If you want to know more about any of these events or participate, call the contact in the last column or call the Boiler Volunteer Network.
| Most Recent Hot Needs |
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Date/Time |
Description |
Contact |
Boiler Up! Community Action Day |
Friday, August 21st
check-in 8:30am - 9:15am
Volunteering 9:30am - 1:30pm
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Various volunteer projects will be hosted by local nonprofits.
A complete list can be viewed by clicking on "sign-up now" and viewing the job descriptions.
This is our first community action day of the year.
It is a great opportunity to make friends and learn more about the community. |
Contact the BVN |
SIA Child Development Center |
Needed Immediately
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday
Mornings or Afternoons
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Volunteers are needed to help care for a child with Downs Syndrome. The child is high functioning with good cognitive and language skills.
Volunteers are needed:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday
8am - 11 am or 3 pm - 5pm.
Volunteer for as many shifts and or days as you can .
An interview is required. Volunteers with early childhood education experience are preferred. |
Contact Peggy Cooper-Smith, SIA Child Development Center 765.772.7400 |
United Way Volunteer Center |
Immediately
Two opportunities
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Volunteers are needed to help a disabled community member with organizing, sorting, and disposing of household items.
Also, occasional help is needed with transportation for errands. |
Contact United Way Volunteer Center or call Sammi at 765.742.9077 x277 |
Child Care Resource Network |
Various days and times
(on going need) |
Volunteers are needed to run the Lending Library (during business hours) |
Contact Boiler Volunteer Network for more information |
Cumberland Pointe |
Wednesdays or Fridays 1:30 - 3:00 pm
(on going need) |
Volunteers are needed to help residents play Bingo. |
Contact Boiler Volunteer Network for more information |
YMCA |
Saturday or Sunday (date is flexible) |
Volunteers (20-25) are needed to help clean-up Camp Straight Arrow (the YMCA's summer camp).
Bus transportation to and back from the camp will be provided. |
Contact Boiler Volunteer Network for more information |
Mental Health America |
On-going need |
Volunteer with the Compeer program. Be a friend to a socially isolated individual recovering from a mental health challenge. Friends attend low-cost or free activities. It takes about one-hour per week. Training and support is provided. A nine month commitment is required. |
Contact United Way Volunteer Center |
Lafayette Transitional Housing |
On-going |
Volunteer opportunities for groups or individuals include: preparing meals, entering computer data, sorting and organizing donated items, painting, yard work, and general maintenance. |
Contact Boiler Volunteer Network for more information |
Serenity Hospice |
On-going need |
Volunteers needed for Benton, Carroll, Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren, and White counties.
Become a companion to patients and relieve the family members for a couple hours. Spend time visiting with someone who may change your life. |
Contact Boiler Volunteer Network for more information |
Mental Health America
(Tippecanoe County Chapter) |
On-going need |
A volunteer is needed to help care for a 50 gallon aquarium. |
Boiler Volunteer Network |
The Columbian Park Zoo |
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Collect and donate used cell phones and cell phone accessories (chargers, batteries, etc). Donated items will be sent to Eco-Cell to be recycled or reused as emergency phones for low-income families.
Your donation will also help Indiana's River Otter Project which is reintroducing river otters throughout the state. Eco-Cell will make a donation to this project in exchange for the donated cell phones.
Also, your donation will reduce environmental pressures on the fragile Congo rainforest region by reducing the need to mine for certain materials consumed by the manufacture of cell phones.
Donating old cell phones is good for the environment and helps people in need. |
Donations can be taken to the Columbian Park Zoo or taken to the Boiler Volunteer Network office. |
The Purdue Arboretum |
Summer Internship |
Intern will assist in establishing an ArcGIS database to manage the documentation o woody plants on the Purdue campus. |
More information is available from the Boiler Volunteer Network |
CFRC (Community And Family Resource Center) |
On-going Opportunities
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Volunteers are needed to help staff with administrative and clerical tasks - organizing resources, filing notes, making copies, purchasing items, delivering reports to the Department of Child Services and the County Courts, entering information into the database.
Volunteers are needed for the Youth Underground after school program. Duties include: homework help, facilitating activities, mentoring, and leading sports/recreation activities.
Emergency Services and Hispanic Outreach - sign guests in at the food pantry. Food pantry is open Tues, Thurs, and Fri from noon until 2:30 pm. |
Boiler Volunteer Network |
Tippecanoe Community Health Clinic |
On-going Opportunity
Wednesdays
12 noon - 3 pm |
Assist with the Baby Corner Program. Bilingualism is a plus. A minimum 6 month commitment required. |
BVN bvn@purdue.edu |
Regency Place |
Various days and times
(On going need)
One or two times per week |
Meet with nursing home residents for one hour to read, write letters, share stories, or just talk. |
BVN bvn@purdue.edu
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Food Finders Food Bank |
Monday and/or Thursday mornings |
pick-up donated baked goods from area merchants.
Individuals and/or groups can participate. |
Boiler Volunteer Network |
Wildcat Wildlife Center
(located in Delphi, IN) |
Various times and days |
Volunteers are needed to work 4 hours per week to help feed baby animals, provide care to animals, perform general maintenance and lawn care, enter data, answer phones, and do general clerical duties. You must be 16 yrs or older. |
Wildcat Wildlife Center
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Book Cycle |
Various days and times
Make a weekly, monthly, or other commitment |
Book Cycle enhances early childhood literacy. Volunteers act a liaisons between the Book Cycle coordinator and the Book Cycle service sites. They help sort and organize books, deliver books and supplies, and help distribute books on Book Cycle days. |
Boiler Volunteer Network |
Tippecanoe County Historical Association |
One to four hours per week - during regular business hours. |
Volunteers will serve as Collection Assistants. They will help the Collection Manager care for all collections held by TCHA (including creation and maintenance of records). Volunteers must be familiar with computers, data bases, and spreadsheets. Ability to accurately type and print by hand. Organizational skills are helpful. Should have the ability to do some lifting and carrying. An interview is required. Training is provided. |
Boiler Volunteer Network |
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This list was last updated on 03/16/09.
