Advocacy or Umbrella Organizations
The Schenectady Inner City Ministry
A coalition of 52 Christian congregations which pool people and resources of member churches to act as a focus for social action in the Schenectady area.
Activities: Volunteers help in office with copying and collating mailings (especially newsletter mailings) and answering telephones. Volunteers with special skills review the financial aspects of the programs and develop budgets etc.
Contact: Phil Grigsby 374 2683
Email: revphil@sicm.us
JOBS ETC.
Provides neighborhood based links between people seeking work with training and/or employment.
Activities: Volunteers connect one on one with selected Jobs etc. participants. Volunteers take JOBS etc. participants on building tours and orientations a few times per year. Computer skills to help clients with resumes assist with data base, and possible help with web page is also needed.
Contact: David Koplon 347 2562
BOCES/CAPIT Reality Check Program
CAPIT provides comprehensive approaches to prevention, intervention and training for youth and youth providers. Reality Check is a youth movement against the tobacco industry.
Activities: Reality Check seeks youth to educate their peers about the tobacco industry's targeting of youth at events throughout Schenectady County. Volunteers would implement and plan these events.
Contact: Chris Ewart 464-3942
Email: cewart@gw.neric.org
Hamilton Hill Arts Center
The mission of the Hamilton Hill Arts Center is to promote the knowledge, preservation and continued development of African and African-American culture and art, thereby enriching the quality of life in the community and throughout the Capital Region. We offer school activities for children, public concerts and celebration, a gallery of changing exhibits and a gift shop.
Activities: Volunteers will assist with the summer arts program either by being a counselor, instructor in music, visual arts, computer arts, theater, reading to children or helping with creative writing.
Contact: Natikka Anderson 346-1262
WMHT Educational Telecommunications
WMHT strives to enrich the lives of citizens in the entire community. To fulfill this mission, we try to identify and respond to community needs through a wide range of telecommunications services and products: public television, public radio, instructional television for the classroom and RISE, a radio reading service for the blind and print disabled. WMHT-TV is the Capital Region's only PBS station, offering a wide variety of intellectually stimulating programming through free, over-the-air broadcast. WMHT-FM 89.1 and WRHV-FM 88.7 present a distinctive schedule of classical music fine arts programming.
Activities: Volunteers will help during membership campaigns answering phones and filling out simple donation forms.
Contact: Sigrid Vompa 357-1808
Email: volunteer@wmht.org