A Canadian Summer with YVC
He turned a retirement home into a bowling alley for a few hours. He was part of a team that pulled six bags full of weeds at a park, then later that day served a meal for hundreds of hungry people at a homeless shelter. He manned the “Pin the Tail on the Cow” game … Read more
YVC Board votes Adele Hall as New Board Chair
Exciting news this week as Adele Hall becomes only our third Board Chair ever at YVC. Adele has been actively involved with YVC since day one back in 1987. I was told to seek her expertise by a number of people when first trying to start up this program that would come to be known … Read more
Getting to Know… Sharin Tellez at YVC of Racine
One of the many messages that YVC passes on to its volunteers is that volunteering is a lifelong activity; it’s something every individual can continue to participate in as the years pass by, and something that you’re never too young to do. Sharin Tellez, Youth Coordinator at the YVC site in Racine, Wisconsin, is a … Read more
Intern-al View: Miya
YVC is proud to be part of the Bank of America Student Leaders program here in Kansas City. Bank of America sponsors five interns to spend eight weeks working at YVC and learning the ins and outs of a nonprofit. These students just completed their junior or senior years of high school and help the … Read more
Intern-al View: Danny
YVC is proud to be part of the Bank of America Student Leaders program here in Kansas City. Bank of America sponsors five interns to spend eight weeks working at YVC and learning the ins and outs of a nonprofit. These students just completed their junior or senior years of high school and help the … Read more
Packing up nine years
A lot has changed since that first day, August 31, 2002, when I started my term as an AmeriCorps*VISTA. I had just turned 23 and had celebrated my 1 year wedding anniversary a month before. I was leaving behind my work in chemistry and advertising (a great combo, I know) to embark on a new … Read more
Intern-al View: Julie
YVC is proud to be part of the Bank of America Student Leaders program here in Kansas City. Bank of America sponsors five interns to spend eight weeks working at YVC and learning the ins and outs of a nonprofit. These students just completed their junior or senior years of high school and help the … Read more
Summer volunteering across the YVC network
Although the official start to summer was just last week, YVC teams across the country have been hard at work for a month now! All YVC affiliates hold some sort of summer volunteering program for youth, but each individual program looks different. Here’s what just a few YVC sites have been up to during the … Read more
Intern-al View: Madison
YVC is proud to be part of the Bank of America Student Leaders program here in Kansas City. Bank of America sponsors five interns to spend eight weeks working at YVC and learning the ins and outs of a nonprofit. These students just completed their junior or senior years of high school and help the … Read more
Our neighbors in Joplin
Since YVC’s national office is based in Kansas City, we’ve all been thinking a lot about the tornado that devastated Joplin, MO, last week and the people whose lives were affected. We thought about them last Sunday when the news first reported that our neighbors a few hours south were hit by a deadly tornado. … Read more
