Volunteer Opportunities:
AmeriCorps Volunteer Opportunities
- Year round opportunities abound! You can make a difference in Knox County Schools, neighborhoods, with seniors and in the local environment. Over 14,000 CAC AmeriCorps volunteers have provided 9,000 lbs. of food for the hungry; improved home safety for hundreds of seniors and cleaned 355 tons of litter from area creeks. There is a way to serve the community through AmeriCorps using your unique gifts!
For individualized volunteer opportunities, please call the CAC AmeriCorps office at
546-3500, ext. 121. For current volunteer opportunities, go to www.idealist.org. Search for “CAC AmeriCorps”
AMOS, Affordable Medicine Options
for Seniors
- Talk to elderly people about the costs of their medicines. Training is
provided about consumer issues related to prescription drugs.
- Use databases on the Internet to match a consumer's needs to discounts,
free medicines, and insurance.
- Help consumers complete application forms and pick up their medicines.
- Clerical help.
More info on volunteering
with AMOS, please call David Holden at 524-2786
or email david.holden@knoxcac.org
Beardsley Community Farm
• Weed and water flowers and vegetables
and help with general maintenance on urban farm
on-going.
• Serve on Beardsley Farm Advisory Committee.
More info on volunteering, please
call 546-3500.
Family Friends
• Mentor families whose children have special needs
including physical disability, chronic illnesses,
those who have been homeless or are refugees. Insurance and training
is available for volunteers.
More info on volunteering with Family Friends,
please call Edna Eickman at 524-2786 or email edna.eickman@knoxcac.org.
Head Start
• Volunteer your time to do landscaping
and yardwork - trimming shrubs, picking up trash, painting
playground equipment, weeding, etc.
• Volunteer to read to children, talk
to children, play with children, and work on the computer with
children. (In order to protect the children in our care,
there is a screening process for all
Head Start volunteers.)
For more information about volunteering
with Head Start, call 522-2193 or email kkchs@comcast.net.
Knox PAWS
- Volunteers are needed to to take program participants to meet and pick out pets at the Young-Williams Animal Center as well as taking these pets of homebound seniors to a vet.
More info
on volunteering with Project LIVE, please call Nancy Walker at
524-2786 or email
nancy.walker@knoxcac.org.
Mobile Meals
• Deliver Mobile Meals to
local seniors in all areas of Knoxville and Knox County (Monday
through Friday, 9:30
a.m. - 12:00 p.m.). You can volunteer every day, one day a week,
one day a month, or
any amount of time you can spare. We have routes that are designed
to accommodate lunch hour schedules.
• Help
pack and count food Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. –
11:00 a.m. and from 1:00
p.m.– 3:00 p.m. at the Mobile Meals Kitchen. We also have
opportunities for groups to
do special projects at the kitchen
• Help answer telephones and do
clerical work at the Senior Nutrition offices, Monday through
Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. We also have opportunities
for special projects.
For more info
on volunteering with Mobile Meals, please call Jennifer Oakes or Darla Gamble at 524-2786 or email jennifer.oakes@knoxcac.org or darla.gamble@knoxcac.org.
O’Connor Senior Center
•
Clerical help.
• Use your talents
and experience to instruct class or lead activities.
• Work with Health
Services program to provide health screenings (Blood pressure,
etc.)
More info,
please call Bettie Wilkie at 523-1135
or email bwilkie@knxcac.org.
Project LIVE
(Living Independently Through Volunteer Efforts)
• Take an elderly
person to medical appointments, to the grocery store or on other
errands.
• Install safety
devices in homes of frail and elderly persons.
• Help frail elderly
persons with packing and unpacking their belongings when they
relocate.
• Pick up and
deliver medicine to homebound elderly.
• Volunteers to
perform minor home repairs such as repairing a dripping faucet,
replacing a
broken window, or installing a grab bar in the bathroom.
More info
on volunteering with Project LIVE, please call Nancy Walker at
524-2786 or email
nancy.walker@knoxcac.org.
Ross Learning Center
•
Tutor on a regular basis to work one-on-one with adult students.
• Contact business
for donations of or discounts for student incentive awards.
• Shop for incentives
and students books.
• Host a monthly awards ceremony with refreshements and/or prizes
More info
on volunteering with the Ross Learning Center, please call Lynn
Moore at 544-5200
or email lynn.moore@knoxcac.org.
RSVP (Retired & Senior Volunteer Program)
•
RSVP offers many volunteer opportunities for seniors. After a
brief telephone conversation
or personal interview, the RSVP staff will match you with a volunteer
opportunity
that uniquely fits your interests.
Get
started volunteering right away! Contact Becky Hare at 524-2786
or email becky.hare@knoxcac.org.
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