Volunteer at The ReStore, South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity's new and used building supply store. All proceeds from the ReStore go to Habitat for Humanity. Last year we diverted over 150 tons of usable items from Thurston Co.landfills. If you volunteer more then 20 hours you get 50% off on your purchases.
Duties include:
* Doing pick-ups
* Accepting donations
* Customer Service
* Cleaning and organizing
We need all the help we can get, call, click, email or visit with questions Alex Bertolucci 210 Thurston Ave NE Olympia, WA 98501, Phone: 360-956-3456, www.spshabitat.org
Here's an opportunity to volunteer in the City of Olympia's Priest Point Park and clean up invasive ivy. From email:
NO IVY DAY AT PRIEST POINT PARK
Olympia Volunteers in Parks is sponsoring an English Ivy removal party at Priest Point Park on Saturday, April 26 from 10am till 1 pm. Join us for this fun, pre-Procession of the Species event and help preserve and restore the forest and shoreline of beautiful Priest Point Park. Meet at Shelter #2 on the Westside of Priest Point Park. Parking is in designated spots only. Bring your favorite gloves and dress for the Weather. Snacks and tools will be provided. No need to RSVP. Contact Volunteer Coordinator Todd Smith (753-8365) with any questions.
Tickets include up to
two consecutive movies
and a prize drawing
The prestigeous Olympia Film Society, located at the Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia, offers a free ticket to up to two
consecutive movies, free popcorn, and free coffee or soda to volunteer ticket sellers and ticket takers. I was recently granted the
opportunity to interview Kendra Hadlock, OFS Volunteer Coordinator, and Barbara, who has volunteered at the OFS for over ten
years, about the rewarding experience of ticketing at the Olympia Film Society:
C: Kendra, what are the opportunities available for those who want to volunteer to ticket at the Olympia Film
Society? Kendra: Ticketers can volunteer Monday through Saturday, at 5:45 & 8:15 and Sundays at 1:45, 5:45, &
8:15 - Find an open shift on the volunteer signup sheet on the west wall of the Capitol Theater lobby. Sundays are often open, but
we really also need help with ticketing at live events. There is a live events sign up in the lobby as well. Available positions are
selling tickets and tearing tickets.
C: How much time should a prospective volunteer plan to set aside for each volunteer opportunity? Kendra: One hour for regular film screenings, longer for live events (but then you get in for free!)
April 19th from 3-6pm to an Prison Doula Project Orientation Workshop
and April 20th from 1-4pm to a Volunteer Training/Consensus Workshop
@ The Olympia Freeschool
610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501!!!
The Birth Attendants
is a non-profit organization working to restore health and justice into communities in western Washington State.
Are you interested in:
Social Justice?
The Reproductive Justice Network?
Non-Profits Organizations?
Creating Zines?
Community Education?
Prisoner Advocacy?
The Birth Attendants Is Seeking:
Volunteers to support community education and outreach projects and to participate in
upcoming events:
Reproductive Justice Week of Action - April 16th- 23rd, 2008
Secret Cafe/Benefit Show- May 17th, 2008
Our community education project links our vital work inside prisons to the greater issues surrounding incarceration and works toward creating pathways of knowledge for western Washington communities about incarceration and its effects.
Facilitator - The Freeschool Community,Organizers Schedule - 6:30pm-9:00pm, February 7th, March 6th and April 3rd! Location - The Freeschool Community, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501
Volunteering was chaotic fun and good exercise...this was my first time to volunteer but am planning to go back for future sales...
My haul...
The Illustrated History of Oxford University, Ed. John Prest Over Washington: A Companion to the KCTS-9 TV Series, Photography by Harald Sund, Text by Murray Morgan Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs Whose Science? Who's Knowledge?:Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding Food for Life by Neal Barnard, MD Literature: Fifth Edition Ed. James Pickering and Jeffrey Hoeper Evelina, or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney Reading Skills Handbook by Weiner Bazerman Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader Ed. Mary Eagleton The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky Life's a Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor Ed. Anne Safran Dalin Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan The Story of English: A companion to the PBS TV Series by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil Beloved by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Sweet and Sugar Free by Karen E. Barkie (fruit juice sweetened baked goods...mmmm) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora neale Hurston Baudolino by Umberto Eco Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Sisters of the Earth Ed. by Lorraine Anderson (women's writings on nature) Silent Spring by Rachel Carson The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson Save the Animals: 101 Easy Things You Can Do by Ingrid Newkirk
Thanks for the great work you do, Todd Smith.
[via email:]
Olympia Volunteers in Parks (VIP) is sponsoring a work party at Friendly Grove Park (2316 Friendly Grove Rd. NE in Olympia) on Saturday, December 15, from 9am till noon. Help us beautify and protect this multi-use, neighborhood park! Tools and gloves will be provided.
All are welcome, but those 17 and under must have signed parental permission, 14 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Questions? Contact Olympia Volunteers in Parks (VIP) Coordinator Todd Smith at 753-8365.
The December 8 work party at Grass Lake Refuge has been postponed due to high water, but volunteers from around the region will be meeting on December 8 at Priest Point Park to remove a variety of invasive species, and to do clean-up work in the aftermath of the recent storms. The event lasts from 9am till noon, on Saturday, December 8, meet in the Rose Garden Parking Lot at Priest Point Park.
All are welcome, but those 17 and under must have signed parental permission, 14 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Dress for the weather. Tools provided. No need to RSVP. Questions? Contact Olympia Volunteers in Parks (VIP) Coordinator Todd Smith at 753-8365.
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