Will you help our volunteers help our community?
We all hear the stories of tremendous, unimaginable hardships brought on by the pandemic. With your help, our volunteers can serve others while staying healthy and safe. Our volunteers need PPE for 2021. And you can help provide it. A 1-month supply of hand sanitizer, masks, gloves and face shields is only $25 – to get our volunteers serving
Think $25 won't make a difference? Meet Angelina.
Angelina is 83-years-old, frail and blind. Her Senior Companion volunteer is her only connection to the outside world. For the past 4 years Angelina’s Senior Companion has visited her regularly at home, sharing friendly conversation and memories, serving her meals, taking walks, and reading her mail to her. But for months now, Angelina hasn’t had friendly visits from her Senior Companion. Imagine being elderly, blind and alone – cut off from the world during these unprecedented times. Without the routine, simple ability to read her mail, she may not be able to continue to live independently.
Help Senior Companions help others like Angelina with just $25. Or ensure Angelina gets visits EVERY MONTH in 2021 by pledging $25 per month.
Foster Grandparent Volunteers Nominate Teacher of the Year
At the end of the 2014-2015 school year, we asked our Foster Grandparent Volunteers to nominate our Classroom of the Year. The entries demonstrated the close ties that develop between the teacher and a Foster Grandparent Volunteer, not to mention between the...