Interested in volunteering this summer because you want
to try something new, gain some experience in a certain field, earn service
hours, give back to your community, or just to get out of the house? Take a
look at some of the opportunities below:
- Cook meals for Catholic Workers House: Make at home, freeze and deliver
- Cedar Valley Arboretum and Botanic Gardens: Clean flower beds, water
- Cedar Valley Association of Soft Trails: Clean trails
- Hartman Reserve Nature Center: Clean trails, assist with property and trail maintenance
- Northeast Iowa Food Bank: Sort food donations, stock shelves, pack food packs, and assist with weeding, watering and picking produce from community garden.
- Country View Care Facility: Play games with residents
- Any Nursing home in the area—play games with residents
- Grout Museum District: Prepare dog tags for museum patrons, assist with one-time events, help with mailings
- Newel Post: Play games with clients
- North Star: Take part in crafts and activities and play games
- Salvation Army: Help prepare and serve noon meal
- Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging: Design and create cards, place-mats, and other decorations to go with delivered meals.
Here are
some other ideas you can do on your own!
- Make play dough and take to day care center
- Volunteer to bag cat and dog food or make fleece blankets and pull toys for the Cedar Valley Humane Society
- Collect cans and bottles to give money to agency of choice
- Have a lemonade stand or bake sale and give money to agency of choice
The Volunteer Center of
Cedar Valley has 140 member agencies with over 160 volunteer opportunities. To
get involved call the VCCV at (319) 272-2087, email,
or visit www.vccv.org
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