Participants enjoy weekly friendly interaction with their peers and learn valuable skills. Volunteers must be 12 years of age or higher, and must pass a background check. Anaheim Braille Institute is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate blindness and severe sight loss as a barrier to the fulfillment of life. Braille Institute Orange County is recruiting computer skilled individuals to volunteer at the Lakeview Senior Center in Irvine. Volunteers will tutor legally blind adult students in the use of adaptive technology.
Volunteers can choose to work two or four hour shifts in the thrift shop or warehouse.
Tasks include, shelving, pricing and packaging food and clothes. If you are interested in helping out this agency call the Director to find the store nearest you. Costa Mesa Earth Resource Foundation is partnering up with The Green Restaurant Association to implement environmentally friendly solutions in the restaurant business. Volunteers are needed to help market the program to restaurants in Orange County. Tasks include training restaurant staff on environmentally friendly policies and procedures, researching and writing grant proposals to help fund the project, and providing a variety of administrative assistance.