Virginia Tech created a new volunteer program called VT-ENGAGE to encourage volunteerism and enhance the relationship and partnership efforts between the university and the community.
United Way and VT-Engage are community partners in an effort to match volunteers with organizations needing volunteer help by utilizing an online system called Volunteer Solutions. You can use Volunteer Solutions to find volunteer opportunities and/or post the volunteer needs of your group.
Volunteers: We encourage you to register and complete a volunteer profile so you can receive email alerts about opportunities you would like. Click here to register.
Non-Profits: Register your group's volunteer and donation needs so you can receive email alerts about matches to help you. Agencies and organizations, click here to register.
VT-ENGAGE reaffirms Virginia Tech's commitment to service worldwide and helps people actively live out its motto, Ut Prosim, That I May Serve – established in 1896.
If you live outside the New River Valley area, simply enter the zip code of your community in the U.S. and opportunities listed closest to you will be listed.
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The Town of Blacksburg helps provide this local United Way community building program, connecting individuals to volunteer opportunities & donated goods to charities locally.
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YMCA Book Fair
Active Oct 6, 2008 to Oct 20, 2008
~ On Friday from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday morning at 10 , Cece Bell of Sock Monkey fame will bring not just her monkey but three of the children’s books she has written and illustrated. Inspired by a sock monkey kit her grandmother gave her, Cece began her first book in graduate school. Its success has led to six more, all published by Candlewick Press. Cece now lives in Ironto with husband Tom Angleberger, two sons, an indeterminate number of dogs—and the same sock monkey. At the Book Fair she will be autographing Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood, Sock Monkey Boogie Woogie, and Sock Monkey Rides Again. ~Jane Hellman pedaled her mountain bike solo across America, from Virginia to Oregon, in just over two and a half months and lived to write about it with humor and insight in the just-published Summer Engagement: Cross Country Tales From the Saddle. Though back in her job as a family therapist, Jane continues her biking and travels. She will be at the Fair with copies of her book and maybe even her bike from 6:30 until 8:30 Friday night. Bikers and armchair travelers alike will want to hear her stories. ~Judith Clarke comes to the Book Fair on Saturday morning at 10 with her two hit-home books, Mother Tough Wrote the Book and That’s All She Wrote. Her first book tells of the trials and triumphs of raising two girls as a single Mom. Its no-nonsense wit caused a Roanoke Times reviewer to describe it as “ Erma Bombeck meets Poor Richard.” Her second book records her move to Blacksburg and life here as a wife, mother, grandmother, and passionate member of the Red Hat Society. Talking with Judy will show you why her e-mails end with the quote “The most wasted day of all is one in which we have not laughed.” Mark your calendars now—October 17, 18 and 19—for this year’s Y Book Fair at the Y Center, 1000 North Main Street. You’ll find a feast of books along with the chance to join your community in supporting and celebrating the growing Y. |
Sponsored by YMCA At Virginia Tech.
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