Did you know that there are a number of affordable recreational programs for kids? To locate programs in your area, contact the Information and Referral Center at 487-4716.
If you'd like to inquire about, or volunteer for, any of the following requests, call the Volunteer Center of the Community Services Council, 212 W. 1300 South, 486-2136.Provide school tours for students at the Utah State Historical Society. Training provided, flexible hours.
Mothers Advocate Program needs volunteers to work with young and/or inexperienced mothers. Training provided, flexible hours.
Help with benefit race on Sept. 28 by registering runners, serving drinks or helping at finish line. 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Hang wallpaper for one-time projects. Days and times flexible and materials are provided.
Volunteer tutors needed at Edison Elementary 1-2 hours per week.
Provide office help working with a public information director. Word processing skills needed. Four hours, two times per month.
Assist training program Sept. 18 and 19 on prevention and treatment of child abuse.
Easter Seals softball tournament needs volunteer umpires and concession stand workers Sept. 14 and 15.
Musical entertainment volunteers to provide any type of musical entertainment at LDS Hospital. Monday through Wednesday and on Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ushers at Pioneer Memorial Theater. Flexible days.
Transport a patient for kidney dialysis. Days and times are flexible.
Help in surgery waiting room. Various duties; days and times are flexible.
Assist with Mud Volleyball tournament Sept. 7. Two-hour shifts, must know how to keep score.
Volunteer to perform science demonstrations at Hansen Planetarium for school tours. Training provided. Four hours per week. Must be available during the day and be over 18 years of age.
Demonstrate farm skills of the 1800s. Training provided.
Volunteer Kitchen manager needed 3-4 hours per day for juvenile chemical dependency program. Supervise noon meal and make sandwiches with youths.
Help children learning about art. Assist teacher for two hours on Saturdays in classroom environment.
Paint fingernails at care center.
Serve refreshments at hospital. Flexible times, training.
Assist with activities at care center. Flexible times.
Walk a stroke patient. Several times a week.
Help with puppets for Children's Museum of Utah. Daytime, training.
Tutor reading to children at risk. 2 hours a week, training.
Volunteer as receptionist. 4 hours a week.
Be a 4-H leader. Flexible days and times, one hour a week.
Use your computer skills. Flexible days and times.
Call back victims of crimes. Four hours per day.
Answer phone calls and provide referrals for the Sandy Police Department.
Assist Sheriff's Department in fingerprinting children.
Patrol parking areas to enforce handicap parking ordinances.
Help plan recreational activities.
Work with Sandy Police Department crime-investigation unit on callbacks.
Help Sheriff's Department fingerprint children. Aug. 7- Sept. 14.
Work with children under 12 in the crisis nursery.
Teach English to children and adults.
Help with basic office duties.
Call past contributors for the American Cancer Society.
Teach a Hogle Zoo program.
Work with Museum of Natural History in a teaching capacity.
Man food booths, help with games and treasure hunt at a music festival.
Take calls from concerned citizens about lost, found or injured animals. Training provided, days flexible.
Help the Easter Seal Society with upcoming events.
Test people for glaucoma at Utah State Fair, Sept. 5-15. Training.
Electrician needed to help run wire for a computer and look at an air conditioner. One time only.
Assist with arts and crafts activities at care center. Flexible times.
Help with one-on-one and small group activities. Flexible days and times.
Give manicures to senior citizens.
Familiar with WordPerfect? Help with data entry once a week.
Befriend chronically ill or disabled children. Training provided, flexible schedule.
Drive a van for disabled women. 1-5 days a week.
Transport blind children to swimming lessons Wednesday evenings.
Sell balloons for an Arthritis Foundation fund raiser.
Work with troubled, abused and abandoned youth.
Help at at the Timpanogos Cave. Flexible days and times, training.
Present parenting classes. Flexible days and times, training.
Donate yarn for therapy project for the terminally ill.
Give freezers, any type or size, to the Salt Lake Food Bank.
Tools needed for programs that help senior citizens and handicapped individuals.
Donate day-care supplies in excellent condition to the Homeless Children's Foundation.
Provide newborn and maternity clothing - especially warm clothing.
Donate baby bottles.
Give a portable swamp cooler or fan for a quadriplegic woman.
Provide a refrigerator to a food pantry and another one to low-income man who is terminally ill.
Provide dishes, cooking equipment, dressers, TVs and other such items to handicapped adults.
Donate a swamp cooler or air conditioner for an elderly woman.
Provide living room, kitchen and bedroom furniture, and dishes.
Give a truck to six food pantries in Central Utah.
Provide an elderly person with a television.
Assist community education by donating an overhead projector.
Donate car seats, cribs, type player and children's videos to a play center at the YWCA.
Donate a fan to a young quadriplegic.
Bath bench needed for an elderly woman.
Clothing, size 1T, needed for a little girl.
Furniture for senior citizen day-care center. Folding chairs, couch, kitchen table and lamps.
Electric dryer needed for low-income family.
Maternity and infant clothing and bedding.
Refrigerators needed to store flu vaccines.
Microwave needed for young paraplegic.
New stuffed animals and toys need for abused children and children in emergency situations.
Treadmill needed for elderly woman with chronic back pain.