A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to tour American Family Housing in Midway City. Also, along for the tour was our CEO, Bill Cates and board member, Barbara Stewart. American Family Housing is doing great work. They offer low income and permanent housing for homeless, as well as special needs veterans. To quote [...]
I want to share a quick story about an experience I had the other day. I was walking out of a store and a man approached me asking if I had any cash to share. I did not, but I did have Bombas socks in my car. I asked if he would like a [...]
On Saturday, April 15, we assembled three groups who visited parks, facilities, and shelters in Orange County to hand out Bombas socks and bottled water to people experiencing homelessness. One group pulled a wagon around Boysen Park, Pierson Park and La Palma Park in Anaheim. One of our volunteers Cheryl said, “once the word [...]
Last week, I had the honor of doing a talk about Volunteer Network OC for a women’s group at the Elk’s Club in Santa Ana. I had heard that this group of women were looking for volunteer opportunities, but did not know how to find them. The talk went really well. I told them [...]
Christmas is a time for giving and sharing and our monthly volunteer event, Helping Hands-Friends of VNOC , did not disappoint! The cold weather and fog couldn’t keep them from volunteering on Christmas Eve morning at the Crossing Church in Costa Mesa. Colorful handmade beanies, blankets, sleeping bags and over 140 pairs of Bombas [...]
The Seventh Annual Orange County Homeless Persons’ Interreligious Memorial Service was held Wednesday night. The service commemorated the 492 lives of our neighbors who were experiencing homelessness and died on our streets this past year. We attended the service and found it to be a meaningful opportunity to show some love and compassion for [...]
We are proud to introduce our new board member, Darrick Garcia. Darrick brings to Volunteer Network OC a wealth of experience and wisdom that will help us achieve our goals to serve disadvantaged members of our community and to encourage getting involved through charitable work. We believe an active community that is compassionate and [...]
New Board Member We would like to introduce you to our new board member Aurea Lawson. Aurea grew up in Oklahoma and decided to come to California in 2014 to pursue career opportunities. Aurea always had it in her heart to help others, having volunteered at the children's museum in Oklahoma, as well participating [...]
Responding to Child Poverty Our lives these days are traveling at “freeway speeds” if not at NASCAR speeds, with no low gear to slow us down. So, stopping, is more like the annoyance of the bug on the windshield as we turn on the windshield wipers and keep moving forward. It just does not [...]
I wanted to thank everyone for attending our First Annual Par 4 The Cause Charity Golf Challenge. It was a great day. We started out greeting our golfers. They were in for a wonderful day of golfing at Strawberry Farms Golf Course. Jason of 19th Hole Productions made sure everyone had a great time. [...]
