April 21-27, 2013 is National Volunteer Week! We are celebrating service all week and especially saying thank you to all the East Bay volunteers for making tremendous impact! If you’d like to know more about how to become a volunteer, start your search here!
Time to celebrate Earth this April!
March 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In honor of Earth Day, there are many ways to help and give back. There are various special events and ongoing ways to give support and celebrate spring and Earth Day. Your search starts here or contact us for finding what it right for you, your family, corporate group, church group, students, and others who want to help.
Lead with Experience
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program is a free member service association for people 55 years and over. We connect senior volunteers to hundreds of volunteer opportunities at a diverse group of local non-profits and agencies that serve our community. Like to know more? Click here
Resolve to give back in 2013
January 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Pledging to be more active?
Why not burn calories through volunteerism? Restoring native animal habitats, or sorting donated food, or other volunteer time could trim your waistline and help our communities.
Start here
NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE 1/21/13
January 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
National Day of Service,or King Day, or MLK Day, or whichever name you like for Jan 21, 2013 – please check out the Volunteer Center of the East Bay’s website – start here -for ways to celebrate the day through service!
January 21, 2013 will mark the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday. This milestone is a perfect opportunity for Americans to honor Dr. King’s legacy through service. The MLK Day of Service empowers individuals, strengthens communities, bridges barriers, creates solutions to social problems, and moves us closer to Dr. King’s vision of a beloved community.
Volunteer for the Holidays
December 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Every year, the Volunteer Center provides online resources that highlight opportunities to volunteer, give gifts, or sponsor a family during the holidays. Links to holiday-related volunteer and giving opportunities are highlighted here during the fall season.
Donate Now
December 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On behalf of the 600 nonprofits and thousands of volunteers The Volunteer Center matched this year, we invite you to make a donation to our good work. Your contribution helps us to make the essential connections between people like you, who care about your community, volunteers who seek to serve, and nonprofits that deliver critical services.
Since 1956, we have been making this valued connection—serving volunteers and nonprofits alike.
Nonprofits need the Volunteer Center to connect them with volunteers seeking a way to contribute.
Volunteers need the Volunteer Center to provide an easy and efficient way to find the right opportunity to serve.
Your donation helps to improve the lives of East Bay community members in a tangible way with volunteers who help to feed the hungry, teach at-risk children to read, provide care to seniors and more.
Share the Spirit
November 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Volunteer Center also co-sponsors the Share the Spirit Fund with the Bay Area News Group – East Bay which includes our long-standing partner the Contra Costa Times, and the Oakland Tribune, Alameda Times Star, The Argus (Fremont) and Daily Review (Hayward). Contributions to the campaign benefit nonprofit organizations in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. Proceeds from the fund support children, adults and families in need during the holidays. To donate to Share the Spirit: use this link https://volunteer.truist.com/vccc/donate/ or mail check to: Share the Spirit, PO Box 5498, Walnut Creek, CA 94596.
Holiday Volunteering Opportunities
November 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Every year, the Volunteer Center provides online resources that highlight opportunities to volunteer, give gifts, or sponsor a family during the holidays. Links to holiday-related volunteer and giving opportunities are highlighted here during the fall season.
Week of Caring
September 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Thank you so much to all the volunteers for outstanding participation in 2012 Week of Caring!
Over 170 projects were tackled by several thousand volunteers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties
Check out our Facebook page for photos of many volunteers hard at work, and please share yours!
