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Connect to the heart of volunteerism through VMC
Your gift helps us...
Comfort a homebound senior. For 20 years and counting, our Friendship at Heart volunteers bring much needed companionship to our elderly with frequent visits and phone calls.
Encourage a young student to give back to the community. Students from grade school through college are sorting and distributing at food banks, cleaning up rivers and parks, tutoring young and old, assisting in animal shelters, and so much more. VMC’s comprehensive Youth Directory is a vital resource to parents, schools, youth organizations, and scouting groups. Our group placement advisor adds that personal touch to make perfect matches!
Connect local nonprofits so they can share knowledge, better business practices, useful tools and services. Their shared successes, challenges, and needs bring improved community cooperation and collaboration.
Teach nonprofit board leadership—from policy implementation and roles and responsibilities to fiscal planning and fund raising—so agencies are better prepared to face the 21st century.
Whatever your cause, your dollars go a long way at VMC
to help repair the world and build community.
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We Have a Present for You! We're Making Volunteer  Matches Easier and More Personalized!
“Now, more than ever, volunteers are an indispensable anchor of every community’s infrastructure” - Volunteering in America. VMC is at the very heart of connecting volunteers and organizations to serve our community needs. As we continue to bring you the best possible tools and resources, we also strive to make the process easier and more efficient so you spend less time searching and more time volunteering.
Along the way, we also discovered that not everything can become automated. And so, thanks to better staffing and an increase in volunteers, VMC is now able to offer you more complete volunteer-match services. What does this mean? No more hours spent posting (and reposting) on line. No more lost passwords. No more endless searches. No more tedious follow-up.
In order to make a smooth transition to our new search engine, we need to start fresh with your information. If you are an agency seeking volunteers, click on the yellow box to the right, fill out our Volunteer Opportunity Form, and simply email or fax it to us.
If you are an individual looking to volunteer, click on the blue box to the right to start your volunteer search.
Personalized assistance for both volunteers and agencies is available from Leslie Lebow. Call her at 973-538-7200 ext. 13 or e-mail her at llebow@vmcnj.org. After all, the right volunteer-agency “match” works best with that human touch!
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Happy Birthday VMC!
VMC is turning 39 but remains young at heart with continued service to all ages throughout Northern and Central New Jersey. Please celebrate with us and support our ongoing programs by making a donation today. Every contribution, big or small, makes a difference and allows us to fulfill our mission to purposefully connect volunteers and organizations to meet our community needs. Why not consider a dollar (or more) for each year? Click here to make our birthday wishes come true.
Thank you for your support!
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Young Volunteers Wanted!
 Are you looking for something beyond the textbooks and the classroom? Why not volunteer your time and talents! Take on new roles and responsibilities, gain workplace experience, demonstrate initiative for college applications, and make a difference in your community.
VMC's Youth Directory lists 55 nonprofit agencies that welcome young volunteers. Whether you're 6 or 16, VMC has a volunteer opportunity for you!
Click here for our Youth Directory.
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Agencies Wanted!
Are you a nonprofit agency in need of volunteers? Why not tap into the wonderful talents and enthusiasm of our youth? Simply register your opportunity with VMC and we will do the rest to help engage young people who are eager to explore career paths, develop leadership skills, and give back to their communities. Everyone will benefit and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that these young volunteers could be tomorrow’s leaders. Please tell us about your volunteer project by registering under Agencies in the yellow box to the right. For more information or if you are interested in becoming a part of our Youth Directory, please contact Leslie Lebow at (973) 538-7200 ext. 13 or email her at llebow@vmcnj.org.
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Changing Nonprofits - Are You the Missing Link?
 VMC works to change the way non-profits do business through our CHAIN program, that links charities serving similar causes. The CHAIN program helps nonprofits maximize their resources (especially skilled and leadership volunteers) and minimize their expenses.
Our Healthy Living and Women's Health and Safety CHAINs are up and running, and we are looking forward to building CHAINs for environmental groups, youth at risk, immigration,affordable childcare, hunger, homelessness, education alternatives...and more. Call or email us to find out how your company can sponsor the CHAIN of your choice.
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