Tonight: Volunteer Fair Aims to Match Up Causes with Helpers

If you are looking for an opportunity to lend your time and talents, check out the Volunteer Fair tonight at the .

Nearly 30 organizations will be on hand from 7-9 p.m. to tell potential volunteers about their organizations and how to get involved.

The event is designed to provide a “one-stop” opportunity for the community to identify volunteer opportunities in which they would like to participate.

"This is the first year that I have done a volunteer fair," library Director Anne Hage said. "I decided to do a fair because I get requests from people to volunteer and I don’t have many volunteer opportunities here, but I thought that other organizations probably do."

The fair also provides an avenue for nonprofits to be promoted at an event where people have an opportunity to act.

Volunteer Fair participants

• Almost Home Animal Rescue
• AARP
• American House
• American Red Cross- Biomedical Services
• Beaumont Hospital
• Burton PTA Volunteer Corps
• Care House of Oakland County
• Cass Community Social Services
• Daphane’s Doves Foundation
• Detroit Rescue Mission
• Detroit Zoological Society
• Forgotten Harvest
• Friends of the Huntington Woods Library
• Gift of Life
• Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeast Michigan
• JARC
• JVS/Brown Adult Day Program
• Judson Center Autism Connections
• Oakland County Parks
• Oakland Literacy Council
• Salvation Army
• Societism Institute
• South Oakland Shelter
• Tri-Community Coalition of Berkley
• Waterford Site Based Mentoring Program

For more information, call 248.543.9720.

More ways to volunteer

If you want to help local causes, or your cause needs local help, let Patch help! Go to berkley.patch.com/volunteer.