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Volunteer Opportunities

Hands On Nashville (HON) was founded in 1991 to help people transform the world around them by volunteering. HON is a recognized leader in programs, partnerships and services that maximize volunteer impact for youth, adult, corporate, and nonprofit constituencies in the greater Nashville community. Each year, Hands On Nashville refers or places 38,000 volunteers to projects in more than 300 area service agencies and schools.

Give Your Time

United Way is advancing the common good by focusing on the building blocks for a good life: education, income, health, and rebuilding lives. But, we cannot do it alone. Give an hour. Give a Saturday. When we reach out a hand to one, we influence the condition of all. Hundreds of options are available: read to children, lead financial literacy classes, deliver meals to the homebound, and more. Give the gift of you. Volunteer.

Benefits of Volunteering

We all win when a child succeeds in school, when a neighborhood turns around, when families have good health and workers have solid jobs, when people get the help they need.

Whether it is important to you to solve a community problem, advance a worthy cause or to develop as a person, volunteering offers many benefits in appreciation for the gift of your time and expertise. Volunteering can help you:

Make important networking contacts
Learn or develop skills
Teach your skills to others
Enhance your résumé
Gain work experience
Build self-esteem and self-confidence
Improve your health
Meet new people
Feel needed and valued
Express gratitude for help you may have received in the past from an organization
Communicate to others that you are ambitious, enthusiastic and care about the community
Make a difference in someone’s life

Volunteer Opportunities

To volunteer at United Way, please contact us for more information.

Other opportunities include volunteering for an agency event or volunteering for ongoing agency projects (see below for ongoing projects).

MCHRA Ombudsman Program

Description: Visit nursing homes to provide advocacy.

Contact: Sally Pitt

615-452-5259

spitt@mchra.com

Smyrna-LaVergne Food Bank

Description: 1-2 volunteers needed on the first Wednesday of each month to help with intake of large orders.

Description: 1 volunteer each Monday to help pick up and stock a weekly order

Description: 1 volunteer each Saturday to help receive and stock produce

Contact: Barbara Hale

615-355-0697

smyrnafoodbank@gmail.com

Meals on Wheels-Smyrna

Description: Delivery volunteers Monday-Friday for Lavergne area; approximate time needed is 1-1.5 hours.

Contact: Audrey Wildes

615-459-2227

awildes@comcast.net

Meals on Wheels-Murfreesboro

Description: ON CALL volunteers needed for delivery Monday-Friday for Murfreesboro area; approximate time needed is 1-1.5 hours.

Contact: Debbie Willis

615-895-1870

dwillis@mchra.com

Alive Hospice

Description: patient care and support, office support, special services and/ or events, etc...

Contact: Deb Gerlica

615-327-1085

volunteer@alivehospice.org

Non-Partner Agencies/ Community Needs:

Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation

Event: Not So Scary Haunted Trail/ Barfield Crescent Park

Date: October 22-23 2010

Description: light acting involved to help a book "come alive;" must be 18 or older

Contact: Jennifer Smith

615-893-7303

Thank You