Current Service Opportunities and Links

• A good place to start when searching for community service opportunities is to visit the Montgomery County volunteer website. The site is continuously updated, and list opportunities by both type and geographical area.

  Montgomery County Volunteer Center
  Website: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov (Links available from main site - click on "volunteers")
  Address: 401 Hungerford Drive, 1st Floor Rockville, Maryland 20850
  Phone: 240-777-2600
  Fax: 240-777-2601

• Interested in issues of the homeless? Click here for reading suggestions and names/contact information for organizations in the DC area that help the homeless.

Here are some local organizations most recently used by our students:

• Friends House
  17340 Quaker Lane, Olney, MD
  Help elders with housekeeping chores, computer tutoring, gardening, running errands and caring for pets. Contact to explore the many possibilities to serve. Name your own hours and interests. Contact Alice Caldwell at Friends House: 301-260-9128.

• INTERFAITH CLOTHING CENTER
  751 Twinbrook Parkway
  Rockville, MD 20851
  T- (301) 424-3796
  F- (301) 424-2724

• UPCOUNTY INTERFAITH CLOTHING CENTER
  620 East Diamond Avenue, Suite M
  Gaithersburg, MD 20877
  T- (301) 977-1267
  F- (301) 977-0687
  Program description directly from their web site:
  The Interfaith Clothing Centers, programs of Community Ministry of Montgomery County, distribute donated clothing, household goods, school supplies, infant items, toys and children's books, free of charge, to low-income residents of Montgomery County. We are proud to provide the link between people in our community who have things they no longer need or want with people in the same community who are in desperate need of the same items.
  Needs volunteers to help sort items - call to set an appointment time to help out.

• Montgomery County Department of Park & Planning
  The Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission
  8787 Georgia Avenue
  Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
  www.mcparkandplanning.org
  Some possible opportunities exist in these M-NCPPC Volunteer Programs:
  

  • Weed Warriors
  • Archaeology
  • Park Police
  • Meadowside Nature Center
  • Montgomery County Parks Foundation

• Patuxent Research Refuge
  12100 Beech Forest Rd.
  Suite 4036
  Laurel, Maryland, 20708-4036
  www.pwrc.usgs.gov
  Volunteer info:
  Call 301-497-5565 to request an application package, or write to:
  Phil LePelch, Volunteer Coordinator
  National Wildlife Visitor Center
  10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop
  Laurel, MD 20708-4027
  email: phil_lepelch@fws.gov

• You can also try local libraries, elementary schools to read to kindergartners, churches, thrift stores, museums, small businesses you frequent, and if you like to walk on the wild side of life, the National Zoo in Washington is looking for summer volunteers, too!

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