Volunteer Opportunities - "Service Above Self"
Mayor Bibb’s Back-to-School Event
- Date: August 24, 2024
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to noon
- Location: Cleveland Public Auditorium
Task: Volunteers should wear their Rotary shirts and would be at the Dolly Pardon's Imagination Library table helping with the following:
- Passing out free books
- Enrolling eligible children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL)
- Distributing flyers for DPIL and the WorldReader BookSmart free digital library
- Talking about Operation Comic Book and showing the QR code to scan from the flyer
RSVP to Joan Spoerl - jspoerl@literacycooperative.org
St. Augustine Community Cupboard
We will be volunteering the 2nd Saturday of each month. The volunteers help with greeting, checking in & out, and navigating the crowd, carrying items for those who need help, sanitizing the grocery baskets used, and stocking shelves, etc.
- Saturday, September 14 - 10:30 - 3:00 p.m. (come for as long as you can)
Where: St. Augustine Community Cupboard, 2486 W. 14th St., Cleveland, OH 44113
RSVP rotarycle@gmail.com
Greater Cleveland Food Bank
Upcoming Volunteer Day - Wednesday August 21, Tuesday September 10 and Wednesday September 18.
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. - RSVP rotarycle@gmail.com or pqua@classicautocampus.com
American Red Cross Blood Donor Day, October 3, 2024
The American Red Cross is experiencing an emergency blood shortage
- The nation faces the lowest number of people giving blood in 20 years. Blood and platelet donations are needed now to help alleviate the shortage and ensure lifesaving medical procedures are not delayed.
- Over the last 20 years, the number of people donating blood to the Red Cross has fallen by more than 40%.
- Additional challenges lie ahead as winter weather and seasonal illnesses like the flu and COVID-19 may compound the dire blood supply situation the nation currently faces.
- Blood products are currently going to hospitals faster than blood donations are coming in. In recent weeks, the Red Cross has had to limit distributions of some of the most transfused blood types to hospitals.
- Make an appointment to give blood or platelets now by using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visitingRedCrossBlood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
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