Opportunity Details

Join MDA and Cleveland Firefighters in our annual Golf Tournament on Friday, September 13th at Chatata Valley Golf Club. We'll be welcoming companies from around Cleveland and the Middle and East Tennessee areas for a day of sun, fun, golf and raising dollars that fund much-needed MDA clinics, create Summer Camp experiences for kids, and provide research into many muscle diseases.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Registration booth and clean-up	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is now in our 7th year of partnership with The Golf Warehouse (TGW). This year, we plan to have 38 teams join us (152 golfers) on Thursday, September 13 at Crestview Country Club in Wichita, KS. Golfers play 18 holes, receive lunch and dinner, an exceptional goodie bag and have the opportunity to play for incredible prizes. Golfers also get to have fun with raffle ticket prizes and bidding on tons of silent auction items. There are many ways to volunteer for this top-notch event so we hope you'll join us for not just a fun event, but also an event that is raising money to benefit MDA research and other services!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Registration volunteers	no limit	n/a	n/a
Evening activities volunteers	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Volunteer with the Unicorn Centers' Day Activity Program for an afternoon of Bingo. Volunteers are needed to call Bingo and assist clients in checking their Bingo Cards. Have fun helping the Unicorn Clients recognize their letters and numbers. Volunteers will also have the opportunity to help decorate for the Day Activities Program's Black and White Masquerade Ball taking place on Friday, August 17, 2018

The Unicorn Centers’ Day Activity program provides our customers with an active, vibrant day program. Our team works closely with our clients - adults with ID (intellectual disabilities - formerly mental retardation) to be included in a community-based environment where we help them learn, improve and retain the life skills that are necessary to live and participate successfully in home and community life.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Stimulating Art Appreciation while Empowering Caregivers to Love People in Creative and Transformative Ways...

Our commitment is to transform the quality of life for seniors, the infirm, and people with end of life issues while generating a renaissance in art appreciation. We are making great strides in amassing an army of volunteers EAGER to visit and share great art and what art provides - mind, body, and soul - to people at the grassroots!

For Love & Art's mission is to remain viable and sustainable to bring the Art Experience to those with limited mobility.

In partnership with the community outreach programs of twenty great world-class museums, we bring their collections and share "the Art Experience" with folks who don't get around much anymore. In this engagement, fear, loneliness, and boredom transform into beauty, joy and magic of life. It's quite a triumph for the caregiver, whether a hospice volunteer, activity professional, or family member, to love on people using Monet, Cassatt, and Goya and open up conversations that get to the heart of what matters to people most.

We are seeking qualified volunteers who would be willing to visit senior facilities and similar venues and help us facilitate this conversation.

One doesn't have to know about art so much as to stimulate thinking and encourage people to share their experience - their thoughts, their feelings, their memories. It is in this sharing, after all, that the magic happens. People get to reclaim beauty and youth and celebrate life itself. And the presenters are at least as smitten as the viewers. All souls are enriched.

We visit a number of Senior Living Communities and VA Medical Centers to share the Art Experience!

CURRENT PARTNER MUSEUMS INCLUDE:
1. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
2. Art Institute of Chicago
3. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
4. The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
5. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK
6. Dallas Museum of Art
7. The Frick Collection, New York City
8. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
9. Israel Museum, Jerusalem
10. J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Santa Monica
11. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
12. Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
13. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
14. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
15. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
16. National Gallery, London
17. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
18. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
19. The Philadelphia Museum of Art
20. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
21. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
22. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
23. Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, TX
24. State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

As frequent visitors know, we enjoy interviewing people with whom we’ve just shared the Art Experience. Imagine my surprise when Patricia said she wished she could record her sentiments, as she was wanting to speak straight from the heart. Luckily, I had my iPhone with me and was able to capture her sentiments about For Love & Art. What follows is her treasured tribute.

Patricia’s Story

“Today is December the 4th, 2014. My name is Patricia, and my husband, Frank, is a resident here at Ashford Hall. He’s been here since July 3rd. And today, I would have already been out here and already left, but because I have just been dealing with so much depression and stress in my life, I got a very late start. Anyway, I got up and got around and got my shower, and came on out to see Daddy, my husband Frank.

As I was coming in, Mr. Mark was leaving the room. He had been in to visit my husband’s roommate, and I conversed with him for a minute. He could see that I was troubled and asked me what was wrong. I told him that I had been so distraught at home, crying, and just really feeling bad. I told him that I didn’t know if I was having a pity party…I just didn’t know.

He said he had just the thing pulled out this wonderful book with museums in it. He said we were going to Mrs. Walton’s museum in Arkansas and in a flash we were there. Such a beautiful museum!

We spend the next hour looking at sheer beauty. We saw big, black bears and little girls all dolled up and clowns with Japanese lanterns. My favorite one was also my husband’s favorite–he said that he loved the great outdoors and could smell the fresh air just looking at it. We spent quite a while looking at this one….

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As my husband and I were looking over the portraits and the paintings, I had the most calming effect come over me – a real soothing effect – and made me feel that I had God right here in this room with me. And I know that today it was meant for me to postpone my coming at a later time so so that I could meet Mark. What he provided was just what I was needing for the day, and he has blessed me and my husband today in a great, great way and I thank you for this opportunity to show my gratitude for what you have done.”

Visionary philosopher, Roger Scruton, posits that “Beauty is the revelation of God in the here and now.” Stories like Patricia’s validate Mr. Scruton’s hypothesis. Indeed, when one celebrates the Art Experience, one knocks on Heaven’s Door.

We want to take a minute to once again thank our partner museums, our volunteers, our donors, our recipient healthcare facilities, advisors, kindred spirits and well-wishers for their participation in For Love & Art. Without your participation, our project would simply not be possible. Please consider making a contribution to allow our good work to continue into the New Year.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Each year, the Nassau Suffolk Autism Society has a fundraiser at the Outback Steakhouse in Merrick, NY. This event is to raise money for free social and recreational events for individuals with autism. 100% of the money raised stays in our local community.
It is a really fun outdoor event. We need help setting up raffles, selling raffles, checking people in, putting on bracelets, etc.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

LINC works to connect our highly vulnerable and long-term homeless residents to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing.

Volunteers will register participants and direct them to the appropriate services.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

This our largest fundraising opportunity to assist members of our local chapter who seek to improve their quality of life. Our organization provides financial support for our members to participation in our State and National Conventions where they receive knowledge and empowerment; we advocate on local, state, and national levels for the rights of people who are blind; and we provide local peer support. We also support other organizations in the Tallahassee area such as food to Second Harvest; the Christmas Connection helping families in need; and the Veterans Stand Down.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

This is one of the most important opportunities to really give back to the community. Help setup tents, chairs, booths, trash cans, signs, and then help take it all down.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Setup AM	10	n/a	n/a
Teardown Evening	12	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Volunteers will manage children in and out of Bounce House. Also assist with children at carnival area and scavenger hunt and other Kid Zone projects. Two hour shifts starting at 10:00 a.m.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Morning Shift	4	n/a	n/a
Afternoon Shift	5	n/a	n/a
Late Afternoon Shift	4	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Artist Registration Attendant: Volunteers will assist in greeting food vendors and artisans arriving to the festival, directing them to their booth space and assisting them in their booth set up. During the event, attendants check in with the artists to see if they need assistance. Two hours shifts starting at 6:30 a.m.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Early Morning Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Morning Shift	6	n/a	n/a
Day Shift	4	n/a	n/a
Afternoon Shift	4	n/a	n/a
Late Afternoon Shift	6	n/a	n/a