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The Office of Volunteer and Community Services, along with its Volunteer Services Advisory Committee, will sponsor SUNY Fredonia's sixth annual Community Service Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room.
By putting students in touch with opportunities for volunteerism, the Fair is one of the many ways in which the Office of Volunteer and Community Services seeks to build partnerships between the campus and the community.
Last year, SUNY Fredonia students worked more than 13,000 hours as volunteers in the community.
At the fair, students will have an opportunity to meet with a variety of local service agencies and discuss, learn about and sign-up for volunteer opportunities at the prospective sites.
Some of the agencies that will be reaching out to students with information on how students can serve them are: The American Red Cross, Trooper Toys for Tots, Camp Gross, Compeer Chautauqua, Literacy Volunteers of Chautauqua, Dunkirk-Fredonia Meals on Wheels, Chautauqua County Rural Ministry (Friendly Kitchen and Garment Gallery), Campus and Community Children's Center, the United Way of Northern Chautauqua County, WCA Home, Learning Disabilities Association of Western New York, Boys and Girls Club of Northern Chautauqua County, Habitat for Humanity (Chautauqua and Buffalo areas), Saint Columban's on the Lake Retirement Home, the Dunkirk Free Library and more.
For more information regarding this event and other volunteerism activities on campus, email Joyce Harvard Smith, Coordinator of Volunteer and Community Services, call the office at 716-673-3690., or visit the website.
Chaired by Ms. Smith, the Volunteer Services Advisory Committee is comprised of campus and community individuals. its members are Martha Diaz (this year's AmeriCorps VISTA AmeriCorps VISTA, (Volunteers in Service to America), serving the campus and community, Michael Lemieux (Campus Life Director), Dr. Ann Deakin (Geosciences Professor), Dr. Linda Brigance (Communications Professor), Darryl Coleman, (Reed Librarian), Joan Houck (from Meals on Wheels), Nate Zager (student), Charita Jackson (Residence Hall Director), Kathleen Peterson (from Chautauqua County Rural Ministry), Barbara Block (of the WCA Home), and Eileen Dunn (from the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation).
