Note on Volunteering During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AGENCY | LOCATION | WEBSITE | FOR MORE INFO. | VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNTIES |
Produce Prescription Program at CCE Tompkins |
Locations vary |
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Baz Perry 607-272-2292 x131 |
Regular Drivers Needed Using your own vehicle, pick up and deliver boxes of fresh produce to area residents for about 2 hours every week. Pick up location is Press Bay Alley in downtown Ithaca or at a local area farm. When: Each Wednesday or Thursday starting August 19 through early Novemeber.
Volunteers will be expected to follow social distancing guidelines, including wearing a face covering or mask |
Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County - Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program We bring local experience and research based solutions together, helping New York State families and communities thrive. |
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www.ccetompkins.org/food/fruit-vegetable-prescription-program |
Volunteer Coordinator Contact Information Peg Engasser (607) 835-6734 | Regular Drivers Needed Using your own vehicle, pick up and deliver boxes of fresh produce to area residents. Pick up location is to be determined based on weekday and route. When: Each Wednesday or Thursday throughout the 2020 produce season
Qualifications: Drivers will be provided with gloves which must be worn when handling produce boxes. Volunteers will be expected to follow social distancing guidelines, including wearing a face covering or mask if social distance cannot be maintained. Most deliveries will be left on doorsteps, but a few will need calls so that residents can come to collect the box outside of locked apartment buildings. Volunteers Need to Have: • Valid drivers license and able to provide own transportation and gas • Able to lift 25lbs COVID-19 Requirements: • No recent travel • Healthy, able-bodied, not at risk • Aged between 13-60 • No sign of illness in last 2 weeks • No contact with anyone who is sick |
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St. John’s Epsicopal Church 210 N. Cayuga Street Ithaca, NY |
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Volunteer Coordinator Contact Information |
Loaves & Fishes Seeks More Volunteers During Coronavirus Situation
Volunteers Need to: • Be at least 25 years old. • Live with no more than two other people. • Have no one in household or immediate social circle has been ill in the past 14 days. • Have no one in household has been in close proximity of someone who has been tested for COVID-19 in the past 14 days. • Not have a chronic medical condition that would increase your risk during this time of COVID-19 Travel restrictions also apply |
Family Reading Partnership Family Reading Partnership delivers programs and materials designed to empower families to playfully engage with their young children as a pathway to literacy in Tompkins County. | Remote Opprotunity w/ a drop-off of books to: 54 Gunderman Road Ithaca, New York 14850 | Phone: 607-277-8602 Email: office@familyreading.org | Collecting and Donating Gentley Used Children's Books FRP has been working with school teachers and liaisons, food pantries, Head Start, and medical providers to get books safely to families during this time. As their office has been closed we have been unable to accept book donations and we're running low on our supply. When are drop-offs? Wednesday from 11am-2pm. This will be a no-contact drop-off. Specific instructions for how to donate can be found on their website. | |
Dryden Kitchen Cupboard |
6 North St. Dryden, NY, 13053 | Contact: Ione Worth Phone; 607-319-4330 | Help Support Dryden's Food Pantry 1.) Volunteers in the pantry distribute food to clients. Pantry hours are: Mon. 11 to 12, Wed. 5 to 6, Fri. 11 to 12, Last Sat. of month 11 to 12. 2.) Volunteers outside the pantry instruct the clients throughout the pickup process, while helping the clients maintain social distancing from each other and from the volunteers. Qualifications: Under the age of 60. The majority of our volunteers fall into the "at risk" group, retirees 65 plus. When the pandemic has subsided and life returns to "normal" our older volunteers would return to serving at the pantry. | |
Mutual Aid Tompkins: Immediate Needs We are neighbors concerned about our communities and helping to make sure those most vulnerable and affected by COVID-19 get the support they need. |
Remote Opportunity |
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Send a Smile Help raise the spirits of some of those who are isolated and lonely. Send a photo of artwork, a letter/story/poem or a video that can be shared to residents living alone who have requested some spirit-lifting. Send submissions to: SendASmileTompkins@gmail.com |