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Snack Sacs

The United Way of St. Mary's County is excited announce a new partnership with the Southern Maryland Food Bank. Our organizations will be working together on a project called "Snack Sacs".  This is a nutritioinal project to help fill the gap of hunger for children in Southern Maryland.  St. Mary's County United Way and The Southern Maryland Food Bank are committed to easing the pain of hunger in Southern Maryland.  The mission of the Sanck Sac Project is to fill the gap of hunger during the weekends, when other resources like free or reduced breakfast and lunch programs are not available.  We provide back packs filled with ready to eat, kid friendly, nutritious snacks in an unmarked back pack.  All back packs are descreetly distributed by school staff, to keep the identity of those being served private.  Back packs are delivered weekly to the school and handed out on the last day before a weekend or before a holiday.

With full or partial sponsorships, we will ease the pain of hunger and remove the fear of food insecurity! 

 
Day of Caring is October 14, 2011

Day of Caring™ is a volunteer community service project held annually one day each fall in St. Mary’s County.  Employees from area businesses work side-by-side with United Way agency staff and volunteers, and often the very people their work supports.  Learn More

 

 
Welcome to our New Website

Thank you for visiting the United Way of St. Mary's County's website.  We are excited about our new look and are looking forward to populating this new website with a lot of important information.  Please check back frequently to learn about the activities of our United Way and as always, thank you for supporting the United Way of St. Mary's County.

 

 St. Mary's County Public Schools

Contact person: Kevin Wright

ktwright@smcps.org

301-475-5511 ext. 128

 

 

Arc of Southern Maryland

Contact Person: Nkeshi Free

developement@arcsomd.org

410-535-2413 ext. 113

Upcoming Events

The Arc of Southern Maryland's 2012 Sprout Film Festival

Date: March 24, 2012

Time: 10 a.m., 12:30 and 3 p.m.

Location:  College of Southern Maryland LaPlata Campus

410535-2413 ext. 113

The Arc of Southern Maryland's 10th Annual Pat Collins Golf Classic

Date: May 24, 2012

Registration: 7:30-8:30a.m.

Shotgun Start 8:30a.m.

Location: Twin Shields Golf Club

               2425 Roatry Road

               Dunkirk, MD 20754

410-535-2413 ext. 113

 

 

 

Literacy Council of St. Mary's

Contact Person: Susan Burbank

stmalib@somd.lib.md.us

301-863-4847

Our Volunteer tutors work one-on-one with adults in St. Mary's County who request tutoring in basic skills,GED preparation, or English as a second language. 

Need daytime tutors in the Mechanicsville/Charlotte Hall area

 

 

 

Walden Sierra

Contact person:  Laura Webb

lauraw@waldensierra.org

301-997-1300 ext.804

Volunteer Roles:  Volunteer rolesavailable provide support to individuals seeking recovery from crisis,adddiction and trauma.  Volunteers are trained to fill a  number of roles, including phone support/outreach; facility welcome wagon;recreational,peer support and creative arts/activity facilitators,volunteer advocacy, and video/social media project crew and cast members.  Volunteer roles are primarily geared to volunteers aged 18 and up, however, youth volunteers are also welcomed to work on prevention education and special, short-trem service learning projects.

Special Events Needing Volunteers:

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

Date: Sunday  April 1, 2012

Location: St. Mary's

Description:  Individual and team walkers, activity leaders and event volunteers needed for this event that educates about gender violence and pro,otes healthy relationships and bystander education

Recovery Discovery Walk and Open Mic Event

Date:  Fall 2012

Description: individual and team walkers, activity leaders, open mic contributors and event voulunteers needed for this fun, family-friendly event that celebrates the individuals and families who pursue recovery from addiction or truma and the community's role in supporting recovery.

 

 

 

Care Net Pregnancy Center

Contact Person:  Cheryl Keen

director@carenetsomd.org

301-737-4640

Description:  Need Volunteer Counselors (Special Qualifications and training requirements)  Yard work, mowing and snow plowing.  Clothing sorting and washing.  Servers for annual dinner.

 

 

 

Pastoral Counseling Center

Contact Person:  Betty Joanne Scott and Arthur Scott

pccstmary@verizon.net

301-863-9333

Description:  PCC had three primary areas of need for volunteers:  Board Members (particulary with a passion for fundraising and/or number cruntching), volunteer to function as a receptionist and assist with data entry, volunteer to scan or re-create a number of handouts and organize and index them with others already in digital format.

 

 

 

Tri-County Youth Services Bureau

Contact Person:  Terri Washington

jaimejones@tcysb.org

301-866-5333

Description:   1.  TCYSB runs a Youth Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:30pm.  We provide homework assistance, mentoring,  and other activites for kids 1st grade to 12th grade.  We are looking for volunteers to work with us during these hours to provide guidance and supporrt to the kids.

                    2.  TCYSB coordinates and facilitates social groups, youth leadership groups, and teen camps.  We are looking for volunteers who are interested in speaking on various topica (etiquette,preparing for college or the workforce, helath related issues, etc.).

                    3.  TCYSB  is running a program called the All Star Project, which is focused on reducing childhood obesity in St. Mary's County.  We are looking for volunteers to provide support and education to youth involved in the project.

 

 

 

Leah's House

Contact Person:  Marguerite Morris

Phone Number: 301-994-9580

 

Description: Volunteers needed for administrative/Accounting, gorunds and building upkeep and transportation for clients.

 

 

 

Big Brothers and Big Sisters

Contact Person:  Natalie Meade, Program Director  Mary Lu Gultekin

Phone Number:  Natalie 410-865-1505  Mary Lu  301-290-0503

nmeade@biglittle.org  mgultekin@biglittle.org

 

Description:  Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Maryland Mentoring Partnership is looking for individulas who are team players with a positive attitude who can work in our Charlotte Hall office, at least twice a week, Monday through Friday, between 9:00am and 5:30pm to assist with site management and various clerical and receptionist duties---assisting us to help children at risk in Maryland.  These duties include: Handling inquiries from potential clients, parents, and referral sources; providing oversight for a school or site based program in Charles County and St. Mary's County; data entry into our tracking systems; filing; copying,printing,and mailing projects; answering the telephone and routing calls to the appropiate staff member.

Could be used as an internship by a college student.  Free parking on site.  Willing to reimburse milage cost. 

 

 

 

Special Olympics of Southern Maryland

Contact Persons:  Mary Lu Bucci, County Director 301-373-3469   somdsmc@md.metrocast.net

                          Connie Thompson, Assistant Director   301-475-5749   gcthomp2@aol.com

                          Linda Long, Volunteer Coordinator  SOMDSMCVolCoord@aol.com

Events

Feb. 29th  Basketball Competition for school aged children

Location:  Leonard Hall Drill Hall, Leonardtown, MD

Time: 9am to 11am

Description:  Assist with keeping scores for athletes

 

 

March 3rd  Basketball Competition

Location:  Chopticon High School

Time: 9am to 11am

Description:  Assist with food

 

 

March 4th  Basketball Competition

Location:  Margaret Brent Middle School, Helen, MD

Time:  9am to 2pm

Description:  Assist with food prepartation and score keeping

 

 

May 3rd  Spring Games  Track and Field Competition

Location:  Leonardtown High School, Leonardtown, MD

Time: 9am to 2pm

Description: Help with set up of sports venuesm escort athletes, hand out awards

 

 

April and May Saturday Mornings  Training for Track and Field

Location:  Great Mills High School, Great Mills, MD

Time: 9am to 12 pm

Description:  Help athletes learn sports skills

 

 

March, April and May Sunday evenings  Training for Aquatics

Location:  Great Mills Pool  Great Mills, MD

Time: 6pm to 7:30pm

Description:  Help athletes learn to swim, to swim in lanes, help keep times

 

 

 

Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital

Contact:  Lauren Mohler st. MAry's County Field Director

Phone: 1-800-834-1702

Description:  Lead a troop

                    help a troop leader

                    provide public meeting space for a troop

                    provide administrative support to a group of local Girl Scout volunteers

                    be a point of contact at school

                    offer programs for local troops

                    help out at local Girl Scout events