The Community Emergency Response Team, CERT, was used to conduct a flu vaccination clinic at Wiley Middle School on Sunday Nov. 9. The city's annual senior flu shot program vaccinates a few hundred people per year.

The Coventry P.E.A.C.E Garden and Playground needs volunteers to help with the fall clean-up of the gardens and repair of the equipment on Saturday, October 4, beginning at 9 a.m.

Help us help our students. Volunteer for our Homework Center and you will make a significant impact on a student’s life. Step up and become a Homework Center volunteer!

Are you always the first one to know about something happening in your neighborhood?Why not put your knowledge to work by becoming a Heights Observer neighborhood reporter?

Want to make a significant impact on a student’s life? Want to make a difference that matters? Step up and become a Homework Center Volunteer!

Meals on Wheels is currently celebrating it's 25 th year of service to the residents in University Heights, Shaker Heights and Beachwood communities. MOW is a non profit, volunteer based organization that provides healthy, warm meals to those who are unable to shop or prepare meals for themselves.

Last fall neighbors in the Severance area began working with the president of the Cleveland Heights Citizens Advisory Committee, Jim Cull, to clean-up and beautify the area's streetscape. The Severance Neighborhood Organization (SNO) was formed to improve the street aesthetics in the neighborhood that includes the newly formed Inglewood Historic District and is served by Noble and Oxford Elementary Schools and the Noble Neighborhood Library.

New listing to highlight local volunteer opportunities

Finding volunteer opportunities in Cleveland Heights and University Heights has become a lot easier thanks to the Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match.

The Heights Observer is looking for people, ages 1-100, to get involved in the paper. After all, the Heights Observer is all about citizen journalism and its power to tell local stories at a grassroots level. We are looking for volunteer writers, photographers, designers, and illustrators. It doesn't matter if you are a professional or amateur, our editorial staff will be glad to have you.

Many volunteers help feed the hungry of Cleveland Heights, University Heights, South Euclid, and Lyndhurst...but more are always needed. The Heights Emergency Food Center (HEFC) needs your assistance. Opened in October of 1981 with the aid of the Heights Interfaith Council, HEFC provides more than 575 families with a three day supply of food once a month. Staffed by volunteers and overseen by a volunteer board of directors, the nonprofit agency is supported through gifts from religious institutions; service and social organizations; public, parochial and private schools; federal grants and supermarket settlements; and individuals.

The Mosaic Experience, one of the 5 small schools at Heights High School, is launching a new community-based volunteer tutoring program.

Be hip.  Volunteer.  Cleveland Heights Meals On Wheels is an all-volunteer, non-profit, non-subsidized independent program working in cooperation with the Cleveland Heights Office On Aging to deliver meals to elderly and disabled residents of Cleveland Heights.