Good Morning Prince William -Fall Jubilee is just around the corner on October 5th! Historic Manassas needs 10-12 volunteers age 18+, 6:45am-10am, to help direct the many vendors who will be supporting the event. Please sign up at: https://form.jotform.com/91404243843150. Contact Melissa at melissa@historicmanassasinc.org for more information.
- SERVE has an urgent need for volunteer Food Assistance Specialists age 16+ in their food warehouse on Thursday afternoons, 1pm-3pm. Tasks include prepare food packages, welcome/assist clients, check out clients, stock shelves, etc. Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds. Spanish speaking is a plus. It's a small but mighty team of volunteers relieving hunger in the community! Please contact Navara at: ncannon@nvfs.org for more information.
- Keep Prince William Beautiful's next event will be the Litter Survey, re-scheduled for Sept. 25 or 26 (depending on which day gets more volunteers), 8:30am-12pm. Volunteers age 18+ are needed to fill out paperwork, noting how much trash is seen while being driven around the county. Training provided; lunch is provided afterwards. Please email Nicole at: njackson@kpwb.org to register and learn more.
- Keep Prince William Beautiful also needs volunteers age 16+ to work a booth at the Safety Awareness Community Day at Gar-Field HS, Sep. 28, 8:30am-1pm. Please email Nicole at: njackson@kpwb.org to register and learn more.
- The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Program calls all student volunteers in grades 5-12 to nominate themselves for this wonderful awards program. Please visit their website to complete the online application by November 5th. You can have your principal or Volunteer Prince William validate your nomination as we would love to share your story of service! Please visit www.spirit.prudential.com to learn more.
- The Sweet Julia Grace Foundation needs volunteers on Sunday September 29th at Jiffy Lube Live to help with the Prince William Half Marathon and 5K race. Duties include manning the beer garden or water stations. Kids age 12+ are very welcome to hand out water. This is a great community event for all the runners and wonderful opportunity for the foundation to raise funds through the beer garden. Please sign up on their website at: www.sweetjuliagrace.org.
- Historic Dumfries is looking for volunteers to be Outreach Heroes during their upcoming Fall Festival October 19. Training provided, and you're supplied with a kit with crafts, activities and promotional material to hand out during the event. Contact Lisa at info@historicdumfriesva.org or call (703) 221-2218 to learn more.
- Project Mend A House is looking for volunteers to help with 2 community events. The first one is September 28th; 9:30am-1pm at the Safety Awareness Day at the McCoart Center and the second is October 12th for Prince William Recycles Day. Please go to their website for the volunteer application at: pmahweb.org.
- Prince William Soil & Water Conservation District is looking for volunteers to join their Water Quality Monitoring Program. You'll be trained in the DEQ collection and data reading techniques to join the team of volunteers monitoring our water at locations across the community. Please email them at: waterquality@pwswcd.org to learn more.
- Jehovah's House Thrift Store located at 17740 Main St. in Dumfries is searching for donations of gently used/new clothes, household goods, appliances, furniture, jewelry, etc. Volunteers age 16+ are also needed to help out in the store - bilingual volunteers are particularly needed! Please visit https://www.jehovahshouse.org/volunteer to fill out an online form or call (571) 418-1095 to learn more.
- NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness needs volunteers to share their lived experience of mental health condition as they gear up for the new Ending the Silence Program in area middle and high schools. Please call Pat at (703) 992-5708 to learn more.
- Mason Community Arts Academy invites military kids to their Songwriting Workshop series at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on Saturdays, September 28th-November 2 from 1-3pm. This workshop is free and open to military kids ages 10-17. Space is limited. Please call (703) 993-5970 to register.
- The American Red Cross is recruiting volunteers to help with blood drives, present disaster preparedness to elementary age kids, promote Red Cross school clubs and supporting other volunteers in the community. Please call (703) 584-8444 to learn more.
- The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program is looking for volunteers age 55+ to drive veterans or spouses to their doctor's appointments. It's very easy to help these individuals get the care they need while remaining in their homes. RSVP members receive a mileage reimbursement and additional insurance coverage at no cost to the volunteer. Please call Jan at (571) 292-5307 to learn more.
If you are looking for other opportunities, please don't forget to call my wonderful team at Volunteer Prince William. Jan can help you with the Retired and Senior Volunteer (RSVP) opportunities at (703) 369-5292 ext. 1 and Bonnie can help you with opportunities available in Disaster Preparedness at (703) 369-5292 ext. 3. Please visit our website at www.volunteerprincewilliam.org. Thanks so much for all you do in our community.
