Opportunity: Lighten Up Caroline Distribution Day
Agency: Lighten Up Caroline!
Date & Time: April 19
Location: Caroline, NY
Description: Students from Cornell and Ithaca Cllege will join community volunteers to distribute to every househole in the town of Caroline a compact fluorescent light bulb. Included will be a packet of literature on sustainable living inside a reusable tote bag.
Contact: Please email energyindependentcaroline@gmail.com to volunteer.
Opportunity: Caroline Bag Sew-In
Agency: SewGreen
Date & Time: April 5, noon to 6pm
Location: SewGreen Studio at Tuff Soul, 516 W. State Street, Ithaca
Description: SewGreen has sewn nearly 600 reusable bags for Energy Independent
Caroline, and htese unique, handmade bags are made from all reused or donated
material. All are welcome and materials are provided.
Contact: To set up a time, please contact Wendy at 607-277-7611, or email at
coord@sew-green.org.
Opportunity: PR/Media relations volunteer
Agency: Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins & Cortland Counties (TC HFH)
Time Commitment: 4hrs/wk, minimum of 1yr
Description: TC HFH is dedicated to eliminating homelessness and substandard
housing throughout Tompkins and Cortland Counties. The volunteer responsibile
for PR/Media Relations will be considered an active member of the TC HFH Development
Committee; this includes one meeting a month. Tasks specific to the position include:
developing and maintaing contact with local newspaper, radio, television, and
other media sources; drafting/editing press releases and news articles to feed
the local media, working with other TC HFH members to develp drafts/information
packets that could become news articles.
Contact: For more info, please contact Phil Allmendinger at 607-220-3947 or email
at VolunteerforTCHFH@habitatnys.org or visit www.tchabitat.com.
Opportunity: Fundraising Organizer
Agency: Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins & Cortland Counties (TC HFH)
Time Commitment: 5hrs/wk, minimum of 1yr
# of positions: 2-3
Description: TC HFH is dedicated to eliminating homelessness and substandard
housing throughout Tompkins and Cortland Counties. The volunteers responsible
for organizing fund raising events will be considered active members of the TC
HFH Development Committee; this includes one meeting a month. Tasks specific to
the position include: planning and organize fundraising events or campaigns (roughly
6 minor and 2 major events a year). being a pro-active in recruiting and collaborating
with other organizations for joint fund raising activities with TC HFH.
Contact: For more info, please contact Phil Allmendinger at 607-220-3947 or email
him at VolunteerforTCHFH@habitatnys.org or visit www.tchabitat.com.
Opportunity: Arts and Crafts!
Location: Southside Community Center
Date & Time: Tues and Thurs, 4-6pm
Description: Sick of always being around college students? Love arts and crafts?
This is a volunteer opportunity for you! Every Tuesday and Thursday the Southside
Community Center does art projects with children ranging from preschoolers to
teenagers. Get involved in the community!
Contact: For more information, please contact Marlena at maf78@cornell.edu.
Opportunity: Maplefest
Location: Cayuga Nature Center
Date & Time: Sat & Sun, March 29 & 30 @ 10am-12pm, 12-2pm, 2-4pm
Description: Come help out with the Cayuga Nature Center's Maplefest! Be part
of the one of the CNC's biggest events of the year. Meet community members and
people who care about our environment. Help keep the event running and work at
different booths.
Contact: For more info, please visit www.cayuganaturecenter.org/public/maple_fest.html
Opportunity: Cover Africa
Application Deadline: April 1 (need to have attneded ONE info session)
Description: This Decemeber eleven Cornell students traveled to Ghana to distribute
bednets which help prevent malaria and conduct research to better understand the
needs and knowledge about Malaria. The students also had opportunities to explore
the village and immerse themselves in Ghanaian culure. We are sending students
back next winter as well, and we are now taking applications!
LAST info session: Thurs, March 27 @ 4:30 in GS 142
Contact: For more info, please visit www.rso.cornell.edu/coverafrica. If you absolutely cannot make the info session, please contact Shoshana at
sca25@cornell.edu
Opportunity: Helping Someone Here or Overseas
Agency: International Humanity Foundation (IHF)
Description: You can make real change in the world, here and now! Using your
own abilities & talents, you can make a real difference for children-at-risk
around the globe, from Kenya to Thailand to Indonesia. You can help from your
own home with as little as two hours a week, or choose fulltime living overseas
at one of our childrens homes and schools. IHF works primarily with volunteer
assistance, guided by the idea that donated funds should overwhelmingly go to
the immediate needs of the orphan programs rather than salaries, overhead costs
and bureaucratic waste.
Contact: For more info, please visit ihfonline.org, email ihf@ihfonline.com, or call 617-226-2099.
Opportunity: Cayuga Lake inlet clean-up
Date & Time: Sat, March 29 @ 12:30-3:20pm
Description: The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network is conducting a cleanup for the
Cayuga Lake inlet this month. All volunteers will be meeting at the Chemung Canal
Trust Parking Lot (W. Buffalo St and Taughannock Blvd). Local businesses will
be providing snacks and drinks for our work that day.
Contact: For more info, please contact Dan Carrion at dcarrio1@ithaca.edu.
Opportunity: Time Bank Basketball League
Date & Time: Fri, March 28 and March 31- May 2
Description: The Tompkins County Chapter of the Youth Advocacy Program (YAP)
and the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of the Cooperative Educational Services is
teaming up this spring for the first annual "Time Bank Basketball League," which
will take place at the Southside Community Center in downtown Ithaca. The goal
of this program is to connect Cornell students to local teenagers in order to
provide positive role-modeling. It will be a co-ed program designed to include
those with substantial basketball skills as well as those who just simply want
to provide role modeling. Cornell students will earn time bank hours for every
hour of participation. Time Bank hours can be traded for goods/services in the
community and with other time bank members. Also, this is an excellent resume
builder!
March 28: CU students oriented and matched with BOCES students to form teams.
CU Students will be co-team leaders.
March 31-May 2: League play takes place approx. 2x per week.
Contact: If you are interested in participating or want to learn more, please
email Brooke McNally at bmcnally@yapinc.org.
Opportunity: Cayuga Medical Center Patient Advocate
Description: The patient advocate will provide comfort and information to patients,
who may be physically and emotionally vulnerable. Establish mutually respectful
and trusting relationships with patients, their families and the care team. Represent
Cayuga Medical Center is a fashion that reflects our misson and vision. Contribute
to quality of patient care in the hospital by rounding in patient care areas and
addressing the non-medical needs of the patient and/or significant others. Provide
a communication link between the patient, significant others, and health care
providers. Refer any issues to staff to insure prompt investigation and resolution
of complaints, concerns and/or inquiries by patient or significant others.
Shifts are from 3-6 an 6-9 Mon-Fri, and 12-3, 3-6, and 6-9 on Sat and Sun.
Contact: For more info, visit Public Service Center at 200 Barnes Hall or email
post@cornell.edu.
Opportunity: Interested in ending poverty? Globalization? Hunger?
Date & Time: Feb 2 & 16, Mar 1 & 22, Apr 5 & 19 @ 12-3pm
Info: We're looking for young people, artists, activists and anyone wanting to
make a difference to come eat and think and work with us (us = you, community
members, and college students) as we talk about what's wrong in our community
and our world and what we're doing about it.
Contact: For more info, email nariah@gmail.com or call Tompkins County Workers' Center at 607-269-0409.
Opportunity: Library Volunteers
Description: Tompkins County Public Library is looking for
volunteers to help empty books bins and shelve audio-visual materials.
Volunteers would be asked to dedicate their time-usually one to two
hours per shift- to a regular, recurring schedule. Day, evening, and
weekend shifts are available-with daytime hrs comprising the most
immediate need. Up to two people can work at any time, so it may be
possible to volunteer with a friend and help keep your favorite titles
on the shelves. Volunteers for this position must be able to stand for
the duration of their shift, push a cart and lift books and AV
materials. Training will be provided.
Contact: For info or to apply, complete an application online at
www.tcpl.org/volunteer.html#application or contact John Cohen
(jcohen@tcpl.org) at 607-272-4557 x 226. Applications may be picked up
at the library.
Opportunity: Volunteer advocates
Description: The Advocacy Center of Tompkins County needs you! Come be a part
of a new Hotline Advocate Training. Volunteer Advocates staff our 24-hr Hotline
& help adult and youth survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, abuse
and harassment by providing crisis counseling, advocacy, information, referrals
and support. The next training will take place February-March 2008, and space
is limited. For credit internships and RSVP hrs are also an option!
Contact: For more info, call our Volunteer Coordinator, Aileen Boyd (aboyd@theadvocacycenter.org) at 607-277-3203 x 317.
Opportunity: Volunteer counselors
Description: Are you interested in making a real difference? Suicide Prevention
& Crisis Service offers a way for you to make a real difference, not just
in your life, but in the lives of others in your community. If you are an open-minded,
compassionate individual, you can be trained to be a skilled and very effective
Crisisline Counselor at Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service. The Crisisline
offers counseling, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, to callers who may be dealing
with any personal problem, such as anxiety, alcohol, family, school, sexuality,
loneliness, depression, and suicidal thoughts.
Contact: For more info, call business office at 607-272-1505 or visit and apply
online at suicidepreventioncrisisservice.org.
Opportunity: Ten Months in Israel
Description: An exciting new Israel program called Tikum Olam in Tel-Aviv, a
MASA-scholarship approved program, is an initiative of the Tel-Aviv based NGO
called Bina and the Tel-Aviv Municipality. It offers Jewish college graduates
the opportunity to spend 5 to 10 months in Israel volunteering in various community
service settings in Tel Aviv as well as learning Hebrew and about Israel.
Contact: For more info, visit www.tikunolamisrael.org.
Opportunity: Tompkins Community Action Head Start
Description: Tompkins Community Action Head Start is looking for volunteers to
provide child care in 1-2 hr increments at our monthly parent meetings. Locations
and times of meetings vary. Minimal stipend available if volunteering is not an
option.
Contact: Rachel Fish (rachel.fish@tcaction.org) at 607-273-8816 ext 15.
Opportunity: Volunteer Abroad with Unite for Sight in Fall, Winter, Spring, and
Summer
Description: The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities
is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight's volunteers (local
and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities
without previous access. Visiting volunteers from North America range from undergraduate
and medical students, educators, nurses, and public health professionals to optometrists
and ophthalmologists. The eye clinic's eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers
jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic's
eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients
are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded
by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds.
Contact: For more info or to apply, please visit www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer
Opportunity: Boynton Middle School Saturday Study Program
Date & Time: see contact below
Location: Boynton Middle School
Description: Saturday Study Program aims to help students who arein danger of
failing one or more classes. Initially, the program is planned to occur four times
a year before each marking period ends. They are seeking volunteers to help the
students complete necessary assignments during a 2-hr study session.
Contact: For more info, please contact Lauren Frisch at lauren@ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us
Opportunity: volunteer at Seniors Information and Referral Service
Date & Time: on-going
Description: The Seniors Information and Referral Service (SIRS) need volunteers
for a variety of activities that help the greater Spencer-Van Etten community's
senior citizens. In particular, SIRS need adults with good driving records to
drive senior citizens to medical appointments. SIRS can also use people to help
seniors with household chores, do grocery shopping, and run errands.
Contact: For more information or if you are interested, please contact Virpi
Loomis (vloomis@htva.net) or SIRS hotline 1-888-589-7833 or visit www.ycfsve.org.
Date & Time: any Saturday or Sunday, 12-3pm
Location: Alterra Clare Bridge Cottage
Description: Clare Bridge is a community dedicated to the special needs of individuals
with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of memory impairment. Their staff is
hoping a group would be interested in coming for a few hours, any Saturday or
Sunday afternoon, to visit with residents. Talking with them, playing games, and
working on puzzles, sometimes even baking! Let us know if you're interested, and
when.
Contact: For more info, please contact Marlena Fontes (maf78).
Date & Time:
* Mondays 10am-12pm: Clay Class
* Wednesdays 1-3:30pm: Crafting Circle
* Fridays 1-3pm: Mahjong
* Fridays 1-3pm: Computer Lab
* Fridays 3-4:30pm: Game Time
* Fridays 2-4pm: Dancing
Location: Lifelong
Description: Giving a helping hand to the community by volunteering for these
senior center activities.
Contact: For more info, please visit tclifelong.org or reach 273-1511.
