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CB Cares’ Days of Service Program offers three distinct
days of service during the course of the year which prompt community
members to develop and support various volunteer service projects. We
kick off the year with CB Cares’ annual Martin Luther King Day of
Service- a moving opening ceremony engages area choirs, youth performers
and various community members as we honor the compassionate spirit of
Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King Day of Service remains our largest
community-wide volunteer service project event.
YEAR-ROUND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Click here - MARTIN LUTHER KING
DAY OF SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
Gilda's Club of Delaware Valley
A Women's Place
Pearl S. Buck International
Doylestown Hospital
Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc. and Women’s Recovery Community Center
Vita Education Services
Habitat For Humanity
Bucks County Housing Group
Meals on Wheels
Ann Silverman Community Health Clinic
Twilight Wish Foundation
Heritage Towers Retirement Community
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County
Peace Valley Nature Center
Special Equestrians
Gilda’s Club of Delaware Valley
Contact: Bunny Boyle or Darlene Furey
200 Kirk Road, Warminster, PA 18974
215-441-3290 x114
sandy@gildasclubdelcval.org
www.gildasclubdelval.org
Mission: Gilda’s Club is a cancer support community for anyone affected by cancer. We are not-for-profit and free of charge. Gilda’s club provides support groups, workshops and lectures in a home like environment.
Volunteer Opportunities: Needs include general office support, reception and work in ‘Noogieland’ our program for children and teens.
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A Women's Place
Contact: Mary Sonke
P.O. Box 299, Doylestown, PA 18901
215-343-9241 x112
msonke@awomansplace.org
www.awomansplace.org
Mission: A Woman’s Place is a social change organization dedicated to ending intimate and familial violence through empowerment and advocacy, support and director services, as well as community education. We work to change institutions, systems and individual practices that condone and perpetuate violence and abuse.
Volunteer Opportunities: Volunteers play an integral role in all of the work we do. Volunteer support is needed in the operation of our thrift store, to answer our free and private hotline, lead support groups, accompany clients to court, assist in organizing agency events, work in our administrative building and teenage volunteers are needed to baby-sit children staying in the shelter.
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Pearl S. Buck International
Contact: Terri Mandic
215-249-0100 x113
Contact: Brenda Hoot
215-249-0100 x149
520 Dublin Rd, Sellersville, PA 18960
tmandice@pearlsbuck.org
www.psbi.org
Mission: Pearl S. Buck International has three distinct functions that operate as one with the common mission of continuing the legacy and dreams of Pearl S. Buck- her commitment to improving the values and attributes of other cultures, the injustice of prejudice, and the need for humanitarianism throughout the world. Specifically the mission of Pearl S. Buck International is illustrated in its work in the areas of: adoption advocacy, health and education advocacy, and development of cross-cultural appreciation
Volunteer Opportunities: Include tour guide/docent, conducting guided tours of the National Historic Landmark home of Pearl S. Buck; Gardening Aide, providing assistance with maintaining award-winning gardens as well as office support and gift shop attendant.
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Doylestown Hospital
Contact: Karen Langley
215-345-2204
klangley@dh.org
www.dh.org
Mission: To provide a responsive healing environment for patients and improve the quality of life for all members of our community.
Volunteer Opportunities: Over 50 areas of volunteer service which include patent and non-patient contact such as snack bar, gift shop, patient transport, information desk and many others.
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Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. and Women’s Recovery Community Center
Contact: Beth Elliott
215-489-6120 x4
belliott@bccadd.org
Mission: Our mission is to reduce the impact of addiction and related health issues on individuals, families and the entire community through prevention, intervention and recovery support services.
Volunteer Opportunities: Recovery coaches, life skills and special topic workshop facilitators, community event volunteers, cub reporters to write newsworthy stories, meditation and reflection garden design team.
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Vita Education Services
Contact: Judy Schaeffer, PR Coordinator
215-345-8322 x106
info@vitaeducation.org
www.vitaeducation.org
Mission: To provide free education programs to Bucks County Adults in the community and the Correctional Facilities that will enable them to become self-determining and self- sustaining.
Volunteer Opportunities: Literacy Tutor, English as a Second Language Tutor, Personal Decision Making Tutor. All tutors work with adults. No teaching or foreign language experience needed.
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Habitat For Humanity
Contact: Lynnda Coleman
31 Oak Avenue, Suite 100, Chalfont, 18914
215-822-2812 X302
L.Coleman@habitatbucks.org
Mission: To build affordable homes, better lives, stronger families, and safer communities through partnerships with people and organizations throughout Bucks County.
Volunteer Opportunities: At Habitat Bucks, volunteers build homes, work in the office or in our ReStore, plan special events, raise funds and spread the word about Habitat. From seniors to youth and from every skill set, volunteers learn valuable job and life skills. They have the ability to unite with others to improve their community and make a difference in the lives of people within it. Volunteering also creates a unique sense of pride, self-achievement and camaraderie.
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Bucks County Housing Group
Contact: Kate Bianchini
P.O. Box 151, Fountainville, PA 18923
215-345-1492
kbianchini@bchg.org
Mission: The Bucks County Housing Group is a private non-profit social service agency that provides a wide range of housing and related social services to homelss and low-income families. Its primary goal is to assist families attain housing and self-sufficiency.
Volunteer Opportunities: Assist with Monday night craft night, youth counselor, food pantry volunteers, yard clean up, transportation/rides for families, help families move, food drives, cleaning supplies and baby supplies drives. Need summer volunteers to read to kids.
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Meals on Wheels
Contact: Mary Danziz
252 Belmont Ave., Doylestown, PA 18901
215-345-6065
Mission: To provide nutritious meals and other nutrition services to men and womendividuals they serve and often postpone early institutionalization.
Volunteer Opportunities: We need 24 volunteers everyday, Monday through Friday, to assist in the preparation and delivery of meals to homebound seniors. A commitment to help once or twice a month is all that is needed to help carry out our mission. Current volunteers include at-home moms and dads, retirees, and working men and women with the flexibility to arrange their schedules.
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Ann Silverman Community Health Clinic
Contact: Peggy Dator
595 West State Street, Doylestown, PA 18901
215-345-2260
pdator@dh.org
Mission: To provide free medical care, dental care and social services for low-income uninsured and underinsured residents of the greater Central Bucks area.
Volunteer Opportunities: Receptionist, clerical, filing, licensed nurses, doctors, dentists, dental hygienists, social workers, bilingual English-Spanish interpreters (we will train). Note: volunteers must be available to volunteer a minimum of two hours at least twice a month.
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Twilight Wish Foundation
Contact:
P. O. Box 1042
215-230-8777
www.twilightwish.org
Mission: We honor and enrich the lives of deserving elders through wish granting celebrations connecting generations.
Volunteer Opportunities: Office Help-2-3 hours weekly, willing to file, database entry, answer the phone. Keeping Twilight Wish clean-looking for someone to clean the office bi-weekly or weekly: dusting, vacuum and sweep the floors, clean the kitchenette and bathroom. Represent Twilight Wish: attend Expos, Events and Fairs on specific dates. Talk to the public on what TWF is about and what TWF does. Wish Committee Meeting: 2nd Thursday of every month at 7pm. Business Development Committee meeting: 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:30pm. Will need to attend an hour orientation.
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Heritage Towers Retirement Community
Contact: Lori Campbell
200 Veterans Lane, Doylestown, PA 18901
267-895-1184
asnyder@wel.org
Mission: To make a compelling difference in thelives of our clients and residents through providing excellence and innovation in aging services.
Volunteer Opportunities: Activities Assistant: Playing games, assisting in crafts, playing music. Lunch/Dinner Escort: Escort residents to their meals. Great way to get to know residents. Games Volunteer: work directly with residents in playing of various games, ring seated basketball, bingo, bean bag toss, etc….
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County
Contact: Barb Connors
2875 York Road, Jamison, PA 18929
215-343-8260 x109
conners@bbbsbc.org
www.bbs.org/buckscounty
Mission: BBBS provides quality volunteer and profressional services primarily through mentoring and leadership development, to make a positive difference to Bucks County youth enabling them to achieve their highest potential as they grow to become responsible adults.
Volunteer Opportunities: We have several different types of volunteer programs.
1.We match adult volunteers to children between the ages of 4 –17 years old in a one-to-one mentoring relationship in a variety of programs. We ask a mentor to spend at least once a month with a child doing a variety of activities in the community.
2. The school based program matches corporate mentors with a student referred by the school who are deemed at-risk of academic failure, social difficulty, and in need of a positive role model. Students and mentors meet in the school building during the academic school year.
3.The High School Bigs program pairs high school students with elementary schools students in an after school program.
4. The Bridge program matches volunteers with children who have a family member or close relative who is incarcerated.
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Peace Valley Nature Center
Contact: Mary Jo Lisewski
215-345-7860
Volunteer Opportunities: Receptionist/storekeeper; indoor help-story time leader, library assistant, store displays, mailing preparation; outside work-trailkeepers, gardeners; community events representative; teacher/naturalist trainee; fundraising events; summer assistants.
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Special Equestrians
Contact: Anne Reynolds
215-918-1001 x104
annereynolds@verizon.net
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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 MLK DAY OPPORTUNITIES
Opening Ceremony
All are welcome!
Promptly 9:00 am at the First Baptist Church,
311 W State Street, Doylestown.
We urge everyone to begin the day with this ceremony celebrating the life and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Please bring a canned good or breafast item to help our local food pantries.
This site will be updated as we receive volunteer opportunities in the community.
Pre-registration is required.
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Please contact team leader directly for more information about project:
Temple JudeaThe morning will provide all ages the opportunity to participate in a variety of service projects. Dinners will be assembled for Aid for Friends and volunteers are asked to bring either a prepared side dish or entrée for the project. Granola bars, oatmeal packets, juice boxes/bags, tea bags and coffee will be greatly appreciated and put to good use. This site and project is perfect for all ages. Contact: Shari Wohl at 215.918.2744.
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Paul’s Lutheran Church
Help assemble Breakfast Bags and create inspiring greeting cards for our elderly and frail neighbors. A wonderful intergenerational service project, ideal for students in 1st - 5th grades! We ask each person/group participating in our project to bring one (or more) food items with them. -
Items needed:
Instant oatmeal or cream of wheat (boxes of single-serving packets)
Granola bars
Juice boxes
Single-serving cereal boxes
Single-serving coffee packs
Package of single serving fruit cups
Gallon ziploc bags
Space is limited so register early. For further information and to register contact Rose Foltz at stpaulsmlkday@gmail.com.
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Neshaminy Manor Inter-generational Game Time
Calling all young game board enthusiasts! We need to play your favorite game board with the residents of Neshaminy Manor. This intergenerational service project is a great way for you to get to know some of the elderly in our community. For more information and sign up contact Laura Tomlinson 215.345.3205 or lltomlinson@co.bucks.pa.us.
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Jack and Jill of America and Central Bucks Christian Fellowship
Join the Bucks County Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., in partnership with the Central Bucks Christian Fellowship to celebrate the life and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will be coming together to prepare and package meals for the sick and shut-in across greater Philadelphia for an organization called “Aid For Friends”. Each attendee will be asked to bring a food donation. We are currently accepting 40 additional volunteers. Please contact Jill Jones @ bjandjill@aol.com for more information and/or to register for this event.
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Second Baptist Church
The Bucks County Chapter of The Links Incorporated will join in partnership with Delaware Valley College, Second Baptist Church of Doylestown and Cradles to Crayons to commemorate Dr. King's Legacy of Service, January 16, 2012. Leading up to the Day of Service, we will be collecting children’s clothing, school supplies, books, hygiene supplies, and baby items. If you have donations, please bring them to Second Baptist Church of Doylestown, 6055 Swamp Rd., Fountainville, PA 18923 on any Sunday through January 15th from 9 AM to 2 PM. These items will be organized, packed and delivered to Cradles to Crayons in Conshohocken, PA.
Cradles to Crayons (C2C) is an innovative nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide children from birth to preteen living in low income and homeless situations the basic essentials, such as clothing, books, hygiene supplies, and baby items free of charge. Please join us on Monday, January 16, 2012 at Second Baptist Church of Doylestown, 6055 Swamp Rd., Fountainville, PA 18923 to organize, pack and deliver the boxes of donated items. For more information, please contact Zelda Davis-Jones at zeldadavisjones@yahoo.com or Patricia Louison at plouison@gmail.com.
Pleasant Ridge Church of Danboro
Calling all animal lovers of any age! Come join us as we make toys and homemade treats for kittens who are waiting to be adopted at the bucks County SPCA. If you are able, please bring along donations of cat food and cat litter to be donated as well. We'll meet at the Pleasant Ridge Church of Danboro at 4877 Bergstrom Road (at the corner of Point Pleasant Pike). Contact Dawn Alpaugh at 908-310-0698 or dawnalpaugh@embarqmail.com
Bucks County Free Library
Help keep the Dewey Decimal system dust- free at the Doylestown branch of the Free Library. Volunteers are needed to help do a mid-winter spruce up for this annual service project. Contact: Roberta Yakovich at 215.348.9081 ext. 1240 or yakovich@buckslib.org.
New Life Christian Center
The New Life Christian Center of Jamison invites families to collect food for snack bags for homeless people in Philadelphia. Items needed are miniature cereal boxes, granola bars, juice boxes, boxes of raisins, puddng and fruit cups, cracker packs, gallon/quart size Ziploc plastic bags, plastic spoons, and hand wipe packets. For more information contact Andrew Columbia at 215-491-0945 or nlccoffice@verizon.net.
Animal Lifeline
Please join us in building feral cat houses! Animal Lifeline will assist us in creating safe structures for those cats who have yet to be spayed or neutered.These cat shelters will keep them safe from the elements and allow us to take care of their needs as financial donors provide surgery costs.All ages are welcome as there will be various stages of building; but we do ask that parents assist small children. Please contact Kelly Corby at 267-218-0784 or TreeHuggingTrio@Yahoo.com for more information Location TBA shortly.
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Gayman Elementary
At Gayman Elementary, students will be participating in several projects on the Martin Luther King Day of Service that will benefit both the local community and Philadelphia. They will be assembling snack bags for the Bucks County Housing Group's Doylestown Shelter, painting new trail signs for Special Equestrians in Warminster, collecting, sorting and packing books for PHILADELPHIA READS Children's book bank, and assembling Jared boxes for children with Cancer at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia This event is open to Gayman students and their families only.
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Doylestown United Methodist Church
Doylestown United Methodist Church on Swamp Road would like to offer these activities and projects presented after the morning celebration.
- Breakfast Bags for Men's Mission of Philadelphia
- "I Have A Dream" - Girl scouts will listen to speech and then do a sewing project for the homeless of local area. (little sewing required)
- Aid for Friends - Soup making (bring you favorite soup item)
- Aid for Friends - prepare meals (cooking, chopping and serving required) offered from 12:30 - 2:30 pm.
- Kits for boys and girls in Haiti. Items collected and organized.
Please contact Morgan @ morgan.pickands@gmail.com or call 484-744-6519 for more information or to registar.
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Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel will be having a variety of projects to help those in need. The projects will include no sew fleece blankets and activity bags for St Christopher's hospital and washcare kits for the homeless in Philadelphia. Open to children 5th grade and up. Space is limited. Activities will begin after the CB Cares morning ceremony in the OLMC school cafeteria. Contact Jeanne Reiche at JMReiche@yahoo.com
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Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
Brightly decorated Blizzard Boxes will be filled with
donated nonperishable items and emergency information. The boxes will be delivered to housebound neighbors in the community. Please bring pantry items such as canned goods, powdered milk, raisins, hot cocoa, batteries and flashlights. This service project is for all ages especially young families. Contact Scott Lowe at scottlowe57@gmail.com
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Central Bucks Family YMCA Teen Center
Join us as we work in conjunction with the Bucks County Housing Group to create personal care bags for those in our community who my find themselves in need. This is a great opportunity for not only students but for anyone who wants to give back and make a difference. Lunch will be served for all volunteers. To join us go to www.cbfymca.org (register on-line) and search MLK or contact rmauer@cbfymca.org for more info.
Plumsteadville Grange
Nothing says lovin' like something from the oven...Volunteers will come with prepared cookie dough or "oven ready" cookies on sheets ready for the oven. Contact Annette Crooke at 215.345.1276. Maximum volunteer capacity: 30 - ideal for families
To be announced
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Opportunities! To be announced
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