Your Donations Can Make Wishes Come True
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2015-2016 COMMUNITY Rochester’sWishbook Charity Giving Guide Your donations can make wishes come true. “Wish Lists” of more than 180 Local Agencies Indexed for easy reference! Items needed: page 31 Volunteers needed: page 36 Made possible by: V B MESSENGER POST MEDIA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES www.communitywishbook.org 2 COMMUNITY WISHBOOK 2015-2016 www.communitywishbook.org COMMUNITY Your donationsWishbook can make wishes come true. The Community Wishbook is a guide to the needs of more than 180 charitable organizations in Rochester and the surrounding area. It includes each charity’s contact information, purpose, wish list and volunteer needs. Individuals, groups, or businesses can use the Wishbook to find charities that need their donated items or volunteer help. For updates throughout the year, see the Wishbook website at www.communitywishbook.org. A special thanks to our sponsors, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Van Bortel and Messenger Post Media (publisher of Post Newspapers) for their many years of support in bringing the Wishbook to you. The Community Wishbook USING THE WISHBOOK... originated in 1966 by the Volunteer Forum and the American Red 1. Find your favorite charity to see if they need your donated items or volunteer skill — OR Cross. The Junior League of use one of the Index sections to find an agency that needs what you have to offer. Check the agency's information in the alphabetical Agency Listings for details. Rochester Inc. (JLR) took over the reins of the Wishbook in 1985. 2. To volunteer, search the Volunteers Needed Index for the category that matches your From 1993 through 1996, the JLR interest, skill or talent. Use the alphabetical Agency Listings to find the contact person at the collaborated with the Greater charity. Call or email the contact person directly to apply for the volunteer position or to get Rochester Section of the National more information. Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) 3. If you have items to donate, search the Items Needed Index to find charities that need them. in organizing the Wishbook. Again, use the alphabetical Agency Listings to find the contact person at the agency, and call or email that person directly to make arrangements for delivery or pickup. Please be sure that Since 1999, Nona and Jim Maurer, all donated items are clean, useable, and do not have any missing pieces or pages (puzzles, community volunteers, have games, books, etc.) Contributions are tax deductible to the extent the law allows. (Include assumed responsibility for your name and address.) producing the Wishbook. They have contacted the agencies 4. Please let the charity know that the match was made using the Wishbook. There is no and organized the information charge to the charities for any of the Wishbook services, but we (and they) would appreciate for this year's edition. knowing the Wishbook is working for them. 5. Wishbook information is also available online at www.communitywishbook.org. Online For more information about listings are updated as changes are received from the charities. You can search online by item, the Wishbook, please visit by volunteer need, or by agency to help make a difference at any time during the year. www.communitywishbook.org. Thank you for your support of local charities! Messenger Post Media is proud to sponsor this important resource because it helps our community help itself. By donating time, materials and resources to the charities listed in the Community Wishbook, we assist our neighbors in facing up to and overcoming challenges. In short, we help strengthen our community. A little help, a little strength, will bring lots of smiles. www.communitywishbook.org AGENCY LISTINGS COMMUNITY WISHBOOK 2015-2016 3 A Meal & More, Inc. Alzheimer's Association wish list tambourines 25 Broadway 435 East Henrietta Road cash, check, and credit card donations tickets, passes to events, Rochester, NY 14607-1701 Rochester, NY 14620 cleaning supplies: laundry detergent (HE), movies, attractions Phone: (585) 454-3878 Phone: (585) 760-5418 dryer sheets, bleach, Clorox wipes, toilet travel mugs, water bottles Contact: Patti Blaine Contact: Mary Walker brushes, trash bags, 13- and 30-gallon volunteers needed Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] size, liquid dishwasher detergent Drivers to pick up and deliver blood, www.amealandmore.org www.alz.org/rochesterny copy paper (white, colors) driver/navigator couples welcome. Provides nutritious midday meals and Mission: to eliminate Alzheimer’s electric broom Warehouse assemblers to pre-assemble caring friendship to needy people in a disease through the advancement of gas cards, gift cards: Tops, Wegmans, supplies needed at blood drives. safe environment every Wednesday and research, to provide and enhance care Walmart, Target, Sam’s Club Blood drive volunteers, hosts and Sunday at Christ Church, downtown. and support for all affected, and to gift certificates, dinner sponsors, Blood drive greeters reduce the risk of dementia through wish list (door ambassadors). the promotion of brain health. grocery-store items: bottled water, food items: canned kidney beans, cream bags of hard candy and lollipops, coffee, Clerical: filing, data entry, collating, volunteers needed of mushroom soup, pasta (penne, ziti), tea, dry creamer, sugar, toilet paper, folding. dried beans (green and yellow split peas, Telephone support network making paper towels, boxes of tissues, napkins For more information contact Laurie white beans, brown and green lentils), follow-up calls to families and caregivers handsoap (pump), hand and skin lotion MacFarlane at 760-5547 or visit www. rice, egg noodles, chicken and beef stock under supervision. Calls are made on site. redcross.org/volunteer. (32- 46 oz. cans), crushed and whole Training provided. Commitment of two office supplies Italian tomatoes (28- 35oz. cans), French times/month. toiletries (travel size) and ranch salad dressings, BBQ sauce, Facilitate a support group for caregivers, volunteers needed Angel Care Ministry of coffee, 100% juices (large), cider, large friends and families of people with Office support. St. Marianne Cope Parish quantities of frozen meats (esp. ground dementia or for people with Alzheimer’s Assist with housekeeping needs. 3318 East Henrietta Road beef), boxed stuffing disease. Groups meet once each month. Assist with and/or plan and implement Henrietta, NY 14467 monetary donations Training provided; background check fundraising events. Phone: (585) 321-0236 personal care items (travel-size) is required. Assist with activity calendar for Contact: Noreen Mancini restaurant-grade kitchen appliances and Collaborate with chapter staff in creating, guest events. Email: [email protected] equipment: e.g. convection oven, food managing and providing outreach for Host a dinner for the guests Assists mothers in financial difficulty by processor, etc. social/activity programs. Training of Hope Lodge. providing new portable baby beds for volunteers needed provided; background check is required. their newborn babies. Provides new and gently-used baby items upon request. Soup kitchen: help with set up, prepare Assist at local health fairs by setting up American Red Cross Referrals are made by social workers, case and serve meals, clean up. displays and distributing materials. New York-Penn Blood Region workers, and other contacts from various Please call 454-3878 or email volunteer@ Assist by being an advocate to further legislative priorities by sending an email, 825 John Street social agencies, hospitals, etc. that work amealandmore.org to find out about West Henrietta, NY 14586 with new mothers in need. volunteer opportunities. calling, and/or visiting legislators. Also, signing petitions, attending town hall Phone: (585) 760-5547 wish list meetings, attending annual rally day Contact: Laurie MacFarlane baby clothes (new or gently used; Advent House in Albany and volunteering at our Email: [email protected] sizes birth -12 months: all seasons), 1010 Moseley Road annual Walks. www.redcrossblood.org onesies, sleepers, socks, outerwear Fairport, NY 14450 Help in the Memory Gardens with Mission: to fulfill the need of the American baby wipes Phone: (585) 223-6112 spreading mulching, weeding, raking people for the safest possible, most bibs Contact: Glenda Hastings and other physical activity. reliable, most cost-effective blood services Email: theadventhouse@ through voluntary donations. diaper bags frontiernet.net Educators to share information with diaper cream, shampoo, baby wash families. Training provided. wish list www.theadventhouse.org auto organizers, tire gauges disposable diapers (newborn, 1 & 2) A two-bed home caring for the dying Help with Walk preparation, mailings, hooded towels, washcloths team recruitment, kick-off events and birthday cards for adults (new, unused) and their families. No fee is charged. receiving/crib blankets other Walk-related activities during candy, nonperishable wish list peak Walk to End Alzheimer’s season craft supplies: tissue paper, card stock, monetary donations are also welcomed copier paper (July-October). ribbon, bulletin board borders, to help purchase new baby beds gift cards: Wegmans, OfficeMax Help set up, tear down, clean up and be scrapbook supplies volunteers needed grocery-store items: paper towels, route marshals the day of the Walk. digital cameras To work by telephone with a community disposable baby wipes (e.g., Wegmans See our website for other opportunities. display boards, tri-fold agency social