[Volunteers] OVP Weekly Volunteer Opportunity E-mail (02/09/04)

[Brian Stephen Dubina]

Good Morning!

Table of Contents:

1.  Support the Girl Scouts – Green Meadows Council
2.  Winter Fun Carnival – Unit 4 Champaign Pre-K Program
3.  Mentor young boys – Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club
4.  Translating websites to Spanish – Help Source
5.  Art projects – Champaign Public Library
6.  Special Olympics Track Team – Special Olympics

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1.  Girl Scouts need your help! You can help us by helping yourself. How? You 
can enhance your Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Teaching Youth and Adults, 
Marketing, Public Relations, Technical, Computer, Web, or Organizational 
Skills! You can help keep in touch with our hundreds of leaders and thousands 
of Girl Scouts! You can help with computers and technology! You can help keep 
up with what's going on in our Champaign, Ford, Douglas, Piatt, Iroquois, and 
Vermilion Area! You can help Girls Grow Strong! If you have a Knack for 
Finances, an Interest in computers and technology, Enjoy working with youth, 
like to build your Leadership and Managerial Skills, or if you simply know 
what is going on in your community.... Girl Scouts is the place for you! We 
have one time and ongoing positions for WOMEN AND MEN - concerned citizens - 
over the age of 18! Email us at deborah at greenmead-grlsct.org & let us know 
what YOU WANT TO DO!!


2.  The Unit 4 Champaign Pre-K Program is looking for people to help out with 
the Winter Fun Carnival.  Volunteers would be staffing games (such as ring 
toss or duck pond),painting faces for pre-schoolers, and other activities.  
The times needed for volunteers are Feb 18, 2004 (8:30 am - 11:30 am) and Feb 
18, 2004 (12:30 pm - 3:30 pm).  Contact Maggie Rodriguez-Nieto at 351-3711 for 
more information.


3.  Volunteers are needed to act as peer facilitators, guest speakers, and 
peer mentors to adolescents.  Volunteers can also chaperone some off-site 
activities and help with the coordination and set up of the graduation 
ceremonies.  Contact Stephen Davis at 352-4229


4.  Helpsource (www.helpsource.org) needs volunteers to research and evaluate 
available options for translation of Help Source Website into Spanish using an 
automated Web-based service, collect feedback from Spanish speaking users 
about quality of automatic Translation, write-up recommendations, and assist 
with a grant proposal.  Contact Karen Fletcher at 244-7454.


5.  The Champaign Public Library is looking for people to help create 
kid-appealing art activities for grades 6-8.  Activities should appeal to both 
genders and be easy to complete.  Duties include planning and scheduling after 
school art activities, ordering supplies as needed, setting up and maintaining 
after school arts area, clean up, organizing supply closets and recruiting 
meddle school students to the activities.  Contact Judy Christensen in Adult 
Services at 403-2076.


6.  Special Olympics is looking for volunteers to help out with the track 
team, which will be starting on February 19th.  Volunteers would run or walk 
with the athletes and keep them motivated to continue going while following 
Special Olympics rules for the event in which they are participating.  
Practices are held at the Armory from 5:30 to 7:00 pm on Thursday evenings.  
If interested or you want more information, contact Brian Dubina at 
dubina at uiuc.edu (or just reply to this e-mail).


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Tell them the Office of Volunteer Programs sent you,

--Sascha Meinrath & Brian Dubina
Office of Volunteer Programs

Phone#: 333-7424
E-mail: ovp at uiuc.edu
Office: 277 Illini Union (in the RSO complex)
Website: www.union.uiuc.edu/ovp