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Volunteer Connections Forms

Volunteer Enrollment Form:
Online Enrollment Form
Printable Enrollment Form

Memorandum of Understanding:
Printable MOU Form

Volunteer Request Forms:
Printable Episodic Volunteer Request
Printable On-going Volunteer Request

Donations:
Online Donations
Printable Donation Form

Events

"Volunteer Connections" includes Clark County RSVP, the Volunteer Center and Ameri*Corps VISTA. Its primary focus is to match interested volunteers with local volunteer opportunities. It also oversees direct service programs that utilize the skills of community volunteers to provide needed services. These include SHIBA (Statewide Health Insurance Benefit Advisors) Helpline, America Reads Tutoring Program, Pen-pal project, and the Sponsor-A-Ride Program. See the programs page for more information.

We engage community volunteers of all ages by recruiting, interviewing and matching the skills, talents, interests, and time availability to appropriate volunteer assignments. We can also look at assignments in close proximity to where an individual lives. We have agreements with over 250 private and public non-profit organizations that address community issues such as housing, homelessness, education, transportation, health care access, consumer protection, preserving the environment, and agencies that help at-risk children low-income families and more. Volunteers serve at a myriad of organizations including hospitals, schools, nursing homes, and agencies that serve seniors, low-income families and kids, emergency assistance and more.

Volunteer Connections is an affiliate of The Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network. our web-based data bank of volunteer opportunities, www.volunteerwashington.org, is linked to 1800volunteer.org and VolunteersinDisaster.org. We partner with other Volunteer Centers and RSVP programs in the state, with emergency responders, schools, congregations and civic organizations as well as volunteer resource managers to make Clark County a safer, healthier place to live, learn and grow.

All volunteers 55+ are automatically registered as RSVP volunteers. Besides experiencing the genuine joys while volunteering, additional benefits are available through RSVP such as insurance coverage, an invitation to the Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, and free subscription to our monthly newsletter located in the Senior Messenger Newspaper.

In 2007 our volunteers donated over 117,400 hours saving Clark County organizations $2.2 million dollars.

Volunteers provide a variety of services including, but not limited to:

• Guides/docents at historical site and museums
• Delivering meals to homebound elderly
• Organizing/assisting at special events
• Tutoring students and assisting educators
• Serving on advisory councils and boards
• Assisting in homeless shelters and food banks
• Helping with income tax and health insurance
• Providing medical transportation for elderly
• Assisting in hospitals and nursing homes
• Participating in crime prevention programs

Through our partnerships with the Hands On/Points of Light Foundation, and the Washington Service Commission, volunteer opportunities are now posted on a national database. Click on the link above to check out volunteer opportunities in Clark County, around the state, or around the country!