WPCNR Westchester County Clarion-Ledger. September 25, 2006: The Volunteer Center is offering an information-packed Youth Volunteer Guidebook that describes youth volunteer opportunities and profiles youth volunteers who are donating their time and talent to a wide variety of nonprofit agencies throughout Westchester and Putnam. It can be downloaded at the Volunteer Center website at http://www.volunteer-center.org.
The Guide Book, which was published by the Center through a New York Life Foundation grant, lists and describes over 300 volunteer opportunities for young people under the age of 18 with a wide variety of service agencies. It contains volunteer job descriptions, age parameters, hours and times volunteers are needed, and contact information.
The many volunteer opportunities that can be found in the Guidebook range from tutoring a disadvantaged child to teaching computer skills to a senior; from leading a museum tour to designing a website; from saving endangered animals to a family project fostering a Guiding Eyes dog and from serving in a soup kitchen to painting a homeless shelter.
Copies of the 2006 Youth Volunteer Guide are available at local libraries as well as middle schools and high schools. Call 914-948-4452 for further information. The 70-page Youth Guide may be downloaded from The Volunteer Center’s home page at www.volunteer-center.org.
The Volunteer Center, in a strategic alliance with United Way, has served as a clearinghouse for volunteers in Westchester and Putnam since 1949. It engages more than 4000 volunteers at 550 nonprofit agencies annually. Through a variety of programs and services, the Center encourages people from all walks of life -- businesses, nonprofits, schools, families, seniors and youth -- to volunteer and help deliver solutions that address community needs.
