Volunteers are the lifeblood of United Way and its agency partners. Non-profit organizations could not survive without them.

Many opportunities to give back to your community exist at United Way. They include serving on teams to help decide where your money goes; working on a Day of Caring project; working with task forces to study issues that affect all of us; assisting United Way in conducting training seminars; volunteering to help raise money during the annual campaign, or serving as a Campaign Coordinator or Campaign Ambassador. E-mail Mary Tyndall at maryt@uwacin.org for more information about volunteering or call 260.422.4776.

Learn United

United Way's Learn United effort needs volunteers willing to help children who are struggling with reading. Learn United is a ten-year commitment to ensure all local third-graders can read at grade level. Currently more than 1,000 local third-graders do not pass the language portion of the ISTEP test.

By visiting the volunteer section of www.LearnUnited.org or calling 260.469.4030, volunteers can explore and then register for volunteer opportunities through individual schools or through existing programs, such as Study Connection or Big Brothers/Big Sisters’ Lunch Buddies. Volunteers all have background checks and receive training.

Community Volunteer Opportunities

United Way partners with the Volunteer Center @ RSVP and NeighborLink for volunteer opportunities. The Volunteer Center has a wide range of volunteer opportunities and can be contacted at www.volunteerfortwayne.org.

Residents seeking help with a work project, such as yardwork, Neighbor Link is a good source for help. The project can be posted and volunteer groups can choose to help complete the project. United Way encourages individuals needing help with projects to contact NeighborLink. Individuals seeking community service projects should also contact Neighborlink at http://www.neighborlinkfortwayne.org.

In addition, volunteer opportunities exist at our 37 agency partners  or, for other community volunteer opportunities, follow these links: 
http://www.volunteermatch.org
http://www.volunteersolutions.org