Spring Is Here

and the City is blooming with exciting volunteer opportunities to participate in! Below are a few highlighted events that we are delighted to announce, but the fun does not stop there… Check out http://www.VolunteerNYC.org to find out about more great ways you can spend time with family and friends, as well as meet new people, while giving back to communities throughout the five boroughs. This was submitted by Shije to Good News. April is MillionTreesNYC month! Celebrate Arbor Day every day this April by “thinking globally, and planting locally.” For this month-long celebration, we would like to highlight all the exciting tree-planting initiatives going on all around the City that will help us reach our goal of planting one million trees by 2017. This is your month to get involved, so sign up and join the fun! For a complete listing of MillionTreesNYC events, please visit the Community Calendar. Hands on New York Day 2008 New York Cares wants you — on Saturday, April 12! That’s when they are mobilizing 5,500 volunteers to help give our city’s public spaces their annual spring-cleaning. Please join New York Cares for a day of good green fun as they revitalize local parks, gardens, playgrounds, community centers, homeless shelters, and schools. For more information and to sign-up NYC Young Women’s Volunteer Summit As part of Global Youth Service Day, Children for Children, the NYC Commission on Women’s Issues, the Mayor’s Volunteer Center of NYC, and CosmoGIRL! magazine are organizing the first annual NYC Young Women’s Volunteer Summit. During the event, 1,000 young women (ages 12-18) will participate in a morning of educational workshops and panel discussions about women’s issues lead by female community leaders. In the afternoon, youth will engage in hands-on service projects related to the topics discussed. The items created will benefit women in their communities and/or around the world. Young women ages 12-18 are invited to participate. RSVP is required. To register online as a youth participant For additional questions or to help sponsor this event, call 212-850-4170 or email mailto:carolyn@childrenforchildren.org carolyn@childrenforchildren.org Volunteer for the Commerce Bank Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday, May 4th Be one of 1,500 volunteers for the Sunday, May 4th Commerce Bank Five Boro Bike Tour. Welcome and assist 30,000 cyclists on their 42-mile Tour through New York City by helping at one of five rest areas, the start or finish lines. Volunteers pass out drinks and snacks, provide information, help with traffic flow at various locations, set up, break down and clean up rest areas. Volunteer opportunities are available in all five boroughs with varying shifts depending on location. Marshals (volunteers on bicycles) are also needed along the Tour route to assist cyclists and direct traffic flow. Lunch will be provided, plus a great t-shirt and cap. Sign up to volunteer at http://www.bikenewyork.org . Questions? Call 212 932-2453, ext. 133 or mailto:vols@bikenewyork.org vols@bikenewyork.org . Looking for other great one-time and on-going volunteer opportunities? Visit today!