* Offers free or low-cost educational workshops, applied research projects, and information on food-related topics, from food safety and nutrition to healthy eating on a limited budget.* Offer free or low-cost gardening classes and tours all year long, and opportunities to garden as a volunteer.* Offers information on Composting, Energy Conservation, Recycling, and Sustainable/Alternative Energy in workshops, presentations, articles, and fact sheets.* Provides residential recycling education for Seneca County.* Offers local and county-wide 4-H clubs, after-school 4-H opportunities, connections to 4-H camps, and statewide 4-H activities.

Recruit new volunteers, assists clubs, master preserver and master clothing and textile volunteers.

Showers available for those in need by appointmentVolunteers needed for shower set-up, monitoring and clean-up

Zoo Education Volunteers (Docents) help to guide tours, spotlight animals, and educate the public about environmental issues around the world and at home. Gardening volunteers maintain the gardens on site. Special event volunteers assist with various tasks during the zoo's fundraising events throughout the year

To enhance residents overall quality of life by offering individualized activities tailored to mutual areas of interest between volunteers and residents. Volunteers help wheelchair residents to Sunday services on campus. Volunteers visit with residents.

Volunteers may provide transportation to essential services and appointments, run errands, assist with grocery and personal shopping, or pick up prescriptions, plan a regular phone visit or home visit to provide friendly and supportive listening, prepare/deliver a weekly meal or treat, perform general yard work or light housekeeping, and/or provide respite for caregiver.

Combines a museum, gift shop, community meeting hall and banquet facility.

AgricultureAdvises farmers on: farm business management marketing production practices soil testing pest management land management information for beginning farmers and rural landowners who need assistanceSponsors events to inform youth and adults about farmingMaintains a list of local community supported agriculture (CSA) programs, giving farmers an established market before the production season and consumers a weekly selection of just-harvested foodCollaborates on Finger Lakes LandLink website, http://www.fingerlakeslandlink.org, with listings of farmers needing access to land and landowners wanting their unused acreage farmed. Community Horticulture supports volunteer beautification efforts such as: Tompkins County Beautification Brigade City of Ithaca Citizen Pruners Ithaca Children's Garden Master Gardener Program provides services, including: home gardening classes written information advice on food/flower gardening and landscaping soil testing pest/plant identification services Master Gardeners coordinate the annual spring garden fair and plant sale answer gardening questions via phone or email at [email protected]

Working in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing.

Offers an alternative to a nursing home, hospital, or at-home care for terminally ill persons. Offers 10 beds in private rooms. Open to all regardless of religion, race or financial resources. Residents receive quality care in a home-like environment that includes: 24-hour care as an alternative to nursing home, hospital or at-home care Private bedrooms with cable TV and telephone Home-cooked meals Library and Chapel Open visiting hours for family and friends

Volunteers help the elderly, handicap and low income families with major home repairs such as roof repair, heating, hot water heaters and ramp construction.

Working in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing.

Offers an opportunity for individuals and groups who want to volunteer their time with maintaining the upkeep of the camp, in various ways, such as building or ground maintenance, equipment repair, and more. Individuals and groups can help for a day, a weekend, a week or on an ongoing basis.

Offers various volunteer opportunities available in helping with the construction of homes, helping with the committee, and daytime office work.

Offers a variety of volunteer opportunities who want to help older adults in the community, especially as drivers, patient advocates and home handy men or women.

Offers volunteer opportunities to individuals and groups in home construction, committee, and daytime office work.

Volunteers needed for home building and other tasks. All skills levels welcome.

Builds new homes or purchases old or abandoned homes, renovates them. Future Habitat Homeowners take classes and perform sweat equity while qualifying for a mortgage with a 3rd party lender. Mortgages are 29% of household income. Offers repairs to home owners at modest cost based on income. Offers no interest loan. Also Restore a gently used home goods store with opportunities to donate, volunteer or purchase.

Offers volunteers a variety of opportunities of outdoor education and recreation, such as teaching, help at specific events, trail maintenance, gardening, exhibit construction, receptionist for 2-hr shift on occasional Saturday, snowplow parking lot, assembly bi-monthly newsletter, and other projects at five sites. Volunteers <18 yrs must be accompanied by parent or adult, on case-by-case approval.

Habitat for Humanity helps income-qualified, first-time homebuyers build strength, stability and self-reliance through housing. We build and rehabilitate simple, decent, affordable homes throughout Tompkins and Cortland counties and provide low- or no-interest equivalent mortgages.Accepts applications for homebuyers during specified application periods; call or e-mail for details.Donations of land, vehicles, tools and building materials are accepted.

Hands-on museum participation allows children (and adults) to create their own learning experience and encourages new discoveries about themselves and their world. Memberships available. Birthday parties, scout snoozes, and meetings can be arranged. Gift shop.

Offers programs to help sustain agriculture including information and support where possible in managing pests, pollution prevention, waste and water management, animal husbandry including dairy and livestock production, beekeeping, field/crop management, grape and vegetable crop production, farm business management, and forest and wildlife management.

Habitat for Humanity assists income-eligible homeowners who are impacted by age, disability or family circumstances, with exterior home repairs, improvements, and safety adjustments such as: accessibility ramp construction or repair painting landscaping porch/deck repairs front steps repairseasonal maintenance

Extensive interior or exterior work, including landscaping, performed to alleviate critical health, life and safety issues or code violations for eligible homeowners in need.