• Volunteer Connections provides opportunities through the Human Services Council.
For information on the following and other opportunities, call 360-735-3683.
Affordable Community Environments/REACH seeks volunteers to teach American Sign Language, clean and organize, teach quilting, sewing and crafts to adults, do manicures, facilitate youth programs, and as canine-citizen trainers.
Clark College Mature Learning seeks volunteer media assistants to create PowerPoint presentations, set up podium and amplification systems, contact students and deliver handouts.
Clark County Public Health is looking for a bicultural/bilingual volunteer to be advocates for pregnant women. Help with outreach, the application process, making appointments and linking clients to managed care programs.
Clark Public Utilities seeks a tour leader for the Stream Team education program. Provide hands-on activities to help students think critically about the environment, our effort on it and how to minimize negative impacts. It also needs volunteers to help bring salmon back to Salmon Creek during Saturday events throughout the year. Families are welcome and no experience is needed.
Human Services Council — Volunteer Center is looking for a volunteer to help research, write and submit grant applications on behalf of the Volunteer Center and its programs. A successful track record in grant writing is required.
Inter-Faith Treasure House is looking for help with food distribution and sorting. Distribution volunteers use their own pickups or vans to pick up donations from local stores and bring them to the warehouse, lifting up to 35 pounds. Sorters stand while working up to four-hour shifts at the thrift shop.
School of Piano Technology for the Blind seeks student mentors to help first-year students transition from their home states to the Vancouver area. Students are blind, independent, 21 or older, and want to learn about the Pacific Northwest.
Veterans Affairs is looking for help with patient activities and recreation therapy, which could include bingo, games, movies and outings from the Vancouver campus, socializing with patients who have no local visitors, or driving a shuttle.
• Walk & Knock seeks volunteers to support the Clark County Food Bank. The goal for 2014 is to raise over 150 tons of food.
Fold bags, 8 a.m. to mid-afternoon Saturday at the Clark County Food Bank, 6502 N.E. 47th Ave., Vancouver. Families and middle- and high-school-aged youth groups are encouraged to participate.
Drive or pick up food door-to-door on Dec. 6. Volunteers meet at designated areas at 8:30 a.m. and are asked to be available until 2:30 p.m.
Donate a bag of non-perishable food or personal hygiene items. Leave it on your doorstep by 9 a.m. Dec. 6, or deliver to a Les Schwab Tire Center during normal business hours.
Register or call for information at walkandknock.org or 877-995-6625.
