Concord Council on Aging (COA)

Agency:

Concord Council on Aging (COA)

Commitment:

On-going, or a one-off volunteer opportunity

Description:

1.      COMPUTER TUTORS: Help seniors learn from scratch or help with common software issues at our COA computer lab; trouble shoot basic technical problems.

2.      GAMES AND CRAFTS: Share and learn card games, play pool, be crafty. Teach Seminars to use the Wii gaming system, either as a weekly class or a one-off appointment; write a user-friendly Wii users manual; maybe run a tournament!

3.      FRIENDLY VISITORS: Share interests and time through weekly visits with seniors.

4.      GRAPHIC DESIGN: Design program flyer & brochure. Also need a student for 2008-2009 academic year to design/ maintain the COA's monthly Bulletin Boards.

5.      GROCERY SHOPPERS: Do weekly food shopping with or for seniors.

6.      CAR WASH: Organize and staff a Car Wash to benefit the COA and its programs.

7.      SEASONAL CLEANUP: Create teams of teens to help seniors with seasonal yard work and clean up through Fall and Spring Dream Teams. Snow shoveling as needed.

8.      CELL PHONE INSTRUCTION: Need 2-3 students to help with a program to teach seniors about cell phone usage.

9.      Re-design our "What's New" page! Looking for a tech savvy, design oriented student to periodically add links to this page and make it more inviting...

Additional information/Days/Times Needed

Call to schedule date and time. Please allow plenty of lead time because they operate with a monthly newsletter for the seniors to plan their activities. So your booking probably will need to be 3 weeks forward.

Qualifications, Orientation:

CORI forms sometimes required.

Contact Name:

Ellen Sathe , Volunteer Coordinator  

Address/Location:

1276 Main Street
Concord Ma. 01742 

Contact Phone:

978-318-3020

Contact Fax:

978-318-0856

Contact Email:

COA_Volunteer@concordma.gov 

Web-site:

www.concordnet.org/coa/index.html