Volunteer
HIV Alliance is successful only because of community members, like you, who are willing to donate as little as 2 hours out of their month or as much as 20 hours a week volunteering for HIV Alliance. Our services could not be delivered without the efforts of these volunteers. We have volunteer opportunities at a variety of commitment levels so you can make a difference even if you don't have a lot of free time on your hands.
For our last fiscal year (July 09 - June 10) 406 volunteers donated 11,368.5 hours of their time to HIV Alliance. This is equivalent to having five and a half additional full time employees. For the last quarter (March - June) we had 220 volunteers donate 3,308.25 hours which is equivalent to over six and a half full time employees! Our volunteers work in all aspects of the organization from Development and Administration to Client Services and Prevention.
We are thankful for the dedicated volunteers who work each day to help us support individuals living with HIV/AIDS and prevent new HIV infections.
How do HIV Alliance Volunteers Make a Difference
Our volunteers are often our client's first contact with the agency. They are the first ones to greet clients as they walk in the door or call on the phone. They make the first initial impression of our agency. They are the ones directly providing services to our client like as distributing syringes for our Needle Exchange or safer sex kits in our Outreach program. They create the supplies for our prevention department to ensure we have safer sex and safer injection matterials avaiable to distribute to high risk indivdiauls. They ensure that our clients that don't have a home, have a home cooked meal once a week at the support group. They do risk assessments with our clients and work with clients to find a way to reduce their risk that fits inside the cleint's lifestyles and financial realities. They give clients the results of HIV and Hep C tests and are the first person our clients talk to after they have been told that they have a reactive test result.
From behind the scenes work to providing services directly to clients, our volunteers make a difference in our client's lives!
Volunteers of the Month
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| Brie has been a HIV Alliance Volunteer since November of 2008 when she did an internship at HIV Alliance during her junior year at the UO. She came back to do her year long senior internship at HIV Alliance. Brie has been a staple in our Needle Exchange program. At the Needle Exchange she distributes syrines, gives referals, builds rapport with clients, and is a HIV/Hep C testing counselor. This past year, she has used her skills in building rapport amount clients to develop our Needle Exchange Outreach Program this past year. She has worked with one of our other volunteers in creating an outreach program to people who inject drugs at area parks who were not previously accessing our exchagne servcies. She has made a difference to our agency and our clients by expanding the traditional servce area of our exchange program and helping us reach more clients than we were before. | Meggan has been interning in the Development Department since last summer. She has been a jack of all trades in the department doing a little bit of all aspects of development. She has helped develop fliers to advertise events and program. Created HIV Alliance information to advertise our programs and servcies in the windows of our new downtown office. She helped put on events such as RiverWalk, Red Ribbon Circle Breakfast, and Big Night to help raise money for HIV Alliance programs. Wrote donation request letters asking for financial contributions from donors. She has made a difference to our agency and our clients by building relationships and raising money to fund our programs that provide servcies directly to our clients. |
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Cornerstone Volunteers are volunteers that have shown a continued commitment over time to our voluntere program. They have been consitantly volunteering for over two years and bring stability to our programs. The 2009 Cornerstone Volunteers are: Jason, Chris, Judy, Carol, Julie, Bob, David, Dwight, Bruce, Jolene, Steve, Rick, Jesse, Krissy, Michael, Jerry, Gwen, Jon, Ronan, Denis, Marc, Sandi, Daniel, Daniel, Bo, Tracy, Greg, Steve, Chris, Mary, Robin, Mary, Matthew, Mark, and Lynn. |
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Red Ribbon Volunteers are volunteers that have logged over 150 hours from May 1st through April 30. Together, they donated 5994 hours which is the equivalent of almost 3 full time staff members. They reprsent over half of the volunteer hours donated to HIV Alliance. The 2010 Red Ribbon Volunteers are: Over 500 Hours Steve Earp and Douglas Bryant Over 250 Hours Mary Weed, Megan Janssen-O'Connell, Ashley Hoflish, Samantha Lynch, J.D. Dickerson, and Brie Dumas Over 100 Hours Meggan Groh, Janet Bott, Nick Gall, Lorrie Hickok, Ed Collicott, Amanda Black, Ronan Kelly, John Cummings, Xiang Gao, Kayla Pigeon, Heather McGill, Annie McConnell, Marcella Miller, Chloe Smitasin, Tenisha Te'O, Tricia Buzzard, Sandi Orbell, and Susan Burton. |
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