Volunteers needed for Day of Service

With many projects filled to capacity before the Sept. 11 Day of Service, Volunteer New York! still has room for volunteers to help with various community projects. Specifically:

Friday, Sept. 11th at The Sharing Shelf:http://www.volunteernewyork.org/HOC__Volunteer_Opportunity_Details_Page?id=a07F000000l5jIf

Friday, Sept. 11th - Serve Dinner to Those in Need:http://www.volunteernewyork.org/HOC__Volunteer_Opportunity_Details_Page?id=a07F000000l5jOK

Friday, Sept. 11th - Warehouse organizing:http://www.volunteernewyork.org/HOC__Volunteer_Opportunity_Details_Page?id=a07F000000l5joD

Saturday, Sept. 12 - Emergency preparedness workshop:http://www.volunteernewyork.org/HOC__Volunteer_Opportunity_Details_Page?id=a07F000000lINkR

As part of the national Day of Service to commemorate the men and women who stepped in to help after the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino, Volunteer New York! and Robison have worked together to plan this year’s local Day of Service and Remembrance.

Watch a clip from this week’s pressconference where 4 volunteers stepped forward to tell their story and encourage more volunteers to take action and register to serve.

Last year, more than 1,000 volunteers showed up to lend a hand to nonprofit and community-centered organizations in the Westchester area.

This year, the organization hopes that more volunteers will step forward to give blood, join the bone marrow donor registry, learn Hands-Only CPR, or consider becoming an organ donor – which are just some of the ways that volunteers save lives everyday.

Volunteers can register for free by going to www.volunteernewyork.org/service.

We encourage all volunteers to also participate in our drives, which include donating blood, donating healthy food, and donating books for young readers. The New York Blood Center is collecting blood at the Westchester County Center on September 11th and food and books can be dropped off there as well.

List of volunteer project and nonprofit partners

Volunteers will complete Hunger & Homelessness related support projects, as well as activities that support at-risk youth, Veterans, and emergency first-responders. With many projects taking place at the Westchester County Center from 2-6pm on September 11th. Please register if you plan on attending.

· Afya Foundation

· American Heart Association

· Community Service Associates

· Family Services of Westchester: The Sharing Shelf

· Friends of Westchester Parks

· Furniture Sharehouse

· Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson

· Hillside Food Outreach

· Hope Community Services

· Leake & Watts, Inc.

· Lifting Up Westchester

· LiveOnNY

· Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital - Westchester Medical Center

· Mercy College

· New York Blood Center

· Open Door Family Medical Center

· Operation Gratitude

· Project Linus

· Rivertowns Village Green

· Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley

· SPCA of Westchester County

· The Red Cross

· Together Our Unity Can Heal

· Volunteer New York!

· Westchester Community Opportunity Program, Inc.

· Westchester Jewish Community Services

· WJCS: Kids’ Kloset

· Worldwide Community First Responder, Inc.

· Yorktown Teen Center