Opportunity Details

Children's literacy program that runs every Wednesday, 11am-1pm, June 27-August 29, 2018 at Canalside. Families and day care centers come to hear stories and do various activities.

EPIC’s Family Storytime Literacy program is for families (parents and children) focused on developing literacy skills, incorporating lessons based on universally accepted teaching methods into a number of themed interactive experiences.

The overriding objectives of this program are to increase:

Oral language skills by expanding phonemic awareness through listening activities and the ability to produce comparable sounds
Pre-emergent reading skills by predicting story outcomes
Print awareness
Attention span

In addition to the literacy component, EPIC selects themes so the children are learning and experiencing special life lessons during the Storytime events.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
EPIC Storytime - Week 2	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

EPIC is hosting a special community day for the residents of Buffalo's west side. There will be resource tables, arts and crafts, Storytime for the kids, a visit from Buster Bison and the Buffalo Zoomobile. There will also be a car seat safety check in which we will be replacing car seats as needed and teaching parents the right way to install and use them. The event will take place inside and outside at Rich Products.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
EPIC West Side Community Day	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

EPIC helped to organize a community health, wellness, safety fair at South Park Community School. We will need help staffing a resource table, conducting a Storytime for the kids and registering parents who are taking our car seat safety class.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
South Park Community School Safety Fair	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Children's literacy program that runs every Wednesday, 11am-1pm, June 27-August 29, 2018 at Canalside. Families and day care centers come to hear stories and do various activities.

EPIC’s Family Storytime Literacy program is for families (parents and children) focused on developing literacy skills, incorporating lessons based on universally accepted teaching methods into a number of themed interactive experiences.

The overriding objectives of this program are to increase:

Oral language skills by expanding phonemic awareness through listening activities and the ability to produce comparable sounds
Pre-emergent reading skills by predicting story outcomes
Print awareness
Attention span

In addition to the literacy component, EPIC selects themes so the children are learning and experiencing special life lessons during the Storytime events.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Storytime - June 27	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

CFNC is a nonprofit preschool that provides free early education to under-resourced children. A huge part of our program is having classrooms in the communities that we serve. Two of our classrooms are in an Alexandria recreation center, who uses those locations for their own summer programming. We are looking for help moving out our classroom furniture in June 2023! Interested in helping us out? Contact Karli Raggio at kraggio@cfnc-online.org.

Opportunity Details

The Juneteenth Celebration is designed to heighten awareness of the process leading to the complete freedom of slaves and particularly the arrival of General Gordon Grainger and his Union Troops in Galveston Texas on June 19th 1865. It was not until then that news that the war was over and slaves were indeed free reached all segments of our country. Communities of color have celebrated this date with excitement and joyful fellowship and activities ever since. In fact most major metropolitan areas of our nation have civic celebrations of the event every year on or near June 19th.

Our celebration will be held Saturday, June 16th from 11am – 2pm @ West End Park. It will consist of a cookout including a fish fry, games, music, and a spirited atmosphere. This event is free to the public. Our annual laptop presentation will be awarded to the graduating minority senior with the greatest GPA.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Set-up	5	n/a	n/a
Event time	5	n/a	n/a
Tear-down/Clean-up	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Withers Collection is desirous of a volunteer informed about setting up internal server connectivity for computers, printers, and Access databases. We are in the second phase of our digitization of the negatives and artifacts of the Withers Collection Archive, comprised of prints and fiber-based silver gelatin negatives. Our 2018-2019 goal is to locate and implement a digital asset management system that will track image locator and meta data information for easy retrieval my the museum staff and our licensing customers.

Opportunity Details

Roll and Read Literacy Event for LCSD preschool field trips and families in Lamar County with children birth to 5.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a
General 2	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

"With our love for children, Bryant Rotary Club has created this annual fundraiser. We give $5,000 to the Imagination Library, $5,000 to the Boys & Girls Club, and $5,000 to our Kids Closet. It is a THRILL to watch 5,000 rubber ducks race down the river!

Local Non-Profits will be set up in the gamezone. It is a fun day for the whole family!
Duck adoptions are $5.00. adopting a duck qualifies you for one of the top 10 prizes. We give away a CAR to the winner of the race! Watch our page for exciting news about the 2018 Race on May 5th!"

**As one of the beneficiaries of the Rubber Duck Derby, Imagination Library of Saline County runs a booth in the games zone and needs volunteers to help set up and run the booth.**

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

The “Hankey Hop” is a 50s themed family event that will include food, games and entertainment with over 500 people expected in attendance. We will also be having our scholastic book fair at the same time. We are looking for volunteers to support this event by manning concession booths, supervising kids on inflatables, helping sell and distribute tickets, provide extra eyes and support at the book fair and help with set up and break down. Proceeds from the Hankey Hop will go to support the many PTSA sponsored activities such as primary music, art masters, and field trips. Proceeds from the book fair will go to support scholastic materials in the classroom and supplement our library with new books. We will provide all volunteers with food and appreciate any help you can provide!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Carnival/Book Fair Help	no limit	n/a	n/a