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Use Your Weekends to Volunteer for the Environment, East Bay (June 19-July 24)

Josefina — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:12:35 +0000

Join HandsOn Bay Area for a weekly volunteer service learning series that will expose you to the East Bay’s leading environmental organizations that work to enhance the community through habitat restoration, landscape beautification, and planting community gardens. Through this unique experience, volunteers will meet new people, learn about community issues and provide important volunteer work to local organizations. This six-week series takes place primarily on the weekends, between the dates of June 19 – July 24.

The events include:

Habitat restoration at the Oakland Zoo (Oakland) — Saturday, June 19, 8:30AM – 12:30PM
Gardening at Baxter Creek (Richmond) — Saturday, June 26, 10:00AM – 1:00PM
Beautify Lake Merritt (Oakland) — Saturday, July 3 10:00AM – 1:00PM
Pizza & Movie Screening — Saturday, July 10, Time TBD
Garden at Lake Merritt (Oakland) — Saturday, July 17, 10:00AM – 1:00PM
Restore Wildcat Creek with the East Bay Regional Parks (Richmond) — Saturday, July 24, 9:00AM – 12:00PM

Please apply! If you are interested, please fill out an application by visiting our website: http://www.handsonbayarea.org/AboutUs/index.php/Learn/teamworks_focus.html

Bay Area Mitzvah Corps

Josefina — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:27:06 +0000

Bay Area Mitzvah Corps is a socially conscious summer camp for high school students, and we’ll be volunteering with non-profits all over San Francisco from late June to mid July. We are currently looking for week-long or two week-long volunteer opportunities in San Francisco during the following weeks:

June 28th-July 2
July 5- July 9
July 12-July 16

So if your organization can use some extra help this summer, please contact us by phone at 248-561-1174 or by email at bamc@urj.org.

Bay Area Mitzvah Corps is a smaller program, so your organization would only have to accommodate 3-12 volunteers. These kids are bright, enthusiastic, and they’d be a great addition to your team. We are particularly interested in partnering with organizations that engage in direct service, political activism, or building/growing/beautification (basically anything that allows us to get our hands dirty).

Volunteer for Bayview Connect

Josefina — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:22:00 +0000

Friday, June 11, 2010

Location: 2401 Keith Street, One block from Third Street, between Armstrong and Carroll Avenue
Volunteer Hours: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Download this flyer

For more information visit our Voices of Foster Youth Page

Volunteer opportunity in Keeping the Promise Event

Josefina — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:59 +0000

Come join us to raise awareness about Foster Care and child abuse prevention in San Francisco. Over 1,300 abused and neglected children in San Francisco, and over 65,000 in California, currently reside in temporary foster and group homes.

HEY will be joining National CASA, California CASA and SFCASA at Civic Center Plaza for this special event called Keeping the Promise to shine a light of this important issue.

Dates: April 7, 8, and 9, 2010

On Wednesday, 7th, there will be a ceremony with speakers including the Honorable Donna Hitchens, Superior Court Judge in the Unified Family Court, guests from the Board of Supervisors, the Judicial Council of California and the foster care system. 433 cardboard cutouts of children will be on display representing the number of San Francisco children who entered Foster Care in 2009.

HEY along with some other partners will be tabling at the event. If anyone is available to volunteer and help table on those dates, that would be a great support. Thanks.

Welcome to HEY’s Newest Volunteer – Josefina Bolufer

Dana Mandolesi — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:53:03 +0000

Josefina contacted us about a month ago because she saw a posting we had at VolunteerMatch.org for someone to help us with our website. HEY’s website and newsletter really needed someone with an eye for design, and our staff just didn’t have the capacity to give it the attention it needed. We were so excited to have her contact us and join our team. She works in the HEY offices with us twice a week and provides support and advice on making heysf.org even better. Here’s what she has to say!

“My name is Josefina Bolufer, I am a graphic design senior student at San Francisco State University. Originally, I’m from Spain; however, I’ve had the opportunity to live in other countries such as Germany, England and now the US. When I arrived here, I was impressed with the level of commitment that students dedicate to help their communities. It really inspired me. I decided to contribute by doing what I love to do most: design. Right now I’m volunteering for Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY) and for Native American AIDS Project (NAAP).”

HEY can offer volunteer and internship positions for students looking to add to their experience or portfolio. If you are interested in volunteering with us, contact heysf@uwba.org.

HEY Foster Care Youth Committee April Meeting

Shavonte Keaton — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:05:15 +0000

Hello All,

The HEY Foster Care Month Youth Committee is a group of youth who will be involved in helping plan and execute HEY’s foster care month events. Members of the youth committee will be hands on in developing the programs for events, makings suggestions to the larger committee on behalf of youth as well as volunteering time to actually make the events happen.

On March 1st HEY had its first Foster Care Month Youth Committee Meeting with a great group of passionate young people!

We still are looking for youth who would like to be apart of the Foster Care Month Youth Committee! Our next meeting is Monday April 26th from 4:30-6:00 pm at our HEY office located at 221 Main Street San Francisco, CA 94105!

If you are an interested youth or a youth worker who may know an interested youth please contact Shavonte’ Keaton at skeaton@uwba.org or 415-808-4256 for an application and/or more information!

Go Youth!

HUD Conference Youth Committee

Shavonte Keaton — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:59:00 +0000

There is an exciting opportunity coming up for young people who want to have their voices heard about issues affecting the TAY (Transition aged youth) population. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is looking for interns to work in the planning of HUD’s Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Conference which will be happening Thursday July 8, 2010 in Oakland, CA!

The conference will be designed to foster collaboration among federal, local and non-profit agencies that serve the TAY population and will also provide information on legislative changes as they relate to serving TAY.

This internship will give youth interns experience in event planning, facilitation, experience working with a variety of organizations to achieve a common goal, and an opportunity to present their ideas on how to improve services to the TAY population. Also interns working on this committee will be hands on in developing the conference agenda and making suggestions to the larger committee.

Duties Include:

Develop a plan for TAY Conference.
Research entertainment options that will be conference appropriate and meet budget
Help name conference and recruit young artists in the design a conference logo
Create a target list of volunteers for day-of event activities
Develop panel ideas that are of relevance to TAY and helpful to providers
Attend all planning meetings and the TAY Conference

If you feel passionate about this type of work and want to get some great hands on experience then this internship is for you! Applicants should be between ages 14-24, and be able to attend planning meetings and the conference. The Youth Planning Committee will meet a total of 5 times to organize the TAY Conference. Interns will be paid $25 per meeting, at the end of each meeting. Interns also need to be present on the day of the conference.

If you are interested and you think you qualify, send an email to Lorena.C.Roman@hud.gov explaining why you are qualified, your interest in being a committee member, your contact information and times that you are available to meet to.

Deadline for applications is FRIDAY, MARCH 19th.

The first committee meeting will be scheduled during the week of March 29th.

Go Youth!

Join the HEY Foster Care Month Committee!

Leslie Brown — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:24:49 +0000

Hello Youth!

Are you passionate about helping your community?

Do you want to be more involved in event planning?

Want to know more about foster youth and issues affecting them?

Do you want to have your voice heard?

If you answered yes to all these questions then the HEY Foster Care Month Youth Committee is for you!

What is the HEY Foster Care Month Youth Committee?

We are looking for 15-20 youth between ages 14-24 who can commit to around 3-5 hours per month for the next 4 months (February-June 2010). We want to work with youth who love to work with people, who have bright and innovative ideas and who are passionate about helping their communities. If you are interested in being on the HEY Foster Care Month Youth Committee please contact Shavonte Keaton, Project Assistant for HEY @ 415-808-4256 or by email @ skeaton@uwba.org for an application or more information.

For the Foster Care Month Youth Committee you don’t have to be a foster youth, just PASSIONATE about foster youth issues!

Applications are due by Friday February 12^th!

HEY looks forward to working with you on this exciting partnership.