Connector Tips – Vol. 3

Keeping You Engaged & Informed

We have some residents who have been extra busy this week with our mask making initiative! So far we have collected over 225 masks! The mask have gone to Charlestown employees, UMD, and Gilchrest. We will soon start getting them to medical professionals as well. Thank you to all participating, keep them coming! There is a great need and together we can help make a dent in that need!

This week Connector Tips main focus will be on ways you can volunteer without leaving your home. Service is a great way to help another while also uplifting your spirits!
If you would like to sign-up for mask initiative, bingo and/or daily puzzles, please contact Stephanie at x 601-8133 or Stephanie.Knowles@erickson.com

Non – Computer Related opportunities

• Write letters of encouragement to veterans, homeless, hospital patients.
• Write thank you letters, posters or artwork for essential employees including medical professionals, grocery store employees, Charlestown staff etc.
• Create artwork with uplifting and or spiritual messages and display where others can see.
• Sassy Caps: knit or crochet soft hats for cancer patients. These items are not being accepted right now but will want them once restrictions are lifted. https://sassycaps.org/
• Mask Initiative: Sew mask for essential employees. Charlestown will pick up and deliver. Contact x601-8133 for more details.
• Create a “Who has made a difference in my life and why” book: Write people’s names that have impacted your life in one way or another as well as details of how they have impacted your life. This will bring great joy to others when they read the impact they have had on your life as well as help others understand what experiences make you who you are.
• Warm up America: Crochet or knit afghan squares that will help build blankets for both babies and adults. For pattern call x601-8133
• Census: The census is currently being taken. This is a great thing to do on your down time. You can do this by phone
  1-800-923-8282 or online  https://my2020census.gov/
• Homework Assistance/Reverse Bedtime Stories: Call a child (or video call) and help them with their homework or have them practice reading to you.

• Translators without Borders: Provide translation services for humanitarian and development nonprofit organization. https://translatorswithoutborders.org/
• Be My Eyes: Help read things to people who have low/no vision. Volunteers get a video call and are able to read to person in need. https://www.bemyeyes.com/
• 7 Cups: This is a therapy organization that also provides “listeners” who are willing to talk to people who are feeling lonely or are struggling with social isolation. Volunteers can become listeners. https://www.7cups.com/
• LibriVox: Volunteers read and record chapter books that no longer are under copyright in the public domain and make them available for free on the internet. This is also a good website if you want to listen to the free books. https://librivox.org/pages/volunteer-for-librivox/
• Transcribe for Smithsonian: Transcribe historical documents for the Smithsonian. https://transcription.si.edu/
• Right Here at Home: Train people in poverty how to use technology. http://rhah.org/
• Family Search: Index names for historical records and genealogical purposes. https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/
• Bookshare: Help by scanning, proofreading, describing images etc. to a website that helps people with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, blindness and Cerebral Palsy. https://www.bookshare.org/cms/
• iCouldBe: E-mentor a high school student from a low income community for one hour a week. https://www.icouldbe.org/
• Table Wisdom: Mentor international students by helping them improve their conversational English and/or speak to those struggling with social isolation via video chat. https://www.table-wisdom.org/
• Amnesty International: Volunteers help to decode text messages and emails to help lessen online human rights violations. https://decoders.amnesty.org/
• Career Village: Help answer various career related questions from individuals looking into going into various fields. https://www.careervillage.org/
• Zooniverse: Help participate in research projects in various forms from transcribing to counting penguins to mapping the galaxy. https://www.zooniverse.org/
• Project Gutenberg: Help proofread e-books. On webpage go to “How to help”, click “Volunteering”, look under the letter “V” and click on “Gutenberg: Volunteering for Project Gutenberg”. https://www.gutenberg.org/