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As the City of Alexandria actively prepares for the nation’s 59th presidential inauguration on Wednesday, January 20, we must continue to keep ourselves safe during this time of change. As recommended by the City of Alexandria, state officials, and regional leaders, please observe the inauguration safely at home and not visit Washington, D.C. over the next week. For more information please visit The City of Alexandria by clicking HERE.
COVID-19 - Care for Community Supported by the Jen Walker Team Haga clic aquí para español
Organizations still heavily rely on volunteers and in order to honor our commitment to support you, a Care for Community Page was created to list current volunteer opportunities and in-kind needs. Volunteer Alexandria has mobilized more than 9,000 volunteers contributing over 14,000 hours to respond to the pandemic. "Thank you for all of the fantastic work you do! Alexandria is a better place for it." Michelle Krocker, Executive Director, NVAHA
Volunteer Alexandria inspires and mobilizes people, six years and older, to volunteer for a stronger Alexandria community. Our Volunteers are a powerful force for solving community problems, and are essential for a healthy, productive, and engaged community.
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Care for Community Donors - Thank you to the companies, foundations and the many individuals who have stepped up!
ACT for Alexandria | City of Alexandria | Points of Light Foundation | The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation | The Community Foundation of Northern Virginia
Caudron Megary Blackburn Wealth Management Group | Covanta | Leslie Thornton
Alexandria Toyota | anna jaeger photography, llc | Campaign Solutions | Commonwealth One Federal Credit Union | David Harris Thomas J. Fannon & Sons | Federal Professional Solutions | King Street Wireless | Leslie Platt | NAIOP Northern Virginia | Yes & Agency
Burke & Herbert Bank | Gay Introcaso | IDI Group Companies | John Marshall Bank | Robert Reese | Rose Gentile | Tech Painting Company The Seward Group | Tracey Mustacchio
In-kind Supporters
Affordable Signs & Banners | Alexandria Living Magazine | alxCommunity | Hudson Studio | The Zebra Press
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Valentine's Cards for Vets
During these difficult times, where many are isolated, we want people to feel the warmth and togetherness that they might during a typical year while addressing food insecurity brought on by the COVID pandemic. All cards will be sent, along with a $50 Safeway gift card, to veterans in the DC/VA area. Cards should be homemade and on theme with Valentine's Day. This is a time to get creative! If you're not sure what to write on the cards, something simple like "Happy Valentine's Day!" is perfect. Please mail finished cards to our office at 700 Princess St #206, Alexandria, VA 22314. Feel free to contact our Outreach Coordinator, James Anderson, with any questions.
Alexandria, VA
1/23/21 12:00 AM + more
Teens Club Volunteer (Middle School)
Are you available between 11 AM and 2 PM every other Monday? We created a space for our Teens Club (Middle School) students to come to get in-person help with homework and are looking for a couple of volunteers to work with them. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested positive for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 14 days? If so, do NOT volunteer. - That you or someone you live with is NOT at high risk (this includes persons who are age greater than 65; have underlying heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, liver disease; are immunocompromised, on dialysis, or have severe obesity with BMI greater than 40). If so, do NOT volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
1/25/21 11:00 AM + more
Kids Club Virtual Volunteer (Elementary School)
Provide elementary school children with reading assistance, assist with homework or lead a learning activity by bringing your skills to the table. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
1/25/21 4:00 PM + more
Teens Club Virual Volunteer (6th Grade)
Come help us make a difference in a child's life. We need people of character to volunteer to work with our students, grades 6-8, supporting them in their academic development at our after-school program, Teens Club. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
1/26/21 4:00 PM + more
Teens Club Volunteer (Middle School)
Come help us make a difference in a child's life. We need people of character to volunteer to work with our students, grades 6-8, supporting them in their academic development at our after-school program, Teens Club. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested positive for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 14 days? If so, do NOT volunteer. - That you or someone you live with is NOT at high risk (this includes persons who are age greater than 65; have underlying heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, liver disease; are immunocompromised, on dialysis, or have severe obesity with BMI greater than 40). If so, do NOT volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
1/26/21 5:00 PM + more
Teen Bible Study Volunteer (Middle School)
With a team, prepare and facilitate small group study and discussion for spiritual growth. Virtual and in-person opportunities available. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer. Before you volunteer in-person, please ensure: - That you have NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested positive for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 14 days? If so, do NOT volunteer. - That you or someone you live with is NOT at high risk (this includes persons who are age greater than 65; have underlying heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, liver disease; are immunocompromised, on dialysis, or have severe obesity with BMI greater than 40). If so, do NOT volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
1/28/21 5:00 PM + more
Teen Bible Study Volunteer (High School)
With a team, prepare and facilitate small group study and discussion for spiritual growth. Virtual and in-person opportunities available. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested positive for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 14 days? If so, do NOT volunteer. - That you or someone you live with is NOT at high risk (this includes persons who are age greater than 65; have underlying heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, liver disease; are immunocompromised, on dialysis, or have severe obesity with BMI greater than 40). If so, do NOT volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
1/28/21 6:00 PM + more
Quality Survey Caller for Healthcare
Capital Caring Health is a non-profit healthcare organization providing care to over 1200 patients daily thoughout Virginia, DC and Maryland. Our patients receive specialized hospice and palliative care. We provide care to pediatrics to geriatic patients. Capital Caring Health is seeking volunteers to help with our quality survey phone calls. These calls help us provide the best service possible to our families/patients. Volunteers will be fully trained and will receive support be successful. These calls can be made from the comfort of your home. Volunteers will conduct calls between Monday- Friday 9:00am-9:00pm. Each call takes about 10 minutes. Volunteers will make 10-50 calls per week. Time commitment of 2-3 days per month with 2-4 hours per month. Schedule is flexible
Alexandria, VA
2/1/21 9:00 AM
Organize & Bag Donations For Distribution
Just like it sounds. You will organize and bag food and cleaning supply donations for distribution to our Casa Chirilagua families and the wider Chirilagua Community. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested positive for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 14 days? If so, do NOT volunteer. - That you or someone you live with is NOT at high risk (this includes persons who are age greater than 65; have underlying heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, liver disease; are immunocompromised, on dialysis, or have severe obesity with BMI greater than 40). If so, do NOT volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
2/2/21 4:00 PM + more
Spanish Literacy Tutor
Tutor adults in basic reading and writing skills in Spanish. Spanish proficiency required, experience in literacy tutoring preferred. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer. Before you volunteer in-person, please ensure: - That you have NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested positive for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 14 days? If so, do NOT volunteer. - That you or someone you live with is NOT at high risk (this includes persons who are age greater than 65; have underlying heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, liver disease; are immunocompromised, on dialysis, or have severe obesity with BMI greater than 40). If so, do NOT volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
2/2/21 6:00 PM + more
Adult English Virtual Class (¡Yo hablo inglés!) Volunteer
Support the learning of basic oral English skills for the adults in the community through teaching a class, being a teacher’s assistant, or through admin support. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
2/2/21 7:00 PM + more
Teens Club Virual Volunteer (7th-8th Grade)
Come help us make a difference in a child's life. We need people of character to volunteer to work with our students, grades 6-8, supporting them in their academic development at our after-school program, Teens Club. As most of our volunteer opportunities is with children, we require all volunteers to submit a volunteer application with references, complete a background check, participate in child safety training and program training. All these efforts are to keep our children safe. As a faith-based not-for-profit, we openly offer Christian education at our programs. It is not a requirement to subscribe to a certain faith to volunteer, but we do suggest only those comfortable with open Christian teaching to volunteer.
Alexandria, VA
2/3/21 4:00 PM + more
Lunch & Learns for Volunteer Coordinators
Allyship - What's Next? Only for Volunteer Managers and Professional! Volunteer Alexandria has committed the next six Lunch & Learn sessions to follow up on the Allyship training. These discussions will be on racial equity in your line of work. We are dedicating our time each month from January through June every second Thursday. Once you sign up below, instructions and a Zoom link will be sent to you to be able to access the meeting(s). The January and February sessions will be co-facilitated by OAR. These sessions are funded by the Community Foundation of NV and the Points of Light Foundation. After each session, Volunteer Alexandria's Volunteer Manager will stay on to answer any questions relating to managing volunteers and/or about our database.
Virtual, --
2/11/21 12:00 PM + more
Hire Autism Navigator
We are looking for persons with business, management, and workplace experience to serve as Hire Autism Navigators and help autistic adults refine their resumes and/or cover letters and prepare for job interviews. The expected volunteer commitment is 1-2 hours per week for 3 months. We expect that Navigators will work with a single job seeker over a 4-week period. The Navigator role is envisioned as a virtual volunteer opportunity with interactions conducted via web-based platforms. 2021 Application Deadlines: January Training: December 18, 2020 April Training: March 26, 2021 July Training: June 25, 2021 October Training: September 24, 2021
Virtual (Virtual)
3/26/21 12:00 AM + more
Brighten a Seniors Day
Residents participate in an abundance of engaging activities to enrich their daily lives. Volunteers are needed to assist residents to and from event locations and help with tasks during arts and crafts, sensory events, and various games.
McLean, VA
Through 9/4/21
Computer & Career Instructors Needed
CORE's mission is to help low-income adults acquire the technological and life skills they need to pursue their career aspirations.Classes available (and volunteers needed) in Reston, Herndon, Sterling and Loudoun. We are looking for people who can teach basic computer skills plus MS Office and career skills. Classes are held in the evening starting mid-January. We are training volunteers for our January semester. Your next step will be to attend a volunteer training session. Attendance at an orientation session is a mandatory step for classroom volunteers. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about the history of our organization, the students we serve, our curriculum, computer resources and the support we offer. • Falls Church Area: Saturday, October 15, 2016, at 10 a.m, Saturday, November 12th at 10 a.m., and Saturday, December 3rd at 10 a.m. at our Bailey's Crossroad Office: 5881 Leesburg Pike, Suite 204, Falls Church VA 22041. It's a 4-story office building, west on Leesburg Pike, across the street from Duangrat Restaurant and a Sherman Paint sign. If you use GPS or any mapping app, please be sure to enter the zipcode 22041 as well as the address. Otherwise, you will wind up in the middle of Tyson's Corner and they won't let you leave unless you buy something ;-) • Herndon/Reston Area: Saturday, October 22 at 10 a.m., and Saturday, November 19th at 10 a.m.
Bailey's Crossroads, VA
Through 10/15/01
Volunteer chaplain
Inova Alexandria Hospital Volunteer Chaplain program is looking for new members of all faith traditions to join their team to help provide spiritual and emotional support to patients and families. All of our volunteer chaplains serve as interfaith chaplans - providing appropriate and respectful spiritual and emotional care to patients and families. No proselytizing, attempts to convert or witness is acceptable. We are looking for volunteers who can commit 4 hours per week and one overnight on-call (avaialble for emergencies only) per month. Some adapatations to those hours can be made for those who work full time. We also look for volunteers who are able to commit to the program for a minimum of one year. Training and thorough orientation is given to those who join the program. Ordained or lay members are all welcome. Orientation and training, with ongoing education opportunities will be provided. Please call 703-504-3809 for more information and application form.
Alexandria, VA
Through 8/19/21
Newsletter Editor
Publish AFSS stories and events on a quarterly basis Write one letter to the editor once a quarter
Through 3/14/21