ECHO is excited to open our new travelling exhibit Butterflies, Live! on February 11, 2017. Butterflies, Live is a special, limited-time, live animal exhibit featuring more than 50 species of tropical butterflies & moths. ECHO seeks volunteer “flight attendants” to help create an immersive butterfly experience and to highlight our wondrous residents. Flight […]
Continue readingWe need your purses, handbags, pocketbooks, clutches! The Humane Society of Chittenden County is hosting the Purrrses for Paws fundraiser at the Burlington International Airport South Burlington, VT – It takes, time, money, volunteers, and many resources to treat, feed, care for, house, and find homes for so many animals looking for new homes. The […]
Continue reading2017, the year of Bobber Bob? We’re beginning to head into tabling and expo season, and we need to get our favorite mascot out and about, spreading smiles, hugs, and curiosity. I need: Happy, dancing mascots People with an open bed truck or trailer for transportation ‘Handlers’ who would help Bob get around and chat […]
Continue readingVolunteers needed: Childcare Provider Event Planning and Support In-Office Administrative Work Office Painting Warehouse Organization Administrative Work In-Office We continue to have a lot to do in the office. In addition to what is happening in the greater Winooski area VRRP/USCRI is adding a sub-office in Rutland in January. We will be resettling Syrians and […]
Continue readingThe Vermont Climate Economy Partnership, a subsidiary of the Vt Council on Rural Development, is looking for new members. Help business and policy leaders, and citizens advance Vermont’s climate economy through project implementation, education, advocacy, and, when appropriate, lobbying. For information, go to: https://vtrural.org/programs/climate-economy/join-the-partnership. Flourish, Rick “Use your voice for kindness, your ears for […]
Continue readingSummer Service Scholars (SSS) is an academic internship program in New York’s State Capital through the Siena College Center for Academic Community Engagement. Accepted Summer Service Scholars spend 9 weeks with a nonprofit community partner in the Capital Region, working on projects that build capacity within the organization. SSS provides participants with engaging and valuable […]
Continue readingHello to All Youth Activists and Youth Advocates, In these challenging times, we need a youth-focused climate change movement now, more than ever. Please consider helping us build this movement and plan our next day of action. Even though the rally is five months away, we need to start planning now if we are going […]
Continue readingI am writing on behalf of PALS Programs, a nonprofit organization that provides summer camp opportunities for young adults with Down syndrome and their peers in ten locations across the country. I’m getting in touch because we are in search of volunteer counselors to join us at our Camp PALS sessions this summer. Camp PALS […]
Continue readingI believe you know about the Spectrum Sleep Out. This will be our sixth year doing it, it’s on March 23, 2017 and we’ve never had a team from Champlain College do it, but we’d love to. Check out the short video about it below and would love to come over and talk to you […]
Continue readingVermont PBS will be holding another pledge drive again very soon and we are eager to fill some volunteer slots for our phone bank! If you’ve volunteered with us before you know what to expect. If not, what we are looking for are volunteers to sit in our phone bank and answer incoming calls from […]
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