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Service Opportunities
The Service Opportunities page provides an updated listing of activities for individuals and families interested in volunteering or donating goods (excluding money). Please contact the agencies or organizations directly. If you have an opportunity you would like posted, contact at 410.649.3286.
Check out the following websites for information about volunteer opportunities all year long:
Charity Cards allow the recipient to select the cause of his/her choice
Organizations include everything from the Young Women’s Leadership Network and Human Rights Watch to Defenders of Wildlife. Just select a dollar amount (cards are mailed directly to the recipient) and pass the goodwill along.
Volunteers (age 14-plus) Needed Sundays to Serve Dinner at My Sister’s Place
Friends School volunteers (age 14 and older) on the last Sunday of each month serve dinner at My Sister’s Place, a day shelter for homeless and poor women and children in downtown Baltimore. This Sunday, September 25, we could use a few more volunteers. Can you lend a hand?
The work is simple---easy food prep, serving, clean-up, and then set up for the next day’s breakfast. We need a minimum of six to eight (maximum 12) volunteers to work from 4 to 7 pm on the fourth Sunday of every month. MSP is located at 17 W. Franklin St., in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood.
Upper School parent Deborah Gallant coordinates the volunteer list every month. If you can help us this Sunday, or any other upcoming Sunday, please email her at deborahgallant@hotmail.com. She will confirm with you via email.
Dates for this school year:
You read. We give books.
Visit www.wegivebooks.org and choose a book to read online. When you finish reading, pick a non-profit literacy organization to support and a new book will be donated to them. The more you read, the more they give to the children they serve. It’s that simple!
Literacy Program for Hispanic children needs donations
Education Based Latino Outreach (EBLO) has just started an Even Start Family Literacy Program for young Hispanic children and their parents, to help them develop English language skills and prepare the children for starting Kindergarten. We are in need of many basic school supplies, classroom furniture (such as shelves, clocks, etc.), books (for children and adult language learners), as well as toys and games for children. If you have any questions about what items are needed, or have items to donate, please contact Kate Jakuta (formerly Kate Meyer, once Friends School Upper School Spanish teacher) at kate.eblo@gmail.com, or call EBLO’s office (410-563-3160).
The Maryland Food Bank is looking for volunteers
They are in need of multiple volunteers per shift to assist us with a variety of projects including the packing and sorting of food which will be distributed to our 600 agencies and feeding programs throughout the state of Maryland.
Their primary need for volunteers at this time is Monday through Friday from 9:00 – 12:00 PM & 1:00 – 4:00 PM. If you have time to volunteer, please contact Amanda DeBoy at deboy@mdfoodbank.org or at 410-737-8282 ext. 232.
Meals on Wheels needs volunteers to deliver meals to homebound clients. Volunteers must be reliable, friendly and available for one hour between 10:30-1:30pm. For more information contact DeJanelle Peterkin at 443.573.0926.
CARES food pantry and CARES Career Connection need volunteers.
The CARES pantry and emergency outreach center serves local residents and referrals from Member Organizations. Volunteers are needed from 9-11 Mondays and/or Thursdays (for food and financial assistance) and from 10-Noon on Saturdays (for food only). CARES Career Connections is an individualized assistance program that supports people in securing and retaining employment. Volunteers are needed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the hours of 9-3 pm and Fridays 9-1 pm. Volunteers usually work one shift per week, CARES will work with your schedule.
CARES is located at 5502 York Road, at the rear of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, just one mile from Friends School . To find out more about how you and/or your family might help, contact Erin Whitt Hilker at 410.433.2442 ext. 22, ewhitthilker@gedco.org
Pets on Wheels, Inc.
The Mission of Pets on
Wheels:
To improve the quality of life by providing friendly pet visits to those
confined permanently or temporarily in institutions such as nursing
homes, assisted living, sub acute units, children's facilities, or senior
daycare centers, who are lonely and may otherwise not have friends or
family visitors. To find out about ways to volunteer, including family
opportunities, go to their website
or call 410.913.5569.
A free directory of organizations that accept donated, reusable
items is available by mail and on the Baltimore County government
website. To order a hard copy call 410.887.2000 or email.
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