These are some of the many current volunteer opportunities around the Stateline area. If any of these volunteer opportunities interest you, feel free to register yourself as a volunteer and indicate your interest and you will be contacted by our agency within two business days:

Beloit Regional Hospice

The Beloit Regional Hospice is offering Volunteer Training for prospective workers. The training program offers end-of-life education and runs for 8 weeks. Some of the topics covered are: communication and family dynamics, active listening, spirituality, pain and symptom management, dying, death and the grieving process.

Junior Achievement of Rock County                       

Junior Achievement of Rock County is looking for volunteers to help children at Gaston and Morgan Elementary, grades 1-5, with hands-on classroom activities. Volunteer dates and times are flexible, but fall into the normal school hours.

CASA of Rock County

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) are needed in Rock County. CASA volunteers are dedicated individuals who help guide foster children through the legal system. CASA volunteers maintain weekly contacts with their foster child and monthly contacts with all social workers, school personal, and mental health providers.

Boys and Girls Club of Beloit 

The Boys and Girls Club is looking for volunteers to spend time/play with children ages 6-18 any Monday through Friday from 2:30 – 8 p.m.  Assistance can range from homework help to computer lab aid/network, poms, sports, to just helping out.

Stateline Literacy Council

The Stateline Literacy Council is in need of tutors to help Stateline adults improve reading skills as well as over-all English proficiency. English as a Second Language (ESL) Training is provided numerous time of the year. Tutors do not need to know how to speak Spanish to help someone learn English.

Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful – Rockton, Roscoe     

Every Saturday volunteers are needed at the Recycling Center in Roscoe. Shifts are only 1 1/2 hours long . Volunteers work once every 6-8 weeks or based on their availability.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters

Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Rock and Walworth County are in need of volunteers to mentor children ages 6-14 years of age. Volunteers will determine their own times; schedules are very flexible. Volunteers need to have a car, valid auto insurance and  driver’s license. Training and orientation are provided. Lunch Buddies meet at the child's school one day a week during the child's lunch time. They do not meet the child any other time. This is a great opportunity for volunteers who are very busy but still want to be a mentor to a child.

Voluntary Action Center

The Voluntary Action Center is looking for volunteers to help with its non-profit grant writing center. Volunteers should be good writers, with time to commit to the grant writing process. Past grant writing experience a plus, but training is also available. The VAC office can also use volunteers for occasional clerical help and special projects.

The United Arts Alliance – Janesville

The United Arts Alliance is a coalition of individuals, artists and nonprofit arts organizations serving the Rock County area. It is in need of individuals who support, encourage, and/or would like to participate in the arts to help with the organization and implementation of local performances and exhibits, as well as planning and other activities. All ages of volunteers welcome!

Janesville/Rock Valley Project Linus

Project Linus is a 100% volunteer nationwide organization whose year-round mission is to provide children suffering any type of trauma with new, handmade blankets for comfort and security. This chapter serves an area bounded by Jefferson, Whitewater, Beloit, and Monroe providing blankets to over 20 facilities such as hospitals, shelters, schools, charities, hospice, and emergency responders. Volunteer blanket-makers work according to their own schedules and may be provided yarn and/or material necessary for blanket making upon request.

Beloit Public Library  

The Beloit Public Library is looking for new participants for its Adopt-a-Shelf program. Volunteers are needed to place books in a specific area of the library on the appropriate shelf in the proper order and do some light dusting.  Three orientation sessions are scheduled for 2008, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.  Sessions will be held at the Beloit Public Library in the upstairs meeting room on February 25, May 13, and September 10.   The Library is also looking for new participants for its Homebound Program delivery service. Volunteers are needed about once every six weeks to deliver and return library materials to customers in Beloit who are unable to visit the library due to age or physical disability.

Beloit Fine Arts Incubator

The Beloit Fine Arts Incubator is looking for a volunteer to help cover hours of operation.  General tasks include greeting customers, answering phones and gift shop sales.  At times the BFAI may have mailings and could use help with folding, stuffing envelopes and applying postage.

Hackett School – Kids Club

Combining elements of two former programs (the Bobby Program and Hackett After School), Kids Club is looking for volunteers to work one on one with students on math and reading skills.  Individuals can work one day a week, either from 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. or from 12:30 – 2 p.m.

Caritas                                                           

Caritas needs volunteers on the morning shift, 9:30 - 11:30 am, to hang donated clothing in the Clothing Room and to serve as Clothing Room Hosts/Hostesses. The afternoon shift, from 12:30 - 2:30 pm, needs volunteers to pack groceries for Food Pantry clients. Caritas also needs drivers with larger vehicles (vans or pickups) to help transport food to the Food Pantry when needed.

Beloit Meals on Wheels                                     

Beloit Meals on Wheels is looking for reliable, caring people, with valid drivers licenses, to pick up meals from the office on Public Ave. and deliver them to a provided list of addresses.  Meals on Wheels is also looking for volunteers, on a regular basis, to call and remind volunteers of their scheduled meal delivery times and locations.  This activity can be done from your home and takes only about an hour of your time.

Alzheimer’s Support Center – Janesville                 

Volunteers are needed for general office work in 2-4-hour shifts; even once a month volunteers can be accommodated. Training is provided.

AIDS Network

The Aids Network is in need of volunteers to answer phones and commit to agency outreach projects.

Beloit Domestic Violence Center

The Beloit Domestic Violence Center invites Beloit area residents to volunteer at the Center.  We have need for qualified individuals to assist our staff with children’s activity/educational groups, twice weekly.  Other projects include: occasional clean-up, painting, sorting and organizing donations, yard work, and minor repairs.  Times and schedules are flexible.

Scoville Senior Center                              

Scoville Senior Center is in need of volunteers to help residents move in and out of assisted living, as well as help in transporting residents to and from doctor’s appointments.  Some residents need help getting their apartments ready for quarterly inspections and others need help grocery shopping because they have difficulty reading the labels.  Servers are also needed for the center’s lunch program.

Welty Environmental Center and Friends of the WEC

Welty Environmental Center and the Friends of Welty Environmental Center offer you many things to do to help others learn more about the outdoors and, in the process, assist those who aid them in doing so.  You can assist with programs or lead one.  You could fill receptionist and/or clerical positions at the Center or help with building maintenance.  Those with technical, computer, or writing skills could design and produce promotional items, write feature articles for the Warbler and for public media, or help the center improve its public relations efforts.  Still others could assist with business and development matters.

City of Beloit Adopt-a-Park Program                 

The City of Beloit uses volunteer help in these areas: perennial and annual flower bed planting and care, litter removal, stream bank cleanup, assistance with special community events, office assistance at the senior center, performance of community surveys, studies and research of parks and leisure services related topics, Adopt-A-Highway litter removal program, and participation in Friends of the Parks organizations. 

SMILES (Special Methods in Learning Equine Skills)

SMILES is a center where individuals with disabilities learn about how to care for and ride horses. Normally, volunteers will act as side handlers, assisting the center’s staff handling horses while special education groups or individuals come into the center.  Other volunteer needs are for barn work, horse handlers, and other miscellaneous jobs.

Angel Museum

An historic location with an historic collection, The Angel Museum of Beloit has an ongoing need for volunteers in these areas: greeting visitors, serving food in the café for special events and tours, gardeners (spring, summer and fall), custodial and handyman positions, and individuals with computer skills to assist with data entry.

***If any of these volunteer opportunities interest you, feel free to register yourself as a volunteer and you will be contacted by our agency within two business days.