Adult Basic
Literacy Program (SDS)
Address: 401 Greensboro Street
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Dr. Joan Butler
Phone: 615-0033
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers
help tutor adults with reading and learning disabilities
Website: NA
Aiken Village Preschool (Child Care Center)
Address: Wallace Circle Building 20
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Carol Jones
Phone: 325-3909
Volunteer Duties: Help watch and play with the children as
well as help with the upkeep of the facilities and playground area.
Website: http://www.earlychildhood.msstate.edu
American Red Cross
Address: 501 Hwy 12 West
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Becky Wilkes
Phone: 323-4621
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help raise money, donate blood,
work in the county office arranging supplies, and help them advertise.
Website: http://www.oktibbeharedcross.org/
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mississippi
Address: 303 McKee St.
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact:
Phone: 299-5849
Volunteer Duties: Volunteer mentors encourage, support and spending time with children between the ages of 5-15 on a regular basis.
Website: www.bbbsms.org
Boys and Girls Club of Oktibbeha
County
Address: 911 Lynn Lane
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: NA
Phone: 615-9980
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help develop and run after-school
programs as well as tutoring programs. They also help maintain the building
and play areas.
Website: NA
Boy Scouts of America / Camp Seminole
Address: 2244 Suncreek Road
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Young Kirby (young@exceedtech.net)
Phone: 324-3637
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help maintain and rehabilitate
camp facilities as well as aid in the construction of new facilities.
Website: http://www.campseminole.org/
Brickfire - African American Cultural Society
Address: 143 Westside Drive
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Helen Taylor, CEO
Phone: 323-5321
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help preschool and kindergarten
children with reading and developing learning skills, as well as after school
assistance with tutoring and mentoring school age children.
Email: pbrickfire@hotmail.com
Care Ministries of the Blind
Address: 321 University Dr.
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: B. J. LeJune
Phone: 323-4999
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help sight challenged people accomplish
their daily tasks and may also help transport them around town. (Currently
in transition period.)
Website: NA
Columbus-Lowndes Association for Handicapped Citizens
Address: 1201 Main Street
Columbus,
MS 39701
Contact: Connie Tilley
Phone: 327-0032
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers give non-direct care through
special projects to citizens with disabilities who have various needs.
Website: NA
Emerson Family School (SDS)
Address: 1504 Louisville Street
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Susan Fulgham
Phone: 324-4155
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help set up after-school programs
and assist in running them as well as help tutoring at-risk students.
Website: NA
Family Centered Programs Mentoring (SDS)
Address: 401 Greensboro Street
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Dr. Joan Butler
Phone: 615-0033
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help tutor and mentor young
people in the community as well as working with adults on literacy issues.
There are also needs within the preschool programs that cater to children
ages 6 weeks to 5 years.
Website: NA
Girl Scouts
of NE Mississippi
Address: Regional Office
P.O.
Box 1087
Tupelo,
MS 38802
Contact: Elmarie Brooks
Phone: 328-1930
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help maintain scout camp, ranging
from cutting grass and pulling weeds to painting campsites and posting signs.
This group will also need help with merit badge programs in the Strakville
area.
Website: www.girlscoutsnems.org
Habitat
for Humanity
Address: P.O. Box 784
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Freddie Rasberry
Phone: 324-7008
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help raise money as well as
help in the actual constuction of homes for financially challenged citizens.
Website: http://www.starkvillehabitat.com/
Heart to Heart
Hospice
Address: 100 Russell Street Suite 7
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Emily Oglesby
Phone: 615-1519
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help terminally ill patients
make the most of their end of life time by allowing them to be able to stay
at home. The patients live life to the fullest their health will allow. This
could mean playing checkers, reading, going fishing, shopping, going for an
afternoon drive, planting flowers, gardening, telling old stories, but mainly
just being there to listen. There are many patients in the Starkville and
surrounding areas that would love a volunteer to just share a small amount
of their time a month with them. If anyone has a willing heart and a little
time on their hands Heart to Heart Hospice would love to hear from them.
Website: http://www.heart2hearthospice.com
Mississippi
Early Literacy Corps
Address: P.O. Box 6013
42
Blackjack Road
Mississippi
State, MS 39762
Contact: Tina Sweeten
Phone: 325-2138
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers work with children ages 3-5
in the areas of language and literacy. They would like the help of volunteers
to read books to some of the AmeriCorps classrooms they have in the Oktibbeha
county area. Currently, Brickfire Project, Aiken Village Preschool, T.K. Martin
Center, and Pep-Connection are all participating with their AmeriCorps program.
If anyone is interested in volunteering, they should contact Lori Cook at
662-325-2138 and she'll set up a time for you to go out to one of these sites
to read to the children. This is an AmeriCorps program housed at the Early
Childhood Institute at MSU. They provide tutors to preschools, head start,
and kindergartens in the eastern counties of MS. The local counties they work
with are Oktibbeha, Monroe, Clay, and Lee, but have sites from Tupelo to Forrest,
MS.
Website: http://www.educ.msstate.edu/cni/eci/
Oktibbeha County 4-H
Address: 106 Felix Long Drive
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: LaTrell Stokes
Phone: 323-5916
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help with a wide variety of
after-school programs as well as help the children on their 4-H projects,
tutoring, shearing sheep, and constructing fences. There are also livestock
shows, county fairs, and other special events that utilize volunteers.
Website: http://www.msucares.com
Oktibbeha County Humane Society
Address: 510 Industrial Park Road
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Delisa Simmons or Dr. Wall (dew1@ps.msstate.edu)
Phone: 338-9093 or 325-7864
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help shelter workers walk animals, clean
stalls, feed and give water to animals, as well as to help maintain the facilities.
There are also opportunities to assist with Humane Education programs and
the newsletter, as well as assist with the supply drive at the shelter.
Website: http://www.msstate.edu/org/humane/
Palmer Children's
Home
Address: 912 11th Ave. South
Columbus,
MS 39701
Contact: Jeff Miller
Phone: 328-5704
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help tutor and mentor children
in all subjects as well as helping to maintain and beautify the school and
grounds.
Website: NA
Recovery House
Address: P.O. Box 2590
Columbus,
MS 39704
Contact: Stephanie Johnson & Cori Hanson
Phone: 329-4333
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help maintain facilities and
help shelter workers with abused women and children.
Website: NA
Safe Haven
Address: P.O. Box 5354
Columbus,
MS 39704
Contact: Gail McDaniels
Phone: 327-6040
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help work with abused women
and children, help tutor children, and help women with learning job skills.
Potential task include taking abused women to job interviews and doctors appointments.
Website: NA
Sally Kate Winters Memorial Children's Home
Address: P.O. Box 1233
West
Point, MS 39773
Contact: Kris Shamblin
Phone: 494-4867
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help tutor children as well
as working in pre-established after-school program as well as helping maintain
and beautify site.
Website: http://www.sallykatewinters.org
Salvation Army - Columbus
Address: P.O. Box 8
Columbus,
MS 39703
Contact: Capt. Bert Lind
Phone: 327-5137
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help sort items for the thrift
store and food pantry as well as working at sites to help maintain facitilies.
In addition, volunteers are needed to help with kettle collections during
holidays, collect food for the panty, and collect clothing and other items
for the thrift store.
Website: NA
Salvation Army - Starkville
Address: 501 Hwy 12 West
(P.O.
Box 752)
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: BJ Andol
Phone: 324-3304
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers are needed to help with kettle collections
during holidays (31 days a year), collect food for the pantry, and collect
clothing and other items for the thrift store in addition to helping with
the organization of the store. Volunteer hours are Monday through Friday from
9 AM – 5 PM. Volunteers are allowed 8 hours of volunteering. If more
hours are desired, volunteers can become permanent with a background check.
Website: NA
Smiles Learning Center
Address: 128 Old West Point Road
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Eva Smith
Phone: 324-5940
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help preschoolers learn to read
as well as work on developing learning skills.
Website: NA
Starkville Manor Nursing Home
Address: P.O. Box 1466
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Dawn Hunt
Phone: 323-6360
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers help with patients by reading,
playing games, and socializing with them.
Website: NA
United Way of North Central MS
Address: 600 Hogan Street Suite 2D
(P.O.
Box 1603)
Starkville,
MS 39759
Contact: Jerry King
Phone: 323-3830 (unwayoky@stargtr.org)
Volunteer Duties: Volunteers usually help raise money in
addition to helping with any of the activities the United Way works on throughout
the year. Potential task could be the design and maintenance of their already
existing website.
Website: http://www.unitedwayncms.org/
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