Below are current volunteer opportunities with RSVP.
Updated: 5/1/13

Volunteer Opportunities: Call the RSVP office at 382-5775 to learn more about the following volunteer opportunities unless otherwise specified:
• Judges are needed for the annual 4-H Area Presentation Contest that will be held at Riverlawn Elementary School in Fairlawn on Saturday, May 4, from 8:15 a.m. until 12 p.m. 
• A Reality Store budget exercise will be held at the Christiansburg High School on Monday, May 6, from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers are asked to take a two-hour shift. Have fun in with 10th graders. 
• The annual Stamp Out Hunger Postal Food Drive sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers celebrates its 21st anniversary this year! The 2013 drive is set for Saturday, May 11, in our area.  The drive is the largest one-day collection event in the nation. Please leave nonperishable food products in a bag at your mailbox to be picked up by your postal carrier. The food will go to local food pantries. Volunteers are needed to sort the donations at local pantries the week of May 13. 
• Bakers are needed for a bake sale being held at the annual Depot Days on Saturday, May 11, in Cambria.  Volunteers are also needed to work a shift at the RSVP booth between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.  This will be a fundraising activity for RSVP.
• RSVP volunteers have received a request by the Family Assistance Center Specialist for the Virginia National Guard Family Programs to send birthday cards to a soldier stationed in Guam.  His birthday is May 19 and the cards can be addressed to 2LT. Matthews.  Please bring your greetings to the office by May 6 and they will be mailed together from the RSVP office.
• The Free Clinic is in need of volunteers to help at the front desk by answering the phone, taking in money, and receiving patients at the front window.  Computer skills required.  The shift is three hours, either morning or afternoon. 
• Start saving your pennies!  We have started to collect a "Mile of Pennies" for our "Supplies for Seniors" project.  A jar is available in the RSVP office for the remainder of the year.
• English Meadows is seeking volunteers to do one-on-one visits with some of the residents in need of a visitor.  
• Greeters are needed at the newly opened Village Center at Warm Hearth Village. Volunteers will manage the front desk in two or four hour shifts. No computer skills are needed. 
• A Blood Drive will be held on Wednesday, May 8, from 11:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Court C inside the Christiansburg Recreation Center.  Call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE to schedule a time to donate blood or RSVP to volunteer during the drive. 
• The third annual VA2K Walk + Roll is being held at the Salem Veterans Medical Center on Wednesday, May 15, from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m.  This event is to benefit homeless veterans and to promote health and wellness. We will be collecting items for the Homeless Veterans Program to also be delivered that day.  Items needed are new clothing: pants, sweat pants, t-shirts, pajamas, and unopened packages of underwear, socks and toiletries; new towels and washcloths; and backpacks.  The van will leave the RSVP office at 10 a.m. to help with this event or to walk. Please bring items to the RSVP office by May 14 or call to reserve a seat on the van.
• RSVP plans to participate in the 2013 Tomato Festival held in Shawsville in August.  The purpose of our participation is threefold:  1) To increase awareness of our organization, 2) Recruit members, 3) Raise funds.  We are asking all “crafty” and artistic volunteers to start now to make items to donate to sell.  Items with tomato themes or motifs are particularly encouraged.  We will also be asking for donations of baked goods that include tomatoes.  Volunteers will be needed to work the event also.  Some fabric with tomato prints are available in the RSVP office- first come, first serve basis.
   

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