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Welcome to RochesterCares!

RochesterCares makes it easy for you to make a difference. Every month, RochesterCares' volunteers serve with dozens of community-based agencies and non-profit organizations throughout the Greater Rochester area. Our partner agencies offer volunteers a wide assortment of flexible volunteer opportunities for individuals, families and corporate and community groups.

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Below is a wonderful poem Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her ‘beauty tips.’ It was read at her funeral years later.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn pencil sketch (artist unknown)

~ Recent Events ~

Dazzle (July 26, 2011)
Dazzle School ofVisual and Performing Arts is a non-profit agency in Rochester which provides services to children with disabilities and their families. Its dance, music, drama, visual art, fashion design, and script writing educational programs service racially, economically, and developmentally diverse audience of physically and mentally disabled youth and adults in the area. Volunteers helped clear out and clean up a recently purchased, soon-to-be dance studio and educational space.  

The Fast & The Furriest (June 11, 2011)
The Verona Street Animal Shelter (VAS) is dedicated to providing the resources necessary to enable Rochester Animal Services to more effectively serve the public’s animal care and control, pet sterilization, and pet adoption interests and, in cooperation with the City of Rochester, to support the mission of Rochester Animal Services. RochesterCares volunteers were in full force early Saturday morning, which turned out to be a great day for a run!

Thanks to all of our animal-friendly volunteers - our furry friends appreciate all your support for this terrific annual event!

PICK UP THE PARKS (April 9th, 2011)
RochesterCares has been invited to participate in the Pick Up The Parks program sponsored by Monroe County Parks.
This event, in its second year, is partnering with Sunnking Electronics to do a concurrent electronics recycling drive. Participants can dispose of their unwanted electronics for free (usually a $5 charge). Volunteers will be expected to help pick up debris and otherwise beautify the parks after the winter melt. The event will be held on April 9th from 9am until noon at the following locations: Mendon Ponds, Black Creek, Ellison, Seneca Park, Genesee Valley and Ontario Beach.

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