Is volunteering your time part of your list of New Year’s resolutions? If yes, there are opportunities galore in area schools. Schools of Hope, a literacy program run by the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County and the United Way of Wine Country, is looking for 145 new volunteers for the [...]
Here is a reminder about a big local push for school volunteers: The new school year is nearly upon us and that means the call for volunteers is going out from various groups who support area programs and classrooms. The Volunteer Center of Sonoma County, along with the United Way of [...]
At the Santa Rosa School Board meeting Wednesday night, officials recognized the rapidly expanding Schools of Hope program backed by the local United Way and Volunteer Center of Sonoma County. I featured the program 18 months ago (read that here: http://bit.ly/IWnlw0 ) but in the ensuing year and a half [...]
Thirty-seven calls offering to help. Check that, not offering, committing to help. Not bad. In Wednesday’s Press Democrat there appeared a story I wrote about the Schools of Hope program in which the United Way and Volunteer Center of Sonoma County are teaming up to provide more than 250 tutors [...]
Have time to read with a child? The Volunteer Center of Sonoma County is trying to round up volunteers – a lot of them – for a program called Schools of Hope. The group, which is linking with the United Way, needs 250 volunteers for the school year to focus [...]
Did you or your children get a stack of new books over the holidays and you need to clear some shelf space? Sonoma County’s Retired and Senior Volunteers (RSVP) is running a book drive through Jan. 18 to help augment the libraries of a number of local agencies and schools [...]