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Introducing EPIC's
New Community Involvement Group!
Hello fellow EPIC
members...We are pleased to introduce you to our new Community Involvement arm of EPIC! Our hope is to offer both education and awareness of local non profit, charity, city and Chamber opportunities here in Columbia.
Further, this quarterly e-newsletter will serve as the platform in which to notify you of these opportunities. Each quarter we will also highlight one emerging professional who is making a difference in our local community and twice a year we will organize group volunteer events.
With that being said, our first Community Involvement volunteer event is April
24 for the city-wide Cleanup Columbia! If you can help volunteer for a couple of hours on Saturday April
24 with other EPIC members, please email Erin Teeple at erin.teeple@williamwoods.edu
soon so we can know how many people to expect.
We are excited for what the future holds and let's continue to make a difference here in Columbia!
Sincerely,
Chris Lunn
Community Involvement Chair
Top
5 Ways Volunteering Can Build Your Career
Submitted
by Carolyn Sullivan, New Chapter Coaching, LLC
1. Volunteering provides you with opportunities to connect with Columbia’s movers and
shakers. Every Columbia leader you know has a resume filled with community service. When you volunteer, you rub elbows with, working alongside, and impress Columbia’s biggest and best.
2. Volunteering provides you with opportunities to
stretch your stuff! In the friendly, low-risk environment created for volunteers, you can build your skills and your resume; why not build your community as you do?
3. Volunteering provides you with opportunities to
explore what you want to do next with your career. Many of us are in search of meaningful work, but are uncertain what that work looks like. We all have questions about our abilities and few of us can afford to make a career change without testing the waters first. So find a volunteer opportunity that will enable you to answer some of your burning career-related questions.
4. Volunteering provides you with opportunities to
generate tangible, transformative results as part of a
team. Being able to deliver as part of a team is a vital skill in today’s workplace. So instead of watching Extreme Makeover on television, join the next project to renovate a house and transform a life right here in Columbia.
5. Volunteering provides you with real world opportunities to
enhance your leadership skills. As you serve the community, you’ll be learning how to lead from Columbia’s best leaders. In many nonprofits, your competency and commitment will be rewarded with quick promotions up a short leadership ladder.
Watch
the clips from our Lunching Outside the Box: Giving &
Getting seminar with Carolyn Sullivan and Cindy Mustard,
Voluntary Action Center, on EPIC's Facebook
page.
*We
are in need of personal stories about your volunteer
experience for this section. Please e-mail Kari Salmon at kari@coyotehill.org
if you would like to be our volunteer spotlight member.
Volunteer
Opportunities with Non-Profits
Central Missouri Humane Society,
http://www.cmhspets.org/
• Volunteers with marketing and advertising skills needed
• Contact Allison Toth at src@cmhspets.org
or 443-7387 ext. 211
Boone County Council on Aging http://bcca.missouri.org/
• Help shovel snow for seniors
• Contact Jessica Macy at bcca01@centurytel.net
or 443-1111
Ronald McDonald House Charities www.rmhccolumbia.org
• Annual Gala set-up on Feb. 17 and event on Feb. 18
• Contact Jennifer Miller at jennifer@rmhccolumbia.org
or 443-4666
The Central Missouri Food Bank
www.centralmofoodbank.org
• Groups needed to repack food
• Contact Darren White at darrenw@centralmofoodbank.org
or 474-1020
Central MO Area Agency on Aging
www.cmaaa.net
• Join the Long-term Care Ombudsman Program; recruit and train volunteers who make weekly visits to nursing
homes
• Contact Beth at
bethsimpson@cmaaa.net
or 443-5823
Job Point www.jobpointmo.org
• Join
the Business Advisory Council; work to help individuals with significant barriers seeking employment to become
self-sufficient; meet quarterly from 3 – 4 p.m.
• Contact Emalie Walker at
emaliew@jobpointmo.org
or 777-1537
Phoenix Programs, Inc. www.phoenixprogramsinc.org
• Receptionist
needed and volunteers for follow-up GPRA (Government Performance Results Act, pronounced gipra) calls to clients at designated intervals after they begin
treatment to track their progress.
• Contact Judy Prevo at jprevo@phoenixprogramsinc.org
or 875-8880
Coyote Hill Christian Children’s Home www.coyotehill.org
• Boots ‘N Bids for Kids on April 15; acquiring
donations for the auctions prior to the event, set-up and tear
down the day of the event
• NAIFA Golf Classic on May 10; help acquiring teams and sponsorships for holes,
set-up and tear down the day of the event
• Contact Kari Salmon at kari@coyotehill.org
or 874-0179
For a list of ongoing volunteer opportunities, please visit
http://www.vacmo.org/volunteer.php
or call the Voluntary Action Center at 874-2273 and request a Helping Hands catalog of opportunities.
Volunteer
Opportunities with
the City
of Columbia
Registration is open for
C.A.R.P. (Columbia Aquatic Restoration Project). Classes will be held Mondays, March 1, 8 and
15 from 6 - 8:30 p.m. at The ARC. Following the class, volunteers are asked to share 18 hours on projects in city parks along streams and lakes.
Special
Olympics/Adapted Sports Track and Field and Bocce begin in March.
Volunteers are need who can help throughout the season with one practice session each week.
The Paquin Train Show will be held Saturday, March 20. Volunteers are needed to assist with set up and during the show.
The 2010 Family Fun Fest begins in April with a "Teen Fest" and continues through September
on the third Wednesday evening each month. Let us know if you would like to help with set-up, tear-down, face painting or staffing a
booth.
To
sign up for any of the City of Columbia events, please call 874-7499 or
e-mail volunteer@GoColumbiaMo.com.
Non-Profit
Board Openings
Boone County Council on Aging has 2 board positions open with preference for people with a human relations or social work\case management\health care background. All application will be reviewed and potential members interviewed, regardless of background. A passion for working with and in behalf of older adults is necessary for board members. For more information, visit
http://bcca.missouri.org/
or contact Jessica Macy at bcca01@centurytel.net
or 443-1111.
The Missouri Hepatitis C Alliance (MOHCA) has 2 board member openings. MOHCA was founded in 1999 to establish and facilitate support groups and has since developed a network of seven support groups in central Missouri. MOHCA also provides education to eight substance abuse treatment centers monthly and has offered free testing and low cost testing for people at risk for HCV. For more information, visit
www.mohepc.org or contact Bruce Burkett at
bruce@mohepc.org or 442-6599.
Chamber
of Commerce Volunteer Opportunity
Twilight Cruise VI: The Final Voyage will need "crew members" on May
20, 2010.
Help is needed all day for check-in and setup, and for the
actual event that evening. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and a ticket to the Cruise.
For more information, please contact Sherry Wohlgemuth at 817-9111 or
swohlgemuth@ColumbiaMOChamber.com.
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