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| Salvation Army seeks supplies
ST. PETERSBURG - The Salvation Army emergency shelter in St. Petersburg needs blankets, single flat and fitted sheets, wash cloths, unopened boxes or packages of disposable baby diapers and baby wipes.
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| Cars help club in a big way
PINELLAS COUNTY - Boys and Girls Clubs in Florida are running car campaigns to help support its programs. To donate an automobile, call (800) 246-0493. Some restrictions apply.
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| Suncoast Center needs baby items
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Suncoast Center for Community Mental Health Inc., a nonprofit organization, is seeking donations of baby items in good condition. Items needed include cribs, changing tables, playpens, highchairs and infant car seats. Call 327-7656, ext. 238.
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| Volunteer Opportunities |
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| 2-1-1 Tampa Bay
PINELLAS COUNTY - Resource volunteers are needed to commit to volunteering two hours a week assisting 2-1-1 Tampa Bay staff stay connected with more than 1,400 health and human service agencies and programs.
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| 4-H
LARGO - Adult volunteers are needed to serve Pinellas County youth, ages 8 to 12, involved in 4-H Afterschool at Extension.
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| Adopt-a-Grandchild program
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Adopt-a-Grandchild program is in need of mature volunteers to spend time with children who need extra adult support.
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| American Cancer Society
PINELLAS COUNTY - The American Cancer Society is in need of volunteers to drive patients to and from their cancer treatments.
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| American Red Cross Disaster Action Teams
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross needs volunteers to serve on Disaster Action Teams, that provide relief to victims of fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters in the Tampa Bay area.
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| Bay Pines VA Medical Center
BAY PINES - Bay Pines Veterans Administration Medical Center has a need for volunteers to provide companionship to disabled veterans at their homes for two to four hours, one day a week.
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| Beach monitors
GULF BEACHES - Dr. Stephen Leatherman, a.k.a. Dr. Beach, is seeking "beach monitors" to keep watch on the coastline. Dr. Beach needs volunteers to measure beach erosion, test for red tide and rip currents.
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| Big Brothers Big Sisters
PINELLAS COUNTY - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Pinellas County is seeking volunteers to become friends and mentors to children in their site-based mentoring programs.
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| Brooker Creek Preserve
TARPON SPRINGS - Be a part of history by volunteering at Pinellas County’s newest preserve.
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| CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse)
ST. PETERSBURG - Advocates are needed for survivors of domestic violence and their children. Volunteers (age 16 and up) are needed to help in the CASA Collection Thrift Shoppe to accept donations, greet customers, price and display merchandise.
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| Center for Victim's Rights
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Center for Victim’s Rights is in need of volunteers to make calls or send e-mails to let residents know that a speaker is available to them and to organize the accumulated articles, literature and other operating materials. Computer knowledge is helpful but not a must.
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| Children’s Home Society of Florida
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Children’s Home Society of Florida has started a Model Mentoring Program, designed to provide mentors for youth, ages 4 to 15, who have an incarcerated parent. Mentors are needed in the Tampa Bay area where more than 11,000 children have an incarcerated parent.
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| Clearwater Parks and Recreation
CLEARWATER - Clearwater Parks and Recreation is looking for volunteers to help with, among other things, its tutoring programs in the recreation centers, the nature park, special events and festivals, community beautification projects and an adopt-a-park program.
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| Clothes To Kids
DUNEDIN - The Clothes To Kids organization is seeking volunteers for its committees.
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| Faith in Action of Upper Pinellas
DUNEDIN - Faith in Action of Upper Pinellas needs volunteers willing to serve as members of its board of directors or on one of its committees - personnel and planning; budget and finance; volunteer training; public relations; grant writing; fundraising; and outreach.
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| Florida Botanical Gardens
LARGO - Volunteers who like flowers and garden-related products, are needed for Botanical Bounty, the gift shop at The Florida Botanical Gardens.
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| Florida Department of Elder Affairs
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Florida Department Of Elder affairs needs volunteers with computers to help lower income people obtain free or almost free prescription drugs.
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| Friends of Fort DeSoto
ST. PETERSBURG - The Friends of Fort DeSoto is a nonprofit organization whose mission is, "Supporting the Preservation, Conservation and Promotion of Ft. DeSoto County Park".
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| Guardian ad Litem Program
PINELLAS COUNTY - Volunteers are sought for the Sixth Judicial Circuit's Guardian ad Litem Program that provides advocates for county children caught between an overburdened welfare system and an abusive or otherwise dysfunctional home.
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| Gulf Coast Community Care
PINELLAS COUNTY - Gulf Coast Community Care needs volunteers age 30 and older for its mentoring program. Volunteers are matched with children from single parent homes who need adult companionship.
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| Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services
PINELLAS COUNTY - Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services is committed to helping refugee and asylum children to succeed in school, reduce dropout and successfully transition from school to work place as well as improving the families overall adjustment life in the United States.
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| Gulf Coast Museum of Art
LARGO - The Friends of the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the volunteer arm of the Museum membership, has a number of opportunities for those interested in promoting the welfare of the museum by encouraging membership involvement, providing needed volunteer service and aiding and supporting the exhibition and educational programs of the museum.
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| Haven of RCS
CLEARWATER - The Haven of RCS is in need of volunteers to assist in various areas of their organization. People who are bi-lingual/Spanish are especially needed.
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| Help a Child
PINELLAS COUNTY - Help a Child Inc. is seeking parent aide volunteers. While providing friendship and emotional support, the volunteers will share life skills with parents facing the unique challenges of raising children in today’s society.
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| Hi-Five Pinellas
PINELLAS COUNTY - Be a hero - become a mentor. Hi-Five Pinellas, an Eckerd Youth Alternatives program, is seeking those with a warm and friendly heart to become a friend to a fourth or fifth grader.
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| Humane Society of Pinellas
CLEARWATER - The Humane Society of Pinellas is seeking weekday and weekend volunteers and help for the canine enrichment KONG Team.
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| Neighborly Care Network
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Neighborly Care Network provides life-sustaining services to county seniors in need. The network's services include meals-on-wheels, home and day care and transportation assistance. There are volunteer opportunities for all age groups.
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| Ombudsman Advocacy Councils
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, a division of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, is a statewide volunteer program advocating for residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Seventeen volunteer councils serve long-term care residents in Florida.
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| Palms of Pasadena
ST. PETERSBURG - Palms of Pasadena Hospital is offering volunteers something fun and rewarding to do with spare time, new skills and an opportunity to develop new interests and make new friends.
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| Parent Aide Program
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Parent Aide Program is asking for help from volunteers to share wisdom and life skills with a parent and volunteer as a visiting role model to give the gift of friendship, encouragement and emotional support as a parent faces the unique challenges raising young children in today's society.
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| Pet Pal Rescue
ST. PETERSBURG - Pet Pal Rescue, a no-kill animal shelter that recently opened in St. Petersburg, is seeking dedicated volunteers. Volunteer positions are available seven days a week, mornings and afternoons, to perform jobs that range from cleaning kennels and exercising dogs to answering phones.
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| Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Sheriff’s Office Volunteers In Partnership (VIP) program is looking for interested citizens who would like to volunteer at the Sheriff’s Office.
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| Pinellas Talking Book Library
CLEARWATER - The Pinellas Talking Book Library needs volunteers to assist in providing library services to the blind, low vision, physically and reading-handicapped eligible Pinellas County patrons.
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| Safe Children Coalition
PINELLAS COUNTY - With more than 4,500 dependent children in Pinellas and Pasco counties due to child abuse, neglect or abandonment, foster homes are needed to meet the growing need in the community.
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| St. Petersburg Free Clinic
ST. PETERSBURG - The St. Petersburg Free Clinic needs of volunteers to help to assist in the maintaining of current service levels and assistance efforts.
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| St. Petersburg Police
ST. PETERSBURG - Applications are now being accepted to become a volunteer with the St. Petersburg Police, Volunteer Road Patrol and Parking Enforcement Specialist Unit.
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| Science Center of Pinellas County
ST. PETERSBURG - The Science Center of Pinellas County is looking for volunteers to work in their gift store one day a week, 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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| SCORE Chapter 115 of Pinellas County
An all volunteer organization giving free counseling to small businesses meets third Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. at Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce, 1130 Cleveland St., Clearwater.
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| SPCA TAMPA BAY
LARGO - The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Tampa Bay needs volunteers to foster puppies and kittens.
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| Sojourn Bear
An all volunteer organization, distributes handmade teddy bears to cancer patients of all ages. Call 481-9782.
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| Starkey Elementary School
SEMINOLE - Starkey Elementary School is in need reading tutors to give one-on-one attention to first and fourth grade students.
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| Stop Pet Overpopulation Together (SPOT)
SAFETY HARBOR - SPOT, Stop Pet Overpopulation Together, an all volunteer, nonprofit organization, whose mission is dedicated to ending pet overpopulation by educating the public about the importance of spay/neuter and adoption has volunteer opportunities are available in a variety of areas.
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| Suncoast Primate Sanctuary Foundation
PINELLAS COUNTY - The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary Foundation Inc. needs volunteers in all areas of the sanctuary to help with animal care, cleaning, office work, gardening work, maintenance on building and equipment, fundraising, animal food prep and staffing the guest relations table at the front gate.
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| Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary
INDIAN SHORES - With baby bird season fast approaching, the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary is seeking bird lovers interested in volunteering. Individuals interested in feeding and caring for orphaned baby birds, rescuing injured seabirds and caring for all types of wild birds are needed.
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| Suncoast Search and Rescue
PINELLAS COUNTY - Suncoast Search and Rescue is in need of new volunteers. The not-for-profit organization provides manpower to municipalities throughout Pinellas County when mass disasters occur. They operate primarily as a mass triage team, providing on-site patient assessment and stabilization while awaiting transport to nearby hospitals.
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| Sunken gardens
St. Petersburg - Sunken Gardens is currently accepting volunteer applicants to assist with gardening, greeting guests, bird care and conducting guided tours.
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| Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber
Volunteers aid visitors to the area with directions, suggestions on where to stay, eat and play. Four-hour shifts are available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 1 to 5 p.m.
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| Tarpon Springs Historical Society
TARPON SPRINGS - The Tarpon Springs Area Historical Society is looking for additional volunteers to serve as docents and receptionists at its Historical Society Depot Museum in downtown Tarpon Springs.
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| The Hospice of Florida Suncoast
LARGO - There are numerous, wide-ranging volunteer opportunities with The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast for individuals interested in activities that truly make a difference in the lives of people with chronic illnesses and those nearing the end of life or addressing end-of-life issues.
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