Fruitbelt Coalition needs volunteers - December 10 from 11-4

On Saturday, December 10, The Fruitbelt Coalition will once again hold its annual “Christmas in the City” event at the Moot Center on High Street to benefit young children in the Fruitbelt Neighborhood.

Student volunteers are needed from 11:00am to 4:00pm to assist with set-up, clean-up, serving refreshments and other tasks to make the event a success. This is a great opportunity to help to put a smile on the face of a child in need during this holiday season!

Students with interest should email Sue Michalek from the Fruitbelt Coalition at meemsart2@aol.com as soon as possible. Questions about the event can also be directed to Ms. Michalek.

Volunteers needed to start "closing" Pelion Garden for the season

On November 8th (Election Day - a day off for BPS students) from 9am-noon students and their families can come to the garden for community service hours. They will be starting to close the garden for the season. Tasks will include: seed collecting, clearing ground cover in the growing areas, harvesting, pruning, cutting back perennials, digging/transplanting plants, weeding, and uprooting volunteer trees.

NO SKILLS NECESSARY; please bring your own gloves and dress for the weather. No need to sign up - just show up.

Snacks will be provided at the end - using some of the veggies harvested that day. Parents are welcome to contribute extra. They will also give away many small perennials, including: white yarrow, daisies, orange day lilies, and others.

If you have extra seeds, tools or other garden equipment to donate, please bring them with you or let us know about it.

We will also collect BoxTops, mobile e-junk and clear glass bottles for our mosaic project.

Finally, if anyone has a rototiller, that would be very helpful in clearing out Three Sisters Island.

RAIN DATE: Friday, November 11th from 9am-noon.

Volunteers needed for MS Society Monster Scramble on Sunday, October 9th

On Sunday, October 9th, the local chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society will be holding a Monster Scramble 5K/10K and 1 mile family fun trick-or-treat walk at Holy Cross Cemetery. 

Volunteers are needed. If you are interested in helping, please register online at: www.monsterscramble.org.

Volunteer at SABAH Summer Skate at the Northtown Center

SABAH needs volunteers to assist on the following days at their summer skate program at the Northtown Center in Amherst (1615 Amherst Manner Dr., Williamsville, NY 14221).

Thursday, July 21
Thursday, July 28
Thursday, August 4
Thursday, August 11
Thursday, August 18

The time for each Thursday is from 6-6:50 pm. You can come as few or as many days as you would like. You can register online at sabahinc.org or call 362-9600 with any questions.

Volunteer at St. Mark's Lionheart Fundraiser - June 4th

St. Mark's School is looking for volunteers to help out with it's annual Lionheart fundraiser on Saturday, June 4 from 5-10 pm. It is being held at the school, located at 399 Woodward Avenue. The fundraiser is not religious in nature, therefore it can be used for Service CAS hours. If you have questions and/or are able to volunteer, please call or text Elizabeth Kubiniec (716-348-7442).

Summer CAS Hours at King Urban Life Center

The King Urban Life Center is looking for Book Club Leaders/Mentors for their summer program. The orientation date is Saturday, June 25 from 10 am - noon. The Book Club dates are the following Saturdays: July 9, 16, 23, 20 and August 6, 13, 20 from 10 am to noon each time.

If you would like to volunteer to help, or would like more information, please email David Greenman at: dgreenman@kulc.org.

Help out (not for CAS) Open Buffalo

Open Buffalo is a local non-profit working on social and economic justice on the local level. 

They are currently looking for some student volunteers to help them with data entry for a survey they have been conducting across the city of Buffalo. The deadline to enter this information is June 15th. Please contact Elisabeth Preisinger at elisabeth@openbuffalo.org if you can assist.




*Unfortunately, because this is data entry, it does not fit into CAS (CAS cannot not be repetitive work like filing, etc...).

Elmwood Village Clean-up

Volunteers will meet at the following locations to assist with picking up trash, pushing brooms and scrubbing graffiti in the corresponding areas of the Village. After each cleanup, a one of our local businesses will host a post-clean up happy hour to say thanks to volunteers for their hard work.

- Tuesday, April 26th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Bryant Street to Allen Street (Meet at Epic Restaurant, 431 Elmwood Ave)
- Wednesday, April 27th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Bryant Street to Lexington Avenue (Meet at Joe's Deli, 534 Elmwood Ave)
- Thursday, April 28th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Forest Avenue to West Delavan Ave (Meet at Mr. Goodbar, 1110 Elmwood Ave)
- Saturday, April 30th, 1:30pm-3:30pm - Lexington Avenue to West Delavan Ave (Meet at Lexington Co-Op, 807 Elmwood Ave)

All are welcome to participate. Tools and supplies will be provided, just bring your civic pride and a friend! Please RSVP.

Elephant Run Volunteers Needed - Sunday, May 8th

Now in it's 10th year, the Elephant Run honors the memory of City Honors Alumna Marcena Lozano. Marcena was only 23 years old when she died after having two heart transplants. Volunteers are needed between 8am-12pm to help set up, facilitate activities, cheer on runners, and clean up. The race promotes organ donation and raises money for scholarships for transplant recipients.

Information on volunteering can be found here.

Volunteer familiar with WordPress needed

The King Urban Life Center needs assistance with some enhancements it would like to make to its website. They are looking for one student familiar with WordPress to work on this project. This is CAS-hour eligible.

See Dr. Kresse if you are interested.

Help out at the 15th Annual Party in the Hall

Volunteers are needed for the City Honors/Fosdick-Masten Park Foundation's 15th Annual Party in the Hall. It will take place here at City Honors School the evening of Friday, April 29th. Assisting at this event would be added to the Service to School category for CAS.

Specifically, volunteers are needed to:

- help set up after school that Friday (from 2:45-5:30 pm)
- be servers during the event (5:00-8:30 pm)
- help direct cars where to park (from 5:00-7:15 pm)
- help clean up/break down after the event (8:30-9:30 pm)

You can sign up to help the entire event - or just part of it.

A sign up sheet will be located on the outside of the IB Office door starting on Monday, April 11th.

Volunteers needed at Tri-Main Indoor Street Fair on March 12, 2016

To help celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Tri-Main Center, an “Indoor Street Fair” will be held on March 12th from 11:00-4:00pm. It will be a family friendly indoor street fair, and is in partnership with Aspire (all proceeds raised will go to Aspire).

Many volunteers are needed - especially to run the games.

For students who need creativity hours, you can design a putt-putt station for the event. Should you need a head start on building materials…. Tri-Main has wooden pallets available.

Also for creativity hours, there is a Face Painting station, Corn Hole Competition (companies/schools can donate a set/decorate it), and Balloon Animals station.

Additionally, there will be a Tricycle Obstacle Course, Hockey Shot Contest, Make & Race Hover Board, “Chalk Alley” (A string of sidewalk chalk portraits…on an entire floor!), and 25th Anniversary Community Mural (paint by numbers)

Students can sign up for a shift or for the entire day:

The shifts are: 11:00am-1:30pm and 1:30-4:00pm

If you would like to volunteer, email Jessica Edwards at: jedwards@trimaincenter.com