Dear Tyler,
March is here and with it comes daylight savings time and the first day of spring. Some of our affiliates are already starting to recruit volunteers for spring volunteer opportunities. Be sure to check out those opportunities plus many more in our searchable database. |
HandsOn Twin Cities Volunteer Expo
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 Satruday, February 21, marked our fourth Volunteer Expo at the Mall of America and this was easily our biggest and best.
Visitors to the mall
were able to enjoy live entertainment, bid in our silent auction, speed
volunteer, and most importantly meet with over 100 local nonprofits to learn
about their volunteer needs.
Entertainment included the Morris Park Players, Helping Paws
Service Dogs, Walker West Music Academy, Union Gospel Mission Choir and two hip-hop
dance crews from Johnson
High School.
This year's speed volunteering opportunities were decorating
lunch bags for HSI's Meals On Wheels program and creating cat toys for Feline
Rescue. In just 5 hours volunteers decorated over 300 lunch bags!
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Upcoming Workshops
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LeaderShop: Developing and Analyzing Surveys
March 17, 2009 11:30AM - 1:00PM at
HandsOn Twin Cities
Fees are $20.
The success of your volunteer program greatly depends on
the positive experiences of volunteers. But how do we know how they feel?
Surveys are one way to collect this information. Learn about ways to design
surveys and how to administer, collect and analyze results. Hear about a
specific survey conducted by Goodwill/Easter Seals, and share your experiences
in conducting surveys at your organization!
Trainer: Beth Mammenga, Goodwill/EasterSeals Minnesota
Volunteer Management: The Essentials
March 19, 2009 9:00AM - 11:30AM at
HandsOn Twin Cities
$40 for affiliates, $60 non-affiliates.
The Essentials give you a great understanding of the
components necessary for a successful volunteer management program. Also learn
about trends in volunteerism and how they help in the development of a solid
program structure.
Trainer: Zeeda Magnuson, HandsOn Twin Cities
LeaderShop: Successful Project Photos
March 24, 2009 11:30AM - 1:00PM at
HandsOn Twin Cities
Fees are $20.
Successful photos tell a story that engage the viewer and
get them more involved in your organization. Learn 10 simple small things you
can start doing right away to take more compelling photos.
Trainer: Tyler Bancroft, HandsOn Twin Cities
It's Easy Being Green: Simple Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Practices
March 25, 2009 9:00AM - 10:00AM at
HandsOn Twin Cities
Free.
This interactive train-the-trainer workshop will provide
you the tools to share easy ways to reduce, reuse and recycle with your
colleagues, volunteers or clients. Learn about creative and simple ways we all
can help the environment, reduce waste and save money! This workshop is part of
a grant received through Community P.O.W.E.R. (Partners on Waste Education and
Reduction).
Trainer: Katie Walsh, HandsOn Twin Cities
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RethinkRecycling Quiz
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 Take our 9-question quiz to test your knowledge about reducing, reusing and recycling.
You will also get simple ideas of ways you can reduce waste, reuse and recycle more. If we all did just one thing collectively we can make a difference!
Funding for this project was provided by the Solid Waste Management
Coordinating Board through Community POWER: Partners on Waste Education
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| Affiliate Highlight |
This month's affiliate highlight is the Girl
Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin
River Valleys.
In partnership with 18,000 adult volunteers,
Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys helps nearly 45,000 girls
each year - in all or portions of 49 counties in southern Minnesota and western
Wisconsin - to discover new abilities, connect with new friends, and take
action to improve their communities.
Volunteers, female
and male, 18 and older are the driving force of Girl Scouts. They were chosen in honor of National Girl Scout Week which
starts on March 8th.
For more information visit www.girlscoutsrv.org.
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Volunteer Spotlight
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This month's Volunteer
Spotlight recognizes Amanda and Jacob R., who volunteer with DARTS, assisting
an older couple with their grocery needs.
The couple has been volunteering for
over a year helping with the small but very important task of buying and unpacking
groceries for the couple they were partnered with.
Amanda and Jacob were
nominated because their volunteer supervisor felt they are a great example of
how a family can share some time, do good work together, and make someone's
life a little easier.
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Nominate a Youth Athlete
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Nominate local heroes between 13-25 years old who are making your community a better place through sports and volunteerism.
Winners will receive a $150 NikeID experience. Nike will also make a $1,000 contribution in the winner's name to the organization
or school where they volunteer.
Nominate them at: www.nikegamechangers.com/athletesserve through March 27, 2009 or by faxing this application to 202-729-
8033. For more information, please contact AthletesServe@handsonnetwork.org.
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Minneapolis MN 55413
P: 612.379.4900
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HandsOn Schools Project at Harding High School.
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Throughout 2009,
HandsOn Twin Cities is partnering with three St. Paul
schools, Washington Technology Middle School,
Johnson High
School and Harding
High School through our
HandsOn Schools program. The HandsOn Schools program is an innovative approach
to school revitalization. Through school
beautification projects, a student leadership program and increased community
engagement HandsOn Schools aims to re-establish schools as the focal point of communities.
On February 26th,
HandsOn Twin
Cities and 3M partnered to complete
the first of four school beautification projects that will take place over the
course of the year at Harding
High School.
Approximately 25
volunteers from 3M attended the event. During the afternoon, while there was a
snow storm outside, inside the school, volunteers and students painted a peace
tree mural, decorated several display cases, identified and labeled flags that
hang in the school's atrium and worked on a block representing the school's cultural diversity.
Many of the projects
completed are part of the school's vision to celebrate the cultural diversity
of the students. With the support of 3M volunteers, we will continue to build
on this initial project.
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