If you're looking to help out your community, you've come to the right place. Non-profit organizations all across Hernando County, including Brooksville, Spring Hill, and Weeki Wachee, are looking for help from people just like you. Browse through the groups below that are looking for help right now - and be sure to check back - we add new listings each week. Thank you in advance for all you do to make Tampa Bay and Hernando County a great place to live.
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Office Volunteers Needed
Project Name: Office Volunteers
Reins of Hope
Project Name: Assisting in therapeutic horseback riding Support the Troops Inc.
Project Name: Christmas bag for our troops I would be happy to come and speak to any groups interested in participating. Please remember that we must have all the bags in house by the end of October to get them shipped out in time. Thanks so much for all of your help and support!
Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind
Project Name: Drivers for the Blind The Lighthouse is in immediate need of volunteer drivers to transport clients to and from classes based at the center.
Tampa VisionWalk
Organization Name: Foundation Fighting Blindness
Join the tens of thousands of people who have taken important steps toward a cure by participating in VisionWalk. Participate in the walk by joining a team, starting your own, sponsoring the event or simply coming to walk to show your support! VisionWalk is the national signature fundraising event of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Since it’s inception in the Spring of 2006, the program has raised over $8 million to fund sight-saving research. As promising treatments move into critical human studies, the need for research funding is greater than ever before. Website: http://www.fightblindness.org/site/PageServer?pagename=2010TB_Walk_Day_Details
Miles For Hope
Project Name: Moving Towards A Cure(sm) 2010 Run/Walk-Cycle Event
Miles for Hope
Project Name: No-Brainer Rock Throwdown Benefit Concert
Counties: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee, Hernando, Hardee Description: The Mission of Miles for Hope is to raise awareness and funding of cutting edge brain tumor research as well as clinical trials and to providing travel assistance to qualified patients. Through our work, we intend on finding not only treatments that provide a better quality of life for those suffering with brain cancer, but to find a cure for it. Website: http://www,milesforhope.org Phone Number: 727-781-4673 Email Address: crystal@milesforhope.org Big Brothers - Big Sisters
Project Name: Mentoring Children
Counties: Pinellas, Hernando Description: Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. We match an at risk youth with an adult mentor in the community. We have been the leader in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Website: http://BBBSPC.org Phone Number: 727-518-8860 Email Address: ShirleyN@bbbspc.org Suncoast Surfrider Foundation
Project Name: Beach Cleanups
Counties: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee, Hernando, Hardee Description: The Suncoast Surfrider Foundation is a grassroots non-profit organization intent on keeping our Florida Beaches in pristine condition. We focus on conservation, activism, research, and educating the local community about our mother ocean. Please help us by volunteering at our local quarterly beach cleanups. Website: http://www.SuncoastSurfrider.org PACE Center for Girls
Project Name: Tutors, Mentors, Motivational Speakers
Counties: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee, Hernando, Hardee Description: PACE Center for Girls is an educational and social service program serving and saving at-risk girls in Tampa. We are the premier program for middle and senior high age girls, with a success rate that is second to none and serves as a national model. Here are a few examples of the types of volunteers that we could use. • Handy-men/women for various odd jobs • Mentoring • Clerical assistance • Tutoring • Presentations to the girls of PACE Volunteers are screen in a process similar to the screening that public school teachers go through, including criminal and finger-print tests. Website: http://www.pacecenter.org/Hillsborough Phone Number: 813-739-0410 Email Address: friendsofpace@pacecenter.org Thoroughbred Retirement of Tampa, Inc.
Project Name: TROT the Track
Counties: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee, Hernando, Hardee Description: Thoroughbred Retirement of Tampa, Inc. (TROT) is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to the safe retirement, rehabilitation and adoption of Tampa's racing Thoroughbreds. Volunteers are needed for barn chores, events and fundraising. Website: http://www.tampatrot.org PACE Center for Girls
Project Name: Tutors, Mentors, Motivational Speakers
Counties: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee, Hernando, Citrus, None of the Above Description: PACE Center for Girls is an educational and social service program serving and saving at-risk girls in Tampa. We are the premier program for middle and senior high age girls, with a success rate that is second to none and serves as a national model. Here are a few examples of the types of volunteers that we could use. • Handy-men/women for various odd jobs • Mentoring • Clerical assistance • Tutoring • Presentations to the girls of PACE Volunteers are screen in a process similar to the screening that public school teachers go through, including criminal and finger-print tests. Website: http://www.pacecenter.org/Hillsborough Phone Number: 813-739-0410 Email Address: friendsofpace@pacecenter.org Muscular Dystrophy Association
Project Name: Shamrock Toolkit Packets / Lock Up Packets Phone Number: 813-903-2900 Email Address: tampa@mdausa.org |
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