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Coming of Age:
Bay Area

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San Francisco, CA 94102
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Volunteer Opportunities

Are you seeking ways to give back to the community--and enrich your own life at the same time? The Coming of Age Opportunities featured on the pages below include both paid and volunteer opportunities at organizations in San Francisco and Alameda Counties. To view by location or type of position, click on the key words under each listing.

Not sure which to choose? Personalized matching helps you connect with organizations offering opportunities in the Bay Area. For more information, contact the Talent Coach at comingofage@ncphs.org.

Organizations:To submit your paid or volunteer opportunities for posting, please complete the opportunity submission form. If you have questions, please contact us at (415) 474-7787.

Dental Professionals Needed to Help with New Dental Program!

Categories: Dentalcare, Healthcare

Clinic by the Bay is a free, volunteer-powered health clinic located in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco. We are part of the national network of Volunteers in Medicine clinics; we engage retired and practicing health providers and nonmedical volunteers to provide compassionate, high quality care, free of charge, to working uninsured adults in the community. Clinic by the Bay will be opening a small dental program for its established patients in June 2013. We are looking for volunteer Dentists, Dental Assistants, and Hygienists  to provide basic dental care including assessment, treatment planning, x-rays and cleanings using mobile equipment and digital radiography.

Rescue Public School Libraries

Cities: Oakland

Friends of the Oakland Public School Libraries (FOPSL)  help create libraries by updating and automating book collections in Oakland public schools where libraries were closed due to budget cuts. This semester our regular workdays are from Tuesdays from 9-4 at Sobrante Park and Thursdays 9-3:30 at Brookfield. We also look for volunteers with a consistent block of time each week who would like to help with book circulation and work with students and teachers across the district.

Beyond the Lab: Share Science with Your Community!

Categories: Docent, Science
Cities: Berkeley

Discover, Engage & Innovate.  Want to learn and share exciting and interactive experiences with future scientists? As a Lawrence Hall of Science volunteer, you will have the opportunity to help kids and families experience hands-on science, assist our instructors in our classes and workshops and be an ambassador of our mission and programs out in the community or here at the Hall.

Photographer/website Volunteer

Categories: Garden
Type: Unpaid
Cities: Oakland

Love taking pictures of nature and people in action? The Oakland Landscape Committee needs a volunteer photographer with a digital camera to take pictures of volunteers beautifying our public gardens, parks, pollinator gardens, tree planting/care projects, and vegetation management projects.  Pictures will be used on the Oakland Landscape Committee web page and for grants and donation solicitation.
If interested your skills and talent might also be utilized to create an educational website and video.

Youth Mentor, Volunteer Supervisor

Cities: Oakland

Opportunity to assist with mentoring youth and supervising young volunteers helping with landscaping and maintenance activities in 4 North Oakland public gardens.
We work each Saturday with high school student crews in the County of Alameda Probation Department Weekend Training Academy program on community service projects. We help encourage, engage and direct the youth in performing garden tasks.

Keep Oakland Beautiful

Categories: Gardening, Horticulture
Type: Unpaid
Cities: Oakland

Calling all avid gardeners, garden designers, individuals with building skills, or folks who just like to dig in the dirt to come help develop school and public gardens in Oakland. Join a great team---or work on you own---and help design, build and/or enhance school and public gardens while sharing your expertise and learning new skills
 

Lights, Camera, Action! Come Support KQED's TV Pledge Drive

Join other Coming of Age members as we go on live TV on Saturday, June 15th from 6pm to 9pm to support public broadcasting in Northern California and to help Coming of Age create awareness of our organization and programs.

The TV pledge drives are KQED's most important fundraising effort and Coming of Age volunteers will help by answering phones and recording pledges.

And for bringing in a group, we'll get some on-air promotion, including verbal acknowledgements, camera pans of our volunteers, table signs and an on-air graphic slide.

Plus, all volunteers will receive a complimentary meal prior to our shift provided by a local restaurant, and drinks and snacks throughout the evening.

 

Find Your Inner Barista at the Garden Cafe

Categories: Food, Senior Services

Volunteer in a 5-star, nationally-recognized senior facility with a great community of people. Our busy Garden Cafe is looking for 1 volunteer to assist behind the counter on Sundays - greeting customers, serving coffee and light snacks, cashiering.

Maitri - Compassionate Friendship For Those in Need

Type: Unpaid

No one should have to suffer or die alone. Maitri provides compassionate residential care to men and women in need of hospice or 24-hour care and cultivates the deepest respect and love for life among its residents and caregivers.
Maitri is a residential facility serving low-income people in need of end-of-life or respite care. We are in need of volunteers who have the ability to connect to all types of people. Volunteers who are compassionate, caring, thoughtful. Able to not only listen but also be able to share your life stories.
 
 
 

Support Women Entrepreneurs in the Bay Area

For 25 years, the Women's Initiative for Self Employment (WISE) has provided high-potential, low-income women with the training, funding and ongoing support to start their own businesses and become financially self sufficient.

The women who went through our program significantly increased their income and assets while launching businesses, creating jobs and stimulating the local economy.

We have urban hubs in San Francisco and Oakland to serve women throughout the Bay Area.

WISE is currently recruiting volunteers for a wide range of responsible positions. Please review the following and apply to talk with us and learn more.

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