United Way Volunteer Center

Purpose: Bringing volunteers and organizations together to make a better community and enrich volunteers' lives.

United Way of Northwest Georgia’s Volunteer Center is managed by a committee of volunteers chaired by Barbara Ward, a United Way board member. 

Get Connected to Local Volunteer Opportunities- Find a volunteer opportunity that matches your interests, desires, and passions with a community need.

• •    Log on the United Way of Northwest Georgia Virtual Volunteer Center.
• •    Call 211 from a landline phone or 706.CAN.HELP from a cell phone.
• •    Email our Volunteer Center
• •    Youth Volunteer Guide
• •    Non-Profit Partnership Schedule, register HERE !
  
  

Spring Volunteer Projects

See: ONLINE Volunteer Calendar 

Upcoming Volunteer Projects include:

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  Apply for United Way Boardwalk Class of 2010 HERE .

• The best place to look for volunteer “Collection/ Drive” opportunities is on the United Way website: See needed items at local agencies.

• The United Way Volunteer Center also offers custom projects for any group on any date. To request a custom project, click HERE.  

Corporate Volunteerism

United Way also facilitates corporate volunteer programs by helping local businesses and organizations realize the benefits of corporate volunteerism, and match employee knowledge, skills, and abilities to local needs which impact our community.

For more information or if your company would like to volunteer as a group.  Click HERE for available opportunities.

Employee Volunteer Program

Email the United Way Volunteer Center if your company is interested in participating in our

corporate volunteer program.

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Community Days of Service 

The United Way Volunteer Center brings hundreds of volunteers together for the following events-

 
MLK Day of Service January 18, 2010 
The Great American Clean-up April 24, 2010
United Way Day of Action June 19, 2010

Hands on Georgia Week  October

Make Difference Day October 23 & 24

 

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Volunteer Recognition

 

 

 

United Way honors local community volunteers by annually presenting the following to community volunteers.

To download the nomination form please click any of the links below:

• The Presidential Service Award
• Connie Woodward Award for Volunteerism in Whitfield County
• Elaine Butler Award for Volunteerism in Murray County
• Adult Group Volunteer Award for Volunteerism in Northwest Georgia
• Individual & Group Awards for Youth Volunteers

“The highest reward for a person’s work is not what they get for it, but what they become because of it.”  

- John Ruskin, Victorian era philosopher