Volunteers comfortable with Elementary Schools

Washington DC

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Looking for 1-3 volunteers each for Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria and other areas around the Beltway. Could be retirees, or Scouts, or students looking for community service, or just about anyone! Done from the comfort of your home! Are you comfortable working with Elementary school teachers and principals? I am a volunteer for a charity called Food & Friends. My project is to encourage elementary schools to have their children create beautiful Valentine’s Day Cards. We supply the envelopes, the students create their cards and insert them into the envelopes, we arrange for pick up of the cards and we distribute them to local hospitals and hospices as well as to clients of Food & Friends. Last year, over 3000 students drew cards that were treasured by the recipients! We have a great list of elementary schools and we send out emails, but we find that the person at the school who gets the email from us is often too busy to read it and doesn’t realize what a great project this is for the kids. We need a few resourceful volunteers to figure out exactly who at the school to telephone. You just have to be organized, persuasive (and sometimes a little persistent). If you have any experience with elementary schools and their structure, it would certainly come in handy. Won’t you join us in bringing joy to the recipients and to the children and schools for having done a good service to the community? If you are interested, just send a quick reply, and perhaps mention what talents you might bring to the table and how to contact you. We are also looking for someone who could create Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest sites if you happen to know how. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!