From allison@uwvolunteers.org Tue Jan 9 22:30:32 2001 Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.54]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id WAA78868 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:30:29 -0800 Received: from dante41.u.washington.edu (root@dante41.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.201]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id WAA05836 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:30:27 -0800 Received: from oemcomputer (cs307-25.spmodem.washington.edu [140.142.172.26]) by dante41.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with SMTP id WAA99550 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:30:21 -0800 Message-ID: <001901c07acf$e152e8e0$1aac8e8c@oemcomputer> From: "Allison Peake" To: Subject: Upcoming Short Term Volunteer Opportunities Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:37:09 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0011_01C07A8C.B3A02180" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C07A8C.B3A02180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Welcome back Volunteers! We hope you all enjoyed the winter break! It's not only time to get = back in the study mode, but the VOLUNTEER mode as well! We'd like to thank SeattleWorks (www.SeattleWorks.org) for helping us provide you with even more volunteer opportunities. As always, please feel free to forward this information on to friends = and to tell your classmates about UW Volunteers. There can never be too = many volunteers! Have a great Winter quarter! Allison and Eric UPCOMING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: ****************************************************** **UW Day of Service on January 15** In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the UW is hosting a day of service. = You should have received an e-mail from the administration about it, = but here it is again, just in case you didn't. This is an awsome way to = spend our day off of class! It is going to be GREAT!!!!=20 The day will begin with a 9:00 a.m. kick-off in By George, featuring = free coffee and refreshments and sign-up sheets (first come, first served) = for more than a dozen different volunteer opportunities. I'll be there. Service sites will likely range from the Community Center for the Deaf = to the Refugee Assistance Program to the Jubilee Women's Center. You might be asked to paint or clean or serve lunch. By 10:00 or so, our UW teams will be formed up and ready to report for service. Your U-PASS = will get you to some sites by bus, but there is also a need for carpool drivers. At the end of your day's work, you will have made a real contribution to the community and paid tribute to the memory of Dr. = King. If you would like to join the Day of Service, please register on the Web site of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate: http://depts.washington.edu/gpss/servpledge.html.=20 **Click to save the world: Daily and IT'S FREE** www.TheHungerSite.com, www.TheRainForestSite.com, = www.TheKidsAidsSite.com **U-District Soup Kitchen: Every Friday afternoon/evening** Volunteers are needed for this weekly soup kitchen at the University = Temple Methodist Church (located on the SW corner of NE 43rd St and 15th Ave NE.)Cooking starts on Friday at 3:00 PM. The meal is served at 7:00 and clean up is usually done by 9:30. Volunteers are welcome to stop by any = time between those hours and stay for as long as they like. For more info contact, Sinan Demirel at sinand@yahoo.com. **Monday, January 15th** Bailey-Boushay is seeking 10 volunteers on Monday, January 15th from 3:30-5:00PM to help set tables for our Chef's Dinner Annual Fundraiser = at El Gaucho in Belltown. Set up includes place settings, programs, guest = gifts and donation cards. 230 people attend this event! For more information please contact Chris Backous at 206-720-2337, or email christopher.backous@vmmc.org. **Saturday, January 20th Wigstock Bingo through the Chicken Soup = Brigade** Volunteers are needed to help with set-up, ushering, = concessions, selling special games, and other tasks. Find out more about = this fabulous fundraiser on-line and call Brandy at 206/860-6301 to sign = up.=20 **Northwest Folklife (ongoing opportunity for January)** On February 9, Northwest Folklife is sponsoring "Across the Aegean," a concert featuring Turkish and Greek musicians. Volunteers are needed to help in January to distribute flyers to area businesses and the evening = of the concert. All volunteers will be given free admission into the = concert. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Cyndie at = 206-684-7019, or email volunteers@nwfolklife.org. **On going oppportunity with the Chicken Soup Brigade - Care to Shop** THIS OPPORTUNITY IS GREAT FOR GROUPS If you have a group looking for a volunteer project you could do = together, staffing our food drive at local grocery stores may be the = answer. Please contact Amy at 206/320-0206 to sign up and visit our Care = to Shop page for more information.=20 **Puget Sound Blood Center - Donate Blood** For more info, call 800-398-7888 or visit www.psbc.org ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C07A8C.B3A02180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Welcome back Volunteers!
 
We hope you all enjoyed the winter = break! =20 It's not only time to get back in the study mode, but the VOLUNTEER mode = as=20 well!
 
We'd like to thank SeattleWorks (www.SeattleWorks.org) for = helping=20 us
provide you with even more volunteer opportunities.

As = always,=20 please feel free to forward this information on to friends and to tell = your=20 classmates about UW Volunteers. There can never be too many=20 volunteers!
 
Have a great Winter = quarter!
Allison and Eric
 
UPCOMING VOLUNTEER=20 OPPORTUNITIES:
******************************************************<= BR>
**UW Day of Service on January=20 15**
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the UW is hosting = a day of=20 service.  You should have received an e-mail from the = administration about=20 it, but here it is again, just in case you didn't.  This is an = awsome way=20 to spend our day off of class!  It is going to be GREAT!!!!=20
The day will begin with a 9:00 a.m. = kick-off in By=20 George, featuring free
coffee and refreshments and sign-up sheets = (first=20 come, first served) for
more than a dozen different volunteer = opportunities.=20 I'll be there.
Service sites will likely range from the Community = Center for=20 the Deaf to
the Refugee Assistance Program to the Jubilee Women's = Center.=20 You
might be asked to paint or clean or serve lunch. By 10:00 or so, = our=20 UW
teams will be formed up and ready to report for service. Your = U-PASS=20 will
get you to some sites by bus, but there is also a need for=20 carpool
drivers. At the end of your day's work, you will have made a=20 real
contribution to the community and paid tribute to the memory of = Dr.=20 King.

If you would like to join the Day of Service, please = register on=20 the Web
site of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate:
http://depts.wa= shington.edu/gpss/servpledge.html.=20
 

**Click to save the world: Daily = and IT'S=20 FREE**
www.TheHungerSite.com, www.TheRainForestSite.com, = www.TheKidsAidsSite.com

**U-District Soup Kitchen: Every = Friday=20 afternoon/evening**
Volunteers are needed for this weekly soup = kitchen at the=20 University Temple
Methodist Church (located on the SW corner of NE = 43rd St=20 and 15th Ave
NE.)Cooking starts on Friday at 3:00 PM.  The meal = is=20 served at 7:00 and
clean up is usually done by 9:30. Volunteers are = welcome=20 to stop by any time
between those hours and stay for as long as they = like.=20 For more info
contact, Sinan Demirel at sinand@yahoo.com.

 
**Monday, January 15th**
Bailey-Boushay is seeking 10 volunteers = on Monday,=20 January 15th from
3:30-5:00PM to help set tables for our Chef's = Dinner Annual=20 Fundraiser at El
Gaucho in Belltown.  Set up includes place = settings,=20 programs, guest gifts
and donation cards.  230 people attend = this=20 event!  For more information
please contact Chris Backous at=20 206-720-2337, or email
christopher.backous@vmmc.org= .

**Saturday, January 20th Wigstock Bingo through the Chicken = Soup=20 Brigade** Volunteers are = needed to help=20 with set-up, ushering, concessions, selling special games, and other = tasks. Find=20 out more about this fabulous fundraiser on-line and call = Brandy at=20 206/860-6301 to sign up.

**Northwest Folklife (ongoing opportunity for January)**
On = February=20 9, Northwest Folklife is sponsoring "Across the Aegean," a
concert = featuring=20 Turkish and Greek musicians.  Volunteers are needed to
help in = January=20 to distribute flyers to area businesses and the evening of
the = concert. =20 All volunteers will be given free admission into the concert.
If you = are=20 interested in volunteering please contact Cyndie at 206-684-7019,
or = email volunteers@nwfolklife.org.<= /FONT>

**On going = oppportunity=20 with the Chicken Soup Brigade - Care to Shop**

THIS OPPORTUNITY IS GREAT FOR=20 GROUPS
If you have a group = looking=20 for a volunteer project you could do together, staffing our food drive = at local=20 grocery stores may be the answer. Please contact Amy at 206/320-0206 to = sign up=20 and visit our Care = to=20 Shop page for more information.

**Puget Sound Blood Center - Donate Blood**

For more info, call 800-398-7888 or visit www.psbc.org

 



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