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Volunteers help the elderly, handicap and low income families with major home repairs such as roof repair, heating, hot water heaters and ramp construction.Homeowners OnlyAll Taxes and mortgage payments must be up to date

Volunteers may provide transportation to essential services and appointments, run errands, assist with grocery and personal shopping, or pick up prescriptions, plan a regular phone visit or home visit to provide friendly and supportive listening, prepare/deliver a weekly meal or treat, perform general yard work or light housekeeping, and/or provide respite for caregiver.

Provides volunteer opportunities to anyone who is an accomplished gardener to help with the gardening hotline, give seminars, demonstrations, and more.

Offers volunteer opportunities for people who are available to do painting, carpentry, cleaning or office work.

Offers a variety of volunteer opportunities who want to help older adults in the community, especially as drivers, patient advocates and home handy men or women.

* Offers free or low-cost educational workshops, applied research projects, and information on food-related topics, from food safety and nutrition to healthy eating on a limited budget.* Offer free or low-cost gardening classes and tours all year long, and opportunities to garden as a volunteer.* Offers information on Composting, Energy Conservation, Recycling, and Sustainable/Alternative Energy in workshops, presentations, articles, and fact sheets.* Provides residential recycling education for Seneca County.* Offers local and county-wide 4-H clubs, after-school 4-H opportunities, connections to 4-H camps, and statewide 4-H activities.

Working in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing.

Provides recovery coaching; telephone recovery support; workshops and programs to support recovery; home-like setting for 12-step groups and other recovery groups; social activities including movie nights, holiday events, potluck suppers and more; library; and lounge area for relaxation, quiet conversations and reading. Meeting place for: Alcoholics Anonymous; Narcotics Anonymous; CoDA Codependents Anonymous; Overeaters Anonymous; Adult Children of Alcoholics. Chenango County 24 E Main St Norwich, NY 13815 Phone: 607-373-3825 Delaware County 84 Main St Delhi, NY 13753 Phone: 607-746-3570 Otsego County 22 Elm St Oneonta, NY 13820 Phone: 607-267-4435

AgricultureAdvises farmers on: farm business management marketing production practices soil testing pest management land management information for beginning farmers and rural landowners who need assistanceSponsors events to inform youth and adults about farmingMaintains a list of local community supported agriculture (CSA) programs, giving farmers an established market before the production season and consumers a weekly selection of just-harvested foodServes as a regional navigator for The American Farmland Trusts' Farmland for a New Generation program (NYFarmlandFinder.org), connecting farmers seeking land and landowners who want to keep their land in farming. Community Horticulture supports volunteer beautification efforts such as: Tompkins County Beautification Brigade City of Ithaca Citizen Pruners Master Composters Master Gardener Program provides services, including: community compost education home gardening classes written information advice on food/flower gardening and landscaping soil testing pest/plant identification services Master Gardeners coordinate the annual spring garden fair and plant sale answer gardening questions via phone or email at [email protected]

Habitat for Humanity assists income-eligible homeowners who are impacted by age, disability or family circumstances, with exterior home repairs, improvements, and safety adjustments such as: accessibility ramp construction or repair painting landscaping porch/deck repairs front steps repairseasonal maintenance

Extensive interior or exterior work, including landscaping, performed to alleviate critical health, life and safety issues or code violations for eligible homeowners in need.

Builds new homes or purchases old or abandoned homes, renovates them. Future Habitat Homeowners take classes and perform sweat equity while qualifying for a mortgage with a 3rd party lender. Mortgages are 29% of household income. Offers repairs to home owners at modest cost based on income. Offers no interest loan. Also Restore a gently used home goods store with opportunities to donate, volunteer or purchase.

Recruits and trains volunteers for home construction or home rehabilitation.

Extensive interior or exterior work, including landscaping, performed to alleviate critical health, life and safety issues or code violations for eligible homeowners in need.

Offers volunteer opportunities to individuals and groups in home construction, committee, and daytime office work.

Offers an opportunity for individuals and groups who want to volunteer their time with maintaining the upkeep of the camp, in various ways, such as building or ground maintenance, equipment repair, and more. Individuals and groups can help for a day, a weekend, a week or on an ongoing basis.

Seeking volunteers for planning and running fundraisers, landscaping maintenance and handyman chores on houses for homeless families.

Habitat for Humanity helps income-qualified, first-time homebuyers build strength, stability and self-reliance through housing. We build and rehabilitate simple, decent, affordable homes throughout Tompkins and Cortland counties and provide low- or no-interest equivalent mortgages.Accepts applications for homebuyers during specified application periods; call or e-mail for details.Donations of land, vehicles, tools and building materials are accepted.

Combines a museum, gift shop, community meeting hall and banquet facility.

Funded by the Tompkins County room tax to improve landscaping and appearance of places likely to be visited by tourists. Seasonal program staff and "Beautification Brigade" volunteers plant and maintain planters on and near the Ithaca Commons and roadside gardens in high visibility areas. Also distributes funds to rural Tompkins County towns for their own beautification programs.

Working in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing.

Showers available for those in need by appointmentVolunteers needed for shower set-up, monitoring and clean-up

Zoo Education Volunteers (Docents) help to guide tours, spotlight animals, and educate the public about environmental issues around the world and at home. Gardening volunteers maintain the gardens on site. Special event volunteers assist with various tasks during the zoo's fundraising events throughout the year

To enhance residents overall quality of life by offering individualized activities tailored to mutual areas of interest between volunteers and residents. Volunteers help wheelchair residents to Sunday services on campus. Volunteers visit with residents.