With less than 8 days until Help-Portrait, over 4100
people in 470-plus locations in more than 55 countries have already registered and formed
groups with the numbers growing daily.
Our goal in Anchorage is to provide 100 families with a professional portrait including hair and make up.
We currently have 14 hairstylists, 5 make up artists and 15 photographers plus several volunteers.
If you have the time on the 12th we could use more volunteers.
Location is the Boys and Girls Club in Mt View at 315 N Price St. from 8am-5pm.
For more information about Help-Portrait go to help-portrait-alaska.com
Thank You for your time.
Court Appointed Special Advocates are community volunteers trained by the Office of Public Advocacy (OPA) to speak up for abused and neglected children in court and to advocate for what is in their best interests. With the information provided by the CASA volunteers, judges are able to make more informed decisions as to what is best for the child and team members can make better decisions about placement, educational and social needs.
Who can be a CASA?
CASA volunteers are ordinary people who care about kids. CASA volunteers come from all backgrounds. Many work full time although some are students or retired people. Training is required but no legal expertise, special experience or education is necessary. CASA volunteers must be at least 21 years of age and undergo a careful screening process.
Volunteers must be willing to commit to stay with their case until it is resolved. Once accepted, volunteers are trained in courtroom procedures, social services, the child welfare system and the special needs of children who have been abused and neglected. All CASA volunteers are supervised by OPA guardians ad litem.
The Valley CASA Program is actively recruiting for volunteers in the Wasilla, Palmer, Sutton, Big Lake, Houston, Talkeetna and Willow areas.
Next training begins in March!
Informational meetings are held the first Monday of every month at the MTA building in Palmer and the last Monday of every month at the AT&T Sports Center in Wasilla. All meetings are from 5:30 to 6:30 (open house style, come anytime).
For more info, please call Jamey Duhamel at 775-2978 or use the reply-to email address.
Host families are eligible for a $50/month tax deduction, but the real rewards are intangible: exposing your family to another culture, sharing your home and family life with a visitor from abroad, and making a personal investment in global cooperation and understanding.
We are currently seeking families to host students starting in Spring 2010.
Please visit our website for more information: www.orgsites.com/dc/forte or email alex@forteintl.com directly.
AACCC is the only municipality shelter from Ekultna to Portage, and with the purposed cuts will impact the public, and I believe public safety also.
These are the cuts they want to make.
This is what is being cut
Enforcement Staffing ((by the national standards on the amount of calls and our coverage area from Portage to Ekultena we should have 17 Officers, but we only have 7. This will delay response times, and increase customer complaints and could result in other legalities.
Equipment (Cat Traps, if they are broken or stolen none will be replaced) *** Which can result in more human bites from Feral animals that would normally be caught in the traps.
If the traps though are lost and stolen, then what is happening to the $80.00 deposit we charge the public when taking the traps for trapping animals?
Enforcement Support to include answering services ((If the answering services go away these calls will not be answered. And if they want to be answered shouldn’t we need to employ more dispatchers instead of the 1.5 we have now?
A portion of the animal cruelty investigations reimbursements.
((( Why would we get rid of this )))
Please Please please come… I will be there to speak, but the more that speak on this the better.
Please show your concerns. Now wouldn’t this be a total set back with the budget cuts when we are trying to have our own spay clinic built?
If we have this built, then we wouldn’t require a deposit of 80.00, and then we wouldn’t have to follow up on NOV (Notice of Violations, then we wouldn’t have to pay an OUTSIDE collection agency to collect the money that wasn’t paid by the violation. Now think about it. What a WASTE
Also did you know, for each member that is on a board of commissions (Volunteer) and we are talking about thousands of people with in this city on these boards. Get $20.00 per each meeting paid by the city? You can fill out a Waiver, and yes I filled one out. But I want to know on how many of these boards are receiving this money.
This is per the Muni code 4.05.50 Compensation of members. At this time there are 70 different boards, with an average of 9 members. If each of those members get paid per each meeting 12 x 630 for 70 boards that is a total of $151,200.00 dollars
Now doesn't that take more time to put them on the payroll, process the taxes, and keep up on it all? On a volunteer position this should not be compensated at all, we volunteer to receive the enjoyments of our cause IE the animals, and finding them good homes.
Please come speak your personal option on this, or show up so when it's my turn to speak I can ask all the animal owners & animal lovers to stand. I want the Assembly and the Mayor to show on what an impact this would be for these cuts.
Any questions on this please email me, I don't mind answering any questions you may have on this.
TET Festival is Vietnamese traditional New Year Holiday (following Lunar Calendar) which usually falls into mid January – mid February. This is the time for family reunion and visits to friends and relatives. Like the Christmas and New Year in western countries, people here prepare a lot for this holiday, from renovating their houses, making cakes and a lot of food and drinks. However, in the orphanages, children do not have enough to prepare for their holiday. Most of them stay in the orphanage or centers over the Tet, only some of them go back to their home villages. Thus, there is need to prepare something for those children, so they still have good time and enjoy such big holidays. In Ho Chi Minh City area, an international workcamp will be set up to prepare Tet holidays in Ky Quang Orphanage and Chua La Orphanage. Volunteers will help renovating the houses, cleaning the site and making Chung Cake (traditional cake for children in Tet). Study part: Disadvantaged children in Vietnam Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Project language: English Location: Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City Age range: 18 and over
Kitchen- Flexible
Bingo- Wednesday, nights 5:30-9pm
Adult Day Services- Flexible
Every 4th Thursday evening for Birthday Dinner-5:30pm
Special Brunches
Special Events
Host and Hostess
Helping in our Activities Department
Volunteer Drivers
Four of us in our Scrabble club have birthdays in December so we're getting together to celebrate. It's my 50th birthday, and this will likely be the only cake I'll be getting, so I do want it special.
I have more time than money, maybe I could help you out somehow. I have enough to purchase the supplies needed.
Would be for a get together on Dec 13th
Looking for someone who has some cake decorating experience
I could make a real simple one, but I have no cake decorating tools
Court Appointed Special Advocates are community volunteers trained by the Office of Public Advocacy (OPA) to speak up for abused and neglected children in court and to advocate for what is in their best interests. With the information provided by the CASA volunteers, judges are able to make more informed decisions as to what is best for the child and team members can make better decisions about placement, educational and social needs.
Who can be a CASA?
CASA volunteers are ordinary people who care about kids. CASA volunteers come from all backgrounds. Many work full time although some are students or retired people. Training is required but no legal expertise, special experience or education is necessary. CASA volunteers must be at least 21 years of age and undergo a careful screening process.
Volunteers must be willing to commit to stay with their case until it is resolved. Once accepted, volunteers are trained in courtroom procedures, social services, the child welfare system and the special needs of children who have been abused and neglected. All CASA volunteers are supervised by OPA guardians ad litem.
The Valley CASA Program is actively recruiting for volunteers in the Wasilla, Palmer, Sutton, Big Lake, Houston, Talkeetna and Willow areas.
Next training begins in March!
Informational meetings are held the first Monday of every month at the MTA building in Palmer and the last Monday of every month at the AT&T Sports Center in Wasilla. All meetings are from 5:30 to 6:30 (open house style, come anytime).
For more info, please call Jamey Duhamel at 775-2978 or use the reply-to email address.
I'm a psychology graduate student doing a short internet survey (under the supervision of Dr. C.N. DeWall Ph.D.) that lasts about 25 minutes and I would appreciate if you could help me by filling it out. The survey is searching for feedback about a couple of different video games as well as taking some personality measures. Participation is completely voluntary and you can stop at any time. You will be compensated for your time. Also, your participation is anonymous and you will never be asked to provide your name. Please note that you must be over 18 to participate in this survey.
If you would like to participate, please click here or go to the following link:
The international volunteer project will be held in Mombasa for 3 weeks. Volunteers will come together to demonstrate the power of voluntary service in meeting critical needs of the local communities. The main objective of the volunteer project is Environmental conservation.
Volunteer work: The volunteers in this project will be involved in planting trees, designing brochures, teaching the local people finance and management. The program aims to raise awareness and sensitize people on environmental issues and to improve the eco-system of the town by planting trees. The volunteers will be involved in preparing nurseries, seedbeds, weeding, watering, picking soil, planting trees by the river “Iyeni”, designing brochures, selling tree seedlings, teaching finance and administration.The group will work 5 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon, Monday through Friday. Sometimes, depending on the nature of work, the time can be extended.
Location: Mombasa is located in the Coast province, about 8 hours drive from Nairobi (500 km). Markets, Post Office, Banks (ATMs), Internet and other facilities are located in Mombasa.
The weather is generally hot and humid in Mombasa. The terrain is flat.
A willingness to serve.
A desire for developmental growth while helping others.
A commitment to making Alaska's communities healthier, safer places to live.
Opportunities abound whether your willing to be on call for local or state disaster response, provide CPR training to the community, or even by assisting your local office directly.
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