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Keep up with the latest Volunteer Center news and opportunities!
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 Amazing Volunteers! |
The nominations that came in for the Montgomery Serves Awards were amazing! Selecting just one winner in each category was incredibly difficult for the judges. Watch our website to see some of these amazing volunteers show up as Spotlights. |
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The Montgomery County Volunteer Center is now an Affiliate link on Montgomery County's Department of Economic Development's new e-Biz calendar. Here you will find local events from county organizations and government entities.
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Montgomery County Video on US Airways
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Montgomery County's Conference and Visitors Bureau has partnered with Montgomery County's Department of Economic Development to market the county's many business and tourism assets. A 3 minute in-flight video will be aired on more than 1,700 U.S. Airways flights during the entire month of April 2013. In addition, a 30 second boarding video will air on all main screen flights prior to departure to approximately 320,000 passengers!
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Make a Difference highlights the contributions of stellar County volunteers and organizations that contribute positively to Montgomery County.
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Watch this awesome video!
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Thank you to Montgomery Community Media for producing this fabulous video for the Volunteer Center!
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"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."
-Cayla Mills
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Summer will be here before you know it. Its time to start searching for those summer SSL opportunities. Check out some of the Summer Camp opportunities that are already in our database!
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For our online calendar of opportunities,
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The Montgomery County Volunteer Center is part of the Office of Community Partnerships. For more information on the Office of Community Partnerships and to sign up for the Partnerships Newsletter, please click here.
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April 22, 2013 is Earth Day. Celebrate by volunteering at environmental projects all throughout the month of April. Get your hands dirty and help keep our community clean!
Below are a just a few opportunities you can get involved in.
All are approved for Student Service Learning (SSL) hours.
Click here to see a full list of opportunities for Earth Day
Alice Ferguson Foundation's Annual Potomac River Watershed Clean Up - Saturday, April 6th - There will be clean ups happening all around the DC Metro area. Don't miss out on all the excitement!
Garlic Mustard Pull - April 2nd, 6th and 27th - Help remove this fast growing invasive weed with Montgomery Parks.
Rock Creek Trail Clean Up - Saturday, April 13th - Rock Creek Trail and Mathew Henson Trail clean up
Anacostia Watershed Society Clean Up and Celebration - Saturday, April 20th - Choose from several sites in the Anacostia Watershed to clean then enjoy the Earth Day celebration in Bladensburg, MD with music, exhibitors, and speakers.
Rake the Lake - Saturday, April 20th - Help clean Lake Whetstone and Whetstone Run in Montgomery Village
WSSC Weed Pull - Sunday, April 21st - Remove invasive weeds that keep the wildlife from thriving with Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission.
Check out this great County resource and learn where to recycle your household items.
See the upcoming paper shredding opportunities
in the County!
Find out more ways to be green all year long at www.MyGreenMontgomery.org
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Are you ready to test your marketing skills and show your support  for clean land, safe water, and healthy lives in your community?
In conjunction with the 25th Annual Potomac Clean up in April, the Alice Ferguson Foundation is launching a Video Contest to engage residents from across the region in litter prevention. The contest will be part of the Regional Litter Prevention Campaign, a collaborative effort between the Alice Ferguson Foundation and regional jurisdictions to raise awareness of the existing trash issue, lead citizens to change their behavior, and ultimately to reduce the amount of litter reaching our waterways.
Participants have the chance to win $1000, and the winning video will be used as a PSA throughout the region. Videos need to be 30, 60, or 90 seconds long and can be submitted until May 15th.
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The Montgomery Serves Awards ceremony honors those who have made an extraordinary impact on Montgomery County through community service and volunteerism. Join us in celebrating these amazing people on Monday, April 29th at Imagination Stage in Bethesda. The event is free but registration is required as seating is limited.
Please register at MontgomeryServesAwards2013.eventbrite.com.
The 2013 Montgomery Serves Award recognizes remarkable service performed during 2012 in four categories.
- Youth: Alfredo Colina Iturralde
- Business: MedImmune
- Community - Individual: Robert Zagorski
- Community - Group: Montgomery County Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Neal Potter Path of Achievement Award winners (60+ years old with a lifetime of service) were selected by the Montgomery County Commission on Aging.
- Marcine D. Goodloe
- Joyce B. Siegel
The County Executive will also present three County residents with the Roscoe R. Nix Distinguished Community Leadership Award. The honorees are community leaders, change agents and role models. They have made extraordinary contributions to Montgomery County over the course of their lives.
- Odessa Shannon
- Carol Trawick
- Teresa Wright
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Agency Spotlight:
Early Childhood Center |
The Early Childhood Center offers early childhood education  programs with a play-based philosophy in Rockville, Maryland. For over 40 years, we have worked to build a community where children become independent, confident, lifelong learners with a strong sense of self and a love of learning. In each child, we strive to cultivate autonomy, a sense of belonging, respect for others, and enthusiasm for exploration.
Summer program volunteers are needed. We currently seek high school students, college students, or adults who are familiar and comfortable working with young children, ages 2-5, to be part of our very play-based summer program. We have three, two-week sessions of the program, starting in mid-June and running through July. You can apply to volunteer for one, two, or three sessions, and your continued work at our center will be contingent upon a successful "match" with our program. Volunteers will assist our staff with activities with the children and it will include set-up and clean-up as well.
If someone enjoys working with children, this is a GREAT opportunity to get experience and have fun! Please visit our web site for more information about our school at www.eccpreschool.com. To learn more about this summer volunteer opportunity, contact our office at earlychildhoodcenter@verizon.net.
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Support Seniors in the Community
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This program needs dedicated volunteers to work as advocates in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. This rewarding volunteer opportunity requires flexible daytime hours and creative problem solving skills. Extensive training and technical assistance are provided by experienced professionals.
For almost nineteen years The Senior Connection has provided free services to older residents. Each month about 400 seniors rely on the services provided by dedicated volunteers. In an average month these volunteers provide more than 650 free trips to medical appointments and 300 grocery shopping trips.
The staff works hard to accommodate all requests, but all too frequently find that the demand cannot be met. New volunteers are constantly being recruited and trained but not enough to keep up with seniors needing assistance. Seniors must now make appointments a month in advance, twice as long as before!
Please consider giving 2-3 hours per week to help out. It will make a big difference to you and to the people you serve.
For more information, please contact Marcia Custer at 301-962-0820 X14, or download an application on the website at:
www.seniorconnectionmc.org/volunteers/become-a-volunteer/
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Global Youth Service Day
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 Established in 1988, Global Youth Service Day is the largest service event in the world, and the only day of service dedicated to children and youth. GYSD is celebrated each year in over 100 countries, with young people working together--and with schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, national service programs, government agencies, and adult mentors-- to address the world's most critical issues and change their communities.
Create your own project or see ones that have been planned.
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Celebrate Volunteers!
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 Celebrate amazing volunteers all month long! National Volunteer Week is April 21-27th. We want to celebrate YOU, the volunteers for all your amazing work. See the Points of Light website to find out how you can share your volunteer stories or nominate someone for their service.
Gaithersburg, MD is celebrating volunteers all month long!
The City of Gaithersburg is celebrating all of April as Volunteer Appreciation Month. A proclamation, banners in downtown  streets and volunteers being recognized at events throughout the month are just some of the ways they will be thanking volunteers for making a difference in Gaithersburg. For more check out www.gaithersburgmd.gov/communityservices . Did you know that website also lists local Gaithersburg volunteer opportunities as well as a wish list of donations from local nonprofits?
This day highlights the impact of AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and other national service programs in tackling local problems and managing volunteers for greater impact, and to thank national service members and volunteers for their commitment.
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| Featured Volunteer Opportunities |
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One-time Volunteer Opportunities
Check the April Calendar for the latest opportunities.
Denotes opportunities that are approved to provide MCPS Student Service Learning (SSL) Hours
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April 1-3 - Close Rainbow Place Shelter for the Season -
Rainbow Place is an emergency women's shelter open during the coldest months of the year. The shelter will close on March 31. Help store cots and equipment, clean, and take inventory.
 April 6 - Mulch Sale and Landscaping - Help with a fundraiser for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad and help to beautify the Squad property. Volunteers are needed to load purchased bags of mulch. The bags of mulch weigh 50 lbs. Volunteers will also be helping with landscaping tasks around the Rescue Squad property.
April 13 - Cultural Event Assistance - Capital Area Telugu Society is organizing a cultural event to celebrate UGADI INDIAN festival at Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, MD. Volunteers are needed to help adults and children who participate in the program. Volunteers should have an interest in exploring the significance of the festivals and talk about it with the guests.
April 13 and 20 - Walk for MS - Volunteers are needed to help at six local Walk MS sites this spring. Volunteers will be asked to take on many tasks, including site set-up and breakdown, check-in and registration, food service, directional support, rest stop support and many more. For more information on the various Walk sites and volunteer opportunities, check out www.msandyou.org/walk.
April 27-28 - Rockville Science Day - Volunteers are needed to assist at Rockville Science Day by helping to coordinate the event, putting out signs, directing crowds, and supporting and operating exhibits. There will be over 60 exhibitors from the community, local businesses, and academic institutions and science activities for the whole family including chemistry, rocket launch, robotics, water conservation, birds and reptiles.
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Selected Ongoing Opportunities
Denotes opportunities that are approved to provide MCPS Student Service Learning (SSL) Hours.
Assist at Monthly Food Distributions - Once a month, the Capital Area Food Bank's Mobile Pantry comes to Catholic Charities. Within 3 hours, 8,000+ lbs. of free, fresh produce is distributed to 300 to 500 low-income families. This wouldn't be possible without the help of volunteers! Volunteers are needed to hand out numbers, direct parking, distribute food, set up and clean up. Most tasks require lifting up to 50 lbs.
Volunteer Recruitment Assistant - Montgomery County Fire and Rescue is seeking individuals to assist with office work including answering phones, research, filing, typing etc., helping applicants fill out applications, assisting at outreach events and at our Volunteer Basic Orientation Course.
Spend Time with Seniors - Do you play an instrument, sing, dance, enjoy baking or cooking, knit or paint, or you are looking for others to join you in a community project - Sunrise Senior Living at Fox Hill is the place for you! Come and enrich the lives of seniors!
Contact: Gie Deltuvaite at 301-968-1829 or foxhill.avc@sunriseseniorliving.com
Child Care Assistant - Spend your summer volunteering as a child care assistant, gaining hands-on experience and having a great time with The Arc of Montgomery County. Child care classrooms are fully inclusive, which means children with developmental delays and disabilities, children with special medical care needs and typically-developing children all play and learn together. Children range in age from 18 months to 10 years. Volunteers set their own schedule over the course of the summer, choosing from available shifts for a total of at least 25 hours of service.
Contact: Nadia Atcha at 301-984-5777 or NadiaA@arcmontmd.org
Computer Repair and Refurbishing - Join Capital PC Users Group and help repair and refurbish computers that are given to the poor and disabled. Some volunteers use their existing computer repair skills while other volunteers help customers, clean up around the place and sort through and organize boxes of donated equipment.
Contact: Dennis Courtney at 301-330-0034 or president@cpcug.org
Do you have a great volunteer story to tell? Share your story with a paragraph and a photo. Tell how you're making an impact in your community! Stories will be displayed throughout our website.
Click here to read some Success Stories.
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The best place to start searching for volunteer opportunities is the Center's website www.montgomeryserves.org. If the information on our website doesn't answer your questions, or you need help finding volunteer opportunities or exploring volunteering options, contact us via email at volunteer@montgomerycountymd.gov.
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