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Local nonprofits are eager for good volunteers and stand ready to help you find meaningful opportunities. Learn about the kinds of opportunities available. Get help, if you like, in choosing one. Then use our search engine to find opportunities that are just right for you! Note: volunteering is good for you! Recent studies show it can help you live a longer, healthier, and more satisfying life!

Find Your 50+ Volunteer Opportunity Here... Now!

Local agencies stand ready with an array of  opportunities.   Check out our volunteering search engine.  Easy to use.  And every opportunity is one the listing agency has said is a good 50+ match.

Volunteer with a Coming of Age Program

Intergenerational volunteering your thing?   Volunteer with a Center for Intergenerational Learning  program.   Intrigued by broadcasting?  Try WHYY.  Or AARP Pennsylvania with great 50+ opportunities!

Even More Ways to Find Volunteer Opportunities!

We’ve heard from lots of people 50+ who say how much they appreciate having options.  So… here are some more resources to help you seek— and find— the right volunteer opportunity for you.

Volunteer Video Vignettes: Stories of Local People Who Are Giving Back… and Loving It!

Arthur Horbach is a “Mr. Wizard” for The Franklin Institute; Frances Williams helps improve our environment; Neilson Gendelman plays chess as a way to mentor.  All doing good… and feeling great about it!

How to Find the Volunteer Opportunity
That’s Right for You

Use this article to guide you through the process of selecting a volunteer opportunity.  It will help ensure the choice you make is right for you.

Profiles in Sharing
Philadelphia Area Volunteers

Some of those profiled here found meaning in unexpected places. For others volunteering was born of commitments made early in life.  But each story provides a unique answer to "Why volunteer?"

Are We What Survives Us?

In this intriguing essay, Coming of Age Volunteering Guide Andrea Taylor, drawing on the life stories of local volunteers, explores some of the deeper meaning to be realized from 50+ volunteering.

Local Volunteer Takes Senior Glee Club to New Heights

While Simon Cowell is scowling, Selma Savitz is smiling. "Senior American Idol" is the new program to be presented by Savitz’s New Horizons Glee Club. 
                                                                                                                  

Posted by Greg Pizzoli

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Helping Mommy's Light Live On

A local nonprofit embraces the healing power of continuing traditions for children who have lost their mothers.

Posted by Lauren Hansen-Flaschen

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Reinventing Aging This link takes you to a PDF document.

 Some people look at the 77 million baby boomers and worry about all the medical and social resources they will need as they approach the traditional age of retirement.  But this Harvard study released in 2004  says boomers — who are expected to live longer and healthier lives than their parents — can become an unprecedented resource if they are mobilized as community volunteers.  Pressed for time? Read a USA Today article about the report.

Posted by Dick Goldberg

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