PHONE VOLUNTEERS

KTEH is in great need of phone volunteers for its Winter Pledge Drive.

Shifts available:
Sat December 8 7:15 am - 1:30 pm
Mon December 10 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Tues December 11 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Sat December 15 9:15 am - 1:30 pm

Volunteers will helping viewers sign up for membership over the phone. There are 24 phones volunteers needed per shift. Minimum age: 16 Individuals and groups are welcome.

If you’d like to help, please call (408) 995-5445 or e-mail ejuan@kteh.org
location: KTEH, 1585 Schallenberger Road, San Jose, CA 95131

KTEH is Silicon Valley's public television station, Channel 54 and Channel 10 on cable systems, serving 14 California counties. Service to the community is at the heart of KTEH's mission. The station's outreach campaigns combine programs, productions and activities to address community concerns such as illiteracy, drug abuse, teen violence and the environment. Aside from our continued community outreach projects, KTEH also hosts a number of events each year that enrich, improve and provide fun alternatives families can feel secure in enjoying. KTEH broadcasts PBS programs such as Sesame Street, Masterpiece Theatre, and Nova and local productions.

Belvedere-Tiburon Recreation Department
1505 Tiburon Blvd. Suite A   Tiburon, CA 94920
director@btrecreation.org
phone: 415 435-4355
Students who have completed their Freshman year of High School may apply to work as a volunteer at the department's Angel Island Adventure Camp in two week increments beginning 6/18 - 8/24. Call to request and application form. Qualified applicants will be selected to interview for available positions.

Homeless Breakfast:

 Description: Make pancakes and scrambled eggs for San Rafael Emergency Shelter clients
 Day(s) and Time(s): Sunday mornigs: 8:00am - 10:00am
 Address: 190 Mill street, San Rafael

 St. Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen
 Description:  Prepare and serve lunch to hungry folks and/or clean.
 Day(s) and Time(s):  Seven days a week; 9:00am-2:00 p.m.
 Address: 820 B St., San Rafael.
 Contact: office: 454-3303.

 Saint Anthony's
 Description:  Prepare and serve meals to hungry folks and/or clean
 Location:  121 Golden Gate Ave. San Francisco
 Day(s) and Time(s):  Days and times vary
 Contact: Barbara Montagnoli 552-3838

 AIDS PROGRAMS:

  Positive Center
 Description:  Work in the upbeat store where 100% of the profits go to support for clients battling HIV and cancer
 Location:  535 San Anselmo Ave., San Anselmo
 Day(s) and Time(s):  Flexible
 Contact: 456-8065

DAYCARE AND TUTORING PROGRAMS:

 Making Waves  Tutoring (drivers also needed)
 Description: Tutor the energetic Wave Makers.
 Day(s) and Time(s): Any day Monday-Thursday after school.
 Address: Bahia Vista, Coleman, Davidson, Bayside/MLK, San Pedro
 Contact: Hadari Davis 454-3636 ext 226

 Family Resource Center (FRC) Daycare:  Come play with kids!
 Description: Volunteers are needed for car pooling, daycare and tutoring. Fun, easy, rewarding.
 Day(s) and Time(s): Weekdays after school and saturdays
 Contact: Bridget 457-2115
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 San Quentin Daycare
 Description:  Play with kids whose families are visiting inmates.
 Day(s) and Time(s): Saturdays or Sundays; you can come at anytime and stay for an hour or as long as you want but find out open times from contact first
 Address: At The House at San Quentin, Just before the main visitors gate into San Quentin.
 Contact: Joan Resuikoff (director) 456-4200
 

 WHAP
 Description: Play games and tutor (homework and computers) children, kindergarten through fourth grade.  About forty kids are involved , but WHAP has only two rooms in an understaffed (only two unpaid teachers)
 Marin City public housing project.
 Day(s) and Time(s): Weekdays after school
 

ELDERLY PROGRAMS:

 Drake Terrace Elderly Program
 Description:  Play bingo with the elderly at Drake Terrace retirement home and/or visit with them while bringing snacks to their rooms.
 Day(s) and Time(s):  Tuesday and Friday, after school-4:30
 Contact: 491-1935
 Status:  Core

DISABLED PROGRAMS:

Special Olympics
 Description: Coach developmentally-delayed athletes in multiple sports at College of Marin:  soccer, volleyball, track, long distance running, swimming.
 Day(s) and Time(s): Coaching Saturday mornings; 10:00am-12:00am;
 Aerobics/dance Saturday 11:30-12:00; bowling Tuesday nights.
 Address:  College of Marin Gym, Kentfield.
 Contact: Frank. 924-4020

 Easter Seals Bowling
 Description: Bowl with disabled kids
 Day(s) and Time(s): Wednesdays after school
 Address:  Country Club Bowl, San Rafael
 Contact: (707) 584-1443
 

 Halleck Creek Riding Club
 Description: lead handicapped childrenand young adults riding gentle horses in Nicasio
 Day(s) and Time(s): Saturday: 8:00am-3:00pm
 Contact: Joyce Goldfield 663-1787
 

 InSpirit
 Description: Quadraplegics need your help with projects, chores, writing cards, etc.
 Day(s) and Time(s): Days and times vary
 Address:  Locations vary
 Contact: Aneice Taylor 488-0477

 OTHER PROGRAMS:

 Trips for Kids

 Description: Lead inner city youths on weekend Mt. Tam mountian bike trips and learn how to repair bikes with them
 Day(s) and Time(s): Days and times vary
 Contact: Marilyn at 458-2986. 

 Glide Memorial
 Description:  41 different programs--serve in soup kitchen, mentor kids,  teach computer, etc
 Location:  330 Ellis St. SFO
 Day(s) and Time(s):  7 days a week, times vary
 Contact: Marcia Doty 771-4014.

Have fun and support a good cause at the same time! When you participate in the Trips for Kids Benefit Festival you can ride your bike for up to 38 miles off road, spend a great day with friends old and new and raise money to help kids less fortunate. Join us for this epic ride on September 23, 2001. The ride will start and end at the Marin Headlands, covering the beautiful trails of Mount Tam. Form a team for even MORE FUN!
Email Corry at tfknatl@pacbell.net or call 415-458-2986 for more information!

Community Service Project Ideas

This list is taken primarily from The Bay Area Volunteer's Handbook. Please refer to the book for more information as to specific projects that can include your middle school child. This is not meant to be a complete list or an endorsement of any particular charity or organization. Please call the Volunteer Center of Marin at 479-5660 for a copy of the handbook or refer to the copy in the school library or your child's advisory for more information. Additional references regarding community service are also available in advisory classes and the Del Mar School library.

Get Food to Hungry People
Organize a food drive
Sort and pack food at the Marin Community Food Bank. Call 883-1302 for jobs throughout the year.
Mill Street Center is a forty bed multi-service center that needs cooking to be dropped off. Call 457-9651.
Work at a soup kitchen such as St. Vincent's de Paul (454-3303) or Glide Memorial (771-4014). There are more than 1500 soup kitchens in the Bay Area. Call the Marin Volunteer Center for additional suggestions at 479-5660.

Support Seniors
Marin Senior Coordinating Council: 456-9062. Help out at Sunday dinners at different centers for seniors. "Dinners" are at 12:30 PM. Help seniors with housework and yard work on special "work weeks" set up once a year or help with special projects throughout the year.
Golden Years Guest House: 454-0136. An assisted living facility for seniors. Visit with residents or do special projects for the holidays.
Love is the Answer (LITA): 472-5482. This program establishes group or one-to-one connections for the elderly living in residential nursing facilities. Minimum commitment is visiting once a week for a semester.
Visit or help at a retirement or nursing home by bringing flowers, drawings, dogs, providing entertainment, making holiday gifts, telling stories. The Redwoods Retirement Home in Mill Valley is nearby at 383-2741.

Fight Aids
Join the S.F. Aids Dance-A-Thon in March. Call 392-9255 for more info.
Prepare food for meals to people with HIV or AIDS. Project Open Hand is one of the largest Meals-on-Wheels programs in the country. Call them at 551-MEAL.
Meals of Marin also helps to provide nutritious meals to Aids patients: 457-4666. Marin Aids Project 457-2487.

Protect Our Environment
Clean up a creek or beach. Urban Creek Council can refer you to projects in your area: (510) 540-6669
Join a coastal clean-up. For dates and sites call: (800) COAST4U. For other ways to protect the coast call: Coastal Conservancy (510) 286-1015 or the Center for Marine Conservation at 381-6204.
Protect native habitats by doing trail maintenance. Pull out non-native plants, work in a native plant nursery and care for new plantings. Call the Habitat Hotline at the GGNRA 556-4353.
Care for Wildlife. Volunteer in a wildlife hospital. Call Wildcare in San Rafael at 456-SAVE.

Help Kids in Need
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Marin: 453-3800. Bowl for Kid's Sake is the main fundraiser for the program. It's usually held at the end of February or beginning of March. Put together a team (one captain and 5 bowlers): raise $80 worth of pledges and have fun bowling (game, shoes and food provided).
Canal Community Alliance 454-2640. Ongoing commitments for tutoring at Teen Center after school.
Draw Bridge: an art program for children at the San Rafael homeless shelter. Call Gloria for info @ 456-1269.
Trips for Kids 459-7637. Provides mountain bike outings, bike mechanics training and educational support for low-income youth. Two locations, both are bike shops. Donations of bicycles needed. Call for more info.

Housing & Homelessness
New Beginnings Center is a major program for the homeless at Hamilton Field. Drop off of meals, serving of meals and visiting with residents is needed. Call 507-4157 in advance.
Human Concern Center/Ritter House 457-8182. Provides free clothing, food pantry and counseling to Marin's economically disadvantaged. Call for wish lists and program info.
Christmas in April helps elderly and low-income people make repairs on their homes one day a year on the last Saturday in April 708-2366. Call far enough in advance to be scheduled to work on a Marin project.
Habitat for Humanity has a variety of building projects for low income citizens in Marin. Recent project was constructing a play structure at the Canal Child Care Center. Phone 453-5440 to learn of current projects.

Keep Our Community Healthy
Spend time with young patients or assist teachers in hospital schools. Call Marin General for more information.
Fight a deadly disease by raising money or joining an organized fund-raiser. American Diabetes Assoc., (800) 828-8293:  American Lung Association, (800) 586-4872:  National Multiple Sclerosis Society,(800) FIGHT-MS: American Cancer Society,(800) 227-2344:  Heart Assoc., (800) 242-8721: Breast Cancer Assoc., 243-9301.

Help Our Animal Friends
Humane Society 883-4621 ext. 258   In Defense of Animals 388-9641
Guide Dogs for the Blind- Volunteers needed to raise puppies 499-4000

Support Libraries and Literacy
Help with library book sales or join library outreach to get books to people who can't come into the library. Marin County Library: 499-7167
Marin Literacy Program 485-3106. Tutoring 1st through 8th grade students, in Canal Learning Center. 
Once a week commitment for 5 weeks needed.

Reach out to People with Disabilities
Work in Sports and Recreation Programs such as wheelchair basketball and wheel chair soccer. 
Call the Recreation Center for the Handicapped in San Francisco at 665-4100.
Help out at a Special Olympics event. Call the Corte Madera office at 924-4020.
 
 

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