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Volunteer Opportunities
Local Resources |
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Volunteer Opportunities
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Help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Click here
for resources and opportunities.
The Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville,
North Carolina has a Rastafarian community that meets twice a week. Chaplain
Dan Redding is seeking donated items and/or interested penpals to corresond
with the inmates.
 Breast
Cancer Action
55 New Montgomery San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415-243-9301 Fax: 415-243-3996
Email: SKalmus@bcaction.org
Website: www.bcaction.org
Breast Cancer Action is an activist
and advocacy organization that works to create changes to end the breast
cancer epidemic.
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 CASA
from the Casa Website www.nationalcasa.org
About National CASA
Concerned over making decisions about abused and
neglected children's lives without sufficient information, a Seattle judge
conceived the idea of using trained community volunteers to speak for
the best interests of these children in court. So successful was this
Seattle program that soon judges across the country began utilizing citizen
advocates. In 1990, the U.S. Congress encouraged the expansion of CASA
with passage of the Victims of Child Abuse Act. Today more than 900 CASA
programs are in operation, with 42,400 women and men serving as CASA volunteers.
Volunteer info: http://www.nationalcasa.org/casa/voluntee.htm |
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 CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org/
Holding Corporations Accountable. CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization
through education and activism. They work to foster democratic control
over corporations by building grassroots globalization--a diverse movement
for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice. For the past
four years San Francisco-based CorpWatch has been educating and mobilizing
people through the CorpWatch.org website and various campaigns, including
the Climate Justice Initiative and the UN and Corporations Project. |
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Founded in 1972, the East Bay Bicycle Coalition
(EBBC) is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(C)3 organization dedicated to promoting
bicycling as an everyday means of transportation and recreation. The EBBC
safeguards the interest of bicyclists in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
The EBBC works with cities, counties, Caltrans, and other government agencies
to improve conditions for cyclists. Membership benefits include the newsletter
RideOn, monthly meeting programs, and the opportunity to participate in
"hands-on" efforts to improve cycling conditions. [web
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 Ecology
Center (Berkeley, CA)
Started in Berkeley
in 1969, the Ecology Center provides many invaluable services for our
community; including weekly organic Farmer's Markets in Oakland and Berkeley,
curbside recycling, and the ecology magazine, Terrain. Their storefront
at 2530 San Pablo Avenue, is a great resource for environmental education
information, organic gardening supplies, recycled paper and hemp products,
and more.
Volunteer Info:
www.ecologycenter.org/volunt.html
General Info: www.ecologycenter.org |
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Global Exchange
 from
the Global Exchange website:
www.globalexchange.org
Global Exchange is a human rights
organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social
justice around the world. Since our founding in 1988, we have been striving
to increase global awareness among the US public while building international
partnerships around the world.
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 Global
Volunteers
www.globalvolunteers.org
Global Volunteers, a private
non-profit, non-sectarian development organization, was founded in 1984
with the goal of helping to establish a foundation for peace through mutual
international understanding.
At the request of local leaders and indigenous
host organizations, Global Volunteers sends teams of volunteers to live
and work with local people on human and economic development projects
identified by the community as important to its long-term development.
In this way, the volunteers' energy, creativity and labor are put to use
at the same time that they gain a genuine, firsthand understanding of
how other people live day-to-day.
Jamaica program: http://www.globalvolunteers.org/jmcamain.htm |
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JAMPACT (Jamaica Impact Inc.) is a non-profit organization
based in the United States. Their mission is to use our collective energies,
intelligence and resources, to make positive contributions towards the
improvement of social and economic conditions in Jamaica. |
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 Jobs
With Justice
http://www.jwj.org/
Jobs with Justice (JwJ) is a national campaign for workers? rights. Working
through coalitions of labor, community, religious and constituency organizations,
Jobs with Justice is fighting for workers? rights and economic justice.
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McCullum Youth Court Mentor
Project
Wendy Worms, Mentor Project Coordinator
510-832-5858, ext 308
Wendy@youthcourt.org
The McCullum Youth Court Mentor Project is recruiting
committed, caring adults to mentor 12-14 year old youth offenders, in
Oakland, who have been successfully diverted out of the traditional justice
system.
More information on becoming a mentor
here.
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The National AIDS Marathon Training Program is a six-month physical-conditioning
program developed by Olympic athlete and world-renowned marathon trainer
Jeff Galloway. Geared to both beginners and experienced runners, the training
program combines running and walking to prepare you to complete a marathon.
The money you raise will provide vital AIDS services to help keep people
alive until there's a cure.
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 Oakland
HEROES
(Helpers Engaged in Reaching Oakland's Excelling Schools)
from the HEROES website at www.oaklandheroes.org
HEROES, Helpers Engaged in Reaching
Oakland's Excelling Schools, seeks to enrich the lives of Oakland's public
school children by bringing the time and talents of concerned people into
the schools. HEROES recruits and trains community and business members
who wish to volunteer in Oakland's public schools and then acts as the
conduit that connects them. By channeling volunteers into the schools
to enhance and support a school's existing structures, HEROES provides
invaluable supplemental resources to the public education experience.
You can volunteer in 5 ways: be a Classroom Helper,
tutor in the Oakland Reader program, help with Campus Enrichment, share
in Read-Aloud-Day, be a Guest Speaker in a classroom. |
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 The
Oshun Center
Oshun is the name of an Orisha
(Goddess) in the faith of Santeria, one of the Yoruba religions. Oshun
represents the joy of life and what makes life worth living. The Oshun
Center nurtures healing and builds strength among women and their families.
Developed by and for women who have struggled with addiction, violence,
poverty, and homelessness in the Tenderloin, the Oshun Center seeks to
establish a presence of health and self love in the midst of a drug infested
community.
Whether as a customer [there‚s no charge]
or as a volunteer, call 928-OSHUN (6748). Everyone is welcome! For more
info: www.oshun.org |
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San Francisco Women Against
Rape
3543 18th Street #7 Third Floor San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: 415-861-2024 Fax: 415-861-2092
Email: sfwar@igc.org
Website: http://www.sfwar.org
SFWAR provides direct services
to rape survivors, their families, and communities; and works to prevent
sexual assault through education and community organizing. Our services
are client-directed and our ultimate goal is to end violence against women
and eradicate oppression in all its forms.
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 SaveBioGems.org
www.savebiogems.org
This website enables you to take fast and effective
action in defense of our planet's most endangered wild places. The BioGems
initiative is aimed at saving wildlands of exceptional natural values.
The twelve BioGems featured here span North and Central America; the site
also features a watchlist of South American wildlands under threat. All
of these natural treasures are imperiled by logging, mining, oil drilling
or other commercial exploitation. We have selected these BioGems not only
for their ecological importance and their imminent plight, but also because
well-coordinated web activism by people like you can make a very big difference
in saving them. |
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The Sojourn Project
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Sojourn Project is a civil rights education project that takes high school
students from around the nation to historical civil rights landmarks throughout
the South. Since February 1999, Sojourn has conducted eight civil rights
expeditions. More than 665 participants have met with civil rights veterans
who have shared the program's ethical lesson plans. By the end of this
school year (Spring 2001), Sojourn will have served more than 1000 students.
For more information about the program, please
visit: www.sojournproject.org. |
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 United
Students Against Sweatshops
http://www.usasnet.org/index.shtml
United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement
of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor
conditions and workers? rights. They define ?sweatshop? broadly and recognize
that it is not limited to the apparel industry, but everywhere among us.
They believe that university standards should be brought in line with
those of its students who demand that their school?s logo is emblazoned
on clothing made in decent working conditions. They have fought for these
beliefs by demanding that their universities adopt ethically and legally
strong codes of conduct, full public disclosure of company information
and truly independent verification systems to ensure that sweatshop conditions
are not present. Ultimately, they are using their power as students to
affect the larger industry that thrives in secrecy, exploitation, and
the power relations of a flawed system. |
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 Volunteer
Center of Alameda County
www.volunteeronline.org
The Volunteer Center of Alameda County has been
a resource to individuals, non-profit agencies, government, faith communities,
and other civic groups for more than twenty-five years. Their mission
is to mobilize individuals and resources to deliver creative solutions
to community problems. Their website has a great link to "Search
for Volunteer Opportunities" where you fill out a quick form, and
they'll set you up with the perfect volunteer opportunity for you. |
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Volunteer Match
www.volunteermatch.org
(from their website):
VolunteerMatch's powerful online database allows volunteers to search
thousands of one-time and ongoing opportunities by zip code, category,
and date. Users can then signup automatically by email for those that
fit their interest and schedule. Contributing organizations post their
own opportunities, giving volunteers easy access to an accurate and diverse
source of activities including walk-a-thons, beach day clean-ups, tutoring,
home building, meal deliveries and more. VolunteerMatch is available nationwide.
It benefits from strong local support in San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle,
Boston, Washington D.C., Charlotte, New York, and Los Angeles. The service
is free. |
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Women Count
Website: www.womencount.org
Women Count's mission is to
challenge every woman to exercise her right to vote, to participate in
the political process, and to engage in the civic life of her community.
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WorkingForChange.com
ActForChange makes it easy for
people to become online activists and speak out on behalf of progressive
issues. By combining progressive news with opportunities for citizen action,
ActForChange is a powerful and far-reaching catalyst for social change.
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/index.cfm
GiveForChange lets you make
online donations to hundreds of progressive nonprofit groups in one location.
You'll have access to more than 300 groups working in 11 different categories.
http://www.giveforchange.com/interact/default.asp
If you'd like to make a difference
in your community through volunteer work, but you just don't know where
to start, then go to VolunteerForChange. They've teamed up with two volunteering
sites--Idealist.org
and VolunteerMatch.com--to
help individuals nationwide find volunteer opportunities at more than
20,000 nonprofits and public sector organizations.
http://www.workingforchange.com/volunteer/index.cfm
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Local Resources
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BCA (Black Coalition on Aids)
Provides HIV/AIDS prevention
and educational services to black people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The BCA runs several programs to promote health through community outreach
workshops, counseling, and venue based outreach and condom distribution
New Village&ThIP (Transgender
Health Intervention Program): 415.641.0485
3Street: 415.674.0900
YEOP (Youth Education Outreach Program): 415.674.0900
email: prevention@bcoa.org
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Ecology
Center (Berkeley, CA)
Started in Berkeley
in 1969, the Ecology Center provides many invaluable services for our
community; including weekly organic Farmer's Markets in Oakland and Berkeley,
curbside recycling, and the ecology magazine, Terrain. Their storefront
at 2530 San Pablo Avenue, is a great resource for environmental education
information, organic gardening supplies, recycled paper and hemp products,
and more.
Volunteer Info:
www.ecologycenter.org/volunt.html
General Info: www.ecologycenter.org |
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Farmers' Markets
Looking for an excuse to get
outside? Visit the Farmers' Market in Berkeley (Tuesdays—
2 p.m. - 7 p.m. (summer) 1 p.m. - dusk (winter) Derby Street and MLKing,
Jr. Way, Saturdays—10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Center Street and MLKing,
Jr. Way).
Here's a list of Farmer's Market
Vendors, small-scale farmers who practice sustainable agriculture.
http://www.ecologycenter.org/farmers_mrkts/vendorlist.html |
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 Planned
Parenthood
Founded in 1916, Planned Parenthood
is the world's largest and oldest voluntary family planning organization.
Planned Parenthood is dedicated to the principles that every individual
has a fundamental right to decide when or whether to have a child, and
that every child should be wanted and loved.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org |
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Since 1977, RIDES has been helping
people to find better ways to commute in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their
site features a mother lode of information about carpooling, vanpooling,
public transit, and employers incentives.
info: 1-800-755-POOL
web: http://www.rides.org |
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Do you have a volunteer organization
you'd like to have highlighted on this page? Contact us at info@jahworks.org |
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