Jacksonville Spartans Volunteer Opportunity

Jacksonville, FL

07/13/2019

The Jacksonville Spartans have partnered with the Jacksonville Zoo to offer unique opportunties to volunteer, learn, and get an inside look behind the scenes and inside animal habitats. Volunteers can expect to work on a Zoo Nature Trail conservation project or inside one of the large mammal habitats. Further details are forthcoming.

Volunteers should dress appropriately for the weather (rain or shine). Wear pants, closed toed shoes or boots, and a MSU t-shirt. Bring work or gardening gloves, a re-usable water bottle, packaged snack, and sunscreen. Work may be dirty and physical, including planting, digging, moving mulch or other habitat material, or painting. And, it's sure to be fun!!  

Once the service project concludes, volunteers can enjoy the zoo for the remainder of the day, and attend the planned MSU student send-off picnic, recognizing NE Florida students attending MSU in the fall, as well as recognizing the many zoo interns and employees who hail from MSU!  

Feeding South Dakota Food Drive

Sioux Falls, SD

05/11/2019

Volunteers will assist Feeding South Dakota with its largest food drive of the year. More than 80,000 pounds of food will be collected by mail carriers from homes statewide and dropped off at trucks parked at Hy-Vee Grocery Stores in Sioux Falls. Volunteers will help collect food from mail carriers, presort items, and put items into bins. Wear comfortable clothing.

Swim and Splash with KEEN at 92nd Street Y

New York, NY

05/11/2019

Enjoy an afternoon at the pool with children and teens with disabilities. Assist children and teens as they splash around or complete a lap at the shallow end of the pool. Volunteers must be comfortable standing in the shallow end of a pool, and working with children.

The session will run from 2:15pm to 4:45pm.

There are towels, showers, and locker rooms at the 92Y. KEEN will also provide swim caps, which is required for the pool. Some volunteers may prefer to bring their own towel and swim cap. We also suggest bringing a lock, change of clothes, and plastic bag for any wet items.

KEEN requires women to wear a one-piece bathing suit or something close to it (e.g. tankini). Bikinis are prohibited as the children may be pulling at you. Given this, we also suggest removing any jewelry (e.g. necklaces, earrings, etc.). You may wear a t-shirt in the pool, but it has to be white so that the dye does not leak into the pool. Some volunteers may find the water cold so you may want to wear a swim shirt.

Afterwards there will be a group happy hour close to the 92nd Street Y.

About KEEN (Kids Enjoying Exercise Now): Empower youth with disabilities by providing free, non-competitive one-to-one programs of exercise, fitness and fun, led by volunteer coaches. All of KEEN's programs are based on a single principle: pair a trained volunteer with an athlete and let them discover together how much they can do. Programs are all open and unstructured, allowing athletes facing significant challenges to have fun and be successful.