Organize the Warehouse! for Furniture Sharehouse

Start: 9:30 am End: 11:30 am

Description: Dress warmly as you help this community resource spruce up its warehouse and find out how it helps our neighbors in need.
Family-Friendly for Volunteers 16+

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Sort and Package Donated Clothing with Pass it on Kid’s Kloset
Start:  10 am End: 12:30 pm
Description: This organization packs up a week’s worth of clothes to give to needy children in our communities.
Family-Friendly for Volunteers 12+
Project Full2-1-1 Disaster Volunteer Training with United Way of Westchester and Putnam
Monday 1/20 Start: 9:30 am End: 11:30 am
Description: Be ready to volunteer in case of emergency with this training.
Click here for more information and to registerMLK Workshop with the Saturday Academy of White Plains Youth Bureau

Start: 10 am End: Noon

Description: Share the meaning of MLK with these young people who take part in a Saturday educational enrichment program.
Family-Friendly for Volunteers 15+

Project Full

Create Care Kits with the YMCA in White Plains

Start: 11 am End: 12:30 pm

Description: Create care kits of toiletries for people in homeless shelters.
Family-Friendly for Volunteers 5 years+

Project Full

Put your heart into Valentine’s Day Cards with the YMCA in White Plains

Start: 10 am End: Noon

Description: To be delivered to a local children’s hospital or senior center, warm your heart (and theirs!) with Valentine’s Day Cards.

Family-Friendly for Volunteers

Project Full

Packaging Care Kits with the YWCA in White Plains

Start: 10 am End: Noon

Project FULL

ReStore a Warehouse with Ulster County Habitat for Humanity

Start: 9 am End: 4 pm

Description: Volunteers such as carpenters or lightly-skilled home improvement and warehouse workers are needed to work in a warehouse setting.

Click here for more information and to registerServe Together on MLK Day with UlsterCorps, Red Cross, FAMILY and The Volunteer Center of United Way
Monday 1/20 Sessions throughout the day Start: 9 am End: 3 pm
Description: The best volunteers are trained volunteers prepared to hit the ground running, and this training provides the background for local volunteers to serve at critical times.
Family-Friendly training for volunteers ages 6+
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Shelter Welcome Bags for My Sisters’ Place

Start: 11 am End: 1 pm

Description: Volunteers will collect full-sized toiletry items prior to 1/18, when we’ll pack the bags.

Family-Friendly Project for volunteers ages 14+

Project Full

Canned Soup Drive with Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry

Start: 3:30 pm End: 5 pm

Description: Donate canned goods at the food pantry.  Here is a poster you can use to ask for donations at your office, school, etc.
Family-friendly for volunteers of all ages

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Visit with Seniors! for My Second Home with FSW

Start: 10:30 am End: Noon

Description: Bingo, arts and crafts, singing and other activities with seniors.

Family-Friendly Project for volunteers 12+

Project Full

Start: Noon End: 3:30 pm

Description: Professional and amateur electricians and all-purpose fix-it people are needed to repair furniture, small appliances and housewares.

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Food Drive for HOPE Community Services

Monday 1/13 – Friday 1/17 between 10 am to 4 pm every day

Description: Donate much-need canned food to the food pantry.

Family-Friendly Project for volunteers of all ages

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Sort Donated Food for HOPE Community Services

Start: 10 am End: Noon

Description: Help sort the donations that will be distributed to the homeless and people in need.

Project Full

Volunteer for Habitat Newburgh 

Monday 1/20 Start: 8 am End: 12:45 pm

Description: Help out at one of several sites in Orange County.

Click here for more information and to register

Create Clay Tiles with Clay Art Center

Start: Noon End: 2 pm

Description: Beautify this nonprofit’s facilities with local artists by creating ceramic tiles.

Family-Friendly for Volunteers 8+

Project FullCreate I Have a Dream Collages with The Carver Center
Project Full

Package Clothes for Kids with The Sharing Shelf of FSW

Start: 10 am End: 1 pm

Description: To serve the needs of area children, this organization distributes new and gently used clothing.

Family-Friendly for Volunteers 12+

Project Full

Post-Sandy Clean Up with Rye Nature Center

Start: 10 am End: 1 pm

Description: The effects of Sandy are still being felt.  Help get rid of excess debris as well as free areas of invasive vines.

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Visiting with Seniors at Somers Manor

Start: 2 pm End: 4 pm

Description: All ages welcome to play games and get to know the senior residents of this nursing home.

Family-Friendly for Volunteers of All Ages

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Packaging Care Kits with Rockland Interfaith Breakfast Program

Start: 10:30 am End: Noon

Description: Help put together lunches for those served by this program and take a tour of the facility.
Family-Friendly for Volunteers 5+

Project Full

Help Assess Our Community’s Health with Worldwide Community First Responders, Inc.

Start: 1 pm End: 4 pm

Description: This local organization plans an annual health fair and needs local input on how to best meet the needs of the people it serves.
Family-Friendly Project for volunteers 10+

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Baking Friendship Cookies with The Institutes of Applied Human Dynamics (IAHD)

Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm

Description: Bake cookies for disabled individuals and share the message of Martin Luther King Jr.

Project Full

Create “I Have A Dream” Mobiles with The Institutes of Applied Human Dynamics (IAHD)

Start: 10 am End: 12:30 pm

Description: Help disabled individuals create mobiles inspired by the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Family-Friendly for Volunteers 14+

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Get the Science Barge Ready for Winter with Groundwork Hudson Valley

Start: Noon End: 4 pm

Description: Ready the Science Barge for winter with a good cleaning.

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Create I Have A Dream Collage with Yonkers Public Library

Start: 1:30 pm End: 2:30 pm

Description: Share the message of MLK with your kids and gather to discuss what his “I Have a Dream Speech” means to you and your family.  Create a lasting memory with a collage.
Family-Friendly for volunteers 6+

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Create I Have A Dream Collage with Yonkers Public Library

Start: 3 pm End: 4 pm

Description:Share the message of MLK with your kids and gather to discuss what his “I Have a Dream Speech” means to you and your family.  Create a lasting memory with a collage.
Family-Friendly for volunteers 6+

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Health & Fitness Fun Day Volunteer with YWCA Yonkers

Start: 8:30 am End 12:30 pm

Description: Improve the quality of life of children by volunteering at this fair where kids will learn about healthy eating, benefits of physical activity and physical fitness.
Family-Friendly for volunteers 16+

Project Full