Volunteer Match

Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match column lists opportunities for residents to lend their time and talent to worthy organizations and causes around the Heights.

Submit your organization’s volunteer needs by calling the FutureHeights office at 216-320-1423 or e-mailing sbasu@futureheights.org.

Items submitted on or before the Heights Observer print issue's monthly story deadline will be considered for the next column. (To see past columns, visit www.heightsobserver.org, and search “volunteer match”.)

Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match column lists opportunities for residents to lend their time and talent to worthy organizations and causes around the Heights.

Submit your organization’s volunteer needs by e-mailing Sruti Basu at sbasu@futureheights.org or calling the FutureHeights office at 216-320-1423.

Items submitted on or before the Heights Observer print issue's monthly story deadline will be considered for the next column. (To see past columns, visit www.heightsobserver.org, and search “volunteer match”.)

Heights High Orientation: The renovated Heights High will open for student orientation/schedule pick-up on Aug. 15 and 16. While several elements of the school are located in the same place as before, much of the building is different. The school district wants to ensure that students feel prepared and comfortable on the first day of school, Aug. 21, and seeks community volunteers to help direct students and families as they walk through their schedules from 4 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 15 and 16. Volunteers will stand at specific locations in the building (with a map) and assist students as they locate classrooms on their schedule. Volunteer training will take place at 3:30 p.m. each day. Contact Joy Henderson, the district’s liaison for parents and community, at j_henderson@chuh.org if you can help.

Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match column lists opportunities for residents to lend their time and talent to worthy organizations and causes around the Heights.

Submit your organization’s volunteer needs by  calling the FutureHeights office at 216-320-1423 or e-mailing sbasu@futureheights.org.

Items submitted on or before the Heights Observer print issue's monthly story deadline will be considered for the next column. (To see past columns, visit www.heightsobserver.org, and search “volunteer match”.)

Heights Music Hop: Volunteers are needed for the fifth annual Heights Music Hop, which is presented by FutureHeights and takes place Thursday, Sept. 7; Friday, Sept. 8; and Saturday, Sept. 9. Volunteers will help staff music venues, canvass the district with maps, answer attendee questions and assist with musician check-in. Not only is this a fun opportunity, but volunteers will receive a Heights Music Hop shirt, snacks, and a free raffle ticket ($10 value) in the FutureHeights Chance Raffle, which features fabulous prizes from area businesses. Volunteer at www.heightsmusichop.com/volunteer.

Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match column lists opportunities for residents to lend their time and talent to worthy organizations and causes around the Heights.

Submit your organization’s volunteer needs by e-mailing Sruti Basu at sbasu@futureheights.org or calling the FutureHeights office at 216-320-1423.

Items submitted on or before the Heights Observer print issue's monthly story deadline will be considered for the next column. (To see past columns, visit www.heightsobserver.org, and search “volunteer match”.)

LWV: The League of Women Voters (LWV) covers Cleveland Heights and University Heights council meetings and school and library board meetings with a cadre of dedicated volunteer observers. If you appreciate these reports, perhaps you would like to help LWV provide this service to the community by volunteering for its Observer Corps.

Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match column lists opportunities for residents to lend their time and talent to the many worthy organizations and causes around the Heights.

Submit your organization’s volunteer needs by e-mailing Sruti Basu at sbasu@futureheights.org or calling the FutureHeights office at 216-320-1423.

Items submitted on or before the Heights Observer print issue's monthly story deadline will be considered for the next column. (To see past columns, visit www.heightsobserver.org, and search “volunteer match”.)

Reaching Heights: Reaching Heights’s Many Villages tutoring program, in its 11th year of service to the community, has open slots for a new after-school tutoring program at Gearity Professional Development School.

Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match column lists opportunities for residents to lend their time and talent to the many worthy organizations and causes around the Heights.

Submit your organization’s volunteer needs by e-mailing Sruti Basu at sbasu@futureheights.org or calling the FutureHeights office at 216-320-1423.

Items submitted on or before the Heights Observer print issue's monthly story deadline will be considered for that month's column. (To see past columns, visit www.heightsobserver.org, and search “volunteer match”.)

Herps Alive: This nonprofit is dedicated to saving, rehabilitating, and caring for unwanted, neglected and abused reptiles and amphibians, finding new homes for them, and educating the public about these animals.

 

Finding volunteer opportunities in Cleveland Heights and University Heights should become much easier thanks to the Heights Observer’s Volunteer Match, a new regular column that lists ways for people to give their time and talent to the many worthy organizations and causes around town.

Submit your organization’s volunteer needs by e-mailing Sruti Basu at sbasu@futureheights.org or calling the FutureHeights office at 216-320-1423.

Items submitted on or before the Heights Observer print issue's monthly story deadline will be considered for that month's column.

Peer to Peer: Peer to Peer is a new program at Noble Elementary School which pairs English as a Second Language (ESL) students with English-speaking students. Volunteers are needed for this before- and after-school program.

The Coventry P.E.A.C.E. garden and playground spring clean-up and work day is scheduled for Saturday, May 16, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Volunteers are needed to join in and spend as much time as they can spare to help get the garden ready for summer by clearing out the remnants of winter.

Bring your own tools and gloves, or use some that will be on-hand and available. Beverages and snacks will also be provided for all who volunteer. Everyone’s help is needed to keep Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Park a beautiful place.

Meals on Wheels, a program that delivers fresh meals to seniors and those with disabilities, seeks volunteers to package and deliver meals.

Coventry P. E.A.C.E. Park cleanup Oct. 6

Volunteers are needed for fall clean-up day at Coventry P. E.A.C.E. Park on Saturday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine. Help clean up the park, garden and make repairs. Garden and repair tools, and garden gloves, will be provided. Bring your own knee pads for kneeling. Coffee and light snacks will be available also.

Students at Fairfax Elementary School will spend the month of May writing, revising, illustrating and binding their own works of fiction. The first annual Young Authors Conference will center on the theme Journeys, as students create individual tales of trips to places real or imagined.

Volunteers are needed for spring clean-up day at Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Park on Saturday, May 5, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., rain or shine. Help clean up the park, garden and make repairs. Tools, gloves, snacks, beverages and guidance will be provided.

Coventry P.E.A.C.E Park is the playground at the former Coventry Elementary School in Cleveland Heights. It was built in 1993 using funds raised and donated by area residents. Coventry P.E.A.C.E., the volunteer organization that cares for the park, hosts a twice yearly clean-up and maintenance event. 

Volunteering is a great way for teens to support their community while gaining valuable experience for job and college applications. According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, teens who volunteer do better in school than those who don't. Heights Libraries has three volunteer opportunities this summer.

Teen Summer Internship

The library is offering a three-week summer internship for teens in grades 9–12. Selected interns will assist with library programs and services, and gain experience working in a professional environment.

Fairfax Elementary School is seeking donations of children's books, for students in kindergarten through fifth grade, to give to children at its Family Literacy Night on March 22.

FutureHeights, the Cleveland Heights Historical Society and the Cleveland Heights Landmarks Commission, are partnering with Cleveland State University's Center for Public History + Digital Humanities this year to develop content for the Cuyahoga Arts and Culture grant-funded "Historic Heights Mobile App Tours" project. The project will add 40 sites to the existing Cleveland Historical mobile app (for iPhone and Android), corresponding to four focal points in Cleveland Heights: Coventry Village, Dugway Brook, Euclid Golf, and Noble Road.

Meals on Wheels, a program that delivers fresh meals to seniors and those with disabilities, seeks volunteers to package and deliver meals.

Volunteers assist program staff by filling containers with hot and cold food, and then placing the containers in a heater or cooler for delivery. Each Heights-area route has from five to nine clients. Volunteers deliver the food to the door of each home on a preassigned route and, if invited in, spend a few minutes visiting with the recipient.

Christ Our Redeemer A.M.E. Church, located at 14284 Superior Ave., in Cleveland Heights, requests volunteers to help at its Church Restoration Saturday. The event will take place from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 19. Lunch will be provided.

Go Public! Great Schools Are Everybody's Business needs volunteers to help with various projects aimed to help the CH-UH schools. Go Public! is a grassroots movement working to build stronger ties between our community and the public schools.

Do you enjoy working with youth?  

Do you have a story to share, a skill to teach, a subject you know a lot about?

Make a difference in a young person’s life by volunteering with Lake Erie Ink.

Next Volunteer Orientation: Tuesday, Sept 13, 5:30–7 p.m. at our new site in the former Coventry School building, 2843 Washington Blvd.

Sept. 8 is International Literacy Day, created 45 years ago by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to celebrate literacy and remind the international community of the obstacles that still remain to global literacy.

If you are interested in volunteering at the library, contact Heather Howiler, training and staff development/volunteer coordinator, at 216-932-3600 ext. 287 or hhowiler@heightslibrary.org.  

• Noble Neighborhood Library’s Grand Re-Opening Party, Sunday, May 15, 2-4 p.m.
• Noble’s Early Literacy Playroom
• Lee Road Summer Lunch Program
• Gardening Volunteers

The Interfaith Council and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District have partnered to offer the Books-a-Go-Go program, a summer event for families. 

Each Cleveland Heights-University Heights elementary school will be open every Thursday evening beginning June 16. The program ends on August 11 to provide free dinners and an open school library to students.

• Gardening at Fairfax Elementary


• Tutors at Fairfax Elementary


• Volunteers for book drive


• Coventry Elementary School Garden and Playground Cleanup Day

Looking to make a difference in your life and in the lives of others? Volunteer at Jewish Family Service Association and become a visitor to an aging member of our community. Short visits, small projects, perhaps an errand or two all help to bring the outside world to individuals who are often lonely or isolated. Contact Sandy Lusher-Waterhouse, manager of volunteer services for JFSA, at 216-378-3475 or e-mail slusher@jfsa-cleveland.org.

Meals on Wheels of Cleveland Heights, Inc. is in need of volunteers to fill the following positions: deliver to homebound seniors any weekday 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; pick up food at A.M. McGregor Home and deliver to Fairmount Presbyterian Church any weekday 9:30-10:30 a.m.; package food at Fairmount Presbyterian Church any weekday from 10:30-11:30. Call Mary Sayre at 691-9337.

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.

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.

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.

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.