About The Volunteer Center of the Virginia Peninsula

Maintaining a diverse network of qualified volunteers and connecting their capabilities with emerging needs of the residents and communities we serve.

Thanks Abuelo's for choosing The Volunteer Center to be the recipient of a $5,000.00 donation.

Picutured Jimmy Miller, Board member, Brian Vernon, Abuelo's General Manager, Carolyn Kincaid, The VC Executive Director, Latrice Langhorne, Youth TEAM member, Ashley Morris, Americorps/VISTA, Patty Quesenberry, The VC Program Manager, Connor Kincaid, Youth TEAM member at the grand opening of Abuelo's in Peninsula Town Center in Hampton, VA.

What's happening in the Youth TEAM program? -  How are our youth and seniors meeting up?  What do teens and Home Depot have in common?!? Click on the Youth Volunteerism link at left.

Human Race forms are available at the HUMAN RACE link at left.  Looking for $$ to support YOUR nonprofit or school? Coming in November to a park near you. . .   

We're more than just volunteers ~ 

we're the community!

For over 50 years, The Volunteer Center of the Virginia Peninsula has served as the central clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities where nonprofits, schools and local governments get skilled volunteers to help with programs throughout the Peninsula.  Are you aware that The Volunteer Center has a much broader spectrum of services behind the scenes?  Recruiting and convening the Local Food and Shelter Board (FEMA), the Center coordinates the dispersing of federal funds - already almost $200,000 in 2010 - to other nonprofits to feed and shelter those in need in our community.  Ongoing support is provided to volunteer managers throughout the region through the Volunteer Management Training Series as well as a monthly networking luncheon.  Working in cooperation with the VOAD committee and EOC disaster coordinators, The Volunteer Center recruits and places skilled volunteers for disaster recovery efforts including Hurricane Isabel and the more recent Nor'Ida.  The Center partners with local groups and faith congregations in disaster preparedness and response and provides disaster training at the local, state and national level.  Senior sensitivity training offered by the Center is designed to help agencies and businesses experience first-hand how older customers may be experiencing life's challenges of aging. The Volunteer Center administers the SafeAssured ID Program to identify vulnerable seniors and children in cooperation with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and helps keep them safe through a computer based program.  The Volunteer Center promotes youth volunteerism through coordination with local schools, nonprofit youth programs and communities of faith.  This year the Center was  chosen as a lead agency for Global Youth Service Day.

We can only do all this with your help.  Click on a tax deductible Donate Now tab. 

A donation of. . .           Will provide. . .

  $10                       Support for a youth with volunteer leadership training materials

  $25                       Five sets of heavy gloves for disaster recovery

  $50                       Ten SafeAssured ID kits to protect children

$100                       Engagement of 25 students in diverse service projects 

$500                       Materials for home safety for 50 vulnerable seniors

From community clean-up volunteers to serving as Board members, matching up licensed medical personnel with local Free Clinics and other programs,  constructing wheelchair ramps or painting at a local shelter, perhaps working with animals or growing vegetables for local shelters. . . The Volunteer Center of the Virginia Peninsula is here for you.  Click on the 1-800-Volunteer.org link to the left to find your match with 190 local nonprofits, schools and governments!

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