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Volunteer Hotlist San Francisco
- BAY AREA VOLUNTEER INFORMATION CENTER
The purpose of this Web publication is to provide information about volunteer opportunities in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Hopefully, volunteerism will be stimulated and facilitated by letting potential volunteers know about the wide range of opportunities open to them and by giving Bay Area non-profit organizations a means of publishing their goals and needs.
If you are considering volunteering we hope the following information helps you find the opportunity you are looking for. Volunteers are needed to do just about anything from repairing computers to picking fruit to making sandwiches. Time commitments can range from a few hours for a single project to as much time as you have available. Try something new. Learn new skills and meet new people.
www.volunteerinfo.org
Volunteer San Francisco Glide Memorial
- Glide Memorial
Donate or Volunteer. If you live in San Francisco and you do not know what this is, please visit their website,
or better yet, visit thier moving services on Sundays.
www.glide.org
About Glide Memorial’s Free Meals Program
Glide’s Free Meals Program is the only program in San Francisco that serves three nutritious meals every day to the poor, homeless and hungry. Begun in 1969 Glide’s Food and Meals Program today serves as many as 3,500 meals a day and averages more than one million meals every year. Operating with a paid staff of only 16, the program could not survive without the energy and commitment of thousands of volunteers, and the stream of food and supplies donated by corporations, restaurants, hotels, individuals and foodservice suppliers.
- Big Brother, Big Sister of SF and Penninsula
Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Francisco and the Peninsula seeks to make a positive difference in the lives of children by promoting their self-esteem, expanding their awareness of life's opportunities, and providing them with guidance and support through long-term, one-to-one mentorships with caring adult volunteers.
www.sf-bbbs.org
- The Alemeda County Community Food Bank
Hunger: A choice no one should have to make.
Each month, tens of thousands of low-income Alameda County residents cannot afford well-balanced meals for themselves and their families. Many never imagined they would need to request food assistance, but barren cupboards and empty pockets have led them to local soup kitchens and food pantries.
- Project Open Hand
In 1985 in San Francisco, Ruth Brinker, a retired grandmother, watched a dear friend die of AIDS. She realized that for many people with HIV/AIDS, malnutrition was causing death as much as the illness itself. At that time, no social service agency was providing meals to those too weak from AIDS or too impoverished to feed themselves. Using her experience as a manager with another food program, Ruth enlisted the help of her friends, secured a basement kitchen at a local church and began to serve meals to seven clients, Project Open Hand was born.
Project Open Hand in San Francisco
730 Polk Street,San Francisco, CA 94109,(415) 447-2300
Project Open Hand in Alameda County
3443 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA 94608, (510) 596-8200
www.openhand.org
Volunteer California Coastal Commission
- The 21st Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day will be
Saturday, September 17, 2005
California Coastal Cleanup Day is the premier
volunteer event focused on the marine environment in the country. On this day,
50,000 volunteers turn out to over 700 cleanup sites statewide to conduct what has been hailed by the
Guinness Book of World Records as "the largest garbage collection" (1993). Since the program started in
1985, over 650,000 Californians have removed more than 10 million pounds of debris from our state's shorelines and
coast. When combined with the International Coastal Cleanup, organized by The Ocean Conservancy and taking place
on the same day, California Coastal Cleanup Day becomes part of one of the largest volunteer events of the year.
www.coastal.ca.gov click here for their website
Volunteer - Gulf of the Farallones Farallon Islands
- The Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (FMSA)
The Sanctuary needs your help! Whether through being a member and financial supporter,
volunteering your time, or both, you can make a difference. FMSA's education and volunteer
programs are dependent on the energy, generosity, and dedication of individuals who care about our marine environment.
By supporting the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association, you help protect the Gulf of the Farallones National
Marine Sanctuary from pollution, loss of marine wildlife, and loss of breeding habitat. Please click ahead to find out
specific ways in which you can positively affect the Gulf of the Farallones.
www.farallones.org
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME -- "One's own family (or country, etc.) comes before any other responsibilities. The idea of the proverb can be found in the Bible. The proverb dates back to the time of the Roman comic playwright Terence (about 190-159 BC). In 1383, John Wycliffe wrote: 'Charity should begin at himself.' Five hundred years later Dickens said that 'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.' First attested in the United States in the 'Winthrop Papers' (1628).'." From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
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