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Phone: 916-442-3691
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Address: 1900 Point West Way, Suite 270, Sacramento, CA 95815
Phone: 916-442-3691
Fax: 916-442-1861
E-mail: info@voa-sac.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/VOA
Address: 1900 Point West Way, Suite 270, Sacramento, CA 95815
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Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Special thanks to Sacred Heart Parish, which is collecting toys for our Family Shelter Toy Drive! For ideas on how you can provide for those in need, please see our Web site's giving page.
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada It truly is a day of thanks! Thank you also to our Thanksgiving Day volunteers Tina Mottini, Trish Kumar, Rob Cockrum, Trisha Cole and family, and Johanna Mateo and son, all of whom are taking time out of their own holiday to serve dinner at several Volunteers of America programs, including the Sacramento Senior Safe House. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Thank you to the news crew of "Good Day Sacramento" (Tina Macuha, Jason Mahoney and Scott Zentner) for coordinating the "Brown Bag Thanksgiving" event at Mather Community Campus this morning, and to the 10 restaurants/caterers who contributed delicious dishes and their own time in serving! More than 100 Mather student...s and their family members got their day off to a great start thanks to this lovely event! See video from the event by clicking on the link below!
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada The KMAX Channel 31 'Good Day Sacramento' crew hosts a unique Thanksgiving spread featuring area restaurants/caterers showcasing signature dishes for students at Mather Community Campus (Nov. 26, 2009)
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Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada If you're up early Thanksgiving Day (7-10 a.m.), why not tune into KMAX Channel 31 and "Good Day Sacramento," which is hosting a gaggle of local chef-celebs who are creating an awesome Turkey Day spread on behalf of our clients at Mather Community Campus! Check out their signature dishes and support our efforts at this... unique transitional housing/job-training site!
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada The generosity of the Sacramento-area community is not limited to turkeys! Bill Quiroz, president of the board for Construction Cares for Children, has informed us that the nonprofit is planning to donate 20 bicycles to kids living in our programs! (Thank you, Bill!) You can help them by volunteering to assemble bikes ...on their Bicycle Assembly Day set for Dec. 12 at Cal Expo. (see link below)
www.constructioncaresforchildren.com
Construction Cares for Children, a non-profit organization, was founded by Amie and Teri Angelo in 2000, with the hopes of uniting the construction industry to help make a difference in the lives of needy children in our community. ...
See MoreVolunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Happy Thanksgiving Eve everyone! And a special thank you to Lori Dodds and Lisa Panganiban and family who helped kick-start the holiday by serving an early Thanksgiving dinner to the senior residents of our Manzanita Place Apartments yesterday!
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Dreams do come true! Thanks to The Sacramento Bee for selecting our new Family Shelter on Sacramento's Bannon Street as one of its "Book of Dreams" beneficiaries! Our wish for car seats, high chairs and rugs looks like it's going to happen in time for Christmas! The public is invited to donate as well on The Bee's Web site at:
Book of Dreams - Online Donations - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacrament
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Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Our kitchen director Eric Nichols reports that we're "past 800" in numbers of donated turkeys this year – making it our most-successful turkey drive to date! Thank you to all of our "fowl-weather" friends throughout the Sacramento area, including such groups as Turkeys 4 America (which dropped off 17 cases of turkeys yesterday)!
www.turkeys4america.org
Gobble, Gobble… It all started four years ago just prior to my Bar Mitzvah. I needed a community service project and was looking for something a bit different. A friend of my family told me about ...
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Cynthia Hubert of The Bee is doing a great job this holiday week in keeping the public up to date on how the community is responding to our requests (and those of other social-service agencies') for assistance. Here's a link to her Tuesday story:
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Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada With more than 600 turkeys now resting comfortably in our freezers, we're happy to report we're at DOUBLE the number of turkeys we were hoping to collect during this year's drive (which continues through Wednesday)! Thank you to the Greater Sacramento community for answering our call! Even in tough economic times, we f...ind generosity is alive and well. Now our focus is set on finding wannabe Santas out there to "adopt" our clients' Christmas wish lists!
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Check your mail in the next few days for our newsletter! Or you can download a PDF copy by going to the link below!
www.voa-sac.org
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Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Everyone in Reno, please come out for the One Warm Coat drive at our homeless shelter center Saturday! Sponsored by HOPE worldwide, the collection of gently used coats for men, women and children will benefit those at our shelters located in the Community Assistance Center. See the link below for more info!
Volunteers of America Greater Sacramento & Northern Nevada Set your DVRs for 6:15 a.m. Monday (Nov. 23), that's when we'll be talking up our need for turkeys on Fox40! A news crew is coming to our Mather Community Campus kitchen to look at our relatively bare cupboards in hopes you good folks will respond with donations of frozen birds at either our Central Kitchen (700 North ...Fifth St.) or at the MCC dining hall (3587 Bleckely, Rancho Cordova). We accept donations 7 a.m.-6 p.m. daily.
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