Volunteer Opportunities - Spring 2010

- The Oklahoma Dental Association is preparing for the first Oklahoma Mission of Mercy (www.okmom.org) , and could use some help with a few administrative tasks! Next week, the Association is going to do a mass mailing to all volunteers for the event (nearly 1500 packets)- they estimate the project will take 3 people approximately 8 hours. The materials for the mailing will be ready by Wednesday, January 20th. If interested in helping with the mailing next week (or other tasks to prepare for OK MOM), please contact Kristin Vineyard at 405.241.1299 or email kvineyard@okdf.org. Thank you! Note: The mailing and other pre-event tasks will be done at the ODA office: 317 NE 13th Street, OKC, OK 73104.

- UCO Career Services' 2010 UCO Spring Career & Internship Fair is February 3, and will be held in the Nigh University Center Ballroom from 12-4 pm. Local and national employers will have booths to interview and speak with students regarding full-time employment and internships.

Volunteers are needed to help set up the day prior to the fair as well as the day of the fair. Volunteers may help recruiters unload booth materials from cars, set up booths, and provide basic directions in the Nigh University Center. Volunteers are consistently rated as one of the best aspects of UCO Career Services fairs so please consider donating an hour or two to make it a great day for everyone. Happy recruiters equal recruiters who visit UCO again and again!

- In response to the tragic earthquake that occurred in Haiti on Tuesday and has resulted in massive casualties and loss of life, the UCO Volunteer & Service Learning Center (VSLC) invites all students, faculty, and staff to make cash donations to aid in the relief effort. All donations will be forwarded directly to the American Red Cross. Checks should be made out to American Red Cross; please hand deliver donations to the VSLC in room 212 of the Nigh University Center.

Additionally, we are seeking volunteers to run donation tables around campus over the next few weeks. Anyone interested in volunteering to help may contact UCO student Dwight Clark at studentsforhaiti@gmail.com or 405.740.0069. There will be a brief volunteer meeting in the VSLC, 212 NUC, on Tuesday, 1/19, at 11 am and 3 pm.

- The Friends of the Metropolitan Library System put on a huge Booksale every February in the Oklahoma Expo Building at the state fairgrounds.This year the sale will be February 19 - 21. Preparation will begin on Monday, Feb. 15 (Presidents' Day) with unloading boxes from trucks in the morning and putting books on tables in the afternoon. Lunch is served to those who work all day.

During the weekend sale we need cashiers and customer service people and book straighteners, etc.

If you will visit our website at www.mlsfriends.org you will find a Booksale Volunteer Sign-up form that will give you all of the scheduling information. Students can sign up online. The sooner the better. Student Volunteers are among our most enthusiastic and hardest workers. We love them. We'll provide a report of earned volunteer hours to UCO after the sale - or sign forms on site. Questions? email Jo Duncan at jotduncan@sbcglobal.net or phone him at 341-8856.

- As part of the Rolling Green Collaborative, UCO student volunteers are invited to provide homework help to elementary school children living at Rolling Green Apartments at 400 E. Danforth, just north of campus. Up to eight volunteers are needed from 3:15 to 5:00 pm on Tuesday and Wednesdays for the spring semester. Volunteers must be able to commit to the spring semester for every Tuesday and/or Wednesday that Edmond Public Schools are in session through May. If you are interested in getting more information or to sign up, please contact me directly via email at JKrawczyk@uco.edu (please do not reply to this email). This program will start Tuesday, 1/19.

- Relay for Life- Friday, April 16th from 7pm to 7am