Tales of Our Volunteer Heroes and Life-Changing Community Service Programs
Want ideas for volunteering in the Tampa Bay area? Enjoy articles and volunteer and contributor spotlights that offer insights and firsthand experiences with our programs.
WINNER-2016 Tampa Bay Business Journal Nonprofit of the Year for Family Services
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/print-edition/2016/06/10/nonprofit-of-the-year-2016-seniors-in-service-of.html Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay was awarded the prestigious Tampa Bay Business Journal's Nonprofit of the Year 2016 award for Family Services. It's a...
Foster Grandparent Volunteers Featured in The Weekly Challenger
http://theweeklychallenger.com/spotlighting-foster-grandparents-at-fairmount-park Our Foster Grandparent Volunteers from Fairmount Park were featured in the Weekly Challenger! Congratulations, Grandma Fletcher, Grandma Hall, Grandma Ingram and Grandma Fikes! Grandma...
Veteran Volunteers Honored This November
Volunteers who are veterans and volunteers who serve veterans were honored with special pinning ceremonies at their November in-service trainings. We can’t do enough to thank our veterans for their military service and for their volunteerism. And we thank our...
Congratulations to Board Chair Susan Boyd
On November 19th, Board Chair Susan Boyd was honored as the winner of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Outstanding Director Award for the Small Non-Profit category. She shared the stage with Theron “TD” Hawkins of Achieva Credit Union and Charles Adair of Tech Data...
A Bumper-Crop of Child Care Plans!
Seniors in Service sends a warm, sincere, THANK YOU! to all of our classroom teachers and school administrative staff for their tremendous work and diligence in seeing that completed Child Care Plans for the 2014/2015 school year were submitted to our Foster...
A Volunteer 36 Years Strong
Margaret Goodson has been volunteering with Meals on Wheels for 36 years. As part of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), she has done every job at Meals on wheels from food prep to office administration. Now, at the age of 93 she helps out in the office on...
New Training Technology from the Children’s Board
We advanced our monthly training technology by leaps and bounds by adding a Promethean Touchboard to our training room. Now, monthly volunteer trainings can be more collaborative and user-friendly. Thank you, Children’s Board of Hillsborough County!
Foster Grandparent John Papi Tragon
John Tragon, or “Papi” as the students at B.T. Washington Elementary like to call him, has been a foster grandparent for more than 15 years. His favorite thing about volunteering is teaching the children to read and about respect. So how does he do it? Well according...
Surprise Delivery!
A team of employees from Delta surprised us with a delivery of school supplies! The team was given 150 minutes and $20 to do the most good they could think of in the community. When they called our friends at United Way Suncoast, they said, “We have the perfect...
Foster Grandparent Volunteers Nominate Teacher of the Year
At the end of the 2014-2015 school year, we asked our Foster Grandparent Volunteers to nominate our Classroom of the Year. The entries demonstrated the close ties that develop between the teacher and a Foster Grandparent Volunteer, not to mention between the...