The Alameda County chapter of the Sewa Diwali Food Drive collected over 4,200 pounds of food for local organizations. Source: East Bay volunteers collect thousands of pounds of food for those in need
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Fill the box: Amityville program helps homeless for the holidays
Volunteers and supplies are desperately needed for the program, which supplies homeless people at nine Long Island shelters with shoeboxes full of donated hygiene products, along with socks, candy and other gifts. Jadyn Wilcox knows comfort can be found in a box. So the 17-year-old made sure to fill the shoeboxes to the brim one recent evening as she…
Packing fresh paint and new trees, army of volunteers descends on SLC apartment complexes
The Home Depot Foundation and Housing Authority of Salt Lake City have partnered for more than decade to improve community spaces in housing facilities across Utah’s capital. Two permanent supportive housing facilities in Salt Lake City got a face-lift Wednesday, thanks to efforts from hundreds of volunteers. The Home Depot Foundation teamed up with the Housing Authority of…
Volunteers the heart of Food for Seniors
On the third Friday of each month, a Southwest Louisiana business or a group of Sulphur officials volunteer at the Sulphur Senior Center. “These volunteers commit to two-and-a-half hours once a year,” said Tommy Little. “Companies bring a team of five or six, load the food boxes and then serve the seniors who have qualified…
Volunteers clean 800 veterans’ headstones on a mission to remember N.J.’s fallen soldiers
The group has six more cemeteries to visit, including an event on Veterans Day. Ron Haselman and his grandchildren spent their Sunday morning at a cemetery cleaning the headstone of a veteran who was buried hundreds of years ago, attempting to make out the name carved into the aging marker. The plot is estimated to…
Couple gets engaged at St. Jude after meeting as volunteers
MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Jordon Watson met Kelly Quiroz at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “This is where I met her. This is where I found fondness for her, this is where I really grew to love her and wanted to ask her out,” said Watson. So naturally, Watson got down on one knee asking Quiroz to…
‘You made him smile’: Volunteer retirees share time, talent with community
Meet the Norfolk County RSVP volunteers who helped seniors during COVID and beyond in this week’s A Good Age column. DEDHAM – Why is it some retired people “take” to volunteering? “Everyone who does this has a reason why; they get something personal out of it,” Cris Goldsmith, volunteer coordinator for the Norfolk County RSVP, said last week. In…