Contact: David Glenn,
David Glenn, NC CoCoRaHS State Coordinator, National Weather Service, david.glenn@noaa.gov
re you a citizen scientist that just loves weather data — rainfall in average storms and hurricanes or snowfall, be it minor or major? If so, then a new volunteer weather-observing program needs your help! The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network, or CoCoRaHS, is looking for new volunteers across North Carolina. Many of North Carolina Sea Grant's partners — including NOAA's National Weather Serviceand the State Climate Office of North Carolina — will use the data to build better weather and climate models.
"We are in need of new observers across the entire state and would like to emphasize rural locations and locations along the coast, especially on barrier islands," notes David Glenn, state coordinator for CoCoRaHS and a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City.
The gassroots effort is part of a growing national network of home-based and amateur rain spotters with a goal of providing a high-density precipitation network that will supplement existing observations.
Sea Grant has increased its weather and climate science and outreach in recent years. "Accurate and timely weather predictions are essential for coastal residents. Having precipitation data from many specific sites allows weather forecasters and climate modelers to fine-tune their computer-generated forecasts and keep everyone safer and more knowledgeable," says Jack Thigpen, Sea Grant extension director.
Ryan Boyles, state climatologist based at NC State University, agrees. "North Carolina has the most complex climate in the eastern U.S.," Boyles explains." Data gathered from CoCoRaHS volunteers are very important in better understanding local weather and climate patterns."
Volunteers may obtain an official rain gauge through the CoCoRaHS website (http://www.cocorahs.org) for about $27 plus shipping. Besides the need for an official 4-inch plastic rain gauge, volunteers are required to take a simple training module online and use the CoCoRaHS website to submit their reports. Observations are immediately available on maps and reports for the public to view. The process takes only five minutes a day, but the impact to the community is tenfold: By providing high quality, accurate measurements, the observers are able to supplement existing networks and provide useful results to scientists, resource managers, decision makers and other users.
"An additional benefit of the program to the National Weather Service is the ability to receive timely reports of significant weather (hail, intense rainfall, localized flooding) from CoCoRaHS observers that can assist forecasters in issuing and verifying warnings for severe thunderstorms," Glenn says.
For more information, contact Glenn at david.glenn@noaa.gov or 252-223-5737 ext. 7.
You may also find of interest this CoCoRaHS short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-sXXg9M30&feature=player_embedded). To view, copy the link and paste it into your browser.
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After School Enrichment Program
Contact: Marsha Reiber Cady
Work Phone: 473-8099
Personal Email: romarse@gmail.com
http://www.darecountyschoolsonline.com/moxie/hello/dare-county-schools-after-school-enrichment-progra.shtmlhttp://
After school helps Students by completing home work. There are county latchkey students who benefit from enrichment activities that promote positive role models - all are welcome
Volunteers for homework help, hobby exploration, career exploration
Albemarle Commission’s Senior Nutrition Home Delivered Meals Program
Contact: Audrey Holland
Work Phone: (252)475-5637 at the Baum Center .
Work Phone: (252)475-9279 at the Dare County Center
Work Phone: 252-426-7093 x 230
The Albemarle Commission’s Senior Nutrition Home Delivered Meals Program serves seniors 60 years or older, homebound and unable to prepare a nutritious meal. The program needs volunteers to deliver meals to seniors in Manteo and the beach area, Monday through Friday. The Senior Nutrition Program needs volunteers to deliver meals in Dare County. If you can donate one hour a month please call Audrey Holland at 252-426-7093 x 230 or your local senior center; beach area 252-475-5637 or Manteo 252-475-9279.
Animal Shelter
Contact: Corinne
We have a full time staff at the shelter but nothing pleases them more than to see the animals getting extra attention. Help with socialization, dog walking, training, laundry, bathing or cleaning of the kennels. We also have a garden to maintain and other administrative duties for those that want to assist in other ways.VOLUNTEER ROLES: Pet Photographers - Have a digital camera? Like to take photos of animals? Then join the photo team and commit to at least one day a week to take digital pictures of pets. A picture is worth a thousand words and this case those words are "Adopt me!"Cat Cuddlers - Cat Cuddlers are responsible for nurturing, socializing and giving attention and affection to cats and kittens during their stay at the Animal Center, making them more comfortable on the adoption floor.
Fido Fitness - Fido Fitness provide the dogs with their daily exercise. The Center has a yard that the walkers can use, or you can walk around the block. Tired dogs are content dogs; content, calm dogs are more adoptable.
Dog Cuddlers - Dog Cuddlers provide socialization and affection to animals to young to walk, or dogs and puppies that are shy or fearful. Dogs and puppies that are confident and happy to be with people are more adoptable.
Off-site Event Assistants - These volunteers travel to off-site events to raise awareness about the shelter by handing out literature, answering questions about the shelter, helping with setup and takedown, transporting animals from the shelter to site, and handling animals at the site.
Marketing - Enjoy the challenges of marketing? Our Animal Center is always looking for ways to promote our shelter so that more people come out and adopt. This team also works to promote spaying and neutering animals, and help raise funds.
Clean Team - Do you like doing laundry? Love to organize or tidy? Training needed to use our commercial dishwasher and washers/dryers.
*Volunteers under the age of 16 must be accompanied and supervised by a parent or guardian.
Children & Youth Partnership for Dare County:
WINGS preschool literacy program
Contact: Carla Heppert
Work Phone: 441-0614
Work Email: or wings@darekids.org.
http://www.darekids.org/wings.php
http://www.darekids.org/wings.php
Caring volunteers to tutor at-risk preschool children using WINGS preschool literacy program. Contact Carla Heppert at 441-0614 or wings@darekids.org.
Children at Play
Work Phone: 261 0290
http://www.childrenatplayobx.com/
Children at Play – the Outer Banks Children’s Museum: Individuals in assisting in building, painting or creating new exhibits. Contact: 261 0290
Children@Play
Contact: Alyssa.
Home Phone: 261 0290
Children @ Play, the Outer Banks Children's Museum is looking for volunteers for music, art and science time with children. Volunteers would be asked to play children's songs or help with a science project. Assistance with art projects is needed as well. Children @ Play is located at MP 4.5 in Kitty Hawk.
Community Gardens of Dare County
Contact: See Below
There are three established well-organized active community gardens in Dare County. Garden organizers are currently recruiting gardeners and establishing work and planting schedules for their spring gardens. Individuals interested in gardening or volunteering with the organization and management of a Community Garden can contact your neighborhood garden at Manteo, Hatteras, or Southern Shores.
Manteo Contact: Ginger Candelora 252 202- 0842 candelora@centurylink.net
Hatteras Island Community Gardens, " Buxton, Contact: Carol Bauer 252-489-8980 ctbauer@aol.com
Southern Shores: Contact: Lucinda Hudgins 252 261-4102 seafood@tommysmarket.com
Creative Choices Crisis Pregnancy Center
Contact: Lisa DiFilippo
We need support staff volunteers to do things like write thank you cards, fold and sort baby clothes, count change from baby bottles, etc. We also need client volunteers that want to go through the training and work with clients that come into the center. We are open Mondays and Wednesdays from 10-4; and also have a special event or fundraiser once a quarter or so.
Dare Literacy Council
Contact: Marian
The Dare Literacy Council: Volunteers: fundraising, administrative tasks, publicity, and tutor/student support; to help with assessing students and developing tutor seminars. As little as one hour is a tremendous boost to helping the DLC continue to serve the community. Contact: Marian at 261-6940, ordareliteracy@gmail.com or visitdareliteracy.org
Dare Literacy Council
Book Fair
Contact: Susan Estrella
Cell Phone: (561) 254-6736 Susan's cell
Work Phone: (252) 216-7773 Literacy cell
Work Email: dareliteracy@gmail.com
http://www.dareliteracy.org
The Dare Literacy Council is gearing up for our next Book Sale fundraiser in late April. In anticipation of the sale, we are in serious need of volunteers.
Can you spare an hour to support literacy?
The non-profit Dare Literacy Council is preparing for our next Book Sale Fundraiser to be held Saturday, April 28 at The Dare County Family Recreation Park in Kill Devil Hills. But, before the sale, we need a lot of help to prepare for this very important fundraiser. Proceeds from the book sale are our main source of income which allows us to keep our programs going. The DLC offers free tutoring for adults who wish to learn to read, improve reading or math skills, learn English or study for their GED.
If you can spare at least an hour of your time to help, we'd love to hear from you. Below is a list of some of the things we need volunteers to do. If you are interested in volunteering, call the DLC at (252) 216-7773 or email us at dareliteracy@gmail.com. Thank you for helping the DLC with this very important event!
Sample Volunteer Tasks (before the sale)
- · help find other volunteers
- · assist book sale coordinator (phone calls, logistics)
- · develop creative ways to draw people in on sale day (we have some ideas, but we'd love to hear yours)
- · donate printing services
- · pick up book donations
- · sort books
- · post publicity flyers
- · transport books to storage facility and sale site
- · offer use of your truck to transport books (you drive, we help load and unload)
- · set up the day before and morning of the sale
- · count books at check out table
- · keep sale tables orderly
- · replenish sale tables
- · help buyers to their cars with books
- · sort and pack up books at end of sale
- · disassemble and clean up after the sale
- · load boxes for transport
- · transport books to storage facility and recycling center
- · unload boxes at storage facility
- · serve as a future storage facility (to store remaining books after the sale)
Dare to Grow Community Supported Garden
Contact: Katie Preisser
Personal Email: southernshoresgarden@gmail.com
Volunteeer Spot
My name is Katie Preisser, and I'm the agriculture committee organizer. I am here to help in any way I can, including creating a schedule of planting and harvesting. Hopefully you have all received the link to the volunteerspot calender where you can sign up to help on specific days. Any time you can spend helping is greatly appreciated. If you find that you have free time in a day, come on out and join us, we're always happy to put you to work.
As of now the schedule goes through May. Of course there will be a lot to do this summer, but much of that work is dependant upon weather, pests, and how the plants are doing, so really every day is likely to turn into a harvesting/work day starting in late June.
If you have any question, please call me at 804-263-5281 or email this account or my personal account kpreisser2002@yahoo.com.
Duck and Wine Festival Volunteers for Duck and Wine Festival
Curituck Kids
Contact: Katie Hill
Personal Email: katiebug917@gmail.com
t www.coastival.org.
Duck and Wine Festival is April 28th from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm, at the Duck Waterfront Shops in Duck, NC. Chefs from 20 local restaurants compete with delicious duck dishes and wine is paired with each dish. Katie Hill, Currituck Kids Fund official Coordinator, is seeking volunteers to assist at the Festival. Tickets to the event are $30.00 per person and Currituck Kids will pay $15 towards your ticket if you will volunteer for 1 1/2 hours. Our volunteers last year had a great time and many signed up for this year's event right on the spot last time. Tickets sell out fast...and we expect volunteer positions to be filled quickly.
Festival Park Seeks Volunteers
Contact: Kathleen Kathleen Mclean
Work Phone: t (252) 475-1500 Ext 229
Work Email: kathleen.mclean@ncdcr.gov
http://www.roanokeisland.com.
Roanoke Island Festival Park is seeking motivated and energetic volunteers to be costumed interpreters, greeters at special programs, gift shop associates, and members of the Elizabeth II Volunteer Crew. Interested volunteers should fill out an application and return it to Roanoke Island Festival Park by fax (252.475.1507), mail (One Festival Park, Manteo, NC 27954), or by dropping it off at the Roanoke Island Festival Park Visitor Center or Administrative Office to be distributed to the correct department. The application is available on our Web site at http://www.roanokeisland.com.
Food Bank
Work Elizabeth City, NC
Work Phone: 335-4035, Extension 105.
http://www.afoodbank.org/HowToHelp/Volunteering.aspx
Administrative, intake (working with our clients), warehouse (food sorting and packing), special projects (mailings). Volunteer information / orientation is held every Monday at 3:30 PM and every Wednesday at 9:00 AM. For more information or to reserve a spot for the orientation Contact Ms. Laura at 335-4035, Extension 105.
Friends of Youth
Work Dare County, NC
Work Phone: (252) 475-5753
Work Email: jwooten@darenc.com
http://www.darenc.com/depts/FOY/default.htm
Eight hours per month. That’s all that it takes to make a tremendous difference in the life of a child. The Dare County Friends of Youth mentoring program has been helping to improve the lives of young people in our community since 1990.
Our volunteer mentors include small business owners, health care professionals, educators, retirees & many others who give freely of their time & talents to provide at-risk youths in the community with the guidance & friendship that they desperately need. Mentors & youths are matched for the period of at least one year, often creating lifelong friendships.
The young people involved in our program are between the ages of 6 – 17 and are referred by a variety of sources including parents, school guidance counselors, the court system, etc. They are just like any other adolescent or pre-teen, but often have limited resources to deal with difficulties & challenges that arise.
The Dare County Friends of Youth mentoring program will hold training session for new volunteers on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 from 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. in Manteo. If you are interested in attending the training, please give us a call at (252) 475-5753 and we will be happy to send you a volunteer application.
Let your friendship be the gift in a young person’s life by volunteering with the Dare County Friends of Youth mentoring program!
Girl Scouts
Contact: Rebecca Fritter
Work Phone: 1 800 77Scout
Personal Email: mannfarmyard@embarqmail.com
Personal Email: rebeccaf@gsccc.org
gsccc.com
Building Girls of courage, confidencee and character who make the world a better place. Educate, share careers with students, adult or older student mentors.
Help with afterschool Girls Cout Meetings 1 hour a month.
Help with one time events
Learn to be a trainer working with adults.
Guardian ad Litem program in Dare County
Contact: Ricki Tillett
Work Phone: 252-475-5587
Work Phone: Elizabeth City 252-331-4755
The Guardian ad Litem program in DareCounty is looking for volunteers to train to advocate for abused and neglected children in the court system. Volunteers in our program come from all walks of life; retired persons, law enforcement, homemakers, teachers, college students, concerned citizens and more.
The Guardian ad Litem Volunteer makes independent recommendations to the court about services which focus on the needs of each child and advocates for a permanent and safe home to every child within the shortest time possible.
GAL Activities:
- Visits the child & ensures that the child’s wishes are known.
- Interviews the parents, family, social workers and others.
- Reviews records related to the family.
- Gathers independent information about the child & recommends a solution that is in the child’s best interest.
- Prepares written reports for court hearings.
- Participates in court hearings and other related meetings.
- Keeps all records and information confidential.
- Monitors the case.
- Keeps the child informed of all aspects of the court proceedings.
Hands of Hope
Contact: Marie Neilson
Work Phone: 252-216-9400
Work Email: marie.neilson@theobh.com
Hands of Hope. Volunteers help support cancer patients including transportation, meal preparation, care for the caregiver, patient companionship, running errands and publicity and promotion including speaking at churches, community events and healthcare screenings. Email: Marie Neilson, Volunteer Coordinatormarie.neilson@theobh.comPhone: 252-216-9400