Fill the Gap - Short Term After-School Program Help

Looking for a short term, but high impact volunteer opportunity? The Boys & Girls Club needs your help during this holiday season when their volunteer pool is more of a puddle. If you are available between December 17th and 21st from 3-6 p.m., they could use your assistance
with after-school programs and projects. Suggest an activity idea or come participate in already planned after-school programs. Minimum age is 18. For more information contact: Rebecca Linehan at 332-5311 ext. 13 or blinehan@bgcbloomington.org (www.bgcbloomington.org).

Fill the Gap - Pre and Post Holiday Meal Prep & Serving

Assist with holiday season meal preparation and serving between December 8th and January 8th at the Community Kitchen. With many students gone, and the hum of activity continuing in their absence, it's a good time for family and friends to volunteer together. Five volunteers are needed
daily, Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and from 3:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. during the winter break. Minimum age is 14 or as young as 10 if accompanied by a parent. For more information contact: Annie Brookshire at 332-0999 or volunteer@monroecommunitykitchen.com
(www.monroecommunitykitchen.com).

Hoosier Hills Food Bank Needs Volunteers

Next Tuesday (December 4) and Friday (December 7) we are looking for extra volunteers to help us with two huge mailings we would like to have ready and sent on each of these days. This will involve a lot of folding, stapling, stuffing, labeling, and the like. I am asking YOU to
please contact your student groups, friends, classmates, and neighbors to come help out on Tuesday and/or Friday. You all are welcome anytime throughout the day (9am to 5pm), even if for just a half hour. Swing by between classes, make it a time to catch up with your friends, feel good about helping out an organization that needs assistance fulfilling our mission!!!!

Give Kim a call at 334-8374 to set up a time you'd like to come in. volunteer@hhfoodbank.org

Candy Cane Hunt

Enjoy a winter wonderland at the 8th annual Candy Cane Hunt at the Allison-Jukebox Community Center on Sunday, December 2nd presented by City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation. Volunteers will be trained at the beginning of their shift to help Tux the Penguin lead arts and
crafts, monitor the Candy Cane hunt and register participants between 12:30-3:30 p.m. Come dressed for the weather! Minimum age is 16. For more information contact: Kim Ecenbarger at 349-3739 or ecenbark@bloomington.in.gov (www.bloomington.in.gov/parks).

Holiday & Stuff-A-Bus Helpers

Bloomington Transit is looking for volunteers to help staff the seventh annual Stuff-A-Bus. The bus will be parked at various locations during the first three weekends of December. Volunteers are needed to accept donations that will be given to the Salvation Army for distribution to
local families. Minimum age is 18. For more information contact: Brenda Underwood at 332-5688 or bunder@kiva.net (www.bloomingtontransit.com).

Gift Wrapping Volunteers

The holidays are right around the corner! Do you have a knack for wrapping holiday gifts? If so, perhaps you would like to help raise funds for the Monroe County Humane Association as a volunteer gift wrapper at Barnes and Noble and Borders Bookstores on December 14th, 15th, 16th and 21st from 2-6 p.m. They need 3 volunteers for each 2-hour shift. Bring a friend along and get into the season. Minimum age is 16 or as young as 13 with a parent. For more information contact: Kristie Charles at 333-6242 or helpthem@bluemarble.net (www.monroehumane.org).

Be A Santa to a Senior

This holiday season, Home Instead Senior Care® is sponsoring a collaborative community service program, Be a Santa to a Senior®, designed to provide gifts and bring smiles to our community's lonely and financially challenged seniors during what may otherwise be a very lonely holiday season. Volunteer ?elves? are needed for a 1-2 hour shift between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. November 30th through December 2nd to stand by the Christmas trees set up in Kroger and CVS stores throughout the community. Volunteers will inform customers about the program, inviting
them to purchase a gift that will uplift the holiday season for a senior in the community. All ages welcome! For more information contact:
812-961-2222 or admin@home-instead.com (www.beasantatoasenior.com).

Food and Gift Packing and Distribution

Every Christmas, families in need come to the Salvation Army to receive food and gifts for the holiday season. Over fifty volunteers are needed to help set-up the toy shop and food pick-up areas for the annual Salvation Army Christmas Gift and Food Distribution on Thursday,
December 20th. Volunteers are needed to assist in unloading the Stuff-A-Bus on December 17th and packing family gift bags and food baskets the week of December 10th through the 19th. Day and evening hours are available. Minimum age is 15. For more information contact:
Monica Clemons at 336-4310 ext.10 or
monica_clemons@usc.salvationarmy.org
(www.bloomington.salvationarmyindiana.org).