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Pennies for Poverty:
Two Cents For Change
Two Hours for Change:
To increase awareness of volunteer needs in the community and encourage everyone to volunteer 2 hours a month.
Have you given your 2 hours this month?
We are asking that everyone volunteer two hours a month to an organization of their choice. To encourage this, we've compiled a Volunteer Opportunities Directory, available to download. Two Hours for Change will have a Volunteer Job Fair in the fall to bring together organizations and individuals and a Volunteer Vacation Fair in the spring.
For a complete listing of volunteer opportunities in Newburyport, contact the First Religious Society (Unitarian Universalist), 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950; Telephone: (978) 465-0602 Fax: (978) 462-0384, or visit their website here.
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Come, sign up to volunteer and be part of the solution!
Hosted by: The Social Action Committee of the FRSUU, Belleville Congregational Church, The Poverty Program, and Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change, Inc.
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Common CENTS Resource BANK:
Do you have a special skill? Do you have a special knowledge or skill such as home finance, foreign language skills, resume writing etc? Are you interested in being a mentor? If you would like to be part of this new volunteer opportunity, please call or email Dudley Glover at dgplumisle@aol.com.
Common CENTS Garden:
First Parish Church of Newbury has generously donated a vegetable plot. Pennies for Poverty is looking for volunteers to help plant, maintain, harvest and distribute the produce to the local food pantries and soup kitchens in Newburyport. If you would like to be part of this new initiative, please contact Fran Larkin at franlarkin@comcast.net.
Organic gardening classes are as followed and is required by First Parish of all volunteer gardeners: Deb Whalen's organic vegetable class will be on Friday, February 20, from 6:30 - 8:30 and repeated on Saturday, March 7, 5 - 7 PM. Our required organizational meeting will be held on Saturday, February 28, starting at 9AM. All of these events will be held at First Parish Church.
"Be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
Buddhist saying: "If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."
Other Ways to Volunteer:
Send a thank you to someone who has made a difference.
Reach Out to Those in Need. Deliver homemade cards or heart-shaped cookies to the sick, the elderly, the homeless -- and their caregivers.
Clean Your Closets. Get a head start on spring cleaning and donate clothes, toys, furniture, household items, and old computers to nonprofits accepting them
Leave a small gift at the door of a family suffering illness, having a hard time, or an elderly home or family.
Pick out some place or object to improve. Clear out a vacant lot and plant trees and shrubs, straighten a street sign, or re-paint a bus stop.
Return your shopping cart to the storage area.
Turn in items to be recycled.
Select a person in your neighborhood or class who is feeling down. Send that person a greeting card anonymously.
Do a job (like mowing the lawn, cleaning the house, or shoveling snow) for someone who is having hard times, and surprise him or her by not charging.
Slip some money into the pocket of a needy friend.