American Red Cross
Goals
THE PILLOWCASE PROJECT
The Pillowcase Project will help create a generation of children who understand the science of hazards, are empowered to take action preparing for emergencies and are excited to help create a prepared community by sharing what they have learned with family and friends. Volunteers will prepare a 40-60- minute classroom presentation and present in 3rd – 5th grade classrooms in the area. (They want 2 volunteers each time you present, so do it with a friend!) It is a standardized curriculum that you will be trained on. There is a 6-hour online training that is required, but that counts as volunteer hours and the Red Cross will provide all of the tools (training, posters, and teaching kit, and then pillowcases/workbooks for the children).
HOME FIRE CAMPAIGN
Home fires are the greatest disaster threat to American families. Seven people die every day from home fires. A fire-related injury is reported every 40 minutes. Annually, home fires caused 2,500 deaths. The Home Fire Campaign aims to save lives, reduce injuries and build more resilient communities by raising awareness, facilitating preventative actions, and fostering community participation. We install FREE smoke alarms along with an educational component. Volunteers install FREE smoke alarms to residents in the area that have signed up as well as discussing with residents how to prevent fires and how to escape from their house of one were to occur.
You can do one hour or 25 hours of service with us, but we need you! Sign up with us and help save lives!
Contact: John Watson
Phone: (435) 879-9033
Email: john.watson@redcross.org
Website: https://www.redcross.org/local/utah/volunteer.html
Boys & Girls Club
Goals
You must go to the Boys & Girls club and fill out the volunteer application and then start volunteering! Duties range from keeping an eye on the kids while activities are going on, helping with art projects or homework, could help with snacks or dishes… etc.
Background check required.
Contact: Stella Smith
Website: https://www.bgca.org/
30 East 200 South
Price, Utah 84501
Bureau of Land Management (No short term volunteer opportunities)
The Price Field Office (PFO) is located at the northwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau–the gateway to the red-rock country and the San Rafael Swell. The Swell has been described as the jagged remains of a dinosaur backbone, an exposed sandstone coral reef, and a stone saw blade. No matter how you describe this place, it is desolate, but beautiful country.
Activities that can be enjoyed on public lands around the PFO include, river float trips, camping, hiking and biking. Traveling east, you will find the Green River, a premiere river trip in Utah’s deepest canyon that runs through Desolation and Gray Canyons. Nine-Mile Canyon just west of the Green River is a major representative area of the prehistoric Fremont Culture where one can see many panels of rock art.
The Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry contains the densest concentration of Jurassic aged bones ever found and shouldn’t be missed. The area is rich in resources such as; oil, gas, coal, uranium, gypsum, and a host of others. Public lands in the PFO management area is home to three Wild Horse and Burro Management Areas and the largest wilderness study area in the contiguous 48 states.
Contact
Jaydon Mead
Phone: (435) 636-3646
Website: https://www.blm.gov/office/price-field-office
Carbon County RSVP & Volunteer Center (Not Currently Accepting Volunteers)
RSVP of Lehigh, Northampton & Carbon Counties
RSVP of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon Counties is part of the national Senior Corps administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service. RSVP offers adults age 55 and over volunteer opportunities where they can apply their skills, talents, and life experience to strengthen their communities. RSVP volunteers serve in a wide range of local non-profit organizations.
RSVP links those who WANT to help to those who NEED help. The program’s flexibility allows volunteers to choose how and where they want to serve within Lehigh, Northampton & Carbon Counties.
Contact
Phone: (435) 867-8384
Carbon County RSVP & Volunteer Center (Not Currently Accepting Volunteers)
Carbon County Senior Center
Contact: Bonnie Bell
Phone: (435) 888-2194
Website: https://www.carbon.utah.gov/Services/Seniors
451 Denver Ave.
East Carbon, Utah 84520
CEU Museum
Goals
Volunteer must go down to the museum and fill out volunteer application. Duties include working in the museum; preparing fossils, help with cataloging, building exhibits, inventory of artifacts or in the field like excavating and finding artifacts.
Background check necessary.
Contact: Claire Bennett
Phone: (435) 613-5060
Community Clothing Closet
Goals
They would love for volunteers to come in! Super flexible with scheduling and they need good volunteers!
Simple form to fill out to start volunteering. Positive fun group to work with!
Contact: Barbara Brown
Email: barbjobrown@gmail.com
Website: https://www.medicalhomeportal.org/services/provider/21547
8 E Main St.
Price, Utah 84501
Community Garden
Goals
Planting, weeding and harvesting. It is located by the food bank in Price.
Contact: Jerry
Phone: (435) 636-3232
Community Nursing Services Hospice
Goals
Come in and talk with Charity and then you can sign the forms and volunteer with nurses, can work with office staff or miscellaneous duties. Visit with patients, do activities with patients like reading, painting nails, etc.
Community Nursing Services provides compassionate Home Health and Hospice care to patients and families who have experienced illness or injury; all in the comfort of their own home. CNS takes a more hands on approach by providing each and every patient with their own personalized plan-of-care. Our highly skilled team is comprised of nurses, social workers, chaplains, medical director and aides who truly care for our patients on a deeper level. We continue to provide the best Home Health and Hospice services in Utah by simply listening to our patients and their family’s needs. For anyone looking for a highly qualified Home Health or Hospice care team that also feels like family, we hope you will invite us into your home.
Voted Utah BEST OF STATE for 9 years and running!
Contact: Charity
Phone: (435) 613-8887
East Carbon Senior Center
Goals
Call Bonnie between 1:00-4:00. They need help with the dining room on Fridays, and other opportunities for volunteers.
Contact
Bonnie Bell
Phone: (435) 888-2194
Website: https://www.carbon.utah.gov/Services/Seniors
451 Denver Ave.
East Carbon, Utah 84520
Family Support Center
Goals
Volunteers can help clean, do yard work, put together resource materials or working with the children, playing, doing activities etc. Also, there are functions throughout the year that volunteers can help with.
There is a volunteer packet to fill out. Fingerprinting and Background Check Necessary!
Contact: Shelly
Phone: (435) 636-3735
Website: http://www.familysupportcenter.org/
SUN Center
The SUN Center provides students with opportunities to volunteer within the college and community.
Contact us today if you are interested in joining the SUN Center or obtaining information about service learning.
Contact
Terry Johnson
Phone: (435) 613-5284
Email: terry.johnson@usu.edu
Website: https://usueastern.edu/price/sun/index
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US Forest Service (Accepting Volunteers During Summer and Special Request Hours)
Goals
Contact Dwayne for more information about summer projects!
Contact
Dwayne
Phone: (435) 637-2817
Utah Foster Care Foundation
Goals
They accept volunteers, however not on an ongoing basis. There are different needs during the summer and wintertime.
Contact
Kobe
Phone: (435) 636-0210
Western Mining & Railroad Museum
Goals
Wide range of volunteer opportunities; could do research, they need orientation leaders, gift shop help.
Contact: Jason Hunsanger
Phone: (435) 472-3009
Youth Detention Center
Goals
Stop by and apply, duties will vary depending on skills and desire.
Background check necessary.
Contact
Laura Blackwell
Phone: (435) 636-4720
USU-Eastern Scholars Application