Burbio.com Launches Holiday Volunteer Calender with Volunteer New York!

On November 10th, 2014, Burbio.com, a free online service that gives families an easy way to sync their calendars to those of local community groups, announced that it was partnering with Volunteer New York! in the creation of a Teen-Family Volunteer Calender. The calender features volunteer opportunities throughout Westchester hosted on Burbio.com’s calendar sharing platform.

The initiative will launch with a Holiday Volunteer Opportunity calendar with volunteer events every day during the holiday period that are appropriate for families volunteering together or teenagers looking for chances to serve. After the holidays, the calender will continue to include opportunities from both Northern and Southern Westchester.

Burbio.com is founded by Julie Roche and Dennis Roche, long time volunteers and parents of four children from Pelham, NY who were overwhelmed by the amount of manual calendar entry trying to keep track of and search for events for groups they were involved in. Burbio.com has since expanded to all over Westchester, currently hosting over 1,000 schools, sports, and community calendars, allowing parents to easily find and synchronize to their personal calendars and groups to post easy-to-share calendars for members.

“In expanding Burbio.com to so many communities one of the things we have heard from families is they want to find local volunteer options but don’t know where to look,” said Julie Roche. “Volunteer New York!, with its extensive network of volunteer opportunities and its core mission of volunteerism makes the perfect partner to create a Burbio calendar for families to easily access.”

“One of the challenges inherent in fulfilling our mission is reaching families and teenagers who want to volunteer but have busy schedules and also don’t know where to look,” said Alisa Kesten, Executive Director of Volunteer New York!. “Burbio’s calendar platform and its audience of highly involved families across Westchester, make them a great partner to increase the connectivity between volunteers and nonprofits in the area.”

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