Category: Get Involved – Volunteer

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters Kick-Off Event–Feb. 18

    Here is another opportunity to get involved in our community. Please join Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge for a very special lunchtime reception to launch a major new campaign to benefit Charlottesville-area youth! “100 Mentors for 100 Kids in 2010” Campaign Kick-Off Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge…

  • GIVING BACK PAYS: JABA volunteers now earn a tuition discount at OLLI-UVa

    Get involved in our community. You will be glad that you did! GIVING BACK PAYS JABA volunteers now earn a tuition discount at OLLI at UVa Charlottesville, VA — The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UVa and JABA are pleased to announce a new partnership. As of January 1, 2010, OLLI members who provide…

  • Mentor. Tutor. Pass on the gift of Lifelong Learning!

    Everyone these days needs to be a lifelong learner, and YOU have the power to make a positive difference in a child’s life. There are many ways to be a mentor or tutor. Find the perfect fit at: Mentor & Tutor Opportunity Fair Thursday, January 28, 2010 (Snow date – February 4) 11:00 am –…

  • OLLI-UVa and JABA Form Partnership

    OLLI at the University of Virginia and JABA (Jefferson Area Board for Aging) are pleased to announce a new partnership! OLLI members who provide thirty hours of certified community service with JABA within a twelve-month period will receive a $25 discount on one semester’s tuition as an incentive to learn by giving back to the…

  • Make it a Day On, Not a Day Off – Help JABA’s Soup for Seniors

    Make it a Day On, Not a Day Off by bringing your canned goods and nonperishable food items to JABA on MLK Day January 18th for Soup for Seniors, a food drive to benefit JABA’s Food Bag program for low-income seniors. Drop off food items between 9 am and 1 pm at JABA at 674…

  • Serving Your Community Benefits Your Brain – from Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter

    As a JABA FISH volunteer at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville, I can agree with the “cobweb removal” statement!  Helping an ESL student with math is certainly a brain fitness exercise  — and I have to say that I am learning “strategies” for solving word problems that I had never thought of before. I encourage…