Senior Corps-RSVP member, Walt (Corky) Riesing shares his international volunteer experiences with his fifth grade pen pal student, tutors and mentors elementary students with Lunch Buddies program and comforts hospice clients and their families. He finds that the “more time you spend with all these people, the more hope you have. What I do is no big deal. I’ve been truly blessed in my life.”
Senior Corps-RSVP of HandsOn Suburban Chicago Honors Local Volunteers at Annual Member Recognition Brunch
For Immediate Release: Arlington Heights, IL, May 16, 2018 – One hundred seventy volunteers representing 62 local agencies will gather at the Metropolis Ballroom in Arlington Heights on Thursday, May 16, 2018 to be recognized for outstanding service in their communities. The First Bank of Highland Park, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the…
Senior Corps Week Spotlight on Service: RSVP member brings Pen Pals program to Wheeling elementary school
When Janet Isaacman, a Senior Corps-RSVP volunteer tutor at Tarkington Elementary School in Wheeling, learned about the new Senior Corps-RSVP Pen Pals Program, she saw an opportunity for the school’s fourth and fifth graders to improve their writing skills as well as their grades. Pen Pals volunteers write to third-, fourth- or fifth-grade students (one…
Senior Corps Week Celebrates Senior Volunteers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that oversees Senior Corps, will celebrate the valuable contributions made by older volunteers during the eighth annual Senior Corps Week, taking place April 29 – May 5 during Older Americans Month. Today, Senior Corps engages approximately 220,000 Americans at 25,000 locations…
Village of Palatine Recognizes Senior Corps-RSVP Volunteers for National Service Recognition Day 2018
In honor of National Service Recognition Day, Mayor Jim Schwantz & the Village of Palatine Council presented our Senior Corps-RSVP program with a proclamation recognizing the service of Senior Corps-RSVP members who volunteer throughout the Palatine community.
Senior Corps-RSVP member’s skills have stretched around the world
After Joyce Adomitis retired from her career as a special education teacher in 2004, she took a year to regroup and then knew it was time to do something more with her life. Giving her time to others was uppermost in her mind. Her search connected her to Warm Blankets Orphan Care (WBOC)-a group that provides…
Senior Corps-RSVP Read to Learn tutors also serve as goodwill ambassadors
Most people who volunteer will tell you they get back as much as they give. But the Senior Corps-RSVP members that tutor with Township High School District 214’s Community Education Read to Learn (RTL) program feel they get so much more. For two-and-a-half hours each week, these tutors work one-on-one with students from other nations, helping them to improve their English and adjust to life in the United States. They see it as a chance to show these newcomers the best America has to offer. They find joy in helping their pupils navigate through the complexities of the English language.
London Middle School Makes Holiday Cards for Local Social Service Organizations
HandsOn Suburban Chicago (HOSC) partnered with London Middle School on a service learning project this December that benefited three local social service agencies. Students at the Wheeling school learned about homelessness through a lesson created by HOSC and then completed a project where they put their newfound knowledge to use. The students created and decorated…
