Walkathon for environmental illness

May 4, 10 a.m., Charlottesville Farmers Market, Downtown

Be a volunteer with the Charlottesville Walkathon! We will have a table set up at the Charlottesville Farmers Market from 7 a.m. to 12 noon, selling T-shirts and handing out literature about environmental illness. The Walk will leave at 10 a.m. to City Hall around the Freedom of Speech Wall and back.Proceeds from the Walkathon benefit the Jennifer Parker Foundation, Inc. For more information on the Walkathon and the Jennifer Parker Foundation, Inc., please see the website. To volunteer, contact 609-926-0133 ...

U.VA. Children's Hospital Service of Remembrance

May 4, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. *shifts vary, McLeod Hall Auditorium

Volunteers (students & faculty) are needed to help with The U.Va. Children's Hospital Service of Remembrance. Each year, the U.Va. Children's Hospital holds a remembrance service to honor children who have died in the past two years. This event is for parents, family members, friends of the family, staff, and other select individuals. This service celebrates the children's lives and provides an avenue of support and healing for parents and others involved in the child's care.

We are seeking volunteers to help with this uplifting and hopeful program. Volunteer shifts are from 12 to 3 p.m., 2 to 5 p.m., or 12 to 5 p.m. Volunteers tasks include: welcome and register guests, direct event traffic and parking, arrange and serve refreshments, prepare and distribute flowers to guests, provide supervision of children (infant to 11-years-old), arrange memory tables and direct families to place memorabilia, escort families and guests to auditorium, assist with stage decorations and Tree of Life, assist with overall event set up and clean up. Dress will be casual professional. Please, no shorts,flip flops, jeans, or T-shirts. We will be moving some tables within the lobby area, so you may want to wear something comfortable, but then change into something a little more professional-casual if you plan to stay for the service.

We will be greeting approximately 100 to 200 people ...

3rd Annual H.Y.P.E. "Spring Fling" Community Day

May 4, 2 to 6 p.m., South 1st Street Housing Site

Data shows that in the South 1st Street neighborhood, more than half of the residents are below the poverty line. Thus, we want to give back by having an event in which we provide free food, drinks, health screenings, job training information, and games for the children. At our last event in this location in 2012, we fed an estimated 300 people and had a great time. Volunteers are needed to help with food, drinks and games ...

Monticello Man Triathlon

May 5, 6:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. (4-hour shift), Lake Monticello

The Monticello Man Triathlon is looking for 60 to 100 volunteers for a variety of activities, including set up and clean up. Volunteers will be scheduled for a 4-hour shift during the day. The earliest volunteers will need to arrive by 6:15 a.m. and the event will be over and cleaned up by 6 p.m. This opportunity is perfect for student groups or Greek organizations. More information can be found at www.CharlottesvilleMultiSports.com. All interested volunteers should reach out to Kate Lucas at katelucas@live.com or (804) 400-3063 ...

third annual Taste of the Farm

May 11, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Maple Hill Farm

Please join Local Food Hub for our third annual Taste of the Farm plant sale and open house at Maple Hill Farm! Food, music, farmer's market, kid's activities, farm tour, and more! Join us rain or shine. This event is free! We also need volunteers! Join us for a few hours or all day – help with set up, plant sales, kid's activities, the photo booth, and more! Please email Emily if you're interested. We pay in plants (and a free lunch) ...

Camp AmeriKids counselor

Session One: July 29 - Aug. 5
Session Two: Aug. 10 - 17

Camp AmeriKids, a summer camp for children living with the challenges of HIV/AIDS and sickle cell disease, is looking for caring, responsible, energetic and fun counselors for our 2013 season. A volunteer counselor team is responsible for the 24-hour supervision of a cabin and maintains a camper to counselor ratio of about 2 to1. Counselors spend each day of the one week camp session with their cabin group as they rotate through a schedule of activities and participate in new and exciting workshops provided by the program staff ...

physics tutor

We are looking to hire a qualified physics tutor for our fifteen-year-old daughter, Kimberly. She needs a general brush-up with her physics/algebra I and in any areas that she might have difficulties with. If you are available and qualified, please contact us here ...

Volunteer Abroad

Volunteer for 1 to 12 weeks, based on your schedule

Cross Cultural Solutions (CCS) is a large, nonprofit organization that facilitates volunteering trips and internships abroad in over 10 destinations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. You can go from 1 week to 12 weeks at any time of the year! The most exciting part about this opportunity is that you get to explore the world and do much more than just volunteering - like hiking the Himalayas, swimming with Sharks in Cape Town, learning native tribe dialects, cooking native food, visiting Machu Picchu, and much more!

Ongoing Child Care

Second Sat. and Third Thurs. of every month, 909 E. Market Street
Sat.: 10 to 11:30 a.m. | Thurs.: 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Communtiy Attention Foster Families provides support in many ways to area Foster Families. On the second Saturday and third Thursday of every month, we conduct support groups for the foster parents. We need volunteer help to provide child care. For more information, please visit the website or contact Marnie Allen ...

child care at the women's initiative

The Women's Initiative, is a local non-profit that provides mental health services to uninsured women. A volunteer is needed to provide childcare during our Spanish-speaking support group on Wednesday mornings. This is a 2-hour commitment from 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. You can sign up for as many shifts per month as you are able. For more information, please email Elizabeth at eirvin@thewomensinitiative.org ...

Volunteer with JABA

The Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) is in need of three volunteers. (1) Sous Chef: Help is needed in a busy commercial kitchen at the Hillsdale JABA location for a few hours a day during the work week. Not only will this volunteer work with great people, some great and practical work experience will be gained; (2) Recruiter: A volunteer is needed to assist in recruiting and managing volunteers for the FISH (Friends In School Helping) Program; (3) Driver: Volunteer Drivers are needed to transport seniors from Fluvanna to Charlottesville and back for medical appointments and to community centers. For more info or to express interest, please contact Robi Keyes at rkeyes@jabacares.org ...

Nelson co. spca

Wednesdays and Saturdays, Charlottesville Pet Supplies Plus, Route 29

Nelson County SPCA is always in need of volunteers and foster parents for cats and dogs. Right now, we are seeking weekly volunteers for Wednesday and Saturday. We are blessed to have a satellite location in Charlottesville at Pet Supplies Plus, where we can house cats/kittens for adoption. This helps immensely because we are a rural shelter. Volunteers are assigned a specific day to come in and clean the enclosures and litter boxes and feed/water the cats/kittens. It takes about one hour. This opportunity is ongoing. Contact Melonie at 434-989-1948 ...