Mentoring program provides an opportunity for students to share their positive experiences and help change the lives of young people living on the East Side of San Jose. Mentors are asked to commit to a Mentee for 1 academic year and spend 6-8 hours with Mentee on a monthly basis. Opportunities are also provided for group outings, individual outings, and attending events with your Mentee such as SF Giants, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Lawrence Hall of Science, Symphonies, San Jose Earth Quakes, Alcatraz Cruises and many more. ARCC Mentor Program can be applied toward College Courses, Experience in working with youth, and Community Service Hours.
Contact: Beatriz Ramos
Phone: 408.294.0500 Ext.129.
Email: bramos@alumrockcc.org
Address: 1245 East Santa Clara Street San Jose, CA 95116
Website: www.alumrockcc.org
The volunteers and staff members of the American Cancer Society empower and mobilize communities to prevent cancer, save lives, and diminish suffering by distinguishing the Society as the organization of choice for meaningful volunteer engagement.
Contact: Marcia Yankelitis
Phone: 408.688.0103
Email: marcia.yankelitis@cancer.org
Address: 747 Camden Ave Ste B Campbell, CA 95008
Website: http://www.cancer.org
American Diabetes Association Community Outreach Program is seeking volunteers for the following opportunities: Become active/contributing members of our program planning committee for “Feria de Salud” (major health fair) and educational diabetes community programs on nutrition, obesity, vision, dental and foot care and tabling at selected health fairs. Training on basics of diabetes will be provided, along with an introduction to general ADA brochures.
Phone: 408.241.1922
Email: lmayberry@diabetes.org
Address: 4040 Moorpark Ave, Suite 105, San Jose, CA 95117
We are working everyday to save lives from America's No. 1 and No. 3 killers, heart disease and stroke. Our goal is to reduce risk, disability and death from heart disease and stroke by 25 percent by the year 2010.
Contact: Soua Lee
Phone: 408-977-4950
Fax: 408-977-4959
Email: soua.lee@heart.org
Address: One Almaden Blvd. Ste. 500 San Jose, CA 95113
Website: http://www.strokeassociation.org
Volunteer opportunities include becoming a telephone counselor on our crisis hotline, or being a mentor, tutor, or coach for our youth.
Contact: Janna Kenniston
Phone: 408.850.6138
Address: 3490 The Alameda Santa Clara, CA 95050
Website: http://www.billwilsoncenter.org
Other SNIs offers a range of outstanding SL opportunities in neighborhoods including University, Spartan Keyes, Thirteenth Street, Gateway East. Faculty/students are invited to meet directly with SNI officials or Neighborhood Project Managers to plan participation in any project phase. Visit the City websites to view strategies in which students can civically engage.
Contact: SNI Team Manager
Phone: 408-277-4477
Address: 200 E. Santa Clara St. 14th Floor San Jose, CA 95113
Website: http://www.strongneighborhoods.org
Note: Check out the many opportunities available throughout the City on the Volunteer San Jose website: www.volunteersanjose.org For more information call 408-535-3500
You can make a difference in the lives of people affected by diabetes by becoming a Diabetes Society volunteer. Our volunteers use their expertise and experience in leadership, business, health care, marketing, public relations, government relations, fundraising, or clerical work to make a vital difference. We offer flexible schedules and time commitments.
Contact: Community Outreach
Phone: 408-287-3785
Email: outreach@diabetessociety.org
Address: Lincoln Ave. Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95125
Website: http://www.diabetessociety.org
Our mission is to advance the health of vulnerable individuals and communities through physical activity and nutrition. Our programs include:
Healthy Youth
MOVETRITION™ combines physical activity with nutrition education to empower and activate our youth to make healthy choices for their mind, body and spirit.
Girls on the Move!™ is a safe space for girls to explore their academic interests and talents, peer relationships, and physical abilities learning nutrition and sport specific skills to enable girls to be physically active and live a healthy lifestyle.
Healthy Communities
Neighborhood Wellness Walks™ gather communities for healthy activity and create social connectedness. This volunteer-driven effort creates sustainable wellness activities in any neighborhood
Organizational Wellness creates, develops, and implements on site company-wide policies and programs to support employee health and overall wellness
Donate Your Fat™ is an online tracking tool to create and support healthy behavior change while raising money to combat the obesity epidemic and eliminate hunger
Healthy Aging
Spring Chickens™ is an evidence-based physical activity program for older adults with a broad range of abilities. Classes are offered in various locations throughout the Bay Area.
Walk this Way™ teaches older adults to make healthy lifestyle choices to enhance their abilities to take full advantage of their talents, learning new skills and sports to prevent the onset of chronic disease.
Successful Aging Training teaches seniors and professionals alike to properly use and teach our unique evidence-based physical activity program, Spring Chickens.
Contact: Dan McClure
Phone: 408-736-8326
Email: dan@gteams.org
Address: 213 E Maude Ave, Suite 106, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Website: www.generationswellness.org
Health Trust Health Trust offers volunteer opportunities in multiple programs. Deliver meals through our Meals On Wheels program, provide groceries and nutritional supplements to clients through our Food Basket program, volunteer at our annual events such as the Open Air Health Fair, support our AIDS Services Fundraiser, Dining Out for Life, or become a leader in supporting school and community gardens through the Silicon Valley HealthCorps, an AmeriCorps program. Health Fairs in October The Health Trust need volunteers to help in Open-Air Health Fair at the San Jose Berryessa Flea Market which occurs annually a Saturday and Sunday in October. Free screenings, health education and exhibits will be available. Spanish and Vietnamese speaking volunteers are needed to participate as one-on-one translators for attendees going through the health screening process. Skills desired is the ability to speak Spanish or Vietnamese. Meals on Wheels, A Health Trust Program Offers volunteer opportunities in multiple programs. Deliver meals through our Meals On Wheels program, provide groceries and nutritional supplements to clients through our AIDS Services program, teach elementary students the importance of nutrition and physical activity through our TEACH program, encourage high school students to pursue health career through our Speaker's Bureau, or volunteer at our annual events such as the Open Air Health Fair. Health Fair Information www.healthtrust.org/oahf
Health Trust Programs
Contact: Rachel Poplack
Email: rachelp@healthtrust.org,
Address: 2105 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 220 Campbell, CA 95008
Website: www.healthtrust.org
Silicon Valley HealthCorps
Contact: Katie Smith
Phone: 408.961.9899
Email: katies@healthtrust.org
Address: 1400 Parkmoor Ave., Suite 230 San Jose, CA 95126
Website: www.healthtrust.org.
InnVision is dedicated to empowering homeless and at-risk families and individuals in finding… the way home! InnVision has a variety of service needs in administration, tutoring and coaching, food service, and case management support for families.
Contact: Jaynie Neveras
Phone: 408.380.8718
Email: jneveras@InnVision.org
Address: 1900 The Alameda Suite 400 San Jose, CA 95126
Website: www.InnVision.org
Also program of Catholic Charities, serves low-income Asian, Filipino and Latino seniors aged 55 and older. Most of the seniors at John XXIII are newly arrived immigrants with very limited English.
Contact: Libby Tait
Phone: 408-282-8606
Email: ltait@ccsj.org
Address: 195 E. San Fernando St, San Jose, CA 95112
Website: http://www.catholiccharitiesscc.org/services/older_adults/john23.html
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen is a nonprofit organization that provides no-cost hot meals and support services to anyone who needs them in a safe, caring and friendly environment. No one is turned away. As a volunteer at Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen, you will help to set up our dining room for dinner, prepare and serve the meal, and clean up afterward. We proudly serve our guests at two different kitchen locations in San Jose nearby St. Patrick’s or St. Maria Goretti Kitchen.
Contact: Jann Harbor
Phone: 408.439.0915
Email: volunteer@loavesfishes.org
Address 1: InnVision Montgomery Street Inn, 358 North Montgomery Street, San Jose, CA 95110
Address 2: St. Maria Goretti Church, 2980 Senter Rd. San Jose, CA 95111,
Website: www.loavesfishes.org
MACSA has volunteer opportunities for working with after school programs, early childhood development and family literacy, gang intervention, rites of passage programs, and mentorship services. We also have opportunities for assisting with fund development, human resources, and Youth Center support.
Contact: Mario Ozuna-Sanchez
Phone: 408-929-1080 Ext 2023.
Email: mozuna@macsa.org
Address: 660 Sinclair Drive San Jose, CA 95116
Website: www.macsa.org
This year, Martha's Kitchen will serve over 200,000 meals to needy the men, women and children of the San Jose area. Special provisions are made to meet the needs of families with children. Round tables are provided so family members can dine as a family unit.
Contact: Edita Cruz
Phone: 408-293-6111
Email: editacruz@gmail.com
Address: 311 Willow St. San Jose CA 95110
Website: www.marthas-kitchen.org
Second Harvest Food Bank provides food to low-income people in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. We distribute food into the community through a network of 316 partner non-profit agencies including shelters, pantries, soup kitchens, and a variety of Food Bank programs.
Contact: Veronica Torres
Phone: 408-266-8866
Email: volunteerSC@shfoodbank.com
Address: 750 Curtner Ave., San Jose, CA 95125
Website: www.shfb.org
TUFY signature initiative is Coaching Corps, which recruits college students to serve as volunteer coaches in low-income neighborhoods and trains them to use the teachable moments in sports to impart valuable life lessons, build youths’ confidence and love of learning, and instill in them a life-long identity as physically active individuals. Coaching Corps seeks volunteers who are as passionate about sports as they are about being positive role models for kids, and who wish to nurture their commitment to social justice and public service through sports.
Contact: Annie McShane,
Phone: 510.663.9200 Ext. 114.
Email: anniem@teamupforyouth.org,
Website: www.teamupforyouth.org
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