Serve meals during Lunch or Dinner 12/27/10 - 7/31/11

Organization	Lytton Gardens
Address	437 Webster St., Palo Alto, CA 94301 Get Directions
Great For	Kids, Teens, 55+
Interest Area	Community, Health & Medicine, Seniors
Date	Mon Dec 27, 2010 - Sun Jul 31, 2011
Minimum Age	15

Description

Are you available to possibly having the conversation of your life and bring smiles & happiness to the lives of our residents
At Lytton Gardens, we serve lunch at 12-1pm and dinner daily from 5pm-6pm. We are seeking volunteers who can come in and help set-up, pass out dinner, clean-up and hang out with our residents in our Dining Hall.
You'll be asked volunteering at least one hour a week, and in return you'll have an opportunity to feel wonderful.

Skills

• We will train you!: Transportation to our facility. Must be 15 years or older, unless very mature.

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Relay For Life of Menlo Park - 1/3/2011 through 6/30/2011

Organization	American Cancer Society
Address	3 Twin Dolphin Drive #175, Redwood City, CA 94065 Get Directions
Great For	Kids, Teens, 55+, Groups
Interest Area	Community, Health & Medicine
Date	Mon Jan 03, 2011 - Thu Jun 30, 2011
Minimum Age	14
Volunteers Needed	20

Description

Looking to get involved in a local volunteer project? Consider the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life of Menlo Park!

For nearly 100 years, the American Cancer Society has been working to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. And we can't do it without your help. Relay For Life of San Carlos/Belmont is a community event that aims to help people get well, stay well, find cures and fight back against a disease that takes too much!

Help needed! Team Development, Mission, Advocacy, Recruitment, Entertainment, Food, Sponsorship, Marketing and other Committee positions available. Join us in the movement to make a world with less cancer and more birthdays a reality! Please contact Allison Harrer at 650-477-8879 or allison.harrer@cancer.org for more information.

• Date(s): ASAP! Relay For Life of Menlo Park takes place in the Spring, 2011; however planning begins now! Meetings are the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
• Contact person: Allison Harrer

Requirements

Relay For Life Committee Expectations:
When you become a member of the Relay For Life committee, you become an American Cancer Society volunteer. You, along with your fellow committee members are producing an event that will positively impact the lives of people in your community. By helping raise cancer awareness and money, you and everyone involved in Relay For Life are fighting back against cancer. Relay For Life is a community-owned, volunteer-driven event. Your staff partner is your coach and your resource.

As a Relay For Life Committee Member:

• Plan on attending all committee meetings.
• Recruit help! As your event grows, you will need sub-committees.
• Two-year terms are recommended. Plan for your transition by appointing a co-chair.
• Assist other committee members when asked.
• Recruit teams! This is the key to a successful Relay
• Complete a partnership agreement with event chair and subcommittee chairs.
• Have a team of your own or be a team member.
• Plan to be at the event to help set-up.
• Plan to camp out and be at the event the entire 24 hours.
• Plan to stay until the end and help clean up.
• Get all the work done prior to the event so you can enjoy the event.
• Attend the wrap-up meeting to brainstorm how to improve next year's event.

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Relay For Life of Cupertino -2/82011 - 7/17/2011

Organization	American Cancer Society - Relay For Life (0 reviews)
Address	DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA 95014
Great For	Teens, 55+, Groups (any size)
Interest Area	Community, Health & Medicine
Date	Tue Feb 08, 2011 - Sun Jul 17, 2011

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Loaves & Fishes - Help feed the needy - ALL YEAR ROUND

Organization	Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen
Address	2150 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA 95112 Get Directions
Great For	Teens, 55+, Groups (up to 10)
Interest Area	Homeless & Housing, Hunger, Seniors
Date	Mon Feb 21, 2011 03:30 PM - Sat Dec 31, 2011 06:00 PM
Minimum Age	14
Volunteers Needed	10

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San Jose WALK to END ALZHEIMER'S- October 15, 2011

Organization	Alzheimer's Association - Northern California
Address	Arena Green, San Jose, San Jose, CA 95113
Great For	Kids, Teens, 55+, Groups
Interest Area	Community, Health & Medicine, Seniors
Date	Sat Oct 15, 2011, 07:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Volunteers Needed	150

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Kid's Fishing Day -- 10/1/11 Lake Cunningham Park

Organization	Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department
Address	298 Garden Hill Drive, Los Gatos, CA 95032
Great For	Teens, 55+, Groups (up to 10)
Interest Area	Community, Environment, Sports & Recreation
Date	Sat Oct 01, 2011, 07:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Minimum Age	14
Volunteers Needed	30

Description

Join us for day of fishing fun at San Jose's Lake Cunningham Park. Help teach children ages 5-15 how to fish and become responsible anglers. You will assist our expert volunteers to take kids throug a basic fishing clinc, and then you'll walk the kids out to the lake to go fish!
Fishing skills are not required; you simply need to be comfortable around children and the outdoors. And if you don't know fishing, you'll learn yourself by watching!
Pre-registration is required for this event. Volunteers report at 7 AM to Lake Cunningham Park, near Tully and White Rds. in San Jose.

Requirements

Volunteers age 14-15 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian 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.

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Palo Alto International Film Festival Needs Volunteers! September 29 - October 2, 2011

Organization	Palo Alto International Film Festival
Address	431 Florence St., #200, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Get Directions
Great For	55+, Groups (any size)
Interest Area	Arts & Culture, Computers & Technology, Media & Broadcasting
Date	Thu Sep 29, 2011 08:00 AM - Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:45 PM
Minimum Age	21
Volunteers Needed	300

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Special Events/Marketing Intern March 2011 - October 2011

Organization	JW House
Address	3850 Homestead Road, Santa Clara, CA 95051 Get Directions
Interest Area	Children & Youth, Homeless & Housing
Date	Tue Mar 01, 2011 - Mon Oct 31, 2011
Volunteers Needed	1

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Habitat Restoration -- 9/10/11 at Almaden Quicksilver Park

Organization	Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department
Address	Almaden Quicksilver County Park, Almaden Rd., San Jose, CA 95120 Get Directions
Great For	Teens, Groups
Interest Area	Community, Environment, Sports & Recreation
Date	Sat Sep 10, 2011, 09:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Minimum Age	14
Volunteers Needed	30

Description

Come help our expert staff to maintain some of the most beautiful, pristine parklands in Santa Clara Valley. An important element of this task is to remove non-native plant species, and volunteers are vital to this labor intensive task.
You will work on brushing trails in Almaden Quicksilver County Park. Volunteers meet at the Hacienda parking lot on Almaden Rd. just past the community of New Almaden.
Pre-registration is mandatory. No special skills are required but the work may be moderately strenuous. Tools, works gloves and snacks are provided; please bring your own bottled water.
Sturdy hiking shoes, long pants and long sleeves are recommended, as is sun protection and/or rain gear.

Requirements

Volunteers age 14-15 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian through the entire event. To save time please bring a signed volunteer application -- or you may fill one out at the event.

Volunteers age 16-17 may participate without parent/guardian supervision, but only if they present a complete County Parks volunteer application signed by a parent/guardian. Application forms are available with this posting, or at the event but a parent/guardian must be present to sign.

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Finance & Accounting Data Entry -- internship available too

Project Time Frame:
05/04/2011 - 09/04/2011

Hosted by: Rebuilding Alliance
Address: 178 South Boulevard, San Mateo, CA

Great for: Teens, 55+

Interest Area: Homeless & Housing, International, Justice & Legal

 

 

Description

We are setting-up a new accounting system, doing it right so that we're ready to grow. We need help inputing the deposits and expenses for this past fiscal year.

As our nonprofit grows in the weeks and months ahead, our accounting system must keep up. A summer internship is available.

Skills

• Temp. Restricted Fund accounting: Experience in setting-up and managing temporarily restricted funds is a plus!

Requirements

Excellent attention to detail, good people skills, and bookkeeping experience are all required.

If you would like to volunteer, please call Donna at 650 440 9667.

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San Jose Jazz Festival Green Team Volunteer 2010

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2010 San Francisco AIDS Walk set-up Volunteer

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Creek Cleanup!

Wear sun block/hat/long pants/boots – there will be tall weeds in some areas Bring a water bottle We need to bag the material and carry it up a hill…so we’ll need able bodied people. The SCVWD has provided bags and gloves for us to use. Location: Lower Silver Creek and Coyote Creek 475 Eggo Way San Jose, California Directions:Turn onto Wooster Ave. , where McKee meets E Julian, off of N 28th St . Follow Wooster until it dead ends at the Kellogg’s plant ( 475 Eggo Way ). Parking may be available inside gated area next to creek, not at Kellogg’s, but if you arrive a little late, you may have to park on the street   http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145694218834383

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San Francisco AIDS Walk Set-up Volunteers

2010 was a huge success not only for the AIDS Walk foundation, but each individuals who put in the time and hard sweaty labor to ensure the event went well. 

Let the new year resolution begin now by signing up for 2011 AIDS Walk Set-up team and we'll march out to make a difference one event at a time!

Give a Moment 2010 AIDS Walk Video

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