Fair Offers Service Opportunities Today
Members of the UALR campus community may meet with representatives of area nonprofit organizations in need of volunteers at the annual UALR Service Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, Sept. 15, in Ledbetter Hall Rooms A and B at the Donaghey Student Center.
More than 30 nonprofit agencies are expected to send representatives to meet with UALR students, staff, and faculty looking for opportunities to serve their community.
Organizations participating include:
- Lions World Services for the Blind
- Volunteers in Public Schools
- Arkansas Childrens Hospital
- Goodwill Industries
- Camp Aldersgate
- Wildwood Park for the Arts
- Arkansas State Library Service for the Blind
- VA Hospital
- Women & Children First
- Safe Places
- Museum of Discovery
- UALR Children International
- Arkansas Foodbank Network
- Pinnacle Mountain State Park
- Clinton Presidential Center
- Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Pulaski County Youth Services
- Oak Forest United Methodist Church Food Pantry
- Shepherd’s Hope Neighborhood Medical and Dental Clinics
- Office of Attorney General Dustin McDaniel
- Heifer International
- Hospice Home Care
The event is sponsored by the Office of Community Engagement, which assists in stimulating UALR students to care deeply and passionately about the world around them and become leaders in the fields in which they choose to contribute. For more information about the fair, contact Betsy Hart at 501-569-3424.