RSVP Volunteers United

RSVP Volunteers United
"Get Involved" with a commitment of your time when you have time to commit.
RSVP Volunteers is a non-profit agency that assists local non-profits in recruiting volunteers to help them better serve their community. We also help YOU by matching your interests, skills and time to local service opportunities. RSVP Volunteers United has been available in communities throughout Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift and Yellow Medicine Counties since 1973. All RSVPVU members are provided with free excess accident, liability and auto insurance coverage while traveling to and from and while performing their volunteer service. Other benefits may also be available.	Contact: Karen Mack, Director RSVP Volunteers United 127 NW 2nd Street Ortonville, MN 56278 rsvpvu@maxminn.com 1-877-873-5662 or 839-2111

Out and About Karen Mack 1-877-873-5662 or rsvpvu@maxminn.com
If you enjoy being out and about in your community and visiting a little bit along the way, this is a great volunteer opportunity for you. We need volunteers who would distribute volunteer brochures and other volunteer opportunity information to local churches, radio stations, newspapers and businesses. Volunteers would be needed every other month. Transportation reimbursement at 33 cents per mile is available.

Prairie Five RIDES Dick Olson 320/269-8727 or 1-877-757-4337 or dickp5@willmar.com
Volunteer drivers have the opportunity to drive at your leisure while providing transportation for people of all ages to get to appointments, for shopping or visitations, etc. You set your schedule and where you would like to go. Mileage and training available. Distributing brochures and posters around our five-county service area is another driving opportunity to help promote our program. Mileage available. RIDES Escorts have the opportunity to get out and about while accompanying and serving others as a Passenger Assistant while they go to appointments, shop or commute between connections. You have the liberty to decide when, where and how you can assist our clientele while working around your personal schedule. Training provided.

Graceville Health Center/Grace Home Sr. Elizabeth Frenzel, OSB 320/325-5414
One-to-One Leader -- There is never enough time to take all the residents outside to enjoy the warm weather. This would entail pushing wheel chairs on the sidewalks around Grace Home for short periods. The best time for this is from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 - 5:30 p.m., set your own schedule!

Prairie Five Community Action Council, Inc. Senior Nutrition Program Janelle Roth 320/269-7512 janellep5@willmar.com
Meal Transporter - We need someone to bring the food to a site so we can serve it. We need YOU! In Big Stone County, this is from the main kitchen in Appleton to the Ortonville satellite site. Optional days of service are Monday through Friday. Time commitment depends on route. Home Delivered Meals - Do you like getting out during the day, seeing people and brightening people's days? Then delivering meals may be for you. Optional days of service are Monday through Friday and over lunch (time depends on route). Home delivered meals - Beardsley, Clinton and Graceville.

Chippewa River Citizen Monitor Network Paul Wymar - CMN Coordinator 320/269-2139 ext. 119
Standard River Monitoring Time: 10 minute a week and after each rain. Volunteers record measurements from one site with a transparency tube, tape measure and a rain gage on a weekly basis and after rainstorms from April through September. This activity is easy to do and requires about 10 minutes of training. River Transect Time: One afternoon in June, July and August. Monitor 10-20 sites following a stretch of river recording measurements at each bridge along a stretch of river. This activity is easy to do and requires about 10 minutes of training. Biological Monitoring Time: About 2 days in the fall. Collect samples of river bugs from a river site with a kick net, detail physical site characteristics and then identify bugs in our lab. Volunteer must attend a bio-monitoring training course offered by CRWP. Once you have decided what you would like to do, please call Paul Wymar (CMN Coordinator). He will help you select your monitoring site and get the equipment to you. Welcome aboard the Citizen Monitor Network, I look forward to hearing from you.

Clinton Providence Center Sr. Elizabeth Frenzel, OSB 320/325-5414
Activity Van Driver - Weekly van rides for the residents to various destinations determined by the activity department. Driver would be responsible for transporting residents tot he destination and back to the facility. Would need a valid driver's license and no speeding violations. Would be added to our facility automotive insurance. May be required to assist with loading and unloading residents into and out of the van at the center. Van rides are offered May through October, weather permitting, and are usually offered on Thursday afternoons, but can be adjusted to fit the volunteers schedule. Volunteer should be a responsible adult, can be a family member of a resident. Appointment Van Driver - Someone who would be available to transport residents to and from appointments when no other option is available. Need a valid driver's license and no traffic violations. May be required to assist with unloading and loading resident at site of appointment. Will be added to the facility automotive insurance. This is an on-going need but very sporadic. An adult is needed for this position. Can be family member of a resident.