Learning Later, Living Greater: Lifelong Learning through Community Service links

COMMUNITY SERVICE LINKS

"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them." - Ellis Peters

Find a list of Volunteer Centers by State at - www.pointsoflight.org/centers/find_center.cfm

Civic Ventures - A San Francisco based national organization that creates ideas and invents programs to help society achieve the greatest return on experience. Their web site is full of valuable information, links to volunteer opportunities, and many other resources.

CitizenCorps - This web site has information about Citizen Corps and its programs to engage Americans in specific homeland security efforts in communities throughout the country.

Learn and Serve America - Their site offers information about the program and resources for educators and others involved in developing and managing service -learning projects.

Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) - SCORE is a 13,000 -member volunteer association sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). To locate the SCORE office nearest you, call 1 -800 -634 -0245 or contact your nearest SBA office.

Volunteers in Parks (VIP) - Older adults with an interest in history and the great outdoors can volunteer their time with the National Park Service's Volunteers in Parks or VIP program. Additional information on the VIP program is available from local parks or the National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington D.C. 20013 -7127.

Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) - Literacy Volunteers (LVA) is a fully integrated national network of local, state and regional literacy providers that give adults and their families the opportunity to acquire skills to be effective in their roles as members of their families, communities and workplaces. Their web site contains a U.S. map that allows you to click on your state to find out what volunteer options are available.

Americorps - Information about AmeriCorps and its service programs in which volunteers tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after -school programs, and help communities respond to disasters.

To locate the Volunteer Center in your community, check the telephone book under:

Volunteer Center,
Voluntary Action Center,
Volunteer Bureau, or
United Way. (Volunteer Centers are sometimes part of the local United Way, many of whom maintain extensive volunteer opportunities databases.) or call 1-800-595-4448.

Also try:

Senior Community Service Employment Program - In virtually every county in the country, you can find it in your phone book or through your local Department of Aging.

The United Way - There is a United Way in every state, listed in the phone book or on the Internet. Each state agency maintains a long list of volunteer options.

The United Way also maintains Volunteer Solutions, an online volunteer matching tool that is managed by the local centers. Typing in your zip code will begin your search.