About Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason, and Thurston Counties

We connect people with opportunities to serve.

• We manage a centralized system of recruitment and referral for hundreds of nonprofit and public agencies in Lewis, Thurston and Mason counties.
• We promote episodic and short-term volunteer opportunities.
• We promote volunteer opportunities of interest to special populations such as families, youth and seniors.
  

We build the community's capacity for effective, local volunteering.

• We provide volunteer management training and consultation and direct support to organizations that use volunteers.
• We convene and advise professional associations of volunteer leaders.
• We provide training and support for specialized groups of volunteers such as board members.
  

We promote volunteering.

• We raise awareness of volunteering through the media, volunteer fairs, speaker's bureaus and public service announcements
• We create opportunities for public acknowledgement of remarkable volunteers and volunteer teams through award programs and events.
• We educate policy makers and community leaders about the importance of volunteering.

We participate in strategic initiatives that mobilize volunteers to meet community needs.

• We are working with the Long Term Recovery Organizations in all three counties to tackle disaster recovery.
• We are working towards improved youth engagement through volunteerism.
• We are working to attract skilled Baby Boomers to volunteerism at a leadership level.
• We are working with local asset-building coalitions to help low-income families gain and maintain financial stability.