Provides medical transportation, shopping, respite, friendly visiting, reassurance calls, minor home repairs, business assistance, and dinner delivery to older adults who meet eligibility criteria.

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Programs that accept gift cards or certificates for distribution to the people they serve. Gift cards are redeemable for goods or services and include those that can be redeemed at specific retail stores, grocery stores, restaurants and gas stations, as well as prepaid phone cards and debit cards issued by banks.

Gift Card Donation Programs

Mutual support groups whose members are family, friends, significant others, non-familial caregivers or attendants who are caring for someone who has a temporary, chronic, life-threatening or terminal illness or disability or who is elderly and increasingly unable to provide for his or her own care. The groups meet in-person, by telephone or via the Internet; and provide emotional support, information and resources to help participants ensure their own well-being while remaining involved in the intense care of a loved one. Also included are care receiver support groups that help people who have a caregiver cope with the fact that they require care. Care receiver support groups are often offered in conjunction with caregiver support groups and are structured to allow care receivers to participate in their own group while their caregiver attends another.

Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups

Divisions of businesses or nonprofit agencies that are responsible for developing products or delivering designated services to the public. Departments of NGOs are generally led by a manager, supervisor, director or vice president.

Nongovernmental Agency Departments

Programs that use "friendly visitors" (usually volunteers but also paid hourly companions) to call on people who are hospitalized or in another institutional setting, who are homebound or socially isolated due to disability or old age, or otherwise lack companionship with the objective of brightening their day and helping them to maintain contact with the outside world by reading, talking, listening, writing letters or performing other similar tasks.

Friendly Visiting

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to serve as home health aides or substitute caregivers who provide temporary or intermittent care for dependent adults or children in their own homes in order to provide a brief period of rest or relief for parents, family members, guardians or others who are their regular caregivers.

Respite/Home Health Care Volunteer Opportunities

Senior centers and other organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to help people who are socially isolated due to disability or old age relieve their loneliness by visiting them in their homes on a regular basis to read, talk, listen, write letters or perform other tasks that help them maintain contact with the outside world.

Home Visit Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to make minor repairs to the homes of older adults, people with disabilities, low income individuals and others the organization serves. Typical services include repair or replacement of broken doors and windows; accessibility improvements such as ramps and hand railings; correction of safety hazards such as repairs to porches, steps and sidewalks; home security improvements such as fences, security doors and smoke detectors; habitability improvements such as replacement of sinks, toilets and floor tiles; and interior and exterior painting.

Handyworker Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that provide door-to-door (or curb-to-curb) transportation for purposes of shopping, banking, social events, medical appointments, getting to and from work, and similar activities for people with disabilities who need special accommodations and are unable to utilize other available means of transportation. Also included are programs that provide transportation for youngsters with disabilities who have no other means of accessing necessary specialized services and activities. Some but not all vehicles used for this purpose are equipped with wheelchair lifts.

Disability Related Transportation

Organizations with home delivered meal programs that are actively seeking individuals with a valid driver's license and current insurance who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to deliver hot meals to the homes of people who qualify on the basis of income, age, disability or need.

Meal Delivery Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that provide a brief period of rest or relief for family members, guardians or others who are regular caregivers for dependent adults by offering temporary or intermittent care for the adult in their own home.

Adult In Home Respite Care

Programs that prepare and regularly deliver meals to older adults, people with disabilities and others who have difficulties shopping and/or preparing food for themselves or traveling to a site where a meal is being served.

Home Delivered Meals

Programs that contact frail elderly individuals, people with disabilities or others who are vulnerable by telephone on a regular basis to ensure their good health and safety, and to reassure them that help is available if and when they need it.

Telephone Reassurance

Senior centers and other organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to help people who are socially isolated due to disability or old age relieve their loneliness by telephoning them on a regular basis to listen, talk and help them maintain contact with the outside world.

Friendly Telephoning Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking retired executives, small business owners and other individuals with knowledge, skills and experience in the business area who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to provide small business start-up support for entrepreneurs or help them solve ongoing business problems.

Business Assistance Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with a valid driver license and current insurance who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to make short trips to purchase groceries, pick up prescriptions, withdraw or deposit money in the bank, drop off or retrieve laundry and do other small tasks for people who have disabilities and frail elderly individuals who cannot leave their homes or are otherwise unable to perform these tasks for themselves. Also included are volunteer opportunities in markets or similar establishments for people who are willing to deliver groceries to homes of frail elderly individuals or people with disabilities who are unable to go out and shop on their own behalf, and volunteer positions in organizations who have a need for couriers or people to run other types of errands.