Tag Archives: volunteers

Need Volunteers? Call for MLK Volunteer Oppportunities

December 8, 2011 – 11:56 am

This call for volunteer opportunities was sent to Common Good Vermont from the United Way of Chittenden County’s volunteer staff which se eks to connect organizations with ready and willing volunteers.   MLK Day Volunteer Opportunities Needed for Jan 16th, 2012!   We realize that you have not yet gotten through the current holiday season but we [...]

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Volunteerism in Vermont Drops in 2010

September 8, 2011 – 2:51 pm

According to the annual “Volunteering in America“, published by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the number of volunteers in Vermont declined 2.6% between 2009 and 2010–more than the national decline of ½ of 1%. There is good news to be found in the report, however. Vermont ranks sixth among the 50 states and [...]

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News – Vermonters Unite in Response to Irene

August 30, 2011 – 4:13 pm

Reposted from www.burlingtonfreepress.com Volunteers band together to help with storm recovery By Lynn Monty, Aug. 29, 2011 Dia Davis arrived at Burlington’s Intervale at 7 a.m. Monday, knowing she would spend the day harvesting vegetables as flood waters from the nearby Winooski River edged into the farm fields. Davis “hurled,” or picked, winter squash out [...]

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The Hidden Workforce: How to Run Effective Volunteer Programs

July 14, 2010 – 12:05 pm

Thanks to Melanie Wilson, Director of Research and Public Policy at the New England Network for Child, Youth & Family Services for forwarding news about a new report and tool, The Hidden Workforce: Are you ready for help? Since the early 1990′s, experts have been telling the nonprofit world that an advancing wave of retiring [...]

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