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Provides volunteer opportunities for Seniors at local non-profit organizations.

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Provides volunteer opportunities for retired and older adults at the senior centers.
Recruits and trains individuals to serve as AmeriCorps members.
Connects older adults with the community. A) PA MEDI - Medicare Counseling Program: Free one-on-one or telephone assistance to older persons to help them understand Medicare eligibility and benefits, Medicare supplemental insurance, and prescription drug coverage. B) Senior Center Information: For those 60+, a center offers meals, social activities, and a range of activities and wellness programming. D) Transportation Assistance: Rabbittransit has developed a shared ride program for those 60+ for specific programs and those 65+ for other transportation needs. For more information please call. E) Tax Assistance Program: This free service can address tax issues for most middle to low-income taxpayers age 60 and over.

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Extreme Cold Warming Centers
VITA Programs
Area Agencies on Aging
Consumer Complaints
Medicare Information/Counseling
Senior Ride Programs
Senior Centers
Conservation
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Legal Representation
Finds older volunteers to assist with specific duties within programs of the Office of Human Services. Assists programs such as senior centers, PA MEDI insurance counseling, and the OMBUDSMAN program as needs arise.
Volunteers choose activities relating to their skills, interests, and time availability. Volunteers mentor children, conduct environmental tests, perform clerical duties, assist the elderly, tutor adults, and much more.

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Assists older Spanish-speaking adults with personal needs, gain access to health care, and a range of community service resources. Helps seniors to avoid isolation and remain independent.

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Senior Centers
Physician Referrals
Assists older Spanish-speaking adults with personal needs, gain access to health care, and a range of community service resources. Helps seniors to avoid isolation and remain independent.

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Volunteer Service Programs
Senior Centers
Physician Referrals
Foster Grandparents are role models, mentors, and tutors to at-risk children in an educational setting. The program provides a way for volunteers to stay active by serving children and youth in their communities. All one needs to join is the ability to give the kind of comfort and love that sets a child on the path toward a successful future. If individuals are 55 or older and want to share their experience and compassion, then they have what it takes to be a Foster Grandparent. GECAC will provide a stipend or other benefits that enable individuals to participate as Foster Grandparents without cost to themselves .
Provides civic opportunity that gives individuals a chance to network with other like-minded peers, explore leadership possibilities, learn new skills, and have fun. Volunteers choose how, where, and how often they want to serve, with commitments ranging from a few hours to 40 hours per week. RSVP volunteers do not receive any monetary incentive or stipend, but the RSVP project may reimburse volunteers for certain out-of-pocket costs
Hosts two annual Days of Service in June and September. Offers annual opportunities for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) volunteers.

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Volunteer Training
Provides non-medical in home care, personal care, around the home services, companion services, and transportation.

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Senior Ride Programs
Volunteer Service Programs
Housekeeping Assistance
In Home Supportive Services Subsidies
Personal Care
Provides opportunities for individuals to engage in volunteer services. Matches interested volunteers with appropriate volunteer positions.
Volunteers help educationally disadvantaged preschool children to increase interest in reading and families' support for emergent literacy development so that children are ready for kindergarten.
RSVP provides volunteer opportunities in the local community including meal delivery, community food pantries, senior community centers, transporting clients who no longer drive to medical appointments and to shop for groceries, and team counseling on Medicare and health-insurcance-related matters.

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Provides opportunities to extend supportive services in Health, Education, and Welfare settings to children having special or exceptional needs. Benefits include annual physical exam, free lunch-time meal, recognition events, socialization, specialized training, tax-free hourly monetary reimbursement and transportation assistance.
Foster Grandparent Volunteers help children learn to read, provide one-on-one tutoring, and guide children at a critical time in their lives.

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Foster Grandparents are classroom volunteers that share their time to enhance the quality of life of children and youth in preschools, Head Start centers and schools. Provides per hour stipend, meals while volunteering, mileage/transportation, clearances and training.

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Offers a Pre-K program, fitness facilities, and hosts a "Blessing Box" food pantry.

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Recreation Centers
Preschools
Child Care Expense Assistance
Physical Fitness
Volunteer Service Programs
Foster Grandparents are classroom volunteers that share their time to enhance the quality of life of children and youth in preschools, Head Start centers and schools. Provides per hour stipend, meals while volunteering, mileage/transportation, clearances and training.

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Recruits and trains volunteer reading coaches to increase literacy development by expanding opportunities for children to have shared adult-child book reading time, ultimately helping youth read on grade level by 3rd grade and stay on track to school success. Both in person and virtual opportunities are available.

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Tutoring Services
Volunteer Service Programs
School Readiness Programs
Literacy Programs
Volunteer Opportunities
An organization of community volunteers that leads, inspires and mobilizes individuals and contributes to help provide solutions to essential health and human service issues to improve the quality of life for the people of Columbia and Montour. At The United Way, we do not aim to minimize the issues- we aim to end them. Through the collection and allocation of donations, we currently fund 23 partner agencies, all with the aim of supporting community members in the areas of health, education, and financial stability. Please note, our United Way does not do an individual assistance. We are happy to help with local referrals.

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Community Involvement Programs
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Provides opportunities to volunteer with UPMC Hospice providers in support of patients and families.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Training
Hospice Care
Volunteer Service Programs
Trains volunteers to educate and inform potential recipients or caretakers about Medicare, leading to increased access to benefits and savings.
Promotes the welfare and humane treatment of animals and serves as an advocate on their behalf.

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Cruelty to Animals Investigation
Pet Care Services
Animal Lost and Found
Foster Care/Temporary Shelter for Animals
Neuter/Spay Services
Veterinary Care Expense Assistance
Volunteer Service Programs
Sick Animal Care
Volunteer Opportunities
Feral Cat Management Programs
Animal Control
Animal Shelters
Animal Adoption