DONATE FOOD - Monday, January 19, 2009

Location: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
Address: 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda (corner of Rockville Pike and Marinelli Rd, across from the White Flint Metro). Easy access by Metro
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Contact: 240-777-2600
Volunteer fair, service projects: making Valentine’s Day cards for the Orphans Foundation, decorating bookmarks and cards for sick children, packing snow day baskets for county-wide Meals on Wheels programs, and more.

Location: East County Regional Services Center
Address: 3300 Briggs Chaney Road, Silver Spring
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Contact: 240-777-8400
Projects and activities are family oriented: making cards for seniors, visiting nursing homes, financial planning advice, computer internet instruction for seniors, learning about the citizenship process, and hearing a storyteller share about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Location: Gapbuster Learning Center
Address: City Place Mall, 4th Floor, 8661 Colesville Road, Silver Spring
Time: 11:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m.
Contact: 301-588-5500
Arts and crafts, health expo, and watching and discussing a movie about civil rights and MLK.

Location: Germantown Community Center
Address: 18905 Kingsview Road, Germantown
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contact: 240-354-4309
Hosted by the NAACP Youth Leadership Council: fun-filled day of service activities, workshops, videos and discussion, and community outreach.

Location: Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
Address: 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contact: 301-431-4185
Hosted by CASA de Maryland: Nonprofit volunteer fair, volunteer workshop, and more.

Location: First Baptist Church of Wheaton
Address: 10914 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contact: 301-949-6585
Training for Neighborhood Assistance Volunteers to work at a community Health and Human Services site in the 20906 zip code to engage struggling neighbors and encourage them to access benefits, and to assist them in filling out applications and navigate the county’s social services network, and more.

Location: Emory Grove United Methodist Church
Address: 8200 Emory Grove Road, Gaithersburg
Contact: 301-963-3434
Coordination Center for HHS Neighborhood
Assistance Literature Drop where youth groups from multiple faith communities will deliver handouts to homes.

Location: First African Methodist Episcopal Church
Address: 17620 Washington Grove Lane, Gaithersburg
Contact: 301-590-9760
Coordination Center for HHS Neighborhood
Assistance Literature Drop where youth groups from multiple faith communities will deliver handouts to homes.

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