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2015 Holiday Guide to Giving and Volunteering FIND THE TIME, MAKE A DIFFERENCE 85 GREATER SEACOAST NONPROFITS WHERE YOU CAN HELP TIPS FOR USING THIS GUIDE • Use the Quick Finder on page TABLE OF 3 to quickly find categories of need. • Form a group of friends or coworkers to “adopt” a family Contents or individual. • Start a collection drive by 5 Quick Finder placing a decorated carton A quick collection of all the where employees and organizations that would love customers can see it. List to have you as a volunteer. items needed and the recipient agency. 8 Organizations Directory • Take up a collection to purchase needed gift Background and contact certificates or vouchers. information for each program in the respective towns. • Contact a nursing home to find out who might need a 16 Living United visit on the day of the holiday. Witnessing United Way’s • Remember: Most agencies good work, first hand. need assistance prior to or after the holiday. 29 By the Numbers The stats behind United Way of the Greater Seacoast and how they are changing lives. United Way of the Greater Seacoast is uniquely 30 Signature Volunteer positioned to bring the people and the orga- Opportunities nizations to the table that have the passion, Ways for volunteers to get expertise, and resources that we need to involved with United Way’s improve our community for ourselves and for work. future generations. Find year-round opportunities and download this guide online at www.uwgs.org. United Way of the Greater Seacoast Volunteer Action Center provides this information based upon submissions from area organizations. Each organization listed bears sole respon- sibility for the information and opportunities identified, including, but not limited to, all of the organization’s activities, selection of vol- unteers, and the terms and conditions of par- ticipation. United Way bears no responsibility for the activities, programs, and actions of those organizations. 2 GIVE BACK | 2015 © Hawthorn Creative | FOR PROOFING ONLY UNITED WAY HOLIDAY GUIDE 3 QUICK 2015) 21, (Nov. FINDER Please contact the agency you wish to assist to be sure that the need or volunteer opportunity is still current and to inform them of your interest in helping. Adopt-A-Family Food Items Items Child/Teen Adult Items Gift Certificates Needs Agency Other Needs Volunteer November Opportunities December Volunteer Opportunities Day Volunteer National Family Page Number THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES HAVE MULTIPLE TOWN LISTINGS (SEE INSIDE) Community Action Partnership of Strafford County Great Bay Kids Company Seacoast Area Firefighters Toy Bank Dover Adult Learning Center Rockingham Community Action Seeds of Faith End 68 Hours of Hunger SAFER BRENTWOOD Rockingham Nutrition & Meals on Wheels | (603) 679-2201 | [email protected] l l l 8 DOVER AARP Tax-Aide Program | (603) 625-6939 x125 | [email protected] l l 8 The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire | (603) 742-2002 | [email protected] l l 8 Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy | (603) 742-0700 | [email protected] l l 8 Community Action Partnership of Strafford County | (603) 435-2500 | [email protected] l l l 8 Community Partners | (603) 516-9300 | [email protected] l l l l l 8 Dover Adult Learning Center | (603) 742-1030 | [email protected] l l l l l 9 Dover Children’s Center | (603) 343-8542 | [email protected] l l l l l l l l 9 Dover Children’s Home | (603) 742-4289 | [email protected] l l l l l l 9 Dover Police Charities | (603) 742-4646 | [email protected] l l 9 My Friend’s Place | (603) 749-3017 | [email protected] l l l l l 9 Riverside Rest Home | (603) 516-4170 | [email protected] l l l l l 10 Seacoast Area Firefighters Toy Bank | [email protected] l l l 10 Seymour Osman Community Center | (603) 749-6692 | [email protected] l l l l l 10 Zebra Crossings | (603) 312-2052 | [email protected] l l l l 10 DURHAM The Cornucopia Food Pantry | (603) 862-1165 | [email protected] l l l l 10 ElderPet | (603) 767-6856 | [email protected] l l 10 St. Thomas More Food Pantry | (603) 781-0945 | [email protected] l l l 10 ELIOT Raitt Homestead Farm Museum | (207) 748-3303 | [email protected] l 11 EXETER Girls on the Run New Hampshire | (603) 778-1389 | [email protected] l l 11 St. Michael Parish | (603) 772-2494 x209 | [email protected] l l l l 11 GREENLAND Great Bay Discovery Center | (603) 778-0015 | [email protected] l l l 12 New Generation | (603) 436-4989 | [email protected] l l l 12 HAMPTON Executive Service Corps | (603) 926-0752 | [email protected] l l 12 Hampton Community Coalition | (603) 926-4936 | [email protected] l l l l l l 12 LifeWise Community Projects, Inc. | (603) 929-0832 | [email protected] l l l l l 12 4 GIVE BACK | 2015 © Hawthorn Creative | FOR PROOFING ONLY UNITED WAY HOLIDAY GUIDE 5 QUICK 2015) 21, (Nov. QUICK 2015) 21, (Nov. FINDER FINDER Please contact the agency you wish to assist to be sure that the need or volunteer Please contact the agency you wish to assist to be sure that the need or volunteer opportunity is still current and to inform them of your interest in helping. opportunity is still current and to inform them of your interest in helping. Adopt-A-Family Food Items Items Child/Teen Adult Items Gift Certificates Needs Agency Other Needs Volunteer November Opportunities December Volunteer Opportunities Day Volunteer National Family Page Number Adopt-A-Family Food Items Items Child/Teen Adult Items Gift Certificates Needs Agency Other Needs Volunteer November Opportunities December Volunteer Opportunities Day Volunteer National Family Page Number HAMPTON (CONT’D.) PORTSMOUTH (CONT’D.) Safer (Seacoast Area Feline Education & Rescue, Inc.) | (603) 929-4975 | [email protected] l l 12 Operation Blessing | (603) 430-8561 | [email protected] l l l l l 22 St. Vincent de Paul Hampton | (603) 929-4427 | [email protected] l l l l l l 13 Portsmouth Music and Arts Center | (603) 431-4278 | [email protected] l l l l 22 KINGSTON Pro Portsmouth, Inc. | (603) 433-4398 x4 | [email protected] l l 22 Kingston Children’s Center | (603) 642-3200 | [email protected] l l l 13 Rockingham Community Action | (603) 431-2911 | [email protected] l l l l l l l 22 Kingston Food Pantry | (603) 642-3342 x5 | [email protected] l l l l l l l 13 The Salvation Army of Portsmouth | (603) 436-2606 | [email protected] l l l l l l l l l l 22 KITTERY Seacoast Adopt-A-Block | (603) 988-2671 | [email protected] l l l l l l 23 | (207) 439-0115 | [email protected] l l Fair Tide | (207) 439-6376 | [email protected] l l l l l l l 13 Seacoast Community Church Food Pantry 23 l l l l LEE Seacoast Community School | (603) 422-8223 | [email protected] 23 Seacoast Family Food Pantry | (603) 436-6161 | [email protected] l l l l l 23 Growing Places | (603) 868-1335 | [email protected] l l l 14 Southern NH Services/Portsmouth Adult Education Program | (603) 422-8233 | [email protected] l l l 23 NEWFIELDS Strawbery Banke Museum | (603) 828-2979 | [email protected] l l 23 Seacoast Santa of New Hampshire | (603) 767-0522 | [email protected] l l l l l l l 14 ROCHESTER NEWINGTON Cornerstone VNA | (603) 332-1133 x203 | [email protected] l 24 Great Bay Services | (603) 436-2014 | [email protected] l l l l 14 Gerry’s Emergency Food Pantry | (603) 330-3468 | [email protected] l l 24 NEWMARKET Homeless Center for Strafford County | (603) 332-3065 | [email protected] l l l l l l l l l 25 Lamprey Healthcare | (603) 659-2494 | [email protected] l l 15 The Homemakers Health Services | (603) 335-1770 | [email protected] l l l l l 25 Linked Together | (603) 659-6871 | [email protected] l 15 Monarch School of New England | (603) 332-2848 | [email protected] l l 25 NORTHWOOD Rochester Child Care Center | (603) 332-9333 | [email protected] l l l l l 25 Ready Rides Volunteer Driving Organization | (603) 244-8719 | [email protected] l l 15 Rochester Opera House | (603) 332-2211 | [email protected] l l l 25 NOTTINGHAM Rochester Recreation & Arena | (603) 332-4120 | [email protected] l 25 NH Seacoast Project Linus | (603) 659-5613 | [email protected] l l 15 Rochester School Department | (603) 332-3678 | [email protected] l l l l l 26 PORTSMOUTH Strafford County Family Justice Center | (603) 509-1916 | [email protected] l l l l l 26 A Safe Place and SASS | (603) 436-4107 | [email protected] l 20 Tri-City Consumers’ Action Cooperative | (603) 948-1043 | [email protected] l l 26 AIDS Response Seacoast | (603) 433-5377 | [email protected] l l l l l 20 Victims, Inc. | (603) 335-7777 | [email protected] l 26 Arts In Reach | (603) 433-4278 | [email protected] l 20 RYE Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire | (603) 430-1140 | [email protected] l 20 Webster at Rye | (603) 964-8144 x258 | [email protected] l l l l l l l 26 The Chase Home for Children | (603) 436-2216 x113 | [email protected] l l l l l l l l l 20 SEABROOK City of Portsmouth | (603) 610-4433 | [email protected] l l 20 Seabrook Community Table | (603) 781-7992 | [email protected] l l l l l 27 Community Toolbox, Inc.