Mad City Gobblers raises money for Thanksgiving Turkeys for many food pantries every year including: Goodman Community Center, Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, St. Vinny’s Dane County Food Pantry, Monona Food Pantry, WayForward Resources Food Pantry, and many more. Volunteers are needed to help collect donations at several locations including + Metro Market in […]
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Community Connections Summer Volunteer Opportunities Please contact Jan, the RSVP Community Connections Coordinator, at jkarst@rsvpdane.org or (608) 441-7891, for more information about these and many other opportunities to volunteer in our communities. UW Arboretum is looking for Assistant Naturalists at their summer Earth Focus Day Camp (https://arboretum.wisc.edu/learn/children-and-families/earth-focus-day-camp/). Help kids enjoy outdoor games, hikes, story time, and snacks. Volunteers […]
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Our partners at St Vincent de Paul need volunteers to accomplish the many things they do to help our neighbors in need. Here’s a short note they have written. ======================================================= Join us in helping our neighbors in need! You’ve likely seen, or even visited, one of the St. Vinny’s Thrift Stores around Dane County. Maybe […]
Braille Library and Transcribing Services (BLTS) is another one of our partner nonprofit organizations doing amazing work for our communities. Volunteers have been brailling for the blind at BLTS since 1971. Fifteen RSVP volunteers currently serve at BLTS. Patricia Herrling, the Coordinator at BLTS, has graciously written a short article about the volunteer experience at […]
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The 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 welcomes new and returning plant sale volunteers. This is a wonderful way to learn about gardening with native plants and support pollinators by setting-up and staffing the Native Plant Sale between May 7 and 18, 2024. Tasks include unloading delivery trucks; labeling, watering, arranging plants; setting […]
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