Talking Book Center

Contact: Oakley Pearson

Phone: (540) 885-6215

Email: pearsonjo@ci.staunton.va.us

Mailing Address / Location:

Talking Book Center
1 Churchville Ave.
Staunton, VA 24401

Description: The Talking Book Center is located on the second floor of the Staunton Public Library. They provide free library service for anyone unable to read regular print because of a visual or physical disability. They have books and magazines on tape as well as materials in Braille. Books and magazines are mailed free to and from library patrons, wherever they reside. There is no charge, whatsoever, to the patron. Currently, they serve approximately 2,000 active readers.

Staunton Rescue Squad

Contact: any Crew Leader on duty

Phone: (540) 885-3444

Mailing Address:

Staunton Rescue Squad
1601 N. Coalter St.
Staunton, VA 24401

Description: Students with EMT certification are preferred. However, there are dispatch positions available, such as phone coverage. For obvious reasons these are critical positions in which human life may be at stake.

Staunton City Schools

Contact: Dori Walk, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction

Phone: (540) 332-3920

Email: dwalk@staunton.k12.va.us

Website: here

Mailing Address:

Staunton City Schools
116 W. Beverley
Staunton, VA 24402

Location: To be announced. Locations will vary because tutoring programs are offered at different schools. You might directly call the offices of each of Staunton’s four elementary schools to inquire about volunteer connections and opportunities. They are McSwain Elementary (332-3936), Bessie Weller (332-3940), Dixon (332-3934), and Ware Elementary (332-3938).

Mission Statement: The Staunton City Schools is an institution that believes in the potential of our young people. We will strive to guarantee conditions for student success. We will continue to provide a clean, safe, and healthy environment where academic excellence is encouraged and celebrated. Sound fiscal and organizational management are standards which set the stage for our student’s achievements. Through collaboration and partnership with our parents and community, we will provide the personal resources that support and nurture the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual well-being of our students.

Description: There are tutoring programs for students in four elementary schools and one middle school.

Volunteers are needed to:

- tutor children after school
- Parent Center Program (works in conjunction with the Booker T. Washington Center at the YMCA)
- After school program which involves tutoring and enrichment activities for middle school children.
- Principals or PTA Volunteer Coordinators at various schools might need you to work on projects

Staunton – Augusta Art Center

Contact: Beth Hodge, Director

Phone: (540) 885-2028

Email: director@saartcenter.org

Website: here

Mailing Address:

Art Center at One Gypsy Hill Park
Staunton VA, 24401

Location: Within walking distance of campus on the east side of Staunton’s main public park along Churchville Ave.

Mission Statement: The Staunton Augusta Art Center, Inc. is a non profit community art organization providing children, adults, and visitors in our area rich experiences in art making, art appreciation, and art history. The Art Center provides artists and artisans a venue to teach, exhibit, and sell their work. The Staunton Augusta Art Center brings diverse visual arts to our community and our diverse community to art.

Description: The Staunton Augusta Art Center is an active, non profit arts organization with a gallery hosting six exhibits yearly and a busy schedule of art related events and art education program.s Volunteers and college interns are encouraged to apply.

Volunteer/Service Activities: Might include helping layout the Art Center’s newsletter and other brochures and forms, help hang exhibitions, assist with mailings, help set up docent and volunteer programs, assist with a variety of art enrichment classes for children, youth, or adults, staff phones, support special projects such as membership drive, etc.

SPCA (Augusta Regional)

Contact: Debbie Caywood (Director) or Karin Mango (Volunteer Coordinator)

Phone: (540) 885-7722

Email: animals@ntelos.net

Website: here

Mailing Address:

SPCA
33 Archery Lane
Staunton, VA 24401

Location: Take 250 past Shoney’s. The SPCA is about two miles on the right, next to the mini storage building.

Mission Statement: The mission of the Augusta Regional SPCA, founded in 1970, is:

- the prevention of the cruelty of animals
- the relief of suffering among animals
- the extension of humane education

Description: The SPCA cares for animals who have otherwise been abandoned, they try to adopt as many animals as possible.

Volunteers are needed to:

- clean the cages
- care for the animals
- play with the animals
- walk the animals

Southern Care Hospice

Contact: Dennis Taylor, Chaplain

Phone: (540) 885-3332

Mailing Address / Location:

Southern Care, Inc.
2715 N. Augusta St.
Staunton, VA 24401

Description: Hospice provides end of life care for people with terminal illnesses and their families. Volunteers are needed make visits to hospice patients.

Shenandoah National Park

Contact: James Akerson, Volunteer Coordinator for Exotic Plant Management or Wayne Cottrill, Volunteer Coordinator

Phone: (540) 999-3496

Email: james_akerson@nps.gov or wayne_cottrill@nps.gov

Website: here

Mailing Address:

Shenandoah National Park
3655 U.S. Highway 211 East
Luray, VA 22835-9036

Location: (previous locations used) Lost Mountain Area, South District — can be tailored to your location needs.

Description: Volunteers pull, uproot, and cut non-native invaders from other parts of the planet. They threaten to squeeze out our native plants and trees. Whole ecosystems are being harmed. You can learn about invasives and truly make a difference in protecting the environment. Service projects can be two to eight hours long, or as part of an on-going commitment.

- groups of 4 to 40 people are excellent
- appropriate ages are 11 to 75 years of age
- equipment provided

Volunteers Are Needed To:

- control projects focusing on garlic mustard, mullein, oriental bittersweet, japanese barberry, multiflora rose, and others
- bring hat, long pants, shoes/boots and socks, and energy
- gloves, equipment, and drinks are provided

Scenic Virginia Inc.

Contact: Frank Calhoun, Esq.

Phone: (540) 350-4969

Email: vadriving@aol.com

Website: here

Mailing Address:

211 Enterprise Road
Churchville, VA 24421

Mission Statement: Scenic Virginia is dedicated to the preservation, protection, and enhancement of Virginia’s scenic beauty.

We support public and private actions that strengthen the appearance of Virginia’s landscapes and communities, especially along our highways and byways.

We believe that senic assets are essential to the cultural and economic health of our Commonwealth.

Description: Scenic Virginia, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization that exists to preserve, protect, and enhance the senic beauty of the Commonwealth. As the sole advocate for conservation of Virginia’s senic resources, our principal activity is to encourage and support public and private actions that enrich Virginia’s extraordinary scenic beauty, particularly along our highways and byways. To this end, we demonstrate to citizens the economic, social, physical, and cultural benefits of preserving our scenic assets.

Scenic Virginia undertakes programs that enhance the scenic qualities of both rural and urban landscapes. Working in concert with conservation groups and businesses, we seek ways to preserve senic beauty in its natural setting. We advise localities on how to protect scenic, historic, and cultural resources through appropriate planning. To communities wanting to improve their appearance, we emphasize the economic development opportunities available in the creation and enhancement of scenic approaches to their cities and towns.

Salvation Army — Waynesboro

Contact: Major Linda Sloan, Director

Phone: (540) 943-7591

Email: lincapt2@aol.com

Mailing Address:

Salvation Army
246 Arch Ave.
Waynesboro, VA 22980

Location: Start out west on E. Frederick St. Turn left onto N. Augusta St. Turn left onto Greenville Ave. Turn slightly right to stay on Greenville Ave. Turn slightly right onto Greenville Ave. Turn left onto Richmond Rd. Merge onto I-81 S toward I-64 / Roanoke. Merge onto I-64 E via exit 221 toward Richmond. Take the US-340 exit — exit 94 — toward Waynesboro / Stuarts Draft. Merge onto US-340 N toward Waynesboro. Turn right onto W. main St. Turn right onto Arch Ave.

Salvation Army — Staunton

Contact: Captain David May

Phone: (540) 885-8157

Email: David_May@uss.salvationarmy.org

Website: here

Mailing Address:

Salvation Army
P.O. Box 2412
Staunton, VA 24402

Location:

1700 W. Beverly St.
Staunton, VA 24401

Down Frederick St. to the cemetary. Take a right on Beverly St., the Salvation Army is located on the left at 1700 W. Beverly.

Mission Statement: The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

Description: The Salvation Army helps the community by providing clothing and youth programs for those who cannot afford them at this moment.

Volunteers Are Needed To Help With:

- Youth Programs

Scouting programs (at no cost to the children). Volunteers are needed to help the children earn emblems and patches, put on the Halloween carnival, and help put together floats for the parades.

- Music Program

Started in the fall of 2002, volunteers are needed to help teach children percussion, keyboard, and brass instruments.

- Store

Volunteers are needed to help sort and organize clothes and furniture in the shop.

- During the Christmas Season (after Oct. 31st)

adopt an Angel Tree
staff a Red Kettle to collect red funds
perform a canned food drive
fill Santa Sacks
collect toys for the Toy Convoy