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AGENCIES – Post an Opportunity

If you are an agency in need of volunteers, please submit your opportunity either by:

- posting in the comments below
- posting the opportunity on the wall of our Facebook page
- completing our AGENCY SURVEY
- email or call us at 481-0331

Please include:

- a description of the opportunity
- contact information for the volunteer coordinator
- the time commitment involved
- skills required
- if training is offered
- number of volunteers needed
- whether the event is youth/family/group friendly
- whether people could assist from their home or a remote location

Contact Information

UlsterCorps
PO Box 34
Stone Ridge, NY 12484
845 481 0331
email

Storefront for Service
292 Main Street, Rosendale
Saturdays 11am-1pm
and monthly Open Houses

Next Open House Monday January 18th 2010, 10am-3pm

  1. Recruiting Citizen Scientists for the 2010 Volunteer River Herring Monitoring Season

    Description:

    The NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program and Hudson Rivers Fisheries Unit are continuing a volunteer-based River Herring monitoring program this spring. Monitoring will take place between 4/1 – 5/31 during the annual migration of river herring from the ocean into freshwater tributaries to spawn. Each volunteer will conduct visual observations for signs of herring, at least twice a week for 15 minutes at a site close to his or her town. Training is provided and begins in March, no experience necessary. We need at least ten volunteers per site. For more information on the program, please visit the website! http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/41545.html.

    Contact Info:

    Jess Kindred – phone: (845) 256-3827, email: r3hermon@gw.dec.state.ny.us, website: http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/41545.html

    time commitment:

    15-minute increments at least twice a week from April 1st – May 31st. Training March 25th.

    training:

    Volunteer Training Sessions:
    Quassaick Creek
    When: Wednesday, March 10th, 2:15 – 4:15 pm and 6:00 – 8:00 pm
    Where: Newburgh Free Academy Lecture Hall, 201 Fullerton Avenue Newburgh, NY 12550-3798. Use the lower parking lot entrance. The lecture hall is next to the planetarium (see planets) on the second floor.

    Coeymans Creek and Hannacrois Creek
    When: Saturday, March 20th, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
    Where: New Baltimore Fire Station (Corner of Gill Rd and New Baltimore Rd., West Coxsackie, NY 12192)

    Sprout Brook and Pocantico River
    When: Thursday, March 25th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    Where: Croton Free Library (171 Cleveland Dr., Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520)

    Black Creek
    When: Saturday, March 27th, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
    Where: Scenic Hudson’s Black Creek Preserve (US 9W and Winding Brook Rd., Esopus, NY 12429)

    Fallkill Creek and Wappingers Creek
    When: Saturday, March 27th, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
    Where: Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum Pavilion (75 N Water St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601)

  2. Legal Services of the Hudson Valley seeks private attorneys who are willing to take a pro bono civil case in Ulster County. You will be able to obtain CLE credit for doing so, while providing valuable legal assistance to those in need. Before sending you a case, we will make sure you are ready and willing to accept it. You can let us know what kind of civil matter you are willing to take on. You could volunteer to draft a simple will, or to handle a matrimonial action. You could represent a homeowner in a foreclosure, or assist at an unemployment insurance hearing. Call Kathleen Mannix, Managing Attorney, at 845-471-0058, ext. 104, for more information, and to volunteer.

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