Volunteer Opportunities: Celebrate Northeast Parade

Click here for more information about the Celebrate Northeast Parade.

Volunteer Opportunities: Pack at the Park

Pack at the Park is back! Come and pack Feed My Starving Children meals at Target Field July 20-21.

Connected for Strategy Day

Volunteer recruitment for Connected for Strategy Day is open from May 23 – June 12!

Join us for a Virtual Chat!

Register today for the next CVC Chat happening on Wednesday, June 22, from 8:30-9:30 AM.

This month, we're highlighting three volunteer opportunities: gardening for Living Well Disability Services, special event volunteers and Meals on Wheels volunteers for Wilder.

CVC-TC Program: Principles and Power of Pro Bono Volunteerism

In this session, Tracy Nielsen and Joy Altmann from HandsOn Twin Cities will share the power of pro bono volunteerism and the impact that it can make for companies, nonprofits, and individual volunteers.

2022 CVC-TC Annual Celebration

Join us for the CVC-TC annual celebration event on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, from 1pm – 4:00pm at Edinburgh USA in Brooklyn Park. We are excited to finally come together and enjoy some appetizers, desserts, and network with one another.

Justice Alan C. Page will be making an appearance to say hello and take pictures.

Second Harvest Heartland is seeing a full-time volunteer engagement specialist to support the ongoing volunteer portion of its volunteer program.

The main responsibilities of this role include recruitment and placement of ongoing volunteers; communication, training, and support of volunteer supervisors; and ownership of administrative tasks that support a best-in-class volunteer experience.

Thank you to the 11 Corporate Members and 6 Associate Members who completed our recent survey. If you have ideas for survey questions for either corporate or associate members, please submit them to [email protected].

Corporate Results

Mark your calendars for the CVC-TC Annual Celebration event on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, from 1pm to 4:00pm at Edinburgh USA in Brooklyn Park.

We are excited to finally come together and enjoy some appetizers, desserts, and network with one another.

Justice Alan C. Page will be making an appearance to say hello and take pictures. In addition, you can learn more about his Page Foundation and from CVC-TC Associate Member Organizations at the volunteer fair!

Twenty one ECMC Group volunteers braved the cold water to support Special Olympics Minnesota through the Polar Plunge!

Each year, the Polar Plunge challenges thousands of brave jumpers at numerous locations around Minnesota to jump into a lake during the winter months. All funds raised go toward programming and events for more than 8,200 athletes statewide.

Second Harvest Heartland is experiencing a large shortage of volunteers putting us behind on food repacking and impacting delivery of high demand produce and other food items to our neighbors experiencing food insecurity.

We offer shifts Mondays-Saturdays morning through evening from 4-40 spots.

Hammer Residences has created a new volunteer program called “Cooks in the Kitchen”. We are inviting small groups of 4 to 6 volunteers to cook two recipes at a time in our Central Office kitchen in Wayzata, MN.

These two meals are then distributed to four of our homes which are often short staffed. Having prepared meals available allow the staff at the homes more time to focus on the personal care and needs of the individuals living there. Recipes, groceries, and supplies are all provided. Hammer Central Office employees piloted the program by testing out the recipes. The homes just loved the meals!

Blue Cross associates share the love with local seniors for Valentine’s Day

Each year nearly 400 local seniors receive valentines put together by volunteers at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.

Annual Meeting 2022

Thank you to all who attended the Annual Meeting on February 24. We had over 35 people on the Zoom call!

Let’s meet our new CVC President: Caroline DeVinck

Annual Meeting to be virtual on Feb. 24, Celebration Postponed

Due to the current climate of COVID and the uncertainty in the rise of cases in the next few weeks, we are moving the Annual Celebration to an outdoor network setting in the late spring.

Feed My Starving Children was open for volunteering at all eight of its permanent packing facilities where over 1900 volunteers packed meals for 2 hours on this MLK Day of Service. These volunteers were able to pack enough food to provide a FMSC meal a day for a year to over 1,100 children in countries like Nicaragua, Uganda and Haiti.

Member Spotlight: Megan White

Currently: Institution Relations Manager, Open Arms of Minnesota

Thank you to the 10 Corporate Members and 11 Associate Members who completed our recent survey.

If you have ideas for survey questions for either corporate or associate members, please submit them to [email protected].