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Provides the opportunity for older adults to put their experience to work solving problems close to home, providing much needed support to non-profit agencies and institutions.
The Macon County Community Volunteer Corps is a group dedicated to emergency response to a public health emergency. The CVC is affiliated with the Macon County Health Department, and trains and exercises for mass vaccinations during a public health outbreak, assists with public health education, and partners with the Red Cross for shelter training. The CVC screens volunteer applicants, provides training at no cost. With its affiliation with Macon County Health Department, the CVC provides volunteer opportunities at local and state levels.

Offers to engage Iowans age 55 and older with opportunities to serve.

Northeast Iowa RSVP Program offers free volunteer placement in Allamakee, Howard, and Winneshiek Counties. Volunteers may choose where they would like to volunteer and how much time they want to devote to volunteering. Possible volunteer opportunities include tutoring youth, leading activities, assisting with the food pantry, visiting nursing home residents, and performing office duties. Accommodations are made for seasonal volunteering.

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Food Sorting/Packing Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Tutoring Volunteer Opportunities
RSVP Program
Data Entry/Word Processing Volunteer Opportunities
Filing Volunteer Opportunities
Hospital/Institutional Visit Volunteer Opportunities
Hosts a comprehensive database of current volunteer needs for Polk, Dallas, and Warren County. Date specific, leadership, and ongoing volunteer needs are available as well as the ability to conduct a search for volunteer needs based on criteria that the user establishes. Any 501 c3 non profit organization is eligible to list their current needs for volunteers. Individuals outside of Polk, Dallas and Warren Counties can visit www.volunteeriowa.org for a statewide database of volunteer opportunities which filters by their zip code.
Provides collaborative leadership and fundraising for health and human service programs assisting Jasper County, Iowa, residents. The grant cycle begins each October and funding is awarded in the following March. Full details are available at untiedwayofjaspercounty.org

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Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Youth Enrichment Programs
Volunteer opportunities available throughout the year.
Volunteers help build wheelchair ramps.
Offers a wide range of training and consulting services to help youth-serving programs, schools, nonprofits, government organizations, and companies gain the support and resources they need to provide high quality mentoring experiences. Specializes in providing support around the best practices of mentoring, DEI, trauma informed care, social emotional learning, and workplace mentoring.

Services

Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Mentoring Programs
Database listing volunteer opportunities.
Provides the funding and oversight for the AmeriCorps (the 'Domestic Peace Corps') Program in Nebraska. Promotes, supports, and provides training and technical assistance for AmeriCorps State members and community-based National Service programs.

Promotes volunteering throughout Nebraska through volunteer service awards.

Promotes National Days of Service, such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Youth Service Days.

Services

AmeriCorps
Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Volunteer Program Development/Implementation Support

Provides a list of volunteer opportunities at various community agencies.

Connects interested community members with opportunities for volunteer service. Also operates the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, the Community Garden Program, and Reading Buddies Program.

Provides seniors with volunteers that can take them to necessary appointments. Programs notify coordinator of needs, then volunteers are sought to meet needs.

Provides mileage reimbursement to volunteers.

Services

Volunteer Recruitment/Placement

Offers community service opportunities for those that are needing a place to go to fulfill their community service hour obligations. A.Y.D.E. will place individuals in community projects that will have the most impact on neighborhoods in need.

Services

Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Court Ordered Community Service Referral Programs

Provides a web-based volunteer resource center that links volunteers with area nonprofit organizations in need of assistance. Interested volunteers may seek out opportunities that fit their needs and follow organizations to see when an opportunity arises.

The program is an initiative of Fox Valley United Way.

Community assessment, collaboration, fundraising, and special events for local health and human service agencies.

Volunteer development.

Get Connected website lists local volunteer opportunities, donation needs, and agency events.

Services

Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Donation Drop Off Points
Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Volunteer opportunities at community agencies are listed online for youth, adults, and groups.
Connection between agencies and community organizations that need volunteers and people who want to volunteer.
Holiday Volunteer Guide is a holiday guide that gives people in the community options on how to volunteer, donate and help others during the holiday season. Call or visit the website https://unitedwayofeastcentraliowa.galaxydigital.com/need/indexs=1&need_init_id=7539.

2024

Holiday Helping Hand program is a holiday guide that gives people in the community options on how to volunteer, donate and help others during the holiday season. Call or visit the website to find ways to volunteer this 2024 holiday season.

Maintains online database available to community-matching volunteers with opportunities.
Connects volunteers with programs, donors of all types, as well as donations of all types to programs and agencies. Provides comprehensive information and referral service to the community, an education program on human services available in the metro area, and information on volunteerism.

Services

Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Provides a statewide volunteer matching portal for volunteers and organizations to use to connect with one another. Volunteers can look for opportunities, events, or their favorite agencies. And organizations can recruit volunteers to serve at their agency or work on a project by using this system to post their open volunteer positions.

Offers volunteer recruitment and connects individuals wishing to volunteer with agencies in need of volunteers.