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Volunteer and Help Your Community
Non-profit Agencies should Fax your
volunteer needs to (770) 263-8636 or E-mail:
weeklypub1@mindspring.com
Listings will appear on this page until they expire.
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl - Bowl Week Events - This December 26 to December 31 you can be a part of the Biggest Annual Sporting Event in Atlanta! The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl is much more than a game. With more than 20 events, Bowl Week is packed with activities and excitement. This is your opportunity to be a part of the Bowl experience! Volunteer for these great events: Parade; FanFest presented by Coca-Cola; MVP Tailgate Party; and various bowl luncheons and dinners. Volunteers will be required to attend Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Festival Division meetings beginning in November for orientation and event committee specific duties. Anyone interested in volunteering can contact Karen Porter at (404) 586-8537 or at kporter@macoc.com. The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl web address is
http://www.chick-fil-apeachbowl.com/
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Georgia's Official Transportation History Museum, The Southeastern Railway Museum is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and operation of historically significant transportation equipment, to the collection and display of transportation publications and memorabilia, and to the dissemination of past and present transportation information. We need your time and help.
The Southeastern Railway Museum is an all-volunteer operated transportation history museum with over 80 rail road cars, buses, people movers and much more on display and a large climate controlled exhibit hall for display of transportation history artifacts. We are open 10-5 every Saturday except
holidays and Thursdays - Saturday April - December. We are seeking people who want to be docents, tour guides, and or help to restore and preserve our large collection. We are located at 3595 Peachtree Rd off Buford
Highway 1/4 mile north of Pleasant Hill Road. Web address is srmduluth.org
Call 770 476 2013 for details or stop by anytime.
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Portsbridge Hospice is looking for volunteers of all ages for our impatient and homecare facilities. Our wide range of volunteering duties includes anything from patient care to
clerical. We are located at 4588 Barclay Drive, Dunwoody. For more information, please contact Lisa Smith at 770-614-9046.
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Tiny Stitches is an all volunteer public charity that makes layettes
and distributes them to needy newborns in north Georgia. We hold
monthly business meetings the first Monday of each month at the Duluth
Atlanta Sewing Center. There is also a monthly workday each month at
Gwinnett Medical Center. We need volunteers and donations. For
more information, please call Lila Hunter at 678-957-8870.
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Adapted Aquatics Program. Work with and teach children that have a
physical disability learn to swim. Be a positive role-model. You will
need to get into the water, but do not need to know how to swim. The
time is 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. every Wednesday. Robert D. Fowler Family YMCA,
5600 West Jones Bridge Road, Peachtree Corners. Phone 770-246-9622.
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Did you know that one in four older adults suffer from malnutrition? Senior Connections
needs your help! We are in desperate need of Meals on Wheels Volunteers to deliver meals to seniors throughout DeKalb County. Only two hours of your day can make a huge difference in the life of a senior. Volunteering is rewarding and fun, so why not make it a team effort and involve your organization, business, family or friends. Call Deirdre Reynolds at (770) 455-7602 ext 116 for more information. Senior Connections is a non-profit senior services agency providing Meals on Wheels, Home Repair, In-Home Services, Case Management, Information and Referral, Transportation, and six Senior Centers for Atlanta area seniors.
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Peachtree Hospice needs volunteers to support and assist patients
with a limited life expectancy and their caregivers. FREE TRAINING
provided. Volunteers are also needed for special events and projects.
Please call Gail Hunter, Volunteer Coordinator at (770) 698-8785 for
details on our next training date.
On-Going Volunteer Opportunity. Awesome Opportunity for Drivers!! Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Do you want to see results immediately? Do a few generous tips for saving lives seem good? When you become a Team Driver for the
National Designated Drivers Association, Atlanta Chapter, all of these are a reality.
Our public service is provided to all businesses that serve alcohol, as well as other profit and non-profit organizations. As the need for our transportation services have increased, our need for Volunteer Team Drivers have as well. Each Volunteer Team Driver works in a team of two with one driver driving the impaired individual home in their car, while the other team driver follows in a "chase" car. For the safety and security of our Volunteer Team Drivers, 2-way radios are provided.
Our service is provided at "NO" cost to the impaired individuals. Although our services are free to the public, the Volunteer Team Driver usually receive tips. The Volunteer Team Drivers may keep their tips or donate them back to the National Designated Drivers Association, Atlanta Chapter. It's a win-win situation. Volunteer opportunities are available Friday and Saturday from 10 PM until 4:00 AM. We are missing one component, YOU!
If you or your organization would like to take advantage of an opportunity to make a difference and earn extra income for you or make this a fundraising opportunity for your non-profit organization, please contact Dawn Rhyne, Volunteer Director, at 404-888-0887 ext. 101. Thank you for helping to actually save lives.
Red Cross Seeks Volunteers - The Gwinnett Red Cross in Lawrenceville is seeking adults to
volunteer in many areas. Daytime volunteers are needed immediately to work
in the office and to teach youth classes. Other volunteers are needed on
evenings and weekends to teach babysitting and HIV/AIDS courses. If you are
interested, please contact June Nelson, Volunteer Coordinator, at (770)
963-9208.
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The Giving Tree, an adoption resource center, seeks volunteers
to help staff a "Warm Line" - a 24-hour phone line that
provides confidential resources, referrals and support to adoptive
families. Training will be provided. For more information, please call
Shari Hutchinson at (404) 633-3383.
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Kennan's Kids Foundation, a nonprofit group serving children at
risk in metro Atlanta. Ongoing projects include clothing drives
(including help with pickup, sorting and delivery), gun lock programs,
kid safety campaigns and making bologna and cheese sandwiches to feed
the homeless. We welcome suggestions for other projects to help needy
kids. For more information, please call Don Kennan at (404) 523-2200.
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Senior Citizen Services of Metropolitan Atlanta has volunteer
opportunities including Meals on Wheels deliveries, adult day care,
senior companions and foster grandparents. Foster grandparents must be
at least 60; they serve abused or neglected children, troubled teens
and young mothers, helping with tutoring and developing self-esteem.
There's also a program to recruit volunteers 55 and up to serve in
their own communities. For more information, please call (404)
351-3889.
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The United Way 211 has a referral specialist available 24 hours a
day to help direct you to a volunteer opportunity in the metro Atlanta
area that suits your interests, location and schedule. For more
information, please dial 211 or (404) 614-1000.
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The Salvation Army seeks volunteers in the areas of disaster
relief, tutoring children, and serving the homeless, senior citizens and
disabled. There are opportunities to teach English as a Second Language,
provide computer training for adults, and offer after-school care at the
community centers and Boys & Girls Clubs. Throughout the year, help
is needed with special programs such as food and clothing collections.
During the Christmas season, the Salvation Army needs volunteer bell
ringers and people to distribute gifts to children and senior citizens
and to serve holiday meals on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Volunteers of
all ages are welcome; volunteers under 16 must be accompanied by an
adult. For more information, please call (404) 873-3101.
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The Atlanta Community Food Bank has opportunities inspecting,
sorting and packing donations of nonperishable food at the Product
Rescue Center (suitable for groups, families and individuals). There are
also projects in kitchen prep work, community gardening and working on
organic farm in Douglasville. Opportunities are available every day but
Sunday. To volunteer please call (404) 892-3333, ext. 242 or e-mail volunteers@acfb.org
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The Atlanta International Museum of Art and Design, a nonprofit
museum, located at Peachtree Center downtown, focuses on international
cultures of art and design. Assistance is needed in the following areas:
greeter and gallery sitter, mailings, museum store assistant; special
events ; special skills. Volunteers must be 18 and older. For more
information, please call (404) 688-2467, ext. 301.
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The Atlanta Union Mission has opportunities in food preparation
and service, painting and beautification projects, teaching computer
skills, office assistance, playing with the homeless children and
teaching Bible study classes to children on weeknights. Volunteers are
also needed to sort donated clothes and sneakers and to organize
clothing drives. To volunteer in the men's services division, call
Matthew Fisher at (404) 350-9691, est. 222 and the women's and
children's division, call Melissa Clayton at (404) 588-4009, ext. 227.
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Volunteers are needed to help with programs at the Chastain Horse
Park serving children and adults with physical, mental and emotional
disabilities, leading or walking beside riders. Training sessions are
held the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Chastain Horse Park
Clubhouse in Buckhead. Volunteers must be 14 and older. Information:
(404) 252-4244, ext. 29.
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The Foundation for Hospital Art has opportunities for people to
color in canvases painted by the foundation's founder, John Feight. The
paintings are of nature and aquatic scenes, with animals, fish, giant
butterflies, jungles, etc. No art experience is required. This summer,
Feight needs volunteers to touch-up paintings in his Roswell studio.
Groups are welcome. About 25 volunteers can be accommodated at a time.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and evenings by appointment.
Reservations are essential. During the year, there are ongoing
opportunities to paint with homeless men from the Atlanta Union Mission
on Saturday mornings in Atlanta dn Monday evenings in Athens. there are
also large paintfests on location at various times throughout the year.
Check the Website for details. To volunteer please call (770) 645-1717
or visit www.hospitalart.com
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The Georgia Council on Child Abuse offers a variety of
opportunities for volunteers. All trainings are at the GCCA offices at
1720 Peachtree Street, N.W., Suite 600. For more information, please
call (404) 870-6565.
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Hands On Atlanta has opportunities for tutoring and
mentoring children, renovating houses, visiting senior citizens,
assisting with pet adoptions, environmental projects and many others.
Scheduling is flexible; no long-term commitments is required.
Opportunities are available seven days a week. To volunteer please call
404-872-2252.
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The Jewish Family & Career Services organization needs PALs
(People of Loving) to serve as big brothers/big sisters to Jewish kids
ages 6-15 being raised in single-parent homes. For more information,
please call Ellen Moore at (770) 677-9315.
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Volunteers are needed by Newborns in Need to sew, knit or crochet
clothing and bedding items for area hospitals and medical centers. Work
at home, then meet monthly to turn in finished items. Meetings are held
in Snellville, Sugar Hill, Alpharetta and Marietta. The organization
also needs donations of gently used baby clothing. For more information,
please call Betsy Malone (770) 475-1256.
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Project Open Hand has opportunities for preparing, packing and
delivering meals. Opportunities are available seven days a week,
including evenings. To volunteer please call Angela Jackson at
404-872-2707 or visit www.projectopenhand.org.
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Red Cross of Metropolitan Atlanta has opportunities to assist
with blood drives, teach health and safety courses, work on a disaster
relief team, help with administrative functions at the headquarters and
five service centers. Administrative functions may include putting
together a scrapbook to track Red Cross history, filing, computer work,
creating flyers or conducting research on the internet. In addition,
volunteers are needed for puppet shows to teach health and safety topics
to children. To volunteer please call 404-876-3302, ext. 3114.
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Volunteers are needed to help with after school programs in Chamblee
with immigrant children and in Lilburn with refugee teens. We are
looking for people to help with homework, lead recreational sports
activities, drive vans, talk about their chosen profession or community
involvement, perform minimal repairs. If interested in more info or an
application, contact Good Shepherd Services, 770-455-1230 or goodshepherd@mindspring.com
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The Atlanta Humane Society needs volunteers, ages 18 and up to
help with adoption services, animal care and education, pet therapy
programs, and special events. For more information, please call (404)
875-2600, ext 227 or visit their web site: www.atlhumane.org.
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The Boys and Girls Clubs need volunteers to tutor and mentor
children ages 6-18 as well as to provide home-work help, teach
technology and share special skills such as athletics and the visual and
performing arts. There are volunteer opportunities for children 12 and
up (under 18 requires parental consent). The Boys & Girls Clubs of
Metro Atlanta operates 20 clubs in 10 counties. For more information,
please call (404) 527-7100. The Salvation Army operates five
clubs. Contact: Sheila Livingston, (404) 873-3101, ext. 183.
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Dress for Success Atlanta is an organization that provides free
professional apparel to assist economically disadvantaged women with
their jobs or job interviews. Volunteer opportunities include clothing
sorters, style consultants to work with clients, people to pick up and
clean clothes, office support, and seamstresses and tailors. Volunteers
must be 16 up. The organization always needs donations of new or
like-new women's clothing, accessories, jewelry and shoes suitable for
business attire. No undergarments, please. For more information, please
call (404) 589-1177 or visit www.dressforsuccessatl.org.
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Habitat for Humanity, Atlanta uses volunteers to build houses,
which are than sold at affordable prices to responsible low-income
families. Every Saturday, volunteers are needed to help build houses
from start to finish, including landscaping. There are construction
opportunities during the week in the warehouse to help prepare for
Saturday builds. For more information, please call (404) 223-5180, ext.
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St. Vincent de Paul Society provides emergency assistance for people
facing a hardship or crisis, covering 33 counties in metro Atlanta and
North Georgia. Volunteer opportunities include direct aid visitations;
help at the nine thrift stores and the mobile thrift store; sorting the
children's clothes for Clothes Line project; administrative assistance;
tutors and child care for clients attending life skill and basic
computer classes; and performing household chores for elderly or
chronically ill clients. To volunteer, call Cindy Kicklighter at (770)
986-4209. Donations are needed of working home appliances, functional
furniture, kitchenware, new or gently used clothes, and new packages of
underwear. To arrange for a pickup of furniture or large appliances,
call (770) 457-9798. To donate motor vehicles, call 'Dolph Goldenburg at
(770) 458-2877.
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The Smoking Needle, also known as Ellie's Angels, uses
volunteers to make blankets and afghans to comfort people in the final
stages of their lives. Drivers are needed to deliver yarn and blankets
to hospices in the five-county metro area one or two days a month.
Please call Ellie Handsel at (770) 489-5816.
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The Southern Africa Peace Education Program, an outreach program
of the American Friends Service Committee, a nonprofit Quaker
organization, needs volunteers to develop and implement educational
programs that address the political, economic and social realities of a
changing Southern Africa; coordinate programs linking historically black
colleges and universities in Atlanta with their counterparts in Southern
Africa; and administrative assistance. To learn more, call Patrick
Zuzile Cindi at (404) 586-0460, ext. 20 or e-mail at zcindi@afsc.org.
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