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What Do RSVP Volunteers Do?
Virtually Anything They Like To Do!
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RSVP utilizes the vast talents of older volunteers willing to
share their experiences, abilities and skills through community
agencies and non-profit organizations in response to a wide variety
of community needs.
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Education:
Reading to children, working with adult literacy,
helping public libraries, working with heritage skills, museums and the art council.
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Community
and Economic
Development: Preparing income tax and electronic filing, matching children and sponsors for the Christmas Coalition, helping with recreation programs and community
festivals.
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Health and Nutrition:
Delivering frozen meals, helping with blood drives,
coordinating signups for immunization clinics and delivering substance abuse prevention activities for children.
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Public Safety:
Participating
in Homeland Security volunteer teams, intergenerational crime prevention programs, serving on a
neighborhood watch, providing safety and accident prevention
education, anger management and conflict resolution training, and manning the courthouse information desk.
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Environment:
Monitoring streams and the lake, recycling, managing litter
control and reforestation projects, working with neighborhood
beautification, and conduction field trips for school children..
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Human Need
Services: Assisting individuals in times of
personal crisis and disaster, friendly visiting to those who are
shut-in or in health care facilities, providing a broad range of
services to senior citizens.
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