Volunteers no longer needed in search for missing UF student
Police have ended the call for volunteers to participate in the search for UF student Christian Aguilar who has been missing for more than two weeks. The volunteer check-in post at the Florida Farm...
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Cart Program Gives Rural Disabled New Opportunities
A volunteer workshop outside Jacksonville produces carts for disabled members of rural communities overseas. Designed for those with little to no use of their legs, the carts are propelled by...
View ArticleTis the Season to Give, But Floridians Are Largely Scrooges With Their Time
While volunteerism rates in Florida may still be ranked relatively low, people like Bill and Verna Brown try to change that by gathering food and help by giving it out to the rural areas in North...
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Hawthorne Volunteer Trash Collector A Fixture In Community
When a doctor recommended he get more exercise, Hawthorne resident Winford Jenkins, 57, began taking daily walks around the city. After noticing just how much trash cluttered the streets, he decided to...
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Therapy Dog Shadow Remembered By His Owner, Those He Helped Volunteering
A black Lab named Shadow died recently after more than a decade of therapy work at the Tower Road Branch Library. The Read With A Dog program will continue to be held every Wednesday afternoon, but...
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Gainesville’s Citizen On Patrol Program Expands, Deters Crime
Gainesville's Citizens on Patrol program, which began in 2010, is working to expand from a modest 10-person unit to the likes of Citrus County's COP program which currently boasts around 500 volunteers.
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Weather Causes Increase In Baby Squirrels Falling From Trees
Severe rain has caused baby squirrels to fall out of trees. Florida Wildlife Care Inc. has developed a volunteer program dedicated to nursing these squirrels back to health.
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UF Student Doesn’t Let Lymphoma Stop His Work Helping Homeless
A UF student who got diagnosed with stage-three Hodgkin Lymphoma continued to work with the organization he founded, A Reason To Give, that works feeding GRACE marketplace residents.
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