CalSTRS Retired Educator - Winter 2007 eNewsletter

Learn and Serve America
Service and learning combine to benefit the community. Examples include preserving native plants, tutoring, developing urban gardens and designing playgrounds. A program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, this group offers a myriad of opportunities.

Visit www.LearnandServe.org, or e-mail LSAAbout@cns.org.

Mentors for Foster Kids
About 100,000 of California’s children live in foster care. It is next to impossible for these children to form any long-term relationships with adults or their peers. Mentors for Foster Kids provides training and matches volunteers with “mentees.” Visits can be as simple and inexpensive as a trip to the park. This requires a one-year commitment for just an hour or two a week.

For more information visit www.Mentor4FosterKids.org.

Volunteer Match

For a broad spectrum of volunteer opportunities, visit www.VolunteerMatch.org. This is a registry of groups, events and opportunities from cities, counties, school, civic and charity groups. Visitors can search using keywords or by duration, date, distance, field of interest and age groups. The cold days of winter are the perfect time to start researching opportunities to reach out to your community. Even a few hours can make a big difference. In the wise words of Sir Winston Churchill, “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

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