This month marks the beginning of the spring volunteer season! We also celebrate Women's History Month and AmeriCorps Week. Get excited about spring and share your time, talents, and skills with others by volunteering. There are a lot of great ways to get involved with your local community and address some of the City's most pressing needs.

NYC Service News

Celebrating AmeriCorps Week
Each year, AmeriCorps recognizes the service and legacy of its corps members, alumni, and partners during AmeriCorps Week. This year, we celebrate AmeriCorps Week from March 10th to March 18th. The NYC Civic Corps Program, an AmeriCorps program run out of NYC Service, has contributed to the 70,000+ members nationally that serve with local nonprofits, public agencies, schools, and other institutions and entities. To date, AmeriCorps has 775,000 alumni that have served 1 billion hours, mobilized 3.4 million community volunteers, and mentored, tutored, or served 3.5 million disadvantaged youth – all while serving with 15,000 organizations all across the United States. With support from AmeriCorps, the Mayor's Office currently partners with 30 organizations that are leveraging volunteers to impact Capacity Building, Economic Opportunity, Environment Stewardship, Healthy Futures, and Education across the City.

NYC Service thanks all of its NYC Civic Corps alumni and current corps members, present and past host sites, other partnering organizations, and individual champions.

Partner with NYC °CoolRoofs
NYC Service is now accepting proposals for the NYC °CoolRoofs Program. NYC °CoolRoofs, an initative of NYC Service, is a collaboration between the NYC Department of Buildings and NYC Service that promotes and facilitates the cooling of New York City's rooftops. We are currently seeking a well-qualified green jobs workforce organization to help coat one million square feet of rooftop and to manage volunteers for the 2012 coating season. Apply Now.

Exciting opportunities are right around the corner. Share your blank and volunteer today!

Mentors Wanted!
Become a positive role model to Bronx youth! Help young men and women develop positive social skills, set personal goals, and plan for their academic and professional futures. Leake and Watts Services, Inc. is currently seeking adult volunteers to mentor youth participating in various Leake and Watts programs. Mentors will meet one-on-one with mentees and assist in providing support, insight, and direction on a variety of topics. Become a Mentor.

Join Girl Talk at the Police Athletic League (PAL)
PAL's "Girl Talk" is a program designed to help young women ages 11 - 17 develop new friendships, provide volunteer service, and participate in leadership, social etiquette, and educational workshops. Skilled, professional women are needed to volunteer one Thursday evening per month to speak about their careers and individual talents, as well as lead discussion groups on various topics that affect young women today. Sign up to lead a group.

Help New Yorkers Avoid Foreclosure
NYC Service and the City Bar Justice Center are recruiting volunteer attorneys for the Legal Services - Foreclosure initiative. The Lawyers' Foreclosure Intervention Network (LFIN) is a project led by the City Bar Justice Center that has been helping New York City residents facing foreclosure since 2008. The foreclosure crisis has not abated, nor have the challenges homeowners face in trying to keep their homes. Lawyers are needed to represent homeowners in foreclosure settlement conferences and in applying for available loss mitigation options. Training is provided. Register to attend training.

Become a Career Coach
NYC Small Business Services is currently recruiting volunteers to be Career Exploration Coaches. Career Exploration, a component of Scholars at Work, will serve approximately 500 seniors at 10 high schools throughout the five boroughs. Volunteers will assist a staff facilitator from a Workforce1 Center in leading group activities with students including resume development and refinement, mock interviews, job search guidance, articulating career pathways, and mentoring opportunities with professionals and industry experts. Volunteer Now.

Save the Date
The MillionTreesNYC Spring Volunteer Planting Event will take place on Saturday, April 28th. Every planting season, MillionTreesNYC engages enthusiastic, energetic, and environmentally-minded New Yorkers in volunteer tree-planting activities. Join MillionTreesNYC and fellow volunteers to make New York City greener and greater by volunteering to help plant 20,000 trees at parks citywide! Registration will open in late March. View a full list of planting day sites.

Attend the 3rd Annual WEST (Women of Excellence Strength and Tenacity)
On March 31st join members of WEST for their 3rd Annual Women's Conference. Enjoy a full day of workshops and service for both adults and youth. Volunteers are needed to help with registration, workshop logistics, feedback forms, and early-morning set-up on the day of the event. Register for this event.