Project Homeless Connect and Other Volunteer Opportunities

Hi Everyone!

Here are some updates from The Center for Urban Connections. We have a project and lots of volunteer opportunities coming up this week and for the fall. A big event coming up this Friday is Project Homeless Connect. Registration is full for PHC for this fall semester, but Denver's Road Home holds this event two times a year, so please consider volunteering for PHC '10 in the Spring. Denver's Road Home, Mile High United Way and our office is hosting this event held on the Auraria Campus. There are still opportunities to volunteer for this event, so be sure to sign up to help the homeless in the Denver- Metro community. A friend from the non-profit organization, FOCUS Mentoring Program, wrote a interesting blog about the different layers of homelessness. In this post, she includes the portrayal of the homeless, as a means to make fun of during Halloween and a present initiative going on in Boulder, where homeless individuals are helping decrease the global poor by raising money by volunteering to clean up the Boulder Creek. For more information about this organization and her blog please visit: http://restoringthesoul.wordpress.com/

Here is a list of volunteer opportunities coming up this week and for November. Be sure to check out our volunteer board located in our office, Tivoli 243.

What? The Denver Rescue Mission

When? Saturday October 30^th, 2010 from 8am-4pm

Where?3501 E. 46^th Avenue. Denver, CO 80216

If you are interested in: Advocacy & Human Rights, Homeless & Housing.

Come get into the holiday spirit early by helping to register low-income families for Denver Rescue Mission's Thanksgiving Banquet-In-A-Box program. This highly rewarding opportunity is a great opportunity to become involved in the community by registering families to ensure they have a Thanksgiving to remember forever. Volunteers are needed to work our phone bank for the 30th of October from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The registration will take place at our Ministry Outreach Center located at 3501 E. 46th Ave., Denver, CO. Contact cgoodson@denrescue.org to sign up today!

Children's Speech and Reading Center needs volunteers October 31 for the Spooktacular Race, a 5K run/walk and kids' events to raise money for Children's Speech and Reading Center. Volunteers are needed for race marshals, registration, water table, food/beverage table, kids' events and more.Contact Elise Tobler at 419-0486 or elise@csrckids.org.

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado needs volunteers October 30 for OcTOOLberfest. Thirty volunteers will be needed from 8am-1pm to clean, sharpen, paint and repair tools and to clean and organize for the 2011 season. Contact them at 303-715-1010 or voc@voc.org.

United Way of Larimer County needs volunteers November 20 for Family Volunteer Day, designed to celebrate the power and spirit of family volunteerism. Families will assemble and decorate fun safety kits to donate to kids during the holiday season. Shifts from 10am-2pm. Youth volunteers ages 2-12 supervised and 13+ unsupervised. Contact Andrea Bloomquist at 407-7054 orabloomquist@uwaylc.org.

Thanks for reading and we hope that you check out these volunteer opportunities coming up this month!

Rachelle

Media/Events Assistant

Center for Urban Connections