Looking for a way to get involved in the life of Windham County? Consider these mid-summer volunteer opportunities … and spread the word:
• Loaves and Fishes food shelf and kitchen on Main Street in Brattleboro needs a volunteer or volunteers with computer skills.
• Halifax School needs a volunteer gardener.
• Volunteers are needed to help with Brattleboro Housing Authority/United Way summer lunch program; one-hour slots.
• The Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI) needs volunteer drivers, particularly in Brattleboro, Putney, Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Wilmington, and West Dover. Mileage reimbursement available.
• Windham Child Care Association in Brattleboro needs a volunteer for data entry.
• Pine Heights Nursing Home in Brattleboro needs a volunteer to make trips to the public library for residents.
• Brattleboro Memorial Hospital's health outreach needs volunteer drivers to help drive people to social events such as exercise groups and bridge games. Mileage reimbursement available in some cases.
• The Gathering Place in Brattleboro needs part-time volunteer office help.
• Telecare needs volunteers to make check-in calls with a homebound person.
• Townshend Elementary School has an opening for a reading volunteer once or twice a week. Training provided.
• West Townshend Community Center thrift shop needs volunteers.
• Experienced Goods on Flat Street in Brattleboro needs back room and sales counter volunteer help.
• Volunteer visitors are needed for the “It Takes a Village” program for new moms and babies. Volunteers make weekly, hour-long visits for 12 weeks; training provided.
• The Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro has volunteer openings for receptionist, teacher assistant, librarian, crafts instructor, and kitchen help.
• Hilltop House in Brattleboro and other senior residences are interested in volunteers who would like to share arts, crafts, reading, and conversation.
• Brattleboro Community Justice Center needs volunteers to serve on a community panel working with returning offenders.
• Volunteers are needed to visit and help care for pets while their owners are temporarily in the hospital.
• A volunteer companion is needed one or two hours per week for a senior in Bellows Falls.
• Farming Connections in Guilford, where children with special needs interact with animals, needs volunteers for farm and office work.
• Rockingham Free Public Library needs volunteers for various duties.
• Bellows Falls Senior Center needs a Meals-on-Wheels driver.
• Our Place Drop-in Center in Bellows Falls welcomes volunteers.
• Windham County Humane Society in Brattleboro has openings to help with animal care. Commitment of at least two hours per week for six months is required.
• Vermont Foodbank's Brattleboro warehouse needs volunteers to help sort and pack incoming food donations, help with reception, and answer the phone.
• The Independent Living Program at the Brattleboro Housing Authority needs a volunteer to help a senior with light housework.
• The Tasha Tudor Museum in West Brattleboro needs volunteer docents.
• Turning Point of Windham County welcomes adult mentoring volunteers.
• A volunteer money manager is needed for a Bellows Falls female client.
• Friends of the West River Trail is looking for volunteers to help maintain the trail.
• The Neighborhood Schoolhouse in Brattleboro needs volunteer classroom aides.
• Brattleboro Housing Authority needs a senior companion.
• Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition needs volunteers to hand out materials and to clip images from magazines for children's projects.
• Strolling of the Heifers needs “ambassador” volunteers to staff an information table at the River Garden.
• The Brattleboro Historical Society needs volunteers to staff its new Main Street history center.
• Estey Organ Museum in Brattleboro needs volunteer staffers.
• Brattleboro Centre for Children on Main Street in Brattleboro has volunteer opportunities.