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United Way Immediate Needs
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Volunteers to help stuff mailings on an ad hoc basis - Writers for our newsletter and local newspapers
- Public relations – Speaker’s Bureau – Speakers are needed to make United Way fund-raising presentations at employee group meetings across the county
- Disaster recovery – Volunteers are needed to manage and direct unsolicited volunteers or answer information and referral calls following a natural disaster; training is provided
- Office work – phone answering and calling, filing, word processing, data entry
- Volunteers are needed to help with the fall campaign; training is provided
Community Standing Needs
Children's Services
- Help children enter school ready to learn and succeed in life.
- Care for toddlers whose parents work or are in school.
- Be a child's voice as an aide to the courts.
- Investigate, report, and represent victims of child abuse and neglect.
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Offer a loving and secure home to a child as a foster parent.
Community Services
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Use your retail skills to price and sell clothing and household items in a non-profit store.
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Deal directly with the critical needs of clients seeking shelter, food, medication and transportation.
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Help neglected children, abused runaways and victims of domestic violence through organizations that offer them emergency shelter, counseling and education.
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Share your business expertise or clerical skills with a wide variety of non-profits.
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Assist in activities for physically challenged kids at a special local summer camp.
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Build drastically needed low-cost housing--if you can pick up a hammer, you can learn on the job!
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Deliver hot meals to shut-ins.
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Use your bilingual skills to translate at a variety of local agencies.
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Plan and implement fundraising events and special projects.
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Help with hurricane and other natural disaster recovery. You'll be trained to offer relief when it is needed the most.
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Answer Help Line telephone calls.
Cultural Services
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Help at local museum gift shops.
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Sell tickets, build sets, make costumes or perform in area theater productions.
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Make music or work behind the scenes of local orchestral groups.
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Lead tours of the Lowcountry marshes, beaches and woodlands, or share with visitors our archeology, rich history and area lore.
Education/Recreation Services
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Join the library staff at the front desk, helping visitors, checking out books or participating in library activities.
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Teach reading and writing, or teach English to a member of the growing Hispanic and Asian populations.
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Tutor and mentor children after school, or help with sports, special projects and field trips.
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Teach arts and crafts, or teach a child to play an instrument.
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Inspire an at-risk high school student to achieve academic and career excellence.
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Coach and plan sporting events and activities for all ages.
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Help with continuing education, art classes and instruction to sharpen job skills.
Health Care Services
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Volunteer in the medical field by serving at an outpatient clinic or by filling one of the many positions available in a full-service hospital.
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Offer compassionate listening and counseling at a mental health agency, rape crisis center or reproductive health care facility. These organizations also need your clerical and fund-raising skills.
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Give a few hours respite to an around-the-clock caregiver of a terminally ill or Alzheimer's patient.
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Drive patients who have no transportation to doctor, dentist and other appointments.
Wildlife and Animal Services
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Care for, nurture and exercise injured and abandoned birds and animals at a shelter.