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Children living in poverty need encouragement and support. By writing a letter to a child in a Children International community, you can let them know someone cares and is wishing them well. This can be incredibly motivating as they work for a brighter, more hopeful future.

Send the digital letter here: children.org/write-a-child

Note: If you want to facilitate a group volunteer activity, please reach out to us at partnerships@children.org.

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The Floating Classroom is an innovative tool of the AMIkids Marine Education program designed to inspire our youth to get involved in the outdoors and become better stewards of the environment around them.

The Floating Classroom is a half-day boat excursion on board "Orlando's Rose," a vessel designed to conduct marine education and research activities and donated by Bill and Carol Barrows.

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium educators power the educational component by providing lectures and environmental interpretation onboard. Different topics include biodiversity, the watershed, local ecosystems, marine food chains, the ecological services provided by mangroves and estuaries, conservation, biofact learning, water quality, and basic seamanship concepts.

The floating classroom curriculum is heavily experiential and relies on field activities such as identifying different organisms and collecting specimen samples in the waterways around the greater Tampa area. Other activities of the floating classroom include field sampling, plankton collection and identification, scientific tool use, wildlife observation, marine debris collection, citizen science projects, and group discussions.

The Floating Classroom is also an opportunity for AMIkids to share its calling to empower young people facing uncertain futures to become
confident, successful adults by cultivating business and community partnerships through team building, stewardship, and volunteerism.

Volunteers will need to bring / wear:
Water activities-friendly clothing (be prepared to wade in the water to about waist level)
Sun protection (Hats, Sunscreen, and sunglasses)
Consider bringing a change of clothes and a towel
Signed AMIkids release of liability

The volunteer role at the event:

The job of a Floating Classroom volunteer is to help with logistics and help motivate participants through positive and uplifting interactions.

We expect volunteers to arrive before the participants. The lead will direct you to preparation tasks such as preparing life jackets and water shoes, drinks, and helping set up the lunch area.

Once the participants are on-site, they will receive a briefing. At this point, your role as a volunteer involves handing out water shoes, ensuring everyone is signed in, ensuring youth wear sunscreen, have water shoes, wear shorts, store their non-essential items in lockers, write their names on water bottles, etc. Your lead will direct you to the tasks that will have the most impact.

While onboard Orlando's Rose, your role is to engage with the participants in positive mentoring ways, to keep a constant safety watch, and to help direct youth towards the educators when a lecture is ongoing.

At some point, we will get off the boat for field sampling. During this activity, your role is to partner and spend time with youth while dip-netting and ensure everyone is in approved areas (not on the mangroves, stay within sight of lifeguards)

When the boat docks and everyone is getting off, we will need you to ensure the water shoes go in the rinse bucket, help rinse and store water shoes, clean up the water activities locker, and pack the floating classroom supplies for storage.

We will provide lunch for everyone. Please let us know if there are any allergies or restrictions, and ensure you plan to share time and eat with the participants.

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Our Outdoor Learning Centre always has a need for work towards its upkeep and improvement. This can range from weeding, planting, cutting, redeveloping areas, clearing stream channels and building things such as planting beds. We're looking for groups of volunteers who are keen to volunteer with us and do some fundraising. We do operate other sites and can be flexible as to where you go depending on convenience and need.

There are always plenty of jobs to do and on the day we'll put forward ideas and let people organise themselves into groups based on what they want to do and then show them how to use any tools involved. Then you can crack on with helping in your team with someone at hand if you need any help.

Our ideal volunteer just needs to be enthusiastic and happy to spend the day outdoors with their colleagues. Anyone with a keen interest in gardening, DIY or woodworking will be able to put their skills to good use.

By volunteering here you are able to help limit the amount of funds that need to be spent on the upkeep and development of this site, allowing for more of our funds to go towards delivery of our Outdoor Learning work. Time outdoors has proven benefits for the negative symptoms of Autism and ADHD as well as increasing engagement with learning and recontextualising learning, hence our focus on getting more young people engaged with nature. Overall you will support our work utilising this site to help young people across Hampshire engage in learning and achieve better futures.

Volunteers should bring comfortable shoes, a water bottle, sun cream and lunch. We provide gardening gloves and any tools that might be needed but if anyone wants to bring their own then they're welcome to do so.

The Outdoor Learning Centre is roughly a 15 minute walk from Eastleigh train station. There is parking available directly opposite this site at 'The Hub', which is free for two hours and after that is paid for.

We have toilets on site and a volunteer hut with water and tea/coffee making facilities.

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This holiday season, we are embarking on our Angel Tree program, a cherished initiative close to our hearts. It's a time when we come together as a community to bring joy and warmth to children in need. We are also hosting a Christmas Party for the registered families.

Angel Tree Sponsorship:
If you or anyone you know is interested in becoming an Angel Tree Sponsor, they can find more information and sign up through this https://signup.com/go/JzZtBYy. It's a wonderful opportunity for families, friends, and colleagues to directly contribute to putting smiles on faces.

Volunteer Opportunities:
For those interested in volunteering: You can sign up to volunteer through https://www.cognitoforms.com/STORM20/AngelTreeChristmasPartyVolunteers . Your time and enthusiasm are invaluable in making our Angel Tree Christmas Party a memorable event.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	30	n/a	n/a

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Antelope Valley youth are in desperate need of caring adults like YOU!

Be A Mentor is partnering with Lost Angels Children's Project to support struggling youth. This is an in-person volunteer mentoring program. You will spend time with your mentee in the community exploring goals, talking about issues, and learning how to support their needs.

1 on 1 mentoring gives students more opportunities for success regardless of their background. It’s especially important for youth who may not have consistent adults in their lives to connect with.

All mentors must be 21 or over and are required to complete a background check. Must have a driver's license and a reliable vehicle. And our mentoring coordinator will be available for support throughout the program. We ask that you commit to at least 2-hours per week for a one calendar year. Consistency is important to build trust between you and your mentee.

We welcome everyone with an interest in mentoring to sign up!

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With a commitment of just 2 hours a week, you can help a child thrive. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto (BBBST) is seeking volunteers for our 1:1 community-based program. Here, we intentionally match a Little (age 7-16) with a Big (age 18+) based on mutual experiences and shared interests. We request a minimum volunteer commitment of 1 year from our mentors, but the transformative impact on our Littles can last a lifetime. Our mentoring services help foster confidence and resilience in youth as well as a desire to stay in school, avoid risky behaviors and give back to the local community.

BBBST is also seeking volunteers for our Big G Mentoring program, which partners youth with individuals age 55+ to create a meaningful, intergenerational relationship. Please contact us to learn more.

Our professional staff is there to work with you, the child and their family throughout the course of the mentorship relationship to provide necessary training and support. We are grateful for your eagerness to be involved with BBBST and while it is certainly not a requirement, we welcome you to also become a donor – as you volunteer or wait to be matched.

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BTL is a California-based Non-profit 501(c)(3) humanitarian organization that has helped sponsor underprivileged children with Heart Surgeries. Our mission is to ensure that every child with congenital heart disease has access to the necessary medical care to live a healthy and happy life.

Since 2015 we have helped sponsor 125+ Heart surgeries for underprivileged children with the help of generous donors who believe in this cause. Bloom To Life has tied up with the best hospitals and top Pediatric Cardiology surgeons in India to do these heart surgeries.

Almost 1.4 million children are born worldwide yearly with Congenital heart defects or CHD. In India alone, 250K children with CHD die yearly due to lack of access to care. It costs around $3,000 per child for pediatric heart surgery in India. Currently, we have 200+ children waiting for urgent heart surgeries with a total funding requirement of $600,000. We can impact these children's lives during Giving Tuesday and other season-giving programs at your company.

Pediatric cardiac heart surgeries are incredibly complex and carry a much higher risk than any other operation. Most children who undergo treatment for heart defects during early life lead healthy and productive lives, going to university, finding employment, getting married, and having children of their own, thereby contributing to the well-being of their families and society. Timely detection and treatment are the critical determinants of outcomes in these children, and funding is often the main roadblock in this process.

Our Medical Advisory Board consists of Eminent doctors from India, Columbia University, University of Washington, Stanford Children's Hospital, UCSF, Oregon Health and Science University.

In Bloom To Life, we believe we are privileged to see a child's life transformed and make a difference in the families. This service opportunity truly blesses us.

4mins Video Explaining the Cause -
https://youtu.be/rYgfVv2Uw8w?si=0kqLc4cVLTRgjjP0

We would like to have volunteers to create CHD awareness and apply for grants with organizations to raise funds to help save the children in need of Heart surgeries.

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We are tasked at rallying support to help with leaf removal cleanup of the grounds of a New Jersey camp for Blind Children in Rockaway NJ (Morris County)

We can provide leaf blowers. We just need community members to provide a couple to few hours of their time to help clear away leaves! October 21st from 9am to 12PM in collaboration with some local community service clubs with students

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Do you love the idea of helping children?
Do you believe all children deserve to be championed?
Do you value making an immediate impact in Haiti and in Canada?

Then we - and this opportunity to advocate for our children in Haiti - is for you!

Key to our sustainability success is our student sponsorship program. Individuals and organizations that contribute a minimum gift amount each year are eligible to be matched with one of our students. These special donors are provided a photo update of their student three times during the school year, Fall, Winter, and Spring. Updated photos and profiles of each student are obtained from our school personnel in Haiti.

Your Tasks
- Maintain our current list of sponsors and the details of their student match
- Obtain updated photos and student information from our personnel in Haiti, in preparation for sending sponsor updates
- Creatively craft and send updates for sponsors for the Fall, Winter, and Spring updates using MailChimp

You Are
- Comfortable using web-based platforms; familiar with MailChimp or similar cloud-based marketing software
- Able to work with visual software mediums like Adobe Photoshop, Ribbet, and/or Canva
- Solid written communication skills; able to communicate effectively and write compelling as the updates are a means for our donors to connect with our work in Haiti
- Willing to work in a remote team setting and meet deadlines

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Christian Family Services is hosting our 12th annual trivia night on Saturday night, November 11th, 2023 at 5 pm. We are raising money to support those clients in our care whether it is our adoption program, pregnancy support, foster care, transitional housing, or counseling. We never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. We have been around since 1973, so this is our 50th year of service! None of our social work programs make money. They lose money. We need your help and support. The more money we have, the more people we serve. Many have no one, be their someone.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a