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January 7, 2000/29 Tevet 5760, Vol. 52, No.18
Non-profits seeking volunteersVolunteers are being sought by a number of non-profit organizations in the Valley - and even by the IRS.The Internal Revenue Service is seeking volunteers to assist people who need help completing their tax returns. Those assisted through the IRS program include older, disabled and non-English-speaking people. An accounting background, computer skills and the ability to speak Spanish are helpful but not necessary. The IRS provides volunteers with free tax law instruction and all the materials necessary. Volunteers are asked to donate three hours per week from Feb. 1 through April 14, 2000. Call Bea Rodriquez, IRS volunteer coordinator for Arizona, at 602-207-8620. The Alzheimer's Association, meanwhile, needs volunteers to help with office work and Helpline calls at its central Phoenix office. Mesa Public Library needs volunteers for its "Battle of the Books" program, which promotes reading among children in fifth and sixth grades through an interschool competition. Several people who previously volunteered to help with the program have dropped out. The program may have to be shelved if the volunteers are not replaced. Volunteers are needed to travel to various Mesa elementary schools during the school week, organize competitions in the schools three times during the year, and assist in checking in and processing books. Needed by Mesa Public Library by Wednesday, Jan. 12, are game day facilitators. These people volunteer on Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. They work as a two-person team that oversees weekly game days at the main library branch for children ages 10 to 18. The Mesa library also needs a driver to volunteer for four hours once a month to deliver and pick up books and discarded library materials. This person also will unload, shelve and repack books. Call 480-644-2738. |
