Volunteer This Summer: Ideas In Putnam, Rockland, Westchester

MOUNT VERNON, NY — Thinking about what you want to do with your summer, or your life? Volunteering for something - anything - is a terrific way to gain ideas, experience, exposure and understanding. Build and improve your resume, make new friends, gain experience, change the world . . . there are a million reasons.

Look for or post local opportunities in the Jobs section on Mount Vernon Patch.

Here are just a few of the many summer volunteer opportunities available in the region compiled by Volunteer! New York:

• Plant, Grow & Harvest with Rick's Giving Garden. Our New Way Garden, Age Minimum (with Adult): 12+. West Harrison
• Farm Volunteers. Hilltop Hanover Farm, Age Minimum (with Adult):13+. Age Minimum:16+. Yorktown
• Summer Reading Buddies - Ossining. JCY Westchester Community Partners, Age Minimum (with Adult): 14+. Ossining
• Student Interns, United Hebrew, Age Minimum: 15+. New Rochelle
• Garden Volunteer. New York State Veterans Home at Montrose. Age Minimum (with Adult): 16+. Montrose
• Food Recovery Program with Arc Rockland Volunteer Groups. Arc Rockland, Age Minimum: 18+. Congers
• Big Brother/Big Sister- Mentor. Big Brothers Big Sisters Family Services of Westchester, Age Minimum: 18+. Port Chester
• Jimmy Vejer Summer Fun- Camp Volunteer. Cerebral Palsy of Westchester, Age Minimum: 18+. Rye Brook
• Deliver Meals-Nanuet. Meals on Wheels Programs and Services of Rockland, Inc., Age Minimum: 18+. Nanuet
• Volunteer Escorts Needed! Northern Westchester Hospital, Age Minimum: 18+. Mount Kisco
• Dungeons & Dragons DM - Teen Program; YMCA of White Plains. Age Minimum: 18+. White Plains
• Garden Volunteer at Rockefeller Preserve, Rockefeller State Park Preserve. Age Minimum: 18+. Pleasantville
• Group Project - Landscaping, The Children's Village. Dobbs Ferry
• Volunteers Needed for Basketball Tournament, Arc Rockland. Age Minimum (with Adult): 16+. Congers | June 2nd from 11am-5pm
• Advocate, CODA Mentor, CODA advocate. The harris project; Age Minimum (with Adult): 18+. Through Westchester
• Volunteer Placement Specialist, Volunteer New York!. Age Minimum (with Adult): 18+. Tarrytown
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland County Sign up today to become a Mentor, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Rockland County, Age Minimum (with Adult): 18+. New City
• Vocational Boni-Bell Farm Internship, (Full Time May-November), Green Chimneys, Age Minimum: 21+. Brewster
• Adaptive Tennis Fun Assistant Leaderwith Fun for Cure, Inc.. Age Minimum (with Adult): 12+, , Age Minimum: 16+. Eastchester

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