Girl Scout Council of the CSRA
Graystone Ranch Wildlife
    Education Center
Golden Harvest Food Bank
Habitat for Humanity
Heartland Hospice
Help Can't Wait
Hope Soap
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Augusta Jud C. Hickey Center
Junior Achievement
LifeLink of Georgia
The Lydia Project
Make-A-Wish Foundation
MACH Academy
McBean Senior Center
Morris Museum of Art

National Science Center, Fort
   Discovery
Neighborhood Improvement Project Phinizy Swamp Nature Park
Regency Hospice
Ronald McDonald House
Safe Homes
Salvation Army
Salem Nursing and Rehab Center
Senior Citizens Council
Shepeard Community Blood Center
Shiloh Community Center
Spooky to be Hungry
St. Stephen's Ministry
United Way
Youth Challenge Academy (YCA)

Alzheimer's Association
Volunteers Needed
Office Support: stuffing envelopes, labeling flyers, stamping brochures
Event Support: memory walk, golf tournament, health fairs

Ambassadors Community Organization, Inc. (ACO)
Volunteers Needed
ACO is an inner city mission for "at risk" children, teenagers, and their parents. We are NOT another social agency. We hold children and parents accountible for their own actions. Club Excell after school- Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. 2:3-pm - 4:30pm Naomi Smalls Saturday Enrichment Club - Saturdays 11am - 1pm. Call 706-951-3708 for more info.

American Red Cross
Volunteers Needed
Front Office Support:
We can't respond to emergencies, teach life-saving skills, and develop stronger communities without the support of our Front Office volunteers! Support daily chapter operations with a variety of administrative tasks that may include front-desk reception, data entry, filing and other basic but critical tasks. Contact Lynn Reese at lreese@arcaug.org or call 706-724-8481.

Instructors:
If you are certified to teach First Aid, CPR or Babysitters training, contact dlariscy@arcaug.org

Augusta Canal
Join the Canal Volunteer Corps
Assist with school and group tours of the Interpretive Center of help with the Petersburg Boat Tours. Volunteers will receive special training appropriate to the roles.
Contact Rebecca Rogers at 706-823-0440 ext. 3 or Kelly Boyd at 706-823-7089.

Augusta Convention & Visitor's Bureau
The Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau is the hospitality arm of Augusta. The ACVB's goal is to promote Augusta as a visitor destination and to welcome those visitors with great Southern Hospitality when they arrive. Volunteers are instrumental in our efforts to promote Augusta as a visitor destination. By assisting ACVB staff with conference/convention registration, greeting guests, preparing informational packets for visiting groups, providing support for bulk mailing efforts and performing administrative duties our volunteers allow us to concentrate more aggressively on marketing the Augusta area. Volunteer opportunities are available in the following areas:

Administrative Assistance
Prepare visitor information materials for distribution to various groups of visitors including; meeting attendees, reunion attendees, wedding guests, and sporting events.

Visitor Services
Volunteers are needed at the Visitor Information Center inside the Augusta Museum of History to greet guests, distribute information, answer visitor questions, provide directions, and answer phones. Volunteers assist by filling in during staff meetings, lunch, outings and absences.

Welcome Booth and Registration
Often during conferences and special events the ACVB provides a Welcome Booth or Registration Table. Volunteers assist with registration and provide information about metro Augusta hotels, attractions and restaurants to visitors. Requirements: A positive attitude, an outstanding ability to work with people and a desire to learn! Volunteers working in Visitor Services or Welcome Booth/Registration should also have (or be willing to learn) general knowledge of Augusta's attractions, hotels and restaurants as well as locations or major streets.

To Apply: Please call Jennifer Bowen at the ACVB at 706.823.6600 for more information.

Augusta Museum of History
Volunteers Needed
Call 722-8454 for more information.

Museum Shop Attendant, Reception Desk Attendant, Membership Assistant, Museum Docent, Special Programs, Research Asistant, Collections Assistant.

Columbia County Library
Volunteer Opportunities available at the Columbia County Main Library. Location 720 N. Belair Rd. Evans, GA 30809. Contact Jessica Thompson at 706-863-1946 or via email: jthompson@columbiacountyga.gov . Volunteers are needed to fold brochures, make copies, help with various work room tasks, shelve books, and straightening and organizing out of order books.

Columbia Middle School
Mentors for Students
Commitment is 30 minutes per week to talk to the student, listen, advise, ask what’s on their mind. For more information call Andy 863-6148.

The CSRA Humane Society
The continued efforts of our volunteers and financial supporters have moved us from a small group of foster homes to the premiere limited admission, no-kill shelter in our community.There's always room for more volunteers who like to do data entry, assemble newsletters, wash and groom pets, cut the grass, paint murals, pick up donated supplies and just have fun making a difference in the lives of these terrific adoptable pets.

To volunteer, come to the Pet Center any Saturday between 10am - 4pm. Volunteers must be 18 years old or always accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Feathered Friends Forever Rescue
We operate the largest tropical parrot rescue in the nation here in appling, Ga. we have just purchased 8 new acres of land in Harlem Ga. and are in need of volunteers to help build the new location. this will be the most pristeen location in the nation open to the public 5 days a week. Visit http://featheredfriendsforever.org/

Georgia Golf Hall of Fame's Botanical Gardens
Special Event Volunteer for Georgia Golf Hall of Fame
Time Requirements: 2 to 4 hour shifts throughout the year, no more than 2 times per month

Required Skills:
May require some heavy lifting in some cases, ability to drive a golf car, a friendly demeanor, willingness to smile at and assist Gardens’ guests

Job Description:
This special breed of volunteer will be asked to assist with Garden-sponsored events, including many of the following activities: golf tournament and Back to School Bash, just to name a couple.

A committee of Special Event volunteers will be developed in which these volunteers will be included. The committee will brainstorm effective use of the Gardens for all events and will be asked to assist with registration, event setup, serving refreshments and many other duties during community activities the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame. To volunteer, contact Maureen Ruiz, Special Events and Education Manager at (706) 724-4443 or via email at mruiz@gghf.org.

Education Volunteer Instructors for Georgia Golf Hall of Fame
Time Requirements: 1-2 Tours per Month

Required Skills:
Volunteers choose the programs they will teach (7 are offered), with each requiring 2 hours of training and additional co-teaching.

Job Description:
Volunteer Instructors teach students grades kindergarten through 5th grade topics such as plant characteristics, insects and plants, composting, and tree math. To volunteer, contact Maureen Ruiz, Special Events and Education Manager via email at mruiz@gghf.org

Garden Docents for Augusta Golf & Gardens
Time Requirements: 1-2 Tours per Month depending upon season.

Required Skills:
You do not have to be a garden club member or Master Gardener to serve as a docent. Training will be provided.

Job Description:
Docents lead tours of the Gardens to groups of visitors throughout the year.

Girl Scouts, Central Savannah River Council
We need volunteers to serve as:

• Troop leaders and co-leaders
• Resource Volunteers to help with specific areas for the girls to earn badges. (computers, fishing, quilting, etc.)
• Adult trainers: certified to teach CPR, first aid or outdoor skills
• Chaperones and drivers
• Staff support, clerical, intern positions to help with mailing, correspondence and special events
• Summer camp/overnight and day camp support
• Property/facility construction and maintenance assistance to work at our camps and properties.

Call 774-0505 or 1-800-997-2472 for more information.

Graystone Ranch Wildlife Education Center

Graystone Ranch Wildlife Education Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to children, "our tomorrows" and environmental/wildlife conservation. We are a state and federally licensed rehabilitation center, sanctuary and preserve. Graystone Ranch is an ALL VOLUNTEER work force and we need YOUR help! We are a group of like-minded individuals who wish to improve our children's lives and our environment through animal education and awareness. You can be a part of our team! Please contact us if you enjoy children, nature and animals (from Aardvarks to Zebras - we do it all!). Please visit our website at www.graystoneranch.com

Golden Harvest Food Bank
Volunteer Needs
Product Rescue – Flexible, ongoing opportunities
This is the area where we sort and repackage donations, as well as put Homebound boxes and bags for the Backpack Program together. The Product Rescue warehouse – Faith Food Factory – is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 8:00-4:30 and Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00-8:00. Individuals and groups of all sizes are welcome during these times. We ask that volunteers stay at least 2 hours on the weekdays they do come.

Groups of 10-25 people can schedule a shift in Product Rescue on Saturdays. The morning shift is from 8:30-12:00 and the afternoon shift is from 1:00-4:00. It is recommended that you call 2-3 weeks ahead of time to schedule a Saturday.

The age limit for volunteers in Product Rescue is 13 without adult supervision, and 8 with adult supervision. This area is great for team building too!

Master’s Table Soup Kitchen – must be at least 15 to volunteer
The Master's Table is open 7 days a week, 365 days a year to serve lunch. Volunteer teams are needed to sponsor days and individuals are needed as fill-ins. Volunteers prepare and serve food for an average of 280 meals a day. The hours are 8:00am – 1:30pm. You may either help for a full shift or come from 8:00-11:00 or 11:00-1:30. (Lunch is served from 11:00-12:30.)

Kids Café – must be at least 16 to volunteer
Kids Café sites provide free prepared food as well as homework assistance to hungry children. Volunteers are needed to help with homework assistance, arts & crafts projects, mentoring, and other activities. Kids Café volunteers will need to work out a schedule with the coordinator. Help is also needed in monitoring these sites – training will be provided by Golden Harvest. We have several sites throughout our service area.

Agency Shopping Area – must be at least 18 to volunteer
At our main warehouse, we have a “shopping area” where our partner agencies come to stock up their food pantries, soup kitchens, and other feeding programs. We need people to help stock, organize, and help at the front desk various days of the week. The shopping area is open 8:00-3:30, Monday through Friday. This is a good opportunity to meet the people who are on the front lines serving the hungry in our area!
Special Events/Fundraisers
Volunteers needed to help plan and expedite periodic events throughout the year. Responsibilities and time commitments will vary according to the event.

For additional details about any of the above listed events, please call 706-736-1199

Habitat for Humanity
Habitat Coffee Fundraising Program
The Augusta CSRA Affiliate of Habitat for Humanity is enrolled in the Habitat Coffee Fundraising program. Visit www.habitatcoffee.com to learn about it. If your school, office, church or club would like to sell coffee for a habitat program, contact 481-8681.

Volunteers
Re-Store Volunteers needed to help sell used house hold goods and building material. Store hours are 9am-5pm Wed, Thur and Fri and 9am to 1pm on Saturday. Volunteers are also needed for building houses-on site work takes place most every Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday. Call 481-8681.

Heartland Hospice
Volunteers Needed
Do you have a couple of hours to spare during the week? A month? We at Heartland Hospice are seeking volunteers to help promote the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of our hospice patients and families. Training will be provided. Please contact Yvonne Stringer, Volunteer Coordinator 706-860-7374 or 877-860-7374.

Help Can't Wait
Volunteers Needed
Need 'Friendly Visitors' to visit one-on-one with residents in local Nursing Homes who have no family and no visitors.Commitment is one day a week at one location. Also we are starting a 'clothes closet' where we will take a small rack into a home and let residents 'shop' from it for nice clean used clothing. 706-729-8991

Hope Soap
Volunteers
Hope Soap needs volunteers:

1. To make occasional trips to businesses with Hope Soap collection boxes, to pick up the contents and bring them to our central storage area.

2. To help in our Sort and Pack assembly events, when we put together our personal care kits.

3. To deliver boxes of assembled care kits to various agencies around Augusta. Call 733-8142

Interfaith Hospitality Network of Augusta
Volunteers
Volunteer Drivers needed to drive guests to appointments,work, etc. during the day. Children's Guardian Angels are needed at the Children's Day Shelter to help with kids activities. Office Angels are needed to help with administrative duties. Interested Volunteers can contact IHNA at 364-4462.

Jud C. Hickey Center for Alzheimer's Care
Volunteers
Volunteers needed to help with music therapy, play piano, conduct church services.
Potential volunteers contact call: 706.738.5039 or email: jchcenter@knology.net

Junior Achievement
Mentor Volunteer
With you as their volunteer, students will see how their schoolwork relates to the real world, and how what they learn in school leads to future successes. You'll be surprised at how easy and rewarding your volunteer experience is! Each of the sessions contains one or two interactive activities. The classroom teacher provides the support and discipline. Junior Achievement provides training, lesson plans and the engaging classroom materials-all you need is your enthusiasm!
The time commitment per class is 45-55 minutes, plus preclass preparation and a one to two hour training session in advance of the class. It is also recommended that you set up a meeting with the teacher prior to entering the classroom to discuss the dynamics of the class. Usually, the classroom visits are over a 5012 week time period. You schedule your presentation days and times directly with your teacher-it's flexible. You can indicate a preference for Elementary, Middle or High School level.
Call Junior Achievement at 722-8345 for more information.

LifeLink of Georgia
Volunteers
LifeLink of Georgia is committed to educating the public about the need for organ donors. Pleasedonate your time to help save lives! Volunteers are needed to speak to community groups, pass out information at health fairs, and organize awareness-raising events. Potential volunteers include transplant recipients and their families, patients waiting for organ or tissue transplantation, donor families, or anyone interested in promoting organ and tissue donation. The Augusta Volunteer group meets on the third Tuesday of every month at the LifeLink offices, located at 2743 Perimeter Parkway, Building 100, Suite 120. For more information, contact Gloria Dossett at (706) 854-0333.ne or two

The Lydia Project

The Lydia Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization serving women that was begun by a group of Augusta businesswomen in 2003. The mission of The Lydia Project, Inc. is to provide tote bags to any woman undergoing cancer treatment. The tote bags are a symbolic and visual reminder of prayerful and spiritual support. Each tote is made by community volunteers who cut fabric, monogram, sew and distribute the totes to any woman facing cancer. After the totes are sewn they are filled with inspirational and practical items that have been donated by the Augusta community. Totes are distributed through our agency directly as well as through partnering hospitals, clinics, physician’s offices and churches. We have mailed totes as far away as Africa for those in need!

Areas of need: Office volunteers (Shifts vary, we are open from 9-3 M-F), Sewing tote bags (this can be done in your own home!), Creation of public relations materials, Staffing community events, Communicating with recipients and prayer team members Call for details: (706) 736-5467.

MACH Academy
MACH Academy, Inc. established in 1992, is a 501(c) 3 non-profit prevention and intervention organization that provides year round classes and camps in Computer Literacy, Tutoring and Academic Support, Social skills Development, Career Exploration, and Tennis/Fitness Instructtion. For more information contact 796-5046 or mparks37@comcast.net.

Executive Director: Betty Jones
Programs and services are provided at the May Park Community Center and Fleming Tennis Center in Augusta Georgia and at the Smith Hazel Community Center in Aiken South Carolina. All levels of tennis instruction and fitness activities are provided also.

VOLUNTEER
Volunteers are needed to assist with the after school and summer camp programs:

• Tutoring support
• Academics (math, reading, writing, science)
• Computer literacy (MS Word, PowerPoint, web page design, etc.)
• Tennis Instruction (beginners to advanced tournament level)
• Fitness Instruction (to include exercise and healthy eating)
• Staff Support (clerical, intern positions to assist with publicity, marketing efforts, data input, fund development activities, building community partnerships, and grant writing/research)

 

Make-A-Wish
WISH VOLUNTEER
The role of the Wish Volunteer is to make the dreams of our wish children come true through creativity and imagination. The Wish Volunteers visit the family and interview the wish child in groups of two. The objective is to determine the child's wish and explain our required paperwork. This position requires excellent people skills, sensitivity, and dependability. Wish Volunteers also work hard to get as many goods and services related to the wish donated.

BILINGUAL WISH VOLUNTEER
We are also in need of Bilingual Wish Volunteers. Volunteers who speak both English and Spanish are a great help to us as we continue to reach out to this portion of our community. [Los voluntarios(as) son el alma y corazón de la Fundación Make-A-Wish®. A través de su dedicación y creatividad se hace posible cada año que la Fundación Make-A-Wish conceda más y mejores deseos a niños con condiciones que amenazan sus vidas. Si quieres más información, puede visitar http://www.wish.org/espanol.]

FUND RAISING - SPECIAL PROJECTS
Volunteers are needed to participate on various Fund raising Committees as well as on the day of the events. Committee volunteers help secure sponsors and serve on various sub-committees (i.e., publicity committee, program committee, ad committee, etc.).

EXTERNAL FUNDRAISING
In addition to our in-house special events, the Foundation makes wishes come true through External Events that are coordinated by individuals or groups and benefit the Foundation. This volunteer opportunity allows you the autonomy of managing an event with the support of the Make-A-Wish staff. External events are planned at community clubs, places of employment, or through peer groups and are licensed by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Each event provides an opportunity for our volunteers to have a great time while making a much-needed contribution of time and effort on behalf of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

OFFICE SUPPORT
In this capacity, volunteers assist with all the workings of the office during normal business hours. The support would include word processing, data input, special projects, answering phones, bulk mailings, etc. Working in the office allows the volunteers to become involved in every aspect of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, as well as get to know our staff and Board of Directors. We do ask that our office volunteers choose consistent time that they will volunteer.

COMMUNICATIONS
We are always looking for volunteers with a knack for writing, public speaking and graphic design to participate on our Newsletter and Speakers Bureau Committee. Our Newsletter Committee assists with writing articles, designing the layout and typesetting the magazine for printing. The members of the Wish Ambassador Program are trained to speak on behalf of the Foundation at External Fundraising Events, combined Federal Campaign Kick-Offs, and other requested speaking events.

GROUP VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Larger groups can also play an important role in the Make-A-Wish Foundation's mission. Groups can form teams to help raise funds, gather in-kind donations and become wish volunteers. The teams work together in groups of 6-10 people. Each person involved is required to go through all the mandatory training, which can be completed on site at the group's regular meeting place, employer location or corporate headquarters.

Groups may even get involved by hosting toy drives to benefit our wish children. Any time we visit a wish child, one of our wish volunteers takes an initial "icebreaker" gift. We are constantly in need of toys to refill our stock of these gifts. Please contact sneal@wish.org if your group is interested in hosting a toy drive.

McBean Senior Center
Volunteers
Meals on Wheels delivery volunteers needed.

Morris Museum of Art
Volunteer at the Morris Museum of Art: One of America's most significant cultural attractions can be found in Augusta, Georgia, at the Morris Museum of Art, the first museum in the country devoted to the art and artists of the South. The Morris Museum of Art needs its members to provide volunteer service in the galleries, at events, and in the office. If you would like to contribute your time and talent, we would like to hear from you! If one of the following volunteer positions is of interest, please complete the questionnaire and return it to the museum.

Docent
Learn to guide tours and help museum visitors to understand and appreciate the art of the American South. Work thirty-six hours per year at the museum for a minimum two-year period. Extensive training program provided.

Education Office Assistant
Provide tour scheduling support and administrative assistance to the education department by mailing tour confirmations to scheduled tour groups, preparing bulk mailings, and assisting with other office work. Minimum of two hours per week.

Family Program Assistant
Assist with the Artrageous Sunday program the first Sunday of each month, greeting guests as they arrive and serving as a teaching assistant for the guest artist during the workshop. Work three hours the first Sunday of each month.

Greeter
Greet and provide information to visitors and help make the museum a warm and hospitable place to visit. Work one Sunday afternoon per month.

Intern
Learn about the museum profession by working directly with museum staff. Work a minimum of ninety hours during an academic semester. Must be enrolled in college or have recently completed an undergraduate degree.

Library Assistant
Assure ready access to information about the museum's art and artists by filing materials, shelving books and magazines, clipping newspaper articles about art and artists, or working on special projects. Work three hours a week. Library experience and knowledge of art history preferred.

Literary Competition Committee Member
Assist the education staff in administering a student literary competition. Work hours begin late February and finish in early May.

Membership Outreach Assistant
Help inform the public of the many programs offered at the museum and of the benefits of membership by staffing membership booths at different art events and museum programs. Work three to five hours a month.

Museum Secretary Assistant
Assist administrative staff in keeping the museum's mailing databases up-to-date, ensuring that more people receive the museum's news and announcements. Work three hours a week. Computer literacy required.

Office of External Affairs Assistant
Help to identify sources of financial support for the museum by researching grant and gift opportunities at foundations and corporations; sponsorship identification and cultivation; and membership development. Work three to five hours per work. Basic computer skills helpful.

Programs Advisory Panel Member
Help to assure continued high-quality public programs through service on ad-hoc advisory review panels, which will meet one to four times per year. Previous participation in museum public program efforts required.

School Outreach Coordinator
Promote the museum and its programs to schools and other educational groups by scheduling and
delivering short presentations that tell about the museum, its mission, and its programs. Work twice a month for one year. Some audio/ visual training provided.

Speakers Bureau Coordinator
Promote the museum and its programs to community groups and service clubs by scheduling and
delivering short presentations that tell about the museum, its mission, and its programs. Work two to three hours per week. Some audio/visual training provided.

Teen Advisor
Learn more about art and museums as you plan events for your peers. Attend weekly planning meetings and teen events at the museum during the school year.

Neighborhood Improvement Project
Nursing assistants, clerical helpers (must be proficient in Word), community health education assistants, hospitality greeters, lawn care.

National Science Center, Fort Discovery
Contact Kathy Thibault- 706-821-0609 or thibaultk@nscdiscovery.org . We need help in cleaning up the garage, or the outside grounds on Riverwalk. Maybe you just enjoy being inside talking to folks from the
area or around the world. Call for more info on other opportunities or go to our
web site http://www.nscdiscovery.org.


Phinizy Swamp Nature Park
Volunteers Needed
Volunteers needed to man our brand new Visitor's Center! You can sit behind a desk in the air conditioned Center and enjoy a relaxing and scenic view as you welcome visitors to the Park! Duties include greeting visitors, handing out literature, and selling merchandise. Shifts needed include Thursday or Friday 1-5 PM

Other ongoing volunteer needs include volunteer educator for student field trips, loan box courier to deliver supplies to schools, park maintenance volunteer, and photography volunteer.
Call 828-2109 to offer your services.

Regency Hospice
Volunteers needed
Regency Hospice is seeking volunteers in the Augusta area. Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Kimberly Brown at (706) 868-4422, for further information on training.

Do you have a few hours a month available for helping others? Do you like to meet people? You may want to think about helping patients and families as a hospice volunteer with flexible Schedule, variety, (from social contact for the patient and caregiver, childcare, providing Spiritual support, running errands, assistance with meals and office assistance as requested).

Free comprehensive training is available and no medical background is needed. By visiting an assigned patient regularly, you give a much-needed break to a caregiver, a gift Of listening and compassion, and a gift of support and assistance. You also get the satisfaction Of knowing, you are making a difference and feel needed and valued.

Ronald McDonald House
Office Assistants: Clerical duties, answering phones, replenishing supplies
Housekeeping Assistants: All types of cleaning projects for our guest home!
General repairs: Handymen/women needed for minor construction/painting projects.
Pop-Tab Collectors: Pull tabs from aluminum cans and collect them in a container, then deliver them to the Ronald McDonald house. These tabs are recycled and funds raised help with needed items for families.
Wish List Volunteers: Work on collecting needed items such as new linens, cleaning supplies, office supplies, etc.
Meal Volunteers: Love to cook? Treat the visiting families to a home cooked meal! Most meal volunteers participate once a month.
Outdoor helpers: Have a green thumb? help with flower beds, shrubs and trees.
   Volunteer candidates are encouraged to call 724-5901 for more information

Safe Homes
Put your hands to good use! Volunteers play a vital role in making sure that we can continue to provide services to those in need. There are numerous positions available. Please call Stephanie Morris, Volunteer Coordinator at 706-736-2499.

Salem Nursing and Rehab Center
Volunteers Needed
Church groups, storytellers, carolers, group to perform Christmas play.

Senior Citizens Council
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program: Are you looking for a fun and exciting way to make a difference in the community? RSVP offers persons age 55 or older an opportunity to apply their skills and experience to meet critical community needs. RSVP pairs talented volunteers with their choice of a variety of non-profit, health care, governmental, and faith-based organizations. Volunteer benefits include expense and transportation reimbursement, excess medical, liability, and life insurance while in service, and a variety of benefits from volunteer organizations.

Through the Foster Grandparent Program and Senior Companion Program, limited-income persons age 60 and older are needed to serve as extended family members to children and youth with special needs or provide assistance and friendship to adults who have difficulty with daily living tasks and are at-risk for nursing home placement. Foster Grandparents and Senior Companions serve from 15-40 hours a week. In return for their service, they receive a stipend of $2.65 an hour, accident, liability, and life insurance while on duty, an annual physical exam, smocks to be worn in service, reimbursement for transportation, meals each workday, volunteer recognition events, and paid training, holidays, medical leave, and vacation.

For more information about these programs, please contact either Marilyn Grau or Sheryl Silva at The Senior Citizens Council, 218 Oak Street North, Suite L, Augusta, Georgia 30907. Telephone: 706-826-4480. Fax: 706-826-4515. E-mail: mgrau@seniorcitizenscouncil.org or ssilva@seniorcitizenscouncil.org

Salvation Army
Help can be used at our Thrift Stores, which are located at:
1507 North Leg
Augusta, GA 30909
(706) 733-3219 (Call before coming)
Open 9:00am-6:00pm Mon.–Sat.
Volunteer orientation Tuesdays at 1:00pm

1803 Knox Ave.
North Augusta, SC 29841
(803) 441-8290
Open 9:00am – 5:00pm Mon.-Sat.
Volunteer orientation Tuesdays at 10:00am

910 Augusta Hwy.
Thomson, GA 30824
(706) 595-9283
Open 9:00am-5:00pm Mon.-Sat.
Volunteer orientation Tuesdays at 1:00pm

Volunteers are needed to help sort and tag donations, test all electronic donations to make sure they are operable, stock items on the sales floor, keep sales floor organized, as well as many other duties. Even if you can only volunteer for 2-3 hours on a regular basis, that will be a big help! Volunteers need to be at least 16, unless accompanied by an adult. Very little lifting is required; however you will be on your feet most of the time.

The Salvation Army in Augusta, serving Richmond, Columbia, Aiken, Lincoln, McDuffie, Warren, Glascock, Burke and Jefferson counties, provides food, toys and support services to more than 17,000 individuals and 3,600 families just during the holiday season. Throughout 2006, over 82,000 meals were served through our soup kitchen, and over 28,000 nights lodging were provided in our family, single women, and men’s shelters, with an average of 14 children each night! The money made in our Thrift Stores goes directly to these programs! Please call your local store to see how YOU can help!

For more information about other volunteer opportunities at The Salvation Army call 706-826-7933 ext. 128 or visit us on the web at www.salvationarmyaugusta.org.

Shepeard Community Blood Center
Shepeard Community Blood Center is looking for special people like yourself. Please consider sharing your time and talents with us. Your unique touch can make a difference!

Opportunities range from greeting and registering donors, serving refreshments in the donor canteen, conducting educational presentations at area schools, assisting our collection staff at area blood drives and on mobiles, transporting blood from and to our twelve area hospitals in eleven counties. We provide blood products for patients in Aiken Regional Medical Centers, University Hospital, Doctors Hospital (including the Burn Unit), St. Joseph Hospital, Barnwell County Hospital, Edgefield County Hospital, Burke County Hospital, Wills Memorial Hospital, McDuffie Regional Medical Center, Jenkins County Hospital, Washington County Regional Medical Center, and Jefferson Hospital in Louisville

How would you like to help with community news research, as a volunteer speaker, to provide refreshments to donors, to assist with posters, bulk mail, and thank you letters?

We promise that you will feel good about what you do. You are helping to provide a life saving gift-blood!

Shiloh Comprehensive Community Center
Volunteers
Volunteers needed for publicity, maintenance and computer assistance.

Spooky to be Hungry
Volunteers
It's Spooky To Be Hungry needs volunteers:

1. To help bring Spooky to their neighborhood, school, faith community, business or civic organization. If you are willing to get your neighborhood or group involved, we will give you all the support you need to make your Spooky collection fun and successful.

2. To help us with the administrative needs of this very large effort. Join the all-volunteer Spooky staff, helping support our project.

Please contact us at 733-8142 or www.spookytobehungry.org.

St. Stephen's Ministry
Needed: an electrician to run 2 or 3 outlet receptacles, repair the outlet plug for a stove, extend wiring for over head lighting on a drop ceiling, check some non-functioning switches and outlets and repair a carriage light on our front poach. Also, a roofer to repair a small area on our roof over the food pantry. 706-722-7092

United Way
Volunteers
Volunteers needed to participate in the citizens review process which includes visiting partner agency programs and making funding recommendations. Contact: Brooke Howell, Community Impact Director Unitied Way of the CSRA, (706) 724-5544 bhowell@uwcsra.org.

Youth Challenge Academy (YCA) at Ft. Gordon
Tutors
Lt. Col. (ret) Janet Zimmerman directs this tough, no nonsense facility for Georgia's "at risk" young men and women. This "alternative school" focuses on four disciplines: Military, Academic, Life Skills and Work Skills. YCA news people like you and me to help as tutors ONE NIGHT PER WEEK in one of the following areas of study: math, science, reading/literature or social studies. The time commitment is only two hours per week and auto mileage is fully tax deductible. Would you consider inquiring further by contacting Lt. Col. Zimmerman at 791-1297.