Volunteering Opportunities

VOLUNTEERING

Volunteering is a great way to give back to your community. Countless and diverse volunteering opportunities—for individuals and groups, one-time and ongoing—are to be found in our community’s nonprofit, civic, religious, and governmental organizations. When you give of your time, you can help tackle some of our community's most pressing challenges, and change lives. Below you’ll find programs that can link you to a vast array of opportunities to make a remarkable difference.

VOLUNTEER CONNECTION: UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER

For more than 20 years, United Way’s Volunteer Connection has been the community’s most comprehensive and convenient resource for linking people with volunteer opportunities. In fact, more than 200 people every month find the projects for which they want to volunteer through Volunteer Connection. United Way of Greater Rochester also coordinates the Day of Caring, our region’s single largest volunteer effort—garnering more than 9,000 volunteers each year. For information on how you can get involved, or to browse through available volunteer opportunities, visit www.uwrochester.org/volunteer. You can also contact Elaine Stein, Volunteer Activation Associate at United Way, at 585-242-6499 or by email at elaine.stein@uwrochester.org.

Campus Connection

The Campus Connection is our region’s best resource for college students interested in volunteering. The website, launched by a partnership of United Way and Time Warner, links students to individual volunteer and group project opportunities. It also provides information about mini-grants that can be used to pay for out-of-pocket project costs. To learn more, visit www.uwcampusconnection.org. To find links to volunteering programs and offices on area college campuses, visit www.uwcampusconnection.org/opportunities.html.

COMMUNITY SERVICE AT ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE

The mission of St. John Fisher College includes preparing individuals for lives of intellectual, professional, and civic integrity, in which diversity and service to others are valued and practiced. Thus the mission of the college’s community service department is to provide and promote a variety of community service activities that will appeal to all the members of the Fisher family. St. John Fisher hosts the Center for Community Engagement both as a service to the community and as a way to link the college more strongly to the community. For more information on community service at St. John Fisher, visit the website http://home.sjfc.edu/CommunityService or email svaughan@sjfc.edu.