VOLUNTEERING

Share the joy of your pet with hospice patients and their families this season.

One local teen has made it her mission to help others.

After a two year pandemic pause, Arab American Service Day returned to the Metro Detroit area, with hundreds of volunteers showing up to serve.

Christy regularly volunteers her time to make sure that those in need of help, or food, are able to get it.

First the first time in a long time, volunteers are back on the streets, delivering meals on wheels with the organization, which serves nine cities.

Isabel Sutton and Oreen Morag, of Ann Arbor, and Sydney Bennett of Canton, have been honored by the nonprofit organization for their hard work and compassion.

Volunteer vacations are popular with gap-year students, retired seniors, and millions of people in between. Perhaps you’re just starting to travel again, for the first time in a long time, considering the pandemic, and you’re thinking about a volunteer vacation.

This week marks National Volunteer Appreciation Week, so it’s a great time to say thanks to all the volunteers, including those at Michigan Humane.

Because of the coronavirus outbreak, all 2020 census field operations were suspended, and that has significantly delayed our effort to ensure all Michiganders are going to be counted in 2020, said Michigan Statewide Census Director Kerry Ebersole Singh. We have an immediate, urgent need for volunteers who are willing to commit to making phone calls from home using a virtual phone bank and reminding their fellow Michiganders to complete the census.The request for virtual phone bank volunteers extends to every region of the state. We make the experience of learning how to be a census virtual phone bank volunteer as easy, understandable and hassle-free as possible, said Michigan Statewide Census Deputy Director Dichondra Johnson, who is coordinating the states Be Counted phone bank program. The push to recruit virtual phone bank volunteers is especially great in cities like Detroit and Flint. The census matters now more than ever, especially given the circumstances, said Detroit 2020 Census Campaign Executive Director Victoria Kovari.