other learning games, computer education, English as a Second Language classes, reading and book report writing, exercise class, parents' classes and more. Because children and parents earn tickets for their participation, redeemable for basic necessities in our special stores, you might also assist with the banking, store setup or shopping. Ages: Teens, adults, families and groups are all welcome. An adult must accompany children under age 14.   Time Commitment: No predetermined number of hours, but if you sign up to come to a program, you are expected to come.   Contact: Volunteers should begin with the New Volunteer Registration process on the volunteer page. Please register to volunteer a couple of weeks in advance of the date. Contact Lilly, lillyp@sundayfriends.org, or Vanessa, volunteer@sundayfriends.org, with questions or call 408.217.9587. www.SundayFriends.org Help the TCV Foodbank Tri-City Volunteers   Date/Time: Monday through Friday, 8am - 4pm   Location: 37350 Joseph St., Fremont   Volunteers are essential to Tri-City Volunteers food bank's daily grocery cart preparation and distribution. We need approximately 40 warehouse volunteers a day to ensure that as many as 350 client families per day receive adequate nutrition. Volunteers also help us sort and hang donated clothing and attractively merchandise our boutique thrift store, which provides very low-cost items to struggling families: babies clothes are 10 for $1.00, children's clothes are 5 for $1.00 and the majority of adult clothing is marked at $0.50 or $2.00. Community volunteers are the heart of our agency. Not only do volunteers work directly with low and very-low income families, they bring to life our vision of a community united together to ensure that every child and adult in our area is not just free from hunger, but can access pathways to financial stability and self-sufficiency. While volunteers assist families in Tri-City Volunteers food bank and thrift store, they are also mentoring and deeply connecting with others. That is the real strength of our work.   Ages: Families with children ten and older are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: Minimum of two hours   Contact: To learn more and to sign up for volunteer orientation, contact Gloria Lara, glara@tri-cityvolunteers.org, 510.793.4583. www.tri-cityvolunteers.org Let's multiply kindness! Thank you to everyone who attended our April 20th Celebration and helped us raise funds to empower families to raise children who care and contribute! If you weren't able to attend our event, here's your chance to make an impact. Every $25 raised helps DGT™ engage with a new family who wants to share more acts of kindness and service. Those big-hearted efforts have a multiplying effect: As families do more good for others, they start a family routine of giving that benefits others now and in the future. Whether you want to support one family or several, your donation helps us multiply kindness and extend DGT's reach to families across the nation. Click here to make your donation. And to instill a habit of kindness and service in your own family, be sure to join our Membership Circle if you haven't already. Make this a Summer of Kindness with DGT's Summer Bucket List Doing Good Together   Date/Time: All summer long   Location: Your home or community   Print and post one or both of DGT's two innovative Summer of Kindness bucket lists. These creative kindness projects will keep your family making big-hearted memories all summer long.    Ages: Preschool to teen   Time Commitment: 15 minutes to 1 hour per week depending upon the activities you choose to complete. Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org         If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. 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April 2017 - NYC Family Volunteer Opportunities

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April 2017 - New York City Passover Package Delivery DOROT Date/Time: Sunday, April 2, 10am - noon Location: DOROT, 171 West 85th Street off Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan Celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover by delivering gifts of food to our older friends in the community. Volunteers pick up the package at Dorot and then go to visit a senior in their home!   Ages: 4-12 years old with parent Time Commitment: Two hours Contact: Judith Turner, 212.769.2850. Registration is available online. www.dorotusa.org Garden Volunteer Sessions Concrete Safaris   Date/Time: Saturday, April 8, 10am - 1pm, and Saturday, April 22, 10am - 1pm   Location: Saturday, April 8, Mad Fun Farm (98th Street and Third Avenue outside 1775 Third Ave) Saturday, April 22, Jefferson Gardens (300 East 115th Street at Second Avenue outside Jefferson Houses) Join Concrete Safaris to help clean and beautify this community garden. Tasks may include: shoveling topsoil and wood chips, composting, creating paths, planting, raking, weeding and more. Dress in layers and bring a water bottle. Ages: All ages, an adult must accompany children.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Nia@concretesafaris.org www.concretesafaris.org/en/ It's My Park Day Riverside Park Conservancy   Date/Time: Saturday, April 8, 10am - 1pm   Location: Various locations - Project details and meeting sites are determined two weeks before the project based on the weather and the needs of the park.   Chip in for spring park improvement projects throughout Riverside Park! These projects are great ways to meet other volunteers or just explore a different area of the Park. Community volunteer events are held rain or shine.   Ages: Families with children ages 10 and older are welcome to volunteer.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Kristen Meade, grassroots@riversideparknyc.org, 718.430.4687 www.riversideparknyc.org/event/community-volunteer-day-mar-2017/?instance_id=5745 Host a Birthday Party for Homeless Children Celebrate U   Date/Time: Friday, April 21, 4 - 6:30pm and Tuesday, April 25, 6 - 8:30pm   Location(s): Friday, April 21: Homes for the Homeless, 730 Kelly Street, Bronx Tuesday, April 25: Henry Street Settlement House, 130 Baruch Place, NYC Founded in 2014 in New York by two teens, Talia Eskenazi and Chase Kauder, Celebrate U is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to spread happiness by throwing birthday parties for disadvantaged children, living in underserved communities. The effect of these celebrations goes way beyond cake and party favors. Celebrate U believes that by showing children that their community truly cares about them, it can raise self-esteem, provide hope for a brighter future and empower children. Ages: 6th grade and older alone, 5th grade and younger accompanied by an adult   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Alison Kauder, AlisonKauder@gmail.com www.celebrateu.org  NY Cares Day - Spring 2016 NY Cares   Date/Time: Saturday, April 22, 9:30 am - 2 pm   Location: Throughout the five boroughs Make NYC a Cleaner and Greener Place to Live! Take part in New York City's largest hands-on spring-cleaning event, and join more than 4,000 volunteers to revitalize the city's public outdoor spaces. This year, volunteers will clean up shorelines, restore garden beds, plant flowers and trees, paint benches, and remove invasive species. By the end of the day, 70 parks and gardens in all 5 boroughs will be transformed. Ages: Ages 14 and up, accompanied by an adult at all times. Youth between 14 and 17 can participate as part of a Youth Team and all under age participants must have a signed parental consent form.   Time Commitment: Approximately six hours   Contact: info@nycares.org or the Project Hotline, 212.401.1101, 212.228.5000 www.newyorkcares.org/new-york-cares-day-spring 9/11 Memorial 5K Run/Walk and Family Day National September 11 Memorial and Museum   Date/Time: Sunday, April 23, 5K events begin at 8am Family Day activities are from 9am - 2pm   Location: Run/Walk begins at Pier 26; Family Day will be held on Greenwich Street, between Cortland and Liberty, adjacent to the 9/11 Memorial Plaza The 911 Memorial is sponsoring the annual 5K Run/Walk and Family Day to raise awareness about the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and to encourage volunteerism in memory of 9/11. Following the 5K Run/Walk, Family Day festivities will include entertainment and meaningful activities for all ages, food and refreshments. This event will also offer information about the Memorial and Museum and ways to learn about volunteer opportunities. Pre-registration and a fee are required for participating in the 5K, and there are adult, teen and child divisions. The Family Day event is free and does not require registration. Ages: All ages   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: 5krun@911memorial.org www.911memorial.org/5k-runwalk-community-day   Meal Delivery Citymeals on Wheels   Date/Time: Seven days per week, various time slots available   Location: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, & the Bronx Citymeals on Wheels is a meals on wheels program serving the homebound elderly in New York City. We partner with community-based organizations and senior centers to supplement the city's weekday meal delivery program. Volunteers deliver nutritious meals to homebound elderly New Yorkers, within walking distance of local senior centers. Volunteers must complete an application (available online) and attend an orientation before they are able to volunteer.    Ages: All ages, however an adult MUST accompany anyone younger than 16 years old.   Time Commitment: Three to four hours   Contact: Vivienne O'Neill, 212.687.1234 www.citymeals.org/ Stock Food Pantry or Help with Food Preparation for Soup Kitchen St. Xavier Mission Food Pantry   Date/Time: Pantry stocking - Second Saturday of each month, 10:30am - noon Food Preparation - Every Sunday, 8:45 - 11:30 am Location: St. Xavier Mission, 55 West 15th Street, New York City Xavier Mission seeks to welcome, serve and empower those in our New York City community who are in need of human and material support. They provide food, clothing, shelter and life-skills training, guided always by a spirit of love and respect and the goal of building self-sufficiency and self-esteem. The Mission operates a food pantry, shelter and welcome table soup kitchen. Pre-registration is required via email. Ages: All ages - an adult should accompany children.   Time Commitment: Approximately two and one-half hours   Contact: xmfoodprograms@gmail.com www.xaviermission.org/programs/foodpantry/ Did you know... April is National Volunteer Month? and April 23-29, 2017 is National Volunteer Week? National Volunteer Week, brought to you by the Points of Light Foundation, is an opportunity to recognize and thank volunteers who lend their time, talent, voice and support to causes they care about in their community. Their stories can serve to inspire others to find ways to take action that creates change. Service Unites, the theme for National Volunteer Week, captures the power of change-makers to come together to build stronger, more vibrant communities through service  www.pointsoflight.org/signature-events/national-volunteer-week Quick Acts of Kindness Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible, quick ways to add kindness to daily family life   Location: Your home and community Not all acts of kindness require planning. Check out the Doing Good Together 24+ Quick Acts of Kindness project page for ideas. You can also print out our Design Your Own Kindness Cards to include with your quick kindness activities.   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org  We're proud of our DGT™ Partnerships DGT is proud to have amazing partnerships with a variety of organizations. Yours can be next! If your group or organization is interested in hosting a fun family service event, offering a workshop on raising caring kids, or in need of custom materials to introduce children and families to important social issues, we'd love to help. To learn more, contact Jenny by email (jenny@doinggoodtogether.org).       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. 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April 2017 - Boston Family Volunteer Opportunities

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April 2017 - Boston Food Drive & Bag Decoration Kid Kindness   Date/Time: Saturday, April 1, 10  - 11:30am   Location: Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry, 467 Main St, Wakefield Kid Kindness is an organization that focuses on getting our youngest ones involved in philanthropy through community service projects that are both educational and fun. We believe you are never too young to make a difference! Kid Kindness will visit the Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry to learn how they help our community and decorate shopping bags for their customers. There is no cost to join us but we do encourage you to consider taking your kid(s) to the grocery store to pick out a few items to donate or host a drive in your neighborhood. The following items are always needed: Canned soups Stews Chili Peanut butter Brand name cereals Canned coffee Baked beans Jars of pasta sauce Toothbrushes Toothpaste Bath soap  Shampoo  Ages: All ages are welcome. A guardian must accompany children.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: kidkindnessgroup@gmail.com. Registration is available online. http://kidkindness.weebly.com/ Family Table Distribution with JF&CS Jewish Family and Children's Service Date/Time: Sunday, April 2, 9am - 1:30pm Location: 1430 Main Street, Waltham Family Table provides healthy food on a monthly and emergency basis to individuals and families in need. Their mission is to offer food in a way that meets nutritional and spiritual needs. Family Table serves more than 100 towns across Greater Boston, the North Shore, and the South Area. Currently, Family Table is helping more than 450 families each month with groceries and connections to other services. Volunteers are needed to help with the following tasks: Setting up the pantry Packaging and delivering food orders to recipient families  Ages: All ages are welcome and encouraged to volunteer when accompanied by an adult. Time Commitment: One to four hours depending on the activity. Contact: Email familytable@jfcsboston.org two weeks before distribution date to sign up. All adult volunteers must complete a JF&CS administered CORI background check prior to volunteering. www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/Community-Services/Center-for-Basic-Needs-Assistance/Family-Table goCreate Craft Cards for Seniors at ETHOS Boston Cares   Date/Time: Sunday, April 2, 12:30 - 2:30pm   Location: ETHOS, 555 Amory St, Jamaica Plain   GoCreate is an initiative to engage youth and families in service. Boston Cares offers a hands-on portable project on one Sunday each month for kids to get crafty while making an impact. Each month's project will meet a community need and the completed goods will be donated to local agencies to fulfill that need. In April join Boston Cares at Ethos to create crafts and cards for the elderly and disabled. Ethos is a non-profit organization that serves over 3,000 individuals and families in the Greater Boston area, assisting the elderly and disabled to live at home. Cards will be donated to seniors through one of their many impactful services to brighten up a seniors' day.   Ages: This project is intended for families with young children, five and older. An adult 18 or older must accompany all volunteers under age 13.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Katie Edelman, kedelman@bostoncares.org, 617.422.0910, ext. 208. Registration is available online and an orientation with Boston Cares is required. www.bostoncares.org Container Days NuDay Syria   Date/Time: Friday, April 7, 4 -7pm and Sunday,  April 9, 10am-3pm   Location: 1 Chestnut Street, Nausha, NH Help Nuday Syria with packing shipping containers with clothes, bedding, hospital and medical items, food, and hygiene products. Making a container and sending it off is extremely demanding and hard work, but each shipment contains actual aid that reaches the people and hospitals in need within 6-8 weeks of being loaded. The NuDay Syria community has found each container to be a very rewarding and beneficial project. Volunteers needed to sort, box, and pack items for women and children on the outskirts of Syria who have lost everything. Wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty (we're in a warehouse and you'll sweat). Bring a smile, an open heart, and a work ethic! The fruits of your labor will be tenfold.   Ages: All ages are welcome. Children must be supervised in the warehouse.   Time Commitment: Two to four hours   Contact: info@NudaySyria.org www.NuDaySyria.org  Sorting Donations For Children In Need Cradles to Crayons   Date/Time: A variety of weekday and weekend shifts are available. Check the website for details.   Location: 155 N. Beacon Street, Brighton Cradles to Crayons offers families the opportunity to teach their children the values of service and philanthropy while volunteering together to help children and families in need. Every year, thousands of volunteers pass through the doors of the Cradles to Crayons Giving Factory warehouse to roll up their sleeves and help disadvantaged young children in Massachusetts. Together, youth and adults inspect, sort, and package all new and like-new donations into customized "KidPacks".   Ages: For safety reasons, all children present during a volunteer shift must be at least five years old. Volunteers under 18 years old must have a chaperone and a signed waiver form with them when they volunteer.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Volunteers must sign up for a shift by registering at https://cradlestocrayons.org/volunteer-inquiry/ www.cradlestocrayons.org Quick Acts of Kindness Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible, quick ways to add kindness to daily family life   Location: Your home and community Not all acts of kindness require planning. Check out the Doing Good Together 24+ Quick Acts of Kindness project page for ideas. You can also print out our Design Your Own Kindness Cards to include with your quick kindness activities.   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org  We're proud of our DGT™ Partnerships DGT is proud to have amazing partnerships with a variety of organizations. Yours can be next! If your group or organization is interested in hosting a fun family service event, offering a workshop on raising caring kids, or in need of custom materials to introduce children and families to important social issues, we'd love to help. To learn more, contact Jenny by email (jenny@doinggoodtogether.org).       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2017 Doing Good Together™

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April 2017 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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April 2017  - Silicon Valley  Beautiful Day 2017 Beautiful Day   Date/Time: Wednesday, March 29, Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2; times vary by project   Location: Varies by project   Since its inception in 2004, Beautiful Day has sought to invest in communities with simple, direct and unyielding kindness. Each project is an act of no-strings-attached service for those who are otherwise unable to help themselves. Our goal is to aggressively spread compassion, to discard apathy in favor of activity and light fires of good will in the neighborhoods we work and live in. Nine service projects will take place at multiple local organizations from San Martin to San Jose! Childcare is available at Westgate Church for children 6 weeks to 6 years old. Details for childcare are listed here: http://beautifulday.org/childcare/   Ages: Sunnyvale Park and Overfelt High School projects are available for ages 5 and older. All other projects listed are for ages 13 and older. At this time there is not a way to sign those children up on the website, so please just bring them with you to the site on the day of the project with a minor waiver.   Time Commitment: Most shifts are approximately four hours   Contact: Varies by project www.beautifulday.org Parkinson's Battle of the Bay 2017 Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center   Date/Time: Saturday, April 8, 8:30am - 4pm   Location: Baylands Park, 999 East Caribbean Dr., Sunnyvale Volunteers are needed for help with registration, sports referees, photo booth, walk route monitors/cheerleaders, water monitors, booth monitors, set up/tear down, refreshments, rest area monitors and start/finish line cheerleaders! All volunteers receive an event t-shirt.   Ages: Volunteer positions available for all ages.   Time Commitment: Varies by volunteer position   Contact: Nick Mourlam, Manager of Sponsorships & Special Events, NMourlam@ParkinsonsInstitute.org or 408.542.5637. Click to register as a volunteer or as a participant.  www.moretalkmorewalk.org Great American Litter Pick Up 2017 City of San Jose   Date/Time: Saturday, April 22, 8:30 -11:30am   Location: Various locations throughout San Jose Celebrate Earth Day by doing your part in keeping San Jose clean and green. Each District in San Jose is hosting its own event - please visit the websites below or contact your local District office for more details! The following districts have event sign ups online or by phone: District One Event: Hamann Park Community Room, 2747 Westfield Ave. District Two Event: Santa Teresa High School, Oak Grove High School and Great Oaks Park District Three Event: 438 Coleman Ave. District Six Event: To sign up for this event at Willow Glen Community Center, 2175 Lincoln Avenue, call 408.535.4906 District Seven Event: Seven Trees Community Center, 3590 Cas Drive District Nine Event: Three Locations: Doerr Park, Butcher Park, Paul Moore Park District Ten Event: Pioneer High School, 1290 Blossom Hill Rd. - Meet at back school parking lot; Vista Park, 465 Hyde Park Dr.; Comanche Park, Shawnee Ln. & Comanche Dr.   Ages: All ages are welcome   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Bernie Rosales, bernie.rosales@sanjoseca.gov, 408.535.4903 sanjoseca.gov Relay For Life Events April 2017 American Cancer Society Family volunteer opportunities at local Relay for Life events can include, but are not limited to: Luminaria set up, trash pick up, track signs & general signage, set up/tear down, registration, and staffing the Fight Back Tent. Families are also welcome and encouraged to sign up to participate in the Relay For Life. If you are interested in walking as a family or with a team check out your local Relay For Life event sign up page. The following Relay for Life events are happening in April: Cambrian Relay For Life Date/Time: Friday and Saturday, April 28 - 29, 6pm - 6pm Location: Dartmouth Middle School, 5575 Dartmouth Drive, San Jose Contact: Evan Frazer, Event Manager, evan.frazer@cancer.org, 408.688.0104 www.relayforlife.org/cambrianca Santa Clara University Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday and Sunday, April 22 -23, 1pm - 9am Location: Santa Clara University Campus, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara Contact: Lauren Salciccia, Event Manager, lauren.salciccia@cancer.org, 408.688.0104 www.relayforlife.org/scuca Santa Clara Relay For Life Date/Time: Saturday and Sunday, April 29 - 30, 10am - 10am Location: Townsend Field, 1111 Bellomy St, Santa Clara Contact: Kate Atterbury, Event Manager, kate.atterbury@cancer.org, 510.464.8136 www.relayforlife.org/santaclaraca   Ages:  All ages are welcome Time Commitment: Varies depending on volunteer role Contact: Contact Event Managers listed above to sign up or ask questions www.RelayForLife.org Shady Oaks Park Clean Up Sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Bernal Ward and the San Jose Department of Parks and Recreation   Date/Time: Saturday, April 29, 9am - noon   Location: Shady Oaks Park, 948 Coyote Rd., San Jose Volunteers are needed for tree trimming, weeding, litter pick-up, spreading bark and other general cleanup. Lunch will follow.   Ages: All ages are welcome   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Bille Grandy, momgrandy@gmail.com, 408.390.0788. To register visit the event sign up page  Weekly Dinner Servers Family Supportive Housing   Date/Time: Ongoing Mondays or Wednesdays from 4:30 - 6:30pm. Dinner is served from 5 to 6:30pm   Location: 692 North King Rd., San Jose   Family Supportive Housing helps homeless single- and two-parent families with children remain intact, while addressing their needs for food, shelter, employment and education. We offer families a respite, an opportunity to make life-altering changes, and a system to aid in finding permanent housing. Volunteers are responsible for setting up and serving dinner to our resident families. Without our volunteer dinner servers,  residents would be required to serve the families as a chore. Thank you for allowing a resident to sit and enjoy dinner with his/her family and for your commitment to our vision of empowering homeless families.   Ages: Ages 12 and up with an adult present. Ages 16 and up without adult present.   Time Commitment: Once a week for three months   Contact: Sara Tran, 408.926.8885, volunteer@familysupportivehousing.org www.familysupportivehousing.org No Sew Blankets for Children in Need Project Linus   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Schedule a time to bring completed blanket(s) to one of the following Project Linus volunteers: Sharon Lee (Cupertino) - sjlinus@comcast.net Barbara Ross (Rose Garden) - sjlinus@gmail.com Mary Kelly (Willow Glen) - mary@gofigureinc.com Deb Bragen (South San Jose) - bragen@sbcglobal.net Project Linus provides homemade blankets to children in need. Our blankets are lovingly made by adults and children from all walks of life and many different sources. Volunteer blanket makers help provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans. You and your family can make easy, warm, cozy, no sew blankets to donate to children in need. Click here for blanket making instructions. Though most 'blanketeers' choose to work on their own, some organizations have hosted their own "Make A Blanket Day"' for their group.  It can be a fun team-building event and Project Linus can help you with planning and preparation.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Sharon Lee, sjlinus@comcast.net, 408.252.1858 www.sjlinus.org/index.html   Family Volunteering Opportunities with SCS Sunnyvale Community Services   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: 725 Kifer Rd., Sunnyvale   Sunnyvale Community Services works to prevent homelessness and hunger by providing emergency services to our neighbors in need. Exposing children to the concept of giving back is very important to many families and to SCS.  We encourage and appreciate the following family activities, which are very helpful to SCS and can stimulate great conversation and discovery for you and your children. See our wish list page for specific donation needs. Feel free to bring your children with you when you donate items to SCS. Monthly family shopping trips to purchase items specifically for donation to SCS. Establish a relationship with a local retailer to pickup damaged food, cleaning products, toilet paper, or other staple household items on a regular basis. Collect hotel/motel toiletries while traveling or on vacation. We distribute hygiene kits of toothpaste, shampoo, soaps, lotions, and disposable razors to low-income and homeless clients. Buy new books for low-income children. Feel free to wrap them and include a personal note (first names only please). Buy new socks and/or gloves for the homeless. Feel free to wrap them and include a personal note (first names only please). Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: SCS Volunteer Manager, 408.738.4321 ext. 211, volunteer@svcommunityservices.org  www.svcommunityservices.org Mentors for Newly Arrived Families and Individuals At Home Humanitarian   Date/Time: Ongoing   Location: All throughout the Bay Area, currently mentors are most needed in Sacramento.   Volunteers are matched with newly-arrived individuals and families to help answer any questions relating to American culture, customs, processes, laws, or community resources that would help their match feel more connected. Mentors help find solutions to needs such as finding a job, preparing for college, filing for FAFSA, fixing a car, or passing a driver's test; and provide opportunities to get out, explore surroundings, make new friends, learn a new skill or hobby, and connect to others within their communities. Ages: Families with an adult 18 or older are welcome to volunteer.   Time Commitment: Eight to ten hours a month.   Contact: katherine@athomehumanitarian.org. Click here for volunteer application  www.athomehumanitarian.org   Help with Flood Relief in San Jose   In February 2017, during one of the wettest winters in decades, several San Jose neighborhoods experienced severe flooding that has forced thousands of residents and businesses to evacuate their homes and caused significant damage to public and private property throughout the city. The most severe flooding has taken place in neighborhoods along Coyote Creek, which includes a number of low-income communities and mobile home parks that were submerged when Anderson Reservoir reached its capacity and began spilling into the creek. You and your family can help with flood relief efforts by raising money for the San Jose Flood Victims Relief Fund. This fund will support nonprofit organizations providing immediate and long-term relief and recovery assistance to flood victims in San Jose. Visit the Doing Good Together Fun Fundraiser project page for ideas on how you can raise money as a family. While it will take some time to fully assess the damage caused by this emergency, we know that many families will require assistance in the weeks and months ahead. Your donation to the San Jose Flood Victims Relief Fund will help provide relief to those most in need. Below are just a few of the organizations that will benefit from this relief fund in order to help those who need it most: American Red Cross Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County Sacred Heart Community Service The Salvation Army Contact: www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood   Quick Acts of Kindness Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible, quick ways to add kindness to daily family life   Location: Your home and community Not all acts of kindness require planning. Check out the Doing Good Together 24+ Quick Acts of Kindness project page for ideas. You can also print out our Design Your Own Kindness Cards to include with your quick kindness activities.   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org  We're proud of our DGT™ Partnerships DGT is proud to have amazing partnerships with a variety of organizations. Yours can be next! If your group or organization is interested in hosting a fun family service event, offering a workshop on raising caring kids, or in need of custom materials to introduce children and families to important social issues, we'd love to help. To learn more, contact Jenny by email (jenny@doinggoodtogether.org).       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. 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March 2017 - Boston Family Volunteer Opportunities

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March 2017 - Boston Stock the Food Pantry Elizabeth Peabody House   Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 9:30am - noon   Location:  275-277 Broadway, Somerville (ring doorbell on the  pink house) The mission of EPH is to support families in our community in reaching their full potential through early childhood education, youth development and enrichment, and family services. Volunteers are needed to unload the food donation van and stock the pantry with the donated items. Volunteers will be required to carry some heavier items. All volunteers should dress appropriately for the weather as they will be in and outdoors when transporting items; be sure to wear sneakers or work boots (no open-toed shoes or sandals, please). Ages: Children are welcome but must be supervised. An adult must supervise children under ten.   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours   Contact: Call 617.623.5510 to sign up as a volunteer. www.teph.org Packing Shipping Containers for Refugee Support NuDay Syria   Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 4 - 6pm   Location: 1 Chestnut Street, Nashua, NH NuDay Syria needs help sorting, packing and loading donations into containers that will be shipped to northern Syria. These containers will be filled to the brim with clothes, bedding, hospital and medical items, food, and hygiene products. Making a container and sending it off is extremely demanding and hard work, but each shipment contains actual aid that reaches people and hospitals in need within 6-8 weeks of being loaded.   Ages: All ages are welcome to participate but children under 12 must remain with an adult and be supervised. We encourage families to attend and serve together!   Time Commitment: Two hours (can stay longer if desired)   Contact: info@NuDaySyria.org www.nudaysyria.net    Family Table Distribution Jewish Family and Children's Service   Date/Time: Sunday, March 5, 9am -1:30pm   Location: 1430 Main Street, Waltham Family Table provides healthy food on a monthly and emergency basis to individuals and families in need. Their mission is to offer food in a way that meets nutritional and spiritual needs. Family Table serves more than 100 towns across Greater Boston, the North Shore, and the South Area. Currently, Family Table is helping more than 450 families each month with groceries and connections to other services. Volunteers are needed to help with the following tasks: Setting up the pantry Packaging and delivering food orders to recipient families   Ages: All ages are welcome and encouraged to volunteer when accompanied by an adult.   Time Commitment: One to four hours depending on the activity.   Contact: familytable@jfcsboston.org, 781.693.5593. Please note that advance sign up is required and all adult volunteers must complete a JF&CS administered CORI background check. www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/Community-Services/Center-for-Basic-Needs-Assistance/Family-Table Disaster Preparedness Themed goCreate! Boston Cares   Date/Time: Sunday, March 19, noon - 2pm   Location:  Full opportunity address and directions will be sent to you by email after you sign up. Join Boston Cares in March for a goCreate in collaboration with the Boston Cares Disaster Program for a preparedness related craft! Participants will be assembling emergency preparedness binders, prepping a sustainable meal to add to their preparedness kit, and packing folders for distribution. Each family will be able to take home an emergency binder for personal use, as well as a preparedness meal to jumpstart their readiness. Ages: This project is intended for families with young children, five and older. An adult 18 or older must accompany all volunteers under age 13.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Katie Edelman, kedelman@bostoncares.org, 617.422.0910, ext. 208. Registration is available online and an orientation with Boston Cares is required. Volunteer spots fill up quickly so sign-up soon! www.bostoncares.org   You are Beautiful Campaign - Packing Beauty Supplies for Refugee Women Boston Friends for Refugee Support   Date/Time: Sunday, March 19, 2 - 5pm   Location: 60 Mason Terrace, Brookline You can help Boston Friends for Refugee Support assemble beauty bags to donate to refugee women. Please bring some of the following items with you to the event; hopefully we will be able to put together a ton of lovely and diverse offerings. We will also make notes to attach to each of the kits! Items you can collect and bring: Cosmetic bags/purses Lip gloss Unopened makeup Lotions Black eyeliner  Nail polish  Hair products Brushes Face wipes  Compact mirrors Tweezers Leave in hair conditioner Coconut oil Crochet bracelets Dry shampoo Wash cloths Accessories Jewelry  Fuzzy socks  If you can't make it to Brookline on this day, feel free to put together beauty bags on your own and drop them off in a bag labeled "You are Beautiful" Ages: Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend   Time Commitment: One to three hours   Contact: lisanowakwikins@gmail.com https://bffrs.org/   Collect and Sort items for Refugees Boston Friends For Refugee Support   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Donations can be dropped off at the following locations through the month of March: 60 Mason Terrace, Brookline 29 Hunt Street, Watertown 1 Oak Street, Burlington 356 Linden Street, Wellesley Boston Friends for Refugee Support (BFFRS) is a platform for volunteers to unite in creative collaboration, exchange ideas, and act on various issues that impact the lives of refugees both locally resettled, and internationally displaced. In essence, our goal is to help others be helpful. BFFRS collects and organizes donations to be sent through NuDay Syria to Refugee Camps in Greece. The following nonperishable items are always needed: Lentils Rice Canned tuna Beans Socks of all sizes Sanitary napkins   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: lisanowakwikins@gmail.com https://bffrs.org/    Cook a Meal at a Shelter Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible -- find something that works for your families schedule   Location:  Check the national Homeless Shelter Directory or Emergency Food Programs Directory for shelters or soup kitchens in your area. Your family can work together to help hungry people in your community by volunteering to cook a meal or bring food to a local homeless shelter or soup kitchen. When you contact a shelter or soup kitchen, ask for the volunteer coordinator, see if they need volunteers and ask if they have any age requirements. Find more information and resources on the Doing Good Together Cook a Meal at a Shelter Project Page. Ages: Will vary depending on the shelter or soup kitchen's volunteer policy.   Time Commitment: Varies; volunteers can typically make either a one-time or ongoing commitment.   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   One of the hallmarks of DGT™ is that we do more than simply offer opportunities and ideas for sharing kindness and serving others. We also expand on those experiences with important tips that help families prepare for and reflect on the unique situations they encounter during their time spent volunteering. Our newest Reflection Activities are geared specifically to the frequent topics we cover in our listings, e.g. helping the hungry and caring for animals. Look for the reflection banners in our listings to find conversation starters, book recommendations and more. And be sure to bookmark this collection of reflection offerings for easy reference during big-hearted discussions with your family.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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March 2017 - NYC Family Volunteer Opportunities

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March 2017 - New York City Garden Volunteers Concrete Safaris   Date/Time: Saturday, March 4, 10am - 1pm   Location: Mad Fun Farm, 1775 Third Avenue, New York   Garden Volunteer Sessions consist of a variety of garden maintenance activities such as repairing raised beds, shoveling topsoil, planting herbs, vegetables, fruits, and flowers, spreading mulch, picking up trash, weeding, and more. Please wear comfortable clothes, proper footwear, preferably work boots or sturdy sneakers, and bring a reusable water bottle. Food will not be provided, so bring a bagged lunch or order from one of East Harlem's amazing local eateries. The event will take place rain or shine, so please dress for the weather! Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Chevon Cooper, Concrete Safaris' Garden Program Coordinator, 646.647.4472. Registration is available online. http://concretesafaris.org/en/ DOROT Purim Package Delivery   Date/Time: Either Wednesday, March 8, between 4 - 6pm or Sunday, March 12, between 1 - 3pm.   Location: Manhattan Celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim by delivering gifts of food to our older friends and sharing a wonderful gift - the gift of friendship.   Ages: Families with children age 4 - 12 are welcome to volunteer.   Time Commitment: One hour between 4 and 6pm   Contact: Shelley Levine, 917.441.5051, SLevine@dorotusa.org. Registration is available online. Please disregard registration deadline listed on website - registration is open until all volunteer slots are filled. www.dorotusa.org Annual Book Drive Project Cicero   Date/Time: Friday, March 10 through Sunday, March 12, a variety of volunteer shifts are available. Book drives run from Friday, March 3 through Wednesday, March 8. Books can also be donated to Project Cicero through their Amazon wish list page.   Location(s):  Sorting and distribution takes place in the Gold Ballroom at The Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 7th Ave, New York. Most of NYC's independent schools will be running book drives, as well as the JCC of Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave, and New York Society Library at 53 East 79th Street. Project Cicero is a partnership of independent, public, and parochial schools, private and public organizations, and corporations whose primary goal is to create and supplement classroom and school libraries for children in under-resourced New York City public schools through an annual citywide book drive. Project Cicero also puts books into homeless shelters, juvenile detention facilities, community centers, before and after school programs, and wherever else there is a need. Since its inception in 2001, Project Cicero distributed more than 150,000 books. To date, Project Cicero has placed 2.3 million books into more than 13,000 classrooms and school libraries reaching over 550,000 children in under-resourced schools in New York City. Donated books must be in excellent condition, and only children's book (through Young Adult/high school level) will be accepted.   Ages:  Everyone can participate in book drives. Sorting and distribution volunteers should be in 5th grade or older.   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: info@projectcicero.org or 212.288.6900 x 511. Volunteer registration is available online. www.projectcicero.org/ Soup Kitchen Volunteers The Manhattan Church   Date/Time: Saturday, March 11 and 25; 10 am - 2 pm.   Location: Prospect Park, 9th Street Entrance, Brooklyn The Manhattan Church provides a soup kitchen for the homeless and impoverished. Volunteers are needed to set up, prepare food, serve, break down and clean up. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate.   Time Commitment: Four hours   Contact: Email Rev. Carl Garrison for more information and to volunteer carl@manhattanchurch.org www.manhattanchurch.org/  Weekend Repack in Hunts Point Food Bank of NY   Date/Time: Saturday, March 11, 12:30 - 2:30 pm   Location: Bronx Distribution Center, 355 Food Center Drive, Bronx Collected food must be re-packed in order to be distributed to the Food Bank's network of approximately 1,000 community-based member programs throughout the five boroughs. The Food Bank's free, full-delivery operation dispatches 8 to 10 tractor-trailers full of food to help our network provide free meals every day to New Yorkers in need. The Food Bank distributes millions of pounds of food every year, including approximately 13 million pounds of fresh produce and more than 1 million pounds of meat and seafood. To date, the Food Bank has distributed more than 958 million pounds of food. Ages: Families with children ages five and older are welcome to repack the food   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: volunteer@foodbanknyc.org, 212.566.7855 Dial 5. Registration is available online. www.foodbanknyc.org Donation Checking and Sorting Room to Grow   Date/Time: Tuesday, March 14 or Wednesday, March 22, noon - 2pm   Location: 7 West 30th St, 3rd Floor, NY, NY 10001 (between 5th Avenue and Broadway) Volunteers are needed to check and sort donations of baby/toddler clothing and toys, and assist in organizing inventory for use in the clinical program working to enrich the lives of babies born into poverty. Ages: Volunteers need to be fifteen or older.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Allison Luciano, Site Coordinator, allison.luciano@roomtogrow.org or 212. 320.8188 http://roomtogrow.org/ Boxes of Love: Sort and Pack Non-Perishable Food Donations HOPE for New York   Date/Time: Saturday, March 18, 10 am - noon   Location: Cru Inner City Training and Distribution Center, 9 - 11 44th Drive, Queens Join Cru Inner City to serve families in need throughout NYC. Volunteers will sort and pack non-perishable food donations that will be distributed to communities in need. This is a great group opportunity, and a family-friendly opportunity as well--children are welcome! IMPORTANT: Once you request information for this event through the web page, you will receive a separate email with a registration link from Cru Inner City to complete your sign up. Your volunteer spot is NOT reserved until you complete the registration process through the second link. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: 917.206.1440. Registration is available online. www.hfny.org/ Spring Into Action! Brooklyn Community Services   Date/Time: A variety of dates and times in March and April   Location: Various locations throughout Brooklyn   Volunteers founded Brooklyn Community Services (BCS) in 1866 in response to the plight of Civil War veterans and homeless children who lost their fathers in the war. Volunteerism remains at the heart of what they do. Spring into Action is the signature volunteer initiative of Brooklyn Community Services (BCS). Now in its 5th year, Spring into Action has galvanized over 1,000 volunteers. This year, BCS is proud to offer more than 20 service opportunities that impact Brooklyn's low-income neighborhoods.   Ages: Volunteer opportunities are for families with children ten and older.   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: volunteer@wearebcs.org, 718.310.5823. Visit the Spring Into Action webpage for more information and to register. http://wearebcs.org/springintoaction/ Do you have a teen looking for a summer internship program? DOROT's Summer Teen Internship Program is for rising sophomores through rising seniors. The internship inspires high school students to develop leadership skills and give back to the community. Interns volunteer with a diverse group of socially conscious teens to connect with older adults and provide assistance.  Teen interns may: Visit seniors in their home for companionship Teach seniors how to use a computer, iPad, iShuffle, and other types of technology Celebrate seniors' birthdays Deliver meals to seniors Send birthday cards out to seniors Read to visually impaired seniors Shop and deliver groceries to seniors Play chess, cards, scrabble, and other games with seniors Assist with office work at DOROT Have the opportunity to plan, run and implement an intergenerational game day or museum trip Visit DOROT's Homelessness Prevention Program and take part in cooking a meal for the seniors who live in our transitional housing facility   Session 1: June 26 - July 20 (exceptions made for Regents exams) Session 2: July 24 - August 17 The internship is 4 days a week, Monday through Thursday, 10:30am - 5pm On the last day of the internship, the day ends at 6:30pm. This is an unpaid internship and is designed to provide students with a minimum of 92 hours of community service. Two locations are available - Manhattan and Riverdale. Interested teens should complete the online application: If you have any questions please contact Shelley Levine at slevine@dorotusa.org or 212.769.2850. Cook a Meal at a Shelter Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible -- find something that works for your families schedule   Location:  Check the national Homeless Shelter Directory or Emergency Food Programs Directory for shelters or soup kitchens in your area. Your family can work together to help hungry people in your community by volunteering to cook a meal or bring food to a local homeless shelter or soup kitchen. When you contact a shelter or soup kitchen, ask for the volunteer coordinator, see if they need volunteers and ask if they have any age requirements. Find more information and resources on the Doing Good Together Cook a Meal at a Shelter Project Page. Ages: Will vary depending on the shelter or soup kitchen's volunteer policy.   Time Commitment: Varies; volunteers can typically make either a one-time or ongoing commitment.   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   One of the hallmarks of DGT™ is that we do more than simply offer opportunities and ideas for sharing kindness and serving others. We also expand on those experiences with important tips that help families prepare for and reflect on the unique situations they encounter during their time spent volunteering. Our newest Reflection Activities are geared specifically to the frequent topics we cover in our listings, e.g. helping the hungry and caring for animals. Look for the reflection banners in our listings to find conversation starters, book recommendations and more. And be sure to bookmark this collection of reflection offerings for easy reference during big-hearted discussions with your family.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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March 2017 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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March 2017  - Silicon Valley  Village House Dinner Service at St. Frances Cabrini Village House, An Interfaith Shelter of Hope   Date/Time: Dates are available between March 1 - April 5, 6:30 - 8:30pm.   Location: St. Frances Cabrini Church, 15333 Woodard Rd., San Jose St. Frances Cabrini Helping Others will be welcoming 15 homeless women into our community from March 1 to April 5, as part of the expanded Village House Network of rotating shelters. Families, groups and organizations can lend a hand by preparing, serving and cleaning up dinner. At least five volunteers are needed for this opportunity. Please be sure to prepare enough food for 25 people, plus enough for you and your volunteers if you wish to join the meal. We encourage volunteers to have dinner with those you serve that evening. Volunteers are asked to provide a well-balanced meal along with dessert and drinks (non-alcoholic). Please take all containers with you after the meal. Leftovers will not be able to be saved, as there is no space to store or refrigerate. There is a kitchen on site if you wish to cook the meal there or you can bring it heated. Ages: All ages are welcome to help with dinner service. All minors must have an adult present.   Time Commitment: Two to three hours   Contact: To sign up please contact Maile Figone, rmfigone@sbcglobal.net or 408.483.0713. Please let Maile know what your main course will be when you sign up. https://www.villagehousesccca.com Sunday in the Park Clean Up and Restoration Beautify San Jose   Date/Time: Sunday March 5, 10:30am - 12:30pm   Location: Penitencia Creek Park, 3050 Berryessa Rd, San Jose Volunteer in your community to clean up Penitentia Creek Park! A variety of activities will be offered to restore and clean up the park area. Tools will be provided and no pre-registration is required. Ages: All ages are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: 408.595.3483 or ParkVolunteer@sanjoseca.gov http://www.beautifysj.org/index.php/2017/02/09/sunday-in-the-park-march-5/ Celebrate International Women's Day at the Palo Alto Native Plant Nursery Save the Bay   Date/Time: Wednesday March 8, noon - 3pm   Location: Palo Alto Baylands (details provided upon registration) Follow in the footsteps of inspiring female environmentalists like Save the Bay's founders Kay Kerr, Sylvia McLaughlin, and Esther Gulick, by continuing their efforts to restore healthy shorelines to San Francisco Bay. Join us at our Palo Alto Baylands nursery and see what it takes to grow the next generation of native plants that will help reestablish healthy wetlands throughout the Bay. No experience necessary. Gloves, tools and instruction provided. Each event is led by Save The Bay staff who are certified in first aid and CPR. Ages: For all restoration events, a parent or guardian must accompany children under the age of 16.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Rachelle Cardona, rcardona@savesfbay.org, 510.463.6850. Due to the sensitive nature of the restoration site, space is limited and RSVP is requested. You must fill out the online registration form to register yourself or a group of 10 people or less. https://www.savesfbay.org Garden: Monthly Saturday Workday and Weekly Garden Maintenance Collective Roots   Date/Time: Saturday, March 13, monthly Saturday Workday and Potluck: 3rd Saturday of each month, 10:30am - 12:30pm Weekly Garden Maintenance: Thursdays, 5 - 6pm  (Winter hours, will extend to 7pm in March)   Location:  1785 Woodland Ave., East Palo Alto Collective Roots aims to cultivate a healthier, stronger, more connected East Palo Alto community (EPA) by working together to build a robust community-based food system. EPA's deep history of agriculture shows cultivation of food strengthens people and fortifies communities. As part of the industrious EPA community, we seek to foster more communal growing, sharing, and eating of fresh, local produce through our three pillars: Growing (Gardening) Sharing (Education) Eating (Healthy Food Access) Join us to plant, maintain, and harvest our community and educational garden in East Palo Alto, while enjoying being part of our community. Monthly Saturday Workdays are also a potluck so bring a dish to share and enjoy lunch under the oak trees! Ages: Families with children ages five and older are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: One to two hours   Contact: Najiha Alasmar, 650.324.2769, najiha@collectiveroots.org http://www.collectiveroots.org Coyote Creek Clean Up for World Water Day Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful   Date/Time: Saturday March 25, 9am - noon   Location: Coyote Meadows/Remillard, 940 Remillard Ct., San Jose We invite you to a Coyote Creek cleanup for World Water Day. Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful invites you to spend a few hours at Coyote Creek and help beautify our creek through a community cleanup. Improve your Trash Karma by participating! Volunteers are needed to help with registration and photos as well as participate in the cleanup. Be sure to wear long pants, sleeves, and closed-toed shoes since you will be near poison oak and around loose or muddy soil.   Ages: All ages welcome, minors under 18 require signed waiver. An adult must accompany volunteers under age 13.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Deb Kramer, Program Manager, deb@keepcoyotecreekbeautiful.org, 408.372.7053. Registration is available online. We suggest you also check with Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful close to event day to ensure that the recent flooding hasn't changed the event details. http://www.keepcoyotecreekbeautiful.org Racing Hearts 5K/10K Stanford Healthcare   Date/Time: Sunday March 26 (times vary depending on shift, race begins at 9am)   Location: Koret Plaza (at the intersection of Campus Dr. and Galvez St.), Stanford Stanford Health Care invites you to join us for the Fourth Annual Racing Hearts 5k Run/Walk and 10K Run benefiting Stanford Heart Research and the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease! We need volunteers for both before the race and day of the race. Volunteer needs range from flyer distribution, check in, course marking, course support/cheering and clean up. Ages: Age minimum varies by shift/role but there are many opportunities for children of all ages!   Time Commitment: Varies Contact: Rachel Acuna-Narvaez, RacingHearts@stanfordhealthcare.org, 650.380.1191. Please register each volunteering member of your family on the Racing Hearts Event Site and make a note to let organizers know that you will be volunteering as a family and any specific preferences. https://raceroster.com/events/2017/10369/racing-hearts-5k10k-2017  St. Francis' Hot Meals and Ecumenical Hunger Program Ecumenical Hunger Program at St. Francis of Assisi Church   Date/Time: Wednesdays, 5 - 6pm for the Hot Meal Program, other volunteer opportunity days and times vary.   Location:  St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto The Ecumenical Hunger Program, along with the St. Vincent De Paul Society, prepares and serves hot meals to needy individuals and families every Wednesday night at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto. At St. Francis, you'll be serving pre-made food to the less fortunate. When volunteers arrive, they sign in, grab aprons and gloves to either prepare the plates or go out and serve the plates to the guests. Some of those served are homeless, while others are families with children who take advantage of this program to conserve the limited funds they have. There are also opportunities for families to volunteer in the Food Closet (sorting, packing and distributing boxes), and in the warehouse (sorting clothing, shoes and other items). Ages: All ages welcome, please make sure that you are not sick when you come to volunteer   Time Commitment: One to two hours   Contact: Lakesha Roberts, info@ehpcares.org, 650.323.7781 www.ehpcares.org/food-services.html The Ultimate Hike: Create Your Own Adventure CureSearch for Children's Cancer   Date/Time: Flexible - on your own time   Location: Choose your own location CureSearch raises funds for children's cancer research to ensure that more children have access to life-saving treatments today and into the future. Ultimate Hike: Create Your Adventure is your chance to plan your lifesaving adventure from start to finish. You pick the trail, the distance, the date, and you set your own fundraising goals. All you need is a trail and your own two feet, and every step you take will make a difference! From the main Create Your Adventure page, click Register in the navigation bar at the top of the page and choose whether you want to register "As an individual", "As a Team Captain" (to start a new team), or "As a Team Member" (if the team already exists). You will then have the chance to start a new adventure! Ages: Any age can participate   Time Commitment: Flexible   Contact: Courtney Bollman, 240.235.2286, courtney.bollman@curesearch.org www.curesearchevents.org Assist Older Adults With Activities Webster House Health Center - Episcopal Senior Communities   Date/Time: Varies   Location: 437 Webster St., Palo Alto Webster House welcomes volunteers of all ages to come spend time with residents doing various therapeutic recreation activities such as singing, reading, arts and crafts, jewelry making, bowling, gardening, and much more. We also have volunteer opportunities for one-on-one visits to residents in their rooms, dining room assistance, assisting residents with their meals, and musical performances.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies. Webster House would like to have volunteers weekly or more, if possible.   Contact: Enrichment and Volunteer Director, Natalie Bedell, at 650.617.7355 or nbedell@jtm-esc.org www.jtm-esc.org/webster-house-health-center/volunteer/ Cook a Meal at a Shelter Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible -- find something that works for your families schedule   Location: Check the national Homeless Shelter Directory or Emergency Food Programs Directory for shelters or soup kitchens in your area. Your family can work together to help hungry people in your community by volunteering to cook a meal or bring food to a local homeless shelter or soup kitchen. When you contact a shelter or soup kitchen, ask for the volunteer coordinator, see if they need volunteers and ask if they have any age requirements. Find more information and resources on the Doing Good Together Cook a Meal at a Shelter Project Page. Ages: Will vary depending on the shelter or soup kitchen's volunteer policy.   Time Commitment: Varies; volunteers can typically make either a one-time or ongoing commitment.   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   One of the hallmarks of DGT™ is that we do more than simply offer opportunities and ideas for sharing kindness and serving others. We also expand on those experiences with important tips that help families prepare for and reflect on the unique situations they encounter during their time spent volunteering. Our newest Reflection Activities are geared specifically to the frequent topics we cover in our listings, e.g. helping the hungry and caring for animals. Look for the reflection banners in our listings to find conversation starters, book recommendations and more. And be sure to bookmark this collection of reflection offerings for easy reference during big-hearted discussions with your family.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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February 2017 - Boston Family Volunteer Opportunities

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February 2017 - Boston Boston Fight for Air Climb American Lung Association   Date/Time: Saturday, February 4, 7am   Location: One Boston Place, 201 Washington St., Boston   By joining the Fight for Air Climb, you are helping to make a positive impact in the lives of those affected by lung disease. Participants raise funds to support the mission of the American Lung Association while training to climb the stairs of a skyscraper, stadium, or other landmark building. Make the most of your experience and climb as a part of a team. Teams consist of friends, family and co-workers who want to help raise awareness and funds to support research, patient programs and advocacy efforts. Children and families can climb! Participants must be at least ten years old. There is a fundraising requirement of $100 that is due on/by the day of the event. Volunteer duties include registration/check-in, water/rest stops, finish line, and cheering squad.    Ages: 10 years old for participation, 15 years for volunteering   Time Commitment: Five or eight hour shift   Contact: Judy Deane, 413.505.5061, Judy.Deane@Lung.org BostonClimb.org Wish List Supply Drive Heading Home   Date/Time: Flexible, contact Lauren to make arrangements   Location: The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street, Suite 100, Charlestown Heading Home is one of the largest providers of shelter for homeless families and individuals in the Commonwealth. Our mission is to end homelessness in Greater Boston by providing a supported pathway to self-sufficiency that begins with a home, together with critical services. You and your family can help! Our shelters are always in need of new and/or gently used donations for our clients. By running a donation drive, you can supply our families and individuals with critical day-to-day items. Our most pressing needs are: Cleaning supplies Household items (kitchenware, toiletries, etc.) New linens (twin size, please!) New pillows New mattress pads Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Lauren Jackson, ljackson@headinghomeinc.org http://www.headinghomeinc.org/ Write a Letter! Operation Gratitude   Date/Time: Ongoing   Location: All your cards and letters can be sent together in one large mailing envelope or box to: Operation Gratitude 21100 Lassen Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311-4278 ATTN: Letter Writing Program Please include a donation form in your large mailing envelope or box. Operation Gratitude annually sends 200,000+ Care Packages filled with food, entertainment, hygiene, and handmade items, plus personal letters of appreciation to Veterans, First Responders, New Recruits, Wounded Heroes, their Care Givers, and to individually named U.S. service members deployed overseas and their families waiting at home. Of all the items included in these packages, the most cherished are the personal letters of appreciation! Our goal is to include several letters and colorful drawings in every Care Package and tell our troops "WE CARE!" Writing a letter is a meaningful way for Americans to show support for our Military. It only takes five minutes of your day, but will bring lasting joy to our troops. Letters are accepted year-round. Right now, we have a special need for those specifically written to our New Recruits, Veterans, and First Responders. Holiday cards need to be received two to three months prior to the holidays in order for them to reach our service members on time. Once we receive letters it takes us time to screen, sort and assemble them into our care packages and then we have to factor in the shipping time. If your letters will arrive at a later date it will work well to make them general letters of appreciation so that they may be used year round. Don't know where to start? Click here for the Write a Letter flyer. Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Flexible   Contact: OpGrat@gmail.com or info@operationgratitude.com www.operationgratitude.com Nevins Farm Reading Program MPSCA   Date/Time: First Sunday of the month, 11am - 2pm   Location: The MSPCA at Nevins Farm, 400 Broadway, Methuen Accompanied by a parent or guardian, children will read out loud to an adoring canine, feline, or even rabbit audience in this fun family event. While your child practices reading, you'll also be providing valuable social time to our adoptable animals. Bring your favorite book, or borrow one from the MPSCA library. Ages: For children ages six to ten and a parent/guardian. All participants must have a parent or guardian present for the duration of the program. This event is appropriate for children who are learning to read, and/or could benefit from some practice reading out loud (~ 1st - 4th grade). Please note that due to the nature of this program, and the limited space, we regretfully cannot accommodate younger siblings at this event (or any other unregistered guests).   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: humaneeducation@mspca.org. Advanced registration is required and is  available online. Families are also welcome to join our kids programs Facebook group! http://www.mspca.org/nevinseducation Family Service Day on the Farm! The MSPCA at Nevins Farm   Date/Time: Monday, February 20, 9am -noon   Location: The MSPCA at Nevins Farm, 400 Broadway, Methuen   Many children want to help animals on a farm, but the MSPCA requires children to be 16 or older to work with the animals. Younger kids can also experience what it's really like to roll up their sleeves and get a little dirty on a farm - cleaning cages and mucking stalls! That's why they offer the MSPCA at Nevins Farm's "Family Service Day" series. Eleven times a year (most often on a Monday holiday), adult-child pairs are able to participate as hands-on volunteers at the MSPCA. Each group participates in three activities: an animal care chore, support chores, and an educational presentation that includes a fun activity and animal meet & greet. Animal care chores include cleaning cat cages, walking gentle dogs, or mucking horse stalls. The program provides a fun and educational opportunity for families to make a meaningful contribution to the MSPCA's animal care efforts. Ages: This program is for children in grades 2-6. Each child must attend with a parent or adult guardian.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: humaneeducation@mspca.org, 978.687.7453. Registration is available online.  Families are also welcome to join our kids programs Facebook group! http://www.mspca.org/nevinseducation  Making Lunch for the Ladies On The Rise, Inc.   Date/Time: Flexible, this opportunity is available six days a week. Meals should be dropped off between 8 - 11am, prior day delivery can be arranged if needed.   Location: 341 Broadway, Cambridge For the homeless women at On The Rise, a healthy and hearty meal enjoyed in a safe home is invaluable. They rely on the kind hearts and culinary talents of volunteers to cook a meal in their kitchen and deliver to On the Rise directly. This volunteer opportunity fills one of their greatest needs by being able to offer a healthy and hearty meal to a woman who otherwise would not have many options. Don't shy away from this opportunity even if you don't consider yourself a cook; store bought and pre-made items are also welcome. As the women are as diverse as their palates, you choose what you would like to make; it is sure to be appreciated and enjoyed! Shopping, preparing and cooking these meals is a wonderful opportunity to give back with your children, as they can get involved at any age. To respect the privacy of the women, volunteers do not serve lunch at On The Rise. Lunch is set up family-style in the comfy kitchen and women help themselves. Entrée should serve 15 adults; sides and dessert are optional. Fresh fruit is encouraged with lunch donations. Click here for more specific lunch preparation and delivery information. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate.   Time Commitment: Flexible, this can be a one-time opportunity or you may sign up for multiple shifts throughout the year   Contact: Taylor Bartley, taylor.bartley@ontherise.org or 617.497.7968 x 36. Volunteers must preregister and registration is available online. www.ontherise.org Disaster Preparedness Themed goCreate! Boston Cares   Date/Time: Sunday, March 19, noon - 2pm   Location: Full opportunity address and directions will be sent to you by e-mail after you sign up.   Join us in March for a goCreate project in collaboration with the Boston Cares Disaster Program. Volunteers will be working on preparedness related craft!   Ages: This project is intended for families with young children, five and older. An adult 18 or older must accompany all volunteers under age 13.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Katie Edelman, kedelman@bostoncares.org, 617.422.0910, ext. 208. Registration is available online and an orientation with Boston Cares is required. Volunteer spots fill up quickly so sign-up soon! www.bostoncares.org   Playmats Family Volunteer Opportunity Room to Grow   Date/Time: Saturday, February 25, 10am - noon   Location: 142 Berkeley St, Boston Room to Grow provides parents raising babies in poverty with one-to-one parenting support and essential baby items throughout their children's critical first three years of life. Parents receive developmental information, customized support, and all of the needed baby items to ensure a healthy and secure start for their child. Volunteers can help make a difference in the lives of babies being raised in poverty by crafting playmats for Room to Grow clients. Ages: Families with children ages eight and older are welcome to volunteer. A parent must accompany all children.   Time Commitment: Two hours Contact: Email patricia.hunter@roomtogrow.org for more information or to sign up. Space is limited. www.roomtogrow.org Friendship Bracelets Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Your home or other community location Your family can create these colorful bracelets to share with others. Making friendship bracelets for new students, or kids who seem to need more friends, is the perfect activity for the Valentine's season! Visit the Doing Good Together Friendship Bracelets Project Page to learn how to make the bracelets and for reflection materials and resources for this kindness activity. Ages: Everyone can participate Time Commitment: Varies Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org    WE'RE SHARING STORIES FOR STORIES Have you and your family used our DGT™ resources to share kindness and/or serve others? We want to hear from you! Take part in our STORIES FOR STORIES giveaway. We'll send a DGT-selected big-hearted book to the first five families who share their stories (via the form on this page) along with a photo or video! (Submitted stories may be used on the DGT website and/or social media.) Deadline for submissions: February 15th! P.S. Remember, your family's act of kindness and service *must* come from a DGT web page, listing, newsletter, or blog.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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February 2017 - NYC Family Volunteer Opportunities

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February 2017 - New York  Intergenerational Book Buds DOROT   Date/Time: Wednesdays, February 1 - May 24, 4 - 5:30pm   Location: DOROT, 171 West 85th Street Intergenerational Book Buds is a reading adventure for 2nd & 3rd grade students and older adults that nurtures a child's love of reading through a variety of fun and creative activities. The program is ideal for youth who need extra encouragement to reach for a book and spend time discussing books. The group will read aloud a few books over the course of 14 sessions and discuss the major themes of the books respecting other's differences and the value of kindness. Great food and art activities will follow!   Ages: 2nd and 3rd grade students   Time Commitment: 14 sessions, 90 minutes each session.   Contact: Shelley Levine, slevine@dorotusa.org, 917.441.5051. Registration is available online. www.dorotusa.org It's My Park! Partnership for Parks   Date/Time: Saturdays, February 4, 11 and 25, 8am - noon   Location: Henry Hudson Park, Independence Ave, Bronx Partnerships for Parks empowers New Yorkers to get more involved in their local park, and that includes making a visible difference through the It's My Park program. You and your family can help by volunteering with the Stewards of Henry Hudson Park. Start your Saturday mornings at this Bronx Park; help to amplify its beauty and sustain community with general cleanups and gardening. Rain or shine, there will be something for everyone to do at this unique park!   Ages: All ages can participate - Volunteers under 18 are required to present a signed guardian's consent to participate or have a chaperone present.   Time Commitment: Four hours   Contact: Please register for the project by emailing dp.reynolds@verizon.net. http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/events/ Make Valentines and "Care Kits" for Women & Children Sanctuary for Families   Date/Time: Valentine packages should be delivered by Friday, February 10; Care Kits may be delivered any time. Contact Emily LoBue for delivery information   Location: Valentines and Care Kits should be dropped off or sent to Sanctuary's lower Manhattan location. Please contact Emily LoBue, for location details.   Sanctuary for Families is the leading nonprofit agency in New York State dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of domestic violence victims, sex trafficking victims, and their children. Sanctuary envisions a world in which freedom from gender violence is a basic human right. Valentine's Day can be a difficult time for victims of gender-based violence who are living in shelters. It is often a reminder of the violence that brought them to Sanctuary. Write an inspirational message, make cards, or include wrapped candy - whatever your heart desires!   Also, February is National Children's Dental Health Month. In addition to a Valentine's greeting, consider including a child's toothbrush, toothpaste and floss for the recipient to share with her children.   Sanctuary for Families is also in need of "Care Kits" for both adults and children. Care Kits consist of ziplock bags filled with basic travel-sized toiletry essentials (toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, deodorant, hand sanitizer, etc). Please also add a note of encouragement and friendship to each bag!  This is a great project to do with kids on a rainy day.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies Contact: Emily LoBue, elobue@sffny.org, 212-349-6009  ext317 www.sanctuaryforfamilies.org    Serve Breakfast and Build Relationships HOPE for New York   Date/Time: Saturday, February 11, 9am - 11:30am   Location: Living Waters Fellowship, 265 Stanhope Street, Brooklyn Volunteers prepare and serve a delicious breakfast (pancakes, sausages, juice, etc) to over 100 guests, including the elderly, children, and the homeless. Volunteers will set up, cook, serve food/drinks, bus tables and clean. Those who are interested can also visit guests at the tables to offer conversation and friendship. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours   Contact: Register online at hfny.org/affiliates/living-waters-fellowship/16939, 917.206.1440 www.hfny.org Share the Love! Valentine's Day Pajama and Stuffed Animal Drive Family-to-Family   Date/Time: All deliveries should be made by February 13   Location: Click here for a list of locations where you can send your gift. Family-to-Family is a nonprofit national hunger and poverty relief organization dedicated to connecting, one-to-one, families with enough to share to impoverished American families with profoundly less. New pajamas and a snuggly stuffed animal can make a child living in poverty feel special and secure. Consider sending a new pair of pajamas, any size, along with a new stuffed animal and a Valentine's Day card, to an American child living in poverty in one of the communities that Family-to-Family serves. When purchasing pajamas, please buy those that meet federal safety regulations. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: moreinfo@family-to-family.org http://www.family-to-family.org/hands-on-giving-projects/pajama-drive/ Annual Toiletry Drive for homeless women (to support Valentine's Day Party gift bags) Brooklyn Community Services   Date/Time: All donations must be made by Friday, February 10   Location: Drop all donations at BCS Headquarters, downtown Brooklyn, 285 Schermerhorn Street, weekdays between 9 am - 5 pm Please drop off new, unopened toiletries at the front desk of BCS Headquarters. Items to donate include: Body Wash Loofahs Combs/Brushes Shampoo Conditioner Toothpaste Mouth Wash Head Scarfs Socks Stockings Deodorants Perfume Lotions Please do not include any glass items or shaving razors. The items collected make a real difference to the homeless women served by BCS, who come into the shelter with very few personal possessions. All donated items will be included in gift bags distributed at our annual Valentine's Day Party held on February 14. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: info@WeAreBCS.org, 718.310.5600 http://wearebcs.org/about/bcs-150/ Boxes of Love: Sort and Pack Non-Perishable Food Donations HOPE for New York   Date/Time: Saturday, February 18, 10 am - noon   Location: Cru Inner City Training and Distribution Center, 9 - 11 44th Drive, Queens Join Cru Inner City to serve families in need throughout NYC. Volunteers will sort and pack non-perishable food donations that will be distributed to communities in need. This is a great group opportunity, and a family-friendly opportunity as well--children are welcome! IMPORTANT: Once you request information for this event through the web page, you will receive a separate email with a registration link from Cru Inner City to complete your sign up. Your volunteer spot is NOT reserved until you complete the registration process through the second link. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Register online at hfny.org/affiliates/the-inner-city-ministry-of-cru/16375, 917.206.1440 www.hfny.org Donate Colorful and Cheerful Drawings Color A Smile   Date/Time: Any time - at your convenience   Location: Mail drawings to: Color A Smile PO Box 1516 Morristown, NJ 07962-1516 Young children are prolific artists, especially when they are stuck inside during the colder months. If you have a little Picasso and are wondering what to do with all their masterpieces, consider sending them to Color A Smile. Color A Smile collects hundreds of drawings created by children each month, and distributes them to Meals on Wheels programs, nursing homes, hospitals and individuals who are in need of a smile. Follow some simple guidelines, package the artwork together and ship it to Color A Smile, and they will make sure it gets into the hands of a person who needs cheering. You need not register for this activity. Click here for Color-a-Smile instruction and coloring pages. Use 8.5 x 11 white paper Use crayons or colored paper Avoid glitter and glue Avoid using phrases like "Feel better" or "Get Well" Do not put a date on the drawing Ask children to sign just FIRST name and age on the drawing Use one side of paper only Make sure the drawings are bright and happy! Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: 973.540.9222, support@colorasmile.org www.colorasmile.org   Friendship Bracelets Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Your home or other community location Your family can create these colorful bracelets to share with others. Making friendship bracelets for new students, or kids who seem to need more friends, is the perfect activity for the Valentine's season! Visit the Doing Good Together Friendship Bracelets Project Page to learn how to make the bracelets and for reflection materials and resources for this kindness activity. Ages: Everyone can participate Time Commitment: Varies Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org    WE'RE SHARING STORIES FOR STORIES Have you and your family used our DGT™ resources to share kindness and/or serve others? We want to hear from you! Take part in our STORIES FOR STORIES giveaway. We'll send a DGT-selected big-hearted book to the first five families who share their stories (via the form on this page) along with a photo or video! (Submitted stories may be used on the DGT website and/or social media.) Deadline for submissions: February 15th! P.S. Remember, your family's act of kindness and service *must* come from a DGT web page, listing, newsletter, or blog.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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February 2017 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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February 2017  - Silicon Valley  Garden Together at Almost Eden The Almost Eden Garden Project   Date/Time: Saturday February 4, 9 - 11am   Location: 4111 Alma, Palo Alto; behind St. Andrew's United Methodist Church The Almost Eden Garden Project grows quality organic produce for local organizations that provide meals and services for homeless and low-income families. During our harvesting seasons (late summer and early winter), weekly deliveries are made to St. Anthony's Dining Room in Redwood City and to the South Palo Alto Food Closet. Garden tasks may include laying wood chips on walking paths, planting seedlings, weeding, digging and amending garden beds, trimming and/or turning compost bins. Be prepared to get dirty, bring your own reusable water bottles, and wear closed-toed shoes please!   Ages: Families with children ages five and older are welcome to volunteer. All minors under the age of 16 must have adult present.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Pamela, info@almosteden.org, 650.504.1811 http://www.almosteden.org/index.html Super Guadalupe River Run - 5K, 10K and Kid's 1K Run Guadalupe River Park Conservancy   Date/Time: Sunday, February 5, 9am. There is a 1K Kids race at 10:30am   Location: Guadalupe Gardens, 438 Coleman Avenue, San Jose Kick off Super Bowl Sunday with the annual Super Guadalupe River Run benefiting Guadalupe River Park Conservancy. Don't fumble the opportunity to burn some calories. Whether you go long for 6.2 miles or tackle the 3.1-mile quarterback sneak, you'll earn your game-time guacamole on the Guadalupe. Huddle with family, friends, training partners, neighbors, co-workers to run a 10K or 5K - cross the goal line to score guilt-free indulgence during the game. Not interested in racing? Volunteers needed to cheer our participants along the course!   Ages: All ages are welcome to participate in either the event or as volunteers   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Jessica Gonzalez, jessica@grpg.org, 408.298.7657. Click here for race registration and click here for volunteer registration. www.grpg.org, http://www.grpg.org/events/super-guadalupe-river-run-2/ Welcome Migratory Birds Save the Bay   Date/Time: Wednesday, February 8, noon - 3pm   Location: Palo Alto Native Plant Nursery (details provided upon registration) During winter the San Francisco Bay Area provides a temporary home to over 1.6 million migrating shorebirds. These birds are dependent upon the health of wetland vegetation, which Save The Bay aims to bolster by planting 40,000 native plants this winter along the shoreline. Come out to the Palo Alto Baylands and bird watch as you plant, while providing healthy habitat for our feathery friends. No experience is necessary. Gloves, tools and instruction provided. Save The Bay staff certified in first aid and CPR will lead the event. Ages: All ages are welcome with an adult. A parent or guardian must accompany children under the age of 16.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Rachelle Cardona, Restoration Education & Community Engagement Specialist, rcardona@savesfbay.org, 510.463.6850. To register, visit the Save the SF Bay Volunteer Registration Page. Space is limited and an RSVP is required. https://www.savesfbay.org Delivery Volunteers for Families with Critically Ill Children There WIth Care of the Bay Area   Date/Time: Times and dates are flexible for volunteering. Upcoming orientations are Monday, February 6, 6 - 7:30pm or Friday, February 24, 10 - 11:30am.   Location: There With Care of the Bay Area, 3475 Edison Way, Suite H, Menlo Park   There With Care provides a wide range of thoughtful and fundamental services to children and families during the critical phases of a medical crisis. They serve families referred by medical agencies by building a network of services and people who ease the burden of life's day-to-day obligations with compassion and care. Help care for the families of critically ill children in your community by delivering groceries and needed items to them. Volunteers must attend a one-time mandatory 90-minute training before heading out with grocery and supply deliveries from our pantry in Menlo Park to families on the Peninsula, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and Ronald McDonald House. Please bring your children of all ages to help you volunteer!   Ages: Families with children are welcome; primary volunteer must be 18 or older.  A drivers license, background check and orientation is needed for drivers meeting with families.   Time Commitment: Flexible, orientation required. Register for orientation online.   Contact: Jennifer Thurlow, 650.268.8557, jennifer.thurlow@therewithcare.org http://bayarea.therewithcare.org/ Full Circle Farm Education Garden Sustainable Community Gardens   Date/Time: Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am to 7pm or dark, whichever comes first.   Location: Our West Gate at 955 Dunford Way, Sunnyvale Full Circle Farm's Education Garden is a one-acre patch of green at the west end of the farm. The garden meets a number of community needs while the farm at large is focused on locally-grown food production. Designed to enable easy access by children of all ages, the garden provides a space for youth groups from preschool up through middle school. We have a Children's Garden space available and many of our volunteers come with their entire family. Volunteers help with gardening tasks including cultivating, harvesting, planting, compost work, and more!   Ages: All ages, families are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: Flexible   Contact: Dan Hafeman, Garden Manager, info@fullcirclesunnyvale.org, 408.475.2531 www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org Help the TCV Food Bank Tri-City Volunteers   Date/Time: Monday through Friday, 8am - 4pm   Location: 37350 Joseph St., Fremont Volunteers are essential to Tri-City Volunteers food bank's daily grocery cart preparation and distribution. We need approximately 40 warehouse volunteers a day to ensure that as many as 350 client families per day receive adequate nutrition. Volunteers also help us sort and hang donated clothing and attractively merchandise our boutique thrift store, which provides very low-cost items for struggling families: babies clothes are 10 for $1.00, children's clothes are 5 for $1.00 and the majority of adult clothing is marked at $0.50 or $2.00. Community volunteers are the heart of our agency. Not only do volunteers work directly with low and very-low income families, they bring to life our vision of a community united together to ensure that every child and adult in our area is not just free from hunger, but can access pathways to financial stability and self-sufficiency. When volunteers assist families at the Tri-City food bank and thrift store, they are also mentoring and deeply connecting with others. That is the real strength of our work. Ages: Families with children ten and older are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: Minimum of two hours Contact: To learn more and to sign up for volunteer orientation, contact Stacy Hart, stacy@tcvfoodbank.org, 510.793.4583 http://www.tri-cityvolunteers.org  Thursday Nights LEGO DisAssembly Party Playing at Learning - The Play Space in San Jose   Date/Time: Thursdays, 6:30 - 8:30pm   Location: The Play Space, 2215 Oakland Road, Suite B (North door) San Jose The Play Space is a program of Playing at Learning - a home for all FIRST programs in Northern California, including FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge, FIRST Lego League and JR. FIRST Lego League. The Play Space is a space for interested students to learn about engineering, technology, robotics, and more as well as a space for volunteers to learn and for all to play! Playing At Learning has a large collection of used FIRST LEGO League field kits that are comprised of LEGO pieces. These are in partial disassembly. On Thursday evenings each week, we are hosting a DisAssembly party - to get all of the partially disassembled LEGO elements back into separate LEGO pieces, i.e. fully disassembled. This is a great opportunity for a family to come and spend a few hours volunteering. Ages: Families with children ten years and older are welcome to volunteer. An adult must accompany all minors.   Time Commitment: Two hours Contact: Volunteers must RSVP so that we can get the LEGO kits out and ready for disassembly. To RSVP or ask any questions, email volunteer@playingatlearning.org. http://www.theplayspace.org/home   Help Out Sacred Heart Community Services Sacred Heart Community Services   Date/Time: Weekday evenings from 3:30 - 5:30pm and Saturdays from 9am - noon   Location: 1381 South 1st St, San Jose Since 1964 Sacred Heart Community Service has served Santa Clara County residents in need. They provide food, clothing, job training, legal services, housing assistance and educational classes free of charge to more than 1500 clients each day. Join us to support Sacred Heart's programs by building food baskets, sorting clothing and food donations and preparing educational materials for the clients.  Volunteers must wear appropriate clothing (pants, no bare midriff or low cut shirts) and closed-toed shoes. Parking lot is often available for volunteers on Saturdays, please do not park in Wendy's or Denny's. Ages: Ages 9 and up. Kids ages 14 and under must have a parent or trusted adult present to volunteer.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Sergio Gonzalez, volunteers@sacredheartcs.org, 408.278.2171. http://sacredheartcs.org/volunteer/ Provide Meals to Sheltered Homeless Grace Baptist Overnight Shelter   Date/Time: Bring breakfast or dinner. Meals should be delivered by 7:30 - 7:45pm.   Location: 484 E San Fernando St, San Jose. Please park in the lot behind the home at 132 South 10th Street and enter the double glass doors behind the church building. Call Phil when you arrive at 408.839.9815. Grace Baptist Church has 35+ shelter guests that sleep inside the church every night. This is a great opportunity for you and some friends to come together to volunteer because you will be bringing a meal for approximately 50 guests and volunteers. You are welcome to drop off the meal or stay and serve and/or eat with guests. The church does not have a full kitchen so food needs to be brought cooked/warm for dinners. Guests love warm dinners of all kinds. There is a refrigerator and so anything cold (yogurt, fruit, hard boiled eggs) is great for breakfast. Hot water is also available for oatmeal packets. The shelter can always use more ground coffee/tea, sugar and creamer as well as disposable utensils and plates. Ages: All ages welcome to bring dinner and serve   Time Commitment: Flexible - you can drop off the meals or stay and serve/eat with the guests.   Contact:  Phil, 408.839.9815, email@graceinsanjose.org. To sign up visit: http://vols.pt/w5AqL1 (users will need a free account to sign up). http://www.graceinsanjose.org St. Francis' Hot Meals and Ecumenical Hunger Program Ecumenical Hunger Program at St. Francis of Assisi Church   Date/Time: Wednesdays, 5 - 6pm for the Hot Meal Program, other volunteer opportunity days and times vary.   Location: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto Ecumenical Hunger Program, along with the St. Vincent De Paul Society, prepares and serves hot meals to needy individuals and families every Wednesday night at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto. At St. Francis, you'll be serving pre-made food to the less fortunate. When volunteers arrive, they sign in, grab aprons and gloves to either prepare the plates or go out and serve the plates to the guests. Some of those served are homeless, while others are families with children who take advantage of this program to conserve the limited funds they have. There are also opportunities for families to volunteer in the Food Closet (sorting, packing and distributing boxes), and in the warehouse (sorting clothing, shoes and other items). Ages: All ages welcome, please make sure that you are not sick when you come to volunteer.   Time Commitment: One to two hours   Contact: Lakesha Roberts, info@ehpcares.org, 650.323.7781 www.ehpcares.org/food-services.html Neighborhood Cleanup Downtown Streets Team   Date/Time: Three Saturday mornings each month, 9:30am to noon. First Saturday, Santee Neighborhood Second Saturday, McKinley Neighborhood Third Saturday: Mayfair Neighborhood Location: Santee: Santee Community Center - 1535 Santee Drive, San Jose McKinley: McKinley Community Center - 651 Macredes Avenue, San Jose Mayfair: Mayfair Community Center - 2039 Kammerer Avenue, San Jose Beautify San Jose's most blighted neighborhoods with homeless Downtown Streets Team Members who are working hard to get housing and employment. The mission of Downtown Streets Team is to eradicate homelessness by empowering homeless individuals to be part of the solution to homelessness. Join your community by beautifying the Santee, McKinley or Mayfair neighborhoods with Downtown Streets Team Members. Not only will you be beautifying one of the most blighted neighborhoods in San Jose, fostering a safe place for people to live and play, you will be volunteering side-by-side with people who are volunteering their way out of homelessness. Feel free to ask them questions and get a new perspective on what it's like to be homeless and living on a low income in Santa Clara County. What to wear and bring: Please wear covered shoes, pants, long sleeves and work gloves. Wear sunscreen and bring water to stay hydrated. For safety reasons please do not wear these items: no red or blue, no logos on hats/shirts and no numbers. Blue jeans are okay. All that's left to bring is your "Can-do" attitude and we'll be on our way to making our neighborhoods safer and more beautiful places. Ages: Youth under 18 are welcome to volunteer with a parent or guardian.   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours Contact: Cliff Navales, San Jose Project Manager; cliff@streetsteam.org. Registration is available online. http://streetsteam.org/  Friendship Bracelets Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Your home or other community location Your family can create these colorful bracelets to share with others. Making friendship bracelets for new students, or kids who seem to need more friends, is the perfect activity for the Valentine's season! Visit the Doing Good Together Friendship Bracelets Project Page to learn how to make the bracelets and for reflection materials and resources for this kindness activity. Ages: Everyone can participate Time Commitment: Varies Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org    WE'RE SHARING STORIES FOR STORIES Have you and your family used our DGT™ resources to share kindness and/or serve others? We want to hear from you! Take part in our STORIES FOR STORIES giveaway. We'll send a DGT-selected big-hearted book to the first five families who share their stories (via the form on this page) along with a photo or video! (Submitted stories may be used on the DGT website and/or social media.) Deadline for submissions: February 15th! P.S. Remember, your family's act of kindness and service *must* come from a DGT web page, listing, newsletter, or blog.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. 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January 2017 - NYC Family Volunteer Opportunities

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January 2017 - New York  MulchFest 2017 - TreeCycle! City of New York Parks & Recreation   Date/Time: Saturday and Sunday, January 7 and 8, 10am - 2pm. You can bring your tree to a chipping location on January 7th or 8th, or to a drop-off location anytime between Saturday, December 31 and Sunday, January 8. The NYC Department of Sanitation will also be conducting special curbside collections for mulching and recycling of Christmas trees from Tuesday, January 3 through Saturday, January 14.   Location: Click here to find a chipping or drop off location near you. Join the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. More than 30,000 trees were recycled last year. Please remember to remove all lights and ornaments before bringing your tree to a MulchFest site. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest www.nycgovparks.org/    Learn more about helping the earth Outreach, Serve at a Soup Kitchen or Food Pantry, Advocacy Hunger Free America   Date/Time: Friday, January 13 through Sunday, January 16, Martin Luther King Weekend   Location: Various locations throughout New York City Hunger Free America is partnering with agencies throughout New York City to offer a variety of volunteer opportunities for our 2017 Weekend of Service. Check out HungerVolunteer.org for volunteer opportunities--we'll be adding more over the next few weeks. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Two to four hours   Contact: Rebecca Ligrani, rligrani@hungerfreeamerica.org, 646.553.1547 www.hungervolunteer.org   MLK Weekend Volunteer Projects Volunteer New York!   Date/Time: Friday, January 13th through Monday, January 16th   Location: Various locations throughout Westchester Volunteer New York! Is a Westchester-based organization that encourages volunteerism and supports local nonprofit organizations.   Volunteer projects include: Packing diapers for families in need Making birthday boxes and cards for children Serving meals Paint therapy for seniors And many others Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate. Individual projects may have separate age restrictions.   Time Commitment: Varies depending on project Contact: 914.948.4452. Browse the Volunteer New York! 2017 MLK Day Volunteer page for projects and registration information www.volunteernewyork.org    MLK Weekend of Service Family Art Project: A Hand in Freedom NYC Parks Department - Partnership for Parks   Date/Time: Saturday and Sunday, January 14 and 15, 10 am - 1 pm. This event is free, and admission to the grounds is free until noon.   Location: Wave Hill House, West 249th Street & Independence Ave., Bronx In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, consider his powerful message of justice and freedom. Participants will trace hands on fabric to cut out and then layer and paste on muslin. Use fabric markers and sprays to embed messages and quotes that speak out for kindness to all. Add to your design with bits of cloth, yarn and felt and lots of freedom. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: www.nycgovparks.org/events/mlk-day-of-service www.nycgovparks.org/   Serve a Hot Meal Repair the World (in partnership with Mandala Café)   Date/Time: Monday, January 16, noon - 2 pm or 6 - 8 pm   Location: All Souls Church, 88 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York Mandala Café founder Daiken Nelson has been cooking and serving hot meals on W. 116 St. and Adam Clayton Powell every Wednesday evening for 75-150 people for years. Repair the World hopes to serve upwards of 300 people for a lunch and dinner shift on MLK Day, when children are out of school and hot meals are needed.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: timeforgood_help@ujafedny.org. Registration is available online www.repairtheworld.nyc/   MLK Day of Service - various activities to benefit neighbors in Brooklyn Repair the World (in partnership with Met Council, Union Temple and UJA Federation of New York)   Date/Time: Monday, January 16, 10 - noon or 12:30 - 2:30 pm   Location: Union Temple, 17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn Assembling winter accessory packets Refreshing supplies for children in local schools Packing food for those experiencing food insecurity Preparing materials for outreach about SNAP benefits Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: timeforgood_help@ujafedny.org. Registration is available online www.repairtheworld.nyc/  Learn more about how to help fight poverty Winter Package Delivery Dorot   Date/Time: Sunday, January 29, 10:00am   Location: The home of a senior - typically Upper East or Upper West Side Brighten the day for a senior! Participate in Dorot's Winter Package Delivery, bringing a package of food and treats to one of Dorot's senior clients. Volunteers will visit and chat with the senior for about an hour.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Shelley Levine, 917.441.5051 www.dorotusa.org   Intergenerational Chess Dorot - Intergenerational After School Programs   Date/Time: Mondays, January 30 - May 15, 4 - 5:30pm   Location: Dorot, 171 West 85th Street DOROT offers intergenerational programs for youth of varying ages to connect with older adults. Interacting with older adults enables youth to develop communication skills, positive attitudes toward aging, and a sense of purpose and community. Students in 6th - 12th grades and older adults play chess together, share their love of the game and help build intergenerational connections across the chessboard.   Ages: Students in grades 6 - 12   Time Commitment: Each session is an hour and a half   Contact: Shelley Levine, 917.441.5051 http://www.dorotusa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=after   Host a PJ and Book Drive! Pajama Program   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Your home or location of your choosing   Pajama Program is a nonprofit that provides new pajamas and new books to children in need through a nationwide network of service agencies. Winter is considered the "danger season" for children in shelter and temporary housing. Consider hosting a Pajama Party or Book Drive for your child's next Birthday! Invite your guests to a Pajama Party (or any theme party). In lieu of gifts, ask guests to bring a new pair of pajamas or a new book to donate to Pajama Program. Pajamas should be new/unused and a complete set or nightgown. Decide on an age range to collect (all ages, infant, children to age 5, children 6 - 12, teens, etc.) Posters, signs and brochures can be used for invitations or to decorate the party space, and may be downloaded from the Pajama Program website. Once your drive is complete, report the donation to the Pajama Program through the link on the website. Pajama Program cannot provide pickup service for donations. However, within seven days they will contact you with an organization in your area that would love to take your donation. They will give you the contact name and number to arrange for a convenient time for you to drop it off. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: 212.716.9757 www.pajamaprogram.org   Monday, January 16th is Martin Luther King Day of Service "Everybody can be great because everybody can serve"   Monday, January 16th is a school and bank holiday to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Instead of just making it a day OFF, make it a day ON and consider participating in a service project with your family. Many organizations provide tips, resources and hands-on opportunities to begin a conversation about social justice around the Holiday. Visit the following sites for more ideas: http://www.pointsoflight.org/signature-events/martin-luther-king-jr-day-service www.generationon.org https://www.nationalservice.gov/mlkday DIY Kindness Journal Doing Good Together   Date/Time: This is a great project to begin in the New Year, but you can start anytime.   Location:  Your home   Keeping a compassion-themed journal is a wonderful way to build kindness into busy weeks and shine a spotlight on acts of kindness. Plus, you'll have a place to record family volunteering memories! Decorate a composition notebook with duct tape. Scatter compassion-themed prompts and quotes throughout it. Then make time periodically to discuss, draw, and write about those kindness prompts as a family. Visit the Doing Good Together DIY Kindness Journal page to find printable Family Service Memory Sheets, Kindness Journal Prompts, and ideas for keeping your kindness journal.   Ages: Everyone in the family can participate   Time Commitment: We suggest scheduling at least fifteen to thirty minutes each week to discuss the journal prompts and write or draw together.   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   New Year's Resolution Idea: Join Our Membership Circle for just $24.99! Whether you're new to family volunteering and want to stay focused on your service goals, or you've gotten started but want expert help on how to expand your family's kindness practice, DGT's Big-Hearted Families™ Membership Circle is a great way to make 2017 a year of kindness and service! Learn more today, and sign up any time throughout the year.         If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. 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January 2017 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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January 2017  - Silicon Valley  San Jose Rose Garden Annual Pruning Event City of San Jose Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services   Date/Time: Saturday January 7, 8:45am - Noon   Location: San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, Naglee Ave. & Dana Ave. San Jose. There is free parking on surrounding city streets. Volunteers will be helping to prune 3,500 rose bushes at the Rose Garden. Many helping hands are needed, so please bring your family and friends! Or simply come and meet others who enjoy volunteering at the Rose Garden. Everyone is welcome (6 years old and up) to participate in this dynamic San Jose volunteer event! No experience necessary--we'll begin with a training on how to prune roses. If you have hand pruners and garden gloves, please bring them. We will have a limited amount of tools available. Please wear closed-toe shoes and dress in layers, as the early morning dampness can be chilly. Roses are naturally thorny--wear long sleeves and clothes that can get a bit dirty! Bring a filled water bottle--we like to be 'green'! Please wear sunscreen as the roses are in the full sun. High School community service hours will be given. Food Trucks will be available afterwards. Stay and enjoy the peacefulness of the barren park. The event goes on, rain or shine! Ages: Volunteers age six and up are welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Three hours maximum   Contact: City Volunteer Management Services, parkvolunteer@sanjoseca.gov, 408.595.3483 City of San Jose Website Events Page    Team 222 Clean-Up Event South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition   Date/Time: Saturday, January 14, 8:45 - 11am   Location(s):  Los Gatos Creek (Bascom Ave.) Parking is just north of Hooter's Restaurant in the business complex at 1475 S. Bascom Avenue. Please park on the north end of lot and take bike trail access down to the creek trail and sign-up table. Los Gatos Creek (Auzerais Ave.) Parking is on the street. The cross streets are Wright Place and Auzerais Avenue where our sign-up table will be adjacent to the entrance of the bike trail next to Los Gatos Creek. Volunteers will participate in a creek and trail cleanup at one of two locations. Please bring your own water container, which we will fill for you. SBCCC supplies gloves, pick-up sticks and miscellaneous tools. Please wear long pants, hat, and sunscreen - be ready to spend the morning in light to moderate work. We have work for all ages and physical ability levels.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Two to three hours   Contact: Carol, 408.529.4460. Registration is available online. http://sbcleancreeks.myevent.com   MLK Day of Service & East Palo Alto Mayor's Tree Planting Canopy   Date/Time: Monday, January 16, 9am - noon   Location: Jack Farrell Park, 2509 Fordham St, East Palo Alto Volunteers are key to maintaining our community's urban forest and shaping neighborhood character. We welcome everyone with an interest in community and trees; no green thumb or previous experience required! Join Canopy to plant trees in honor of Martin Luther King Day of Service at Jack Farrell Park. The planting event will also include a Ceremonial Mayor's Tree Planting with the East Palo Alto mayor. Ages: All ages are welcome with an adult   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Uriel Hernandez, Community Forestry Coordinator, uriel@canopy.org, 650.964.6110. Registration is available online. http://canopy.org/    Learn more about helping the earth 10th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Day of Service Oshman Family Jewish Community Center (OFJCC)   Date/Time: Monday, January 16, 8:30am - 12:30pm   Location: Variety of locations from the Peninsula to San Jose Join hundreds of your neighbors for a community-wide day of "tikkun olam" ("repair of the world") as part of a National Day of Service to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This intergenerational event will feature a range of hands-on service projects; participants will work in small groups on projects addressing issues of poverty, hunger, housing and homelessness, aging, the environment and more. We look forward to working with you to promote Dr. King's legacy of tolerance, peace and equality and increase our community's commitment to service and justice. This fun and inspirational day will leave you feeling accomplished and energized!   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate. Come on your own or with your family and friends! We ask that a parent accompany any volunteers under the age of 15. Volunteer projects are organized by age, please check website for details.   Time Commitment: Four hours   Contact: Robin Vasilakos, rvasilakos@paloaltojcc.org,  650.223.8791. Pre-registration is required and space is limited in each service project. Registration is available online. https://paloaltojcc.org   Project READ Story Hour Redwood City Friends of Literacy   Date/Time: Story hours are held the 2nd Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 8:30pm   Location(s): Downtown Branch Library: 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City Fair Oaks Branch Library: 2510 Middlefield Road, Redwood City Project READ fuels the fire of hope through literacy. We believe literacy is not only a human right, but also a necessity - a gift of opportunity and hope for the future. Our innovative intergenerational programs bring literacy to the adults, youth and families in our community. Our programs are designed to break the cycle of illiteracy by surrounding families with literacy services that promote education and a lifelong love of learning. Project READ provides a fun night for families with puppet shows, songs, crafts, snacks and a book to take home. Volunteer duties include anything from preparing craft samples and snacks to helping a child pick a book to add to his/her home library. Ages: Ages six and up with adult   Time Commitment: Two hours Contact: Events Volunteer Coordinator, rclread@redwoodcity.org, 650.780.7077 http://www.projectreadredwoodcity.org    Organize a Basic Necessities Drive Sunday Friends   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Deliver to Sunday Friends, 625 South 7th Street, San Jose You and your family can help Sunday Friends by organizing and running a Basic Necessities Drive throughout your school, club, church, synagogue, neighborhood, family or other community. Sunday Friends makes it possible for very low-income families in our community to earn tickets and then select and purchase their own items! They need diapers, toiletries, dish soap, laundry detergent, school supplies, etc. Sunday Friends can provide child-decorated collection boxes, customizable flyers, party ideas, prizes and more to help you with your drive. Check their website for more ideas. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Lilly Perez-Ngo, lillyp@sundayfriends.org, 408.217.9587 https://www.sundayfriends.org   Host Food Drives Town Cats of Morgan Hill   Date/Time: Varies, depending on location   Location: Varies Town Cats is looking for volunteers of any age to host food drives. Volunteers identify a storefront in their area (such as a grocery store, pet store, or hardware store) where they can hand out flyers to raise awareness about Town Cats, and tell people that we are collecting cat food and kitty litter to benefit both our kitties that are in foster care in private homes or in one of our adoption centers. Town Cats also needs volunteers of any age to distribute flyers. You may post these in store windows (with management permission), post on public bulletin boards, or walk around and hand them out to people on the sidewalk at shopping centers, etc. NOTE: It is illegal to leave these in people's mailboxes or on car windshields, so please don't do that. Ages: All ages with an adult   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Marcie Monteleone, volunteercoordinator@towncats.org. If interested, please fill out the Volunteer registration form. www.towncats.org   Learn more about helping animals Bring Joy through Flowers Random Acts of Flowers   Date/Time: Varies. The normal volunteer schedule is Monday through Thursday, with most shifts during daytime hours. Evening and weekend shifts are scheduled occasionally.   Location: Varies depending on delivery area and/or volunteer assignment Random Acts of Flowers recycles flowers from the floral industry, as well as local companies, florists, grocery stores, funeral homes, and events like weddings. We turn these flowers into beautiful bouquets and deliver them to those struggling with injury, illness and the aging process every week in neighborhoods all over the country. Random Acts of Flowers improves the emotional health and well being of individuals in health care facilities by delivering recycled flowers, encouragement, and personal moments of kindness. Volunteering at Random Acts of Flowers helps us spread joy and allows people to nurture a culture of compassion and care. Volunteers range in age from elementary students to retirees. Individuals and groups - including schools, church groups, civic groups, businesses and even sports teams - make up the more than 2,000 people who share their time and talent to bring flowers and moments of joy to those in area hospitals, hospices, and health care facilities.   Ages: Ages seven and up with adult present. Most volunteer opportunities are best suited for children 12 and older but younger children can attend with an adult. An adult must accompany all children under 16. Every child must have a signed Youth Waiver before volunteering. We ask that anyone interested in volunteering attend an orientation. During orientation, new volunteers will meet our team, learn about volunteer opportunities, and have hands-on training working with the flowers.   Time Commitment: Varies Contact: AnneLynn So, Program Coordinator, annelynn@rafsiliconvalley.org, 650.852.1450 http://siliconvalley.randomactsofflowers.org    DIY Kindness Journal Doing Good Together   Date/Time: This is a great project to begin in the New Year, but you can start anytime.   Location:  Your home   Keeping a compassion-themed journal is a wonderful way to build kindness into busy weeks and shine a spotlight on acts of kindness. Plus, you'll have a place to record family volunteering memories! Decorate a composition notebook with duct tape. Scatter compassion-themed prompts and quotes throughout it. Then make time periodically to discuss, draw, and write about those kindness prompts as a family. Visit the Doing Good Together DIY Kindness Journal page to find printable Family Service Memory Sheets, Kindness Journal Prompts, and ideas for keeping your kindness journal.   Ages: Everyone in the family can participate   Time Commitment: We suggest scheduling at least fifteen to thirty minutes each week to discuss the journal prompts and write or draw together.   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   New Year's Resolution Idea: Join Our Membership Circle for just $24.99! Whether you're new to family volunteering and want to stay focused on your service goals, or you've gotten started but want expert help on how to expand your family's kindness practice, DGT's Big-Hearted Families™ Membership Circle is a great way to make 2017 a year of kindness and service! Learn more today, and sign up any time throughout the year.         If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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January 2017 - Boston Family Volunteer Opportunities

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January 2017 - Boston Martin Luther King Day of Service Boston Cares   Date/Time: Monday, January 16, 10am - 1pm. Kick off is at 10am sharp   Location: Boston Latin School, 78 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston. (T-Accessible, Green Line- E Train at Longwood Medical Area) For MLK Day 2017, Boston Cares has created opportunities for 750 volunteers to support Boston youth through STEM education tools and beds for kids in need. 650 MLK Day volunteers will create "make your own robot kits", engineering kits, science-themed murals, math games and math flash cards for Boston Public Schools, providing classrooms with exciting tools for learning. Additionally, 100 volunteers will join us in launching our new twin bed design, for children who do not have a bed of their own. Volunteers will select a STEM tool activity station based on age and interest. There is a project for all ages! Completed STEM tools will be distributed to Boston Public Schools, and beds will be distributed to agency partners serving low-income and homeless families in our community. Ages: Children as young as five and their families are welcome to attend.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Allegra Marra, amarra@bostoncares.org or 617.422.0910 ext.206. Pre-registration is required and available online. Space is limited so sign-up soon! www.bostoncares.org/mlk_day The 7th Annual Cambridge MLK Day of Service Many Helping Hands 365   Date/Time: Monday, January 16, 2 - 5 pm   Location: Central Square, Cambridge City Hall, Senior Center, YWCA, and St. Peter's Episcopal Church   Come spend an afternoon making a difference in the lives of others. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lend your hands and come work with your children, friends and neighbors for hands-on service projects that will touch the lives of thousands of people in need. Projects include: Making fleece scarves and blankets for homeless children and adults. Making Valentines for elders and veterans. Sorting food, winter clothing, books and toiletries for people in need and more. Don't come empty handed! Bring a can of food, a children's book or a gently used item of winter clothing. Ages: All ages can participate. Children should be accompanied by an adult.   Time Commitment: Flexible, up to three hours   Contact: info@manyhelpinghands365.org. Registration is available online . www.manyhelpinghands365.org   Operation Sock Drop Friends of Boston's Homeless   Date/Time: Anytime (we need socks all year round)   Location: Anywhere (at your school, place of worship, club, or with friends, family, and neighbors) Fresh, clean socks (and underwear!) are vital for people's health, warmth, comfort, and dignity and are the least donated items to people in the greatest need. The shelters we support give out over 8,000 pairs of socks each year. By participating in Operation Sock Drop you not only help keep our community's neediest, most vulnerable citizens safe, warm, and healthy, but you'll them help maintain their dignity and comfort during this most difficult time in their lives. Friends of Boston's Homeless supports the Woods Mullen Women's Shelter and the 112 Southampton Men's Shelter in the South End. These shelters serve over 800 homeless individuals every day.  To get started, just download this flyer and share it with everyone you'd like to participate. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Mariann Bucina Roca, mariannbucina@fobh.org  www.fobh.org    Learn more about helping the homeless Make Housewarming Baskets for Newly Housed People Friends of Boston's Homeless   Date/Time: Anytime (we're helping 150 people a year move beyond homelessness into their own safe, dignified housing)   Location: Anywhere (at your school, place of worship, club, or even with friends, family, and neighbors) You and your family can help people who've spent years living on our streets and in shelters feel warmth and excitement as they move into their new place and get started on their new lives by providing the essential items we all need to make our house a home. By assembling and donating Housewarming Baskets, you'll be an important part of welcoming people into their new homes where they'll find the stability and serenity they need to begin their journey to hopeful, peaceful futures. It's as simple as assembling new (not used) items like cleaning supplies, dish soap, laundry detergent, toilet paper, a set of sheets or towels, in a basket to be given as a housewarming gift to someone about to move into a place of their own- many for the first time in their lives. And please include a welcome note, it means a lot to the person who receives it. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Mariann Bucina Roca, mariannbucina@fobh.org www.fobh.org   Family Table Distribution Jewish Family & Children's Service   Date/Time: Sunday, January 8 or Sunday, February 5; 9am - 1:30pm   Location: 1430 Main Street, Waltham Family Table provides healthy food on a monthly and emergency basis to individuals and families in need. Their mission is to offer food in a way that meets nutritional and spiritual needs. Family Table serves more than 100 towns across Greater Boston, the North Shore, and the South Area. Currently, Family Table is helping more than 450 families each month with groceries and connections to other services. Volunteers are needed to help with the following tasks: Setting up the pantry Packaging and delivering food orders to recipient families Ages: All ages are welcome and encouraged to volunteer when accompanied by an adult.   Time Commitment: One to four hours depending on the activity.   Contact: familytable@jfcsboston.org, 781.693.5593. Please note that advance sign up is required and all adult volunteers must complete a JF&CS administered CORI background check. www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/Community-Services/Center-for-Basic-Needs-Assistance/Family-Table   Donation Sorting and Kitchen Help Daily Table   Date/Time: Monday - Saturday, 9am to 8pm; Sunday, 11am-6pm   Location: 450 Washington St., Dorchester   The Daily Table is a not-for-profit retail store that offers a variety of tasty, convenient, and affordable foods. The store offers both "grab-n-go" ready to eat meals, and a selection of produce, bread, dairy and grocery items at prices designed to fit every budget. Daily Table receives donations of surplus produce that must be sorted and organized for quality assurance. Volunteers are needed to sort through donations and triage produce for use in the commissary kitchen, for sale on the floor, and for composting. Volunteers may also help in the kitchen with food preparation, packaging, and labeling, or preparing and distributing samples in our engagement zone. Plan to be busy and on your feet! By volunteering, you and your family will be helping to address the wastefulness of our food system, and actively contributing to increasing food security and improving diets in Boston.   Ages: Youth 14 and up with parental supervision; 16 and up may volunteer independently.   Time Commitment: Three hours (or more if you'd like!)   Contact: Register at http://dailytable.org/get-involved/volunteer www.dailytable.org   DIY Kindness Journal Doing Good Together   Date/Time: This is a great project to begin in the New Year, but you can start anytime.   Location:  Your home   Keeping a compassion-themed journal is a wonderful way to build kindness into busy weeks and shine a spotlight on acts of kindness. Plus, you'll have a place to record family volunteering memories! Decorate a composition notebook with duct tape. Scatter compassion-themed prompts and quotes throughout it. Then make time periodically to discuss, draw, and write about those kindness prompts as a family. Visit the Doing Good Together DIY Kindness Journal page to find printable Family Service Memory Sheets, Kindness Journal Prompts, and ideas for keeping your kindness journal.   Ages: Everyone in the family can participate   Time Commitment: We suggest scheduling at least fifteen to thirty minutes each week to discuss the journal prompts and write or draw together.   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   New Year's Resolution Idea: Join Our Membership Circle for just $24.99! Whether you're new to family volunteering and want to stay focused on your service goals, or you've gotten started but want expert help on how to expand your family's kindness practice, DGT's Big-Hearted Families™ Membership Circle is a great way to make 2017 a year of kindness and service! Learn more today, and sign up any time throughout the year.         If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. 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December 2016 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteering

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December 2016 - Silicon Valley  Adopt A Family 2016 Holiday Giving Program Bill Wilson Center   Date/Time: Adopt-A-Family Donor Pledge forms are due by December 1   Location: 3490 The Alameda, Santa Clara The Bill Wilson Center provides services to more than 5,100 children, youth, young adults and families in Santa Clara County through our various programs. Join us in providing holiday cheer to local foster youth and their families through the 2016 Adopt-A-Family Holiday Giving Program. More than 1,500 foster youth and their families will be served through our Adopt-A-Family program. Churches, school groups, local businesses, corporations, individuals, and families are encouraged to participate. Bill Wilson Center's annual Adopt-A-Family Program works directly with the Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children's Services linking caring donors to local foster youth who would otherwise receive few, if any, gifts for the holidays. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: 408.850.6143 or adoptafamily@billwilsoncenter.org. The Donor Pledge form is available online. www.billwilsoncenter.org   ESL Conversation Club Mountain View Public Library   Date/Time: Wednesdays, 5 - 6pm   Location: 585 Franklin St., Mountain View The library's ESL Conversation Club welcomes English speakers interested in helping those who are learning. The Club meets every Wednesday, and welcomes all ages and levels. Native English speakers participate in the week's exercises, which may include conversation groups, short one-on-one conversations, and other activities such as potlucks and photo scavenger hunts. Native speakers provide the encouragement that helps learners gain confidence and understanding.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: One hour   Contact: Maynard Martinez, maynard.martinez@mountainview.gov, 650.526.7043. No commitment is required, simply drop-in and participate. www.library.mountainview.gov   No Sew Blankets for Children in Need Project Linus   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Schedule a time to bring completed blanket(s) to one of the following Project Linus volunteers: Sharon Lee (Cupertino) - sjlinus@comcast.net Barbara Ross (Rose Garden) - sjlinus@gmail.com Mary Kelly (Willow Glen) - mary@gofigureinc.com Deb Bragen (South San Jose) - bragen@sbcglobal.net Project Linus provides homemade blankets to children in need. Our blankets are lovingly made by adults and children from all walks of life and many different sources. Volunteer blanket makers help provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans. You and your family can make easy, warm, cozy, no sew blankets to donate to children in need. Click here for blanket making instructions. Though most 'blanketeers' choose to work on their own, some organizations have hosted their own "Make A Blanket Day"' for their group.  It can be a fun team-building event and Project Linus can help you with planning and preparation.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Sharon Lee, sjlinus@comcast.net, 408.252.1858 www.sjlinus.org/index.html    Family Volunteering Opportunities with SCS Sunnyvale Community Services   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: 725 Kifer Rd., Sunnyvale Sunnyvale Community Services works to prevent homelessness and hunger by providing emergency services to our neighbors in need. Exposing children to the concept of giving back is very important to many families and to SCS.  We encourage and appreciate the following family activities, which are very helpful to SCS and can stimulate great conversation and discovery for you and your children. See our wish list page for specific donation needs. Feel free to bring your children with you when you donate items to SCS. Monthly family shopping trips to purchase items specifically for donation to SCS. Establish a relationship with a local retailer to pickup damaged food, cleaning products, toilet paper, or other staple household items on a regular basis. Collect hotel/motel toiletries while traveling or on vacation. We distribute hygiene kits of toothpaste, shampoo, soaps, lotions, and disposable razors to low-income and homeless clients. Buy new books for low-income children. Feel free to wrap them and include a personal note (first names only please). Buy new socks and or gloves for the homeless. Feel free to wrap them and include a personal note (first names only please). Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: SCS Volunteer Manager, 408.738.4321 ext. 211, volunteer@svcommunityservices.org www.svcommunityservices.org   Learn more about how to help fight poverty Collect Diapers for Families in Need Help A Mother Out   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Deliver to Earth Baby Warehouse, 3250 Victor St., Santa Clara Help a Mother Out works to improve baby and family well being by increasing access to diapers for families in need. A family's access to a reliable supply of clean diapers reduces the risk of infectious disease outbreaks, improves baby's health and comfort, and enables baby's participation in early care and education programs. Our vision is a day when every baby has a healthy supply of diapers. To host a diaper drive, feel free to use the online diaper drive toolkit!   Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Anu Menon, anu@helpamotherout.org, 415.938.6667 www.helpamotherout.org/   Embrace-A-Family 2016 Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley   Date/Time: Now through December 23   Location: Varies. Dreidel gifts can be delivered to 14855 Oka Road, Los Gatos Jewish Family Services invites you to be a part of our 9th annual Embrace-A-Family program, which brings hope and smiles to those in need. Your gifts will help ease holiday pressures and stress for needy families, senior citizens, and adults. Frail, isolated seniors are often overlooked at this time of year. Providing gifts for them is a special mitzvah that will make a huge positive difference in their lives. What You Can Do to Help: Look for JFS SV dreidel boards in the community from November 17th through December 23rd. The boards will be at these locations. Select a gift dreidel, purchase the gift listed, and bring your unwrapped gift to the JFS SV office at the Levy Family Campus, 14855 Oka Rd, Suite 202, Los Gatos. Your gift will bring a smile - and be a blessing - to someone in need. You can buy online through the Embrace-A-Family Target Gift Registry. Purchase gift cards (gas station, supermarket and discount department store) for struggling families and isolated seniors to help them throughout the year. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Lori Cinnamon, Manager of Community and Volunteer Engagement, 408.357.7467 or loric@jfssv.org http://www.jfssv.org/home.html     Family Activities for the 2016 Holiday Season Second Harvest Food Bank   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Deliver completed projects to one of their three office locations between 8am - 4pm 750 Curtner Ave., San Jose 4001 North First St., San Jose 1051 Bing St., San Carlos This holiday season, your family can help the Food Bank make the holidays brighter for your neighbors in need. Prepare an at-home family project or youth group project and bring to any of the three Food Bank locations. Once you choose an activity, fill out this form and bring it with you when you come to drop off your donation. Activities and Projects: Create colorful grocery bags for seniors with glitter, color crayons, holiday themes, etc. Make holiday cards for seniors and families Prepare comfort kits that contain toothpaste, toothbrush, hair comb, brush, travel-sized shampoo, soap, etc. to be given to the homeless or other individuals in need. Place items in clear plastic bags and decorate! Do mini food drives that focus on collecting specific items like meals in a can, peanut butter or tuna Create family food baskets for a family of 4 to 6. Fill it with lots of goodies that you and your family would enjoy. Food items need to be non-perishable and consist of a meal for each breakfast, lunch and dinner. Suggested nutritious menu items: Breakfast: cereal, canned fruit, breakfast bars, pancake mix, maple syrup, canned or dehydrated milk Lunch: canned chili, soup, tuna, crackers, healthy snack bar, 100% juice  Dinner: Pasta, marinara sauce (canned or in jars), canned vegetables, muffin mix, canned fruit  Create lunch bags - including nutritious menu items such as: cheese & cracker packets, 100% juice boxes, granola bars, nuts, dried fruit, pop-top cans of ready-to-eat foods such as tuna, meals in a can, fruit cocktail Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Volunteer Services, volunteer@shfb.org, 408.266.8866. http://www.shfb.org/ Learn more about helping the hungry Assist Older Adults With Activities Webster House Health Center - Episcopal Senior Communities   Date/Time: Varies   Location: 437 Webster St. Palo Alto Webster House welcomes volunteers of all ages to come spend time with residents doing various therapeutic recreation activities such as singing, reading, arts and crafts, jewelry making, bowling, gardening, and much more. We also have volunteer opportunities for one-on-one visits to residents in their rooms, dining room assistance, assisting residents with their meals, and musical performances. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: Varies. Webster House would like to have volunteers weekly or more if possible. Contact: Enrichment and Volunteer Director, Natalie Bedell, at 650.617.7355 or nbedell@jtm-esc.org http://www.jtm-esc.org/webster-house-health-center/volunteer/     Giving Plates Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Flexible   Location:  Your own home or community location Making some baked goods to bring along to a holiday gathering? You and your family can bake up some extra treats to share as a holiday gift with new or isolated neighbors, sick or stressed friends, or even service providers you meet on a regular basis, like the mail carrier or school bus driver. Then your family can design giving plates to place your home baked goodies on as part of your gift! Visit the Doing Good Together Design a Giving Plate for directions to make your plates and for additional ideas and reflection questions   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.DoingGoodTogether.org   Thank You for Your Giving   During this season of thanks, we want to thank each one of you for your commitment to making a positive difference in your communities. We are especially thankful for all the families who are living our mission of kindness and volunteering by using these monthly lists to find local volunteering opportunities. These free offerings would not be available if it weren't for the generosity of our donors. If you believe these lists are a value to you and your family, please include Doing Good Together in your #GivingTuesday donations tomorrow or in your year-end giving. Choose Kindness       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. 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November 2016 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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November 2016 - Silicon Valley  Monthly Saturday Workday and Weekly Garden Maintenance Collective Roots   Date/Time: Monthly Saturday Workday and Potluck: Third Saturday of each month, 10:30am - 12:30pm Weekly Garden Maintenance: Thursdays, 5 - 6pm (Winter hours, will extend to 7pm in March) Location: 1785 Woodland Ave., East Palo Alto Collective Roots aims to cultivate a healthier, stronger, more connected East Palo Alto community (EPA) by working together to build a robust community-based food system. EPA's deep history of agriculture shows cultivation of food strengthens people and fortifies communities. As part of the industrious EPA community, we seek to foster more communal growing, sharing, and eating of fresh, local produce through our three pillars: Growing (Gardening) Sharing (Education) Eating (Healthy Food Access) Join us to plant, maintain, and harvest our community and educational garden in East Palo Alto, while enjoying being part of our community. Monthly Saturday Workdays are also a potluck so bring a dish to share and enjoy lunch under the oak trees!   Ages: Families with children ages five and older are welcome to participate   Time Commitment: One to two hours   Contact: Najiha Alasmar, (650) 324-2769, najiha@collectiveroots.org http://www.collectiveroots.org Weekly Dinner Servers Family Supportive Housing   Date/Time: Ongoing Mondays or Wednesdays from 4:30 - 6:30pm. Dinner is served from 5 to 6:30pm   Location: 692 North King Rd., San Jose Family Supportive Housing helps homeless single- and two-parent families with children remain intact, while addressing their needs for food, shelter, employment and education. We offer families a respite, an opportunity to make life-altering changes, and a system to aid in finding permanent housing. Volunteers are responsible for setting up and serving dinner to our resident families. Without our volunteer dinner servers,  residents would be required to serve the families as a chore. Thank you for allowing a resident to sit and enjoy dinner with his/her family and for your commitment to our vision of empowering homeless families.   Ages: Ages 12 and up with an adult present. Ages 16 and up without adult present.   Time Commitment: Once a week for three months   Contact: Sara Tran, 408.926.8885, volunteer@familysupportivehousing.org http://familysupportivehousing.org Lighten a Load - Deliver Groceries to Families of Critically-Ill Children There With Care of the Bay Area   Date/Time: Dates and times are flexible   Location: Menlo Park Pantry, 3475 Edison Way, Suite H, Menlo Park There With Care's mission is to provide a wide range of thoughtful and fundamental services to children and families during the critical phases of a medical crisis. We serve families referred by medical agencies, by building a network of services and people who ease the burden of life's day-to-day obligations with compassion and care. You and your family can help care for the families of critically ill children in your community by delivering groceries and needed items to them. Volunteers attend a one-time mandatory 90-minute training before heading out with grocery and supply deliveries from our pantry in Menlo Park to families on the Peninsula, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and Ronald McDonald House.   Ages: Licensed driver must be 18 or older. A background check and orientation is required for drivers meeting with families, but please bring your children!   Time Commitment: Flexible, orientation required   Contact: Volunteer Director, 650.268.8555, volunteer.bayarea@therewithcare.org http://bayarea.therewithcare.org Learn more about helping people with serious illnesses  PAWS 2 PAHS Palo Alto Humane Society (PAHS)   Date/Time: Varies, depending on the event   Location: Varies, generally in the mid-Peninsula area The Palo Alto Humane Society is one of the few humane societies nationwide with no animal shelter. Instead of managing animals inside a shelter, they work to keep animals out of the shelter through humane programs in intervention, advocacy, and education. Their mission has been to alleviate the suffering of animals, increase public sensitivity to animal issues, and elevate the status of animals in our society. Volunteers are needed to visit classrooms, Scout meetings, and senior homes with humane society educators to talk about your family's animal. Ages: Families with children ages ten and older are welcome to volunteer.   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Leonor Delgado, Education Manager, Palo Alto Humane Society, 650.424.1901, leonor.delgado@paloaltohumane.org www.paloaltohumane.org   Kiddies 2 Kitties Palo Alto Humane Society (PAHS) in partnership with Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority (SVACA)   Date/Time: First and third Wednesdays of the month, 3:30 - 5pm   Location: SVACA, 3370 Thomas Road, Santa Clara Volunteers are needed to read aloud to cats and kittens and to help socialize cats and kittens. Ages: Families with elementary school age children are welcome to volunteer.   Time Commitment: 30 to 45-minute sessions   Contact: Leonor Delgado, Education Manager, Palo Alto Humane Society, 650.424.1901, leonor.delgado@paloaltohumane.org www.paloaltohumane.org, www.svaca.com   Sunday Friends Annual Shopping Spree Sunday Friends   Date/Time: Friday November 11, 6:30 - 9:30pm and Friday November 19, 6:30 - 9pm   Location: Target, 1811 Hillsdale Ave. San Jose Every year, when November turns into December, Sunday Friends invites volunteers to its annual Holiday Shopping Spree to benefit the families of Sunday Friends. The Shopping Spree helps make it possible for our families to experience a meaningful and memorable holiday of giving. Gifts purchased through the Shopping Spree will help stock our Treasure Chest, where children and their parents can earn, select and wrap special gifts to give each other. This volunteer event is perfect for small groups and individuals who want to get into the spirit of the season of giving. Join us as a volunteer shopper with a store discount! Volunteers are invited to bring their friends and family to shop for toys and holiday gifts for girls or boys or dads or moms. Prizes are awarded to the shopping teams in several fun categories. If you want to bring money to help purchase toys you can, or you will use donations of others to shop. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate   Time Commitment: One and one-half hour shifts   Contact: Volunteer Coordinator, 408.217.9587, volunteer@sundayfriends.org. Please contact mail@sundayfriends.org or sign up online now for yourself or your group if you would like to participate in this year's Holiday Shopping Spree.   http://www.sundayfriends.org/   Sew gift bags for new shoes for homeless and low-income children My New Red Shoes   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Sew at home and send or deliver your finished items to: My New Red Shoes 330 Twin Dolphin Drive Redwood City, 94065 My New Red Shoes provides homeless and low-income children with a new pair of shoes and clothing gift card so they can start the school year with confidence! These gifts are packaged in a hand sewn gift bag and signed by the volunteer who made it. All you need is a sewing machine and some fabric to get started! Please use a sewing machine, no hand stitching. Measurements and sewing instructions can be found at www.mynewredshoes.org/sew-gift-bags.html. Please use 100% cotton or cotton-poly blends in any kid or teen-friendly print or solid. We will provide you with the "Made By" iron-on labels. Email outreach@mynewredshoes.org to let us know how many you'll need. Ages: All ages who can sew or help sew (sewing machine only)   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Outreach Coordinator, 650.375.2648, outreach@mynewredshoes.org. www.mynewredshoes.org   Team 222 Clean Up South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition (SBCCC)   Date/Time: Saturday November 12, 8:45am - 11am   Location(s): Two locations: Los Gatos Creek Bascom Ave: Parking is just north of the restaurant and business complex at 1475 S. Bascom Avenue. Please park on the north end of lot and take the bike trail access down to the creek trail and sign-up table. Los Gatos Creek Auzerais Ave: Parking is on the street. The cross streets are Wright Place and Auzerais Avenue where our sign-up table will be adjacent to the entrance of the bike trail next to Los Gatos Creek. Volunteers will participate in a creek and trail cleanup. Please bring your own water container, which we will fill for you. SBCCC supplies gloves, pick-up stick and miscellaneous tools. Please wear long pants, hat, sunscreen and be ready to spend the morning doing light to moderate work. We have work for all ages and physical ability levels. Ages: Elementary school age and up with an adult present.   Time Commitment: Two to four hours   Contact: Carol, 408.529.4460. Registration is available online. http://sbcleancreeks.myevent.com   Learn more about helping the earth Heritage Rose Garden Volunteer Days Guadalupe River Park Conservancy   Date/Time: Every Wednesday and Saturday from 8:30 - 11:30am   Location: 412 Seymour Street, San Jose Come support the largest diverse rose garden on the western hemisphere! Despite having over 3,000 varieties of roses, the Heritage Rose Garden is maintained entirely by volunteers. Volunteers may spread wood chips around the drip lines of the roses in order to prevent weeds and improve water retention, deadhead or prune and work on irrigation fixes. In the meantime, don't be afraid to smell the roses!  Ages: 13+ (minors are required to bring a waiver and anyone 15 and under must volunteer with responsible and active parents or guardian)   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Jessica Gonzalez, Volunteer Coordinator, Jessica@grpg.org. No registration required for groups of three or fewer. http://www.grpg.org   Sponsor a Family   The Box Project   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: The Box Project will match you with a family that lives in an area of rural poverty in the Mississippi Delta.   You and your family can make a difference by sponsoring a family with The Box Project. You'll enrich the lives of a family living in poverty in rural America by establishing a meaningful, long-term relationship and providing needed supplies. The Box Project helps to create supportive, personal relationships directly between a sponsor family and a family in need living in rural America. The Box Project acts as matchmaker, pairing sponsors with carefully screened individuals or families that need help. The sponsors offer long term, meaningful interactions including encouragement, advice, and boxes of needed supplies about once a month. Box items will vary from family to family and month to month, but typically include household supplies, food, school supplies, clothing or seasonal items.   Ages: Families are welcome to participate.   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: info@boxproject.org, 662.449.5002 or 800.268.9928. Sponsorship registration is available online. http://boxproject.org/   NEW FROM DGT™:  OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFLECTION FROM DGT™   Whether you use our listings monthly, occasionally, or are a new subscriber, you probably already know about the awesome benefits that come with family volunteering. Now you can increase those benefits by reflecting on the experience with your children. DGT™ REFLECTION SHEETS offer useful stats, reading recommendations, and conversation starters for big-hearted discussions. We have sheets on a variety of topics such as Helping the Hungry, Caring for Animals, Healing the Earth, and more! Look for the LEARN MORE symbol on select volunteer opportunities to download your free clickable/printable PDF sheets.         If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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October 2016 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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October 2016 - Silicon Valley  Help Out Sacred Heart Community Services Sacred Heart Community Services   Date/Time: Saturday October 8, 9am - noon   Location: 1381 South 1st St, San Jose Since 1964 Sacred Heart Community Service has served Santa Clara County residents in need. They provide food, clothing, job training, legal services, housing assistance, and educational classes free of charge to more than 1500 clients each day. Join us to support Sacred Heart's programs by building food baskets, sorting clothing and food donations and preparing educational materials for the clients. Volunteers must wear appropriate clothing (pants, no bare midriff or low cut shirts) and closed-toed shoes. The parking lot is often available for volunteers on Saturdays, please do not park in Wendy's or Denny's. Ages: Kids ages 14 and under must have a parent or trusted adult present to volunteer   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Sergio Gonzalez, sergiog@sacredheartcs.org, 408.278.2171. Please contact Sergio to sign-up for this volunteer opportunity. www.sacredheartcs.org    2016 Kara Walk n' Run to Remember Kara   Date/Time: Saturday, October 15, 8am - 2pm   Location: Mitchell Park, 600 East Meadow Drive, Palo Alto Kara's mission is to provide grief support for children, teens, families, and adults. Our guiding value is empathy. Every day we provide compassion and support to children and adults impacted by loss and grief. This special event is a unique and wonderful opportunity to walk in memory of a loved one...to walk to support friends, family or someone grieving the loss of a loved one.... and to secondarily help Kara sustain its crucial services for the greater Bay Area. Volunteers are needed to help with set up and registration, energetic cheerleaders for along the walk/run route, water station support, fun zone game attendants, and cleanup. Ages: All ages welcome with parent supervision.   Time Commitment: Varies by volunteer assignment.   Contact: Please contact Sarah, sarah@kara-grief.org, 650.321.5272 x 23, to register your family as volunteers for the event so they can make age appropriate placements. Walk registration is available online. www.kara-grief.org/   Volunteer at Emma Prusch Farm Park HandsOn Bay Area and the Silicon Valley LIFT Team   Date/Time: Saturday October 15, 9:45am - 1pm   Location: Emma Prusch Farm Park, 647 South King Road, San Jose Join HandsOn Bay Area and the Silicon Valley LIFT team to help preserve and beautify the community orchard. Emma Prusch Farm Park features community gardens, a rare fruit orchard, and acres of open grass for people to enjoy freely. San José's largest barn is home to everything from sheep, steer, and chicken, to rabbits. It also offers a variety of educational programs for school children and other groups. Volunteers will do some mulching, gardening, and landscaping in the park's historic orchard and rose garden. Volunteers will also have the chance to tour the park and learn more about the stories of San Jose's agricultural past. Registration starts at 9:45am and the event ends at 1pm. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.   Ages: All ages welcome and encouraged. Children under 14 must have adult present.   Time Commitment: Three to four hours. Registration is available online.   Contact: Michelle Fang, michjun@gmail.com, 310.721.1405 www.pruschfarmpark.org/, www.handsonbayarea.org/   12th Annual Bay Area Buddy Walk Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network   Date/Time: Saturday October 15, 8am - 2:30pm   Location: Lake Cunningham Park (Cypress Pavillion), 2305 S. White Road, San Jose The Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network (SVDSN) is a community of families with family members with Down syndrome. They are completely volunteer-run and rely on fundraising efforts to support their activities and programs. The National Down Syndrome Society Buddy Walk is an international event to raise awareness and acceptance of individuals with Down syndrome and serves as our largest annual fundraiser. Ages: All ages can participate in the event.   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Bill O'Dea, 650.690.2321, bayareabuddywalk@gmail.com. Walk registration is available online www.svdsn.org   Collect Basic Necessities for Low Income Families in San Jose Sunday Friends   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Your home or group meeting place Organize and run a Basic Necessities Drive - with our help - throughout your school, club, church, synagogue, neighborhood, family, or other community. Sunday Friends makes it possible for very low-income families in our community to earn tickets and then select and purchase their own items! They need diapers, toiletries, dish soap, laundry detergent, school supplies, etc. Visit the Sunday Friends website for child-decorated collection boxes, customizable flyers, party ideas, prizes and more. Please remember families in need in our community when you are bargain hunting.   Ages: All ages, great activity for any family!   Time Commitment: Flexible   Contact: Karen Robles,karen@sundayfriends.org, 323.809.0932 www.SundayFriends.org   Sunday Friends' Programs for Very Low-Income Families Sunday Friends   Date/Time: Sundays: Shifts available between 10:30am and 5:30pm. There are also some after-school shifts on weekdays at Sunday Friends special store.   Location:  Santee Elementary, 1313 Audubon Dr., San Jose, on the 2nd Sunday of every month Lowell Elementary, 625 South 7th St., San Jose, on the 4th Sunday of every month. In November and December this will be switched to the 3rd Sunday of the month due to holidays Sunday Friends special store, 730 Story Rd. Ste. 3, San Jose; weekdays from 4 - 7pm  Volunteers are needed to work directly with children, and maybe also their parents, to facilitate service and learning projects, including: craft gift making, healthy food preparation, letter and essay writing, hands-on science projects, math and other learning games, computer education, English as a Second Language classes, reading and book report writing, exercise class, parents' classes and more. Because children and parents earn tickets for their participation, redeemable for basic necessities in our special stores, you might also assist with the banking, store setup or shopping. Ages: Teens, adults, families and groups are all welcome. An adult must accompany children under age 14.   Time Commitment: No predetermined number of hours, but if you sign up to come to a program, you are expected to come.   Contact: Volunteers should begin with New Volunteer Registration. Please register to volunteer a couple of weeks in advance of the date. Contact Lilly, lillyp@sundayfriends.org, or Vanessa, volunteer@sundayfriends.org, with questions or call 408.217.9587 www.SundayFriends.org Cedar Creek Halloween Carnival Cedar Creek Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Center   Date/Time: Saturday, October 29, 1- 4pm   Location: 15245 National Avenue, Los Gatos Cedar Creek Alzheimer's & Dementia Care is holding their first annual Halloween Carnival and we would love to have kids come in costume and have fun in the carnival with our residents. There will be games, prizes, a musical performer, and a balloon lady for everyone to enjoy! Volunteers will play games with the residents, dance with them, sing with them, and just overall have a good time! Kids must be under 18 to participate. Please no revealing or overly scary costumes, as our residents are sensitive. Ages: Families with children are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Kim Diaz, kdiaz@the-creeks.com, 408.356.5636 www.the-creeks.com/locations/cedar-creek/   The Ultimate Hike: Create Your Own Adventure CureSearch for Children's Cancer   Date/Time: Flexible - on your own time   Location: Choose your own location CureSearch raises funds for children's cancer research to ensure that more children have access to life-saving treatments today and into the future. Ultimate Hike: Create Your Adventure is your chance to plan your lifesaving adventure from start to finish. You pick the trail, the distance, the date, and you set your own fundraising goals. All you need is a trail and your own two feet, and every step you take will make a difference! From the main Create Your Adventure page, click Register in the navigation bar at the top of the page and choose whether you want to register "As an individual", "As a Team Captain" (to start a new team), or "As a Team Member" (if the team already exists). You will then have the chance to start a new adventure!   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Courtney Bollman, 240.235.2286, courtney.bollman@curesearch.org www.curesearchevents.org   Meal-Serving Program Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen   Date/Time: Monday - Friday (See location information for times)   Location(s):  Goodwill Building (3:30 - 6pm): 1080 N. 7th St., San Jose Eastside Neighborhood Center (3:30 - 6pm): 2150 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose Volunteer help with meal preparation, set-up of the dining hall, serving of the food and drinks, and clean up. Wear comfortable "work" clothes and closed-toed shoes (i.e., jeans, walking shorts, tennis shoes, etc.) Please do not wear sandals, halter or tank tops, short shorts, etc. For those with longer hair, please wear your hair up and off your face.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to volunteer. An adult must accompany children 14 and younger.   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours   Contact: Hyru Gau, 408.998.1500 or volunteer@loavesfishes.org. Registration is available online. www.loavesfishes.org   Watch the Wild Nature Abounds   Date/Time: Ongoing   Location: Your own neighborhood and local area Watch the Wild needs your help! As a Watch the Wild volunteer, you observe and report the "wild" in your community, from trees and plants to lakes and streams to weather and wildlife activity. In as little as ten minutes, your observations help us to understand how our eco-systems are changing and help us to adapt for the future. Becoming a Watch the Wild volunteer is very easy. All you need to do is sign-up to be a volunteer with Nature Abounds, choose a location to observe, whether it be your backyard, a local park, your favorite beach spot, or an area that you visit or hike in regularly, record your observations and report your observations to us online, via mail, or email. Your observations will then be entered into a database and shared with interested scientists.   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Flexible   Contact: Melinda, info@natureabounds.org, 814.765.1453 www.natureabounds.org   Trick or Treat for UNICEF UNICEF   Date/Time: The 2016 UNICEF campaign runs from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017   Location: Check the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF website for donation instructions Add a giving component to your child's trick or treat experience! When children Trick or Treat for UNICEF, the donations they collect help add up to lifesaving change for children. UNICEF helps improve the health and wellness of children in over 150 countries and territories. You can help your children learn about issues facing other kids around the world including education, health care, nutrition, clean water and sanitation. Visit the Doing Good Together Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF project page for more ideas and reflection questions.   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: 1.800.367.5437, www.unicefusa.org/form/trick-or-treat/contact www.unicefusa.org/trick-or-treat   The United States 2016 Election is underway, and kids may have questions about American democracy. Start big-hearted conversations and lessons with the teaching tools in our DGT™ Resource Collection. Our ever-growing collection for both children and adults includes books, websites, and, of course, service projects.       If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. 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September 2016 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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September 2016 - Silicon Valley  Help Out Sacred Heart Community Services Sacred Heart Community Services   Date/Time: Saturday, September 10, 9am - noon   Location: 1381 South 1st St, San Jose Since 1964, Sacred Heart Community Services has served Santa Clara County residents in need. They provide food, clothing, job training, legal services, housing assistance, and educational classes free of charge to more than 1500 clients each day. Join us to support Sacred Heart's programs by building food baskets, sorting clothing and food donations and preparing educational materials for the clients. Volunteers must wear appropriate clothing (pants, no bare midriff or low cut shirts) and closed-toed shoes. Parking lot is often available for volunteers on Saturdays, please do not park in Wendy's or Denny's. Ages: Ages 12 and up with an adult   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: 408.278.2171, volunteers@sacredheartcs.org www.sacredheartcs.org/volunteer/   Coyote Creek Cleanup in Honor of Coastal Cleanup Day Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful   Date/Time: Saturday, September 17, 9am - noon   Location: Tully Ball fields, 850 Tully Rd., San Jose Coastal Cleanup Day is a terrific way to show your support for your California waterways, not just the Coast. Spend a few hours at Coyote Creek and help beautify our creek through a community cleanup. Be sure to wear long pants, long sleeves, and closed-toed shoes since you will be near poison oak and around loose or muddy soil. Ages: Everyone is welcome to participate (those under 13 must be accompanied by an adult). Volunteers under age 18 must have a signed waiver (available upon completed registration). Community service hours are available.   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: Deb Kramer, 408.372.7053, deb@keepcoyotecreekbeautiful.org. Registration is available online. www.keepcoyotecreekbeautiful.org   Color the Track 5K and 10K Truploy Foundation   Date/Time: Saturday, September 24, 7:30am - noon   Location: Guadalupe River Park Conservancy, 438 Coleman Ave. San Jose Register your family for the run/walk or sign up your family to volunteer and help coordinate kids games, guide runners and or operate water stations. Color the Track 5K/10K is a competitive run and a fun run/walk. The event was created to raise funds for foster youth in Santa Clara County and raise awareness of the youth in our communities at their time in need. The event will consist of a competitive run and walk, face painting, fun kid activities, and more.   Ages: All ages are welcome to participate; volunteers under 18 must have parent or guardian present.   Time Commitment: Up to five hours, depending on volunteer station.   Contact: Mark Martinez, co-founder, mmartinez@baarsllc.com or 408.874.5969 www.runsignup.com/Race/CA/SanJose/ColortheTrack5K10K   Hip Hop Run Benefiting Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen and Make a Wish Foundation Hip Hop Run   Date/Time: Saturday, September 24, all day events   Location:  588 E Alma Ave, San Jose The Hip Hop Run brings entertainment to running in a fun, family-friendly environment suitable for all ages. Enjoy DJ's throughout the course, playing all of the songs you know and love. Participants have the option to take part in the 10k run, 5k run/walk, or the 5k-challenge race. Be entertained after the run with a star-studded lineup of musicians and DJ's at our main stage finish line. Be part of an exciting blend of competitive exercise and stellar music. Proceeds from the event go to Loaves and Fishes Family Kitchen and the Make A Wish Foundation of the Greater Bay Area. Ages: All ages are welcome to walk for a great cause!   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Denise Chaisson, 406.360.4154, hiphoprun10k@gmail.com www.hiphoprun.com   The Canary Challenge The Canary Foundation   Date/Time: Saturday, September 24, 5 - 8pm   Location: Hewlett Packard Campus, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto The Canary Challenge is an annual cycling event and 5km walk/run in Palo Alto, and a pioneer in fundraising in the San Francisco Bay Area. Unlike many organized charity bike rides, the Canary Challenge ensures that 100 percent of all funds raised are directed to the event beneficiary, the Canary Foundation, and do not cover the cost of the event operations. Founded in 2004, the Canary Foundation is the world's first nonprofit organization dedicated solely to the funding, discovery and development of tests for early cancer detection Last year, over 1000 riders and 190 volunteers participated in the event and raised $1.1 million for the Canary Center at Stanford. The Canary Challenge is a fully supported bike ride, offering a 5km walk/ride/run, 50km, 50-mile, 75-mile, and 100-mile rides -- all with multiple food and water stops, mechanical and medical assistance, and plenty of SWAG. The rides cater to all levels of cycling strength -- from children, to fixed gear bikes and tandems, to time trial champions, the Canary Challenge is a ride for everyone! Over 200 volunteers are needed to make the Challenge a fun-filled family affair. Volunteer tasks include helping with village setup, rider registration, kid's zone, information booth, spin-to-win, beer and wine garden, village greeters, parking lot monitors and much more. All volunteers will receive a volunteer t-shirt, food and beverages, and that warm, fuzzy feeling from doing a great thing! Ages: All ages are welcome. Volunteers under 18 must complete a waiver to volunteer with a parent or guardian.   Time Commitment: Varies depending on volunteer station or ride chosen.   Contact: Gabriella, gabi@canaryfoundation.org, 650.468.3385. Click here to register to volunteer and here to register as a participant. www.canarychallenge.org   Lincoln's 50th Anniversary Beautification Day Lincoln PALS Club   Date/Time: Saturday, September 24, 9am - 1pm   Location: Lincoln Elementary School, 36111 Bettencourt St., Newark Volunteers will be pulling weeds, spreading bark, repainting decorative features, and giving the school a much-needed refresher. Bring along gloves, shovels, rakes, trowels, wheel barrels, etc. Wear hat/sunscreen and sturdy shoes. No power tools, please. Ages: Bring the whole family - all ages are welcome!   Time Commitment: Two to four hours   Contact: Danielle Koberstein, leopard.choir@gmail.com, 510.363.5515. Registration is available online www.lincolnpalsclub.com/   Host a 'Shoe Cutting Party' or Hold a Collection Drive Sole Hope   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Shoes and donations can be mailed to: 605 East Innes St. #3263 Salisbury, NC 28145 Sole Hope is an organization working to create a positive difference in the lives of individuals in impoverished communities of Uganda to combat diseases that enter through the feet. Jiggers are small sand fleas that live in the dust, and are found on the dirt floors in schools and the homes of many families in Uganda and other similar climates. Female jiggers can burrow into the skin and these wounds are painful, and cause difficulties for victims in daily activities such as walking, playing, and attending school. In addition to shoe making events and collections, Sole Hope holds medical clinics, and provides education and jobs for the beautiful souls of Uganda. Volunteers can help by holding a Shoe Cutting Party or by Coordinating a Collection Drive. If you're holding a shoe cutting party, start by deciding approximately how many people you're going to invite. You can then purchase the corresponding shoe cutting kit from their website. Kits come with an instructional DVD, pictures, shoe sponsorship cards, bookmarks, stickers, a pattern, and much more! You can hold a collection for simple items to help with jigger removals and to assist the Outreach House in Africa. Sole Hope will ensure they go with the next bunch of shoe uppers and medical supplies to Uganda. Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: info@solehope.org www.solehope.org   St. Francis' Hot Meals and Ecumenical Hunger Program Ecumenical Hunger Program at St. Francis of Assisi Church   Date/Time: Wednesdays, 5 - 6pm for the Hot Meal Program, other volunteer opportunity days and times vary.   Location: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto Ecumenical Hunger Program, along with the St. Vincent De Paul Society, prepares and serves hot meals to needy individuals and families every Wednesday night at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto. At St. Francis, you'll be serving pre-made food to the less fortunate. When volunteers arrive, they sign in, grab aprons and gloves to either prepare the plates or go out and serve the plates to the guests. Some of those served are homeless, while others are families with children who take advantage of this program to conserve the limited funds they have. There are also opportunities for families to volunteer in the Food Closet (sorting, packing and distributing boxes) and in the warehouse (sorting clothing, shoes and other items). Ages: All ages welcome, please make sure that you are not sick.   Time Commitment: One to two hours   Contact: Lakesha Roberts, info@ehpcares.org, 650.323.7781 www.ehpcares.org/food-services.html   Full Circle Farm Education Garden - Sustainable Community Gardens Full Circle Farm   Date/Time: Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am to 7pm or dark, whichever comes first.   Location: Our West Gate at 955 Dunford Way, Sunnyvale Full Circle Farm's Education Garden is a one-acre patch of green at the west end of the farm. The Education Garden meets several community needs while the production fields are focused on food production. Volunteer garden tasks are different everyday; you might be harvesting, planting, weeding, composting, digging and more. No experience is necessary. All volunteers are encouraged to take home some veggies with them. Enjoy the fruits of your labor! What to Bring/Wear Water bottle Closed toed shoes Hat Snacks and/or a lunch Garden gloves (if you have them) Ages: All ages, families are welcome to volunteer   Time Commitment:  Come when you can and leave whenever you need to.   Contact: Dan Hafeman, danh@fullcirclesunnyvale.org www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org   Neighborhood Cleanup Downtown Streets Team   Date/Time: Three Saturday mornings each month, 9:30am to noon. First Saturday, Santee Neighborhood Second Saturday, McKinley Neighborhood Third Saturday: Mayfair Neighborhood Location:   Santee: Santee Community Center - 1535 Santee Drive, San Jose McKinley: McKinley Community Center - 651 Macredes Avenue, San Jose Mayfair: Mayfair Community Center - 2039 Kammerer Avenue, San Jose Beautify San Jose's most blighted neighborhoods with homeless Downtown Streets Team Members who are working hard to get housing and employment. The mission of Downtown Streets Team is to eradicate homelessness by empowering homeless individuals to be part of the solution to homelessness. Join your community by beautifying the Santee, McKinley or Mayfair neighborhoods with Downtown Streets Team Members. Not only will you be beautifying one of the most blighted neighborhoods in San Jose, fostering a safe place for people to live and play, you will be volunteering side-by-side with people who are volunteering their way out of homelessness. Feel free to ask them questions and get a new perspective on what it's like to be homeless and living on a low income in Santa Clara County. What to wear and bring: Please wear covered shoes, pants, long sleeves and work gloves. Wear sunscreen and bring water to stay hydrated. For safety reasons please do not wear these items: no red or blue, no logos on hats/shirts and no numbers. Blue jeans are okay. All that's left to bring is your "Can-do" attitude and we'll be on our way to making our neighborhoods safer and more beautiful places.     Ages: Youth under 18 are welcome to volunteer with a parent or guardian.   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours   Contact: Cliff Navales, San Jose Project Manager; cliff@streetsteam.org. Registration is available online www.streetsteam.org/   Magic Mail Center Doing Good Together   Date/Time: Anytime   Location: Set up in your own home Creating a Magic Mail Center in your home can make it easy to keep kindness part of your family's fall routine! As your fall family schedule gets busy, keep this simple worksheet on hand. When you have unexpected free time, send a letter and make a difference. Visit the Doing Good Together project page to for more ideas and reflection questions.   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: mail@doinggoodtogether.org www.doinggoodtogether.org   As we start Back-To-School Season, let's remind our kids about the importance of kindness. We're making it easy to deliver this message with our new Doing Good Together™ Infographic that offers insight and ideas for making kindness a priority!  Presented in a problem/solution format, with relevant stats, fun graphics, and easy-to-find links, we encourage you to post, pin, tweet, and share this graphic with your circle of friends, family, and educators. You can find this graphic on our website, along with other compelling articles on why kindness matters and why DGT matters too. Thanks for sharing DGT™ with others!         If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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August 2016 - Silicon Valley Family Volunteer Opportunities

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August 2016 - Silicon Valley  Kids Helping Kids Donation or Drive San Jose Cityteam Ministries   Date/Time: Assemble on your own schedule and drop off to the Cityteam Community Services Office in San Jose   Location: Cityteam Community Services, 1297 North 13th St., San Jose Many kids look forward to summer vacation and a break from school. But other kids dread the summer months when they don't have school breakfasts and lunches. Usually in low-income families, the parents are working and the kids are home during the summer. Hunger doesn't take a summer vacation. Our goal is to equip these kids with Kid Approved Food Boxes that they can safely eat and enjoy. Here's how you can help: Host a drive: Ask your friends, neighbors, work place, school or church to donate certain kid-friendly items from our shopping list or pick one item like macaroni and cheese or boxes of cereal that we know all kids love. Then bring your donations to Cityteam.  Go shopping: You can take our shopping list and purchase a few items to put together a Kid Approved Food Box and drop it off at Cityteam. This is a great project to do with kids of any age. Donate online: Kids can do chores around the house and earn funds to donate. Parents can help their kids make a donation online or mail/deliver your donation to Cityteam. We would love to meet you in person and give you a tour. Donate items: You can donate gently used or new kids clothing or backpacks with supplies to help kids go back to school this fall equipped with what they need to succeed. Ages: All ages can participate in helping other kids in need!   Time Commitment: Varies   Contact: Kids Helping Kids Program Coordinator, 408.293.4657 www.cityteam.org,  www.cityteam.org/kidshelpingkids/index.php District 5 National Night Out Organized by Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco   Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 5 - 9pm   Location: Emma Prusch Park, 647 South King Rd., San Jose National Night Out is designed to: Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness Generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime prevention efforts Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police/community partnerships Send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back Ages: All ages are welcome with an adult.   Time Commitment: Two hours, specific times depend on shift/duties   Contact: National Night Out Program Coordinator at 408.277.4133, volunteer registration is available online www.sjpd.org/BFO/Community/Crimeprev/NationalNightOut.asp   Summer Rose Garden Session & Ice Cream Guadalupe River Park Conservancy   Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 5:30 - 7:30pm   Location: The Heritage Rose Garden near Taylor and Spring Streets, San Jose The Guadalupe River Park Conservancy needs volunteers to remove spent blooms. Come join a talented volunteer group, learn about roses, and join us for a free ice cream! Please come prepared with clothes you can get dirty: long pants, closed toe shoes, a hat, sunscreen as well as a pre-filled reusable water bottle. Tools and pre-worn work gloves will be provided or you can bring your own.   Ages: All ages are welcome; children under 15 must have an adult present.   Time Commitment: Two hours   Contact: Jessica Gonzalez, Volunteer Coordinator, 408.298.7657, jessica@grpg.org. Registration is available online. Volunteers under 18 years of age must have a signed parental waiver. www.grpg.org   San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2016 San Jose Jazz   Date/Time: Friday August 12 - Sunday August 14, times vary by shift   Location: Plaza de César Chavez Park Downtown San Jose, 194 South Market St., San Jose Since 1986, San Jose Jazz (SJZ) has been committed to celebrating one of America's most distinct and beloved art forms. We seek to enrich the community through local music education, local concerts and events, and by hosting one of the most prestigious jazz festivals in the country. Our goal is not only to help jazz continue to thrive in Silicon Valley, but also to enrich our community through K-12 education programs and live music performance year- round. San Jose Jazz's 27th annual Summer Fest represents a unique opportunity to volunteer. Tens of thousands of music lovers will converge on the heart of Silicon Valley to enjoy three days of jazz, blues, salsa, Latin, and many other forms of contemporary music. Volunteers will receive a free T-shirt, drink tickets good for soda or water, and a wristband that allows free access to the festival on the days that you work. Volunteers are needed to help with: admission and check-in, beverage and retail sales, California Theater House support, area ushers, main stage set-up, info team, main stage family area, and VIP Pavilion hospitality.   Ages: Volunteers must be ages 13 and older.   Time Commitment: Varies, depending on task   Contact: Tracey Ferraro, 408.288.7557 x2310, volunteer@sanjosejazz.org. Registration is available online www.summerfest.sanjosejazz.org   Help Out Sacred Heart Community Services Sacred Heart Community Services   Date/Time: Saturday August 13, 9am - noon   Location: 1381 S 1st St, San Jose Sacred Heart Community Service has served Santa Clara County residents in need since 1964. They provide food, clothing, job training, legal services, housing assistance, and educational classes free of charge to more than 1,500 clients each day. You and your family can help to support Sacred Heart's programs by building food baskets, sorting clothing and food donations, and preparing educational materials for the clients. Volunteers must wear appropriate clothing (pants, no bare midriff or low cut shirts) and closed-toed shoes. Parking lot is often available for volunteers on Saturdays, please do not park at Wendy's or Denny's. Ages: Ages 12 and up with an adult   Time Commitment: Three hours   Contact: 408.278.2171, volunteers@sacredheartcs.org www.sacredheartcs.org/ San Jose Double Road Race Double Road Race Federation   Date/Time: Saturday, August 20, 5am - 2pm   Location: 6024 Silver Creek Valley Road, San Jose Join the fun! The Double Road Race® benefits nonprofit youth running programs that help combat childhood obesity and its related illnesses. Volunteers are needed to help in many areas such as set up, clean up, packet pickup, water stations, bag check, finish line, and recovery zone. You can sign up with your family to participate in the race itself which includes options of half marathon, 15K, 5K, A 'Double Hike' (4 miles), Sprint Double (1.5 miles) and a Kids Cup Double (1.5 miles). Ages: Must be at least 7 to volunteer, minors under 15 must attend with an adult.   Time Commitment: Shifts are four to eight hours depending on the volunteer position   Contact: Waitman Gobble, 650.948.4901, waitman@doubleroadrace.com www.doubleroadrace.com/run/asj/home   Relay For Life Events August 2016 American Cancer Society   Volunteer opportunities at local Relay for Life events can include, but are not limited to: Luminaria set up, trash pick up, track signs and general signage, set up/tear down, registration, and staffing the Fight Back Tent. The following Relay for Life events are happening in August:   Relay For Life of East Valley Date/Time: Saturday, August 6, 10am - 10pm Location: EastRidge Center Shopping Mall, 2200 Eastridge Loop, San Jose Contact: Mary Beth Muscarella, Marybeth.muscarella@cancer.org, 408.688.0120 www.relayforlife/eastvalley   Relay For Life of Berryessa Date/Time: Saturday, August 20, 2 - 6pm Location: Piedmont Hills High School, 1377 Piedmont Rd, San Jose Contact: Leah Arceneaux, leah.arceneaux@cancer.org, 408.688.0088 www.relayforlife/berryessa   Ages: There are volunteer opportunities for all ages Time Commitment: Varies depending on event, but Relay For Life is flexible for you! www.relayforlife.org Meal-Serving Program Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen   Date/Time: Monday - Friday, 3:30 - 6pm   Location(s): Goodwill Building, 1080 N. 7th St., San Jose Eastside Neighborhood Center, 2150 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose Volunteers help with meal preparation, set-up of the dining hall, serving of the food and drinks, and clean up. Wear comfortable "work" clothes and closed-toed shoes (i.e., jeans, walking shorts, tennis shoes, etc.) Please do not wear sandals, halter or tank tops, short shorts, etc. For those with longer hair, please wear your hair up and off your face.   Ages: Everyone is welcome to volunteer. An adult must accompany children 14 and younger.   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours Contact: Hyru Gau, 408.998.1500 or volunteer@loavesfishes.org. Registration is available online. www.loavesfishes.org    Veggielution's Youth Garden Veggielution Community Farm   Date/Time: Every Saturday, 10am - 12:30pm   Location: 647 S. King Road, San Jose; located in the back of Emma Prusch Park Come join Veggielution farms for weekly Youth Garden Activities. Every Saturday the whole family can enjoy gardening, crafting, and learning together in the Youth Garden. Participating in our Youth Garden activities is a great way to spend time with your children while exploring the garden, learning about healthy lifestyle choices, and discovering the exciting processes of the natural world - not to mention making new friends. This is a unique opportunity to get your hands dirty and become better stewards of the environment as a family. Veggielution volunteer activities encourage exploration and play-based learning for the whole family.   Ages: Families with children ages three and up are welcome to volunteer.   Time Commitment: Two and one-half hours   Contact: Jennifer Aguilar, jena@veggielution.org or Dana Shinners, danas@veggielution.org www.veggielution.org/youth-garden Feed Hungry Minds One Book at a Time Family-to-Family   Date/Time: Flexible   Location: Your home   As your family gets ready to go back to school, signing up for this unique, monthly, bookish service opportunity will set the stage for a year of learning and kindness. Family-to-Family is a  national nonprofit hunger and poverty relief organization dedicated to connecting, one-to-one, families with enough to share to impoverished American families with profoundly less. You and your family can sponsor a child with one book a month through Family-to-Family's One Book at a Time program. Part pen pal, part book club, the One Book at a Time program will inspire both the young readers who give the books and the ones who receive them. Family-to-Family will match you to a child living in poverty in one of the communities they serve, give you the child's name, age and reading level, and ask you to send him or her one new book, along with a letter, each month. Your family will commit to the program for one year, sending a total of 12 books and 12 letters. The child who receives the books will be encouraged to write back to you. Visit the DGT™ Feed Hungry Minds project page for reflection ideas, book suggestions, and ways to take this project further.   Ages: Everyone can participate   Time Commitment: One year   Contact: Email books@family-to-family.org with your name, address and phone number and you will be matched with a child. www.family-to-family.org   Add good news and good ideas to your family-focused newsletter or website! If your organization has a newsletter or website that targets families, DGT™ can help you share kindness and service ideas with them. Once again, we've compiled a school year's worth of Service and Smiles Kindness Tips that you can dole out once a week from September 2016 through May 2017. You'll find service projects, kindness practices, and other simple ideas that teach children about giving, caring, and compassion. They're free to use with attribution to Doing Good Together, of course. Visit our Service and Smiles web page to sign up! Already signed up? Please share your stories or examples with DGT!         If you received this email from someone else and would like to subscribe, please click here. This list was compiled by Doing Good Together™ (www.doinggoodtogether.org)  When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project. Disclaimer: This list is provided as a service to families. Inclusion of organizations in this listing does not imply affiliation, endorsement or quality assurance on the part of Doing Good Together.™ Doing Good Together™ bears no responsibility whatsoever for the activities and actions of the listed organizations.                                                                                                                                                                                    © 2016 Doing Good Together™

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