VOLUNTEERS
If you have found a volunteer opportunity through us, we’d love to hear about it. Please let us know about your experience either by:
– Posting the comments below
– Contributing to our Volunteer Feedback Discussion Board on Facebook
– Fill out our UlsterCorps VOLUNTEER FEEDBACK SURVEY.
If you’d like to talk with us about your experience, which of the many volunteer opportunities may better match your interests, availability & skills, or how we can improve your experience, please email us at ulstercorps@gmail.com or call 481-0331, or stop by our new Storefront for Service; address + hours at the bottom of the page.
And most of all, thank you for giving your time, energy and skills to a local project or program in need.
AGENCIES
If you are an agency in need of volunteers, please submit your opportunity either by:
– posting in the comments below
– posting the opportunity on the wall of our Facebook page
– completing our AGENCY SURVEY
– email or call us at 481-0331
Please include:
– a description of the opportunity
– contact information for the volunteer coordinator
– the time commitment involved
– skills required
– if training is offered
– number of volunteers needed
– whether the event is youth/family/group friendly
– whether people could assist from their home or a remote location
Click here to VIEW RESULTS for our initial survey.
UlsterCorps
PO Box 34
Stone Ridge, NY 12484
845 481 0331
email
Storefront for Service
292 Main Street, Rosendale
Saturdays 11am-1pm
and monthly Open Houses
Next Open House Monday January 18th 2010, 10am-3pm
You are missing a very important agency in Ulster County on your list that needs help:
AIDS-Related Community Services
http://www.arcs.org is the website
They work with all the HIV positive people and families in Ulster County. They recently got a huge cut in funding for services.
Thanks so much for the suggestion – this site, and indeed, UlsterCorps itself, is very much in its earliest stages, and our list of organizations is very incomplete. We have added ARCS both to the direct links and to Health Services.
Please do let us know if there are other organizations you think should be listed.
I’m sure you’ll find these as well:
http://www.firstcx.com/resources.html#EmergencyAssist
Have you considered getting congregations of faith involved?
I am interested in doing what I can do to solicit their participation. Also, there are probably many other ways I can be involved. Please keep me posted.
From Ulster Literacy Association:
Good news for students on the Ulster Literacy Association waiting list! Eleven will soon be matched with a one-to-one tutor from ULA’s tuto training program. Enrollment in the program was greatly boosted by UlsterCorps Volunteers and the Martin Luther King Day Call to Service. ULA’s next tutor training begins on April 18. Each tutor is then matched with an adult learner who wants to improve reading and writing skills.
more info: http://www.ulsterliteracy.org/ 331-6837
On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Family of New Paltz Hotline wrote:
Mission Accomplished! Roger Srigley from Accord was here at Family of New Paltz bright and early. He is a very kind gentleman and did excellent work. I am grateful to have access to this network of potential volunteers. What a wonderful and extremely helpful idea…UlsterCorps! Thank you Roger, thank you UlsterCorps.
Kathy Cartagena
Family of New Paltz
845 255-7957
On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Family of New Paltz Hotline wrote:
Yesterday, in our free-store, the clothing racks that were attached to the wall fell in a domino effect. We are unable to let people use the free-store as the remaining rods are just hanging from the wall and pose a danger. This time of year the free-store is very much needed and used. I am putting out an SOS for a volunteer(s) to reinstall the clothing racks, so that we may reopen the store.
If needed, I can open Family of New Paltz in the evening or on a weekend for the repairs. Hopefully, someone in the community can help us out! Thank you.
Kathy Cartagena, Program Director
Family of New Paltz
255-7957
The Dispute Resolution Center would love to be added to your list of agencies and services. The DRC is a non-profit community mediation center offering free or low cost mediation services for disputes involving landlord/tenant neighbor/neighbor, consumer/merchant, interpersonal, as well as family mediation, custody/visitation mediation and divorce mediation. The DRC is also currently recruiting volunteers for its next Basic Mediation Training to be held in June, 2009 in Ellenville, NY.
Project Coat Update & Thank You!
Yesterday, February 9, 2009 UlsterCorps volunteers picked up over 800 youth ski jackets from a warehouse in NJ and delivered them to service agencies throughout Ulster County including Family, Planned Parenthood, Rural & Migrant Ministry, Harbor Program of MHA in Ulster, River Haven, and the Saugerties & Kingston Boys & Girls Clubs. Thank you so much to Judy Ward of Alpha 6 Distributions, LLC, for your incredibly generous donation, and to Ilene, Paula, Ruth, Max, Rik, Beth, Nancy, Will & Paavo for being a part of this great day and helping to bring a new, warm coat to so many children.
Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz needs volunteers to help breakdown Book sale at 3p.m. on Sunday, July 12th in the parking lot of the library.