RSVP HELPS YOU MAKE A GREAT CHOICE!

RSVP recruits, interviews, trains, and places men and women ages 55 and over with public and private nonprofit agencies requesting service.  We are a one-to-one volunteer referral agency serving residents throughout Dane County. Our volunteers share their knowledge, personal interests, experience, and energy, contributing to the vitality and well-being of their local communities.

Organized in 1972, we are incorporated as an independent nonprofit agency.  With over 2000 volunteers, we are one of the largest such programs in the country.

RSVP of Dane County is one of seventeen Wisconsin programs sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service.  RSVP is part of the National Senior Service Corps that also includes the Foster Grandparent Program and Senior Companion.  Nationally, there are over 760 RSVP's with over 460,000 volunteers.

You may request our current brochure by calling 608 238-7787, or through email, at info@rsvpdane.org.

Karl Stadler   Fix It Please, Karl

All you have to do is show Karl Stadler the problem and he will work out a way to fix it. Whether he makes repairs, builds, or does maintenance, Karl is the fix-it guy, the handy-man, the figure-it-out fellow, the go-to person for RSVP. He came to us as a retired electrical engineer “with some practical abilities,” as he put it in 2006 when he contacted RSVP before he even moved to Madison from Appleton, where he worked as a field engineer in the Turbine Department of GE Power Systems. He wanted to get a head start on lining up volunteer work so he could hit the ground running – which he did. And he hasn’t stopped running since!

Here are some of the things Karl has done for RSVP: He planned, purchased, and installed the countertops and cabinets in the second floor Schools of Hope office. He also hauled some donated cabinets home, refinished them, built a countertop, hauled it all back, and installed everything in the boardroom.