Community Service Opportunities
The following represents many potential organizations that are often in need of community service. Feel free to contact these organizations in order to find opportunities for community service.
ACORN (AIDS Community Resource Network)
White River Junction
Contact: Dottie Deans
Phone: 448-8887
Opportunities: office work, sorting food donations.
Alice Peck Day Hospital
Lebanon, NH
Contact: Carol Henry, Volunteer Coordinator
Phone: 603-448-7456
Opportunities: For ages 16 and older: visiting and activities with extended care unit residents; office work.
American Red Cross
Hartford Village, VT
Phone: 295-3635
Opportunities: Office work, answering phones, filing. For those who have taken first aid training: manning first aid stations.
Billings Farm Museum
Woodstock, VT
Contact: Geraldine Brown
Phone: 457-2355
Opportunities: Special projects, museum work. Can be arranged individually.
Bugbee Senior Center
White River Junction, VT
Contact: Grace Hedstrom
Phone: 295-9068
Opportunities: Daytimes during the week only. Waiting tables, visiting with seniors.
Brookside Nursing Home
Wilder, VT
Contact: Darlene Colburn
Phone: 295-7511
Opportunities: Adopt a grandparent program, visiting with residents, reading aloud, playing cards, helping with group activities (coffees, bingo, parties, etc.).
Central Vermont Adult Basic Education
Orange County
Contact: Rick Boyle
Phone: 222-5212
Opportunities: volunteer tutors for adult students enrolled in the Vermont literacy program
COVER Home Repair, Inc
White River Junction, VT 05001
Contact: Mary Sutton-Smith
(802) 296-7241 x.104
volunteer@coverhomerepair.org or www.coverhomerepair.org
Opportunities: volunteers to work on home repair, insulation, energy efficiency projects
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH
Contact: Andrea Henry
Phone: 603-650-7057
Opportunities: Visiting patients, including CHAD pediatrics, office work.
Fort at No. 4 Living History Museum
Charlestown, NH
Contact: Wayne Mitchell
Phone: 603-826-5700
Opportunities: volunteers to recreate colonial life in the 18th century to portray to school children and visitors.
Enfield Shaker Village
Enfield, NH
Contact: Michael O'Connell
Phone: 603-632-4346
Opportunities: Museum store, office work, gardening and yard work. Particular interests in Shaker history may point out other volunteer opportunities.
Glory Days of the Railroad
White River Jct
Contact: Hartford Recreation Department
Phone: 295-5036
Green Mountain Humane Society
Phone: 296-7297
Opportunities: Pet visiting program (with your pet) at local nursing homes and hospitals. You and your pet must have interview. Commitment of at least one visit per month. Pet education
program, assisting and developing materials
Good Neighbor Health Clinic and Red Logan Dental Clinic
White River Junction
Contact: Nancy Wood
Phone: 295-1868
Opportunities: clerical duties on weekdays
Hannah House in Lebanon
Lebanon, NH
Phone: 448-5339
Contact: Randy Walker
Hartford Historical Society
Hartford Village
Contact: Pat Stark
Phone: 296-3132
Opportunities: Research on local history topics, putting together displays, indexing magazines and other archival materials, photographic documentation.
Hartford Library
Hartford Village
Phone: 296-2568
Opportunities: Assist with library duties
Hartford Recycling Center
Hartford, VT
Contact: Victoria Davis
Phone: 295-5740
Opportunities: assist customers, answer questions, and keep area clean
Hartford Recreation Department
Phone: 295-9353
Opportunities:
The Haven
Homeless shelter and food pantry
White River Junction, VT
Phone: 296-5995
Opportunities: Food shelf, sorting clothing donations. Must have adult supervision (adult volunteer on duty or with a parent).
Headrest
Lebanon, NH
Phone: 603-448-4872 Ex. 210
Opportunities: volunteers to train for its 24-hour hotline
High Horses Therapeutic Riding Program
Riding program for disabled children and adults
Wilder, VT
Phone: 802-333-9972
Opportunities: Ages 14 and above. Horse leaders or side walkers to assist disabled people riding horses. Training provided
LISTEN
White River Junction, Lebanon, or Canaan
Phone; 603-448-4553 (
Opportunities: Working in thrift stores, assisting with food pantry (food pantry weekdays only).
Montshire Museum
Norwich, VT
Phone: 649-2200
Opportunities: Office work, grounds work, assisting with preschool program. With greater time commitment and training: museum guide, help preparing exhibits.
Outreach House
Hanover, NH
Phone: 643-2961
Opportunities: volunteers to interact with older adults through a variety of activities.
Therapeutic Recreational Adventures in Learning (TRAIL)
Phone: 603-543-6343
Opportunities: volunteers for special needs children, ages 5-12 in Upper Valley and Sullivan County for such activities as skiing, hiking, camping and biking.
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Woodstock, VT
Phone: 457-2779 Ex 114
Opportunities: area of education, administration, care-giving and monitoring.
Vermont Raptor Center
Woodstock, VT
Phone: 457-2779 Ex 112
Opportunities: volunteers for its educational programs with live birds; training provided.
White River Partnership
White River Jct
Phone: 802-767-4600
Volunteers to help with tree plantings, water quality and physical assessments of the White River.