Opportunities for Volunteering

Project Caring, a program run by the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, needs small groups of volunteers to adopt nursing homes. The volunteers make monthly visits, bringing a program of Jewish culture to the residents. For details, call (818) 318-3996.

The San Fernando Valley chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America needs volunteers to help with special events or with general office administration. Volunteers are needed for envelope stuffing and addressing, making phone calls and prize solicitations. For more information, call (818) 999-0448.

Burbank’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program needs volunteers 55 years and older for Glendale Adventist Hospital’s Goodwill Ambassadors program. Volunteers spend four hours a day attending to hospital patients by playing checkers or card games, helping them read and write letters or shopping for them in the hospital gift shop. They also bring them newspapers, magazines, videotapes and snacks. Volunteers must make at least a six-month commitment. For more information, call (818) 238-5370.